How Luis de La Fuente REVOLUTIONIZED Spain's Tiki-Taka to win EURO 2024

Watch Luis de La Fuente and his secret change that completely transformed the old, slow Tiki Taka philosophy of Spain with a more dynamic, modern infusion which eventually led to Spain’s EURO 2024 victory!

Since Spain’s Golden Generation swept the trinity of EURO 2008, FIFA World Cup 2010 and the EURO 2012, La Roja’s style of play had become stale and predictable leading to a 11-year drought.
In comes Luis de La Fuente, with no international experience other than being the coach of Spanish U-19 and U-21 teams. He brings a whole new dynamism to Spain’s Tiki Taka tactics and calls upon players like Mikel Merino, Unai Simon and Fabian Ruiz with whom he has worked for nearly 10 years since the Youth levels instead of relying on big names from Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Find out how Luis de La Fuente tactics modified the style of previous pioneers like Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique, and broke the game with brand new rules for star players like Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams and more.
This is the story of the all-new sefutbol and it’s seleccionador nacional !

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[LaLigaVic]

Yes, I had to put that Emoji over Luis Rubiales' face. He deserves NO credit for this success.

[DaScoobyDoo]

Credit to Luis de La Fuente for Spain's evolution...but also to Xavi that due to necessity and a great eye...gave opportunity to La Masia players. Luis Enrique also deserves credit. Do not forget that his Spain lacked quality players or they were too young (Gabi, Pedri, etc)...but in the end, I'm very happy for De La Fuente bravery. Good for him. I truly enjoyed watching Spain at the Euros.

[footballepicenter]

de la fuente uses the wingers and the wingbacks very efficiently and now we have seen in his football that he doesnt just pass and pass around but rather find vertical passes and open up the opponents defences.

[chv]

De la Fuente has done an incredible work with Spain, but I think all this criticism that Luis Enrique is receiving is unfair. With him Spain reached the final of the Nations League, that won with De la Fuente, and the last Euro they reached the semifinal which they lose in the penalties agains the champions Italy, he made a lot of young promises to debute and built the basis of his actual success.

[chopsnz]

Spain used to use tiki taka under Del Bosque, Luis Aragones and Luis Enrique as a way of maintaining possesion, their belief was this was also the best way to defend by controlling the ball and deprive the other team of opportunities to possess the ball and attack.

The problem is it would open itself up to counterattacking football and unless creating chances the passing did not always break the lines as teams would defend in a low block and be very difficult to break down.

2014 World Cup an aging Fernando Torres and a 2018 WC slow Diego Costa did not provide the attacking threat needed. 2022 WC Spain again lacked the attacking threat with Asensio and Torres, Fati not making most of chances and falling to beat Morocco in Round of 16.

The difference in 2024 Euros is with Morata, Nico and Lamine the vertical attacking threat of the wingers is complemented with the link up play of Morata with 3rd man runs from Olmo and Ruiz. The overlapping and underlapping runs of Cucurella and Carvajal helped to create 1 v 1, 2 v 2 or 2 v 1 opportunities and helped the wingers to invert into the half space where they could create attacking threat and chance creation from the half spaces with crossing or line breaking through balls. The other key to 2024 spain is the ability to counter press high up the field, with Rodri, Ruiz, Olmo, Morata, Nico and Lamine working hard to recover the ball quickly and create transition opportunities to score when the defense is not set. Enhorabuena España, campeones del Europa!

[rafaelcordoba]

De La fuente tenia una ventaja sobre cualquier otro tecnico, conocia perfectamente a casi todos los chicos porque los tuvos en categorias inferiores, muchas veces queremos un entrenador de nombre para nuestras selecciones, para Mi es un error, quiero un seleccionador que conozca cuanto mejor a los jugadores desde categorias inferiores. Gracias De La Fuente por tan buena Eurocopa, matar el tiki taka y darle vida al TIKI ATACA. Campeones. Felicidades.

[AlvaroTz]

By far the best analysis comparing the golden age, Luis Enrique and the present team, really good job!

[aitorgarcia]

Hey man, I appreciate your efforts in trying to pronounce spanish words properly, it shows, good job

[HMS-hszi]

What I do love most in De la Fuente is his courage to not pick "best players" but players matching well his strategy and tactic. Just like The Beatles was not 1+1+1+1=4, but 1+1+1+1=27, La Roja was more than 11, it too was if not 27, something like 15. After all it's just a team game.

[lexuesilexuesi]

What many people overlook is that change started with Luis Enrique and not Luis De la Fuente. In Euro 2020 Spain was already more vertical and dynamic. Enrique hoped to continue the same project in the World Cup 2022 thinking the same players would be more mature. Instead most of them were out of form and he failed. What De la Fuente has now, is not just one but two wingers at a very good form, something Enrique was not lucky to have. On the other side De la Fuente is utilizing counterattack much more than Enrique did or again maybe he has the players to do it this time. I think the current Spain is a project that started several years ago and De la Fuente has his important part in it, but he is not the only author.
P.S. And No, Spain has not always played Tiki Taka since 2008 as it is commonly believed. But let's consider it true for the sake of the argument.

[xalau]

Credit to Luis Enrique. De la Fuente already had the job done. The key difference is the wingers. Having Yamal and Williams allowed Spain to play like Luis Enrique couldn't. If you take out Lamine and Nico you have the same problem that Luis Enrique had

[johndeleon]

Surprised at how good this video is. Keep up the good work!

[navirbox]

You are missing some points about some of our last years' disappointments. Tiki-taka, when done with players that know how to do it properly, is far from boring. We failed to evolve when our opponents had studied us for almost a decade. Also, many mismanagements at RFEF level made the team lose a lot of momentum when we had very good players to at least go further in some of these WC/Euros. All in all, De La Fuente was the perfect guy at the perfect moment.

[akshay]

in 2014 wc spain was good but what let them down was the attacks, nolito, morata, costa were trash, if del bosque played villa and torres who were in the squad, spain would have been better

[alexoller]

The club with which the players have a contract with isn't always the club where they were formed, and in this Spanish side there are two Catalan guys who don't play for FCB but spent their formative years at La Masía' Those guys are Dani Olmo and Marc Cucurella, two starters with a very significant weight in the team.
It would be interesting to know which Academies formed this generation of players and I'm positive we'd find the most important are La Masía, Lezama and Zubieta

[elpolaco]

Amazing video my friend, great research 👏

[OracleIllumis]

8:18 Unai simon and nico williams were both from altletico Bilbao at the time.

[rafaelcordoba]

El tiki taka murio, no quiero ganar mas un partido solamente con la posesion y perder con el resultado, el futbol es meter goles y mas que tu contrincante, para que quiero tiki taka y ganar la posesion si luego perdermos, En esta Eurocopa nacio el TIKI ATACA, queremos la posesion claro que si, pero con un objetico ir verticalmente hacia la porteria contraria para meter goles y crear buen futbol. BIENVENIDO TIKI ATACA. Campeones merecidos con el mejor futbol de Europa sin discusion eliminando a 4 campeones del mundo por el cuadro mas dificil, no hay nada dificil con nuesttro TIKI ATACA. Vamossss

[alpacamale]

that system was built for iniesta and xavi. it never lost.

[jerrycastaneda]

Few key points that I disagree with
1) euros are played every 4 years
2) when Spain has so many midfielders playing they were also great at dribbling like they were with passing so they were all playmakers and game changers
3) Luis Enrique didn’t have a playmaker or game changer [pedri was younger, Nico Williams was younger, and Ansu was coming off an injury, also lamine yamal was way to young and nobody knew about him
4) before luis enrique Spain did lose a bit of their identity and he had to set a solid foundation
5) 2024 version of Spain played less tikitaka and more direct football and in some ways when you have wingers like that you can do damage but 2022 Spain was more dominant they just needed 1 player to be the difference maker
Great video and using statistics
Let’s be honest almost the Spain squad is made from Barca players and Madrid buying foreigners doesn’t help their national team