According to SAR, a striker is a striker. In football, our grandparents (or great) with the illustrious likes of Isidro Langara (who scored 17 goals in 12 games with the selection and, in addition to 3 trophies scorer, was top scorer in Argentina with San Lorenzo and Mexico with the Club Spain) and Telmo Zarra (6 consecutive top scorer trophies, scoring a total of 242 goals in Premier League), that figure of the ram was clearly defined in the schemes prevailing WM: make many (many) goals. After the outbreak of the Magical Magyars, the scheme devised by Sebes 4-2-4 two strikers stood more or less parallel with complementary roles: Kocsis ("Head of Gold") and Puskas ("little cannon"). Total Football Rinus Michels, due to the constant exchange of positions, began to blur the figure of the ram already in the seventies and nineties, Johan Cruyff ignored (in the first stage) of the center forward towards greater control of middle and higher occupancy of the bands.
And now the football today. Ronaldinho Barca lining up Eto'o, who is not exactly a prototypical center forward. Subsequently, Guardiola, in its first year placed as a battering ram to Cameroon in theory, but entrusting an important defensive work to Africa and also swapping its position on many occasions Messi (The 2-6 at the Bernabeu is an example). Ibrahimovic last year, which itself has the physical characteristics of a center forward, did not seem to fit in full. The Swede, whose excellent performance resemble that Jan Koller in a greater extent than those of an old-fashioned shooter failed in Barcelona. Now Villa, seems to confirm the commitment of the Barca players to fill that space with another court, even with excellent results in face-to-door.
Real Madrid in the picture is even more complex. After the departure of Van Nistelrooy (Netherlands this really is a prototypical center forward and no less extraordinary), the job does not seem to have again been busy with security. With the arrival of Mourinho, it seems that the need for a striker has been made, say, more apparent. In his scheme 4-2-3-1 (or whatever), it seems appropriate to align an auctioneer and outright striker. Higuain does not seem to convince and their numbers are still discrete, even though last season was the team's top scorer. Benzema has not shown up any of the vast capabilities that we intuit. Christian is not a striker. And there's more.
And the fact is that despite that the picture is not very suitable for the striker in our country, I keep the hope of seeing a generation of center forwards as I lived 30 years ago. Those men serious, accurate, and extremely effective human dominated the league since the late seventies until the early eighties, as well as vie for the center forward position with the national team (along with Rubén Cano). I mean Quini (Sporting and FC Barcelona), Santillana (Real Madrid) and Satrústegui (Real Sociedad). The first was, in my opinion, the most effective finisher of English football of all time. The second, in conjunction with the best coat Kocsis history. The third, the Real striker that champion and holder front in Spain 82. Any of them would not be out as a striker in this team world champions. Hardly.
Now only Fernando Llorente seems to follow that path of specialist, however, few seem to assume in full. Not surprisingly, we are in the era of media-tips (which are neither means nor ends). In the third round of the League 2010-2011, Llorente leads the scorers' list. By selecting his performances have been very significant ... solving games at first and second person.
For some, the classic figure of the front center may be part of the past. However, even when the live game is reviled by some, what is sought to solve the games when they are wrongly made? At such times it is through the central and Pique ... Alexanco or auctioneers center forward. It is possible that this football has not changed much.
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