i am beckham

Chapter 100 The Old Bastard

The England team encountered problems in the first tactical training session. Venables briefly summed it up and let everyone go to the shower.

There is really nothing to sum up. After a month of brainwashing in the Premier League, the old players have completely forgotten the training content of the last international match day.

The 4-4-2 formation has been engraved in the souls of these veterans. They all understand the truth, but as soon as they are competitive, they are immediately dominated by instinct and let football return to 4-4-2.

On the contrary, the new young players understood the tactics and played a little bit.

But Venables didn't feel relieved at all, but rather annoyed.

His contract with the FA only ends at the end of next year's European Cup. If the England team kneels down, he will definitely pack up and leave. Teaching these youngsters that they can't quench their thirst is purely a public welfare act.

If the England team wants to achieve good results, they still have to rely on these veteran players with outstanding abilities and rich experience.

But these England players from the late 60s to the early 70s were the most thoroughly brainwashed, and it is extremely difficult to change their thinking.

Seeing that the date of the European Cup is getting closer, and the tactics that the team can use now is still a 4-4-2, Venables suddenly annoyed and threw the tactical board on the ground: "Fuck, we used a World Cup champion to block the road ahead!"

Gary Neville, who had his back to Venables, jumped in fright at the sound of the tactical board hitting the ground. He was about to swear when he turned his head, but seeing that the head coach was playing tricks, he quickly withdrew his expression and squeezed out a flattering smile.

And Beckham looked at Venables curiously, but he didn't expect this guy to be serious.

In his mind, the slovenly Venables was an old Gascoigne.

This is a guy who, as a teenager, gave the middle finger to opposing fans on the football field and swears.

Some media broke the news that he bribed the assessment coach with £14 when he was 500 years old during his trial training at Chelsea.

Of course, he played well later and became the absolute main force of the Chelsea team.

Venables in the player era was the spiritual leader of the locker room, but he didn't play a good role.

As soon as he made his name, he began to contradict the head coach, go his own way, and even took seven players to hangover the day before the FA Cup final.At the end of that season, Chelsea dumped him like a snot.

Long-term alcohol abuse is no less harmful to a professional player than smoking. Venables could not gain a foothold in the top league at the age of 31. He had the cheek to persist for several seasons and found that it was impossible.

Later, he moved to the Irish League and found that he still couldn't keep up with the rhythm of the game, and then he ran away on the grounds of taking care of his family.

He was as a jerk as Gascoigne in the player era, and his talent was not as good as the latter, but he has some talent in coaching. After retiring, he coached Crystal Palace, Tottenham, Barcelona, ​​and Portsmouth, and achieved some results in their respective clubs.

But he never stopped, being a coach and an asshole at the same time.It was reported that he had resold non-ferrous metals and made millions of pounds in profits. He went to Tottenham and sold a part of the club's shares empty-handed. Later, he was suspected of money laundering by the club chairman in Portsmouth because of the consecutive introduction of five Australians.

As the head coach of the England team, Venables declared that he would do a good job, but everyone still expressed doubts about his attitude.

In Beckham's impression, he is the most ungentleman and unkempt of the England coaches. He always hangs on his mouth "I don't care" and "I'm just like this" asshole mantra, as if playing tricks.

So seeing him suddenly get serious, Beckham felt that this matter was full of joy.

A bastard was ready to start a career, but met a group of idiot employees, and was so angry that he jumped up and down. The retribution came just in time.

If you come out to hang out, you have to pay it back, and you can't just because the bastard wants to do good things, everything goes well. Who knows what kind of small calculations this guy is secretly making.

Beckham has some sympathy for him. The 4-4-2 formation has dominated English football for 50 years, and it will not be changed in a short while.

这事儿还要从1966年说起，4-4-2这个阵型并不是英格兰人首创，4-4-2和4-3-3这两个现代足球的通用阵型是巴西人玩出来的，同一时间不少国家也使用了类似的阵型。

The England team in the 60s preferred the 4-3-3 formation that was very popular in Europe at that time. Some England coaches’ coaching philosophy was based on possession of the ball and had high technical requirements for the players.

On the eve of the 1966 World Cup, coach Alf Ramsey, who led the England team to fight at home, encountered a rather difficult problem. There was no good winger in his formation, and he couldn't play 4-3-3, so he could only withdraw the winger's position.

It happened that the England team had two outstanding center forwards at that time. In desperation, he turned the winger into a full-back, used a large area of ​​running to help the midfielder, and fed the center forward with crosses from the wing.

You can't play offense, but you can always do dirty work.

As a result, the England team with Bobby Charlton, a world-class midfielder, can dominate the midfield every game. The two center forwards did not spit out cakes.

This is an extremely successful football case. All teams in the English league began to imitate the national team: double center forwards in parallel positions, four midfielders in parallel positions, and four backs in parallel central defenders. This three-line formation gradually began to dominate English football.

With this formation, the head coach no longer has to worry about the lack of No. 10. They only need to equip a group of good crossers, and then poke two stupid big men into the opponent's penalty area, and the rest will be responsible for grabbing the ball. A lineup is complete.

Subsequently, Charles Taylor, the technical director of the FA, also transformed the distorted formation into a theory, and promoted it to the whole of England through statistics and expert evidence.

He simplified football into three steps: the first step, the defender gets the ball and immediately kicks to the vicinity of the two corner kicks.In the second step, the players who receive the ball are not allowed to waste time, and immediately send shells to the penalty area.In the third step, the center finds a way to get the football into the goal.

This is how the long pass and sling play was formed, and it is completely a typical case of an amateur leading an expert.

The composition of the FA is very complicated. Elites from all walks of life can get a place in this institution, but there is no place for football experts.

This buddy named Taylor is said to have gotten inspiration from an artillery officer. His idea is to let the football explode to the enemy's position like a shell.

He later compiled this set of theories into a book called "The Victory Formula" and published it in large quantities, which played an inestimable role in the youth training work.

Since then, a large group of head coaches with only one tactical board in their hands and a large group of youth training products who can't run to death, have strong bodies, and even have muscles in their brains have come to the fore.

The marathon-style winger and engineer-type midfielder wiped out all the "useless" attributes of technology, spirituality and talent this time. Since then, the England team has become a "Kick And Rush" style.

However, with the development of world football, the long pass has been out of date. The most obvious example is the 1994 World Cup qualifiers. The England team was technically inferior to the Netherlands, and the long pass did not beat the Vikings Norway.

Then the FA wanted to find another head coach, but found that no one dared to take the job. The famous head coaches at that time knew that they were not much better than the laid-off one, and they turned down the job on the grounds of their families.

The head coach of the England team didn't have the owner until 1995. Only the bastard Venables dared to take on this hot potato. Although the FA was a little unhappy, they could only hire him because there was no other candidate.

In this way, Venables began to coach the England team and tried to remove the brand of 4-4-2 from the players.

This job is more difficult than doing scientific research, and the England team nearly held his breath in anger during the tactical training in the afternoon.

This guy's bastard face was exposed again at this time. He said to the players: "I don't care. We will use this tactic in the game against Sweden tomorrow. We will also use this tactic in the European Cup next year. If you want to win the championship, play well. It's no big deal if you don't play well. Anyway, you are playing football. I can retreat anytime and anywhere."

Looking at his head coach's unscrupulous look, Beckham had to sigh: "It's not that the old man has become bad, it's that the bad guy has become old."

(End of this chapter)