Soccer Tactics as Science? On 'Scotch Professors', a Ukrainian Soccer Buddha, and a Catalonian Who Tries to Learn German (2013)
Braun, Hans-Joachim (Author)
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 19
Pages: 216-243
There can be no doubt that the scientification process of soccer has been underway for some time. But what about soccer tactics? This article focuses on three concepts and their impact on soccer tactics: Taylorism and Arsenal (London) in the 1920s and 1930s, cybernetics and 'scientific socialism' and Dinamo Kyiv in the 1970s and 1980s and geometric figures and FC Barcelona since the late 1980s, particularly since the early twenty-first century. It shows that, especially in the cases of Herbert Chapman and Arsenal and of Valeriy Lobanovskyi and Dinamo Kyiv, Taylorism, cybernetics and 'scientific socialism' acted as a source of inspiration for developing formations and tactical schemas. However, soccer is such a complex game that it is difficult or even impossible to assess the exact importance of these concepts for the overall success of the teams. As to the general topic of science and soccer tactics, the scientific investigation of soccer tactics can provide testable explanations, but its predictive power is weak.
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