Tactics are just a part of football because the players are playing.
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The game of football is one of strategy and tactics.
People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
Everything is up to the players and not the tactics. They're just small details that can show you the way to play.
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.
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.