How does anything structural — like a culture, a paradigm, or a philosophy of soccer — change? Pace Marx, mostly from individuals innovating — risk-taking entrepreneurship through the feet of a genius, with “no lag between idea and implementation.” For this reason, soccer is the most innovative of sports: As Ronaldinho once said: “You always look to surprise, with dribbling, a new move, a new pass. (…) If you don’t innovate, they all take the ball away from you.” (Tim Leberecht/GOOD; HT Aquarium Drinker)
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What a load of crap that article is. It’s examples are out of date. It blithely asserts all soccer styles can be explained by cultural forces, but only sites tired old (and wrong) stereotypes. Should have been put in the worst, not the best of recent posts.
Attributing risk-taking entrepreneurship to Marx was pretty funny….