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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hate the whole model and brand BS. Teach kids to be all around technically sound. and coach teams to their strengths. the whole FCB model will change dramatically as the personell changes . once Messi retires. The style you play is based on the talent you have. to sell it t the world as a brand is cheap and not genuine. Coach what you have not what you want... if Messi would have played for Liverpool everyone would say thats they style I want my kid learning . Blah blah blah .. [/quote]

Your history is quite wrong.  The style was introduced by Cruyff when he became manager in 1988.  Messi wasn’t on the first team until 2004.

The players are technically sound because the method allows for the maximum number of touches on the ball every training session.  First touch has to be perfect.

From John Carlin:

“There is no Pele style, or Maradona style, or Messi style, or Di Stefano style to be found in the way the game is played today. But there is a Cruyff style. Or, as they say in Spain, a Cruyff ideology. Barcelona, the living expression of the Dutchman’s idea of how the game should be played. Cruyff’s spirit hovers around the Barcelona team, penetrating the thought processes of every player on the field.

Cruyff’s most ardent disciple, Pep Guardiola, was Barça’s architect, the manager under whom they won 14 out of 19 possible leagues and cups in four years, a feat unequalled in the history of the game. But one thing Guardiola has never failed to repeat is that the original design belongs to Cruyff, under whom the Catalan played and learned his craft in the early 1990s.  “Cruyff made the Sistine Chapel,” Guardiola has said. “The job of those that have followed him at Barcelona has been to maintain it.”

What it meant was an end to the venerable and ancient notion that each player on a team had a fixed and immoveable role; what it required was for every player to be comfortable on the ball. Defenders attacked, attackers defended and possession was king.”

Messi is his own independent master.  He could have played anywhere and make things happen.

Barca is NOT teaching kids to play like Messi, nor did the Club ever advertise such.  There is only one Messi.  Messi came after.

Pep brought the style to Bayern and now Man City and won championships. It’s not an “individual” dependent style.  Total Futbol

You are correct that styles change, but learning game intelligence and getting the maximum number of touches is basic good training whether you depart from the style or not down the road.

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