It's called tiki-taka and it is literally the hardest form of football in the world to play. It requires a whole team of people who have excellent close control and passing abilities.
The basic premise, is based around short passing, fluid movement in the linking players and extreme pressing, but I'm pretty sure anyone who has watched Barca knows this. The real secret is in transitional play or lack of it, due to their huge possession advantage.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/spain/7883131/World-Cup-final-Johan-Cruyff-sowed-seeds-for-revolution-in-Spains-fortunes.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... tunes.html</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article3739825.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 739825.ece</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/blog/2010/07/why-spain-were-anything-but-boring.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifawor ... oring.html</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/archive/jonathan-pearce/2008/06/29/if-spain-can-reign-it-will-be-so-good-for-the-old-game-115875-20625290/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/archive/j ... -20625290/</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/soccer/world-cup-2010/writers/sid_lowe/07/09/spain.final/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/s ... index.html</a>
Links above explain the system in good detail
The basic premise, is based around short passing, fluid movement in the linking players and extreme pressing, but I'm pretty sure anyone who has watched Barca knows this. The real secret is in transitional play or lack of it, due to their huge possession advantage.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/spain/7883131/World-Cup-final-Johan-Cruyff-sowed-seeds-for-revolution-in-Spains-fortunes.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... tunes.html</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article3739825.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 739825.ece</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifaworldcup/blog/2010/07/why-spain-were-anything-but-boring.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/fifawor ... oring.html</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/archive/jonathan-pearce/2008/06/29/if-spain-can-reign-it-will-be-so-good-for-the-old-game-115875-20625290/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/archive/j ... -20625290/</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/soccer/world-cup-2010/writers/sid_lowe/07/09/spain.final/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/s ... index.html</a>
Links above explain the system in good detail