Let us take juego de posición and this smooth football, considering each from the standpoint of players, the relations between players and the space involved. Juego de posición is a tactical outlook of the State, or of the court, perfected by the institutional tactician nonpareil, Guardiola, spawn of La Masia, servant of the petrodollar.
In juego de posición, the zones of the pitch are coded; each has an internal nature, and is associated with responsibilities from which movements, passes, and confrontations derive. Players, each endowed with two feet, two legs, a head—but no arms, according to the formalisms of the "football laws"—pass through these zones; they may exchange responsibilities, but a fullback who "inverts" nevertheless remains constrained, a left "8" an "8" even if he is burdened with attacking the far half-space during a right-sided progression.
Each player, thus en-zoned and enclosed, becomes a subject of such a statement, endowed with relative power, these relative powers combining in a subject of enunciation, that is, the role, juego de posición’s notion of interiority.
Our smooth football, by contrast, will be a game of body parts, of feet and of heads considered separate from bodies, having only an anonymous, collective, or third-person function: “a part” passes, "a part" tackles, "a part" assists, "a part" strikes. “Part” could be a foot, head, shoulder, buttock, knee, each just one momentarily disaggregated component of a highly mobile, de-subjectivated and de-spatialised machinic assemblage with no players, only situations. Thus in smooth football, these relations will be very different.
