Dynamo Zagreb is a top team in the Croatian League. He has achieved seven consecutive championships in the past seven seasons, comparable to Lyon in the early 2000s, but Croatia is no better than France. The Croatian League, which has only twelve teams in total, is not as good as Ligue 1.

As a giant team in Croatia, Dynamo Zagreb has his own way of survival, which is to basically imitate Lyon's peak period, dominate the domestic league, focus on attacking the Champions League, rely on stronger financial resources than competitors to poach the teams of the same country, and then sell outstanding players to other European leagues at high prices for profit.

It is normal to adopt this business model and is very common in European football. However, what is more controversial about Dynamo Zagreb is that the club chairman Mamichi brothers also run the largest brokerage company in Croatia, and almost most of the players who come out of Croatia come from their operations.

This is somewhat similar to Juventus and Moji in the Serie A before the goal event.

Therefore, the brothers Dynamo Zagreb and Mamic are not well received by domestic fans in Croatia.

In the Champions League group stage last season, Dynamo Zagreb and Lyon were in the same group. As a result, in the last round of the group stage, Dynamo Zagreb lost to Lyon 1-7 at home, helping the Ligue 1 team to advance from the second place from the group with a goal difference, which has caused huge controversy in European football and Croatia.

Everyone thought it was a fake game, and their dissatisfaction with the Mamichi brothers was completely vented. No one paid attention to the clarifications of Lyon and Dynamo Zagreb. In the end, UEFA had to come forward and the matter gradually subsided.

Gao Han also watched that game specially. Dynamo Zagreb himself was not as strong as Lyon. He was at the bottom of the group and was eliminated early, without any competitiveness. Even if he was playing at home, he could barely support it within the first thirty minutes. However, the player Leco was sent off with two consecutive yellow cards in the eleventh and 28th minutes respectively, which completely became the last straw that broke Dynamo Zagreb.

In fact, after the red card appeared, Dynamo Zagreb had the power to resist and took the lead in the 40th minute. It was also the goal that made Gao Han remember a name, Matteokovacic.

But then, Dynamo Zagreb was defeated. On the one hand, he was one less person than his opponent, and on the other hand, he was not as strong as his opponent. In the end, he ended up with a 1-7 defeat. After the game, head coach Yursić brought blame and current head coach Antekasić came on stage to coach.

But Kasich's coaching performance is not much better than Yulsic. In the previous few rounds of the qualifiers, they could all advance smoothly against Bulgaria and Slovenia. However, in the Champions League group stage, they met Porto and Dynamo Kiev, and they lost two consecutive games. They were both zero-to-two, and they were indeed inferior to others.

In this home game, they also fell behind zero to two in the first half.

But in the second half, Antekasich once tried to counterattack. First, he made a substitution in the midfield and took a defender from the May 41 formation and replaced him with a midfielder. Then in the 70th minute, he replaced him with a young player Harirovic.

After two substitutions, Dynamo Zagreb's midfield offense improved a lot.

Kovacic, Khalilovic and Brozovic seemed to be stimulated to spark.

In a defense at the front of the penalty area, the central defender cleared the ball and kicked it to the front of the penalty area. Kovacic, wearing the No. 8 jersey, rushed out of the penalty area and caught up with the ball in front of the top of the arc.

But as soon as he stopped, Paris Saint-Germain's Di Maria stepped forward to press, but unexpectedly, Kovacic made a fake move, and flexibly turned around and dunked the ball over Di Maria. Then he suddenly accelerated and used his speed to pass Yaya Toure, who was returning to defense, and chased the goal.

Rabiot, who came on the bench, was quickly returning to defense, while Paris Saint-Germain's defense line was also retreating.

After crossing the center line, Rabiot began to try to force Kovacic to the side, but unexpectedly, Kovacic first took advantage of the situation and deceived Rabiot, and suddenly hit another stroke and turned to the direction and returned to the middle lane.

As Rabiot was about to be thrown away by Kovacic, Yaya Toure finally returned to defend and blocked Kovacic, but the Croatian's ball did not fall, and another change of direction was dunked Yaya Toure's tackle, but the Ivorian took the opportunity to hook him down and gave Dynamo Zagreb a free kick.

The whole process took place in a very short time, and the ball seemed to be stuck at Kovacic's feet. Through skillful dribbling, Kovacic kept changing speed and direction. Kovacic fought alone to the midfield of Paris Saint-Germain alone.

This surprised and amazed Gao Han and Zidane on the sidelines.

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"If I remember correctly, this kid is only eighteen years old, right?" Gao Han laughed.

He had noticed Kovacic for a long time. He scored a goal in the game against Lyon last year. He was only seventeen years old at that time, but his performance was eye-catching.

He performed very poorly in the first half of this game, just like his team, but in the second half, as the team's playing style adjusted, the situation gradually reversed, and he began to perform. The dribbling just now made people's eyes shine.

"Look at him well." Gao Han patted Zidane on the shoulder and said with a smile.

Soon, Dynamo Zagreb was once again forced to the front of the penalty area, but this time Kovacic retreated to defend himself. In front of the penalty area, he cooperated with his teammates to attack Di Maria's ball, and then drove forward by himself. Along the way, he used the speed change and direction to drift past Paris Saint-Germain players.

But this time, Paris Saint-Germain's reaction was faster. Without crossing the center line, Di Maria chased back and joined forces with Yaya Toure and Rabiot to break the ball under his feet.

However, Dynamo Zagreb immediately got another chance to go out of the field goal. Kovacic was very active. After running over and raised his hand to ask for the ball, he turned around and got rid of Di Maria who was following him. Then he drove the ball alone and killed the center line alone. But this time he learned his lesson. Before Yaya Toure and Rabiot double-teamed, he wanted to divide the ball to the side, but it was directly passed to the Paris Saint-Germain player. He was so angry that he quickly chased and pressed.

This made Gao Han and Zidane laugh on the sidelines.

"This kid is good." Gao Han smiled.

Zidane nodded, "This continuous speed change not only requires the player's speed, but also control and adjustment of the center of gravity are also crucial. You can tell from his dribbling that his feet are very solid and his dribbling ability is excellent, especially in the middle of the midfield. This is very rare and very good for your taste."

Gao Han smiled, but did not express his opinion directly.

He really appreciates this type of player, especially those who can perform so well in the middle of the midfield.

At the beginning, he admired Kaka's propulsion ability in the middle, and now he used Di Maria to play in the middle, which was also his attention. But Kovacic is different from these two players. His ball control and dribbling ability are even better, and the continuous speed change within a small range left a deep impression on people.

He is indeed very fond of Gao Han, because Gao Han has always believed that improving the efficiency of offense and defense conversion will become more and more important, and how to complete the team's offense and defense conversion with the smallest investment in the shortest time has become the direction he has been working hard for.

Kovacic is the kind of midfielder who can complete offensive and defensive conversions by one person. He has different characteristics from Modric, but has many similar tactical values.

"Look at it again, the one on the wing, the one on the bench, is even younger and has a good life under his feet."

Following Zidane's gesture, Gao Han also noticed this Croatian young player with a hairstyle similar to Modric. After observing for a while, although it was not as eye-catching as Kovacic, it was quite good.

Gao Han's sharp eyes swept away, and he could see the situation of the two players, Kovacic and Kalilovic, and even he knew the situation of the entire team of Dynamo Zagreb, including Brozovic.

"In recent years, Croatia has produced many talents." Gao Han praised with a smile.

Zidane nodded, "When this group of players grow up, Croatia will be a force that cannot be underestimated in European football."

After pausing, Zidane looked at Gao Han curiously and asked, "How are these two?"

Gao Han smiled, "As I told you before, the growth of young talented players is magical. Some players can predict it, just like Neymar and Hazard, the growth trajectory is very easy to predict, with excellent talent, and was born as the core of the giant team. Lucasmora is a little worse, but if cultivated properly, he will definitely be at the main level of the giant team."

"But there is another one that is difficult to predict, such as Isco and Pogba. They all have very unique abilities and are definitely considered to be geniuses, but it is difficult to set a specific development direction for them, so it is difficult for them to judge how long the future development will be."

Zidane agreed, "Yaya Toure is also the latter, but he was fortunately met you."

During his coaching at Inter Milan, Gao Han created a path that was very suitable for Yaya Toure, which allowed the Ivorians to grow up and now became Paris Saint-Germain's midfielder, both offense and defense.

"Kovacic also belongs to this category, and it is not easy to grow up. But once he succeeds, he will be a superstar player, while Kalilovic is the one with better planning, but I guess he can only reach the main level of the giants at most."

Even so, it is quite rare to have two such players appear in a team at the same time.

Originally, there was also Brozovic, which was not a type of appreciation for Gao Han, so I won’t talk about it.

Zidane lived in Madrid for a while this summer and had a period of contact with Chinatown, especially players such as Hazard, Pogba, Isco, etc. He was very familiar with them. He felt that Gao Han's vision was indeed extremely sharp, and he found such an outstanding group of geniuses for Chinatown.

But the troubles that followed were also obvious. How to cultivate this group of geniuses?

"It's a pity that Paris Saint-Germain's positioning is obviously not conducive to youth training, especially youth training players like Kovacic. Otherwise, buy him and train him carefully, so as not to be ruined by other inexperienced head coaches in the future." Zidane sighed.

The genius player was destroyed and eventually turned into a case of injury to Zhongyong, and I don’t know how many people knew about it.

As for the head coach, he can't help but feel itchy when he sees a talented rookie, and Gao Han is no exception.

Kovacic is a treasure, and Gao Han is really worried about handing it over to others.
Chapter completed!