must tilt its own defence to cope. You overload on one side and draw them in so that they leave the other side weak." In 2017, Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini expressed his belief that the popularisation of the attacking–minded tiki-taka playing style, associated with the Spain national side and Barcelona under Guardiola, and the increasing focus on developing defenders who are comfortable with the ball at their feet from a young age, had in fact had a negative impact on their overall defensive quality, and Italian football's ability to produce top defenders in particular, stating: "Guardiolismo [a term he coined for "the Guardiola way"] has ruined a generation of Italian defenders a bit – now everyone is looking to push up, defenders know how to set the tone of play and they can spread the ball, but they don't know how to mark. Unfortunately, that's the way it is. When I was young, we used to do drills to get a feel for the man you were marking. Nowadays, from crosses, Italian defenders – and I can only really talk for Italian defenders, I am only relatively interested about foreign players – don't mark their man. It's a great pity because we're losing our DNA a bit and some of those characteristics which had made us excel in the world. Now, we need talented players up front, but we also need to bring somebody through in defence because we are never going to be able to play Spain's tiki-taka because it's not part of our philosophy." Similarly, in 2019, Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon expressed mixed views regarding goalkeepers being given more responsibilities with the ball at their feet, as well as the fact that keepers were being increasingly judged by scouts more on their ball skills than their goalkeeping ability, stating: "Today there is this great – in my opinion, exaggerated – focus on how keepers play the ball with their feet; how they need to pass and move with their other team-mates. I myself, ever since I was a kid, was an atypical goalkeeper. I often had this role of being a 'libero', playing with my feet a lot. At times, honestly, I did it in an excessive way. Despite that, I maintain one thing: if you lose that true attention, that sincere focus on being a good goalkeeper – which means stopping shots, knowing how to come out