Chapter 449: The worst European Champions League coach
There is exactly one week of rest between the 25th and 26th rounds of La Liga.
UNICEF's World Cup promotional video is scheduled to be filmed during this period in Germany, the host city of the World Cup.
This is a routine event at every World Cup. The German World Cup Organizing Committee also attaches great importance to it. Beckenbauer is very concerned and has provided many conveniences for the filming of this promotional video. At the same time, he also called on people in the German football community to give their full support, including the national team coach Klinsmann, the team's top star Ballack, etc., all of whom were present.
Su Dong also invited a number of superstars including Ronaldinho, Zidane, Henry, Beckham, Shevchenko, Ronaldo, Lampard, Juninho and Gerrard to attend. In addition, he also specially invited friends such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Totti.
Totti was specially invited by Su Dong because the last time he shot an advertisement for Pepsi, Totti once said that he would publish a "Totti Joke Collection" and donate all the copyrights he obtained. In fact, he did it.
All the stars are responsible for their own air tickets, while the hotels and reception are all taken care of by the German World Cup organizers. Su Dong is responsible for the initiation, and the filming is left to professional directors.
The filming is mainly divided into two parts. One part is the European area, which mainly consists of game shots and confessions of football stars. The other part is that the filming crew goes deep into the impoverished areas of Africa to shoot the situation on the scene in real scenes. The two parts are switched back and forth, hoping to arouse more resonance through the appeals of the football stars.
For this purpose, Sudong also specially invited Drogba and Eto'o, two of the most influential football stars in Africa today.
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The shoot went smoothly with basically no problems.
After the game, the players will also participate in a charity event, not in front of the public, but to provide some of their own donations.
For example, Su Dong provided a jersey he wore in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 knockout match against Lyon and signed it, as well as a pair of signed football boots.
The donations from other players were basically the same. What was more special was that the King of Football Pele also sent a special donation, which was a football with his signature.
All donated items will be sent to the Internet in the near future for public auction to the whole world, and all auction proceeds will be donated to UNICEF as charity.
In addition, as the organizer, the German World Cup Organizing Committee will also make an additional donation.
The entire event went smoothly. Both the organizers and the United Nations were very professional. They obviously knew that the stars' time was precious and did not waste too much time.
After the event, the organizer and UNICEF jointly held a press conference. Su Dong attended the meeting as a goodwill ambassador, and the organizer's representatives were football emperor Beckenbauer and German coach Heynckes.
There is nothing much to say about the press conference itself. What caught Su Dong's interest was Heynckes.
This white-haired old coach is not very famous. Let alone compared with the popular Mourinho, Benítez, or Ferguson, Wenger, Ancelotti and others, even compared with Hiddink and others, he is still far inferior.
It can even be said that not many people know about it.
But he is also a Champions League winning coach.
Winning the Champions League is undoubtedly an important yardstick for measuring a head coach.
But it’s interesting to note that among the head coaches who have won the Champions League in recent years, Heynckes has the least presence.
Why?
This may be related to the fact that he was fired by Real Madrid after winning the Champions League, and his coaching in the following years was also very bad.
The coach of the Champions League champion condescended to coach Benfica in the Portuguese Super League, but only finished third. He also finished in the middle when he coached Athletic Bilbao in La Liga. He returned to Germany to coach Schalke 04, which was even worse, ranking in the middle in his first season and was fired midway through last season.
This is really a bad mix.
It's really interesting to say that whether it was during the filming just now or during the press conference later, Su Dong could feel that both the German head coach Klinsmann and his assistant Loew, as well as the football emperor Beckenbauer, all had great respect for Heynckes, and it could even be seen that they had a close relationship.
After the press conference, Su Dong and Heynckes were waiting for the car, and the two chatted for a while.
Heynckes mentioned that he has been watching Barcelona's games recently, every game. "I like Barcelona's football style very much, but to be honest, it may be difficult for other teams to learn it."
"Barcelona's football genes are indeed very unique." Su Dong said with a smile.
"No, no, no, because Barca has many talents, especially talents like you, Ronaldinho and Messi."
Su Dong thought this was a flattery and smiled politely.
But Heynckes explained seriously: "In fact, Cruyff's football philosophy has always been unwilling to admit one thing, that is, he needs talent very much. He always thinks that the purpose of his passing and controlling tactics is to stimulate the creativity of the players, but this requires a group of players with outstanding talents, which is completely opposite to Van Gaal."
"Van Gaal seems to be unable to use geniuses well." Su Dong thought of Riquelme.
"It's very simple. Genius means instability. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. Many people don't like this. We call this risk aversion. Van Gaal, Mourinho and Benitez are all coaches who extremely dislike risk, and this has gradually become the mainstream in European football now."
Su Dong thought about it carefully and immediately felt that it made sense.
Van Gaal's AZ Alkmaar showed weakness in the Eredivisie, which once again sparked heated discussions in European football about his offensive football, but his stability may not be enough, after all, AZ Alkmaar's strength is limited.
But Mourinho and Benítez are both willing to do anything for stability.
Why did Rehhagel's Greece win the European Cup?
Because of stability! With Greece's strength, if they were not stable enough, even the slightest mistake would be enough to kill them several times.
But this team finally reached the top of Europe, which proves that they are stable enough.
"In recent years, the transformation of European football has been more and more inclined towards stability, and there is less and less room for genius. So you see, Barcelona's unstoppable momentum this season is essentially no longer dependent on Ronaldinho's talent, but on your stability and efficiency."
Heynckes' words made Su Dong make many associations.
The head coach and the players see different things and think in different directions.
Su Dong suddenly became very interested in Heynckes and started chatting with him immediately, especially about football.
Heynckes has a very thorough understanding of football. Now that he is unemployed at home, he has plenty of time to think. Many of his views are fresh to Su Dong, and he thinks they are very reasonable and interesting.
For example, he made a judgment that the most indispensable person in Barcelona's coaching staff was not Rijkaard, but Ten Cate.
"I know the division of labor between the two of them, but from a management perspective, every team must have a role like Ten Cate, especially when the team has so many Brazilian players like Barcelona. Ten Cate can also command well without Rijkaard, which has been proven by the game, but without Ten Cate, Barcelona will definitely be in chaos."
Su Dong knew the importance of Ten Cate and that he was working in cahoots with Rijkaard, but he never promoted Ten Cate to such a high position, even though he knew that Ten Cate was very capable.
But after hearing what Heynckes said, Su Dong thought about it and felt that it seemed that Ten Cate was really the bad guy on weekdays.
For example, Ronaldinho likes to go to nightclubs, and every time Ten Cate would come forward to criticize him or even scold him, and Ronaldinho would be so angry that his teeth would ache every time, and then head coach Rijkaard would come forward to act as a peacemaker.
If there was no Ten Cate, how could Rijkaard manage Ronaldinho and others? Thinking of this, Su Dong couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly.
He couldn't imagine that scene.
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"How do you feel about him?"
When Su Dong got into the reception car and left, Beckenbauer and Heynckes saw him off side by side.
Watching Audi leave, the Football Emperor asked with concern.
"It's quite good. There's no need to say much about his strength, his temperament is good, and most importantly, he is self-disciplined and has a good image. Now he is actively participating in this kind of charity event. His influence will be even greater and his future is limitless." Heynckes said with a smile.
He chatted with Su Dong for more than half an hour and they had a very pleasant conversation.
"Herbert asked me if I had ever thought of bringing him to the Bundesliga?"
"Bring him to the Bundesliga?" Heynckes was shocked. "That's unrealistic."
"It's unrealistic indeed." Beckenbauer nodded. "But you can see that the Bundesliga is on the eve of a revival. We have almost enough talent. Klinsmann is carrying out reforms in the national team, and the league and clubs must keep up. If Su Dong can come, with his influence, he will definitely help us further enhance the influence of the Bundesliga in the world, especially in Asia. Many domestic sponsors are also very interested."
It can be said that Beckenbauer applied for this World Cup in Germany with great difficulty, and it was full of controversy because according to convention, the World Cup is hosted by each continent in turn. France hosted it in 1998, South Korea and Japan in 2002, and other continents should have hosted it in 2006 as usual. For example, South Africa in Africa had been applying to host it, but Germany intervened.
The reason is simple, German football needs this fire!
The fire of the World Cup has been ignited, and the Bundesliga also needs a fire!
"I think he is ambitious and will not leave Barcelona easily. Even if he does leave in the future, he will not come to the Bundesliga, unless you are willing to spend a lot of money to help him build a team capable of competing in the Champions League, but this is basically impossible."
The Bundesliga is no longer attractive and cannot compete with the other three major leagues for players.
In this case, what can the Bundesliga do to attract the Soviet Union? "Who knows?" Beckenbauer laughed, "I really have a hunch that the European football world may be changing, and the opportunity for our Bundesliga to revive may be here!"
The corner of Heynckes' mouth twitched. A premonition?
He never believed in such illusory things.
(End of this chapter)
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