Super Coach

It seems...something's wrong!

In front of the visiting team's bench at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Chile's head coach Jorge Sampaoli looked worried. This was not at all like the head coach of the dominant Chilean team after the game started. The expression he should have, he could be more relaxed and more confident.

But he can't, because he is facing the number one coach in the world, a coach who even Bielsa can't do anything about!

No, we have successfully brought the rhythm of the game under our control. It has been 15 minutes and we have completely gained the upper hand. The German team looks a little passive. How could something be wrong? the assistant next to him said with a look on his face. Said optimistically.

Sampaoli frowned. He didn't know what to say and couldn't see what was going on. But he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was. In short, after the game started , everything felt unreal to him.

Maybe... it went too smoothly! Sampaoli said in disbelief.

It went too smoothly? the assistant next to him chuckled, Isn't it smooth? This proves that the tactics you arranged before the game worked. We completely overwhelmed the powerful German team. We are now just one goal away. As long as we score one goal, we can open up the situation and defeat the German team and reach the top 8!

Speaking of this achievement, the assistant looked excited, because killing the German team would definitely make Chile famous in one fell swoop. He believes that not only him, but all the Chilean internationals on the court have the same hope and eagerness in their hearts.

Yang Cheng and his German team will become famous in one fell swoop as long as they score a goal. If they are eliminated, the whole world will be shocked, and fans all over the world will remember Chile forever from this moment on. Remember each one of them!

Just thinking about this makes everyone's body feel hot.

Sampaoli looked at the excited assistant,

Looking at the situation on the court, he didn't know what to say, but he really felt that everything happened so smoothly, as if his opponent was deliberately putting the initiative of the game into his hands. Similar. Chile encountered no resistance at all and easily took control of the game. gained the upper hand.

Perhaps. After the German team played in the group stage and Japan, the state came out too early and too fast, and now it is at a low point! The assistant on the side seemed to be looking for a reason to convince Sampaoli.

Is it really? Sampaoli asked himself in confusion, but he did not say it out loud: I hope so!

He turned his head sideways, looked in front of the home team's coaching bench, and stood upright. Sampaoli couldn't believe Yang Cheng, who still looked calm. This is the reaction that a head coach who is at a disadvantage in the game should have. Doesn't he want to save the situation? Doesn't he want to turn the situation around?

Sampaoli didn't understand. He has never had any contact with Yang Cheng. The only time he met face to face was before the start of the game. When he saw Yang Cheng walking out of the tunnel, he took the initiative to go over to say hello and get to know the player who even Bielsa was full of praise for. Coach, and then the two had a brief and polite conversation, and then nothing more.

Everything about Yang Cheng and Sampaoli comes directly from Bielsa.

In Chile, Argentina, and even in South America, many fans know that the 54-year-old Sampaoli considers himself a student of the 59-year-old Bielsa. He always says that he is a follower of Bielsa, despite the relationship between the two. It seems more like like-minded friends, but no one knows Bielsa and his football better than Sampaoli.

Everyone says that Bielsa is crazy, but only Sampaoli clearly knows that even if Bielsa is crazy, he must be crazy for persistence. Although he has only coached in Chile for less than three years, he is absolutely crazy. Can be called the godfather of Chilean football, he is a god in Chile!

Although Bielsa was questioned in the early days of his coaching, soon, Bielsa used his World Cup ticket to make all Chile crazy about him; although Chile lost miserably to Brazil at the World Cup in South Africa, Bielsa used his commanding Football, which is highly praised by people every day, has won the hearts of fans all over Chile.

After that, Bielsa set off an Argentine craze in Chile. Chileans who love football even asked Bielsa to attend the National Entrepreneurs Annual Conference and lecture on his management experience to entrepreneurs across Chile.

If it weren't for the subsequent change of president of the Chilean Football Association, Bielsa would not have left Chile!

No one is more aware of Bielsa's contribution to Chilean football than Sampaoli, because he led the sluggish Chileans out of the trough, just like Yang Cheng led the German team out of the trough. Both of them are respected as gods by their respective countries!

Sampaoli still remembers the first time Bielsa competed with Yang Cheng after he coached La Liga. After that, he called Sampaoli with a smile. At that time, Sampaoli could not feel the sadness of the loser from Bielsa at all, but A kind of excitement of a crazy philosopher struggling to prove the truth.

Bielsa said that he saw philosophy from Yang Cheng. Yang Cheng's Real Madrid really made him understand that football tactics are a philosophy, a philosophy given by the head coach, and Yang Cheng's Football philosophy is like Michels' total offense in the Netherlands, Italy's chain defense, and England's long pass and lob philosophy, which will have a profound impact on world football.

Bielsa even asserted that the impact of Yang Cheng's football philosophy on the football world will continue to affect the football world even 50 years later. Only then will the whole world deeply feel the changes Yang Cheng has brought to the football world!

Just such a person, a person who even praised the crazy Bielsa, would he make such a miscalculation? So vulnerable?

Sampaoli didn’t believe it, he couldn’t believe it!

Yes, he is a follower of Bielsa's football philosophy, but his character is different from Bielsa. He does not have Bielsa's almost crazy stubbornness. He knows how to adapt better, which makes his team seem to be in the same line as Bielsa, but in fact he knows how to adapt and is more practical than Bielsa.

Or should I say, Bielsa is the kind of head coach who puts me first. He doesn’t care how the opponent plays or who the opponent is. Anyway, he just wants to follow his own way. He trains his team according to his own thoughts and ideas, which makes the results of his team generally have ups and downs.

And his style has been deeply engraved into the soul of Chilean football in just three years.

Sometimes, Sampaoli feels that this is his fate!

In the early days of Chilean football, it was considered a relatively rough team in South America. It was once known to the whole world for its two-match Chilean team. However, at that time, Chile was a two-person team to some extent. Everything revolves around Shuangsha, and with the departure of Shuangsha. Chilean football also fell into a trough due to adjustments. In 2007, they even encountered Brazil twice in the America's Cup, and were brutally slaughtered by the opponent 3:0 and 6:1 respectively. This was humiliated by Chile.

After Bielsa took charge of Chile, he injected more things into the small and smart style, speeding up the team's overall offense and defense, and greatly improving the team's enjoyment. This is how the crazy Chilean team of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa came about.

But Bielsa's success has also fueled Chile's madness. His football seems to be born to cater to Chilean aesthetics. From the national team to the club, from the adult team to the youth team in one time. They all started to follow Bielsa's football style, obsessed with ground coordination and advancement. In addition, Chile did lack individual breakthrough experts and threatening centers, so the style was established in one fell swoop.

But after Bielsa, Chile entered a trough. Former Milan star Borghi failed to continue Bielsa's madness. In the 2011 Copa America, Chile suffered a defeat. The group stage was already full of difficulties. As soon as it was out of the group stage, it was eliminated. Venezuela was eliminated 2:1 and then suffered five consecutive defeats in the World Cup qualifying matches. This frustrated the ambitious Chileans. Therefore, Borghi dismissed get out of class and chose Sampaoli, who was leading the University of Chile and was in the spotlight at the time.

Sampaoli is actually a very self-aware person, and at the same time he knows how to reflect at all times. He clearly understands that the reason why he led the University of Chile to rank second in the world after Real Madrid in the FIFA club rankings, then It is more caused by this team gaining points in the domestic league.

The traditional giants Colo-Colo and the archrival Catholic University both encountered huge difficulties and problems. This led to the University of Chile being invincible and winning the league. However, the status of the Intercontinental Cup they won in South America is somewhat similar to that of Europe. In the UEFA Cup, the real top teams compete in the Copa Libertadores.

In the two-round contest with Copa Libertadores champion Santos, the University of Chile had a draw and a loss, with a total score of 0:2!

In the 2012 Copa Libertadores, the University of Chile also lost to Boca Juniors again in the semi-finals. Just like the match against Santos, it was a home draw and an away game, losing 0:2.

Sampaoli is a very rational person. He is very clear about the importance of the University of Chile he leads as the so-called second in the world. Therefore, after he took charge of Chile, he also knew very clearly that today's South America is no longer the world's second largest university. South America used to be South America. Today, South America has become more and more European, especially at the tactical level. Football around the world is becoming unified.

Although this trend has reduced many local differences, it is more mature. The 2011 America's Cup is a clear proof. It was definitely an America's Cup for tacticians, not the America's Cup in the traditional definition!

As teams like Uruguay, Venezuela, Paraguay, and Bolivia begin to Europeanize and play more calmly and conservatively, if Chile continues to insist on its past open-ended, even a little crazy style of play, it will continue to be obsessed with If their tactical style cannot keep pace with the times, it will be impossible for them to continue to maintain a place in South America.

Therefore, Sampaoli has always hoped to transform Chile while retaining some of Bielsa's imprint, and he also achieved certain results in the South American qualifiers, and he also did it in the World Cup group stages. at this point.

However, in this game, when facing the powerful German team, he seemed to have a feeling. He felt that the suppressed devil in the heart of every Chilean player, with a profound imprint of Bielsa, broke free. The cage controls everything!

Looking at the excited assistant beside him. Seeing the almost crazy attacks on the court, the players who seemed to have all the advantages, but could never really threaten the German team's goal, he suddenly had a realization, and he suddenly thought that he had fallen into a trap... ...Belsa is a respectable lunatic, and the team he leads is certainly not normal!

In front of the home team's coaching bench, Yang Cheng watched the game silently. What he saw was that the German team was defending and Chile was attacking, but he, who always likes to take the initiative, was not angry at this situation at all, nor did he want to change it, because this was the effect he wanted. .

Of course, this is not to say that Yang Cheng completely directed the current situation on the field, but the German team's tactics in this game were to consciously give up the initiative. Let Chile come up and attack, because in his opinion. Chile is a typical team whose offense is stronger than its defense. And the gap is huge.

Looking at the matches of the America's Cup, Chile met Uruguay and Venezuela, and the results were miserable. The reason is very simple.

Chile basically inherited the tactical style of Bielsa's period, although after Sampaoli came to power, it changed from the original 3-back to a more European style. There is also a more stable 4-back, and I hope Chile can adopt a more practical teamwork tactic. But the effect is never very obvious.

Their routines have been figured out, even sometimes. They all seem a bit mechanized, deliberately advancing on the ground purely for the sake of advancing on the ground, and kicking back and forth in order to kick back and forth. This tactic may have a good effect when encountering a team with poor tactical discipline, but once encountered A team with great tactical discipline and strong teamwork will suffer a huge loss!

Youdao means that unity is powerful. Individual soldiers have no advantage, so just fight with the system!

Every team has its own traditions.

Some people may be wondering, what is tradition?

Tradition is a kind of temperament, a kind of character, a kind of label!

This kind of temperament and character is often given by the head coach when the team is formed or restructured, and is infused with soul. From then on, regardless of the passage of time or personnel changes, unless this team breaks through again Without transformation, otherwise the soul of this team will always be on this team and affect everyone.

While Bielsa transformed Chile, he also gave the team a character, a character that is obsessed, persistent, and even a little crazy. All of this comes from Bielsa.

However, without Bielsa, this team has lost a helmsman who is most suitable for them and has started to go astray!

The ancient Greek poet Eudipides once said that if a god wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy. Now Chile has begun to lose its rationality! Yang Cheng looked at the court. The game time had entered 30 minutes. In the past half hour, the German team steadily controlled the 32-meter area in front of their own goal.

As long as this area is under control, no matter how fierce Chile's offensive is, it will only sound like thunder but little rain.

Chile's shortcomings are very obvious, with a single offensive method, lack of changes, excessive pursuit of ground coordination, and the lack of a powerful forward on the forward line. This makes it difficult for Chile's offense to break into the German team's defense after the German team tightens its defense. restricted area.

This world is really cruel. Even after Bielsa went to La Liga, he still learned to compromise with this cruel world and began to learn how to integrate and adapt to this world. But in South America, Chile has always Still adhering to Bielsa’s crazy football philosophy, does this sound like a tragic poem from ancient Greece?”

Paul Bayer on the side saw Yang Cheng dropping his book bag and burst out laughing, Stop pretending to be a cultured person over there. If you are really so compassionate, you might as well just lose this game!

I look down on hypocrites like you the most! Benitez said coldly.

Yang Cheng was completely choked and speechless. This group of bastards had been saying that Chile was a pity, but now they are turning their guns against him? Who is the hypocrite?

Although Chile deserves sympathy and is a pity, there is no way. This is the trend and the general trend. Even Bielsa has changed. Their persistence is destined to become a tragedy! Ballack said realistically.

As they were talking, they saw Chile launch another wave of attacks, but this time the German team once again used the double midfielder combination of Sven Bender and Bastian Schweinsteiger. This combination also performed well. He was very steady, organized and sorted out the midfield very well, and the entire defense of the German team behind him was handled in an orderly manner, so Chile returned without success once again.

As the game failed to get underway, the Chilean players were obviously a little impatient, because although they were able to control the ball skillfully, they were still unable to find an effective way to break down the German team's defense. As soon as they entered the German half, they It's like I've hit a wall and can't start.

But they will not give up. They are still trying to find ways to break through the wall in front of them, because they know very well that behind the wall is the opponent's goal and victory. As long as they break it open and knock it down, victory will belong to them.

This belief has been supporting them since the beginning of the game, has been encouraging them, and allowed them to launch attacks continuously, but they themselves did not realize it at all. As they became impatient after being unable to attack for a long time, their passes and passes There are more and more errors in ball coordination, especially as the situation on the back line has become stable and a bit too high.

The best thing Sampaoli did after taking charge of Chile was to avoid the excessive pressure of the defense similar to Bielsa's period. But now, as the situation progresses, the players seem to be a little less calm and are beginning to go back to the past path.

After Yang Cheng saw this situation, he glanced at Sampaoli again. The Argentine seemed to be aware of it. He smiled and said, This show is finally going to be the climax! (To be continued. If If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.) RQ

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