I Want to Be the King of Football

Guardiola really is a perfectionist.

He is obviously a Capricornus, but how can he be more picky than Su Dong, a Virgo?

From the team's overall tactical framework, to the specific implementation details, and then subdivided into daily training items, Guardiola not only crushed his tactical thinking and instilled it into the players, but even pursued perfection in every detail. .

Do you think that's all there is to it?

Wrong, terribly wrong!

Even the training ground requirements for this guy are quite high.

After coming to the training base in the United States, he found that although the surrounding area was isolated by barbed wire, fans could still see the team's training outside the barbed wire. In order to avoid being watched, especially by competitors, he directly shot at the ball. The team applied for an advertising screen to cover the barbed wire around the training ground.

After doing this, he was still worried, and arranged for people to patrol around to check for anyone with suspicious behavior.

This gave players the illusion of being in a sealed training ground, as if they were guarding James Bond.

But one thing to say, Guardiola's preparations are really meticulous to the extreme.

Before training every day, he requires players to come to the locker room one hour in advance. He and the coaching staff will post different tactical drawings on the wall every day, and then use the hour before training to explain the content of the tactical drawings to the players. .

Before the players go to the training ground, he and the coaching staff will re-emphasize to each player the details they need to pay attention to in training, and they will have a very clear understanding of what to do and what not to do.

Su Dong was also very surprised by this, but also began to understand why Guardiola needed so many assistants.

At present, the coaching staff of Manchester City's first team has nearly 30 people engaged in various tasks, even more than the players of the first team. Compared with the coaching staff of other teams, the number is much larger.

Why does Guardiola need so many assistants?

The reason is that his preparations are so meticulous. He has subdivided all the content to the extreme, which naturally requires more manpower, and he has also added many items that other teams do not have.

For example, he would take a video of each training session,

and analyze the video.

Just this one, no three or five people can't handle it at all.

Not only that, but in order for such a large team to operate in an orderly manner, especially the division of labor, Guardiola needs to have a clear enough understanding and a mature tactical framework, so that everyone can be assigned tasks.

After doing this, coupled with the huge coaching team, every player can clearly know what he needs to do and how to do it.

At this point, Sudong had to admit that Guardiola was very efficient, unprecedentedly efficient.

Of course, knowing is one thing, but whether it can be implemented in place or not is another.

Guardiola also has a very special quirk, that is, he looks very refined and calm, and even under the appearance that is difficult to get along with, there is a rock and roll heart.

Every time the team took the bus, or before practice in the locker room, he would play some rock songs.

Using the player's private jokes, the cold and arrogant appearance can't suppress his restless heart!

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At the tactical level, Guardiola adopted the most authentic number four tactics.

In order to better explain what the No. 4 tactic is, Guardiola even spent an hour making some PPTs to detail the evolution of the entire tactic.

From Brazil's 424 ancient god formation, to Michels' 433 full attack and full defense, but the tactics of the fourth position were not clear at that time, and Michels' full attack and full defense tactics were later used. Kenbauer's free man tactics defeated.

The use is the full attack and full defense when the defense is too weak from attacking to defending.

Does it sound familiar?

Yes, this is where Guardiola's Manchester City has been criticized.

It can be said that this weakness has been continued in the same line.

Because of the natural weakness of full attack and full defense, in the later Three Musketeers era, the Netherlands' full attack and full defense was obviously much more conservative, and the position was even a bit like the four-two-three-one at the beginning of this century.

The No. 4 player at the time was Rijkaard, but his position was at centre-back.

When Cruyff coached Barcelona, ​​he actually often used the four-four-two tactics. At that time, the playmaker was Guardiola, who was behind the midfield, but at that time he was not running the current four-position tactics.

It was Van Gaal's Ajax who really matured the tactics of the number four.

Rijkaard, who returned to Ajax, was unable to take care of the defense, so he was placed in the defensive midfield position by Van Gaal. The team also adopted the three-four-three, or three-three-one-three tactics. Brilliant at the four.

In 1997, Van Gaal was invited to coach Barcelona. At that time, his plan was to continue to promote his number four tactics in Barcelona, ​​and he believed that Barcelona captain Guardiola was a natural number four player.

What caught Van Gaal by surprise was that Guardiola missed most of the season with a serious injury. Although Barcelona won the La Liga title with an overwhelming advantage, the Champions League stopped in the first round of the group stage.

Guardiola did not return from injury until December of Van Gaal's second season in charge of Barcelona, ​​which led to Barcelona being stopped in the group stage for two consecutive seasons. Under the La Liga championship, but in the Champions League are stopped in the first round of the group stage.

It should be noted that the intensity of the Champions League that year was higher than that of the now expanded Champions League.

Due to the delay in the results of the Champions League, although they have won the league, Van Gaal is still questioned. In addition, he and the Barcelona godfather Cruyff are deadly enemies, so in the third season of coaching, Van Gaal and the media The relationship with the fans has always been very bad, and finally left angrily after failing to win the league championship.

From start to finish, Van Gaal was never able to get a full four.

He later promoted Xavi, in fact, he also hoped that Xavi could fill the vacancy of Guardiola, but unfortunately, Xavi was too immature at that time and failed to meet Van Gaal's expectations.

However, from Xavi's admiration for Van Gaal every time he is interviewed now, it is not difficult to see that Van Gaal's cultivation of him during that time has benefited him immensely.

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After introducing the history he experienced personally, Guardiola is full of regrets.

Guardiola believes that that serious injury cost him a lot and affected a lot of people, especially Van Gaal.

It’s hard to find a No. 4 player. Van Gaal went from Ajax to Barcelona just to push his coaching career a step further, but he didn’t expect to be seriously injured by Guardiola.

From Guardiola's tone, although he didn't say it explicitly, he could hear that he still spoke highly of Van Gaal. Even in his heart, Van Gaal was the one behind the rise of Barcelona in recent years.

Especially this wave of youth training reformed by Van Gaal.

This also explains why Guardiola brought Busquets, his direct descendant from Barcelona when he coached the Barcelona second team.

This player is very similar to Pep Guardiola back then, and his defense is relatively average, but his passing organization, vision and overall situation are his strengths, which perfectly matches the No.

However, Guardiola also believes that after entering the new century, especially in recent years, the tactical innovation is very fast.

The position of the back midfielder requires a certain degree of defensive ability, and can protect the defensive line when the team is in the defensive position.

This is also the reason why Rijkaard's back line was always unstable after he had Deco and Xavi, and it was not until the introduction of Marcos Senna that he stabilized the backcourt.

Unlike Rijkaard's Barcelona, ​​Guardiola emphasizes pressing and pressing in the middle and frontcourt, so the defensive ability of the No. 4 player is not particularly high. He feels that Busquets is the best and most suitable for his requirements. The No. 4 player .

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In just an hour, it was fleeting.

The content is very detailed, allowing Su Dong to basically understand the inheritance of Barcelona's passing and control, especially his understanding of the number four tactics.

Most importantly, he took Sudong's assessment of Van Gaal to the next level.

Even Su Dong began to feel that Van Gaal was greater than Cruyff!

After the development of the No. 4 tactics is clear, everyone will go to watch Guardiola's tactical drawings, so that they can understand Guardiola's intentions and ideas more clearly.

But don't underestimate this.

Only when players figure out these things, execute them on the court, and cope with the ever-changing changes on the court, can they be more handy.

That's why Guardiola makes these tactical drawings and spends so long a day explaining them.

However, don't think that Guardiola is just a joke.

Quite the contrary, this guy really was the devil in the summer camp.

Especially when doing physical reserve training, it is definitely the most terrifying devil training Su Dong has ever experienced.

Guardiola and his team have had a clearer understanding of the characteristics of the Premier League after last season's experience in the Premier League, especially since there is no winter break, so during this season's summer training period, his training volume It's obviously bigger than before.

He even made no secret that he wants to train a team that can run the best in the Premier League and even European football.

Pass control, pass control, to ensure the stability of the pass and control, you need to have enough contact points, and each contact point is created by running, so he needs the players on the court to run.

This requires very good physical fitness.

Even the excellent physical fitness to cope with the 38 rounds of the league.

Because of this, he specially tailored the physical reserve training for Manchester City.

This caused all the players who participated in the summer training camp to be trained to cry and cry, and they were all in pain.

Who would have thought that behind Guardiola's seemingly refined appearance, there was such a brutal and tyrannical side.

It is precisely because the physical reserve training has indeed exhausted all the energy, which led to Manchester City's unsatisfactory performance in the following warm-up games, which once again raised questions from the media and fans.

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