Chapter 1634 The Naked Boxer

Every year at the end of August, the world's media attention is focused on the Grimaldi Conference Center in Monaco.

The UEFA Champions League group stage draw and UEFA awards ceremony held here attracted the attention of media and fans from all over the world.

But few people noticed that every year after the UEFA Champions League draw, at the beginning of September, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, a crucial head coach summit, the UEFA Elite Coach Summit, will also be held.

This official summit in the field of professional coaches, founded in 1999, is regarded as the authority in the field of world football coaches. Only the best and most outstanding coaches in European football last season are eligible to be invited join.

The reputation of the elite coach summit is not obvious, and even many fans have never heard of it, but its influence on European football is not weak, because many major changes in the past were initiated from this summit of.

For example, the refereeing issue was discussed in the past few years and has been implemented in the past few years, as well as the unification of the transfer time of major leagues proposed last year and the cancellation of the away goals system in UEFA cup matches, etc.

These proposals have all been taken seriously by UEFA, many of which have been implemented and have caused major changes in European football.

But all of this is not well known, because the head coach has never been the protagonist of European football.

Until this year, the invitation of the protagonists of world football has brought this elite meeting that is not valued by the media and fans to the world, and has attracted the attention of the whole world.

That is Yang Yang!

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Just after taking away the UEFA Player of the Season and Best Forward awards from Monaco, Yang Yang returned to Madrid, did not rest for two days, and immediately flew to Nyon, Switzerland to participate in UEFA's elite coaching summit.

This is the first time he has received an invitation to the summit.

The summit lasted for two days. In addition to a dozen active European football coaches, the invited guests also included Zidane, Allegri and Lucescu who are at home. All three are well-known in Europe. Among the famous coaches, Lucescu is most proud of his coaching experience with Shakhtar Donetsk.

The players have all gone back to participate in the national team competitions. Even if they have no national team missions, they will stay in Valdebebas and train with Xavi Alonso and others, which makes Yang Yang very relieved.

But regarding the upcoming schedule, Yang Yang was always worried.

Flying from Madrid to Geneva, and then taking the welcome car of the hotel from Geneva, heading north to a high-end spa resort hotel designated by UEFA, Yang Yang was thinking about the next game all the way.

It was almost noon when we arrived at the hotel.

But under the scorching sun, many media and fans who had received the news gathered outside the hotel gate. They all squatted outside the hotel gate, waiting for Yang Yang and others to appear.

When the hotel welcome car passed by, many people saw Yang Yang sitting in the back row, and immediately shouted and chased him frantically.

Although they were quickly blocked by the hotel's security guards, the scene was almost out of control.

This made Yang Yang, who was sitting in the car, feel very helpless.

More and more, he realized that personal privacy was getting farther and farther away from him.

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After getting off the welcome car, Yang Yang heard a familiar voice from a distance as soon as he stepped into the lobby of the hotel.

"Hey, Yang, here." Zidane waved at Yang Yang from afar.

Behind the French bald head, there are other coaches gathered, such as Liverpool coach Klopp, Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola, Naples coach Ancelotti, Arsenal coach Emery, and Paris Saint-Germain coach Tuch. you.

When Yang Yang saw the crowd, he walked up to them with a smile and shook hands with them one by one.

The atmosphere at the scene was still very lively, and the conversation started naturally because of the commotion outside just now.

"I used to gather here every year. Although occasionally media reporters would come over, the battle like the one just now only happened this year. It seems that it is better to be younger." Ancelotti laughed and teased Yang Yang. .

Everyone knew that among the people present, Yang Yang was the youngest, and he would not turn thirty-three until October.

Looking at the four major European leagues, only the head coach of Leipzig Red Bull is a little younger than Yang Yang, but in terms of performance, Yang Yang is already the coach of the Champions League champion, and he can already keep pace with the world's top coaches like them.

In terms of career history, Yang Yang is the number one football player in the world and an unprecedented legend. Now that he has won the Champions League in his first season in coaching and is still leading the dark horse Ajax, Yang Yang's historical status will only settle with time. It is getting higher and higher. As for how high it will be in the future, no one knows.

Because of this, among the people present, not many people could really joke with Yang Yang.

Those who are more talkable, such as Zidane, Ancelotti, Guardiola and Klopp, these are old acquaintances for many years.

Regarding the sensation just caused, Yang Yang took the initiative to apologize. He said that he had paid great attention to it, but he did not expect to be spied on by the media to find out the time and whereabouts. He also felt very speechless about it.

"It's normal." Zidane smiled and said it doesn't matter, "When they want to spy on your information, you have no secrets at all, let alone a hotel, I guess they can tell you which room you are staying in tonight." I'll dig it out for you."

Everyone burst into laughter.

Manchester City coach Guardiola and Liverpool coach Klopp, who are in the Premier League, agree 1000%.

"The British paparazzi are many times more terrifying than those outside. Anyway, I don't want to deal with them now." Guardiola chose to stay away from the media.

Klopp laughed heartily, "In front of them, I look like a beauty with all my clothes off."

Everyone laughed again, but it was true.

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After chatting in the hotel lobby for a while, Lyon coach Rudy Garcia and Juventus coach Sarri and others also arrived one after another.

So, everyone made an appointment to go to the restaurant of the hotel to have lunch together.

A group of head coaches sat together, and the topic naturally came to football. In the past season, the most popular football topic in European football was Ajax.

Everyone is full of curiosity about Ajax, because this team is very young, but its football style is very unique, and its skills and tactics are also quite high. First class.

"To tell you the truth, I watched all Ajax's games last season, as long as they didn't conflict with our games, and I even watched the tapes of some games repeatedly. I think there are many things in this team. It looks very familiar, but integrated together, it seems very strange.”

Guardiola is a football fanatic. As long as he talks about football, he always has endless topics to talk about.

"Frankie de Jong needless to say, my biggest regret this summer is not being able to buy him, I called him, but he said, he only wants to go to Real Madrid, and Van der Beek, I You know, he is also waiting for your call."

After hearing this, everyone looked at Yang Yang in unison. He brought out the youngest championship team in the history of the Champions League. What's more commendable is that all the young players in this team respect and love him very much. horrible!

"At first, I was always wondering about one thing, that is why your physical fitness can always last for so long? Why can you maintain high-intensity pressing and pressing for 90 minutes without getting tired?"

Guardiola asked a question that everyone present was very curious about, and it was even asked badly by the media and fans.

"I thought about it for a long time and watched a lot, and finally I found a very interesting thing, that is, you are always in rotation."

When Yang Yang heard this, he immediately gave Guardiola a thumbs up.

Needless to say, he has acknowledged Guardiola's discovery.

"Jovic, Neres, Sancho and Van der Beek, these four players are the main force of the high press and oppression. I found that there are always two of them running and pressing at the top, and there are always two of them in the front. Lazy and rest."

"As long as Jovic runs back or to the side, Van der Beek will take the initiative to press up and rush to the front. The same is true when you are on the field. This makes their high-position pressing look very expensive, but In fact, during the game, you get a lot of rest time."

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized.

Yang Yang noticed that Zidane, Ancelotti and others seemed to have discovered it a long time ago, but they just showed a look of thinking, while Solskjaer and many others showed a sudden realization, which was obviously something they had not discovered before. of.

To Yang Yang's surprise, Emery and Tuchel were just thinking about it, and it seems that they also found out.

They are all top coaches, basically it is difficult to have any secrets.

Of course, what if other people knew the secret of Ajax's high pressing and oppression?

Such a rotation mechanism is simple to say, but it is actually very difficult to use it freely on the court.

Even if you are a little careless, you may make many mistakes and omissions, and you will be blown up by your opponent.

"This rotation mechanism is actually not new. That's how Van Gaal's Ajax played back then." Yang Yang carried out his own Bole, and did not forget to wipe the signboard for his old friend Van Gaal.

Ancelotti nodded and said: "Yes, Van Gaal played like this back then. Kluivert is equivalent to Jovic, and Litmanen is equivalent to Van der Beek. Although the details are slightly modified, they are really the same. Wonderful."

Football skills and tactics are like this, and they have always been spiraling upwards.

"Belsa also played like this, and then Diego and Jurgen..." Yang Yang pointed to Simeone and Klopp, "The two of them also gave me a lot of insights, of course there are Guardiola, Bennett S, Ancelotti and Zidane and so on."

"In the past many years, I have been studying and observing. Later, when I was coaching Ajax, I tried to slowly, little by little, take out what I have learned over the years and instill it on the ball. Go to the team."

Yang Yang's words aroused the thinking of everyone present.

Observation and learning, this is a rare quality that all managers must pay attention to.

Ferguson has been able to span European football for decades, relying on his extraordinary observation and learning ability.

And Yang Yang also showed amazing potential in this respect.