Comments on: Intermediate Spanglish 101- El Diez

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By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:39:04 +0000

Steve – glad you liked the post and thanks for the clarification on the Italian.

In the US, the common terms for such passes are “split” as in “split the defense” or throughball as in “through the defense.”

The Brits tend to say “slide rule pass.” I am not clear as to the etymology of the term, but assume it has something to do with slip-n-slides. At Ieast I hope.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:38:05 +0000

Great post. I, like many love the #10′s it’s interesting to see how the brainy players are learning how to play in different positions since the #10 spot has slowly become obsolete. (Although it seems the diamond midfield formation is coming back a bit so maybe we will see more of them coming around again) Look at Roberticus’ blog: http://santapelota.blogspot.com/.
Pretty sure you will enjoy it, not updated very often but when they are it’s always a good read on tactics.
Also “trequartista”, has to do more with the area of the pitch they play. “the attacking 1/4 of the pitch” The term is normally used for attacking mids who like to run at players, where as passers are normally “fantasistas” or “registas”.

Also a question, is the slide-rule pass, what is also known as a through ball? I have seen that term used here and there but only recently.