For Halftown Joan Capdevila is a current player who has had the wisdom (others will say the fortune) of being in the right place at the right time. With a track record that can boast of many, many more talented players than him, Capdevila is the first to recognize his jet in an interview he gave to THE COUNTRY on Thursday.
But what drew attention to the Catalan side chat with Cayetano Ros was a phrase dropped in mid-interview and the interviewer could not (or did not know) to exploit. When asked about their possible substitutes in the left flank of the Red, Capdevila listed a number of players and shut down its list by saying that theirs actually is not a decisive position.
scrotumtightening reflection, a truth that is seldom heard from the mouths of professional football, and something that none of the best left side of the world said earlier.
Anyone who has played football -Not even necessary to have played side-known that the main task of the sides is to prevent the ends of the opposing team from the side to generate threat or with bias or with a cross.
The truth is that it is not so complicated. First, it was always easier to destroy than to build. And second, because to do so in the band, with the security that comes from having a stone's throw from the sidelines, is much simpler than done, for example, the uncertainty of the center circle.
Not everyone Roberto Carlos A priori position that simple, and yet if you look at the sides first division today, most of them were midfielders band at its beginning: Salgado, Puyol, Ramos, Capdevila himself ... The subsequent recycling to the side that leads to lack of overflow allows players to keep that position at lower levels jump into the air. Think for example on the two sides of the fifth from Xavi and Casillas World Champions U-20 in '99: law, Chur Paul, having been in the branch of Espanyol when he was too old for this stuff, club ran out in January after gorging on the Budapest Honved not pay the tab. The left, David Bermudo, in the last decade has only Sabadell hold in coaching another former left-Lluis Carreras.
Everything changed in 1996 when Real Madrid paid 600 million pesetas for a Brazilian who had landed on a year earlier Inter: Roberto Carlos. The small side, with legs like tree trunks Amazon used them to revolutionize the position he played. The problem was when Madrid lost the ball, the left side of defense became a gruyere cheese. bleeding fast as the central aborted Alkorta and Pepe, but things got screwed over when the hole they had to cover up armored and Pavon and Walter Samuel.
The Real fans always apologized defensive laxity Roberto Carlos, to understand that he made up for his role in the attack. The same story happens now with Dani Alves to Barca. The problem is that we have made the exception the new paradigm. The Roberto Carlos, Dani Alves and Maicon are separate cases, needles in the haystack of Pinillos, Corrales, Abate, Pern í ay company.
So when I talk about Roberto Carlos as the best left back ever given birth, I refuse to agree. One side has first and foremost, to defend. Once that is under control, if that is true at some time in the 90 -, why not be able to join the attack from time to time. But one side must be covered and avoid delusions of grandeur. Make favor of putting the children a video of Paolo Maldini, the legendary left side that was not even handed. Surely he also thinks that, deep down, his was not a decisive position.
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