Therefore, the passing and controlling flow places very high demands on the players.

Players in the passing and controlling system must not only have superb passing and ball-stopping skills, but must also always maintain a triangle position with their teammates, without any sloppiness.

So, from this perspective, Guardiola is not actually a tactical master, and his victory is not achieved by changing the formation on the spot, but by choosing the star player who best suits a certain position and requiring this star player to move according to his requirements every step of the way.

Rather than saying that Guardiola is a team head coach, it would be more appropriate to say that Guardiola is more like a band conductor.

The system is almost dead at the tactical level, with only one or two sets of templates. It mainly depends on how Guardiola makes various departments work together to complete this magnificent movement.

From this point of view alone, Guardiola has done a good job and surpassed his mentor Cruyff.

However, for a successful band conductor, his conducting movements must be stylish and cool, but what is really important is that he must have good performers.

If his orchestra is composed entirely of second-rate talent, no matter how talented he is, he will not be able to play music that satisfies the audience.

This is the drawback of the system - the system type requires people to adapt to the inherent tactics, while the pragmatic type adjusts the tactics to adapt to people.

Why is Van Gaal called Chef Fan? Because Van Gaal can use ingredients that are not top-notch to cook top-notch delicacies.

This is unimaginable for the system control flow.

If Guardiola's passing and controlling style does not have a top player in charge, or if this top player does not listen to his command and moves around on his own, then Guardiola's system will easily collapse.

To put it bluntly, if the passing and controlling system was really that awesome, Barcelona with its white-skinned Messi, Suarez and Havertz should have swept everything long ago. But in fact, during the peak period of the Dream Team Three, they only tied with Real Madrid.

The system has very high requirements and looks very exciting, gorgeous and pleasing to the eye, but in fact, the upper limit is also locked.

Especially the passing and controlling style is most afraid of the opponent playing in the flank position for counterattack. Once the player in this position is injured, Guardiola will really be in trouble.

The system of passing and controlling not only places extremely high demands on players, but also on coaches.

A systemic coach must first come from the system, so that he can understand that the essence of systemic play lies not in the formation but in buying the best players suitable for this position. Secondly, a systemic coach must never be obsessed with tactics, but must focus on the details of passing and running, and strengthen the team's drills.

Barcelona's legendary star Xavi returned to coach Barcelona, ​​but why didn't he achieve Guardiola's success? When Guardiola was a player, he was a midfielder who was not very good at dribbling and could not run fast, almost equivalent to a useless player. But Guardiola was able to become the world's number one head coach as a coach - this is because Guardiola really knows how to cultivate and train the system.

The world's best midfielder Xavi returned to Barcelona to coach and spent more money on buying players than Guardiola did, but Barcelona is doing miserably. Why is that?

It's very simple, Xavi thought he understood the passing and controlling flow, he thought he could play well in the passing and controlling flow, but in fact he didn't understand the system at all.

Xavi mistakenly believed that his success as a player was because passing and controlling the ball was the strongest tactic. In fact, passing and controlling the ball has never been a brilliant tactic. It just raises the requirements for players a lot and requires players to strictly follow the assembly line passing rhythm.

Tiki-taka is like a rhythmic clock. The internal structure of the clock is very complicated. Once one detail goes wrong, the whole thing can easily collapse.

If you really want to play the passing and controlling style, you have to spend at least ten years to effectively train young players with this style, vigorously learn Spanish five-a-side football, engrave passing and controlling into the DNA of young players, and let them train passing and controlling techniques as the only technique in football.

Secondly, we need to find a head coach who truly understands the system and plays like that, and give him plenty of time and patience, and not care about the failure of the national team’s previous transformation.

In this way, maybe in ten or twenty years, tiki-taka style football will be played in China.

But perhaps in ten or twenty years, the tiki-taka system may no longer be popular in the world.

What domestic football should really learn is the traditional styles of Brazil and Germany.

Brazil has delicate techniques and strong physical confrontation, while Germany's traditional style is rigorous and its defense is very resilient - of course, the current German style has been deviated by Spain's passing and control, and it has abandoned its own characteristics. As a result, it immediately couldn't even beat Ben.

Although we shouldn’t praise Benzi, the path Benzi football has taken over the past decade or so is correct.

The domestic situation has regressed fifteen years, while Japan has advanced fifteen years.

Fifteen years ago, the Chinese national football team could still play with the team’s credentials. Fifteen years later, the Chinese national football team can no longer see the team’s taillights, and can’t even get a whiff of the team’s exhaust gas.

Back to the tactical level, the style that the country really needs to learn at present should be the pragmatic style of Ancelotti and Mourinho.

Simply put, the passing and controlling system is too complicated. For clubs with a national foundation or special football schools as a blood supply, the passing and controlling system can certainly be used, but for teams that start late and have a poor foundation, don't even think about learning from the top "academic masters", just start with a pragmatic style of play.

If you can play pragmatically well, you can also achieve a good ranking.

Ancelotti, Mourinho and Ancelotti's disciple Zidane, are all coaches who, regardless of the system, use the resources at hand to highly integrate the team, read the team, read the locker room, read the game, and then respond to each move accordingly.

Therefore, they do not particularly need special resources to support them - it is better to have resources, but without them, they may rely on adjusting tactics and stimulating the special energy of the players to win.

If facing the same top team, is it more difficult to play against Ancelotti's Real Madrid or Guardiola's Barcelona?

This question is probably difficult to answer, but if Ancelotti and Guardiola are not given top resources and are allowed to coach domestic teams, Guardiola will definitely collapse before Ancelotti.

And Ancelotti could even stand up and toast.

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(End of this chapter)