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I want to talk about Carlo Ancelotti I was recalling a conversation I had about Milan with @gilles talking about the Golden Age of Milan, that Ancelotti coached: Kaka, Rui Costa, Maldini, Nesta, Seedorf, Gattuso, Pirlo, Cafu. That Milan. That was truly a wonderful Milan. Seedorf is a 10, Pirlo is a weird 10, and Rui Costa and Kaka are of course 10s, but of a different style. And Ancelotti somehow figures out a way to combine all of them together on a pitch and succeed. Some accuse him as being tactic-less. In this modern age of Football, the extrapolation of The Cruijffian Totaalvoetbal taken to its natural extreme -- through the Tiki Taka of Barça Guardiola, Gegenpressing of Jürgen Klopp, the new Brighton De Zerbi, Arteta's Arsenal, the Guardiola disciple. Even Unai Emery's new Aston Villa does a lot of positional play, and the new Bayern Guardiola / Man City Guardiola -- it feels like positional play is that's all there is these days. And then you realize, Ancelotti won the UCL, again??

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July does football? wtf? No way is Seedorf a 10 but amazing thread

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Part of the problem with Seedorf is he was so good at being a 8 and a 10 that often he was played as an 8, but he often played a 10 when he was at Ajax as a part of De Kabel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_kabel

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july really cooked with this one. its something thats hard to gain an understanding of unless you have been watching football for decades. for context: a friend shared these ditto(!) insights with me when they got me into football, he’s been working in the ⚽️ industry for years and watching the game for over a decade. exceptional and (pleasantly) unexpected thread!

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