Chapter 634 Genius Coach
At the end of December, the Bundesliga becomes the happiest league among the four major European leagues.
Because they have a very long winter break.
Due to the Club World Cup, Bayern's winter break was more than a week later than other teams. The team officially started their vacation only after they returned to Munich from Japan after playing the Club World Cup and held a celebration banquet.
The other Bundesliga teams all start their winter break after the 17th round of the Bundesliga, which lasts more than 40 days.
Although it is more than a week less, Bayern is happy enough, especially after winning the Club World Cup. The club gave each player a generous bonus, allowing them to start their vacation happily.
Like in previous years, Su Dong also distributed a big red envelope to each member of his personal coaching team.
The help that Nuno Kroos and others have provided to Su Dong is obvious to all. Although they are not well-known to the fans, they have a good reputation in the industry. For example, Robben has rarely been injured this season. Compared with last season, his attendance rate has improved a lot. In addition to Bayern's miracle doctor Wolfart, Su Dong's personal physiotherapist Grant Downing also contributed to this.
In addition to paying them a generous annual salary, Su Dong would also send them a big red envelope during the holidays. If there were major happy events such as winning a championship, Su Dong would never be stingy, which made them loyal to Su Dong.
This is also Su Dong's style of doing things all along.
No matter how good the personal relationship is, it is another matter. Don't talk about feelings when talking about work. After all, people rely on work to make a living and support their families. So you have to pay them enough and show enough sincerity. Give them appropriate vacations and let them spend more time with their families.
This has resulted in Su Dong's relationship with Nuno Cruz and others becoming increasingly close after years of cooperation.
After seeing off the private coaching team, Su Dong also took Wang Chuqing to the Aegean Sea in Greece for vacation.
After arriving in Greece, the two rented a luxury yacht and went out to sea to enjoy a relaxing vacation with the vast sea and sky.
Even though they act very serious in front of outsiders, they are very infatuated with each other when they are alone together, especially when they arrive at the beautiful Aegean Sea and their yacht floats aimlessly on the sea. They are completely relaxed both physically and mentally, and they live their life even more shamelessly.
After drifting in the Aegean Sea for a whole week, across the year 2008 and into the year 2009, Su and Dong finally came ashore. However, they did not set out to return to Germany, but continued to head east to Dubai.
Su Dong and Wang Chuqing spent two days in Dubai and were then picked up by someone arranged by their sponsor and taken to Abu Dhabi.
This time, Su Dong is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, abbreviated as Abu Dhabi TCA. The sponsorship fee is very high, 10 million euros per year. As the global ambassador for Abu Dhabi tourism and culture promotion, Su Dong only needs to shoot a tourism promotion advertisement for them and participate in two or three events every year.
It can be said that this money is really very easy to make.
In the words of Mendes and Ma Dawei, the rich people in the Middle East are simply here to give away money.
Once you get the money, you naturally have to do things.
After Su Dong arrived in Abu Dhabi, he immediately started the advertising shoot and also took a lot of promotional photos. He also participated in an event in cooperation with the Tourism and Culture Promotion Bureau. Many media reporters from all over the world also came to the scene, and they witnessed the signing of the contract between the two parties together.
What really caught Su Dong's attention was not the event itself, because there was nothing special about it. It was just to promote some tourism projects in Abu Dhabi. But to be honest, Abu Dhabi's tourism industry has only just started not long ago. Compared with Dubai next door, it is much worse, but the prospects are still very promising.
After all, Abu Dhabi is rich as hell.
Su Dong met two old acquaintances at the event, one of whom was the God of War Batistuta.
He used to play football in the Middle East and was very famous, so he was often invited to participate in some activities in the Middle East.
Another one is Guardiola, who has also played football in the Middle East and is now the head coach of Barcelona's second team. Unexpectedly, he was also invited to participate in this event.
Su Dong no longer has the same admiration for Batistuta as he did in the past. He still respects Batistuta very much, but he no longer has that kind of worshipful feeling. Even his nickname "Little God of War" has not been mentioned for many years. Even if it is mentioned, no small word will be added in front of it, but he will be called God of War.
Batty has many acquaintances in the Middle East. After chatting with Su Dong for a while, he went to find his friends.
Guardiola was left alone.
Su Dong has always been curious about this legendary leader of Barcelona.
Begiristain facilitated Guardiola's coaching of Barcelona's second team, but now Begiristain has gone to Manchester City.
According to the information obtained by Su Dong, Guardiola is likely to replace Mark Hughes as the coach of Manchester City after the end of this season.
Su Dong had also heard about Guardiola's reforms in Barcelona's second team.
This is a bit like Cruyff's reform of Barcelona. Guardiola's reform has been quite effective, but it is unrealistic to say how magical it is. After all, youth training requires long-term investment.
Su Dong has always wanted to have a good talk with Guardiola and listen to his ideas.
Because he was very curious, what made Guardiola convince Soriano and Begiristain that he would become a famous coach? You know, Manchester City will invest a huge amount of money to build a top team, and Guardiola must have his own strengths to be valued, but what strengths does a person who has never coached a first-team independently have? What Su Dong didn't expect was that Guardiola's first move shocked him.
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"You mean, you want to transplant Barcelona's passing and controlling system to the Premier League?" Su Dong was very surprised.
But Guardiola nodded very confidently, "I think it is very feasible."
"But the Premier League is really fast, even when Arsenal have the ball, the tempo is actually very fast."
The reason why Arsenal always collapses in the second half is because of the players' physical fitness. Why does the players' physical fitness have problems? Because they have a fast pace and need to control the ball, the players run a lot and consume a lot of energy. In the first half, the results are good when the physical fitness is sufficient. As the physical fitness declines, the results also decline, or even collapse.
"Some adjustments are definitely needed, but I think there is no need to change the underlying principles. The passing and controlling system can survive in any league and any environment." Guardiola is full of confidence.
Afterwards, he took the initiative to tell Su Dong about the peak of the Dream Team II during Rijkaard's era, that is, the tactics of this team during Su Dong's time at Barcelona.
Guardiola emphasized the match in which Barcelona beat Real Madrid 5-0. That was the starting point of the Dream Team II and left a very deep impression on Guardiola, especially Barcelona's full-court pressing and oppression at that time.
"Cruyff said that as long as you control the ball as much as possible, it will be difficult for the opponent to score."
"To achieve as much ball control as possible, you need to do two things well. When you have the ball, you need to ensure the stability of your passing and control through organized and purposeful passing and cutting. When you don't have the ball, you need to get the ball back as quickly as possible."
Guardiola mentioned the madman Bielsa. He said that he went to South America specifically to learn from him and communicated with Bielsa for a long time. He admired Bielsa's coaching, player training and daily management, and believed that Bielsa was one of the best coaches in the world.
Another one is Ferguson.
"Bielsa has a six-second theory, which means that after losing the ball, everyone must quickly engage in counterattack and pressure, and try to get the ball back within six seconds, so that the opponent will find it difficult to create a threatening attack."
Guardiola also analyzed the case of the Dream Team II and believed that Rijkaard's team did not do a good enough job in regaining the ball, which led to Barcelona's unstable performance at the time, especially in the first season, when the performance was like a roller coaster.
Su Dong has a personal experience of this that others do not have. He really feels that what Guardiola said makes sense.
At least it is an analysis of Barcelona's Dream Team II from another perspective, and it is quite insightful.
In addition to defense, Guardiola believes that the Dream Team II is not doing very well on the offensive end. Sometimes they control the ball just for the sake of controlling the ball without a clear purpose.
Or rather, Rijkaard never figured out why he controlled the ball.
"It's very simple. What I want is not to pass or control the ball. Controlling the ball and passing the ball are just tools and means for me to achieve my tactical goals. What I really want is to mobilize the opponent's players through passing and controlling the ball, force, lure or mislead them to leave their positions, and then disrupt the opponent's formation and create the most favorable situation for my offense."
Guardiola also used some real-life examples to explain his ideas to Su Dong in an easy-to-understand manner.
Su Dong was a little confused after hearing this.
It’s not that he didn’t understand, but he understood it too clearly, so he was a little confused.
There were many aspects that he only vaguely understood before, but after Guardiola's words, he suddenly understood them all.
He now truly understands why Soriano and Begiristain both think Guardiola is so awesome.
Su Dong also felt that he was either a theorist, a master of deception, or a top coach, and a top coach with his own set of mature technical and tactical concepts.
Many of his ideas and thoughts were unprecedented in Su Dong.
This guy is a genius!
A genius in coaching!
After a conversation, Su Dong was full of admiration for Guardiola.
But Su Dong didn't know that after the two of them communicated, Guardiola's impression of him was further deepened, especially seeing Su Dong's understanding of football and his perception of his technical and tactical concepts, Guardiola felt very appreciative.
Nowadays, not many people can accept and understand his ideas in such a short time, especially a superstar like Su Dong, who is naturally the core of the frontcourt offense.
When playing football in the Middle East, Guardiola had already decided in his mind that Su Dong was the most ideal center forward in his mind.
Not only him, but also Benítez, Mourinho, Rijkaard, Heynckes and others over the years, which one of them did not use Su Dong as a perfect center forward? But Guardiola is confident that he can make Su Dong transform and sublimate again.
(End of this chapter)
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