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It is not a question of 4-4-2 or 4-2-1-3, it is a question of having a team which is ordered, in which the players are connected to one another, which moves together, as if it was a single player.” (Arrigo Sacchi)
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Ray Power (Making The Ball Roll: A Complete Guide to Youth Football for the Aspiring Soccer Coach)
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Sacchi would push his players to greater extremes by shouting instructions through a megaphone. “‘I hear Arrigo doesn’t shout anymore, he’s got himself a megaphone,’ my wife said to Tassotti one day. ‘That’s not strictly true,’ said Tasso. ‘Now he shouts into the megaphone.
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Arrigo Sacchi (The Immortals: The Season My Milan Team Reinvented Football)
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Da una parte la tattica, cioè l'attesa dell'errore avversario, dall'altra la strategia, cioè un piano d'azione portato a termine.
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Arrigo Sacchi (La coppa degli immortali: La leggenda della squadra più forte di tutti i tempi raccontata da chi la inventò)
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Arrigo Sacchi, a terrible player turned great manager of Milan, phrased it, “You don’t need to have been a horse to be a jockey.
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Simon Kuper (Soccernomics: Why England Loses; Why Germany, Spain, and France Win; and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's ... the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport)