JunglePete
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- Jul 21, 2012
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Well this isn't 80s anymore where you had short CBs like Baresi, Beckenbauer, Koeman nowadays and especially this league is so physical you need a strong CB. Usually taller=stronger. Even if they're short but smart, they get thrown away, lose aerial duals. And a CB that lose an aerial dual looks bad no matter what. If we were playing in a more tactical league it wouldn't matter as much. In other words a short CB is physically limited.This tall CB obsession makes me laugh. Baky was tall, look what happened.
Depuy is tall.
Camara was tall.
It shouldn't even be a criteria. This isn't football nor hockey. As long as the guy can play the ball and position well it doesn't matter. Ciman was shat on because Biello's system, despite showing 4 defenders, only really implied two defenders. The 2 CBs were bound to look like fools when both their fullbacks were all the way up and they were left on breakaways. A slow and tall dude wouldn't have done any more than Ciman.
This sounds pretty bad. He could miss a vast portion of the season.