Chapter 620

Since ancient times, in professional football, the star is the focus of the media and fans.

The manager is usually behind the scenes, not being noticed, and even the role is seriously underestimated.

Therefore, the annual selection of various Star Awards often affects the hearts of fans all over the world, especially the two most important individual awards, the European Golden Globe Award and the World Footballer of the year, which are recognized as the Oscars of world football.

On the contrary, the coach's awards are often ignored, even if there is a report, it is also a pass.

Since 1999, in September every year, UEFA has held a summit of European coaches at its headquarters in Nyon, inviting more than 20 of Europe's most popular coaches to attend the summit to share and exchange experience with each other. It is also known as the world's highest level coach exchange platform in the coaching circle and is proud to be present.

But how many media reporters and fans pay attention to it?

Now, this situation is gradually being changed, especially with the rise of high cold, more and more people begin to pay attention to the role of head coach, and begin to realize the importance of an excellent head coach to the team.

Especially this year, the players of Alpine first won the individual awards of five European players, which made them famous all over the world. Then, UEFA president Platini announced that they would invite Alpine to give a special speech, which undoubtedly aroused the curiosity of the media and fans.

Therefore, when this year's European head coach summit was held, many media reporters from European countries and even all over the world came to this remote place in the southern suburb of Nyon, Switzerland, just to see the high cold and the elegant demeanor of many famous coaches, and pay attention to this grand event at the same time.

Even if they are not allowed to attend the summit.

But at the end of the first day's agenda, Platini invited five managers including Gao and Ferguson to attend the press conference to answer questions from reporters.

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

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

Is it that the UEFA Cup doesn't matter?

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

Therefore, Gao said that after listening to UEFA's plan on the reform of the UEFA Cup, he hoped to organize a lift channel between the UEFA Cup and the Champions League, so that some teams who failed to get the qualification of the Champions League in the league would also have the opportunity to fight for the qualification of the Champions League through the UEFA Cup.

Platini said that he was very grateful for Gao's proposal. He thought that the proposal was very pertinent, but it involved a wide range and complex, which needed further careful study and discussion. However, UEFA would certainly pay attention to it.

Gao Han also mentioned the youth training. Taking Spain as an example, he thinks that in the past few years, there has been a talent blowout in Spain, which is inseparable from Spain's emphasis on youth training in the past.

However, it is not enough to only pay attention to youth training, but also give teenagers enough competition opportunities. For example, Spain allows the second team of professional teams to participate in low-level professional leagues, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity to increase the competition training of young players in Alpine view. Therefore, he also calls on UEFA to organize more youth competitions, especially the competitions of club echelons.

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

For example, in some European clubs, the competitions between the youth teams are often organized by the clubs themselves and lack of unified management. Naturally, the competitions are not satisfactory. Basically, they are maintained by the input of each team.

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

The call of high cold has also been strongly supported by Ferguson. The Scot also thinks that UEFA should strengthen in this aspect. After all, it has a huge role in promoting the long-term development of European football.

Platini said on the spot that UEFA will pay attention to this issue and discuss it.

However, Gao Han said with a smile that he was still in the process of preparing for the keynote speech the next day, which attracted the attention of many media.

Platini, Ferguson and others have said that they are looking forward to it. UEFA will also broadcast it live on its official website and allow fans to visit the official website to watch the speech video in the future.

But the next day, UEFA headquarters still gathered dozens of media and a group of fans from afar.

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Second floor, UEFA headquarters.

More than 20 top European coaches who were invited to attend were all like students in class, sitting under the podium, together with UEFA president Platini, a number of core management and technical personnel.

Alpine in full view, calmly standing in front of the podium.

There was silence in the meeting hall, and everyone was watching the cold and listening carefully.

"Once, I went back to China on vacation and got together with some friends. They had an argument."

"Some of them think that before Pele, Maradona and the three swordsmen of Holland, football was more sexy and attractive, and the stars were stronger and better than they are now."

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

Gao Han said here, right hand pointed to sitting in the front row of UEFA president Platini, the scene suddenly burst of laughter.

Even Platini himself laughed and clapped.

"They think that if we put these legendary stars of the past into the top league of Europe, it is impossible to have such a good performance, or even not as good as our current top stars."

"Neither side was able to convince the other, neither side could produce strong evidence to convince the other side, and the fight turned red in the face, but it failed to come to a result that everyone recognized as convincing."

Everyone on the scene also nodded, which is really such a truth.

The drama of Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong is not only in China, but also in Europe.

"Later, I had a chat with Beckenbauer, Rummenigge and Hoeness. I talked about this issue with them. We discussed a lot, but we basically reached some consensus."

"For example, we all think that the rhythm of modern football is much faster than before, and there is a tendency to be faster and faster."

Everyone nodded again. As long as they have the experience of coaching in the top European League, they will not deny this.

"But we don't think that modern football will be better than before when the rhythm is generally accelerated. We can only say that there were previous highlights, such as Bailey, Maradona and Ronaldo, who often staged single save. Now, such wonderful scenes are very rare, because our rigorous techniques and tactics will not give our opponents such space."

"Of course, it doesn't mean that the players in the past can't play now. It's unrealistic. It can't be judged that all the players in the past can't adapt to the development of modern football just because the development of some players with more traditional styles can't meet the expectation."

"It's like Kaka. When I first met him, he was not valued in Brazil. No one liked his modern style. They liked the classical style. But when I came to Europe, Kaka rose up."

"I mean, if we take all the previous players to modern times, maybe there will be a group of superstars who can't become superstars, but there will also be a group of nobody who will rise up and become new superstars, just like Kaka."

As soon as the cold voice fell, there was a burst of applause.

"We also have a consensus that history is always repeating itself. Football skills and tactics are often developed in a spiral way, but I think that in the most fundamental core, there are two things that will not change."

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

"We all know that in a game, most of the players are in the state of no ball, so running without the ball determines the overall strength of a player. The reason why the passing and receiving skills become more and more important is that the overall rhythm is gradually speeding up, which certainly improves the appreciation and increases the intensity of the game, But it also puts forward higher requirements for the passing and receiving skills of the players. We will find that some players who are not solid enough in basic skills are difficult to have a foothold in the top league

"With and without the ball, it's the whole game."

Although Gao Han's opening remarks didn't reveal any dry goods, they made all the people present curious, because they all knew that Gao Han would elaborate his ideas and his actual actions around his opening remarks.

In fact, for these theories, this group of European first-line managers are not unfamiliar, especially the managers such as Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Rafael Benitez who have been in charge for many years.

It's one thing to know, but it's another to do it or not.

Football, in the final analysis, is still a player. If you want to play the football in your mind, you often need help. But the help is limited by many other aspects, such as the finance of the club, the support for the head coach and so on.

It's like Gao Han's going to coach Bayern Munich. The big three of the management have been immersed in professional football for many years, but they still choose to delegate power to Gao Han, and put forward a transfer budget of 100 million euros to allow Gao Han to bring in the players he wants.

Can other people get this treatment?

Well, even if there is, can other people have the vision of high cold to introduce such treasures as Modric? From the youth team to dig out humales? Let Schweinsteiger from the original edge of the avant-garde transformation to play a drag midfield?

Even if all these conditions are met, does the head coach have such contacts and status that Robben, Ribery, Aguero and other players give up the invitation of other big teams to join a team that can't even play in the Champions League?

In the final analysis, theory only exists in theory.

It is not only because he understands these theories, but also because he is Alpine.

Therefore, relatively speaking, people are more interested in the actual analysis of alpine cold.

And alpine also has no privacy, from the selection of players in the recruitment, to the daily training requirements, to the communication with the players, and how to mobilize the enthusiasm of the players and maintain their desire to win

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

Some of them are not uncommon. Many people here have used them, but some of them make everyone feel fresh.

But what really shocked all the people present was the dry goods he put at the end.