In today’s football,formation and tactics reign supreme.Though formation is just a number,since there are roles and inter roles assigned to various players within the match, which makes the notion of stating certain numbers in a formation moot,yet it provides a basis to the general structure of the team and general roles of the players,however vogue they might be.Today we are going to discuss the quintessential Latin American formation known as the magic rectangle or the magic square or the box system and can be stated as the 4-2-2-2 formation in modern terms.Its quite different from the traditional 4-4-2 and even more different from the 4-4-2 diamond formation. This is a formation immortalized by the dominant Brazil National side of the 60’s and 70’s and none more than the Brazil 1970, considered by many to be the best National Side ever.
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