There are great stories to acquaint yourself with that brings the club, not just the team you watch each week, to life. Some clubs have endured serious adversity, both financial and otherwise. In a few instances, the supporters from the club actually own the organization.
In the lower leagues of England, some supporters volunteer their Saturdays or Sundays to clean the stadium and provide all the maintenance.
Other groups have come together to save the club from relocating. There are so many great stories in Soccer that have to do with things other than the games played and trophies won. Take some time to uncover the stories associated with a team and support those that speak to your beliefs and values. What type of soccer do you like to watch?
Are you a fan of possession-heavy tactics and free-flowing attacking movements or do you prefer disciplined defending and counter-attacking teams? However, throughout the time the style of a club will not deviate far from one style. For example, Atletico Madrid from Spain tends to have a very counter-attacking style of play.
They are very disciplined defensively, shift well as a unit, and have speedy players up top to relieve the pressure and break on an overexposed defense.
These are just a few examples of the different tactics to watch for. I personally enjoy watching free-flowing attacks with multiple options and creative runs to find space.
I recommend choosing a team or two in a few leagues to better understand the different tactics that each implement. This will expand your knowledge of the game, formations, tactics, and subplots that make the game even more fun to watch. Questions: 5 Attempts: Last updated: Jan 2, Sample Question.
Applying hair gel. Putting on the captains armband. Listening to Spanish music. Reading a horse magazine. English Premier League Quiz. The Spanish LaLiga season will begin Aug. Which team should you back this season? How do you like your soccer played? Maybe parking a bus in front of your own goal like Atletico Madrid and hoping to eke out a win is the way to go if it gets results? Atletico Madrid won the title by being gritty, tough and not afraid to take a foul. Local rivalries, like Real Madrid vs.
Barcelona, are the lifeblood of many soccer fans who need a nearby club to hate. Largely because, well, the Browns have not actually had any of that success you speak of. They don't have the same quality of caliber of star talent, and they certainly don't have the equivalent of Pep Guardiola on the sidelines.
I think the New Orleans Saints are a much cleaner fit for City. The Saints of recent vintage have been spending money like it's going out of style, trying desperately to win another Super Bowl before Drew Brees retires. They have an offensive genius coach Sean Payton who has won big before the aforementioned Super Bowl but with a previous version of the team and has spent recent years dominating the regular season only to suffer heartbreaking defeats in the playoffs.
As a City fan myself, I feel like the fit is pretty seamless. MG : That's interesting. I had the Saints pegged for another team. When I think of a team with stars on both sides of the ball, spending money like it's going out of style to bring in talent to maximize on the closing window of their longtime star, I think Barcelona. It's true that the coaching comparison doesn't match as well, and Drew Brees, great as his career has been, obviously doesn't match up to Lionel Messi though outside of maybe Tom Brady, who does?
Barcelona are having a pretty miserable year all things considered, and they've got a tough matchup against Paris Saint-Germain to kick off the round of sixteen this week, but there's a chance that if Messi is at his best, and the surrounding cast manages to catch lightning in a bottle they've got one more run left in those aging bones.
And then they're gonna face the economic realities of what they've done to try and max out for one more title. JD : Messi as Brees is certainly a more direct parallel than anyone on City. Does Barca have a Taysom Hill-type guy that the manager inexplicably loves and gives a lot of playing time, much to the chagrin of everyone watching games? MG : They actually have the opposite problem. For a handful of years now Barcelona managers have been reluctant to play some prospects rather than some expensive, yet underwhelming, additions.
This year a combination of injury and desperation have meant guys like Pedri and Riqui Puig are actually getting minutes though. I'll also just awkwardly shoehorn in here that Barcelona have a pair of young Americans sharing the same rarified air as Messi at the moment.
Segino Dest is a fullback who actually plays and Konrad de la Fuente, an attacker who rarely does. JD : That sounds vaguely Seahawks-y to me, but if you spin it a bit. It certainly didn't help that the Seahawks ran into the Rams in the first round of the playoffs this year. Could the Rams be PSG? He's even set to miss the game, and Donald got injured during the Seahawks-Rams contest. Like Jared Goff. Or a whiz kid coach? Like Sean McVay. Or a shutdown center back who could be the equivalent of Jalen Ramsey?
Or maybe crafty wingers and fullbacks like Cooper Kupp and Robert Woods? Well, kind of. Mauricio Pochettino is like 15 years older than him, but on a career that's taken him from Espanyol to Southampton to Tottenham and now PSG, he's on the younger edge of coaches at this level, and he replaced Thomas Tuchel in December after the German manager got fired. PSG is such a star-studded team that you don't have to look too far to find somebody who used to be en vogue and now is riding the pine.
They do have a great young, up and coming center-back in Presnel Kimpembe. Neymar as Aaron Donald definitely works. As for the Seahawks, I'm kinda thinking Real Madrid for them. They're still good obviously, but just not quite as good as they were. Russ in particular has gone from a guy who was good sandwiched between a great defense and a dominant running game, and now the team is good when he's the guy. It's a little like Karim Benzema playing next to Cristiano Ronaldo for years, being great but a supporting character, and then after Ronaldo left morphing into the boss.
JD : Does Real Madrid's manager think that whatever the soccer equivalent of the defense-and-running-game is, is still the strength of the team? Because that would really hammer home the Seahawks comparison. Pete Carroll 1, percent believes that to be the case.
Also, is there a Champions League team that acquired a controversial prospect in the recent past, saw him struggle for a season or two, but kept surrounding him with other exceptional talents and eventually saw him blossom into a star?
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