Total Football - Pressing Football. Netherlands 1974

“I would describe what the journalists call ’total football’, as ’pressing football’. To me, this expression seems to put the emphasis on the type of football I was trying to create with Ajax and with the Dutch national team in the 1974 World Cup. What I wanted to create was a game in which all ten outfield players pressed forward all the time -- even when we didn’t have the ball!“ Rinus Michels - coach of the century. In the first game of the Second Round in the 1974 World Cup, the Netherlands capta