One Hundred and Nineteen [Great] the True Meaning

Gao Shen still underestimated the thickness of the politician's skin.

When meeting Juan Carlos I, the King of Spain smiled and shook hands with Gao Shen, expressing his expectation for Real Madrid under Gao Shen’s coaching, and he even said without blushing: " I like your stubbornness!"

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There were many people in the box, including Florentino and Butragueno, and they all watched all this with a smile.

Gao Shen really wanted to say: In this case, let's talk about the handover of the throne!

But in the end, he resisted the urge, because he didn't know what the consequences would be if he pissed off the King of Spain.

Why bother?

Juan Carlos I really deserves to be the No. 1 fake fan of Real Madrid. He has watched football for decades and doesn’t know much about football. He only knows that Real Madrid has played well in recent games. He encourages Gao Shen to continue to maintain This set of tactics defeated Barcelona in the Champions League final.

Gao Shen agreed perfunctorily, with a smiling face, but secretly slandered: Nima, those are Ronaldinho, Eto’o and Messi, where are the Chinese cabbages in the imperial garden of your palace at that time?

But overall, the meeting was quite pleasant.

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"The king has an exclusive box here all year round. Originally, he didn't eat here tonight."

After leaving the king's box, Florentino took Gao Shen and Butragueno back to his own box, explaining to Gao Shen the reason for Juan Carlos' arrival along the way.

"But when he heard that I was asking you out for dinner, he came here suddenly and said he wanted to meet you, so I had to arrange it."

Gao Shen didn't think there was any problem.

It's a bit of an honor, after all, that's also the king of Spain.

But this kind of meeting is actually not much fun. If possible, he would prefer to meet in private, such as talking about his fifteen hundred mistresses, or that he doesn't have a beautiful granddaughter or something.

"Tonight, in addition to the three of us, I also specially invited Valdano and Sacchi, both of whom are very experienced head coaches, and have always wanted to find a chance to meet you." Flo Lentino laughed.

After a deep listen, I became interested.

These two are seniors in football.

Jorge Valdano, Maradona's teammate, the hero who won the World Cup in Argentina, is also recognized as the king of football aesthetics in the world. His column is also sought after by countless media and fans, and is very thoughtful.

If the columnist of Barcelona is Cruyff, then Real Madrid is Valdano.

Of course, unlike Cruyff who is mainly critical, Valdano is more euphemistic and persuasive, which is also the key factor for him to be able to become Florentino's right-hand man.

As for Sacchi, there is no need to talk about it. The status of this name in football is absolutely supreme.

Gao Shen himself has read many of Saki's books, and even learned the shadow training method from him. Now that he can see him in person, he is naturally gearing up.

As soon as he entered the box, Gao Shen saw two middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes, both of whom had very conspicuous signs.

Sacchi has a big bald head and is wearing a black suit and white shirt, while Valdano has a slightly curly back and a dark blue suit with a light blue shirt inside.

When Gao Shen and others opened the door and came in, the two of them didn't know what they were discussing, and the topic stopped abruptly the moment they opened the door.

"Hey tall!"

When Saki saw Gao Shen and the three of them, he laughed and stood up to say hello.

In contrast, Valdano seems more tactful.

This can also show the different personalities of the two seniors.

Florentino politely introduced the two football seniors and his personal assistant Manuel Redondo to Gao Shen. The latter made Gao Shen pay more attention, but soon confirmed that he and It doesn't matter if Real Madrid is famous.

Gao Shen has always been curious.

Why did Florentino invite him to dinner, but there was no answer until the host and guest sat down, and Florentino did not intend to dominate the scene, but let the topic naturally fall on Real Madrid.

Real Madrid has been very topical in recent times, especially the depth.

But what the coaches are most concerned about is not the team's technical and tactical aspects, but Gao Shen's management and motivation of the locker room.

They all think that this is Gao Shen's best work so far, even impeccable.

In the past two months of coaching Real Madrid, Gao Shen has actually made many mistakes. Some were forced by his opponents, and some were inadvertently. See more clearly.

From the perspective of coaching, Gao Shen is actually still very immature.

In front of the two masters, it is actually very difficult for Gao Shen to have the opportunity to play tricks. He listens more and occasionally answers their questions. For example, he does not deny that he is deeply influenced by Sacchi, including using shadow training in training. .

Sacchi gave a lot of suggestions and opinions, such as some of his unique training methods.

"Actually, your experience of coaching Real Madrid is really similar to mine."

Saki is like a natural orator, he can talk about everything, and he is very interested in advanced.

Perhaps because of what he said, both had a very similar experience.

In Italian football, Sacchi has a nickname called the country bumpkin.

As the name suggests, he came out of a small country town and grew up with three ideals: director, screenwriter and football coach.

Fortunately, instead of being a director and screenwriter, he became a head coach.

In fact, he has no football talent. As an adult, he worked as a salesman in his father's shoe factory, which trained his eloquence. There was a team in his hometown called Luko. With his strength at the time, he was not enough to join this team. team, but by chance, he became the head coach of this "strong team".

He was twenty-six years old.

The players in the team are generally older than him, for example, the goalkeeper is 29 years old, and the striker is 32 years old.

But unlike Gao Shen who shined in his first coaching, Saki's debut was not ideal, and he did not see any talent at all.

"I was fascinated by Total Football in Holland, I also liked football in Real Madrid and Brazil, I like to study and think, I want to understand how their players play on the pitch, how the whole team works. It works, and it's a dynamic system that's well worth studying."

Many people now say that Sacchi's ideas were very advanced back then, but he believes that there were already many discussions in this regard in Italy at that time.

In the 1960s, under the coaching of Swede Liedholm, AC Milan achieved impressive results in European football, which in turn led to changes in Italian football tactics, making Libero a standard configuration.

By the 1980s, almost the entire Serie A was free agents.

Juventus lost to Hamburg in the Champions League final, which triggered a reflection on the tactics of Libero in Italian football at the time. Although the old lady won the championship in Heysel soon, it was difficult to resist this wave after all.

Liedholm, who carried forward the Libero tactics in Serie A, took the lead in seeking changes. He began to adopt a mixed zone defense in Rome, but Sacchi at the time believed that this was not a good way.

Liedholm's Roma appeared to be defending in a zone, but the players were actually marking in their own zone.

Sackey believes this is due to Liedholm's reluctance to give up libero and man-to-man entirely.

Therefore, after he took over Liedholm's AC Milan coach, he completely set off a revolution. This is the era of the Milan dynasty that many people talked about later.

"Son, you have to know that as big as a country, as small as a team, or a person, they all have their own unique characteristics. We in Italy have a defeatist complex, and we are used to being weak. For example, Brera said , because of our eating habits, our health is worse than others, so we can only adopt defensive tactics."

"But when I was young, I traveled to many countries with my father. I don't agree with this view. We even do better than other countries in other sports fields. Why do we say that our bodies are not as good as others?"

"The real problem lies here." Saki pointed to his temple, indicating that there was a mental problem.

"The laziness of character and the conservative mentality constrain us and make us unwilling to change ourselves."

Sacchi's remarks are of course talking about the football atmosphere in Italy at the time, but they are talking about the current Real Madrid, and even deeply think of the football in his home country.

"In my philosophy of football, greatness is something beyond trophies and medals."

"Back then, Van Basten once asked me a very interesting question: Why do we not only win, but also win convincing? I couldn't give a convincing answer at the time, but now, I can."

"French football magazine once selected the ten greatest teams in football history. World football also had a similar selection, and my AC Milan ranked fourth. The first three were Hungary in 1954, Brazil in 1970 and Holland in 1974 were both national teams."

"That's my answer to Van Basten, that's why!"

It was the first time for Gao Shen to hear the words of the seniors so closely. Although he could see some things from the tactical library, it was far less shocking than hearing the narrations of the parties on the spot.

What's more, Saki himself is a very good speaker.

"I have concluded that all these great teams have a common characteristic, they control the ball, control the field, control the rhythm, and even control the opponent."

"In other words, when attacking, they control the ball and when defending, they control the space."

When Gao Shen heard this, he couldn't help being shocked.

Saki's words undoubtedly spoke the truth.

This was the case with his Milan dynasty, and it was the same with Guardiola's Barcelona dream team.

These teams are great, and they all have that in common.

And this should be the goal that all ideal coaches pursue together. Although there are very few teams that can achieve it throughout the ages, it does not prevent everyone from working towards this goal.