Super Marshal

Unlike the Premier League, Serie A has a generous Christmas break.

From the end of the seventeenth round of the league on December 21st to January 7th, there were two and a half weeks.

Inter Milan performed well, the team's morale was also very high, and the club also gave strong support. They paid all the players' salaries and game bonuses before Christmas, and according to Gao Han's arrangement, each player prepared a generous Christmas gift.

The holiday starts from the afternoon of the 22nd and lasts until the 29th, which is a full seven-day holiday. The holiday period is the longest in Serie A. This also makes every Inter Milan player feel very happy.

After working hard and playing football for several months, I can finally take a good rest.

Gao Han only has one requirement for their vacation. As long as they can pass the physical examination of the coaching staff when they return to the team, it doesn't matter. They can go as crazy as they want.

Ever since, Gao Han gave an order, the players dispersed, and the Pinetina training base suddenly became deserted.

As the head coach of the team, Gao Han actually had only seven days of vacation, so he did not consider returning to China. Instead, he flew to Madrid on the day before Christmas to meet some old friends and spend the holidays with Lin Xia and Chu Yao. , and then returned to Milan.

It's not that he doesn't want to stay longer, but Lin Xia and Chu Yao also have work to do.

On the morning of the 27th he appeared in Pinetina.

The originally bustling training base suddenly became deserted, which Gao Han was not used to.

But silence also has its benefits.

Gao Han had nothing to do and walked around, but suddenly found that the environment of Pinetina was really good, surrounded by greenery and beautiful scenery, which he had missed when he was busy on weekdays.

When Gao Han walked around the training base and returned to the office, he found Guardiola sitting in his office with his legs crossed and reading a newspaper. This surprised him.

"Why are you here?" Gao Han was surprised, "Shouldn't you be going on vacation with your wife and children at this time?"

"What about you?" Guardiola asked with a smile.

Gao Han shook his head and sighed, "She happens to be working and has no time to accompany me."

"Both each other." Guardiola nodded amusedly.

Two men who were abandoned by their wives had a lot of sympathy for each other.

Gao Han walked over to make coffee, while Guardiola continued to sit on the sofa and chatted word by word.

"I went to visit someone before Christmas. Guess who it was?"

Gao Han shook his head and smiled, "How could I guess that?"

"Belsa," Guardiola smiled.

"Belsa?" Gao Han was a little surprised, "You went all the way to Argentina to see him?"

"Yeah." Guardiola nodded.

"You are really a lunatic." Gao Han shook his head.

Gao Han had known about Guardiola's admiration for Bielsa for a long time, but he never expected that he would go all the way to Argentina just to meet Bielsa. Not much else to say, the traveling back and forth was enough.

"Wait a minute, you didn't offend your wife because of this incident, right?" Gao Han found it funny.

Guardiola looked like you know this.

They both laughed.

Soon, the strong aroma of coffee spread throughout the office.

"What did you talk about with your idol?" Gao Han handed over a cup of hot coffee and sat down opposite Guardiola.

"We talked all afternoon and all night."

Gao Han just took a sip of coffee and almost spit it out. He looked at these two guys as if they were monsters, "You guys are awesome."

"At first, we chatted very casually, but later, we chatted in detail."

"tell me the story."

"A lot of it is about you," Guardiola laughed.

"Me?" Gao Han was surprised again, "What do I have to talk about?"

"Belsa told me that he would come to Europe if he had the opportunity and hoped to meet you and have a good chat. He admired you very much and asked me a lot about you, and I told me everything I knew. , but he seems to be still unsatisfied and unsatisfied."

Gao Han had a headache, these two lunatics actually made him the topic.

"Among them, one of his questions puzzled me." Guardiola frowned and looked at Gao Han.

"tell me the story."

"He said that when you were at Atletico Madrid, the midfielders and frontcourts paid more attention to short players. Although there were players like Torres who were not short, they were mainly about flexibility and speed. But when you arrived at Chelsea, they focused on short players. Ibrahimovic, when he arrived at Inter Milan, in addition to Ibrahimovic, there was also Adriano, and even later he vigorously promoted Yaya Toure, which made him feel very puzzling. "

"Then how do you answer?" Gao Han asked with concern.

Guardiola burst out laughing, "I told him that this has something to do with your bad taste. He nodded tacitly. I guess he must have misunderstood what I meant." After finishing speaking, , he burst into laughter without any image.

Gao Han almost stopped crying and pointed his middle finger directly at Guardiola, Japan!

An excellent image was ruined just like that.

"To be honest, I don't understand it very well." After the joke, Guardiola asked curiously.

Ever since he came to Gao Han's coaching staff, he has always been a curious baby. He will proactively ask questions about things he doesn't understand or is not good at.

Gao Han thought for a while, organized his words in his mind, and then said: "In my opinion, Italy's technical and tactical level has always been very high. I even once thought that Italy has the highest technical and tactical level in European football." From Sacchi to Lippi and Capello to Ancelotti, to Mancini and Prandelli, this country has always produced tactician masters."

Guardiola nodded in agreement. Serie A frequently produces tactical masters, which is also recognized by football.

"But, I'm also wondering, have they gone astray?"

When Guardiola heard this, he frowned and said, "How do you say that?"

"Starting from Sacchi, Italy generally attaches great importance to overall tactics, which makes them generally attach great importance to execution and accuracy. Therefore, teams like Juventus are the most typical Italian teams. Tactics The execution is high, the players' offensive and defensive accuracy is amazing, the team is very compact and tight from front to back, and seems to have no weaknesses."

"In fact, when the tactics are rigorous to a certain extent and the space for players to perform becomes smaller and smaller, the entire league will inevitably develop in one direction."

"Strength confrontation!" Guardiola is very smart and can tell the truth.

"That's right." Gao Han praised, "Think about it, are there any players with outstanding personal abilities in the Juventus team?"

The answer is, no.

The only ones with outstanding personal abilities are Del Piero and Mutu. These two players can be said to be the two rays of breeze among the muscular men of Juventus.

But what if the personal abilities of these two players are compared to the entire European professional leagues?

"The Bianconeri's most important thing is the physical confrontation of the players. Trezeguet, Vieira, Nedved, Camoranesi, Emerson... almost all of them are this type of players, to put it mildly. It’s both offensive and defensive, so what’s the bad thing about it?”

Gao Han did not mean to disparage this group of players. In fact, each of them is the most powerful star in today's football. But the question is, compared with players of the same level, do they seem mediocre and featureless?

If only one or two players are like this, there is nothing wrong with that. The question is, if the whole team is like this, and most teams in Serie A are like this, does it mean that there is a problem with the selection standards of this team, or even this league?

Guardiola understood what Gao Han meant.

When the tactics become stricter, there are only two ways for players to adapt to the tactics, either the skills become more refined, or the physical confrontation becomes stronger.

The finer the technology, the better the player's ability to handle the ball in a narrow range; the stronger the physical confrontation, the better the player's ability to confront opponents in a narrow range.

But the problem is that technology is difficult to improve in a short period of time, but physical confrontation can.

The professional league is undoubtedly eager for quick success. In this case, the team's selection criteria will definitely follow the route that produces the fastest results, and the problem is obvious.

The stronger the technical and tactical capabilities of Italian football are, the more they actually advocate strength confrontation.

"In fact, this situation doesn't exist now. If you think about it again, since when did Serie A begin to generally attach importance to high forwards? And this season, you can tell me which Serie A team No high center forward?”

Inter Milan's Ibrahimovic, Adriano and Cruz, Juventus's Trezeguet and Sarayeta, AC Milan's Vieri, Fiorentina's Luca Toni, Chievo's Amauri, Iaquinta of Udinese, Corradi of Parma...

In the scorer list, these high center forwards are basically shining. In the past, there were AC Milan's Shevchenko and Inzaghi, but now these two players are sluggish, but it is the local center Gilardino. Much reused.

"When I decided to come to Serie A, many people said that I couldn't adapt to Serie A at all. I understand what they mean, but I find it strange. Do they think I can't adapt? Am I that stupid? , insisting on copying Atletico Madrid’s tactics and coming to Serie A?”

When he said this, Gao Han suddenly laughed, full of a very mocking meaning.

"The more they think I am not good, the more I have to prove it to them, but I also know that it is difficult for players like Villa to adapt to Serie A, and even Torres has difficulty, and Ibrahimo Vicky is undoubtedly the best and most suitable."

"There are also Adriano and Cristiano Ronaldo. They are not afraid of physical confrontation, but they are very detailed with their feet. They can adapt to my technical and tactical requirements as well as the characteristics of Serie A. They can play in Serie A." A group of muscles fight their way through the forest."

When Guardiola heard this, he completely understood what Gao Han meant.

Compared with the centers of other teams, these centers of Inter Milan are indeed more lively with their feet. We can also understand why Gao Han would look down on players like Martins who are highly anticipated and have speed but lack of skills with their feet. Go up and be thrown directly into the cold palace.

In fact, Gao Han has always been very clear that clinging to his own ideas and not knowing how to adapt will lead to death.

But if you blindly accommodate and adapt without having your own core concepts, that is also a death.

Therefore, the wisdom of the Chinese people told him that the golden mean of balance is the way to success.

From the beginning to the end, he never thought about playing the kind of mercury-like gorgeous passing control in Inter Milan. All he wanted was to help Inter Milan find a set that combined its own characteristics and the characteristics of Serie A, and could win domestically and in Europe. A technical and tactical system that has achieved success on the field.

It will be a technical and tactical system that completely belongs to Inter Milan and Italy.