According to Kuper, 'No other football team plays the Barcelona way. That's a strength, but it's also a weakness. It makes it very hard to integrate outsiders into the team because outsiders struggle to learn the system.' The Barca approach requires not just high skill levels and incredible stamina, but intuitive and intelligent decision-making and an almost telepathic understanding of the movement of your colleagues. Outsiders who think too slowly (it may only be by fractions of second) and who do not have a picture in their minds of what is going on around them can cause the team to malfunction.
John Carlin made more or less the same point before the first leg of the clash with Chelsea: 'What Barcelona have done is to invent a new language, or what Fábregas, since his arrival from Arsenal this season, has described as the Guardiola 'software'. It is hard to assimilate for those who have not been raised from an early age at the club's La Masia academy.'
(simon kuper同john carlin都係好出名嘅記者/作家, 主要係sports同economics/politics嘅關係)
Some months back I wrote that
rather than argue over whether Barcelona are the greatest side to have played the game or whether the histrionics of some of the players seriously detracts from their greatness, we simply enjoy watching them - because ultimately, they cannot go on at that level forever.好同意以上所講.... 所以咩黑哨, 咩主場之利, 咩偏幫, 咩影帝, 全部都只係影響我欣賞佢地踢波風格嘅不受歡迎嘅註腳, 而呢種咁難維持嘅風格, 真係百年一遇, fans們真係要好好珍惜~~
