Category: FM Tactics
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The South American Roles: The Enganche (feat. FM Grasshopper)
Football in Argentina, like so many things in my homeland, has always been best represented by its leaders, larger-than-life characters that come to epitomize people’s traditions and ideas. From a tactical standpoint, those would be the “Cinco” and the “Diez”. The “Cinco”, the traditional Argentine defensive midfielder, represents the warrior on the pitch, the courage…
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The South American Roles: The Segundo Volante
Who’s your favourite brazilian footballer? If you’re my age, it’s probably Ronaldo or Ronaldinho. If you’re older, maybe it’s Romario, Socrates, maybe even Pelé himself. And if you’re too young to remember the times when Zidane had any hair on his head, I’m guessing it’s Neymar. It’s all too logical; they’re the deadly strikers, the…
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One thousand postcards from Montevideo: The story of Marcelo Gallardo’s first job as manager
All legends are born somewhere. By their very nature, they’re carried along by the people who hold them close to their hearts; growing as they jump from person to person, changing, evolving, becoming ever larger, ever stronger, until the deeds from where they began end up seeming almost a small part of a much grander…
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Lessons from the mad man: Bielsa’s 2002 World Cup Argentina Team
A note before we begin: this article is an extrapolation of a full piece I’ve just written on that team, the reason’s it struggled and its legacy on argentinian football; if you fancy a read, here’s the link. A Bit of Background Ask any number of argentinian football fans who is, in their opinion, the…
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