The whole world is talking about Khvicha Kvaratskhelia from the New York Times to his coach Luciano Spalletti to Del Piero and Arrigo Sacchi. He is a young Georgian soccer player who is described in the NY Times article as follows, “His anarchic style has taken Italian soccer by storm, turning Napoli into a title contender. More important, he has made soccer fun again.”
This is something very different from the classic player that is theorized by soccer schools in which other factors prevail and certainly not anarchic style and fun. There are certainly other soccer players who are technically more gifted, but he is better. Thus we return to the accustomed reasoning, you need technique and quickness but it is instinct and unpredictability that make a player great. In this can be summed up the importance of a style defined as anarchic. It does not correspond to doing what is on one’s mind at that moment or acting without thinking as an impulsive soccer player would. Kvaratskhelia, on the contrary, puts his instincts at the service of technique. Basically, he understands before others what needs to be done and does it by making use of his qualities.
Playing with this high level of intensity and mental participation is exciting and rewarding, especially because the results prove him right and thus this increases his personal conviction to continue in this way. In this way he has built a virtuous circle in which speed and technique serve his equally fast decision-making ability, and this allows him “not to worry if something doesn’t work. He doesn’t think about the negative consequences. This is true for many attacking players. They are bold. They are bold. They are a little bit anarchic,” as explained by Andrés Carrasco, Spanish youth development manager at Dinamo Tbilisi, the club that discovered Kvaratskhelia.
