''I want to arrive to professional football and not do 'tactics'" "My purpose is to show the world that there is no need for 'tactics'- that is to say the players are intelligent, they know how to organise themselves, you (the coach) set challenges and they understand the rules of the game" ''This is what tactics are, constantly adapting to the demands of the game. Interactions and Purposes'' Those were the words of Venezia coach Jordi Lie Fernandez in an interview with Marti Cañellas, as a young coach I was led to believe that coaching was just about giving the team as much organisation as possible, the tactical idea is the primary reference that the game revolves around- the individual becomes an abstract property. It's concerning that if you were to ask a cohort of UEFA A Licence students to draw up their 'game model'- something that should be distinct and personal to them- they would all ultimately produce some...