Imitating the 'Pep Team': an obsession which may lead to failure Junior
By William Gonzalez Badillo
It is no secret that Barcelona 'Pep' Guardiola is the team that Best play football today. It is as close to perfection and has everything to be the best set of history, beating AC Milan of Arrigo Sacchi, the Real Madrid of the Fifth (5 European Cups) and at the same 'Dream Team' that formed the 'Barca 'in the early 90's. You may lose, as happened last year in the semifinals of Champions League against Inter Milan, but did not betray his identity.
The "Pep Team 'has set a time and in love with the football world with his lyrical touch, pressure, with and without the ball, and effectiveness. It is not only playing well, is to transform this magic embodied in the securities field, and this team has achieved (in 2 seasons has got 8 titles) with luxury and detail.
Hence lies the great admiration and envy felt by some coaches healthy for the current Barcelona game. Such is the obsession to imitate the inimitable that many coaches have made the task of copying its tactics again and again observe the movements of the players 'Barça' and try, where possible, their teams or teams practicing the same football.
Sergio Batista for Argentina and Fabio Capello with England, to name a few technicians, are two of more obsessed breeders. Both have publicly disclosed that force players to watch videos of 'Barca', they talk constantly with Guardiola and try to imitate at least the Catalans.
The question is: Will they succeed? and this goal will be a mere illusion and will fail in the attempt.
Entering the plane of the comparisons, Personally, I think it will be impossible. Undoubtedly, Argentina and England, for example, are the stars needed to practice a modern football and great display, but do not have the key pieces, football players with the ship, Xavi, the Iniesta, the Buquet, Messi, the Alves, to name the most prominent.
Argentina have Messi, but it is not enough. Many people do not understand that the key to 'Barca' not their stars, if not the whole. The 'Flea', no doubt, is the best player in the world, but things are easier for him when he has to Iniesta and Xavi and their squires.
Argentina has not and therein lies their error. In that Batista should work if you do not want to end up like the last slain albiceleste technicians.
Capello, meanwhile, has a much harder task. England does not go through his prime. To do what you must change the identity of the English football, football who practice faster, vertical and of great strength.
I see a possible failure on the horizon. After the cardboard in the World Cup, Capello does not have the patience of the leaders of the English federation, let alone the fans. Time does not have and that is the key to a great project.
Football's 'Barca' not born the overnight. The Macia, birthplace of these cracks, is a school that has been working for many years and only now gets off. This will be a long harvest, but not eternal. Football, like life, turning constantly.
Now just enjoy playing this 'Barca' and rescue its essence, but not imitate the inimitable.
