The phrase was used a lot during the Spaniard’s World Cup campaign. Finishing third in the group, conceding seven and scoring just four left people mourning the style of play called tiki-taka. The ...

November 29th, 2010,marked the utter humiliation and destruction of Florentino Pérez’s New Galacticos at the Camp Nou. It was the greatest defeat ever suffered by José Mourihno as a manager and marks ...

Spain’s run of 136 competitive games with more possession than their rival — going back 16 years to the 2008 European Championship final — has finally come to an end. Croatia had 53 per cent of the ...

Perhaps the single greatest tactical revolution that helped Spain to dominate world football in the early part of this decade was tiki-taka. The short, sharp passing style was forged, along with many ...