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Claude Makélélé arrived at Chelsea in 2003 after three successful seasons at Real Madrid. In his time at the west London club he came to define a position and approach to playing it with such success that his name has become synonymous with the function.
The Makélélé role is, in effect, the deepest lying midfielder of a midfield three in a 4-3-3, or the base of a midfield diamond. While it has largely defensive connotations, the role does in fact serve an attacking purpose as well.
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#makelele #chelsea #makelelerole
As quoted by Zidane when Real sold him and replace with Beckham
Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you are losing the entire engine?
errr commercial revenue and reach into the english-speaking world.
@@jonathangoliath91 at the expense of the team inbalancing and performing badly? Real Madrid got it awfully wrong selling Claude Makelele and not replacing him adequately
@Lars Mazumdar just like Mr.Krab sent Spongebob into chef exchange programme in "Le Big Switch"
As a result, Spongebob achieved success in another restaurant while Krusty Krab paid the price for Mr.Krab's foolish decision
@@samuelyee4017 I like your comparison from Spongebob 🤣
Beck's with his 50 yard crosses lol telling Zidane and R9 to go long lool it worked tho but these were geniuses that operated with the ball on the ground, the whole team and league was more technical than the Premier League.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Chelsea had one of the best midfields in football history in the 2000s...Makelele, Lampard, Ballack, Essien, Deco and more😍
Tom don’t forget obi Mikel. Or Ramirez
pity they put Kante on waste ..
Man and I hear Carlo wanted Pirlo too and he was willing to go. That would have been insane
ballack hardly played though.
@@douglasharley2440 he played 45 plus games in 3 seasons and 29 in another when he suffered from injuries what do u mean he hardly played haha
Never see Mekelele playing in my lifetime cause I was kid at that time. But naming a position for him is huge honour, and moreover successful career
That context made no sense
@@seanandrews5329you make no sense fool
The exact reason we should never sell players like Casemiro or him. They might be low profile players and not show too many skills or entertain you, but they are the ones that make a team of stars complete.
Unsung heros of football, thanks to Zidane for believing in Casemiro
Love the fact Kanté who has some similarities with Claude also plays for Chelsea.. he looks like the perfect successor for Les Bleus as well..
Last time I was this early, Jesse Lingard was an young prodigy with huge potential
Joymeet Roy he’s still a young prodigy
Young's prodigy?
Who?
Still is, and will forever be
@@pdelatorre2402 he just needs a chance
Would have been cool to talk about some of his contemporaries and current players.
Jonathon Springfield u could mention this likes of kante ndidi and gueye. Just a few from the top of my head
@@vpetchger god i love Idrissa, i reckon he had the tools but he was never deployed on his own at Everton.
@@vpetchger Kante isn't a DM
@@vpetchger and casemiro
Kanté certainly, he fills the role perfectly, with the added bonus of good shooting.
Thank you... I had an argument once as to why makelele is different to kante and better. This sums up what I was trying to explain. Kante is the closes thing to makelele but he isn't makelele!
Different types of players bro
@@kagisophiri5141your right... 😂 And that's exactly my point when your arguing best dm
Makelele's defensive IQ always blew my mind
Fun fact, in Makelele 3 years at Real Madrid, he won the la Liga (2x), The UEFA Champions League (1x), The Supercup (Spain's community shield) (1x)
Three years after Makelele departure, RM won nothing but 1 la Liga only...in fact, RM won only one La Liga title in 10years after Makelele departure!
Chelsea, the club he went to join for 5 years after he left RM, he won the Premier league (2x); League Cup (2x), FA Cup (1x), Community Shield (1x)...plus he almost won the CL with Chelsea if Chelsea had defeated MU in the finals in 2008!
Know the worth of what you have!
Wow. Thank you for the stats.
Ngolo kante = closest human to makalele
You are EXTREMELY wrong. Djemba-Djemba was better than Makalele.
Benjamin Lim Pretty sure he said 'closest human to Makalele not djemba
@@Benjizzzz he was so good they named him twice
Gattuso was very similar to Makelele.
@@hommofroggy5727 Gattuso is actually what people think Makelele is, a pure destroyer. Both are legends regardless.
Makélélé the man that changed the game because of him the CDM was born, yes Jose may of played him there but its was Makélélé that made the role his own (hence why its know as the Makélélé role). Great video and can't wait for more.
mourinio changed it, he made the tactic, listen kid
@@Andre_vyent Jose "invented" the role, Makélélé perfected it.
@@Andre_vyent chelsea and mourinho found out makelele was useful for 433 just like the head chef of Fancy ! realised spongebob's krabby patty was delicious in "Le Big Switch"
He was the perfect foil to Lamapard and Essien though. 2 energetic players covered by a cool head behind them.
I hope all working at Tifo Football are keeping safe in the wake of coronavirus and I hope all the fans are as well. Great vid btw (Arsenal Fan). An Important question I have for Tifo Football is because of the situation with Cornavirus should the Premier league season be null and void or should Liverpool be handed the title? If it doesn't get cancelled what do you think should happen to teams in contention for UCL and UEL spots, as well as teams, at the bottom of the table facing relegation? Thanks Daniel from London
Neither. The league should be finished.
@@london_james Please explain I'm sorry but this comment isn't quite clear to me. (No Disrespect)
@@123dan165 sorry Daniel. I'll try again :)
You asked if the league should be cancelled or Liverpool given the title. Both of those things should not happen
The league should finish as planned when they they able to play the games.
You can't hand the title to team when all game are not completed and mathematics show they might not win it. Even though that is highly unlikely.
You can't cancel it either. There is no need as there is all the time in the world to finish it. Just means the next season it delayed.
@@london_james I see so just further postpone it for until further notice once this issue goes away even if it means delaying the next season. If that's the case what should happen to the Euros and the Olympic games should they also be delayed or simply cancelled? Because I have a slight query on the matter of delaying if we are going to delay the bpl and football as a whole how are we going to eventually sort out the schedule for further seasons, will it be permanently changed or will the change only be short term? Because I might be wrong on this but we need to look at the issue of Fatigue of footballers. If the change is only short term will it be a case of football potentially skipping pre-season games? let me know what you think and if you understand what I'm saying.
@@123dan165 euros and olympic already decided will be delayed untill next year
A underrated player... Zidane was excellent on the pitch for France thanks to Makelele ... He would allow Zidane the luxury of only attacking and making less defensive runs
Makelele was a pure genius in its own style, the archetype of the 'sentinelle' and a great artisan of France great tournament in 2006, always playing smart in the shadow of the other talents around him (Zidane, Vieira, Ribéry, Henry..) It's funny that he started his career at FC Nantes (the club of my heart) playing as a winger, but not surprising that he succeeded as a central midfield, the head coach there at the time was Suaudeau (check this one out), a manager known for movement, playing in one touch, being clever, vision and vista.
I would like to say Claude was an actor who always be the supporting character (not antagonist) in a film while his teammates always the protagonists
Glad y’all listened and used my idea
Absolute gem of a player!! Kante is the nearest thing to him in the EPL
Ndidi
@@lukemclellan2141 you think he is better than Kante?
More like Fabinho, because Kante runs much more, and plays like a box-to-box
Lol Kante is nothing like makelele, he's completely different
@@TheKh65 He plays the Makelele role, unlike Kante, who can't
Makelele was underrated by those who never saw him play before Real Madrid. I first saw him at Celts Vigo he scored against both Barca and Real in the same season. He was dynamic with and without the ball. He wasn't Ngolo Kante but the holding role must have come easier to him.
As he got older he adapted yeh
Makelele walked so Kante could run
Different players entirely.
lazy analysis
*fernandinho
Simon Li exactly...Kante is more BBM...Makelele played the Cdm
@@RicoThingol Kante is more box to box now, but he originally played as a DM.
To me, Makelele was either born at the perfect timing to represent his position, or at the worst timing be underappreciated. Despite his accolades, Makelele never won the World Cup and Euro with France, missing out on the legendary 1998 team. The player who played his role in 1998 was Petit, who was only 3 years older than him. When he arrived at Real, he was already 27, relatively old for a footballer at the time. Had he been born earlier, not only might he have been with the team to win 2 world cups, but he would have also led the wave of shifting into transition focus football. Had he been born later, he would have arrived at Chelsea younger than 30, and might have been able to achieve more with them, as well as developing a variety of skills familiar to defensive midfielders of today: long passing, ball distribution, air contest.
At the same time, he was able to serve as the anchor to the Galacticos and paving the way for Chelsea. He was the best at his position when it became much more important. As player's work rate increases with better training, counter attacking football, which abuses static defensive scheme and tendency to overcommit by attacking focus teams, and possession football, which dominates the match through constant movements, became more lethal. Makelele became the poster child that period, serving as guidance to a generation of midfielder as to how to operate in defence and transition. Clever positioning, quick passes, forward dribbles, discipline were all great attributes that weren't appreciated when artistical attacking midfielders were celebrated. It's almost ironic that the playstyle he helped elevated by creating space for Real midfielders, he helped killed by controlling those star players with clever defensive plays that disrupting their tempo and threaten their wingbacks.
France 2006 was legendary. Makelele, zidane, henry etc
Top notch video as usual. I would’ve loved to see other examples or current adaptations of the role as well..
Ok that's cool and all but when are you giving us the lingard role
I don't think we need a video to know what a "Bench Warmer" does LUL.
The Lingard role aka dacing boi role. He is the Micheal Jackson of the team. Give respect where its due.
Isn't he moving to Scunthorpe United? I hear he's signing for them on a free transfer
Lingard role might as well called, the forest gump role! Just Run everywhere
Lingard has a similar style as Thomas Muller. Tifo has a video on Muller as well lol
The ultimate defensive support and keeping the team in possession, Makelele was the master of doing that.
Violating Makelele with that image of him 💀
Which image?
Makalele in this looks like my mates dad
HOORAY! A return to your old format of videos. Legitimately helpful guides to tactical roles/principles that really matter to coaches and players. I love sharing these old-style Tifo "how to" videos with my players. Keep making more videos like these please gents!
👍🏻
What's fascinating about this is how mobile and fluid Jose's tactics were at Chelsea. I can see why Julian Nagelsmann is called 'Baby Mourinho' as he is using the exact same system for Leipzig but also involving an aggressive press. Leipzig also transition in midfield with an anchor and play between the lines. Mark my words give him time at Spurs and they'll be back to playing beautiful football
I read something along those lines about Makélélé : "Can't make a 5-yard pass, everybody laughs if he tries to shoot, has the precision of a drunk butcher trying to play the violin... But you HAVE to have him in your team"
Can you please TIFO make videos about old players and how they would fit in today's football? Use there stats and try to rank them between today's top player. For example how well will Beckembaur or Maldini will do in the new modern attacking football of Man City.
You can also bring a whole team and try to fit it today like 1980's brazil or 2009 Barcelona
Make a video on on how football has developed in the former eastern block post communism
Love the illustration with the dark skin and big bright red lips /s.
I love your content guys! Keep it up, my knowledge of football has grown exponentially from your videos :)
Let's not lie to ourselves you didn't wake up early to watch this you haven't slept yet
its already noon here, sorry
you got me, its 2 in the damn morning here
It's 3 in the afternoon here.
Or its noon already
3:21 a.m. here
Morning lads
morning lads above us
Morning
Good morning and I hope you all get coronavirus and your family aswell
Happy corona boys!
this man is my idol.
Makelele is one of my fav cdm of all time❤
I think ramires was a very underrated and versatile player who was great in this role.
I'm still upset he left much too early
Agreed
One of my favourite footballers.
You have to pay homage to this legend
Thank you for your videos! I was wondering what graphic tool are you using?
An analysis of France '06, with Makelele and Viera together, with wingers like Ribery and Henry, would be nice.
Props to Mauro Silva, Claude’s antecedent
One of my all time favorite players ever...
Great Content as usual 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Can you please make a video of how Galacticos 1.0 where madrid signed all attackers(must have been a huge task for del bosque) So beckham and figo both right footed traditional right wingers so how were they setup ?
My favourite footballer next to Ronaldinho. Pure art.
The Makelele role is also referred to as the regista. The Makelele with a more defensive connotation and the regista with a more attacking connotation because of Pirlo etc. Both are attacking and defending. IMO the most important position on the field when u play a 4-3-3 with 2 advanced midfielders
I find it very funny that it's known as the "Makélélé role" in England, when it had existed for ages already. Makélélé is only the first great example of it that was seen in England. Defensive midfielders of similar characteristics were common in places like Spain, Italy, Brazil or Argentina, while in England the 4-4-2 was king, and they played with two box to box midfielders.
Claude became a vital player in Mourinho's 433 as Mourinho arrived to Stamford Bridge in summer 2004
So?
Like Makelele I believe kante also used to play as winger in france
Since Makalele, I think the next player to exemplify this position and method best was Busquets?
...a lot of players have implemented this role with a twist. Casemiro, Fabinho and Kanté deserve a mention.
@@Crowned-Qwesi what about fernandinho. Very different compared to all but very efficient and effective.
Not really i think. Busquets role was more flexible on offense and less area to cover on defense. Busquets covers mostly on central area, and if the fullback is in the front, the CB would move to the side instead of Busquets. Busquets was also allowed to dribble more to find space and build up attack, but Makelele was not, as Mou instructed him to pass to his nearest teammates over dribbling. Sometimes he passed the ball directly to the front line, but mostly he didn't.
Casemiro was the closest i think, but back then there was a lot more players with his role i think, Gattuso, M. Diarra, Lass Diarra (at Real Madrid) to name a few...
@@andrenapitupulu9499 Gatusso was never in the Makele role,he didn't have the brain for it.If you want to compare him to anyone it would have to be Roy Keane
@@mariuscarausu9352 but fernandinho is good .
Those were great times..
Makelele is World Cup if not ballon dor winner
Favorite midfielder
Claude was the most important footballer in the game's recent history.
705k subs? I swear last time I checked you hard 20k or something haha. Well done guys!
Just realised that tifo videos are just power point presentation
With superb presentation
LOL now I have an idea now wahahhaa
Letting Riquelme take you out for a dance. That's the Makélélé role.
I didnt follow football back then but yes if talking about current scenario there's one man at chelsea that fits the makelele role and i think most of you would already have guessed.
If you enjoyed this video you should go have a listen to the zonal marking podcast episode on it, some great insight and expansion on this video.
As a Tottenham fan I'm not happy to hear a Chelsea player having a position likened to him but I play his position in College so I'll have to suck it up and learn
He was a great player, France seem to produce lots of them, England always seem short of this sort of player
Others stars at Real seen his value and encourage him to get his wages raise but Perez was stupid and Makelele depart. Real had problems immediately and unable to reach UCL QF until 2010/11 and won league until 07/08. To give Perez credit though, he did learn some lessons when he built 2nd galacticos and find some defensive talents to Real rank.
Los blancos became fruitless after the departure of Del Bosque, Hierro and Makelele as Florentino Perez made a silly mistake in summer of 2003
His foolishness caused los blancos became a joke
The music is the highlight of this video. 👌🏼
Not a very smart thing to say.
I am not smart.
Great video once again. If i may ask can you make a video about sweeper (libero) position?
It's a position for this player that is so good and they decided to name it for him
I gave them this idea months ago
Another great video! Would have liked to have know who first used the term and when though?
Excellent vid👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😎
The best to ever do it.
Kante is very different to Makelele. Kante doesn't play as a lone 6 like Makelele, he doesn't have the technical ability to build the play out from the back. He has always been paired with another midfielders who is better at passer(Matic, Jorginho, Drinkwater) and allowed to win the ball/disrupt play(what he is the best at). Modern players like Makelele would be Casemiro or Fernandinho.
dam, i remember those chelsea teams back in early 2000s...back when mourinho was actually the special one!
Chelsea is underrated if Alex Ferguson had that side people would be saying that is the greatest prem side ever. They don't get the respect they deserve, they really are the best
This is why I've never considered Kanté to be anywhere near Makelélé's level. Kanté can beat the press sometimes but his passing is way below par. He would be overworked in a typical 4-3-3 where he's at the base of the midfield and that's why Sarri and now Lampard play him in a more advanced role (Sarri probably wanted to replicate Allan). I personally think he's much better in a midfield 2 e.g. the 4-4-2 at Leicester with Drinkwater or the 3-4-3 at Chelsea with Matic.
Can you do a video on Christian Benteke please
6 minutes ago? Bro I never been this early to a video🤯
Legend
If mekeleke role means stopping the opposition and beginning an attack from deep,than what is the difference between mekeleke and jorginho role in sarri's system!?,please explain it!
some say its refered to as the kantelele role now
Marco Manzanares its no some, its just mArCo mAnZanArEs
Sergio Busquets always reminded me of Makélélé
Please do a video on why the England golden generation squad of David Beckham, Paul Scoles, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Carrick & Mikel Owen Failed to win even one cup
In This era Casemiro is the perfect example of this role
Tifo, what was the difference between Kante and Makelele? Does Kante operate exactly the same way or are there differences that provide benefits/challenges to the team? Who would you say the better player is between the two?
Kante runs much more than, Makelele, and he is more like a box-to-box. At chelsea, Jorginho is currently plaiyng in front of defence, so Kante is totally different when it comes to the role in midfield.
Kanté joined chelsea as Leicester accepted £32 million offer from the blues while Makelele joined Chelsea was because los blancos turned down his request for his pay raise while Chelsea could offer him a higher wage
@@radurobaciu9027 that's his revised role from under Sarri which has carried on to Lampard's tenure. It remains to be seen if it is more effective than his original role at Leicester, which was a lot more defensive minded. If you want to make comparisons between the two players, then that would be the best place to start.
Kante had a very similar role at Leicester and Chelsea under conte, but sarri and Lampard deployed him differently since jorghino sits in front of the defense now. He's still tasked with defensive duties and tracks back just as well just like back then but now he has the added responsibility of turning with the ball and pushing it forward at times, wether it's via pass or by dribbling ahead. More of a box-to-box mid, but his strength is still in the defensive side, although his passing and ball control/dribbling have improved greatly over the past 2 years. Haven't gotten to watch him play much recently cuz he's been hurt this year alot, but hopefully when the coronavirus goes away, he'll be fully fit.
@@MrLeyr what original role? He played in a two man midfield at Leicester, and was arguably the more energetic of the two. He has never really played as a holding midfielder, in any formation.
Kanté has always advanced farther up the pitch and been more aggressive in terms of his positioning than Makélélé. His original role is the one he plays right now, only with an extra supporting player behind him. People need to drop this false notion that he's a holding midfielder just because he's a world class defender. He's more like Nainggolan or Allan than Makélélé was.
Last time I was this early hachim mastout was the next big thing.
What happened to that guy
How about Cazorla? The best space maker arguably. Would love to see your video about him.
Fred is the evolution of this role!
Fred redeemed himself during the midfield crisis in Man Utd this season
Anyone who mentions Kante here either doesn't watch him play or doesn't understand the Makelele role.
Kante's strength lies in his speed and ability to retain the ball, but his positional awareness has never been his strong suit. That's why he has rarely been played as the last midfielder before the defense, since that role requires him to stop attacks BEFORE they happen. Kante's best role is that of a defensive-minded box-to-box player. Basically, playing slightly higher up where he is free to roam. Putting him in the Makelele role would waste his speed, worsen the attacking prowess of the team as well as weakening them defensively, as Kante wouldn't be able to catch up to attacking players from that far back if he found himself in just a slightly off position, which he does a lot.
And before anyone says "But that's where he's always played before", no. He played as a b2b midfielder alongside Drinkwater in the title-winning Leicester side. Then when he moved to Chelsea, Conte initially put him in the DM/Makelele role, but after a shaky start with several losses, he changed to the 5-2-3 system (or 3-4-3 depending on how you look at the wingbacks) that later ended up winning them the season. This had Kante again playing b2b in a two-man midfield alongside Matic, and occasionally Fabregas. Absolutely not the Makelele role, as this video says, that would leave the other cente-mid completely alone. Since then, Kante has always played as a b2b for Chelsea, but with increasingly offensive duties. What people are really asking for is for Kante to simply become more defensively focused like the good old days again, but he has NEVER played his best football in the Makelele-role.
However, that's not to say Kante doesn't do well as a DM. That's the way he played for France when they won the World Cup. But it's definitely not how you get the best out of him.
I dont know why people compare him to Kante, both players play different role. Makelele is a pure DM, whilst Kante is more B2B.
Kante is B2B from last 2 seasons before that he was DM
@@homosapien5156 he has never been a DM stop the ignorance
2 bad these kids missed the 80's 90's and early 2k football , i miss that periode, even a random club like samdoria could be dangerous
Atalanta
La Liga and Serie A was the best then. Quality up and down the table. I remember 2002-03 where Barca looked like a relegation candidate for most of the season.
Someone forgot that leicester won the entire league in the 2010....
@@mikehollitscher9661 barca had a poor run in 2002/03 as they let go of Rivaldo without earn a single cent
Such a great explanation! Well done👏👏👏
Could you do a video like this for Patrick Vieira.
Kante-master of the ,,Malelele role"!😏
Los blancos let go of him to secure Beckham's signature is similar to Mr.Krab sent Spongebob into chef exchange programme
When makele left real you could see the difference performance of Real Madrid. After his departure to Chelsea Real Madrid having biggest stars in the galaxy could not do anything significant in champions league. But his arrival changed primeur league and they started qualifying and eventually they started winning UEFA. Chelsea would have won the champions league but who can forget Chelsea Barcelona match where Ronaldinho scored with his famous toe poke which beat peter chezk no1 goalie at that time
Do Redondo next!!!!!!!!
You kiiinnnntttsssss
Makelele was one of my favourite players & his role/position was my favourite.
Reading passing, the flow of the game. Interrupting or linking up felt like you were trying read the future or probability of things.
The Cambiasso role
Exactly
Cambiasso is class but he's no makelele
So ranieri basically creates that role with Makalele in Chelsea years prior to finding the same formula but this time with Kante at Leceister
Kind of yeh
Hey so how do you make these videos? I have always been interested in the tactical part of the game and I want to try to make videos on the basis of my analysis. Any help to get me started would be really appreciated.
Love your content though. I would love to get in touch to see if you have anything for me
Do a video about gatusso
can you make a video on sebastian abreu? the man with the most clubs in history I think
Do this with Gattuso plz
Kante took the role and expanded on it, let’s give credit with context & fundamentals