10 Position Changes That Altered Football History

As strange as it sounds, sometimes the only difference between an average player and a world class player, is their position on the pitch. Something you’ll come to realize from these 10 position changes that altered football history.

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Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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[IamPrxmetheus]

Bro forgot the best one. Jose Mourinho, from a translator to The Special One

[kuancs]

Antony at left back will be world class 🔥🔥🔥

[hb]

Shout out to Victor Moses suddenly turning into Cafu under Conte

[OlafderPirat]

I know, the focus of this video was on position changes in professional football. But man, the most important change of all time happened at youth level when was Manuel Neuer went from striker to goalkeeper. Still, obviously, a fantastic video.

[dylanjackson]

Bale was deadliest when he became RW at Spurs, and who else remembers how Torres started out as a GK?

[SuperArvind]

For 2002-2003 season Scholes played as 2nd striker behind van nistelrooij to accommodate veron and he did seamlessly

[VideoAssistantRafi]

How on earth Franz Beckenbauer didn’t make the list? He was the definition of position change from midfield to a completely invented a new role as a sweeper at the back line
Diego Armando Maradona from a forward to a playmaker midfielder
Bergkamp from striker CF to playmaker
Rjikaard from defender to midfielder
Hierro from DM to sweeper/CB
Van Nistelrooy from defender to CF
L. Blanc from playmaker to sweeper defender

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Joelintin is probably one of those striker that didn’t work out to a beast in midfield.

[wolfpackpete]

Messi could get another register in this video after Suárez joined Barça. Initially Suárez was playing from the right but didn't quite have the pace to deliver from out wide. Messi volunteered to return to the right-wing, sacrificing the false-9 role he'd had for about 4 years, and that selflessness from Messi enabled Suárez to deliver, and Barça won their 2nd treble.
Zanetti after most of his career at right-back, played next to Cambiasso in holding midfield as Inter became the first Italian side to win the treble.
Mascherano moved from holding midfield to centre-back.

[sounaknandi]

Pep Guardiola . From a central defender in Barcelona's B team to the midfield orchestrator of that Dream Team . Pretty underrated as a player . Typically played in the role Andrea Pirlo did in Milan, a deep lying midfielder aka regista . All credit to Johan Cruyff, the father of modern football .

[siberianTiger]

A good video, very good examples👍

I would maybe add Mertens, swhitcing from a natural LW to one of the deadliest 9s in top leagues for a few years in Napoli.

You could maybe add Khedira here too, who was mentioned in the vid... He was an attacking midfielder at the start of his pro career at Stuttgart, wasn't very special there, but when he moved back to a box to box positon he became one of the best in the world.

Maybe Mandzukic too, who was a winger at the start in Dinamo Zagreb, but was transformed into a proper CF under Magath at Wolfsburg.

[EverythingFootball-rp]

Your creativity behind these topics and then the research you put together to make these videos are great

[aydankhaliq]

How is Beckenbauer from Attacking Midfielder to Defender not in here? Germany won a WC and a Euros because of that change.

[FarhanQureshiDigitopiaFilm]

I don't know if this positional switch, would have changed football, but I found it really interesting on how Klopp switched Adam Lallana's position from forward to midfielder to be very beneficial for him.

I think the story goes something like (and I appreciate I may not have the details correct)... the manager thought Lallana didn't have the speed or physical strength to play as a forward, so positioned him in midfield where he wasn't marked by big burly and quick center backs.

This allowed him more space and time to execute his classy and elegant moves, use his intelligence to contribute to the play and score crucial goals as a midfielder entering the penalty box away from defenders.

I find that story quite inspiring, that managers can see that intelligent players sometimes need a bit of space to thrive.

[ricardolombardini]

Great video. Kaká was also changed in the ancelotti years. He was moved to number 10.

[SpiderByte]

Bale was a LB when they played Inter actually, wasn’t until the 12/13 season where he started playing as a left winger properly

[ImperatorVolkan]

didnt Drogba go from CB to ST?
and Fernando Torres from GK to ST?

[JoNathan]

Fantastic Video. Delivered again mate. The loudness of the music is much better now too ;)

[johndroos]

Łukasz Piszczek from striker to winger to right back and sometime centre back.

[YOYOO]

Yaya Toure from ST to CM(8) or KDB from winger to (CAM)/(CM)