Sadly, the book I'm reading on the dresser right now is Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics. I shit you not: on page 352 it talks about the 3-5-2 and how success with Napoli and Udinese in 2010 lead to adoption at Juventus.
But last good book? I'm still going through sections of a gigantic and ridiculously ambitious history of the world epic.
Sadly, the book I'm reading on the dresser right now is Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics. I shit you not: on page 352 it talks about the 3-5-2 and how success with Napoli and Udinese in 2010 lead to adoption at Juventus.
I didn't think much of the section on more modern stuff.
The histoy of how football developed in different parts of the world and how they established their own systems and playing styles was more interesting.
All the continental plates return, crushing the continent in tectonic collapse, reforming Pangea, and creating arid climates in the middle that make the Sahara seem like the Maldives.