In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
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At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.
In games, you notice there's more sprints than in Bundesliga. It takes a while to get used to.
Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
When you play soccer, most of the time you got to get the ball moving, but once you get into that attacking third you gotta' be creative, you gotta' let your talent take over.
Tactics are just a part of football because the players are playing.
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.