i want to be king

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 long winter break.

Due to the Club World Cup, Bayern's winter break was more than a week later than other teams. After the team finished playing the Club World Cup in Japan, returned to Munich, and had a celebration banquet, the vacation officially began.

And other Bundesliga teams start from the No.17 round of the Bundesliga, and have a winter break of more than 40 days.

Although more than a week is missing, 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 beautifully.

As in previous years, Su Dong also distributed a big red envelope to each of his personal trainers.

The help of Nuno Cruz and others to Su Dong is obvious to all. Although they are not very familiar to the fans, they are well-known in the industry. For example, Robben has rarely been injured this season.

In addition to paying them a generous annual salary, Su Dong would also give them a big red envelope every year and festival. If they encountered major happy events such as winning the championship, Su Dong would never be stingy, which also made them give up on Su Dong.

This is also the way Su Dong has always acted.

No matter how good your personal relationship is, it’s another matter. Don’t talk about your relationship when talking about work. After all, people rely on work to make a living and support their families, so they must have enough money and sincerity. Give them appropriate vacations so that they can spend more time with their families.

This makes Su Dong and Nuno Cruz and others have cooperated for many years, but the relationship has become stronger and stronger.

After sending off the personal trainers, Su Dong also took Wang Chuqing to the Aegean Sea in Greece for vacation.

After the two arrived in Greece, they rented a luxury yacht and went out to sea, enjoying a leisurely vacation with a wide sea and sky.

Although the two of them are serious in front of outsiders, when they are in the world, it is called an obsession, especially in the beautiful Aegean Sea, where the yacht is floating aimlessly on the sea, the two of them have been completely relaxed physically and mentally, and their small life is even more shameless.

Floating in the Aegean Sea for a full week, spanning [-] and entering [-], the Soviet Union and the East came ashore, but they did not set off to return to Germany, but continued eastward to Dubai.

Su Dong and Wang Chuqing played in Dubai for two days, and were picked up by sponsors to Abu Dhabi.

This time, Su Dong is sponsored by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Promotion Bureau, referred to as Abu Dhabi TCA. The sponsorship fee is very high, 1000 million euros per year, and Su Dong is the global ambassador of Abu Dhabi tourism and culture promotion. He only needs to shoot a tourism promotion advertisement for them every year and participate in two or three activities.

It can be said that this money is really very, very easy to earn.

In the words of Mendes and Ma Dawei, the local tyrants in the Middle East are simply here to give money.

After taking the money, it is natural to do things.

After Su Dong arrived in Abu Dhabi, he immediately started shooting commercials. At the same time, he also took a lot of promotional photos, and participated in an event with the Tourism and Culture Promotion Bureau. Many media reporters from all over the world also came to the scene. They witnessed the signing of the two parties together.

What really caught Su Dong’s attention was not the event itself, because the event was actually nothing special, just to promote some tourism projects in Abu Dhabi. But to be honest, Abu Dhabi’s tourism industry has just started not long ago. Compared with Dubai next door, it is much worse, but the prospect is still very gratifying.

After all, Abu Dhabi is rich as hell.

Su Dong met two old acquaintances at the event, one is Batistuta, the god of war.

He played football in the Middle East before and has a great reputation, so he is often invited to participate in some Middle East activities.

The other is Guardiola, who also played in the Middle East and is now the head coach of the Barcelona second team, but unexpectedly, he was also invited to participate in this event.

For Batistuta, Su Dong has long lost the admiration he had back then. He still respects Batistuta, but he will no longer have the same admiration as before. Even his nickname of "Little God of War" has not been mentioned for many years.

Batty has a lot of acquaintances in the Middle East. After chatting with Su Dong for a while, he went to find friends.

Guardiola is out of order.

Su Dong has always been curious about this legendary leader of Barcelona.

Guardiola's coaching of the Barcelona second team was facilitated by Begiristan, but now, Begiristan has gone to Manchester City.

According to the information obtained by Su Dong, Guardiola is likely to succeed Mark Hughes to coach Manchester City after the end of this season.

Su Dong has also heard about Guardiola's reforms in the Barcelona second team.

This is a bit like Cruyff's reform of Barcelona back then. Guardiola's reform has been quite effective, but it is unrealistic to say how miraculous it is. After all, youth training is about long-term investment.

For a long time, Su Dong wanted to have a good chat with Guardiola and listen to some of his ideas.

Because he was curious, why did Guardiola convince Soriano and Begiristan that he would become a famous coach of the generation?
You know, Manchester City will invest huge sums of money to build a top team, and Guardiola must be valued because he must have his own excellence, but a person who has never coached independently in the first team, what is extraordinary?
What Su Dong didn't expect was that Guardiola's jaw dropped when he made a move.

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"You mean, you want to transplant Barcelona's pass and control system to the Premier League?" Su Dong was very surprised.

But Guardiola nodded very firmly, "I think it is very feasible."

"But the Premier League is really fast, even with possession like Arsenal, it's actually very fast."

The reason why Arsenal often collapses in the second half is because the players' physical fitness has problems, and why do the players' physical fitness have problems?It is because of their fast pace and the need to control the ball, the players run a lot and consume a lot of energy. In the first half of the game, if they have sufficient physical fitness, their performance is good. As their physical fitness declines, their performance also declines, or even collapses.

"This definitely needs some adjustments, but I don't think there is any need to change the fundamentals. The passing and possession system can survive in any league and any environment." Guardiola is full of confidence.

Later, he took the initiative to mention to Su Dong the peak of the Dream II team during Rijkaard's period, that is, the team's tactics when Su Dong played for Barcelona.

Guardiola emphatically mentioned the [-]-[-] victory over Real Madrid in Barcelona, ​​which was the starting point of the second dream team, which left a deep impression on Guardiola, especially Barcelona's full-court press at that time.

"Cruyff said that as long as you control the ball as much as possible in your own hands, it will be difficult for the opponent to score."

"And to achieve as much possession of the ball as possible, you need to do two things well. When you have the ball, you must use organized and purposeful pass and cut cooperation to ensure the stability of your pass and control of the ball. In the absence of the ball, you must get the ball back as quickly as possible."

Guardiola mentioned the madman Bielsa. He said that he specially went to South America to learn, and had a long period of communication with Bielsa. He admired Bielsa's coaching team, training players, and daily management. He believed that Bielsa was one of the best head coaches in the world.

Another is Ferguson.

"Bielsa has a six-second theory, that is, after one's own team loses the ball, everyone must engage in counter-grab and oppression as soon as possible, and strive to get the ball back within six seconds, so it will be difficult for the opponent 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.

Su Dong has a personal experience that no one else has. He really feels that what Guardiola said has some truth.

At least it's an analysis of Barcelona's Dream Team II from another angle, and it's three-pointers.

In addition to defense, Guardiola believes that on the offensive end, the Dream Team [-] did not do a good job. Sometimes they control the ball for the sake of possession without a clear purpose.

Or it should be said that Rijkaard never figured out what he was holding the ball for.

"It's actually very simple. What I want is not to pass and control the ball. Both possession and passing are just tools and means for me to achieve tactical goals. What I really want is to mobilize the opponent's players through passing and possession. Force, lure or mislead them to leave their positions, and then disrupt the opponent's formation and create the most favorable situation for our offense."

Guardiola combined with some real cases and introduced his thoughts to Su Dong in a simple way.

Su Dong was a little confused.

It's not that he didn't understand, but that he heard it so clearly that he was a little confused.

After Guardiola said this, he suddenly became enlightened and understood many links that he didn't understand before.

Now he really feels why both Soriano and Begiristan think Guardiola is awesome.

Su Dong also felt that he was either a theorist, a master of flickering, or a top marshal, and he was a top marshal with his own set of mature technical and tactical concepts.

Many of his thoughts and ideas were unheard of by Su Dong before.

This guy is a genius!

A genius in coaching!

After some conversation, Su Dong admired Guardiola very much.

But Su Dong didn't know that after the exchange between the two, Guardiola's impression of him went further, especially seeing Su Dong's understanding of football and his understanding of his technical and tactical concepts, Guardiola felt very appreciative.

Not many people can accept and understand his ideas in such a short period of time these days, especially a superstar like Su Dong, who is naturally the core of the frontcourt attack.

When he played in the Middle East, Guardiola had already determined in his heart that Su Dong was the ideal center forward in his mind.

Not only him, over the years, Benitez, Mourinho, Rijkaard, Heynckes and others, which one has not used 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)