Jagged Wings

Chapter 118 Entering the Coaching Staff

Both "physical evidence" and "personal evidence" are in front of us. Obviously, Reyes' "prediction" is not guaranteed, but there are also failures.Aragones smacked his lips, and then came to his senses: he had gotten into a dead end before, and he had brought himself into the mafia. In fact, Reyes' "prediction" was based entirely on the basis of a large number of people. The fact that the information was released with such a high accuracy rate was due to his strong analysis and reasoning ability on the one hand, and the explosion of his character on the other hand.

From this point of view, Aragones has always attributed Reyes' "magical predictive ability" to external forces, ignoring Reyes' own ability to observe and speculate on opponents.

If Reyes could know what Aragones was thinking, he would surely smile in relief: This old man finally got on the road.

That's right, Reyes made this show, and the deeper meaning is to show Aragones this "ability" of his own, so that Aragones will think seriously about what he said, This can change Aragones' thinking to some extent.

Although being a coach is an outsider, Reyes can use his knowledge of seven years ahead of this era to avoid some things, or make some advance arrangements.On this point, he thought about it from the Champions League final.In the Champions League final, Reyes turned Lehmann's red card into Eto'o's yellow card through his memory of some important scenes of the game, and made up for Henry's missed goal.

This shows that his memory is useful!
Of course, because he changed some key factors, the later development of the game went beyond the original track.Valdes, who shouldn't have received a red card, got a red card, and Oleg, who should have scored Barcelona's second goal, was forced to leave the field early because the goalkeeper was sent off... In the second half of the Champions League game, the original match with Reyes Having a memory is almost completely different, so he can no longer use this cheat.

But Reyes is not Du Niang after all, he can't remember all the games.What he can remember must be those important games such as the Champions League final, the national derby, and the World Cup.Among them, the World Cup is only held once every four years, and each time is a grand festival for the fans, so Reyes has a particularly deep memory.

How to express his "memory advantage" in a way that is more acceptable to everyone is a question that Reyes has been thinking about.He couldn't directly say things like "France headed Zidane against Italy in the final" or "Italy finally won the championship".Otherwise, it would be strange not to be treated as a monster and dissected.And this bet with Aragones happened to inspire him, so he made this request.

Then there was the idea of ​​showing one's "ability" through newspapers and communicating with other teams to obtain information.

Beating Aragones was nothing to brag about, it was a matter of course for Reyes.What Reyes wants is for Aragones to understand his "talent", and then he can properly demonstrate his "forecasting ability" in front of him, and attribute this performance to a kind of "information analysis and reasoning". ability".

Although Aragones has conceded defeat, but before the last group game in Spain, Reyes gave Aragones a fifth prediction, this time he predicted a match between Brazil and Japan, this time he Deliberately "predicting" the wrong score can be regarded as giving both sides a step down.

Reyes gave Aragones the "impression" he needed, and Aragones saved face.The insiders of this gamble include the main coach and Xiaofa, which is semi-public.If Aragones loses, then his reputation will be almost discredited, and his prestige in the team will also decline.

If Aragones is finally dismissed because of this bet, Reyes is not sure that Bosque will really take over.After all, so much time has been advanced, all factors are different, and the environment for selecting a new coach is also different.

Before the last group game on June 6, Aragones announced a decision that surprised everyone: let Reyes enter the coaching staff as an intelligence analyst.

This surprised the players.

Although players and coaches are committed to the same game, their jobs are completely different.What the coach does is to analyze his opponents, coordinate the relationship between players, formulate team tactics, etc., which is mainly mental work; while the players implement the coach's tactics and play on the field, which is physical work.

Unless you have a godlike mind and body, playing both roles can drain a player so much that he can't do both.

Of course, there are some players in the football world who also serve as coaches. Most of these people are in low-level leagues with low technical and tactical levels. It is a waste to hire coaches, so some qualified players are used as coaches.

In the high-level leagues, there are also some older players who have played less. Because of their rich experience in the game and the idea of ​​transforming into a coach after retirement, they become part-time coaches.The most famous of these is Liverpool King Dalglish. After the tragedy at Heythel Stadium in 1985, Liverpool manager Joe Fagan resigned and Dalglish took over as manager and player.He led the team to regain the 85-86 league championship and won the FA Cup that year. He also became the fourth Liverpool coach to win the championship for the first time after Shankly, Paisley and Fei Gan. Undoubtedly won the Coach of the Year award.

Some other well-known ones are Chelsea in the late 90s. They had three consecutive head coaches of Hoddle, Gullit and Vialli, all of whom were concurrent players.

There are some others, mostly from the 90s and [-]s. The tactics at that time were far less professional and complicated than they are now, and the job of the coach was relatively easy, so the players could do it concurrently.But after entering the new century, the work of coaches has gradually become onerous, and the division of labor has become relatively clear. Players have to undertake more tactics, so fewer people are doing both.Even if there are, most of them are temporary rescues by old players who seldom play and are about to retire.

Reyes entered the coaching staff at the age of 21. Although he was just a soy sauce "intelligence analyst", it was enough to shock everyone.Perhaps some of the players knew about the bet between Reyes and Aragones, so they started whispering and sharing what they knew with each other, and Xiaofa, who was Reyes' roommate, naturally became the focus of everyone's attention.

When Xiaofa took out Reyes' score prediction paper like a magic trick, everyone's doubts turned into surprise and admiration, and the eyes they looked at Reyes were different.If these "predicted results" that are accurate in most games are really made by Reyes, then it is absolutely logical for him to be selected as the coaching staff.

(End of this chapter)