Super Marshal

Since ancient times, in professional football, stars have been the focus of media and fans.

Head coaches usually sit behind the scenes and make suggestions, and are not paid much attention to, and their role is even seriously underestimated.

Therefore, the selection of various star awards every year often affects the hearts of fans around the world, especially the two most important individual awards, the European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer, which are recognized as the most important in world football. Oscar.

But on the other hand, head coach's awards are often ignored. Even if there are reports, they are brushed aside.

Since 1999, UEFA has held a European Head Coaches Summit at its Nyon headquarters every September, inviting more than 20 of Europe's most popular head coaches to attend and share and exchange experiences with each other. This has also been recognized by head coaches. It is known within the circle as the world's highest level communication platform for head coaches, and everyone is proud to attend.

But how many media reporters and fans are paying attention?

Now, this situation is gradually changing, especially with the rise of Gao Han, more and more people are beginning to pay attention to the role of the head coach and begin to realize the importance of an excellent head coach to the team.

Especially this year, Gao Han's players first won the top five individual player awards in Europe, and became famous all over the world for a while. Later, UEFA President Platini announced that Gao Han would be invited to give a special speech, which undoubtedly aroused the attention of the media and fans. curiosity.

Therefore, when the European Head Coaches Summit was held this year, many media reporters from European countries and even all over the world came to this remote place in the southern suburbs of Nyon, Switzerland, just to have a glimpse of Gao Han and many famous coaches. style, and also pay attention to this event.

Even if they are not allowed to attend the summit.

But after the first day's agenda ended in an orderly manner, Platini specially invited five coaches, including Gao Han and Ferguson, to attend the press conference to answer reporters' questions about the first day's agenda.

Gao Han mainly mentioned some of his thoughts on the reform of the UEFA Cup.

For example, he said that his first European championship trophy was the UEFA Cup. However, in the past few years, the UEFA Champions League has attracted more and more attention, but the influence of the UEFA Cup has declined rapidly. The reason is the expansion of the UEFA Champions League. Later, the UEFA Cup gradually became useless.

Does that mean the UEFA Cup is not important?

Gao Han thinks it's wrong, because the participating teams in the UEFA Cup are not the same group as the participating teams in the UEFA Champions League, and their strength is not bad, but they lack the appeal to top league teams.

Therefore, Gao Han said that after listening to UEFA's plan for the reform of the UEFA Cup, he proposed to organize an promotion channel between the UEFA Cup and the Champions League to allow some teams that failed to qualify for the Champions League in the league. There is also an opportunity to qualify for the Champions League through the UEFA Cup.

Platini said he was very grateful to Gao Han for his proposal. He believed that this proposal was very pertinent, but it involved a wide range and was very complex. It needs further careful study and discussion, but UEFA will definitely pay attention to it.

Gao Han also mentioned youth training. He took Spain, where he served as a technical consultant, as an example. He believed that Spain has experienced a talent spurt in the past few years, which is inseparable from Spain's emphasis on youth training in the past.

But it is not enough to just pay attention to youth training. We must also give young people enough competition opportunities. For example, Spain allows the second team of professional teams to participate in low-level professional leagues. In Gao Han's view, this will undoubtedly increase the competition training of young players. It’s a good opportunity, so he also called on UEFA to organize more youth competitions, especially club echelon competitions.

In the past few years, with the rapid expansion of the influence of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA has made a lot of money from this event, although it also invests a lot of money in youth training and youth training every year. Supporting weak football countries is still far from enough.

For example, competitions between youth teams of some European clubs are often organized by each club themselves, lacking unified management, and the competition is naturally unsatisfactory. They are basically maintained by the investment of each team.

But Gao Han believes that it is necessary for UEFA to take on this responsibility and organize relevant events.

Gao Han's call also received strong support from Ferguson. The Scots also believe that UEFA should indeed strengthen in this aspect. After all, this will have a huge role in promoting the long-term development of European football.

Platini said on the spot that UEFA would pay attention and discuss this aspect.

However, for the special speech the next day, which attracted a lot of media attention, Gao Han smiled and said that he was still preparing.

Platini, Ferguson and others have successively stated that they are very much looking forward to it. UEFA will also broadcast the live broadcast on the official website. In the future, fans will also be allowed to log in to the official website to watch the video of the speech.

But on the second day, dozens of media and a group of fans from afar were still gathered at UEFA headquarters.

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Second floor of UEFA headquarters.

More than 20 top European coaches who were invited to participate were all sitting under the podium like students in class, together with UEFA President Platini and many core management and technical department personnel. .

Gao Han stood calmly in front of the podium in full view of everyone.

There was silence in the venue, everyone fixed their eyes on Gao Han and listened carefully.

"Once, when I went back to China for vacation, I had a party with some friends, and they got into an argument."

"Some of them think that in the era of Pele, Maradona, and the Dutch Three Musketeers, football at that time was more sexy and exciting, and the stars at that time were stronger and better than they are now."

"But there are also some people who hold objections. They think that the previous techniques and tactics were rough and not rigorous enough, which led to the outstanding performance of the stars at that time. Otherwise, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, even……"

When Gao Han said this, he pointed his right hand at UEFA President Platini sitting in the front row, and the audience burst into laughter.

Even Platini himself laughed so hard that he clapped his hands.

"They believe that if these legendary superstars from the past were placed in the top European leagues now, it would be impossible for them to perform so well, and they might even be inferior to our current first-tier superstars."

"No one on either side could convince the other, and no one could produce strong evidence to convince the other. They were arguing with each other, but they never came to a result that everyone recognized and believed."

Everyone present nodded, it was indeed the truth.

The drama of Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong, favoring the past over the present, or disregarding the past and favoring the present, exists not only in China, but also in Europe.

"Later, one time, I was sitting and chatting with Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, and Hoeness, and I mentioned this issue to them. We discussed it a lot, but we basically reached some consensus."

"For example, we all agree that the pace of modern football is much faster than before, and there is a trend of getting faster and faster."

Everyone nodded again. Anyone with experience in first-line coaching in Europe's top leagues would not deny this.

"But we don't think that with the generally accelerated pace, modern football will be more exciting than before. We can only say that there were great things in the past. For example, Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo often performed single-handed saviors. , but now, such wonderful scenes are very rare, because our rigorous technical and tactical will not give our opponents such space."

"Of course, this does not mean that the players in the past cannot play now. This is unrealistic. Just because the development of some players with more traditional styles has not met expectations, it cannot be judged that all previous players cannot adapt to the development of modern football. ."

"It's like Kaká. When I first met him, he was not taken seriously in Brazil. No one liked his more modern style of play. They liked the more classical style. But in Europe, Kaká The card rose.”

"What I mean is that if you bring all the players from the past into the modern era, there may be a group of superstars who will not become superstars, but there will also be a group of unknowns who will rise up and become new superstars, just like Kaká."

As soon as Gao Han finished speaking, there was a burst of applause.

"We also have a consensus that history is always repeating itself, and football skills and tactics often develop in an upward spiral, but I think that at the most fundamental core, there are two things that cannot changing."

"One is passing and receiving skills, and the other is running without the ball."

"We all know that in a game, most of the players are without the ball, so running without the ball determines the overall strength of a player, and the reason why the passing and receiving skills are getting better and better It’s important because the overall rhythm is gradually accelerating, which certainly improves the viewing experience and increases the intensity of the game, but it also places higher demands on the players’ passing and receiving skills. We will find that some players whose basic skills are not solid enough will It’s already difficult to gain a foothold in the top league.”

"With the ball and without the ball, it makes up the entirety of a game."

Although Gao Han's opening remarks did not reveal anything useful, they made everyone present curious, because they all knew that Gao Han would use his opening remarks to elaborate on his ideas and his Action.

In fact, these theories are familiar to the famous European first-line coaches in the audience, especially coaches such as Ferguson, Wenger and Benitez who have coached for many years. They are extremely familiar with them.

But knowing is one thing, whether you can do it is another.

In the final analysis, football is still about players, and if you want to play the football you want, you often need signings. However, signings are restricted by many other aspects, such as the club's finances and the support for the head coach.

Just like when Gao Han went to coach Bayern Munich, the three giants in the management were all figures who had been immersed in professional football for many years, but they still chose to delegate power to Gao Han, and allocated a transfer budget of 100 million euros, allowing Gao Han to introduce what he wanted. players.

If it had been anyone else, would they have been treated like this?

Okay, even if there is, can others have the vision of Gao Han to introduce a treasure like Modric? Unearth Hummels from the youth team? Let Bastian Schweinsteiger transform from his original role as a wide midfielder to play as a deep-lying midfielder?

Even if these conditions are met, does this head coach have the connections and status of Gao Han to make players such as Robben, Ribery and Aguero give up invitations from other wealthy teams and join a team that can even compete in the Champions League? A team that can’t make it?

After all, theory just exists as theory.

The reason why Gao Han is what he is today is not just because he understands these theories, but because he is Gao Han.

Therefore, relatively speaking, everyone is more interested in Gao Han's actual analysis.

And Gao Han did not hide his secrets, from the selection of players when recruiting, to daily training requirements, to communication with players, and how to mobilize the enthusiasm of players and maintain their desire to win...

He analyzed his coaching philosophy from many different aspects and angles.

Some of them are not unusual and have been used by many people present, but some are eye-catching and new to everyone.

But what Gao Han really shocked everyone present was the useful information he put at the end.