Chapter 1002

Dinamo Zagreb is one of the top teams in the Croatian League. In the past seven seasons, Dinamo Zagreb has won seven titles in a row, which is comparable to Lyon in the French League at the beginning of the century. However, in the end, Croatia is not better than France, and the Croatian Serie A League with only 12 teams is not better than France.

As a big Croatian team, Dinamo Zagreb has its own way to survive, that is, to basically follow Lyon's way at its peak, dominate the domestic league, focus on attacking the Champions League, rely on more powerful financial resources than its competitors, poach domestic teams, and then sell outstanding players to other European leagues for profit at a high price.

It's normal to adopt this business model and it's very common in European football. But what's more controversial about Dinamo Zagreb is that the club chairman and brother mamic also run the biggest agent company in Croatia, and almost most of the players coming out of Croatia are operated by them.

This is more or less similar to that of Juve and Moggi in Serie A before the Calciopoli incident.

Therefore, Dinamo Zagreb and mamic brothers do not have a good impression among Croatian domestic fans.

Last season's Champions League group match, Dinamo Zagreb and Lyon were in the same group. In the final round of the group match, Dinamo Zagreb lost 7-1 at home to Lyon, boosting the French team to finish second in the group with a goal difference. This has caused great controversy in European football and Croatia.

Everyone felt that it was a match of match fixing, and their dissatisfaction with the mamic brothers was completely vented. No one paid attention to the clarification of Lyon and Dinamo Zagreb. In the end, it even forced UEFA to take a stand, and things gradually subsided.

Gao Han specially watched that game. Dinamo Zagreb was not as strong as Lyon. He was the bottom of the group and eliminated ahead of time. He was uncompetitive. Even at home, he could barely support in the first 30 minutes. However, Lecco was sent off for two yellow cards in the 11th and 28th minutes respectively, It was the last straw to crush Dinamo Zagreb.

In fact, after the red card appeared, Dinamo Zagreb once resisted. In the 40th minute, Dinamo Zagreb took the lead in scoring. It was the same goal that made Gao Han remember a name, Mateo kovacchi.

However, Dinamo Zagreb was defeated like a mountain. On the one hand, he was one less than his opponent. On the other hand, he was not as strong as his opponent. Finally, he was defeated one to seven. After the game, coach ulcic resigned and the current coach ante kasic took charge.

However, kasic's coaching performance is not much better than that of ulcic. In the first few rounds of the qualifying match against Bulgaria and Slovenia, they can be promoted smoothly. But in the group stage of the Champions League, when they met Porto and Dynamo Kiev, they lost two games in a row at the beginning, and both games were 0-2, which is really inferior to others.

This home game against Paris Saint Germain, they are also in the first half directly on the 0-2 behind.

But in the second half, ante kasic once tried to make a counterattack. First, he replaced the midfield directly, took a defender from the May 4th formation, replaced a midfield, and then replaced a young player halilovic in the 70th minute.

After two substitutions, Dinamo Zagreb's midfield attack has improved a lot.

Kovac, khalilovic and brozovic seem to be stimulated to spark.

In a defense at the front of the restricted area, the central defender broke the ball and kicked it to the front of the restricted area. Wearing No. 8 shirt, Kovacic rushed out of the restricted area and caught up with the ball in front of the top of the arc.

But as soon as he stopped, Di Maria of Paris Saint Germain came forward to press for the ball. But he didn't expect that Kovacic made a fake move. With a knock on his heel, he flexibly turned around and buckled the ball over Di Maria. Then he suddenly accelerated and ran through the defending Ya Toure with his speed and went straight after the goal.

On the bench, rabiot is returning to defense quickly, and the defense of Paris Saint Germain is also retreating.

After crossing the middle line, rabbito began to try to push Kovacic to the side, but he didn't expect Kovacic to take advantage of the situation and cheat rabbito, then he suddenly buckled again and directly turned to kill back in the middle.

As soon as rabiot was about to be thrown away by Kovacic, Yaya Toure finally got back in place and blocked in front of Kovacic. However, the Croatian didn't drop the ball under his feet, and it was a change of direction. Yaya Toure's tackle was buckled, but the Ivorian took advantage of the situation to hook him down and give Dinamo Zagreb a free kick.

The whole process took place in a very short period of time, the ball seemed to stick at the foot of Kovacic. Through skillful dribbling and constantly changing speed and direction, Kovacic killed the midfield of Paris Saint Germain by himself.

This makes the cold and Zidane both surprised and praised.

…………

…………

"If I remember correctly, this boy is only eighteen years old, isn't he?" Gao Han laughs.

He has noticed Kovacic for a long time. He scored a goal in the match against Lyon last year. At that time, he was only 17 years old, but his performance was dazzling.

In the first half of the game, he was very depressed, just like his team, but in the second half, with the adjustment of the team's playing style, he gradually turned the situation around, and he began to show some performance. Just that time, the dribble was very bright.

"Take a good look at him." Gao Han patted Zidane on the shoulder and said with a smile.

Soon, Dinamo Zagreb was forced to be at the front of the restricted area again, but this time Kovacic retreated to defend himself. In front of the restricted area, he cooperated with his teammates to pinch and smash. After breaking the ball of DiMaria, he drove forward with the ball. Along the way, he continuously used the variable speed to swing past the players of Paris Saint Germain.

But this time, Paris Saint Germain's reaction was faster. Before crossing the middle line, DiMaria went back to catch up with ya Toure and rabiot to break the ball under his feet.

However, Dinamo Zagreb immediately got another chance to take the ball out of bounds. Kovacic was very active. After running to ask for the ball, he turned around and got rid of DiMaria, who was behind him. Later, he killed the midline with the ball alone. But this time, he learned well, before yaya Toure and rabiot caught him, Want to point the ball to the side, the result was passed directly to the Paris Saint Germain players, angry that he rushed to catch up and press.

This makes Gao Han and Zidane laugh at the sidelines.

"The boy is good." Gao Han said with a smile.

Zidane nodded, "this kind of continuous variable speed and direction change not only requires the speed of the players, but also the control and adjustment of the center of gravity. You can see from his dribbling that he has solid skills at the foot and excellent dribbling ability, especially in the middle of the midfield. It's very rare and it's very good for your taste."

Gao Han smiles, but doesn't make a direct statement.

He really appreciates this type of players, especially those who can perform so well in the middle of midfield.

At the beginning, he appreciated Kaka's propulsion ability in the middle, but now he uses DiMaria to play in the middle, which is also his favorite point. However, Kovacic is different from these two players. His ball control and dribbling ability are better, and the small-scale continuous speed change is impressive.

He really has an appetite for alpine, because Alpine always thinks that improving the efficiency of attack and defense conversion will become more and more important, and how to use the minimum investment to complete the team's attack and defense conversion in the shortest time has become the direction he has been working hard.

Kovacic is the kind of midfield player who can complete the conversion of attack and defense by one person. Different from Modric's characteristics, Kovacic has many similar tactical values.

"If you look at it again, the halilovic on the wing, the one on the bench, is younger and has a good foot."

Following Zidane's gesture, Gao Han also noticed the Croatian player with a similar hairstyle to Modric. After observing for a while, although he was not as bright as Kovacic, he was quite good.

With the sharp eye of the cold, the situation of Kovac and halilovic has been fully understood, even the whole Dinamo Zagreb team, including brozovic.

"In recent years, there have been a lot of talents in Croatia." Gao Han said with a smile.

Zidane nodded, "when this group of players grow up, Croatia will be an important force in European football."

After a pause, Zidane looked at the cold curiously and asked, "how about these two?"

Gao Han said with a smile, "as I told you before, the growth of young talented players is amazing. Some players can be predicted, just like Neymar and Azar. Their growth trajectory is very predictable. They have excellent talents. They are born to be the core of the top teams. Lucas Mora is a little worse, but if they are cultivated properly, It will certainly be the main level of the rich

"But there is another kind that is difficult to predict, such as ISCO and bogba. They all have very unique abilities and are definitely among the ranks of talents. But it is difficult to set a specific development direction for them. Therefore, it is difficult to judge the future long-term development for them."

Zidane agreed, "Yaya Toure also belongs to the latter, but he was lucky to meet you."

When Gao Han was in charge of Inter Milan, he created a very suitable path for Yaya Toure's development, which made the Ivorian grow up. Now he has become the midfield thigh of Paris Saint Germain, both offensive and defensive.

"Kovacic also belongs to this category. It's not easy to grow up, but once he succeeds, he will be a superstar player, while halilovic belongs to the one with better planning, but I think he can only reach the main force level of the big house at most."

Although it is said that, it is quite rare for a team to have two such players at the same time.

There was also a brozovic, but he did not belong to the type of Alpine appreciation, so I would not talk about it.

Zidane stayed in Madrid for a while in the summer of this year, and had a period of contact with Chinatown, especially Azar, bogba, ISCO and other players. He is very familiar with them, and feels that the cold vision is really sharp. He has found such a group of outstanding talents for Chinatown.

But the trouble is obvious. How can we cultivate this group of talents?

"Unfortunately, the positioning of Paris Saint Germain is obviously not good for the youth training, especially for the youth training players like Kovacic. Otherwise, we should buy him and train him carefully, so that he will not be ruined by other inferior coaches in the future." Zidane sighed.

The destruction of talented players eventually turned into a case of injury to Zhong Yong, which is also unknown.

Every coach can't help itching at the sight of talented rookies, and alpine is no exception.

Kovacchi is a treasure. It's hard to give it to others in the cold.

Zidane said that, it's really a little moved.