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Back when Pep Guardiola was managing FC Barcelona in 2009, the world of football was amazed by the famous tiki-taka style. This way of playing consists in having an overwhelming ball possession and it had a great amount of passing between all the players on the field. This might even be considered as the evolution of that total football late Johan Cruyff started playing back when he was a player under Dutch manager Rinus Michels.
But there is a part of people who love football that really don't like this style, according to them passing the ball around so much without many vertical incisive passes, can get to be boring and not really have an influence on the offensive game. This style took everyone by surprise at the beginning, but after it was well established managers around the world could suddenly suppress it by parking the bus in the back and counter attack as fast as possible.
Talking to Sport Bild, Italian manager Giovanni Trapattoni is one of those people who really hates this style that Pep Guardiola has copy righted. He said: "What I see in world football at the moment is true for Bayern especially. For me it's too much possession. Tick, tack, tick, tack. Tuck, tuck, tuck. To and fro. With too little revenue. And after 27 minutes they shoot on the goal for the first time - that's too little revenue.
"You have to attack with more determination. There is a goal in the middle and the midfielders pass the ball backwards, 70 meters away from that goal. I do not like it, for me it's too much. There was a Swede at AC Milan 30 years ago: Nils Liedholm. He started with permanent possession. But football is jab jab. Shoot and score. The thing with possession is not new - with Pep it's extreme."
Photo credit: Bayern Munich
