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Spanish are tiki-taka-ing their way in your penalty box, their
primary concern is thinking about possession and not to lose
it, rather than to necessarily score a goal in that phase of play.
Spain would happily make dozens of short passes to get into
the penalty box, only to take another dozen to leave it again,
if it mean't retaining the ball and being patient for the right
opportunity to score. The english — and to be fair, almost everyone
else — would 'force' it if given a similar situation, and
maybe or maybe not score, maybe or maybe not lose possession
in the attempt of doing so. Spain simply does not tolerate
this element of chance.
Let's be clear: this is a remarkable Spanish team but there is
more science behind what they do than people realise. They
have simply realised a truth that every other nation seems to
have forgotten — that there is only one ball on the pitch, and
if you have it, you cannot lose. And so they have geared their
entire team around possessing the ball to the extent of selecting
personnel whose predominant ability is passing and possessing
it, irrespective of what position they nominally play
on the field.
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How effective would sumo wrestlers
be as NFL linemen?
John DeMarchi, Have intensely followed the draft for 25
years; have attended 16 NFL Drafts; longtime football fan.
Fascinating question, and a good one.
only forty two sumos on the globe can compete at makuuchi
level — sumo's top level. The rest of sumo works sort of
like baseball, with a minor league system featuring six tiers
and a total of about six hundred and thirty wrestlers.
So to be a sumo "pro," you can't be a slug. You have to
be a huge, powerful, explosive, low-center-of-gravity athlete,
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