Era of Tiki-Taka Ends

It was only 4 years back when Spain lifted the famous world cup for the first time.After continous success for 4 years in a row(2008,2010,2012) spain became the most dangerous and beautiful football team in the world.But as it is said you cannot live in heaven for lifetime ,sometimes you have to come down to earth and get a taste of hard life and so what Happened in 2014 world cup.Spain didnt even qualified the group stages matches.With lots of hope and a world class team spain thought they would have another juggernaut campaign at Brazil but the reality was utterly bitter.

Spain was in the group B which include the previous years runner up netherland, Australia and chile.
In their first match Spain was given a 5-1 setback by the dutch side which made it a must win for them at Marcana vs chile but once again the south American team was heavier for them.Chile won 2-0 over Spain leaving the defending world champions hopeless.

I know everyone will say spain was the better team out their because of their possesion of the ball but let me tell those people that football thses days are generally based on attacking capabilities and counter attacking tactics.Merely passing the ball around the whole field wont win you matches and that what exactly we have seen in these world cup Spain team.Not only spain-you can take the example of Barcelona too..with its tiki-taka tactics barcelona was like unstoppable for the first two to three years but then when everybody knew about their way of playing style thet were very easily beaten(Bayern beat them (7-0) on aggregrate of 2 matches.So what i say is that tiki taka has become a old trick now as everybody understand the style of play and can crack it easily.

So Barcelona and spain both should start anew way of playing( iam not telling that forget tiki-taka completely but dont use it often,make your game more attracting and use sttacking tactics more instead of defending).

After Spain lost there was huge reactions from the Spanish newspapers and all over the world too.
Some of the headlines from the top Spanish Newspapers:

The Spanish soccer team that has been the most deserving of a royal farewell ended its fairy tale in an atrocious way, in a world fiasco,” Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais said.

The undisputed kings of global football in the last six years, Spain won the 2008 and 2012 European Championships and their first World Cup in South Africa But their supremacy is no more and an ageing team needs to be rebuilt.

“Crash! The end of a unique generation,” sports newspaper Marca said. Spain became the third champions in the last four World Cups to be eliminated at the first hurdle and their departure will almost certainly end the long international careers of their greats Xavi, Iker Casillas  and Xabi Alonso “It was nice while it lasted,” sports newspaper AS said.

So in the end one questions arrives can Spain bounce back?


                                                                                                                             
Anuttam Chatterjee