Another position in football that is dying – the centre.
The organizational front waist should be the first position to disappear on the football field, modern football tactics are getting faster and faster on the rhythm, and more and more attention is paid to the full defense, the traditional technical front waist is eliminated because it cannot adapt, and I don't know whether this is progress or loss for the development of football, but I think that the disappearance of the technical front waist has at least affected the viewing and creativity of the game.
Pep Guardiola's rise has made the strikeless formation popular, and as his tactical philosophy has become mainstream, the tactical status of the center has become lower and lower, and neither Eto'o nor Ibrahimovic have a good chance under him. German national team coach Loew is also a fan of the striker, and under his transformation, the Germanic chariot has gradually lost its former bloody nature.
The no-striker formation is to a certain extent for better ball control and high pressing, but the ultimate goal of football is to score goals, with the aging of Spain, Barça's golden generation midfielder and Messi, the no-striker formation has become empty with possession, and the downwind game is at ease, but in the critical period in the face of the need to hit the city hammer to open the can of the game stalemate, the game that needs to break the dense defense is becoming more and more weak, Spain and Germany in the world series and Barça in the late Champions League frequent collapses, that is, there is empty possession, but a goal is difficult to find, It is also often rushed by rapid counterattacks.
After Guardiola left Barca, he also began to play without a striker, and in the face of repeated failures in the Champions League, he began to realize the importance of central strikers, and this season he hired Haaland with immediate results.
But I don't know if he is aware of an important problem, the younger generation of central strikers, besides Haaland, who else can be of great use, Lukaku, such a center who has been proven to be embarrassed many times, has become a fragrant food sought after by the giants, and with the popularity of the manager's abolition of the tactical thinking of the center forward for so many years, the training mode of the striker has long changed, no one wants to play the center, and now the clubs are Mbappe, Vinicius, Rodrigo, Mane, Marcus, Te'O, Salah, Jesus, Martinelli and other full-forwards and pseudo-centrers. A few strong Benzema, Lewandowski and Giroud are also thirty-four and fifteen years old, and their successors are simply not to be found.
Once the center forward position was the brightest of the stars, in every team is a star-studded existence, this position gave birth to Gedmüller, Fontaine, Basten, Batistuta, Romario, Ronaldo, Adriano, Vieri, Henry, Shepchenko, van Nistelrooy, Trezeguet, Crespo, Torres, Drogba, one by one thunderous names, a position favored by the Ballon d'Or, if it disappears, it will be the biggest loss for the development of football. I don't know the current Guardiola, but have you ever regretted his tactical reform that single-handedly ended the prosperous life of the centre?
