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You have to pass the ball with a clear intention, with the aim of making it into the opposition's goal. The style is primarily associated with the Spain national team since 2006 by the managers Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosque. This usually occurs after one team strings together consecutive precise passes, weaving the ball around their opponents and giving themselves a great goal-scoring opportunity. Bayern head coach Jupp Heynckes had built upon his predecessor Louis van Gaal's foundations by making the team more defensively balanced, while replacing Van Gaal's "positional football"—everyone had to stick to their specific space on the pitch when attacking the opposition goal—with a much more fluid and attacking style that gave the forwards freedom to roam and swap. Bayern's Bastian Schweinsteiger and Javi Martínez held a compact midfield that played crucial roles in shutting down Barcelona's Xavi's and Andrés Iniesta's attempts to pass forward at midfield, while Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry proved effective on the wings.

Commentators, pundits, players and coaches have all been known to use the term, but if you don't know where it came from or what it actually means, it's easy to end up in the dark. Managers and coaches are looking for advantage in the statistics of the game: who has possession the most, which parts of the pitch do they cover, who passed to whom? Even when football was about young children booting a rain-sodden lump of leather on a windswept sea of mud, we were taught about the importance of passing.

In the second leg in Munich, Bayern's defences were even more vulnerable, and Real Madrid managed a resounding 4–0 victory, their first ever away victory against Bayern, eliminating the Champions League holders. His contribution to Tika-Taka was his ability to control the ball with short, quick passes and movement off the ball. The phrase Tiki-Taka was coined by Johan Cruyff to describe what he saw as the Spanish football team’s fast-paced anti-football. Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid relied on positioning to force Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich to defeat in the first semi-final leg of the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League at the Santiago Bernabéu.

Although this generally results in appropriate sanctions being awarded, it doesn’t prevent significant contact from occurring. Cruyff and his teammates all seemed to be on exactly the same wave-length as they buzzed around their opponents and overwhelmed them with quick movement and thinking, relying on team unity rather than muscle and brawn. When you watch this playing style in action, that doesn't seem like the most inaccurate description, to be fair. Maroon 5 and Cardi B Rule Billboard Hot 100 For Sixth Week, Post Malone and Swae Lee Debut in Top 10". Nowadays, from crosses, Italian defenders – and I can only really talk for Italian defenders, I am only relatively interested about foreign players – don't mark their man.Total Football , gegenpressing , zonal marking — sometimes it feels like the technical terms never end. Wherever the term itself originated (and there's plenty of debate on that), its impact on football has been massive. But tiki-taka really is synonymous with both Barcelona and the Spanish national team who won many trophies using it, and both of them adopted it in large part due to Johan Cruyff.