What is creativity in football?
Is it a change of Messi? A robe of C Ronaldo? Bergkamp's stop ball turned? Ronaldinho's picking ball is extraordinary? Did one of Zidane’s weightlifting stop? Alien's pendulum? What is Henry’s arc in the far corner?
All in all, an action that will make the audience scream, "Can this?!"
Of course, it can be more than that.
We all say that modern football, like Maradona, is a tough one. Both because Maradona is a genius who is not a world, and because football is putting an end to all kinds of accidents. Formation, player spacing, coordination, system, regional and man-to-man mixing and rotation - modern football, in fact, trying to eliminate all accidents.
Putting Guardiola with Mourinho, it seems strange: as a good enemy, their style is far from perfect. Guardiola wants to control the ball, Mourinho does not control the ball; Guardiola wants to attack, Mourinho wants to defend. But in the bones, they are a bit similar - this is also the direction of modern football:
Mourinho in Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan to Real Madrid, always believe in a philosophy: discipline first, reduce mistakes, control defense, unbeaten. Makelele said that Mourinho believes that teams that do not make mistakes will not be defeated.
Guardiola believes that if you play football, you should try to keep the ball and not let the opponent get the ball. If you keep the formation and pass it quickly, you won't lose the ball. If he doesn't like the long ball, it will be enhanced because of the long ball. Occasionally, and he does not like contingency. Last fall, he publicly stated in Manchester City why he wants to reduce the long ball that Premier League fans like to see:
"I am here to win, not to entertain the public."
Although the style is far from perfect, Mourinho's defense and Guardiola's offense are based on a high degree of discipline, sophisticated calculations, and reduction of accidents.
The 2018 World Cup is now over. Do you remember everything that happened?
I still remember the first day of the World Cup. When Russia broke Saudi Arabia, was Putin’s hand in hand?
I still remember the day when Iceland was holding on to Argentina. Are you talking about Icelandic firefighters, directors, dentists and trenches?
Remember Ronaldo's free kick to complete the hat trick, Portugal's 3 to 3 drawdown to Spain's feat?
When Cross was killing Sweden for a free kick in Germany, I thought it was the beginning of a German recovery.
Just as Rojo’s rush to get Argentina out, how many people thought it was a turning point in Messi’s fate.
When Ronaldo scored a goal against Morocco, we were analyzing his body fat rate and training habits.
When Neymar was crying in the face of Costa Rica, I thought it was the beginning of his brilliant future.
Later, Germany was eliminated by South Korea.
Argentina was sent home by Mbape.
C Ronaldo stopped in front of Uruguay's goal. When Cavani sent C Ronaldo home, he didn't know that he could only sit on the sidelines and watch Suarez go home.
When Brazil killed Mexico 2-0, he could not think of the yellow card that caused the suspension of Kasemiro, which would lead to such serious consequences.
When Honda Keisuke opened the last corner kick in Japan vs. Belgium, he did not know that Belgium would take this big counterattack and kill Japan. He did not even think of playing Belgium, which is so difficult in Japan, and will kill Brazil in the next game.
When the Russian group match was killed by Uruguay 3-0, who wants to get Spain to be kicked home by Russia?
This is the World Cup, dear, the 2018 Russia World Cup.
Superstars such as Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, went back.
A long history, such as Germany and Brazil, went back.
The ball is stretched like Spain and went back.
When we go back to Spain, we can still say: France and Uruguay rely on counterattack to win, this cup is counter-attack!
- Then, Uruguay also went back.
So the last four are:
France won against Argentina by counterattack; for Uruguay, it was won by the ball.
Belgium wins against any team, and wins against Brazil.
England relies on unremitting efforts to pass.
Croatia relied on counterattack to kill Argentina, and then three knockouts, all control the ball to grasp the situation, and finally the penalty.
This month has passed so fast, there are too many accidents.
When we talk about creativity, it is like this:
A product or a response is considered creative and means:
It is a new, appropriate, useful, correct, and valuable response to the task at hand.
It is heuristic, not arithmetic.
That is, the so-called creativity is both effective and unexpected.
As mentioned above, it is clear that this era is trying to put an end to Maradona's single-handedly solving monsters, and try to pursue discipline and efficiency. Why are Messi, Neymar, and Azar, who have excellent ball skills, and even the younger generation? As Mbape, are you still shining?
Because football in this era is more and more orderly, there are always some unexpected ideas to destroy these orders in order to have surprises.
When the other party has thought of everything possible, and you have other possibilities, a miracle will happen.
Remember that Messi scored a goal against Nigeria, with a height of 170 cm, and shot with a right foot that is not good at it?
Remember Ronaldo's battle against Spain, the left foot cold shot that didn't stop, let De Gea slip the door?
Remember that at the last moment of Sweden, Kroos suddenly flew a small angle and scored directly?
For example, no one can think of it. Mbapp, who has been interspersed on the right, will use a speed of up to 32.4 kilometers (it is said that the media has measured the highest speed of 37 kilometers), and the road is 60 meters.
Unexpectedly, Nacho and Pavard would stop the ball on the right wing and take a long shot from the volley.
Just like Croatia can't think that Cherishev will decisively insert a long-range shot before the ball and let Russia lead.
Just like Uruguay's Muslera thought that Griezmann would kick an outside spin with his left foot on the left wing.
England did not expect that Pericic would come to an Ibrahimovic-style Taekwondo volley.
Even more than just individuals.
When Belgium made the start of the De Braun center and the Lukaku right-winger against Brazil, Brazil was obviously messy.
When Croatia put forward the start of Brozovici against Argentina and stabilized the three midfielders, Argentina obviously did not expect.
These ideas, of course, are not as brilliant as those that have been handed down. Unlike the 60-year-old Bailey who scored a goal in the World Cup finals sixty years ago, it is genius, but as mentioned above:
Modern football has evolved to such a complete degree that it is perfect to the point where the ball-handling team will face the Icelandic people.
The demise of the Spanish style is only a hint: the uninspired possession of the ball seems to still be active, but in fact it is not suitable for this era.
While maintaining order and technology, it’s all about keeping new ideas. For example, France’s direct pass with Bogba and Gritzman’s demon, such as Croatia’s Modri. The continuation of the wonderful pass to maintain the wave, and then Perisic with some inspiration, let the team into the World Cup finals; for example, Lukaku and De Blaunet eliminated the Brazilian counterattack.
In an era where everything is increasingly complete and sophisticated, creativity is everything: it may be tiny, it may not be gorgeous, but every success is achieved by keeping a good eye on the order and using a little creativity to break through the imagination of the opponent.
In the 2018 World Cup, Adidas also explained with the stars that "creativity is the answer", this is the 2018 World Cup.