Total Football coming full circle back to City

[The_Maverick]

Missed this thread first time around. Thanks for the bump. Fascinating read

 

[cyberblue]

Just reading the interesting stories of two unsung heroes and legends of the game who I’d never heard of before this morning: Jack Reynolds and Jimmy Hogan.

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2014/11/09/jack-reynolds-the-father-of-ajax-amsterdam/

www.ajaxdaily.com/2017/ajax-and-total-football-the-jack-reynolds-story/amp/

https://copa90.com/creators/diana-al-shammari/tbt-godfathers-total-football

http://www.punditarena.com/football...-manager-jimmy-hogan-story/amp/?source=images


Jack Reynolds was from Whitefield and was at City in 1902. Jimmy Hogan was from Nelson in Lancashire. Both had unremarkable playing careers, both stopped playing early and started coaching at a young age, both went abroad to coach, both were POWs on the continent, and both coached and influenced some of the greatest teams in football history.

Without ever having worked together, they are the roots of what we are seeing flowering today with Pep at City. Before, between, and after the World Wars Reynolds was successful with Ajax and pioneered that they would play the same style of football from the first team to the reserves to the youth teams. At the same time Hogan was successful with MTK and pioneered that teams should play a short passing attacking style of football.

Their work saw their styles successful for the Austrian “Wunderteam”... Shalke’s “Der Schalker Kreisel”... River Plate’s “La Máquina”... Gusztáv Sebes’ (who played under Hogan) “Mighty Magyars” Hungary team... Rinus Michels’ (who played under Reynolds) “totaalvoetbal” at Ajax and their direct impact on Holland’s “Clockwork Orange”... Johan Cruyff taking that on to Barcelona who Guardiola would eventually play for after graduating from La Masia... and Guardiola taking that forward with Barcelona, then Bayern, and now City.

Maybe it’s fitting that City turned to Ferran Soriano, Txiki Begiristain and eventually Josep Guardiola and we adopted Pep’s preferred style of football that actually has its origins back with Jack Reynolds and Jimmy Hogan in the North West of England and in Reynolds’ case in Manchester and back at the club he started at, City!

The life story of Jack Reynolds is amazing

 

[sky_blue]

How Guardiola & 3-2-2-3 (ultimately) solved the defending meta

Guardiola’s image in the football world is complex to describe. While polarizing, everyone seems at least to agree that he is an unique innovator. Funnily enough, he is polarizing exactly because of this mutual agreement of critics and fans. The public discourse about his Barcelona team mainly...

spielverlagerung.com

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

So a couple old POW lags on City's books were responsible for the Dutch team of the 70s! Every player, inc the goalie was trained as an inside forward. I looked on the Dutch team of Cruyff as the most entertaining the game as ever seen at international level - better than the Brazilians 'n Argentinians, cheated by an English ref and denied a world cup. Frank de Boer needs to read this thread.