Why does the Netherlands have a wealth of winger players?

The Dutch team produces a lot of wingers, and the root of the problem comes from the concept of "all offense and all defense", which is reasonable.

In fact, the statement of attacking and defending is first proposed by famous English coach Reynolds. Dutch Michels studied under Reynolds and innovated on his basis.

In 1974, the Dutch national team led by Michels carried forward the tactics of all attacks and defenses. The team pushed the four defenders forward significantly and set off offside traps, so that most players concentrated in the opponent's half to carry out activities.

This behavior will make the opponent at a loss, it is too late to realize the problem, and there is no way to break this tactic.

Note that all attacks and all defenses are not the kind that everyone understands. During the offense, all 10 players were piled up in the opponent's penalty area, and during the defense, all 10 players were shy and defending, which was not the case.

He emphasizes more on space and flexibility, how to use the time of conversion to attack the enemy's weak side, and then create a short-term situation of fighting less.

Whether it is defense or offense, it will emphasize "space" and "number deployment".

Barcelona during the period of Xavi and Iniesta had this characteristic, with the shadow of all attack and defense. The players maintain in-depth relationships during offense, pay attention to assisting defense and protection when defending, and you can feel that there are people everywhere in the team anytime and anywhere.

If you have such a concept, even if you master the essence of full attack and defense, as for how to fight and how to arrange it, you still have to make arrangements based on the characteristics of the team members.

By the way, there is a knowledge that needs to be popularized, that is, when you watch the video of the Dutch team attacking and defending, you may see such a picture.

means that the opponent's player takes the ball, and then the Dutch players rushed forward in a swarm of people, feeling the state of a tiger pounced on the food. This kind of shot will be a bit strange now.

This will be related to the offside rule.

Before the offside rule changes, offside only stipulates that players on the offside are not allowed to receive the ball in front of the second-to-last player on the defense, so there will be such a swarm of Dutch teams, like a pounce-style pressure defense of primary school students.

When the offside rules are adjusted later, the offensive players' back passes are no longer offside, and this swarm of pressing and pressure will disappear.

So when you watch football videos in ancient times, it is different from those in the present. Don’t be surprised if you think it’s strange. Football rules have been changing for so many years, and adjustments every once in a while will bring about changes in the rules. Once the rules change, many playing styles and tactics will also change. This is normal. We must also objectively understand the environment of that era and cannot look at the development of football at that time from a modern perspective.

Back to the point, we will continue to talk about the issue of the Dutch team producing a wealth of wingers.

When talking about Reynolds before, Michels learned a lot of knowledge from him. What are the characteristics of Reynolds' coaching? It emphasizes the side road. The style of the game is open, pay attention to the wing road, run more, and use space to attack the enemy.

During his initial coaching at Ajax, he formulated the concept of consistency in playing styles from echelons to first-teams, hoping to achieve the eternal development of continuous talents and tactical compatibility.

There is an advantage in doing this, that is, everyone in the youth team and the first team learns a set of templates and playing styles. Directly transferring people from the youth team to the first team will quickly adapt, and the coach will not be so difficult to coach.

While Reynolds coached Ajax, he won 8 league titles and 1 Dutch Cup under his tenure.

Cruyff was also mined.

It’s true that this set of inheritance is also beneficial. It was when players were not very developed in that era, and there was a reasonable point that it would reduce the difficulty of running-in.

Since determining the concept of full attack and all defense and still having ideas, the Dutch team has no choice but to extricate themselves on the road of wing.

Since the 1970s and now, it has basically continued the routine development of 433. Whether it is training players or building a team building system for the head coach, this idea will be continued.

A center with two wingers makes an all-round midfielder, and the two full-backs can also fly together, up and down, which makes the team's offensive system very three-dimensional.

For so many years, the Netherlands has not shortened forward players. No matter how bad you are, you can see many wingers and forwards appearing. This is also due to the improvement of their talent system. This routine has been adopted since the development of the youth team.

The first team plays whatever they want, and teach them equally so that everyone can be familiar with this concept.

Of course, the Netherlands doesn't always play 433, 442 can also play. Van Basten played this tactic when he was coaching the Netherlands, and the team became pragmatic and conservative.

Formation This thing is dead, and tactics are alive. Whether to kick 442 or 433 must be determined based on the characteristics of the personnel.

But one thing is certain, even in the 442 formation, the team's wing forward is still very forward, and it will give people the state of being like a winger.

You can be a wing forward when defending, and become a winger when attacking, and 442 can also make changes to the players according to the opponent's situation at any time.

Similarly, 442 can also attack and defend with all the attacks and all the defenses, and this tactic cannot be used in the 433 formation. All offense and defense refer to tactical thinking and execution process, and more importantly, how players implement the coach's deployment and how they play.

is like 442. It can be used to pass long and pass in short. The formation is compressed a little, so that the players maintain a sense of layering, and it can also produce exquisite cooperation if they are more compact.

The important thing is that there must be a high degree of understanding between tactics and personnel, and it must be based on the cooperation of 11 players.

In this way, no matter what formation you play, you can succeed.