Football now is way different to football from before. May it be player profiles, tactics, or anything, football has come a long way since it became an institutionalized sport. For someone like Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany, he started out with “little tactical information” during his days as a budding footballer.
“Coaching and football will always keep evolving, and we [had] probably much less tactical information when I started my career,” Kompany recalled (UEFA via @iMiaSanMia). “Now you can go to any level in football, and you will see tactical detail, you will see a lot of analysis done on the opposition as much as analysis on your own team. That wasn’t maybe as much the case when I started, but then at the end of my career it was – and I suppose we’re always trying to push those boundaries to see if there’s a component we can do individually with the players, if there’s something we can add on the pitches. Everybody’s trying to push that line to what’s going to be next, and that’s exciting.”
Today, you have coaches like Pep Guardiola who continues to revolutionize the way football is played. But hopefully Bayern fans could still see Manuel Neuer start a game in midfield.
