Father Green

Chapter 2 Ten: Charlotte's new friend
Some time ago, Charlotte told the management that the coaching staff was not enough, and hoped that the management could hire some experienced coaches, even college interns.

This season, Charlotte has adopted a high-tech data analysis system in training. In addition to her own system designed and developed by John Rhodes, the schoolboy of the Rhodes family, Charlotte also introduced OPTA from outside. The company's database directly writes OPTA's big data into its own system, and then a dedicated data analysis coach completes the analysis.

Of course, the work of the so-called data analysis coach is not complicated, and even a lot of analysis is done by the computer system. The coach only needs to sort out the data and provide it to Charlotte and other coaching staff members. This aspect of work at Southampton is currently being done by Gary Monk, who is also Charlotte's video analysis coach.

In fact, OPTA data has been widely used in various sports industries. Among them, William Hill, which is somewhat inconsistent with Charlotte, is using OPTA data. In the media industry, there are also sports media, specifically Sky Sports and ESPN. In use, the American Major League Soccer League and the British Guardian are also customers of OPTA. In terms of clubs, Chelsea and Manchester City are the first and only two giants to use OPTA data. Now the Premier League has the first Three OPTA Client Clubs - Southampton!
When football develops in this era, the wave of big data is unstoppable.But Charlotte understands that the cold data is often just a reference. Real football generally exceeds the imagination of the data, so professional coaches are required to cooperate with the data in this regard.

Wilkins is Charlotte's number one assistant coach. He can almost perfectly implement the tactical instructions and training guidelines issued by Charlotte, so he is almost the busiest coach because he undertakes a lot of work that belongs to Charlotte.

Martin Hunter is the training coach of the first team. His job is to assist Wilkins in implementing training tactics and targeted training for some players.He is also very busy, because in addition to the training of the whole team, he has to take care of the individual training of many players.

Tony Cotton is a relatively relaxed coach, and his main job is to collect opponent intelligence.As a native of England, he was born as a professional player.His close to 20-year career has seen the rise of England's professional leagues, and his insight as a goalkeeper is unparalleled.

So whenever the game is just finished, the players may have just left the court and returned to the locker room to take a shower, but Tony Cotton has already put the details of the next game and even the opponent of the next game on Charlotte's desk at this time superior.

Including strength and conditioning coach Nick Harvey and part-time goalkeeping coach Calvin Davis, it's almost Charlotte's entire coaching staff, and it's really a little less.Especially among them, Davis has just become a professional coach, and he is still a part-time job, and Monk has only switched from a player to a coach for half a season.

Therefore, the only ones who can directly help Charlotte share the task are Wilkins and Tony Cotton. To be honest, this is indeed a lack of manpower.I haven't dealt with the English Championship or League One yet, but I can't cope with the Premier League.

And this season Southampton still has the UEFA Cup to play, so expanding Europe has also become part of the new season.This requires finding a coach who is very familiar with European football and has rich experience. Even if the results in the UEFA Cup are not ideal, the team will fight on the third or even fourth fronts in the future. There is nothing wrong with being fully prepared.

Therefore, in response to his own problems and ideas, Charlotte had previously approached the club chairman Curtis to increase the number of coaching staff.Curtis naturally agrees with this point. Although he wants to get something wholeheartedly, in the end the team's results are the most important.

But when Curtis brought the recruited coach to Staplewood, Charlotte's jaw dropped in surprise.

"Lele Le Tissier??" Charlotte's eyes widened, as if she had seen a ghost.

"I said Charlotte, you don't need to be so surprised!!" Matthew Le Tissier came up and gave Charlotte a hug directly.

At the beginning of last season, Le Tissier scolded the club management and Charlotte, because hiring a 23-year-old freshman to be the head coach is almost a performance of brain flooding.So during that time, he was the vanguard calling for Charlotte to dismiss get out of class, but with the improvement of Charlotte's team performance, the team not only upgraded to the Premier League, but also won the FA Cup and the British Championship. Ai was completely convinced.

Le Tissier was once a well-known player, so he can naturally see that the results that Charlotte led the team to achieve are not at all due to the operation that that shit Robbie Savage said.He is very clear that this is a performance of strength.From Charlotte's signings to training, and finally to the tactics implemented in the game, Le Tissier could see clearly that this was a crushing of the strength of other teams in the British Championship.

So in the second half of the season, Le Tissier also found Charlotte to express his apology, and eventually the two became good friends.During a private gathering, Charlotte once suggested that he quit his job at the BBC and earnestly go to a low-level league team to coach and accumulate some experience. After a few years, it is still not a big problem for him to be the head coach of a mid-lower Premier League team. of.

Charlotte knows that the job Le Tissier really likes is coaching, otherwise he would not have taken time to attend the coaching training course organized by the FA after retiring from working at the BBC, and now he has received a FIFA certificate. The B-level qualification certificate, so theoretically coaching a second-tier league team is more than enough.

"I listened to you. I quit my good job at the BBC and came here to hang out with you. You will be responsible to me in the future." Le Tissier said with a smile.

Charlotte, who came back to her senses, immediately cursed: "Crab, don't be so ambiguous, okay, I don't have a girlfriend yet. The taste of your rotten country is peculiar, and many girls will take it seriously when you joke like this."

In fact, Le Tissier is not one of the group of commentators who are valued at the BBC. Now the BBC's gold medal football commentators are Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer of the "Shuanglan" combination, followed by Lineker You and others are all famous players in British football.

Le Tissier's work at the BBC is not very good, as can be seen from his assignment to commentate the Championship game.That's why Charlotte said this before. If Le Tissier could become like Alan Hansen, Charlotte would be ashamed to ruin someone's future.

"It's okay, anyway, I don't suffer, my children are in middle school." Le Tissier waved his hands indifferently.

Charlotte: "."

You are not at a disadvantage, but brother is at a disadvantage! !

"Speaking of which, you didn't come to steal my job, did you?" Charlotte said half jokingly and half seriously.

Southampton don't have that many great players, there is only one Le Tissier in Saints.Since his debut in Southampton's youth training, he has dedicated his entire 17-year career to the saints. Just like many legends, he guarded a city all his life, and Le Tissier is the guardian of Southampton.

He has unparalleled influence among the fans and the club. Even the late Chairman Marcus is not as great as Le Tissier in the hearts of the fans.

So if Le Tissier, who is also on the coaching staff, wants to compete with Charlotte, Charlotte has no confidence at all.After all, Le Tissier's influence in this club is too great, just like the Maldini family to Milan, Totti to Rome and Gerrard to Liverpool
If Gerrard stands up and expresses distrust of the new head coach Rodgers, doubts the opponent's coaching ability and deliberately targets Rodgers, it is conceivable that the Northern Irishman may not be able to work for half a season.

Of course, Gerrard wouldn't do that.But if Le Tissier does this at that time, then Charlotte's situation will not be much better than Rogers in that situation.Although Charlotte and Le Tissier are friends, there are many examples of enemies on and off the court.

Le Tissier naturally understood Charlotte's subtext: "I came to hang out with you and ask you to learn from you. Besides, I don't have the ability to do better than you. I still have self-knowledge. "

Hearing this, Charlotte hugged Le Tissier again: "Welcome home, buddy!"

"Thank you!" Le Tissier also felt that he really loved Southampton deeply.

After exchanging pleasantries with Le Tissier for a while, Charlotte turned her attention to the remaining two. No.2 is a typical European middle-aged man. To be honest, Charlotte can’t tell the difference between Germans, French, Italians, and Spaniards among Europeans. He can see Northern and Eastern Europeans, but if a Croatian He couldn't tell the difference when he stood with the Serbs.

Of course, in fact, the vast majority of Europeans themselves can’t tell the difference between Croatia and Serbs. After all, the two countries border each other, and they used to belong to the former Yugoslavia together with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and other countries.

"This is Paco Ayestaran, the former first-team coach of the powerful Atletico Madrid in the Spanish First Division. From now on, he will be our Southampton coach." Curtis whispered in Charlotte's ear Said.

"Atletico Madrid? After all, it is the third strongest in La Liga? Why did it come to our small temple?" Charlotte was a little surprised.

Curtis covered his old face, you should whisper this kind of thing to me, how embarrassing it is to ask directly, young people are inexperienced
Paco Ayestaran smiled: "There is nothing to hide. I was hired by former Atletico Madrid coach Manzano from the outside. But I didn't expect Manzano to be fired in the middle of the season, and then The new coach Diego Simeone thought my predecessor was from Manzano, so."

Coaching is like this, and many head coaches have familiar assistants.Once I resign, it also means that my entire coaching team will leave together, and at the same time, it is better to use the familiar than the familiar.After the new head coach takes office, he will definitely bring his own coaching team, so unless the coaches left before are the ones the club is trying to protect, the situation will be more worrying.

It's just that Charlotte didn't expect that the Argentine "lunatic" who led the rise of Atletico Madrid had already started to take office.