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were all in close proximity. It was like Brazil had decided to play seven-a-side in one tiny portion of the pitch. Weird. Also kind of cool.
To understand why, we should take a detour, back to the mid-2010s, when Diniz — a journeyman midfielder as a player between 1993 and 2008 — was starting to make a name for himself as a coach. He was only managing small teams then, but the pluckiness of his tactics transcended his surroundings. “People associate me with his way of playing because I like my team to have the ball, but that’s where the similarities end,” he said in a television interview last year. “Because his way of having the ball is almost the opposite of mine. His is what people call a positional game. The players stick to a determined space and [wait] until the ball arrives there.
To which Diniz might fairly claim that the comparisons have rather been foisted upon him. And that his success has been conditioned by his environment. The Brazilian football ecosystem is defined by short-termism, meaning it is hard to build a project, particularly one that requires so much buy-in. It is no country for young ideologues.Indeed, it is testament to Diniz’s quality that he has reached the Brazil post even with his relatively modest CV. Management, luckily, isn’t about trophies.
As he sees it, giving players the ability to drift around, swap roles and create overloads off the cuff — the ad hoc seven-a-side stuff that looks so funny when you press pause at the right instant — is both the best way to tug the opposition out of shape and the best way to ensure your players are engaged, excited and happy. Which, the theory goes, should make them play better than if they were just going through the motions in fixed positions.
Against that backdrop, Diniz can be seen as something of an iconoclast, even a throwback. He once described his style as “a return to the past,” adding: “Brazil doesn’t have to copy Europe. We have to create our best style here.”Now, perhaps, you can see where the woop-woop gang comes in. Nostalgia is a powerful drug in football, especially when you’re talking about a country with such rich history.
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