Some people say that professional football is a war without gunpowder.

But fans are often easily immersed in the game of this war and greatly ignore the cruelty of the war itself.

Professional football has always been cold and cruel, and it cannot tolerate any warmth.

Even Chinatown, which has been highly praised by world football and fans in recent years, has cruelly eliminated a large number of young players every year. At best, they are just more responsible than other clubs, which naturally makes them look more warm.

As the saying goes, soldiers have no constant power, and water has no constant shape.

There has never been a fixed way to win in war, and this is also true in professional football.

Therefore, various different technical and tactical styles have naturally emerged, which can be said to be a blooming flower and each one is good at playing games. This has directly driven the prosperity and prosperity of European football and attracted the gathering of different types of football talents from all over the world.

But it is precisely because the flowers bloom in full bloom that conflicts and conflicts will inevitably arise between them.

For example, Gao Han and Mourinho both debuted in the Barcelona coaching staff and both studied under Van Gaal, but there are irreconcilable ideological contradictions between them.

Van Gaal and Cruyff were also in the same situation.

As a master of Dutch football philosophy, the two have never interacted with each other.

On the surface, the conflict between the two originated from the time Van Gaal was coaching Ajax. As an Ajax legend, Cruyff once criticized and criticized Van Gaal's coaching in the media many times and gave some suggestions.

It is not difficult to imagine that with the expectations of Cruyff in Ajax, his suggestions inevitably put pressure on Van Gaal, and it was difficult for even the management to not listen to Cruyff's opinions. This was naturally unacceptable to Van Gaal, who had a tough style, and immediately gave a counterattack. The two of them formed a foul since then, and later became more and more intense.

It is difficult to say which one is right or wrong in the end, because the same thing has been happening repeatedly in European football. For example, Van Gaal also accused Ajax during Koeman's coaching period, and the two also had conflicts about this, and Cruyff's relationship with many Barcelona head coaches is also very unsatisfactory.

But if we look at it, it is not difficult to find that the conflict between the two comes from the differences in tactical concepts between them.

After so many years of professional football development, tactical theory research has long been a systematic system.

As early as decades ago, Lobanovsky, a famous tactical theorist from Ukraine, proposed the theory of holistic football, believing that individual technology should serve the whole, and tactics are not about arranging the best eleven people, but about making every player follow the head coach's arrangements and prioritizing the interests of the team, and then considering showing himself.

During Michels' coaching, Hungarian football reached its peak. They advocated a sense of position, made full use of every inch of space on the court, and excellent overall cooperation, which brought a strong impact to the European football world at that time. Michels created the concept of full attack and all defense based on their predecessors.

As the name suggests, full offense and defense refer to all players participating in offense and defense. The players have no absolutely fixed positions, are full of liquidity, and only have relative positions between each other. The benefits of this are obvious, especially the wave-like offensive system, which makes the team full of attack power. However, the pressure in front of the defense line is too large and the use of offside tactics is too much, resulting in the team's defensive hidden dangers becoming increasingly obvious, and they are gradually being used by their opponents.

It can be said that Michels's full attack and defense laid the foundation for the development of modern football and profoundly influenced many latecomers, such as Cruyff, Van Gaal and Rijkaard. They all came from the same lineage, all praised the ability to play in the midfield and backcourt, and all advocated the core-free attack in the frontcourt, that is, no No. 10 front midfielder, etc.

On the premise that Michels' concept of full attack and defense and individuals should unconditionally obey the whole, there is an irreconcilable difference and contradiction between Cruyff and Van Gaal, that is, Cruyff, who was a superstar player, naturally believes that the team's skills and tactics should be mainly to serve the players and maximize the strength of the players.

But Van Gaal did not agree with this. He believed that the individual performance of the players was very unstable. During the long season, it would inevitably be accompanied by ups and downs. Developing technical and tactics around the players will inevitably be relied on, and the team's performance will also be affected. Only by ensuring the strict operation of the entire technical and tactical system through clear and rigorous division of labor and cooperation can the team's competitiveness be ensured, and even if the core players are absent, they will not be affected too much.

This has something to do with Van Gaal's not a brilliant career in professional players.

This disagreement between the two showed signs during the time Van Gaal coached Ajax, but this time it ended with Van Gaal's great success in Ajax and reaching the peak of his coaching career.

But during his subsequent coaching at Barcelona, ​​Van Gaal also had problems with his concepts when facing Barcelona, ​​where superstars gathered. Both coaches ended in failure, especially for the second coaching, which caused a shameful failure in the chaotic situation of the club's management.

Later, Van Gaal's former disciple, but his philosophy was closer to Cruyff's Rijkald's great success in Barcelona, ​​so this game ended with Cruyff's victory.

But what is interesting is that Rijkaard's early success in coaching is inseparable from the role of assistant coach Tengkater, who is known for his tough management and his philosophy is more inclined to Van Gaal.

If the combination of Rijkaard and Tencart neutralizes the ideas of Cruyff and Van Gaal, then Guardiola is one person who has the strengths of both families and has reached a new level.

At this time, Gao Han had already proved with his continuous success that individuals and the whole are two inseparable factors in technology and tactics. Only by complementing each other can success be achieved.

Cruyff has been away from the front line of coaching for a long time, but Van Gaal has been there all the time, especially in 2014, leading the Netherlands to the runner-up of the World Cup, making Van Gaal famous. After retiring, he once contacted Chelsea, Bayern Munich and other teams, but Van Gaal was unable to make a fortune in the end and was unemployed at home.

Although he is unemployed, Van Gaal has never been idle. He often goes to coaching training classes in Chinatown, and has always kept in touch with Gao Han, often communicating his coaching experience and understanding.

This time Gao Han came to Ajax to watch the game, and even specially invited him to the Amsterdam Stadium.

Although Van Gaal was silent throughout the whole process, Gao Han could feel a strange look in his eyes, that was desire.

The desire to return to the front line coaching.

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"Louis, I'm planning to acquire a team recently."

Taking advantage of the intermission, Gao Han approached Van Gaal, who was sitting beside him, and whispered.

Since Gao Han specially invited him to the Amsterdam Stadium, Van Gaal already knew that Gao Han must have something to discuss, but he could not guess what it was, because Valverde did a good job in Chinatown, and the team is currently ranked second in La Liga. With such a young lineup and achieving such results, no one can imagine Valverde being dismissed.

Van Gaal knew that Gao Han was not going to replace Valverde, but he was still surprised.

"The European team?" Van Gaal asked quickly.

Gao Han curled his lips and shook his head and said, "No, of course not. I didn't mean to go against UEFA. It was a Chinese team. The negotiations are coming to an end. It is estimated that the negotiations will be completed in October. The former head coach is Zacheroni, but he has been dismissed. So if the acquisition is completed, we must find a new head coach."

Chinese team?

Van Gaal's first reaction was to resist, because he had no intention of leaving the front line of Europe at all. This is the core of world football. Going to faraway China almost means to retire. Although he is already 65 years old, he has no idea of ​​retirement.

Gao Han has been paying attention to Van Gaal's change in expression. He knew very well, how could the arrogant Van Gaal accept coaching in the Chinese Super League? He must still be eager to prove himself again in Europe. How could he be willing to stay away from this core football stage?

With Van Gaal's current fame and status, I believe there is no shortage of interested teams. The reason why he is unemployed is just waiting for a better coaching opportunity. After all, at his level, it is better to be insignificant than to be insignificant.

"I understand your thoughts, Louis, but you have won the Supreme Lifetime Achievement Award. I think it's hard for you to prove yourself again in European football and in the Netherlands, and in this era... I believe you understand too."

Gao Han didn't say it thoroughly, but he pointed it out clearly.

Van Gaal's ability is unquestionable, but his coaching after leaving Ajax is not very successful. The reason is in many aspects. The most important thing is the club's structure and coaching environment.

Of course, it is inevitable that his own personality will be caused by.

The reason why Gao Han favors Van Gaal is that he has a very complete and rigorous inheritance of the Dutch technical and tactical system, and Van Gaal himself is very good at exploring and cultivating young players, which is very consistent with Gao Han's subsequent business ideas.

Yes, Van Gaal's current philosophy is no longer ahead of the European football world, but it is still very advanced, and it is not easy to play any team. But if you go to the Chinese Super League and the Asian League, it will be a dimensional reduction blow, and it will be reduced by two or three dimensions.

China's football reform has begun vigorously, and Chinese Super League teams have also begun to invite world-renowned coaches to coach, bringing various advanced training methods and coaching plans, but famous coaches like Van Gaal have not yet.

Lippi is undoubtedly more famous than Van Gaal, but at this point, he is still a little lacking.

"You know, Michels is not only the height of his tactical philosophy, but also everything he has created for the Netherlands and for Barcelona. It can be said that he has profoundly changed the system of European football."

Van Gaal has done this in Barcelona, ​​but it is not very familiar to everyone. For example, the most typical one is goalkeeper training. Franshawk's goalkeeper training plan completely subverts the training and training system of Spanish goalkeepers. It is still widely used in Spanish football and has trained top goalkeepers such as Valdes, Casillas, Reina, and De Gea.

"Our Chinese football is now poor and incomplete, but we have the largest population in the world. Our Chinatown has built seven world's top youth training centers in China. In the future, we will consider building ten, which will cultivate a steady stream of football talents every year. In addition, the government has also begun to make great efforts to launch youth training reforms..."

Speaking of this, Gao Han looked at Van Gaal deeply and said word by word.

"We need a Michels who has advanced football philosophy and tailored a football tactics system for us."
Chapter completed!