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We are in these last 2 months "confined" at home and since competitive football has been postponed "sine die" and grassroots football too, then what televisions do is broadcast matches from the past. It is especially interesting to watch FC Barcelona football matches directed by Johan Cruyff in the 1988/89, 1989/90 and 1990/1991 seasons. Here we can see, for example, the 1990 Copa del Rey Final match against Real Madrid. Back then, the Barcelona team played a 3-4-3, and it was Ronald Koeman's first year, and the defenders: Aloisio and Alexanko. When Aloisio is injured, Serna enters. In addition, the team played a lot with the goalkeeper for game creation purposes. We think that until 1992 the ball, when it was given by a field player to the goalkeeper, the latter could catch it with his hands again, but since the summer of 1992 with the Olympic Games as the initial stage. Without imagining it, but Cruyff was the pioneer in the change, since since 1988 he forced his goalkeeper to play with his feet. Zubizarreta even played minutes on the left wing in some of the 1988 pre-season games, to work on this aspect of his footwork. Today the vast majority of new coaches are unaware of this history of football, and the reason for playing with the goalkeeper's feet, which was the 3-4-3 proposal, since if the goalkeeper also plays with his feet, he really you play with a 4-4-3. Our office has the privilege of advising the goalkeeper Iván León Córdoba who, among other conditions, has a very high level of footwork.