Real signed one of the greatest players to have ever stepped onto a football field in the shape of Hungary's Ferenc Puskas in 1958 and saw off all comers until a Bela Guttmann-inspired Benfica broke the stranglehold in 1961.

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In a sport which has no timeouts, few stoppages and is often decided by individual acts of spontaneity, formations are one of the few ways coaches can endeavor to shape the action on the field.

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My 1979 dissertation was a model relating interannual and interseasonal variations in the shape of the atmosphere, as reflected by the surface barometric pressure field, to variations crop yields across the United States.

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At Liverpool, he said, they were called "shape" drills: 15- or 20-minute sequences where players are coached to spread the field and quickly trade positions, just as they are instructed to when they're chasing a late goal.

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