Americans First Reaction to The Art of Tiki-Taka | DLS Edition

If you ever played defense you know it's mad frustrating to get double-passed on and chase that ball like a headless chicken.

They sound like the should have each other’s voices

As a coach. This is so hard to teach. You don’t plan these plays, but you have to teach people the basis of how to make this natural. 1) hunger. All players need to be hungry to find space. No complacency. It’s mentally tiring to be always searching for pockets of space, but you need to do it. 2) tactics. You need to know what to look for. If a player is running towards you, go in the opposite or perpendicular direction. If a player is on your left shoulder, receive the ball with your right. 3) skills. Anyone can pass the ball, but can you do it with the right weight, direction and under pressure? 90% passing accuracy is not good enough, you need to be at 95%+ skills to be able to depend on that or else you lose the ball and get countered. 4) physicality. All those lunges and stop start runs is tiring. But it’s the only way to get a metre of space away from your opponent.

The reason you see Messi a lot is because tiki-taka is Barcelona’s main play style, tons of passes and lots of possession, while Ronaldo is best at counter attacking, scoring off turnovers or the fast break in NBA terms

Xavi, Iniesta, Messi The holy trinity of tiki taka

It's pronounced "Teekee Taka" Also the reason you keep seeing Messi is because his team Barcelona adopted and normalized Tiki Taka in spanish and world football

There's a lot of communication within the game you can't hear. But ever single player is talking out loud. Teammates are the eyes behind your back. As a teammate you yell and tell your teammate(s) what to do and where to go for a better play to be executed or best for the squad. Don't forget that in Futbol, unlike most sports, you don't necessarily have to go towards goal, but try to keep possession and tire the opponent out then score. So when you asked "how do you know he's behind you" is because someone told him he was. They make it look easy I know but it takes more than skill, it's all teamwork.

100% freestyle when you play soccer for a long time you develop a 6 sense Brazilian players do this very good

FYI, “Tiki-taka” (the expression) was invented by Spanish (NBA and then) soccer narrator Andres Montes. It was during the World Cup of 2006 and the first time he said that it was referred to the Brazilian National Team. Then it was used generally for every team that based their game on continuous passing and long possessions, like Barcelona and Spain a couple years after that. Andres Montes was really famous in Spain because he invented nicknames for every player, at the beginning in the NBA, and then in soccer: - Tiburón Pujol - ET Pau Gasol - Jordan Airlines - Sweet Iniesta - “I do whatever I want, whenever I want, and whatever I please” Shaq - Ratatatatatatatataaaaaa!!! (Clutch 3-pointer from far away) He was a piece of art! Worth the watch!

You're right. The idea behind the tiki-taka offense is creating triangles to break the press. But because there's 11 players on a team, whoever has the ball is always part of more than one triangle (if that makes sense)

We need that reaction in on “Smartest skills without touching the ball”.

This is pep guardiola's style of play he perfected it at Barca and has been successful every where he's been playing that style even in the premier League where people where claiming he couldn't get a team to play that style due to the premier League being physical but he's done it. One of the all time great coaches doesn't get the credit he deserves

That Arsenal goal never stops surprising me ....

It’s basically the way the San Antonio Spurs played the entire 2014 year with pop. Pass and move to find space but they keep ball possesion. Like a constant passing offense. The Barcelona team from 2008 till 2012 was almost impossible to get the ball from them they had like crazy ball possession each game. To play like this you have to have players who are very good dribblers, who have good ball control and who can move and find open space very well basically read the lines. Not every team can play like that because they don’t have the players or the system to play like that

S/o from france, great video again 🔥 Messi - Iniesta - Xavi ( barcelona ) is the top of tiki taka 🔥

Tiki-Taka is never pre-drawn, determined. It’s a “on the spot” developed solely based on spatial reasoning.

The art of tiki-taka? Sure, the "art" to have Xavi, Iniesta and Messi. 😎

it's actually incredible how y'all literally described perfectly the tiki-taka and the positional game, it's basically knowing where your teammates are even without looking, and by that you find the free player

Tiki Taka first started when Johan Cruyff was Barcelona manager, but when Pep Guardiola took that role he adopted the style and advanced it to what we know today, the term Tiki Taka was first used in 2006 by a Spanish broadcaster named Andrés Montes. the style became the trademark of the Barca club where all Barca school players train to play in this style.

The best reactions to the beautiful game 😅 you should be commentators on live games 🔥🔥🔥