For the first time in 16 years, the Spanish National Team’s remarkable run of 136 consecutive matches with more possession than their opponents has finally ended. In the opening Euro 2024 game of Group B, Croatia had controlled 53% of the ball. However, it was Spain that emerged victorious.
Rather than lament the demise of this possession-based golden era, however, many are heralding it as the dawn of an exciting new chapter for La Roja, who now look like real contenders to win Euro 2024.
In this video, we’ll explore Spain’s storied successes with ‘tiki-taka’, explore the key factors driving their shift away from that philosophy, and examine what this could mean for the national team’s future.
#euro2024 #spain #laroja
0:00 – Intro
0:37 – Spain’s Golden Era
3:20 – The Ugly Side of Tiki Taka
4:41 – Tiki Taka no more?
6:42 – Why Spain are Ditching Tiki Taka
8:40 – How far can Spain go?
*All footage used in the video is for contextual purposes and in no way intended to infringe on intellectual property.
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Where will Spain finish at Euro 2024? 🇪🇸👇🏻
A. Round of 16
B. Quarter-finals
C. Semi-finals
D. Final/Winner 🏆
Music names? (amazing video btw)
I haven't watched it yet, but I can answer it now, the reason is Luiz Enrinque is overrated.
Ticki tacka invented by cruyf ?
Lol
Guyd if you want to believe thid ok.
But every one in spain knows thst it was Luis Aragones who chose the team of little guys.
Iniesta, Xavi, Cazorla, Villa put out Raul Gonzalez Blanco and got heat for it.
Then won Eurocup with style and leave the best team in the world for the next guy.
We normally didnt do nothing suddenly only you didnt find out how cool we are. But its fine for me. I forgive you… hehehe
I think (at least inside Spain) that the post golden era team is sometimes too heavily criticized. It didn't deliver in the world cup which is tbe nost inportant competition. But one semifinals of eurocup, one second place and one win of nations league are nothing to scoff at.
The generation that won everything was a crazy one, Spain had some of the best players in the world in every position excluding maybe strikers (where torres didn't deliver), it's really hard to match a generation like that one, and I'm personally hopeful with our chances this euro, and the team seams to be really good, it's just that's frustrating seeing so many opportunities lost because of the inability of scoring
fun fact: Spain has never been eliminated losing a game since euro 2016. In 2018, 2021 and 2022, Spain was eliminated in penalties
blah blah.. fairy tales LUIS AROGENES !!!
Guardiola wasn't even a coach in that time …etc.etc.
The tiki-taka style in the Spanish national team was implemented by Luis Aragonés during Euro 2008, before Guardiola coached Barcelona. Additionally, among Spain's three consecutive titles (Euro 2008, World Cup 2010, and Euro 2012), I believe the best tiki-taka, with a single defensive pivot, was seen in Euro 2008, as mentioned before Guardiola arrived at Barcelona. Xavi Hernández himself says that Luis Aragonés reinvented him as a player and states, "Luis Aragonés is the most influential person in my sports career." The notion that tiki-taka in the national team comes from Guardiola's Barcelona has become almost a truth by repetition, but the fact is that a year before Guardiola took over at Barcelona, Spain had already amazed the world in Euro 2008 with matches like the one against Russia.
Se olvidan de Luís Aragonés (2008). Fue el que inició lo que se conocería como Tiki Taka. Guardiola copió ese modelo para el FC Barcelona.
They forget about Luís Aragonés (2008). He was the one who started what would become known as Tiki Taka. Guardiola copied that model for FC Barcelona.
I would say there is a lot of potential from Spain to reach the final but they will be in the hardest side of the bracket with Germany, Portugal, France, it will be a tough task for any of the teams.
How tf doesn't this video have more views???? Amazing work man, keep it up. You're gonna be huge
Something that people always seem to forget is that Guardiola arrived in Barcelona as a coach in the season 2008/2009, right after Spain won the EURO2008. Guardiola only took advantage of what Luis Aragones had built.
136 games with more possession than oppnets is crazzyyzyz
As a Spanish, I clearly think Spain has the capability of winning the whole thing. France is not looking as strong as it was just a year or two ago, England is very hit or miss, and realistically, Germany is the only opponent that worries me
Congrats mate, your editing skills combined with the rightness of your analysis are really amazing.
Your make a few inaccuracies that I find important to correct. 1) Tiquitaca was born on October 17th 2007, in the qualifying game for the Euro08 between Denmark and Spain, 1-3, coached by Luis Aragonés (check out the highlights in Youtube); 2) Pep Guardiola had just been hired hired as the new coach of the B TEAM of Barcelona, and coached all season in the Third tier league of Spanish football; when Spain won the Euro 2008, Guardiola was announced as Barcelona team A new coach. Soooo, you need to ask yourself who influenced who, and how Catalan Tiquitaca’s roots were; B) Under Del Bosque Tiquitaca did not became more defined, but never coached with full conviction. A very conservative coach, Del Bosque always gave priority to NOT LOSING the ball, so he created the boring, purposeless game that has been mocked so much. Spain went into a winning strike in spite of Del Bosque, who screwed up a few important details in the mechanism, and thanks to an incredible generation of players. The firing of Luis Aragonés right after winning the Euro08 was shameful, unfair, and a great loss if Spain’s national team; 3) Last, but not least, only ball players in every position were in Aragones’ formations. There is more to say, but I will live it here.
Spanish here ;D…. First of all we still play "tiki-taka" I mean all our sub 21-23-19-17 play that style…. Spain decided to play like that with all their generations so we can have players that know how to play that style cause is clearly the best style possible and the style that provides both more titles and respect. Is just that sometimes yeah… You don't get that good players to win things even playing the best style possible. I mean look at the Eurocup 2021, we were for sure the best team playing as a team, but look at the players…. Ferran, Olmo Morata on forward, and I think they are not that bad players but just fine players, like a 6 or 7/10 then u look France doing an absolute ridiculous with mbappe, griezmann and dembele my god, or England now with Bellingham, Kane, Saka, Foden… Camon if spain has this players we wil win this euro like bullying easy the other countrys, and that's because we have the style implemented since low categories and know what we want to do on games. Sometimes yeah… you lose…. Everyone loses but it's the best we can do for sure. And now people saying we are ditching Tiki-Taka… Na na na, we play the same is just that now we play with 2 wingers that can 1v1 or even 1v2, and that provides something that we didn't have with Ferran and Olmo on wings so is another option to generate ocasions that we didn't have before and it makes it easier to don't havke matches like the match vs Morroco….. And I mean what would say the people if we just won the stupid penalties against Morroco? wining a game based on luck makes u better? or luckier? is always the same….We were good on world cup, and we are good now but with 2 players that bring us more options and are wayyyy better than the players we had back then that are Lamine Yamal and NIco, that's all, besides that it's literally almost the same team with the same Idea.
Technically 2008 to 2012 it is 5 years
they didnt win anything yet, just calm down and see to the end
you guys hype anything and peple are talking about spain dominating already
dont overrate them
they still didnt win anything
Spain is still playing tiki taka, don't get confused. The players have been raised with that style, they will just change the ways depending on the players they have but the philosophy is the same (Cruyffism). There are no rules against "passing with a fast pace" in tiki taka, they did have a good pace in the 2008 and 2010 teams, but as they grew older and less hungry for titles, they slowed down, as it happens with any team.
With all due respect, this is just a superficial analysis based on recent results. Spain against Croatia was an outlier, Spain isn't that effective usually, they normally need more chances to convert (more like what happened in their match against Italy) and they usually beat their opponents in possession. Don't forget Spain with Luis Enrique reached semi-finals last Eurocup and lost to the champion in penalties, we don't even know if the current team will get that far. Regarding the WC, Morocco also beat Portugal, so they deserved more credit than just blaming tiki taka.
It is normal that when a physical rough team sits deep in a low block parking the bus, Spain will suffer, even the current team or with their best team in history. Let's remember 2010 Spain (the "GOAT"), beat their opponents 1 – 0 and COULD have gone out against Paraguay easily. This trouble against those kind of teams will always exist, and any style of football will look toothless against a good bus parking team that won't take the initiative. You will need players that dribble and beat defenders one on one to gain an advantage, but those kind of players aren't always available.
Sí que es verdad que se nota un cambio y que España ha hecho dos partidos muy buenos, contra Croacia y, sobre todo, contra Italia. Estamos muy ilusionados con el nuevo equipo, pero es muy pronto todavía para anticipar un buen futuro para la selección. Es posible que España caiga de nuevo en el mismo juego de toque improductivo de los últimos diez años, y que esta pequeña revolución acabe en nada. Todavía hay mucho que demostrar.
People says Spain fell off, but remember they got second at 2021-2022 nations league and won 2023 nations league.
Spain has been winning in posession for the last 16 years, 136 marches
Spain records 47% posession against Croacia in the 137th match
In the 138th match, Spain records 58% posession
In the 139th match, Spain records 57% possesion
@FrontPageFootball: Tiki Taka is over!
Cucureya is lowkey in every single counter, either by stealing the ball, stoping a play or pivoting to sides fronts. Mad respect
who thinks spain will win 2026 World cup?
Spain's goated
Not easy on the eyes? I very much enjoyed this Spain team a lot more than the Spain team in the 2022 World Cup. It's infinitely better; they are fun to watch, and you can see from a mile away that they are by far the best team in this competition thus far. I hope they keep up the momentum.
Its just the greatest team in football history.
Can’t believe people were defending Luis Enrique back then. Absolutely mind numbing style of play, thank God he’s gone
W video, viva España 🇪🇸🫡
good video bro, greetings from spain
Luis Aragones won the 2008 Euros before Guardiola's arrival in the Barcelona's first team btw
Don't forget Rinus Michels before Cruyff
Quarter Finals is a German problem.
Big love from Spain.
From Spain, your argument dont make sence. We just have a problem, well, we still have the same problem, the lack of a propper striker, our team the last years was really good but not as good as before, were even without a striker we won everything, that just happened cos that generation was insane, but after that, the striker problem beging to look as a big deal. Our sistem, the tiki taka was and still today perfect, we didnt want change nothing, then Nico & Lamine arrive… they make our sistem diferent, better in some ways, weaker in others, but the sistem still the same, more direct but the same, keep the ball, pass the ball.
And that you said about that the other national teams found a way to beat the tiki taka sistem is trash, everyone since the first day understand that the only way to play against Spain was counter attack & pray, evryone kwnos it that, is basic, the problem come when you have to do it against one of the best defenders on the world, against a team with quick recovers, playing cleaver and together.
The mistake of Hierro and Luis Enrique was thinking that tikitaka is just about possesion, having 80% of possesion does not give you the victory… it was absurd, even the kicks from the corner were done with short passes, it seemed that shooting or passing from a long distance was a sin…
It is being said that Spain has left tikitaka but as I said tikitaka is not just about possesion, in fact I think that what it is not tikitaka is what Hierro and Luis Enrique proposed. Tikitaka is about association beetween players and fast short passes play with the purpose of keeping the ball away from the rival but also with the objective of disordering the rival and creating spaces for having chances of goal… having the ball in the midfield during 90 min is not tikitaka.
They look good but lack of conversion to goals might hurt them in the next coming rounds. Also I am very convince with their defense
Es una evolución lógica: controlas el centro del campo pero tu juego es lento y aburrido? Añade dos extremos wingers y revoluciona tu juego sorprendiendo a tus rivales.
Lo inexplicable es que otras selecciones no copien nuestro estilo de juego superior
Proud to be Spanish😁
But I ain't gonna lie. Vicente del Bosque had an amazing generation of players. He didn't have to do much. 😅
De la fuente is still playing tiki taka, is just that is more vertical than the other past coaches. Because of this the media thought that he was refusing spain's style of play. But in reality is the same thing.
Against Italy Spain did not have that much possession. This is because he tried to adapt to the opponent. But he said that his first priority is the possession, but if he has to be more direct to adapt to the rival, he will.
The idea of play is the same, is just being a little vertical when needed.
Will win euro 24
I get the idea but I feel that the whole argument is suported by the match against Croatia, where Spains was 3-0 up at half time. Given the score it was not necessary to press and get the ball…
In the end, we mastered what dutch brought with Cruyff. What an irony…