Editing Total Football (section)

=== Pre-1970s ===
{{See also|Wunderteam|l1=Wunderteam (Austria national football team)|La Máquina|l2=La Máquina (Club Atlético River Plate)|Golden Team|l3=Golden Team (Mighty Magyars)}}

[[File:Golden Team 1953.jpg|thumb|The [[Golden Team]] (Mighty Magyars) in 1953]]
The first foundations for what became known as Total Football were laid by [[Jimmy Hogan]], a [[Burnley]] native, who was influenced by the [[combination game]].<ref name=Panenka>{{cite magazine |date=June 2012 |title=Eurocopa 2012 |trans-title=UEFA Euro 2012 |language=es |magazine=[[:es:Panenka (revista)|Panenka]] |pages=22–23}}</ref><ref name=Guardian2003>{{Cite news|date=22 November 2003|title=How total football inventor was lost to Hungary|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/nov/22/sport.comment2|access-date=17 May 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name=Marcotti>{{Cite web |last=Marcotti |first=Gabriele |author-link=Gabriele Marcotti |date=30 May 2014 |title=Best teams never to win a World Cup: Netherlands 1974 |url=https://www.espn.in/football/story/_/id/37372822/best-teams-never-win-world-cup-netherlands-1974 |access-date=4 August 2023 |publisher=[[ESPN]]}}</ref> Working with Austrian coach and his friend [[Hugo Meisl]] in the early 1930s, Meisl's [[Austria national football team]] (known as the "[[Wunderteam]]") became possibly the first side to play Total Football.<ref name=HesseSimpson>{{Cite book |last1=Hesse |first1=Uli |author-link=Ulrich Hesse |last2=Simpson |first2=Paul |title=Who Invented the Stepover? |publisher=Profile Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-1847658425 |page=44 |quote=Like [[Rinus Michels|Michels]], he had been inspired by the free-flowing style of [[Gusztáv Sebes]]' great Hungarian side illuminated by the talents of [[Ferenc Puskás]], [[Nándor Hidegkuti]], [[Zoltán Czibor]] and [[József Bozsik]]. But even Sebes didn't invent Total Football. In the 1930s, the Austrian "[[Wunderteam]]", under [[Hugo Meisl]], played with such improvisational genius that opponents were stupefied.}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes2010>{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Rob |date=13 June 2010 |title=The Dutch Look Great Again. Oh, No. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/sports/soccer/14iht-SOCCER.html |access-date=7 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616172532/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/sports/soccer/14iht-SOCCER.html |archive-date=16 June 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=When Austria were good at football|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/euro2008/2008/06/when_austria_were_good_at_foot.html|last=Gordos|first=Phil|date=16 June 2008|website=BBC Sport|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref> Hogan's influence reached beyond the Austrian borders, as two decades later the [[Hungary national football team|Hungary national team]] (also known as the "[[Golden Team]]") played a similar style of football under coach [[Gusztáv Sebes]].<ref name=Guardian2003 /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Bevan|first=Chris|date=24 November 2013|title=Jimmy Hogan: The Englishman who inspired the Magical Magyars|work=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/25055156|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref> The then president of the [[Hungarian Football Federation|Hungarian Football Association]], [[Sándor Barcs|Sandor Barcs]], said: "Jimmy Hogan taught us everything we know about football".<ref name=Guardian2003 />

[[File:La Maquina.jpg|thumb|right|''[[La Máquina]]'', nickname of Argentine team [[Club Atlético River Plate|River Plate]] in the 1940s]]
[[Torino F.C.|Torino]] ("[[Grande Torino]]" as the team was called) in the 1940s played a similar style as the Austrians.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Great Calcio Sides: Il Grande Torino|url=https://forzaitalianfootball.com/2015/05/great-calcio-sides-grande-torino/|last=Whelan|first=Padraig|date=4 May 2015|website=Forza Italian Football|access-date=17 May 2020}}</ref> Between 1941 and 1947, Argentinian club [[Club Atlético River Plate|River Plate]] formed a remarkable team, known as "La Máquina" (The Machine),<ref>{{cite web|title=What if River Plate's La Máquina, Il Grande Torino had played one another?|url=https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/04/28/il-grande-torino-la-maquina-river-plate-argentina-italy|work=si.com|date=27 April 2015 }}</ref> whose attack formed by Carlos Muñoz, [[José Manuel Moreno]], [[Adolfo Pedernera]], [[Ángel Labruna]] and [[Félix Loustau]] perfected the "false nine" style<ref>{{cite web|title=The Question: Why are teams so tentative about false nines? - Jonathan Wilson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/oct/27/the-question-false-nines-jonathan-wilson|last=Wilson|first=Jonathan|date=27 October 2009|website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pedernera, the twinkle-toed engine driver|url=https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2015/m=5/news=pedernera-the-twinkle-toed-engine-driver-2604360.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905075253/http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2015/m=5/news=pedernera-the-twinkle-toed-engine-driver-2604360.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 September 2015|date=12 May 2015|work=FIFA.com}}</ref> and the constant change of attack positions. "La Máquina" won several Argentine and international titles.

Also in the 1940s, English manager [[Jack Reynolds (footballer, born 1881)|Jack Reynolds]] implemented a style that was bearing similarities to Total Football at [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]], leading the Dutch club to rise in importance and win trophies for the first time.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shetty|first=Sanjeev|title=Total Football - A graphic history of the world's most iconic soccer tactics|publisher=Aurum Press|year=2018|isbn=9781781318225|location=London|pages=64}}</ref> In the late 1950s and early 1960s, [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] were playing a renewed system in English football "where every player could play in every position" under manager [[Harry Potts]].<ref name="Potts">{{Cite book|title=Never Had it So Good: Burnley's Incredible 1959/60 League Title Triumph|last=Quelch|first=Tim|publisher=Pitch Publishing|year=2015|isbn=9781909626546|location=Durrington|pages=200–201}}</ref> This Total Football system led the club to the [[1959–60 in English football|1959–60]] [[List of English football champions|First Division title]] and won many plaudits, including admiration from all-time [[List of English football first tier top scorers|English First Division top scorer]] [[Jimmy Greaves]].<ref>Quelch (2015), p. 11</ref> Another pioneer was [[Vic Buckingham]], manager of [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]], Ajax and [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]] in the 1950s and 1960s, as the footballing education that he established helped the progressive nature of the type of football of [[Rinus Michels]] and later [[Johan Cruyff]], a player who was introduced into the Ajax first team by [[Vic Buckingham]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesefootballtimes.co/2016/01/28/rinus-michels-and-the-total-football-rebellion/ |author=Townsend, Jon |title=Rinus Michels and the Total Football rebellion |work=These Football Times |date=28 January 2016 |access-date=17 September 2019 }}</ref><ref>Donald McRae ''[https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/12/johan-cruyff-louis-van-gaal-manchester-united Interview: Johan Cruyff: 'Johan Cruyff: 'Everyone can play football but those values are being lost. We have to bring them back']'' [[The Guardian]], 12 September 2014.</ref>