The beggining One of the most famous style of football in France was the “Jeu a la Nantaise” or “Nantes style of playing”. It started in the 60’s, during the tenure of the spanish-basque coach José Arribas, who tried to create an offensive football style in the Breton team which would be…

“Here goes Maradona, there are two players marking him, step on the ball Maradona, sprints through the right side the genius of world football, he stretches and is gonna pass to Burruchaga… Always Maradona! Genius! Genius! Genius! Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta GOOOOOLLLL I wanna cry! Dear God, God bless the football! Golaaazooo! Diegoooool…

No, you’re not misreading it. Nor it would be a far-fetched eulogy of a defensive based approach to the game. A good team is built from the back, even though the approach is a counter-attacking one or a possession based style. Yet, it still is misread by common sense as…

Hey there guys, hope you all liked the part one posted last week. As said earlier, in this part I’ll be explaining the roles of the center midfield strata. At first I thought of including the MR/ML aswell, but rethinking it’d be better to put in the part three, where…

A brief Introduction One of the toughest parts in playing Football Manager (FM) is understanding the roles of the players and how they work in game. For a better understanding, I’ll be trying to describe each role here, focusing on their movement and their needs in the game. For instance…

After a melancholic season ending, losing a spot at the Copa Libertadores 2018 and having players leaving the club (some in disrespectful manners towards the supporters), Botafogo have to deal with new problems and adapting. At first glance, it looks the same team base it had the last year, with…

Recovering from a relegation in 2014 and fighting another relegation in 2016, the Botafogo team made a quite impressive sprint to finish the Brasileirao 2016 in the 5th place, thus assuring a spot in the earlier phases of the Copa Libertadores 2017, itself could be a story worth telling, but…

Returning to the old medium page, this time I’ll bring you guys a little analysis about who I think is the most odd and exciting Manager in Football nowadays. It started as an almost impossible task to do in the good ol’ Football Manager: Doing Bielsa’s 3–3–1–3 formation. It has…

In the past years we’ve seen the 4–2–3–1 becoming such a trend in the football world, but the story is not as unilinear as it sounds. The 4–2–3–1 changed its shape and its roles during these years, in an attempt to create new alternatives and become less predictable on the…