Chapter 818 Real Madrid's Future

Benitez's career as a player and coach has all debuted in Real Madrid. He has been a die-hard fan of Real Madrid since he was a child. Even at the press conference announcing his coaching of Real Madrid, he had tears on his face, which made everyone feel his love for Real Madrid. with loyalty.

From an emotional point of view, he is definitely the most suitable head coach to coach Real Madrid among the famous coaches today.

But professional football has never believed in tears, nor does it require too much emotion, even Benitez himself believes in this one.

From the perspective of coaching philosophy, he is the least Real Madrid man, and some people even think that his football is the same as Capello.

Who is Capello?

He coached Real Madrid twice and won two La Liga titles in two seasons, but he was a gold medal coach who was fired after winning the championship.

And Capello was fired twice for the same reason, that no one at Real Madrid liked his football.

Real Madrid's football advocates a gorgeous creativity full of imagination, and it is a mercury-like offensive football.

Benitez is definitely a great tactician, but in his football world, there is no creativity, no offensive football, only a rigorous and meticulous tactical framework, as well as the players' persevering mechanical execution.

As early as when Liverpool was coaching, everyone thought that Yang Yang was an outlier under the coaching of Benitez.

But this is clearly an unexpected product of Benitez.

Before announcing the introduction of Yang Yang, what Benitez wanted was a scorer who could consistently provide more than 20 goals per season. All shocked, so that Benitez had to develop the team's offense around him.

From 25 goals to 34 goals, and then to 44 goals in the third season, Yang Yang not only subverted the outside world's impression of him, but also constantly broke the tactical ceiling that Benitez set for him, once Another exception for him.

As the Guardian once said, it was not Benitez who changed his stubbornness, but Yang Yang was too strong, so strong that Benitez had to make a compromise, because he had never seen Yang Yang so strong player.

Now, at Real Madrid, the situation is still the same.

Yang Yang, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robben and Kaka, Benitez suddenly gathered a lot of talented superstars, he seems to be a little powerless, especially in the team's attack.

But from another point of view, now Real Madrid needs Benitez.

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Florentino is an old football fan who has watched football for decades, and he understands professional football well.

Around him, Valdano is also a brilliant European star, Zidane is a legendary superstar in European football, as well as Real Madrid Five Eagles Padesa and Butragueno, all of them are selected. Real Madrid Hall of Fame legend.

These people also know professional football very well.

As early as when Florentino decided to return to the Bernabeu, he and his group worked out a set of rigorous plans, and as a football club, in addition to business and day-to-day operations, competitive success is the key to success. is the most decisive.

How to be successful at the competitive level?

Then look at the most successful teams.

Liverpool have nothing to learn, except their squad, and their dressing room.

On the contrary, it was the sworn enemy Barcelona, ​​a team that completely changed the technical and tactical concept of European football, and brought the most profound shock to Florentino and everyone under him.

Many people mention Barcelona only about their passing and possession, but in fact, in the eyes of professionals such as Valdano and Zidane, the most important thing for Barcelona is not their passing and possession at all, but their ability to pass and control the ball. Behind this ability, Guardiola has created a high-position pressing defense system for this team, as well as their abundant physical fitness.

The strict high-position pressing and pressing defense system allows Barcelona to put more pressure on the opponent, recover the ball in the shortest time, and at the same time ensure the stability of the team's defense. This is a new concept of attack and defense.

And plenty of physicality allows Barcelona's players to make more and more active movements on the pitch.

To a certain extent, defense and physical fitness are the most important aspects of Guardiola's improvement in Rijkaard's team, and they are also the key factors in Barcelona's ability to sweep the entire European football.

But for Real Madrid at that time, the best pass control players in the world were in Barcelona, ​​and Real Madrid did not have a systematic pass control gene like Barcelona's, and because of the objective laws of football, this made Floren It is impossible for Tino to build a pass-and-control team similar to Barcelona at the Bernabeu directly out of thin air.

This is impossible and unrealistic.

What then?

Step by step!

Barcelona's pass-and-control football consists of three parts: skillful pass-and-control, rigorous high-position pressing and defense, and physical fitness. The three major factors are indispensable. Among them, physical fitness is not difficult to achieve. The real difficulties are the first two.

Skilled passing and control requires excellent midfield passing and control players, but looking at the current European football, apart from Valencia's David Silva, there is no player who can play in Real Madrid yet. The Elf King of the Bat Legion also failed to transfer to the Bernabeu in the summer of 2009.

Looking at European football, there are not many tactical masters in defense. Mourinho and Benitez are the best among them. These two famous coaches are known for their ability to build defensive systems, especially Benitez. Stacey, the high-position pressing and pressing style of the double midfielder is his famous stunt. It has been used from Valencia to Liverpool, and both have achieved success.

So, the answer is obvious. Real Madrid gave up Ancelotti, and Benitez brought his team to the Bernabeu to undertake the task of creating a rigorous defensive system for Real Madrid. At the same time, he also took on the task of attacking Barcelona. burden.

The 5-0 away victory over Barcelona was almost all of the goals scored in the counterattack. Real Madrid's possession rate was only half of Barcelona's throughout the game. It can be seen that Benitez's style of play has achieved initial success.

Next, let's look at Benitez's adjustment of the team's midfield and defense.

But neither Florentino nor Zidane and Valdano will regard Benitez as the future of Real Madrid, or the Real Madrid they expect.

Benitez can't play that set, and so can many of Real Madrid's current players.

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Manuel Redondo sent Yang Yang out and waited for him to get into the car before returning to the box.

Florentino urged him to strengthen his support for Benitez, because now is not the key to determine the success or failure of Benitez.

There are only two situations that can shake Benitez’s coaching position. One is that the management feels that Benitez has been unable to achieve the goal of the management, that is, it cannot help the team to create a stable and rigorous high-level pressing and pressing system. .

Another is that he helped the team achieve this goal.

Although the latter is a bit cruel, this is professional football.

"To be honest, our current team's lineup is indeed biased towards counterattacks, which is not good for the league." Valdano said with a frown.

Before the injury, Kaka, Robben, Sneijder, and even Xavi Alonso were all inclined to counterattack players, which is also a helpless choice.

Needless to say, Kaka is one of the few superstar targets of Real Madrid. Both Robben and Sneijder stayed in the team. Xavi Alonso is one of the best organizational midfielders in active service. Got to pick, unless poached from Barcelona.

This is also the reason why Florentino will not consider Cristiano Ronaldo even if he lives or die. The Portuguese is also a counter-attack player. After having a comprehensive player like Yang Yang, there is no need to introduce the Portuguese. Counter-attack elements within the Real Madrid team.

After all, the tactics still have to be implemented by players. Too many counter-attack players will be detrimental to Real Madrid's future transformation.

And everyone, including Florentino, Valdano and Zidane, all agree that Barcelona's tactics will be the future direction of football's technical and tactical development, and will completely change the technical and tactical concept of European football.

So why can't Real Madrid adopt a counter-attack style?

The reason is very simple. This type of play is still feasible in the Champions League, but in La Liga, all teams face Real Madrid and are strictly guarded. Where is the opportunity to counterattack?

The two games against Osasuna and Athletic Bilbao are the best examples.

These opponents are all victories if they hold zero to zero. Where would they easily give you the space to counterattack?

Therefore, in La Liga, the controlling team has the advantage.

Of course, the ideal situation is a combination of counterattack and control.

This idea was proposed by Zidane, and it is very tempting, but how to implement it, everyone is still groping.

Thinking of this, Florentino turned to Zidane.

The special advisor immediately understood the meaning in the chairman's eyes.

"I think you should reconsider my proposal, go to the first team, learn more experience, you are the future we look forward to." Florentino said earnestly.

Yang Yang is valued on the court, and Zidane is expected from the court. This is the policy formulated by Florentino when he returned to the Bernabeu.

Zidane smiled bitterly, "Let me think about it again."

"You've been thinking about it for half a year."

"But I'm not qualified to coach yet."

"Then take the test, we will reimburse you for the cost." Florentino pressed step by step.

Zidane is depressed, does he seem like someone who can't afford training?

Redondo and Valdano are both pretending to be eating, when in fact they are giggling.

If this scene spreads out, the whole world will go crazy with laughter.

Is this still the Zidane they admire?

But in turn, it can be seen that Zidane and Florentino have an extraordinary relationship.

"That's how things are decided, Manuel arranges, you go to study with Benitez." Florentino said without doubt, after a pause, he looked at Zidane again, and his tone was relaxed. Soft, even more or less with a little help.

"Our locker room needs people like you right now to strengthen the communication between the coaching staff and the players."

Zidane couldn't refuse.

From the day he agreed to be Florentino's special assistant, he knew it was a matter of time.