Technical director John van't Schip wants the Heart playing 'total football'. Source: George Salpigtidis / News Limited
MELBOURNE Heart wants to play like Barcelona and new technical manager John van't Schip says the club's dedication to a "total football" methodology can be a consistent championship-winning formula.
Heart is aiming to launch its youth academy, in conjunction with Cruyff Football, next year.
Its creation will eventually see its current youth team scrapped in favour of the senior-most academy team that the club wants to have playing all-year round - in both the National Youth League and a Victorian competition.
Van 't Schip has spent the week in Melbourne with the international director of Cruyff Football, Todd Beane.
The pair, along with Heart chief executive Scott Munn, have held talks with a Melbourne facility that will be able to accommodate both the schooling and sporting needs of the academy's attendees from year 7-12.
Beane said the academy's "total football" vision would ultimately flow through to the club's senior side.
The Cruyff Football academy at European powerhouse Barcelona has helped to produce players such as Lionel Messi, Xavi and Iniesta.
"If you're talking in general terms about total football, you're talking about players who have a high skill level to be able to play the game at a quick intellectual pace, but also that the ball is in your possession and moves quickly and circulates quickly," Beane said.
"You want to dominate the ball quite simply and I think that's what the great Ajax and Dutch teams in the early 1970s did. They changed the game.
"Players were interchanging, the ball was moving quickly, all players had the talent to execute short and long passes in combination play. I think that set the stage for the modern game, the modern teams that play the game that way, that want the ball at their feet.
"Total football is about pressing, attacking, possessing and circulating the ball quickly to look for that opportunity and make it a spectacular game - that's the idea behind it, to score goals, because people are there to see goals scored and moments made."
Van 't Schip, who coached Heart in the club's first two seasons, said it is a style of play that can win championships in Australia despite the physical nature of the A-League.
"Of course, because you've seen the results in other parts of the world with the same kind of style," van 't Schip said.
"But it's not going to be happening overnight in terms of the process. That's why it's important that you can build the academy and you can work on the young boys getting through that pipeline to the first team and in the meantime continue to work with the first team on that kind of way of playing.
"There are going to be years when you won't win championships, but you're going to produce players and producing good players is also one of the most important visions of the club.
"When we started we wanted to give the young boys a chance, a pathway to bigger competitions in the world and that will also reflect well on the national team because they will play abroad, get stronger and that will help both (teams)."
Beane said Cruyff Football academies across the world emphasize youth development as a means for sustained success.
The Dutchman said it would be a realistic aim to have two or three of Heart's academy players pressing for selection in the senior team at all times.
But he also admitted not every graduate will go on to have a fruitful professional career.
"It's just a commitment to recognising that talent needs to be developed, that young talent needs to be given an opportunity to play at the highest level and those that succeed should be rewarded and given opportunities," Beane said.
"We just follow the way that Johan Cruyff would have liked young players to be trained. And, as he would say himself, you modernise (the approach) a little bit because sports science has come a long way, but the game has remained pretty much the same in terms of putting 11 boys on the pitch and following the same rules.
"So we just modernise that vision in to a practical sense with other specialties _ mindset, preparation, sleep, study, movement, nutrition, bio-mechanics _ but the fundamental principles of how the game is played come straight from Johan Cruyff."
As revealed by the Herald Sun on Wednesday, van 't Schip will start his role as technical manager in September.
Part of his role will be to help establish the academy as well as, in the meantime, making sure the youth and seniors teams are on the same page in a game plan and training sense.
"And of course I'll be there to be complementary to the coaches of the senior team and the youth team to help them out where they want, to give my advice," van 't Schip said.
"I'm not going to interfere in, let's say, in the players that (coach) John (Aloisi) is going to pick in the team for the game, but I think it's good for everybody - and John as well - to have an extra person to talk to about issues that I've dealt with for a long time. It's all in the benefit of the club."
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