Football: After listening to the advice, I became the strongest free man.

Chapter 185 Beckenbauer in Modern Football

Bai Ran held the USB flash drive in his hand and looked at Zidane with intense eyes.

Zidane, on the other hand, was full of hope for Bai Ran. He nodded, patted Bai Ran on the shoulder and said, "Come on, in the last few rounds, we must lead Real Madrid to victory."

Bai Ran nodded firmly.

"Of course!"

Regarding the next few games of Real Madrid, Bai Ran is very confident. In La Liga, all Real Madrid can do is win every game and wait for Barcelona to reveal its flaws.

However, if Barcelona does not lose or draw, but wins and wins, then Real Madrid has nothing to say. Bai Ran also agrees with this result. After all, their first half of the schedule was too messy.

There are problems in the locker room, conflicts between the club's senior management and the players, as well as the head coach's tactical arrangements and unfair employment.

All of this made Real Madrid's performance in the first half of this season very unsatisfactory.

In other words, Real Madrid actually only played 100% of its strength against Barcelona for half a season.

Even if I get the runner-up, I have nothing to say.

Nothing to regret.

If this is the case, Bai Ran has full certainty and confidence to regroup and clean up the past this coming season. In the 16-17 season, he will be able to overtake Barcelona and win the league championship.

As for the Champions League, as Real Madrid has half a foot in the semi-finals, the teams it faces are becoming more and more powerful, and their strength is comparable to Real Madrid.

This still puts a little pressure on Bai Ran.

At the end of the day's training, Bai Ran packed up his things and headed back home.

At home, Bai Ran simply washed up, then sat in front of the computer and inserted the USB flash drive.

The document Zidane gave himself was a collection of top players' highlights of certain specific tactics.

These videos last for dozens of hours, enough for Bai Ran to watch for several days.

The first thing that catches the eye is the ancient god of football - Beckenbauer!

As we all know, Beckenbauer, also known as "Emperor Beckham", was the beginning of free man tactics and one of the pioneers of classical tactics.

The term "free agent" rarely appears in modern football. The increasingly industrialized training of youth players and the coaches' requirements for players are gradually fading this system out of football.

In the eyes of modern football, teams need players with strong physical fitness, because the crushing force can make the entire team indestructible.

In classical football, in the early years everyone thought that the so-called free man had no fixed position and could appear wherever he thought he should appear at will. Later, as everyone understood football more deeply, they gradually understood that the free man In fact, it is a fixed position. Although the degree of freedom is high, it still has its fixed role and responsibilities after all.

Free agent tactics first require that the team's tactical thinking must be highly unified. Except for the free agent players, other players must have fixed positions and coordinate with the free agents to cooperate and fill positions.

Liberos have more freedom on the offensive end than on the defensive end. He can play as a midfielder, winger, or even as a center forward. When the free man appears in the corresponding position, the teammates next to him must also make coordinated movements.

In most cases, the free man controls the ball in the defensive midfielder and front midfielder positions, and serves as the core of the offense to coordinate the team's offense.

This is what Bai Ran did on the court.

Under Zidane's transformation, the defensive end was mainly completed by defenders and Casemiro, and Modric was gradually shaped by Zidane into an engineer role beside him.

Stealing, organizing, receiving, passing...

All the dirty work and odd jobs are done by Modric.

With this master by his side to help Bai Ran "shoot the ball," Bai Ran can fully utilize his offensive talents.

Previously, this role was occupied by old teammate Hermoso.

It seems that Zidane has been trying this system and never given up.

Looking back, in the 64-65 season in ancient times, Bayern head coach Tchaikovsky began to try to let Beckenbauer try a free agent without marking tasks, and participate in the midfield organization during offense. .

In the following seasons, Beckenbauer got inspiration from Facchetti and tried to dribble the ball in the middle into the opponent's penalty area. This scene appeared repeatedly. Finally, after a few games of running-in, he completely " Freeman” was born.

Beginning in 1971, Beckenbauer began to serve as a free agent in the national team, helping West Germany win two championships, the 1972 European Cup and the 1974 World Cup. Bayern also started the first period of its dynasty, winning 2-74 for three consecutive years. Winning the Champions League championship has written a legendary story.

Unlike Cruyff's "total offense, total defense" tactic that relies on teammates and the system to fight, the "free man" tactic pioneered by Beckenbauer is entirely based on one's superior technical ability and physical fitness.

If you can do it all by yourself, you don't need teammates.

This requires extremely high personal abilities of the players. It can even be said that among the current players in football, apart from Zidane, there is no other player who has discovered such abilities.

No one can make Zidane think of such a tactical arrangement like Bai Ran.

No one can guarantee the completion of such a heavy workload, and the difficulty is very high!

It seems that Bai Ran is deeply trusted by Zidane!

Zidane is also betting. If that doesn't work, Zidane will probably transform Bai Ran into a passing playmaker like Pirlo.

But game after game gave him hope. Bai Ran's growth rate was frighteningly fast, and his level in all aspects could basically reach the level of a free agent.

I guess you can try this system out!

Although it has been eliminated by the times, Zidane always has a way to strengthen this system, summarize the shortcomings that have been exposed before, and then formulate a new set of free agent tactics.

Of course, this system is aimed at Real Madrid, let alone Bai Ran.

Without Bai Ran, this system would be gone.

From the video, Bai Ran can see that in the game highlights, this tactic requires players to quickly retreat to the middle or even behind the defenders when defending, and rely on observation and reading to gain insight into the opponent's attack strategy and their own defensive loopholes. Only by repairing and cutting off leaks can there be no leakage.

When attacking, you must press forward quickly. Not only must you use precise long and short passes to organize and plan, but if necessary, you must even launch a charge directly from the back line, passing people all the way into the opponent's hinterland to carry out the attack.

Different from Bai Ran's current playing style, Zidane assigned Bai Ran the task of being a free man in the frontcourt, who was mainly responsible for all offensive matters, but he did not need to handle the defense behind him.

Beckenbauer is different, from defense to offense, everything is grasped.

At the beginning of the development of football tactics, forwards were only responsible for offense and defenders were only responsible for defense. Later, midfielders appeared, and both offense and defense were involved. But now, forwards must participate in defense and defenders must participate in offense. The idea of ​​​​a free man with multiple abilities. It can even be said to be ahead of its time.