Some people say that professional football is a war without gunpowder.
But it is easy for fans to indulge in the game of the war and greatly ignore the cruelty of the war itself.
Professional football has always been cold and cruel, can not tolerate any tenderness.
Even in China City, which has been highly praised by the football world and fans in recent years, a large number of young players have to be ruthlessly eliminated every year. At best, they are more responsible than other clubs, which naturally makes them look more tender.
As the saying goes, war is out of the ordinary, water is out of the ordinary.
There has never been a fixed way to win a war, which is also true in professional football.
Therefore, naturally, a variety of different techniques and tactics have been derived. It can be said that a hundred flowers are in full bloom and each is good at winning. This has directly led to the prosperity of European football and attracted various types of football talents all over the world.
But just because a hundred flowers bloom, it will inevitably create conflicts between them.
For example, Gao Han and Jose, both of whom came out of the Barcelona coaching staff and once studied under van Gaal, have irreconcilable conceptual contradictions with each other.
The same goes for van Gaal and Cruyff.
As a master of the Dutch football concept, the two are not connected with each other.
On the surface, the contradiction between the two originated from the period when van Gaal was in charge of Ajax. As a famous star of Ajax, Cruyff once criticized van Gaal in the media many times and gave some suggestions.
It's not hard to imagine that with the popularity of Cruyff in Ajax at that time, his suggestions will inevitably bring pressure to van Gaal, and even the management can hardly ignore Cruyff's opinions, which is naturally unacceptable to van Gaal, who has a tough style, and immediately gives him a counterattack. Since then, the two have become estranged, and later even more intense.
It's hard to say which is right or wrong in the end, because the same thing has been happening repeatedly in European football. For example, van Gaal once accused Ajax when Koeman was in charge, and the two also had conflicts for this, and Cruyff's relationship with many Barcelona coaches is not ideal.
But if we go to the bottom of it, it is not difficult to find that the contradiction between the two people comes from their differences in tactical ideas.
With the development of professional football for so many years, tactical theory research has long been a systematic system.
As early as several decades ago, lobanovsky, a famous tactics theorist from Ukraine, put forward the overall football theory. He believed that individual skills should serve the whole, and tactics should not arrange the best eleven players, but let every player follow the arrangement of the head coach, give priority to the interests of the team, and then consider expressing himself.
When Michels was in charge, Hungarian football reached its peak. They advocated the sense of position, made full use of every inch of the field, and the excellent overall cooperation, which brought a strong impact to the European football world at that time. Michels created the concept of total attack and total defense on the basis of the predecessors.
As the name suggests, full attack and full defense means that all players take part in attack and defense. Players have no absolute fixed position and are full of fluidity. They only have relative positions between each other. The benefits are obvious, especially the wave attack system, which makes the team full of attack power, but the pressure in front of the defense line is too large, Too much use of offside tactics leads to the team's defensive hidden danger is more and more obvious, began to be gradually used by the opponent.
It can be said that Michels' all attack and all defense laid the foundation for the development of modern football, but also has a profound impact on many latecomers, such as Cruyff, van Gaal and Rijkaard. They all come from the same vein. They all praise the ability of the middle and back court, and the centreless attack of the front court, that is, they don't set up the No.10 front waist, and so on.
On the premise of continuing Michels's concept of full attack and full defense, individuals should be unconditionally subordinated to the whole, there is an irreconcilable contradiction between Cruyff and van Gaal, that is, Cruyff, who was born as a superstar player, naturally believes that the team's techniques and tactics should serve the players and give full play to the players' strength.
However, van Gaal does not agree with this. He thinks that the individual performance of the players is very unstable, which will inevitably be accompanied by ups and downs in the long season. It is inevitable to rely on the players to formulate the skills and tactics, and the team's performance will also be affected. Only through clear and rigorous division of labor and cooperation, can we ensure the strict operation of the whole technical and tactical system, To ensure the stability of the team's competitiveness, even the absence of core players will not be affected too much.
This has something to do with van Gaal's not brilliant career as a professional player.
The difference between the two appeared in the period when van Gaal was in charge of Ajax, but it ended with van Gaal's great success in Ajax and reaching the peak of his coaching career.
However, during his subsequent coaching in Barcelona, van Gaal faced problems with this set of ideas when facing Barcelona, which is full of superstars. Both coaching ended in failure, especially in the second coaching, when the management of the club was in chaos, he suffered a humiliating failure.
Later, Rijkaard, van Gaal's former disciple, whose idea was closer to Cruyff's, was a great success in Barcelona, so this game ended with Cruyff's victory.
But interestingly, the early success of Rijkaard's coaching is inseparable from the role of assistant coach Teng Carter, who is famous for his tough management and his idea is more inclined to van Gaal.
If the combination of Rijkaard and tenkat neutralizes the ideas of Cruyff and van Gaal, then Guardiola has reached a new height by combining the advantages of both families.
At this time, the cold has been in European football, with continuous success has proved that the individual and the whole are two inseparable factors in technology and tactics, only complement each other can we achieve success.
It has been a long time since Cruyff left the first line of management, but van Gaal has always been there. Especially in 2014, he led the Dutch team to the second place in the world cup, which made van Gaal famous and retired. He was once associated with teams such as Chelsea, Bayern Munich and so on. But van Gaal finally failed to make the trip and remained idle at home.
Although he is unemployed, in fact, van Gaal has never been idle. He often teaches in the coach training class in Chinatown, and keeps in touch with the cold weather all the time. He often exchanges teaching experience and understanding.
This time when he came to Ajax to watch the game, he was specially invited to the Amsterdam stadium.
Although van Gaal was silent in the whole process, Gao Han could feel a strange look in his eyes, that is desire.
The desire to return to the front line.
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"Louis, I'm planning to buy a team recently."
Taking advantage of the time of half-time, Gao Han approached van Gaal, who was sitting beside him, and said quietly.
Van Gaal has already known that there must be something important to discuss since he was specially invited to Amsterdam stadium by Gao Han, but he can't guess what it is because Baldwin has done a good job in Chinatown. At present, the team ranks second in La Liga. With such a young team, no one can imagine that Baldwin will be out of class.
Van Gaal knew that the high cold was not to replace Baldwin, but he was surprised.
"European teams?" Asked van Gaal hastily.
Gao cold curled his lips and shook his head: "no, of course not. I don't mean to go against UEFA. It means that the Chinese team is close to the end of the negotiation. It is estimated that it will be settled in October. The former coach is Zaccheroni, but he is out of class now. So if we complete the acquisition, we have to find a new coach."
Chinese team?
Van Gaal's first reaction was to resist, because he didn't intend to leave Europe at all. This is the core of world football. To go to distant China almost means to provide for the aged. Although he is 65 years old, he has no idea of providing for the aged.
Gao Han has been paying attention to the change of van Gaal's look. He knows very well that how can the arrogant van Gaal accept to coach in the Chinese Super League? He must still want to prove himself again in Europe. How can he stay away from the core stage of football?
With van Gaal's reputation, I believe there is no lack of interested teams. The reason why van Gaal is idle is just waiting for a better coaching opportunity. After all, at his level, it's more serious to be short than extravagant.
"I know what you think, Luis, but you've already won the supreme Lifetime Achievement Award. I think it's hard for you to prove yourself again in European football, in Holland, and in today's era... I believe you also understand."
The Gaohan dialect is not fully understood, but the meaning is a little clear.
There is no doubt about van Gaal's ability, but his coaching after leaving AJAX is not very successful. There are many reasons, the most important one is the structure of the club and the coaching environment.
Of course, there is also his own character.
The reason why Gao Han is in favor of van Gaal is that he has a complete set of perfect and strict Dutch technical and tactical system inheritance, and van Gaal himself is very good at mining and training young players, which is very consistent with Gao Han's next business ideas.
Yes, van Gaal's concept is not advanced in European football, but it's still very advanced, and it's not easy for any team to play well. However, if we get to the Chinese Super League and the Asian League, it's just a dimension reduction attack, and it's two or three dimensions reduction.
China's football reform has started vigorously, and the Chinese Super League teams have begun to invite world famous coaches to coach, bringing different advanced training methods and coaching programs. But there is no such kind of famous coach as van Gaal up to now.
Lippi is undoubtedly more famous than van Gaal, but in this point, he is still slightly inadequate.
"You know, the greatness of Michels lies not only in the height of his tactical concept, but also in what he has created for Holland and Barcelona. It can be said that he has profoundly changed the system of European football."
Van Gaal has done this in Barcelona, but he is not familiar with it. For example, the most typical one is goalkeeper training. Frans Hawke's goalkeeper training program completely subverts the training and training system of Spanish goalkeepers. It is still widely used in Spanish football, including Valdez, Casillas, Reina, etc Top goalkeepers like de gea.
"Chinese football is now in dire need, but we have the largest population in the world. Our Chinatown has built seven of the world's top youth training centers in China, and we are considering to build ten in the future, which will cultivate a steady stream of football talents every year. In addition, the government has begun to make great efforts to launch youth training reform..."
Speaking of this, Gao Han looked at van Gaal deeply and said word by word.
"We need a Michels who has an advanced football concept and a football tactical system tailored for us."
He believed that this was a temptation that van Gaal could not resist.