total football

English

WOTD – 25 April 2016

Dutch footballer and coach Johan Cruyff (1947–2016), who was a noted exponent of total football, in 1974

Alternative forms

• Total Football

Etymology

Calque of Dutch totaalvoetbal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊtəl ˈfʊtbɔːl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊtəl ˈfʊtbɔl/

• Audio (AU)

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• Hyphenation: to‧tal foot‧ball

Noun

total football (uncountable)

1. (soccer) A tactic in which the outfield players assume different roles during a game, while keeping an organised structure.

Translations

football tactic

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: totaalvoetbal n
• Finnish: totaalinen jalkapallo
• French: football total
• German: totaler Fußball m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: totalfotball m

• Portuguese: futebol total m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: totalfotboll c
• Turkish: total futbol