text: which style of football(soccer) do you prefer......? the english premier league way of playing or the italian serie a??  the english have fast long ball attacking style, with few times defending the ball...keepers and defenders have to be on their toes in a place where truly defenders and keepers deserve all credit.  the italians have a fast small ball passing technique. they are full of the technique of passing and passing and passing until a foward or an offensive player shoots. this is a place where midfielders are lauded since they make clever passes to fowards and must know when to or to whom to pass.  any opinions? i would rather mix it like the french, long passes like sagnol can do when it's called for or the passing, passing, passing when you have the midfielders to carry the ball to the strikers like zidane could do. as we saw at the wc, the italians couldn't really do the passing style technique because the french defense was so great and most of the time stole the ball there.  edit: good question by the way.