Football: lessons for life and business

SUCCESS in football - as in life - requires the right system, played by the right individuals in the right spirit.

This World Cup has marked the demise of tiki-taka, the system of one-touch, short-passing, possession football that brought Spain its two Euro Cups and one World Cup.

This system took to its logical conclusion the point that only the team with the ball will score a goal, so the team with more possession is more likely to win.