{"product_id":"where-is-the-number-10-zane-lockridge-9798242594074","title":"Where is the number 10?: When Football Stopped Waiting for Genius","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere is the Number 10?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happened to the player who once made football slow down, breathe, and think?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, the number 10 was the mind of the game. He controlled tempo, interpreted space, and decided moments not through speed, but through understanding. Football waited for him. Then, gradually, it stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhere Is the Number 10? - When Football Stopped Waiting for Genius\u003c\/i\u003e, this book explores how modern football transformed its relationship with intelligence. As pressing intensified, systems became dominant, and data reshaped decision-making, the game grew faster, safer, and more collective - but also less patient. The classic playmaker did not disappear because he lacked talent, but because the conditions that once allowed him to govern the game no longer existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a nostalgic defence of the past, nor a rejection of modern football. It is an essay on evolution, trade-offs, and unintended consequences. Through tactical analysis, historical context, and philosophical reflection, the book examines how creativity adapted, migrated, and disguised itself inside systems that no longer trust pause, ambiguity, or individual authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will explore: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy pressing changed not just space, but time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow systems replaced interpretation with control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy data made some forms of intelligence harder to defend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow the number 10 survived by fragmenting into other roles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat modern football gained - and what it quietly lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether genius can still flourish inside highly structured systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for readers who think deeply about football, this book is for coaches, analysts, players, and supporters who sense that something essential changed - even if they struggle to name it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere Is the Number 10?\u003c\/i\u003e is not about bringing a role back.\u003cbr\u003eIt is about understanding why football still needs the kind of intelligence it once placed at the centre of the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd why, sooner or later, it will look for it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zane Lockridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242594074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Zane Lockridge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997354864895,"sku":"9798242594074","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/where-is-the-number-10-zane-lockridge-9798242594074","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}