The word for these days the world of information is the immediacy: we want the news when there is no time to lose, there's no time to assess the information, or to contrast or care for them. We have a thousand and one ways to learn what is happening in the world instantly but really every time we learn less. This is a story of another of the side effects of this era of disinformation: the loss of meaning of words. That is, it does not matter how or have the words we use, the important thing is to have whatever. And in the same way we use words pajolera we have no idea what they really mean.
Two years ago Andrés Montes died, his epitaph in almost all the English press was: "says goodbye to the operator of tiqui-taca" . I've always thought about how bad has made this damn word football and how wrong are the people who think he was the inventor. But the fact is that (according to me I have understood) was the former coach José María Maguregui Vizcaya the first person to use the term, with a totally different meaning.
Maguregui-teams coach modest longevity as Sestao, Celta de Vigo, Racing Santander and Espanyol, was referring to tiqui-taca to define the practice match the width of the field that was played in training after the exercise. And by extension, also called "Tiqui-taca" the game practicing some teams based on playing the ball flush of grass but not getting anywhere. Were the 80 and tiqui-taca as it was the meaning of the football "lots of sauce, a little meat" . A kind of football characterized by composure, the touch too, in short: too much contrivance for so little result.
Over the years, other coaches Javier Clemente and also added the word to your vocabulary. We all knew the playing style of Clement, as he was against the tiqui-taca led to the generalization that if Clemente was against tiqui-taca was the same as saying that "direct game and hanging balls is the opposite of tiqui-taca" . And so the word acquired a new meaning: football associations, and vertical dynamic.
The word passed some years of ostracism light until it was hammered Andrés Montes for the ears of a thousand and one jokes that "desgracidamente-penetrated deep into the collective unconscious. "Tiqui-taca, Salinas, tiqui-taca" . The word was back in the mouth around the world, you could hear on television, at work, in bar gatherings, school ... Now tiqui-taca was already the epitome of football finally, the top of what could be reached. Barcelona won the league and European Cup, Barcelona was the tiqui-taca-taca tiqui and was the host. The decline of Barcelona's Ronaldinho threatened to end the term, but then the English team Barcelona and back again to return to the limelight.
And now, where do we stand? Well, now that our short-sightedness has made us accept the "truth" of tiqui-taca and its link with Barcelona it's time to end the lie-taca tiqui and Barcelona. You hear things like "tiqui fundamentalism-taca" , "it seems the tiqui-taca is the only true football" or other generalizations of the sort. Put another way, the Knights Templar of tiqui-taca are just as ignorant to the champions of "Patapum p'arriba" , for the simple fact that neither one nor the other exist, or any coach ordered their players play tiquitaca, or play Badabung. Simply press are terms used for convenience, and as we have seen can also change in meaning convenience. In
Ultimately, the tiqui-taca born as a qualifying term for a part of football development, spread in a pejorative way to evaluate a flamboyant style of football but lacking in content and ultimately transformed into the flag football as art. Little by little among certain sectors of the media and sport again has negative connotations and it is likely that in a few years lose all their meaning and return to the anonymity of the Palabé forgotten. Hoping that someone invent another term to give food to the less gifted journalists and fans more mackerel.
Ultimately, the tiqui-taca born as a qualifying term for a part of football development, spread in a pejorative way to evaluate a flamboyant style of football but lacking in content and ultimately transformed into the flag football as art. Little by little among certain sectors of the media and sport again has negative connotations and it is likely that in a few years lose all their meaning and return to the anonymity of the Palabé forgotten. Hoping that someone invent another term to give food to the less gifted journalists and fans more mackerel.
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