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HappyCamperGL
May 18, 2014

Guardiola did not invent the false 9.

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HappyCamperGL
May 18, 2014

J Hume posted:

Do you mean in the sense that every football tactic/position has been tried by some team somewhere, or was there another coach in the modern day who popularized it who I overlooked?
Maybe you're referring to Cruyff? His teams had a lot of fluidity with strikers dropping deep.

Totti was notably used that way by spalletti at Roma immediately prior, in a contemporary context. Spalletti may have been influenced too to try it by someone else at the time, but I'm not aware.

But yes arguably the role, or a close analogue, existed since at least before WW2 in Hungary and Austria.

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