Diego Ribas da Cunha (21 Viewers)

v1rtu4l

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Mar 4, 2008
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But let's not kid ourselves, Sneijder thinks (& acts) a lot quicker, both with & without the ball at his feet. In fact, I'm not even sure if "thinking" is the right verb, because it mostly seems like instincts, automatic reactions. Diego on the other hand usually needs time & space with the ball to figure out what exactly he's going to do.
as much as you may be right about the "instinct" thing (i know that by myself) its about a certain football school that sneijder did get taught.

(now comes my boring reallife experience)..

i like one-touch passes very much. so when i play something like a central midfielder facing my own goal and i know a man is marking me (behind me). i get a pass directly from a defender and what i like to do is run a few steps towards the ball and just play it in the space behind their left back.

depending on how smart your teammates are did the right midfielder either already make the run into that space when he saw that the ball was passed to me (just call it the "inter way")
or if you have slow brain people i play the ball there ... nobody is running there because no one ever thought of exploiting that space and i am the retard because i play into a space where nobody is (without looking before). they will tell me "buuuh, you lost the ball .. there was nobody running there".

believe me i played with crap players without brain for the last 2 years and i know what it is like.

i strongly believe into the theory that you can put 11 players that did never play together on one pitch and have a decent game, if every player has some basic knowledge of what his role on the pitch is. sadly there are players that need to see what the ball does before they run and thats when the game gets sloppy and slow. that are those players that do deceide where to play the ball after they received the ball, stopped it, put their head up and looked around for others. that is way too late, because this way you will never surprise anyone.

sneijder has his ajax football school which told him pretty much.

if the coach does enforce this type of football and barks at players that do not run into the spaces that sneijder played to, than you will be having a great passing and moving game by your team.

the important thing is, that the coach backs the playmaker 100% and does say "its not sneijders fault that he played the ball into an area where nobody stood, but the other players fault for not seeing that space and exploiting it".

i'd like to explain my former example on the appended picture. if i am the bright blue spot and everyone is marked, i play the ball into the space behind their left back, so our right midfielder can run into that space.

of course i could play it directly to the right midfielder but that would gain you nothing because he still had some opponent who is marking him to bypass to get into the area i would rather play the ball too.

there is another possible scenario... that is, that the right midfielder makes the run but is closely marked be their leftback ... in this case you would play the ball to the place where the right midfielder initially was (but not anymore is, because he and his opponent ran towards the opponents goal) and our right back can make the run into that space.. if he adds pace he has an advantage of 2 players against one on that side. our right midfielder and right back against their leftback.
 

v1rtu4l

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Mar 4, 2008
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so bottom line sneijder would look crap in any team that has retard sideplayers, while diego would look good even with retard sideplayers.
on the other side around diegos impact is minimized to what ONE player can do, while sneijder would gain class with every player that is moving.
 

giovanotti

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Aug 13, 2004
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Oh by the way,you gave me negative rep,thanks for that Jack...you should know better than this ,if you're pissed off you should reconsider your reactions.
I won't give you a negative one because I want to prize only good things,bad things are marked to be degraded. :)
 

Yamen

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Apr 20, 2007
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so bottom line sneijder would look crap in any team that has retard sideplayers, while diego would look good even with retard sideplayers.
on the other side around diegos impact is minimized to what ONE player can do, while sneijder would gain class with every player that is moving.
Good stuff there Virtual..
 

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