The Young Lion

Puskas?! That Puskas of Real Madrid?!

As a fan, Melanie has naturally heard the name of Puskas. She never imagined that the old man with dementia lying on the hospital bed was the most outstanding star on the planet.

Aldrich nodded desolately, and began to tell the story between him and the old man.

When Aldrich began to study in various parts of Europe, he was pious and humble, but when he read a thousand sails, he inevitably made the same mistake as many people: pride and complacency!

In 1993, Aldridge was full of tactics. He not only studied the tactics of various football countries, but also mastered the trend of football tactics in the future. A desire that can't wait to try a small knife.

Hungarian football was once famous all over the world, and the football tactical culture here was also talked about by people in the industry. Almost 50 years ago, Hungary, which joined the socialist camp after World War II, also started to engage in football with a national system. At that time, a An extremely powerful golden team.

There are many golden generations in history, but there are not many teams that are truly called golden teams. Hungary is one of the representative teams. Whenever the best team in history is selected, the Hungarian national team in the early 1950s, Will be on the list repeatedly.

At that time, the football tactics here were the most advanced. A group of educated scholars studied tactics while drinking coffee, studying kicking skills, formation movement, strategy and tactics.

They modified the WM formation based on Chapman, the Arsenal tactician, and may even have created a tactical system in which the inside forward and the winger frequently switch positions with four defenders, and this tactic was perfected after being brought to Brazil by the Hungarian coach. Out of the later classic 424.

While tactical research is becoming more and more mature, the king's division built with all the efforts of the whole country is gradually taking shape. Puskas is the most dazzling figure among them. He is called Major Fly. He really has an official position. The players all have official backgrounds and are drawn from the army.

During the Cold War period when the world was divided into two, England, as the originator and boss of modern football, proudly invited Hungary to play a friendly match. Before the game, it was clamored for: the battle of the century.

Such a game that was played up as the pinnacle game, but England lost 3:6 at home. England was not reconciled, and returned to Budapest after half a year of hard training, and was bloodbathed by Hungary 7:1.

English football is like this. After a little achievement, you start to rest on your laurels, and you will learn from the pain when you get a bloody slap on your face.

And Hungary began to beat the world's invincible players.

Before the start of the World Cup in 1954, the Hungarian national team maintained a proud record of unbeaten for four years.

Not only is it placed the greatest hope domestically, but even internationally, Hungary is considered to be the favorite to win the championship.

In the group stage, South Korea was slaughtered 9:0, and West Germany was bloody 8:3, but Puskas was shoveled and injured in the game against West Germany.

In the knockout round, Brazil and defending champion Uruguay won both games 4:2. Hungary lived up to expectations and advanced to the final.

It's just that no one expected that the final opponent turned out to be West Germany, which they had met in the group stage.

West Germany and Hungary, two teams that fit the background of the times, two countries and nations, both need a victory.

And God made a joke on Hungary,

They hadn't lost a single game in four years, but on the day of the finals, they wanted to kill a thief, and they were powerless!

Puskas, who was shoveled by the German, went into battle with an injury, and the two-goal lead was staged as predicted, but it rained heavily, and the German took out the magic non-slip spikes, and the Hungarian could only walk on the muddy grass Falling and missing the must-go goal, the Germans made a miraculous comeback, Puskas's equalizer goal before the end was blown off by the English referee, the World Cup, so missed.

This is the well-known miracle of Berne, and even the Germans agree that it is a miracle. This miracle has influenced German football and even the inspiration of the entire nation.

On the other hand, Hungary, which lost in the final, became a national sinner. When the domestic political situation was turbulent and Soviet tanks entered Budapest, the Hungarian national team was put on trial. The goalkeeper may have been exiled to the frontier because of losing three goals in a row in the final.

How familiar does this sound?

Later, countless people used such plots to ridicule North Korea, but all of this was actually staged in Hungary in history.

The golden team fell apart, and Major Fei began to wander. He was labeled as treason, but he joined Real Madrid at the age of 31 and achieved a legend.

Puskas has coached many European teams after retiring, including leading the Greek team to the Champions League final. This achievement is very remarkable. In 1993, he took up the coach of the national team in Hungary and tried to revive Hungarian football. , At that time, Aldrich came here.

At that time, the country had just stabilized, and it had only been four years since Marxism-Leninism was abandoned, and football had long since lost its glory. Aldridge took out a forged certificate showing that he was 20 years old, and applied for the assistant coach of the national team.

When he met the national team coach and his immediate boss, Puskas, for the first time, Aldridge's thought was simple: let this old man see my skills!

In a teaching match, Aldridge commanded a group of substitute players against the main players, and set up a highly utilitarian defensive counterattack formation. Using the chain defense that is popular in Italy and the British side counterattack tactics, he easily Won the game with a 3:1.

When Aldrich was proud, Puskas was expressionless.

He is angry, I can feel it, but I stubbornly think that I am right, I think he is old and out of fashion, he was once the king, but the future does not belong to him. However, he did not scold me, but He took me out of the national team training base and went to a small stadium in the city. There, a group of middle school students were playing football. They were very excited to see Puskas because he was a hero. Puskas let me I went to play football with middle school students. I asked him why, but he didn’t explain, but just told me to follow suit. I thought to myself: These kids don’t understand anything. Playing football with them? , I took off my soaked shirt and walked back to the seats in the stands, the old man who I dismissed from the bottom of my heart smiled and asked me a word, which completely convinced me.

What did he ask?

happy?

what?

He just asked me: Are you happy?

What does it mean?

The meaning is very simple, I am very happy, yes, I played with a group of children all afternoon, I don't care about winning or losing, we laugh when we score a goal, we hug each other to celebrate, we are frustrated when we are scored, and then we muster our fighting spirit to start again. Ball, I suddenly realized that day that I haven’t played football for a long time, and I haven’t felt the fun that football brings me, and this is the essence of football. The football tactics filled in my mind are just boring Numbers and lines, that have no meaning, utilitarian football, always has an impure purpose, victory? If the player who plays football is not happy, what is the meaning of victory? But this will be the mainstream of football in the future, because football It is a tool for many people to make a living. Only by winning can they avoid unemployment. I am right about Puskas, he is outdated, he can't keep up with the times, but he taught me thinking football, he let me Understand that failure is not terrible, what is terrible is when you can no longer find happiness from football, and I am the head coach, and I have an obligation to make my players feel happy.

Speaking of these, Aldrich sighed.

He also planned his professional life a long time ago. He thought about his initial stage. He should put up fences and let the team play that kind of utilitarian football. In this way, he can quickly win the championship, but he got the baptism of thought in Hungary , he does not want to suppress the talents of the players, nor does he want to make them feel boring about the game, and make them lose the motivation to create. He must let the players feel the essential charm of the sport in the process of creating goals and creating victories .

Puskas can't teach Aldrich anything in tactics, but he is regarded as a mentor by Aldrich. Life always needs an opportunity for qualitative change in the process of continuous accumulation. Puskas made Aldridge develop Epiphany, this is precious.

Puskas used to have a great reputation and was the pride of the whole country. He was promoted to the altar, but he also fell the worst!

Perhaps it was this kind of experience that allowed him to forget everything on the way of wandering, pick up the football, and enjoy the purest and most beautiful fun.

Aldridge felt that he was blessed by the heavens. He had a new life and met a professional mentor who woke him up. During the six months in Hungary, he began to sort out the football knowledge he had learned in the past, and then sublimated it. Create his personal football philosophy.

Maybe he can't establish a school, but at least he can learn from the strengths of a hundred schools of thought and make up for their weaknesses.

He couldn't forget Puskas' teachings in his mind, saying that the teachings were not really worth talking about, and the two of them seemed to have forgotten each other.

But now, his mentor has begun to suffer from serious diseases, and his life will enter a dark chapter.

Aldrich and Melanie sat on chairs outside the ward and stayed up all night.

PS: Thank you for the rewards of Flying as if I saw you first and A little less than ordinary!