Pep on his hatred of tiki-taka
Barcelona are famed for their passing style - labelled tiki-taka - a term Guardiola "loathes"
Barcelona's ability to dominate teams and possession with their tiki-taka passing style won them plaudits around the world.
But Guardiola told Perarnau: "I loathe all that passing for the sake of it, all that tiki-taka. It's so much rubbish and has no purpose. You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition's goal. It's not about passing for the sake of it.
"Don't believe what people say. Barca didn't do tiki-taka! It's completely made up! Don't believe a word of it! In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.
"You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak. And when we've done all that, we attack and score from the other side.
"That's why you have to pass the ball, but only if you're doing it with a clear intention. It's only to overload the opponent, to draw them in and then to hit them with the sucker punch. That's what our game needs to be. Nothing to do with tiki-taka."
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In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.
so simple and yet so elegant in all its glory
so simple and yet so elegant in all its glory
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That's why the pitch at Cumberland was built on a slopeDel Boca Vista wrote:In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.
so simple and yet so elegant in all its glory
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Only problem is you don't overload, because you smash the ball up field asap every time you get itNice One Cyril wrote:That's why the pitch at Cumberland was built on a slopeDel Boca Vista wrote:In all team sports, the secret is to overload one side of the pitch so that the opponent must tilt its own defence to cope.
so simple and yet so elegant in all its glory