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Peter Krawietz;
"The system by itself is not really important in football. The point of coaching is to try to make football, a game based on many random events, less random, to force your luck in a sense. My favourite quote is by Lukas Podolski "Football is like chess, but
"The system by itself is not really important in football. The point of coaching is to try to make football, a game based on many random events, less random, to force your luck in a sense. My favourite quote is by Lukas Podolski "Football is like chess, but
without dice". I'd change that slightly, to make it: "Football is like chess, but with dice". Every coach spends an incredible amount of time pondering about all the different factors: the opponent, weather & so on, knowing full well that total control of the ball is unattainable
All you can really do then is to find a general order, a system of orientation for your own players that brings out the best of your specific squad. Successful combination football depends on two people having the same idea at the same time. One has the ball, the other starts
making a move. A coach's job is to practice these sequences to instil an idea, repetition & situations, to increase the chance that they will work under real live conditions, when there's pressure and an opponent interfering. The alternative is to rely on total individual quality
, on simply being superior. But that's not our approach. We can't afford these players at any of the we have worked for. That's why the idea always takes precedence for us".
