Football: The immortal legend on the green field

Martins and Shen Bin have made use of the time when they don't have to participate in the second round of the Dutch Eredivisie to arrange targeted training according to Bruno Sterling's characteristics. His skills are indeed outstanding among the younger generation of players, but after changing his position on the field, his inherent habits are still difficult to change.

After all, a full-back cannot be compared with a wing midfielder. A full-back's assist only requires him to break away from the defense, get down the field quickly, and pass the ball to the middle in time to complete his mission.

“Generally speaking, a football match can be divided into three areas, namely the attacking third area, the central area, and the defensive third area.

Football is actually a game of creating and limiting space.

Offense is about creating and utilizing space; passing and running; and attacking from set pieces.

Defense is the opposite, limiting time and space; pressing and protecting; defending set pieces. ”

During the halftime break of the training, the friends gathered together. Shen Bin explained in detail the difference between offense and defense. After hundreds of games in the dream stadium, these were all experiences summed up by Shen Bin himself. Martins looked at the young man who was talking eloquently in surprise, "You learned this system in the Chinese youth training. It's not right! Since China has such a great coach, why is the football performance so vulnerable!"

Of course Shen Bin told him that this was a summary of more than 60 games played by three master coaches, Zagallo, Luke Allison and Michels. Michels in particular contributed at least % of the theoretical basis to this system.

In fact, Michels's total attack and defense is close to this system, but he only has a vague awareness in his mind. He just leads the 68 super Dutch national team according to the inertia of his thinking, and has not really implemented it in words.

Shen Bin was inspired by divine revelation to fully describe this system.

Of course, he couldn't explain the reasons for the system he came up with. He didn't want to be called a charlatan, so he had to deceive people by watching more game videos.

Shen Bin didn't want to tell all his summaries at once, so he only taught a few teammates the things that would be helpful.

Shen Bin emphasized that the players in the center zone should know how to make judgments in two situations: 1. Judging safety and risk; 2. Evaluating the success rate of this style of play, that is, whether taking this action is most likely to succeed under the current situation.

Specifically speaking, there is a big difference between the winger, the defensive midfielder and the attacking midfielder. Bruno's tactical qualities in the winger position require him to overturn his previous habits and reshape them.

He is not even familiar with the cooperation with the players in the frontcourt, and tacit understanding needs to be cultivated. He has just got to know Tiote and several defenders in the team a little bit, and now he has been promoted to the frontcourt, and everything has to start all over again.

The cooperation with Shen Bin was just okay, after all, Shen Bin had some predictions about how he would handle the ball. But the cooperation with Deng Zhuoxiang, Howard, Gural and others was very poor, and he always couldn't get on point with these people.

Therefore, Shen Bin focuses on choosing when to go down the bottom and when to cut inside. Going down the bottom is no longer considered as completing the task. He also has to pull towards the bottom line of the ribs and try to take away one or two defensive players. If the opponent ignores him, Shen Bin or Deng Zhuoxiang will pass the ball and then form an inverted triangle tactic with Howard.

These past few days the six-member team has been training at the base to create space.

Football games are won by exploiting space, and before a team can exploit space it must first try to create it.

Space is created through individual or group collaboration, and sometimes it is easily gained through the mistakes of others.

Players with poor ball control skills require more space to control the ball, so it is logical that the first question that should be raised when considering individual space creation is the player's control of the ball.

Shen Bin has not yet arranged any specific tactics for Deng Zhuoxiang and Howard in the middle. He just needs to use the existing experience to coordinate the running positions on the two wingers. After all, Martins has more than ten years of coaching experience and quickly understood the essence of Shen Bin's two offensive tactics.

Under his supervision and guidance, Bruno and Gülar, who were born in the Netherlands, the birthplace of Total Football, have already laid a good foundation and have no major problems with ball control.

Passing and receiving the ball are fundamental to the game of football and are seen as a necessary means to any end.

The two had a good foundation in this area, so the six of them went directly into the joint training phase - training on creating space in the frontcourt.

In a football match, the individual performance of the players is very important, but without coordinated overall operations, no matter how wonderful the individual performance is, it will be worthless.

With synergy, everyone's role can be fully utilized, and there are many ways to create space in the game by combining awareness and action with two or three teammates.

These two tactics are just the easiest ones selected by Shen Bin. He understands the principle of biting off more than you can chew.

While Shen Bin and six others were honing their tactics at the youth training base, the other players of Haarlem SC set off for the small town of Cambuur in eastern Netherlands on September 9 under the leadership of assistant coach Brewer.

Cambuur was in a similar situation to Haarlem last season. At one point they were at risk of being relegated to the third division, but ultimately managed to stay in the second division through their own efforts and a little bit of luck.

The difference between him and Haarlem is that Cambuur is located in a small town with a population of less than 10,000 people. There is no influential media, so their corruption is silent. However, Amsterdam, where Haarlem is located, is the capital of the Netherlands. Most of the Dutch media are concentrated here. Therefore, every bad game they play and every bad deal they make will be exaggerated by the media to have a negative impact.

Ever since they spent one season in the Eredivisie in 1998 and then returned to the Eredivisie, the team has never been able to find the right direction.

The fans' patience is limited, so Cambuur burned up the CPU this summer and made the decision of "go for it, we have to win now", sending Huntelaar, who was unanimously favored by professionals, to PSV Eindhoven in exchange for two 30-year-old experienced veterans who are in their prime.

There are reasons unknown to outsiders why PSV Eindhoven sent away two main players in their prime. For example, last season's main striker Basel Beckmann started 23 of the 38 league games throughout the season, contributing eight goals and four assists to the team.

For a player like Rahim, if you only look at the surface data, you might think he is pretty good, higher than the normal value of a starting striker, but you have to know that this is the Eredivisie! When he came to the Eredivisie, he was really amazing!

The problem is that he is now 30 years old and has no desire to go further. Some players work diligently until they are 40, but most players in the football world are like Basel Beckmann. They are tired of training and games day after day, so they begin to have a negative attitude towards training and games. They still feel that they have done their job well.

That's why Cristiano Ronaldo still has six-pack abs at the age of 2023, while most of the national team players in have bellies like those of cooks in small restaurants.

However, as the season has just begun, Huntelaar has not started yet and his only appearance was in the first round of the FA Cup a few days ago. Cambuur club has not yet realized that they have become the number one victim in Dutch football in recent years.

Cambuur are eager to return to the Eredivisie and will do everything in their power to move in that direction until reality hits them.

Haarlem SC's goal is also the Eredivisie. Even Amy Bocanegra, a columnist for World Sports and one of Neeskens's many bootlickers, made a bold statement: "If Neeskens can bring Haarlem SC, which was on the verge of relegation last season, into the Eredivisie, it will be a more important honor than helping Ajax win the European Cup in 68."