"Mr. Gao Han, I am a retired professional player. What I want to ask you is, what do you think is the biggest change from a player to a coach? How should we deal with such a change?"

Sitting in the front row is Juventus legend Conte, who is also a student of the current master class of Coverciano coach training. This is also the highest-level course set by the Italian Football Association. After graduation, you can directly coach in Serie A and Serie B.

Because of this, the number of students recruited in each course is strictly limited, and the selection requirements are also high. Most of them are professional players, and players who have participated in the Italian national team often have more advantages.

This is the norm in any country in the world.

"Thank you very much for your question, Antonio." Gao Han made a seat, but immediately shook his head and smiled bitterly, "But to be honest, I am not qualified to answer this question because I am not a professional player."

Everyone in the venue burst into laughter again, and this was a bit self-deprecating.

"We Chinese have a saying that without practice, there is no right to speak. I shouldn't have said anything, but since you asked, I have indeed come into contact with many coaches who retired professional players, so I try to answer this question and let everyone communicate with each other."

Everyone present nodded again.

The entire speech process was very hot and the atmosphere was very lively. From Gao Han's speech to his later free questions, laughter continued. Everyone cherished the opportunity to ask Gao Han face to face, and Gao Han also said everything he knew and said everything.

"I believe everyone present knows that players and coaches are two completely different jobs. An excellent player may not be able to become an excellent coach. The most important thing is the role transformation issue."

"In a locker room, every player has his own unique life experience, his own unique insights into football, and his own ideas and ideas for the game. However, as a head coach, you should fully understand and guide the individual uniqueness of the players on the basis of formulating the overall technical and tactical situation of the team."

"A lot of excellent players become coaches, it is easy to find that their players are completely incomprehensible and cannot keep up with their own ideas. But I personally think that this is not a player's problem, but a coach's problem, because we cannot require every player to have a basketball dealer like Maradona and Zidane, right?"

Most of the people here are professional players, many of them are engaged in youth training coaches, and they face players of the lower age group, so they are very touched by Gao Han's words.

A great player who retires and transforms into a head coach is either excellent or rather bad.

The difference between the two is whether they can be timely and when they can adjust their roles.

The players are mainly me and follow the head coach's arrangements, but the head coach must focus on the overall situation and arrange for the players to play football.

This seems to be separated by a layer of window paper, but in fact, many outstanding players will never be able to break it in their lifetime.

"But what I want to say is that there is a natural advantage in transforming a player into a coach, that is, he can easily win the trust of his players, and we all know that in a locker room, the most important task of a head coach is to gain the trust of the players."

When he said this, Gao Han suddenly smiled and pointed at Guardiola sitting in the middle of the crowd.

"It's like my best friend, Guardiola, if I were a player and he was the head coach, then I would say to him, Oh, Josep, I grew up watching you play football, say, what do you want me to do?"

The venue was hilarious again.

"If I violate his rules, when he scolds me, I will refute and confront him. That's simple. He just cursed, "You know what's the point. When I was playing football, you were still wearing open-crotch pants."

Everyone present suddenly laughed even more crazily, and many people were even slapping on the table.

As the speech deepened, Gao Han gradually let go of his hands and feet, and now he is laughing.

He returned to the topic after everyone laughed.

“Anyway, as I emphasized before, trust is the basis for a head coach to succeed.”

The last sentence won Gao Han once again thunderous applause from the scene.

Renzo Ulivieri also stood up at this time, gestured to Gao Han, and walked to the stage.

"Everyone, we are very grateful to Mr. Gao Han for his wonderful and funny speech and answers today, but unfortunately, we originally arranged an hour and a half, but now it is almost three hours. Due to time constraints, we have to end this exchange. But on behalf of Covelciano, I solemnly invite Mr. Gao Han to take time to teach us a lesson."

Everyone at the scene agreed with Ulivieri’s proposal, and everyone’s face was still unsatisfied.

If Gao Han was a little restrained at the beginning, then after he was completely relaxed, he not only talked about a lot of practical information, but also mobilized the atmosphere on the scene very lively, allowing each of them to gain a lot.

But they could also understand Ulivieri's decision, after all, Gao Han and the others had to rush back to Milan.

Today he took the time to go south and will face Udinese at home tomorrow.

Finally, Ulivieri announced the end of his speech.

Gao Han walked off the podium and shook hands and hugged many famous coaches including Lippi, Plandelli and Lov, as well as many celebrities such as Conte, Maldini and Baresi.

"Your speech today is very exciting. I have heard you talk about the remarks of Chinese sages many times, which makes me very interested. You are a country with a long cultural heritage and full of wisdom." Lippi praised.

"When you have the opportunity, come to my motherland. Our football level is still very low and the league is still lagging behind. But we have the largest group of fans in the world who love football frantically and they are eager to change the football status of their motherland, so we need the guidance and help of world-renowned coaches like you."

Lippi nodded with a smile, "Okay, I have a chance."

After that, Gao Han met with others one after another, especially Udinese's assistant coach Allegri.

Although they met for the first time, they were the opponent tomorrow night, but today they had a great conversation. This feeling is very interesting.

Finally, Gao Han, accompanied by Ulivieri, Lippi and others, visited the entire training base of Covelciano and the Italian coach training system.

The technical department responsible for Italian coach training was established in 1959, but before that, the Football Association had already conducted coach training and related theoretical research through the organization of a coach training association.

That is to say, Italy has accumulated nearly half a century in this regard.

Ulivieri, Lipi, Trapatoni, Saki, Capello, Ancelotti...

Many famous Italian coaches come from such a system, and they are constantly improving the entire Italian coach training system and technical and tactical theoretical system through their later coaching.

This should be the most systematic coach training in the world.

"Renzo, I have considered to start a youth training center in my motherland, and you know, there are many young people like me in my motherland who love football and are eager to develop on the road of football."

"So, I want to ask, is it possible that we will cooperate in coach training? If possible, I plan to set up a coach training institution in my motherland, carry out all-round cooperation with you, and introduce your entire coach training system, and arrange our domestic coaches to study in Italy."

When Gao Han spoke, Ulivieri nodded repeatedly, "Welcome, absolutely welcome."

Italy is not private and even open to communication.

For example, in terms of goalkeeper training, France, Germany and Brazil all learned from Italy and received support and help from Italian coaches. This did not hinder Italy's achievements in this regard.

As for Italy, after Buffon, there were no high-level goalkeepers, but several other countries had many talents, especially Germany and Brazil, which has some serious relationship with Italy's local youth training.

But this cannot deny the outstanding achievements Italy has achieved in theory and coaching training.

"Mr. Gao Han, this is exactly what I want to tell you. We have also heard about the adjustments and reforms you have made in Inter Milan, so we also hope that you can agree to let more of our students go to Inter Milan to watch and study, including first-team and youth training. You know, we have fallen behind in youth training in recent years."

"Well, no problem, we are very welcome."

Ulivieri laughed loudly when he heard this, "Then I wish us a happy cooperation with each other."

“Happy cooperation.”

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After visiting Covelciano, Gao Han had a meal with Ulivieri, Lippi, Plandelli and Lov, and then rushed back to Milan with Guardiola.

This pilgrimage to Covilciano was deeply touched by him.

After the Telephone Gate incident, Italy was able to counterattack and win the World Cup. The player strength is certainly one aspect, but Lippi's coaching and the technical and tactical content of the entire national team are the most important.

These are not something that can be obtained or lost overnight.

Or it should be said that this is the foundation of Italian football.

Half a century of practical accumulation and theoretical research have brought together the wisdom of countless sages such as Saki and Trapatoni. Italy's achievements in football are absolutely admirable.

On the other hand, Chinese football wants to develop and improve the strength of players is only a superficial level. What we really need to do is to start from the most basic level, start from youth training, coach training, and theoretical research. Through long-term accumulation and precipitation, it gradually evolves into the Chinese people’s own football path.

This road is still long, far and difficult, but Gao Han will definitely continue.

After his pilgrimage to Covilciano, he became even more determined.

This will be the most important mission he must complete in his life.

There is no direct flight between Florence and Milan, and the transit takes five hours, so the return is still the train.

During that hour of train, Gao Han was still immersed in the shock brought by Covelciano.

He called Xiang Tianming, who was far away in Beijing, to learn about the latest progress in land purchase, but was a little disappointed.

With the surge in housing prices in recent years, land prices in the entire Beijing-wide area have soared, but the youth training center is a project that occupies a lot of land, so Xiang Tianming is also very troubled.

This should be the current situation in China.

Real estate is being developed everywhere, and football, which requires a large area of ​​land, will not pay attention to it at all.

On the contrary, the basketball court has a small area and a lot of audiences, making it more popular.
Chapter completed!