A renaissance in Italy, yes, but the Dutch had been playing that way for years. Ajax and Johan Cruyff are the real innovators of football. Sacchi just followed the blue prints.
Tiger TrenchTT buddy, I was just referring to how Sacchi made the back 4 mainstream in Europe when the sweeper was a popular choice at that time, but if you want to trace back influences, then credit the Austrian Wunderteam of the 1930's or the Golden Team of Hungary of the 1950's who you can say were the pioneers of effectively introducingTotal Football to the world, the style that Michels, Cryuff and that Ajax team were famous for. I think the Santos team of the 60's also used that style sparingly. Yes the foundations were laid in Ajax, but way before Cryuff's time, probably in the 10's and 20's by a Brit, Jack Reynolds whom Michel played under, whom subsequently Cryuff played under. Know your thing first before you try to lecture me with your 'as-matter-of-fact' bud.
Tiger TrenchTT FYI, your precious Dutch teams used a sweeper/libero too (Rudd Krol & later Ronald Koeman) before Sacchi showed them back 4 was the way to go.
Tiger TrenchTT Sacchi's Milan team of the 90's were the last team to win the European Cup/Champions League consequently (twice) before the Real Madrid team of the late 2010's (thrice so far as of 2019).
@@badassbeast655 The Dream Team was the name of Barca's side at the same time under Cruiyff.That side was devastating though.Second best after this Milan side(Because this side beat Cruiyff's Dream Team.)
@@hommofroggy5727 I've seldom see him get brought up in discussions online (I could be wrong however) perhaps overrated is the wrong word hmm: Underappreciated perhaps?
He didn't create them, they had already signed when he was appointed from Parma. However he did galvanise the trio to play beautiful and devistatingly effective football
The game he implemented at Milan is The reason why I became truly interested in this sport in the first place and why I fell in love with the rossoneri. Great video, guys (as always it seems)!
@@Andre-eo4xe atm working in the third best academy, doing general management and video analysis on the side after coaching for several months in another academy. Next year I'll probably start the uefa b license and go on from there.
Well done video. Ha never knew this. How weird. Thanks tifo. Keep up the good work. Since im African I would love to see a video on the football is this continent and pioneers of the continent in a football sense.
Am a The Athletic subscriber and avid Totally football (especially golazzo) listener but Tifo football has actually saved my sanity during self~isolation. The clarity and cleverness of these all too short clips are sorely missed in other fields of journalism. Thank you very much Tifo Football
As an American you help me learn so much about the game of Football and all the tactics and history behind it. I love your channel. I ask if you can do one on sporting Kansas City. How a small market team can be one of the top of the mls year in and year out. Great work once again Tifo!.
Is liverpool today equivalent with Milan in late 80s under Arigo sacchi? Similarities : Milan has trio dutch, zone pressing, excellent defending from Maldini - Baresi, and goalkeeper Sebastiano Rossi, attacking football Liverpool has Salah, Mane, Firmino, gegenpressing, excellent defending service from Van Dijk, Joel Matip and Allison, attacking football
@@Joh30gee no way that liverpool side didnt even challenge for alle prizes. It isnt even the best liverpool side ever 2015 barca with msn was even better maybe real madrid 2017 too. And i am a Liverpool fan. The best teams in the history are ac milan sachinn and peps barca they changed and dominated football
Another video to the visual book of Inverting the Pyramid. At this rate you'll be the number 1 compliment to that book. I love your content guys, keep it up. You're forcing every other piece of content creation in the sport to level up to your level.
Sacchi was actually sacked a few games after Euro 96, not straight after the group stage. Sacchi gets praised for his achievements at Milan but he underachieved with Italy. Roberto Baggio carried the Azzurri to the 1994 World Cup Final and flopped at Euro 96 without him. Sacchi made some odd tactical experiments too and had players out of position, especially Beppe Signori. Although he was influenced by Dutch football, his Italy side was more British than Dutch. Used the 4-4-2, picked a lot of hard workers, and did not have a lot of technicians. He also showed favouritism towards Milan (merited) and Parma (not so much) players.
you gave 12 mims to Biesla but not the tactics god himself Sacchi 😂 he actually transformed the whole Serie A and most of the good Italian coaches nowadays take after him
Awesome content! I always love to watch tifo history and tactics among others; speaking of which, could you please do a video about "zona mista" and its origins, thanks very much!
the best teams I have ever seen play are: Cruyff's Barca Sacchi's Milan Luis Aragonés's Spain (Later followed by Vicente del Bosque) Jupp Heynckes Bayern Munich Ancelotti's Milan. Rijkaard's Barca.
His tactics inspired Wolfgang Frank who inspired European Cup winning manager Jürgen Klopp. So from Sacchi to Klopp, what goes around well and truly does come around.
Nice video. Can you make a video on Arrigo Sacchi's Tactics?! Because recently Maurizio Sarri told in an interview "There are 2 phases of football. Football before Sacchi and Football after Sacchi".
What Sacchi faced during his spell in international management would be similar to what Arsene Wenger would face if he opted to dip his football into the international game.
A renowned offensive coach, however, the defence he built at Milan was undoubtedly the best defence of all time. The defence of (most prominently) Baresi, Maldini and Costacurta dominated Italy (and Europe), and they went on an almost two year undefeated spell from 91-93. The season after Sacchi left they went on to win the league undefeated, and in the '93/94 season they conceded only 15 goals in 34 games in the league. However, most of this was achieved under the tutelage of Fabio Capello.
gringo Not true. The only season he used a defensive approach in milan was 93 94, other than that one he always used attacking approach. Hell milan in his first season was more offensive even than they were under sacchi, and they went unbeaten.
A brilliant coach who's now hating on modern football because "they all took a piece of my philosophy and they turned it into something that's not the game I loved, not anymore", it's so sad to see him so salty and entitled
I feel We should remember all of His career, The Good and The Mediocre. But it is for his first stint at Milan that he should be revered - Every Dog has its day and Sacchi hounded his opponents when it was his. Arrividerci!
Pep Guardiola Tactics: How it changed from Barca to Bayern to City. Please make it at least one hour long video, and I guarantee it will get 1 million views on the first day.
Barca: classic tiki taka Bayern: the same thing as Barca but with two major changes..1) he did not let the midfielders free roam and interchange as much( he realized he could not incorporate tiki taka because for that the players needed to be at the absolute same wavelength and players should all have very high vision to know that after 2 passes where exactly you need to find your Target) ..2.) gave much more freedom to the robbery duo and relied on their brilliance.. City: it's more like ultra pressing in the fifty yard area, finding the best option and recovering the ball as quickly as possible
I was under the impression he's always been in that bracket, younger generations simply haven't heard much of him because even his "students" coached a while ago bar Ancelotti.
Could you do a video explaining why Americans aren’t as successful in Europe, especially managerially? Confuses me that American players can be successful but the only American coach who was well known in Europe was bob Bradley during his poor time at Swansea.
I think mainly because the conditions are different like for starters most American kids aren't that interested in football so most of your talent goes into baseball hockey American football naturally most won't make the change into the sport. This has to change if you are to be a truly great footballing nation aswell as your league formats with no relegation there is no consequence to playing badly (in Europe relegation can mean the death of a club because of lesser finances lesser interest in who your playing lower grade players being available etc..) so I believe if those two things change you'd begin to see better coaches plus retention of older playing staff to become coaches (I'm talking the Tim Howard's brad guzan heath whatever his name is from copa90) and help pass on that knowledge and inspire those around you to want to do more to better themselves but I have to say the level of standards does seem to be slowly rising...
Sadly he did the opposite (to entertaining) when he coached Italy at 1994 WC playing very dry pragmatic football and his own "fantasisti" Baggio suffered the most from it.
bullshit... Capello he did not build nothing, he gave more freedom to the players but he has exploited all the work of sacchi...after 4 years of sacchi that team was a perfect machine. You are very ignorant of italian football
@@titanio784 well 4 league titles one of them unbeaten and 3. Consecutive Champions league finals one of them one by beating cruyffs dream team is better than Sacchi back to back Champions league s
@Kanye West Hahaha Even Gullet and MVB said we were the best tem in Europe that time and that they wouldn't have won those 2 European cups if Liverpol were there...Barnes Beardsley Houghton and Aldridge/Rush in a front 4 would have destroyed all of Europe.That Dalglish team from 86-90 is Liverpool's finest..check out Platini and what he said on the 87-88 team when he saw us beat Forest 5-0 at Anfield lol...Steau bucharest and PSV won european cups when liverpool were banned and it was so easy for sacchi and mIlan to win those 2 cups when Liverpool were not there lol.
@Kanye West Barnes Beardsley Houghton Rush/Aldrige would have owned that defence...Widely regarded as the best team in Europe by far and Europe was lucky we were not there as Dalglish would have won 3-4 European cups easy with his team from 86-91...Look at the teams who won when we were banned..Milan even won the trophy after about 30 years gap lol.
@Kanye West Really you're going to that....Really scraping the barrel aren't you....But when you have to play 8 games in 17 days after Hillsborough then we did well to take that game to a last day...86 88 90...league titles...lost 87 to a very good everton side that had gone to 3 fa cup finals ina row and won the european cup winners and won the title in 85 and lost the 89 title when the players were physically and mentally drained from Hillsborough..going to over 80 funerals and having to play 9 games including an fa cup semi in 17 days....pathetic response though.
