a écrit le 19 novembre 2013 à 16h59 “Our playing system does not depend on the individualâ€
You would be forgiven for thinking that was another one from the Brendan Rodgers bingo list, but they’re the less-famous words of Volker Finke, who took over SC Freiburg in 1991 and began an era that led his Chairman Achim Stocker to exclaim ‘the only man who can fire Finke is Finke himself’. A revolutionary student of football, Finke almost single-handedly exposed the mythology of the German sweeper and ushered in the notion of ‘Concept Football’. A glimpse of his ethos from the man himself:
“It’s boring to switch flanks and knock the ball from one wing to the other. We build through the middle, where there is little space. You play three or four short passes to lure the defense into what they think is the danger zone. And then you suddenly open up the game over the flanks – that’s what is really dangerous.â€
You would be forgiven for thinking that was another one from the Brendan Rodgers bingo list, but they’re the less-famous words of Volker Finke, who took over SC Freiburg in 1991 and began an era that led his Chairman Achim Stocker to exclaim ‘the only man who can fire Finke is Finke himself’. A revolutionary student of football, Finke almost single-handedly exposed the mythology of the German sweeper and ushered in the notion of ‘Concept Football’. A glimpse of his ethos from the man himself:
“It’s boring to switch flanks and knock the ball from one wing to the other. We build through the middle, where there is little space. You play three or four short passes to lure the defense into what they think is the danger zone. And then you suddenly open up the game over the flanks – that’s what is really dangerous.â€
