Tiki-taka is dead. Long live tiki-taka. As a die-hard Real Madrid fan, I thought this year’s Champions League semifinal victory against Bayern Munich was one of the greatest I had ever seen. Its ...
It is said that, at 33 years old, Alexander the Great cried salt tears when he realized there were no more worlds to conquer. Almost two millennia later, in 2009, another young man found himself ...
The Spanish national football team has employed the "tiki-taka" style of short, quick passes with great success under managers Luis Aragones and Vicente del Bosque over the past seven years. Spain has ...
It's quite clear there is a backlash towards tiki-taka, the label that's been put on the style of play perpetrated by Barcelona and Spain. Fashions come and go, and of course this fashion was always ...
MADRID (AP) — Desperately trying to break through the Granada defense, Barcelona sent more than 50 crosses into the area in its search for a goal. There was none of Barcelona’s famous “tiki taka” — ...
The phrase was used a lot during the Spaniard’s World Cup campaign. Finishing third in the group, conceding seven and scoring just four left people mourning the style of play called tiki-taka. The ...
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — The Morocco players fell back on defense and patiently watched as Spain kept passing the ball around midfield during their round of 16 match at the World Cup. Side to side, from one ...
Tiki-taka – a term now synonymous with beautiful, possession-based football – has become a philosophy that reshaped the modern game, especially in Spain but has seen sides attempt to emulate it across ...
MADRID (AP) — Desperately trying to break through the Granada defense, Barcelona sent more than 50 crosses into the area in its search for a goal. There was none of Barcelona’s famous “tiki taka” — ...