The difference between City and Fluminense is not just individual – 12/26/2023 – Tostão

Manchester City’s huge technical difference over Fluminense and the other big South American teams is not just individual, because the English team is richer and signs the best players. It is also collective, strategic. Guardiola’s long stay at City and other European coaches helps a lot with work efficiency.

If Fluminense had been world champion due to surprising situations, the media of exaggeration, the spectacle, the headlines, would say that Fernando Diniz gave Guardiola a tactical noose and that Fluminense would be the most revolutionary team in the world.

What works very well at Fluminense, as well as at City, is the exchange of passes from the defense, the pleasure of having the ball, commanding the game and, at the right moment, prioritizing the boldness, creativity and talent of the players.

The main difference in the way the two teams play is not positional, as they like to say, due to the fact that City uses fixed wingers while Fluminense adopts variations in the positions and functions of the players. That’s the least important thing.

City’s great superiority and collective difference lies in the pressure to quickly recover the ball, in marking and in advancing as a block without leaving spaces between the sectors. When the pressure is overcome, the goalkeeper and forward defenders position themselves very well and are quick to receive the counterattack. Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson shows off his precise passes and positioning outside the goal.

Fluminense, when they advance and lose the ball, leave huge spaces in the defense. Al Ahly, against Fluminense, created seven scoring chances. Inter, when they were eliminated in the Libertadores semi-final, had more scoring opportunities than Fluminense.

The superiority of Manchester City and the main European teams over the Brazilian teams is not just individual and due to the technical capacity of Guardiola and other coaches. It also occurs in the training of players from the youth categories, in the professional structure on and off the field, in the greater appreciation of the spectacle, in the quality of the pitches and in the action of referees and assistants.

Diniz says that losing by giving up your convictions is losing twice. It’s not that much. Bayern’s coach Guardiola is not identical to City’s Guardiola. It evolved.

Europeans are increasingly producing players who combine talent and intensity, creativity and discipline, art and technique. The myth that only Brazil produces skillful players, fantasists and ball artists no longer exists. It’s not enough to have a great professional structure and train a lot. You need to know how to teach separately. It’s not mass production, like a screw factory. Everyone has their own way of doing it.

I repeat, for the thousandth time, that Brazil, for decades, has produced a large number of good and excellent players, spread across the country and the world, but there is a lack of stars on the wings, in midfield and in the center forward position, at the level of the best. of the world. Worse, we can’t count on Neymar, especially when he retreats to start plays in his own field, as he has started to do in recent years.

Football is not just entertainment. It is also a business that needs to be run well to make a profit. Large Brazilian clubs take advantage of government benefits, as occurs in other commercial activities, they hire very expensive players and pay astronomical salaries to several coaches and players as if they were the best in the world. There is a big spree.

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