At first, it was just Gao Han and Pep Guardiola chatting in the office about Bielsa and the selection of Serie A teams. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But it didn't take long for Moratti and Facchetti to arrive.

They read the news of Gao Han's return to Milan yesterday in the morning newspaper, so they called and learned that Gao Han was in Pinettina, and they were all on vacation, so they all came over when they were idle.

Since Gao Han coached Inter Milan, time has always been tight, and it is rare to have such a leisure opportunity to sit together, drink tea, chat, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Fachetti also agrees with what Gao Han mentioned, the development trend of Serie A in recent years.

"In fact, although we used to pay attention to tactics, we also developed a lot of quick midfield attacking players, such as Rossi, but also Baggio and Piero, and at the beginning of the century there were also Pirlo, Micoli and Cassano, but the whole environment is really becoming more and more unfavorable for this type of player. ”

Needless to say, Baggio and Piero basically did not reach the heights that one would expect.

Of course, that's not that they weren't good enough, but that they could have been better.

Andrea Pirlo was born as a striker and a midfielder, but he switched to playing in the back, Mikoli was not used heavily at Juventus, and Cassano had a perverse personality and may not be able to live up to expectations.

Not only in the midfield, but also in the backline, the players produced by Italy are basically the same.

"In the past, people like Cannavaro and Nesta basically practiced their individual skills first, waited until they were fast forward to the senior team, and then improved their tactical literacy and developed overall defensive awareness, but now they basically start to instill tactics from a young age. ”

When Fachetti said this, he also felt a little worried.

Gao Han understood what Facchetti meant, nodded and said: "Indeed, my understanding is that there is a problem with the selection criteria of players in the entire Serie A league, whether it is a striker, a midfielder, or a defender. ”

After a pause, Gao Han said with a wry smile: "I went to our youth training base to inspect, and I found that since the youth team, we have attached great importance to the improvement of players' physical confrontation and the inculcation of tactical literacy, while ignoring the cultivation of players' own abilities. ”

"To give you an example, Martins, he is really very fast, even I think, Henry and Ronaldo are not as fast as him, but I dare say that, with his technical ability, in any team, in any situation, it is impossible to reach the level of Henry and Ronaldo. ”

Moratti and Facchetti are speechless about this.

Although there has been a lot of hype about Gao Han's refusal to reuse Martins, it has always been clear within Inter Milan.

If nothing else, take Martins and Cristiano Ronaldobi, everyone can see the difference.

In this case, if Gao Han reuses Martins and ignores Cristiano Ronaldo, then there will be an inside story.

To put it bluntly, Martins is only a threat if his pace can play there, but Cristiano Ronaldo can play and create a threat on the pitch in either situation.

The reason for this is the difference in the individual abilities of the two players.

"Since the Saki era, the Italian academy has been going further and further down the road of tactical literacy and physical confrontation, and the last time I visited the academy, I even saw our academy coaches explaining tactics to a group of eight or nine-year-olds, telling them how to move and how to cooperate. ”

When Gao Han said this, the whole person smiled helplessly and bitterly, "My God, do they understand? Even an adult player will find it boring, you say a group of eight or nine-year-old children, they are interested in listening to this? Don't you think that this will only stimulate their boredom with football more and more?"

Facchetti is a professional footballer and is familiar with the academy, so he knows that what Gao Han said is the truth.

"This has been the norm in Italian youth training over the years. ”

"That is, the whole of Italy, from youth training to selection, has problems and has gone astray. ”

Gao Han's words made Fachetti really speechless.

In fact, in the past few years, there has really been no decent talent in the Italian academy, and the only one who is more capable is Cassano, but the player's perverse personality is well known.

Even in the league, young players such as Fiorentina's Pacini and Montolivo have been hyped but not as good as they should be.

"In fact, the emergence of youth talents is often a batch, there are highs and lows, in the past few years, Italy's youth training is indeed in a trough compared to the nineties. Facchetti sighed.

Gao Han shook his head and smiled, "You're right, youth training not only has highs and lows, but also has a serious lag, he serves the professional league, and cultivating a player is a process of several years, or even more than ten years, but the skills and tactics of professional football have always been making rapid progress, and they will usher in huge changes every few years." ”

"So, with this kind of youth training in Italy, when the players who have been trained go to the first team, they will find that they are seriously unable to keep up with the current mainstream technical and tactical development, not only are their technical skills not strong enough, but the tactical concepts instilled by the coaches over the years in their heads are also completely out of reality, how do they perform?"

In Gao Han's view, youth training is to serve the professional league, and the direction of cultivating players has always been clear.

The so-called emergence of talents may be because that wave of youth training gathered a group of young talents, played results, led the trend of technology and tactics, or conformed to the technical and tactical characteristics of the time, so it seems that there are many talents.

But the problem is that at the speed of change in the professional league, as long as three or five years, as short as one or two years, soon there will be teams to develop new tactics to restrain your set of technical and tactical characteristics, and gradually promote it, and soon, the original set of technical and tactical play that led the trend will not work.

If the youth academy still develops players in the original direction and method, then soon, the new batch of players will find that it is difficult for them to achieve good results, and even find it difficult to gain a foothold in the professional league.

"To take the simplest example, since the Saki era, the youth training in Italy has changed dramatically, the AC Milan youth team under Capello has been full of talent, and it reached its peak in the 90s, the Italian youth team was also highly respected in those years, but now?"

"The pace of play in the major European leagues is getting faster and faster, there is a trend in La Liga and the Premier League, and we all know that the faster the pace of the game, the higher the requirements for the technical skills of the players, which is why many players who seem to be very technically good in other leagues look very rough in La Liga and the Premier League. ”

"Not even talking about other leagues, let's talk about Serie A, in the past few years, the development of Serie A's technical and tactical level, and the players trained by the youth training, have not been able to keep up with the requirements of the league, so it will seem that local talents are withering. ”

The topic has gradually spread, from the original Inter Milan selection criteria, to the selection of other teams in Serie A, and now to the issue of Italian youth training, which has long exceeded the scope of the original discussion.

But it is difficult for everyone to refute Gao Han's words.

Because what he's talking about is the reality of Italian football right now.

"That'...... What do you do?" Moratti asked with concern.

Gao Han nodded and said: "It's very simple, according to the current European more advanced youth training concept, first difficult and then easy, first inside and then outside." ”

"What do you mean?" both Moratti and Facchetti were curious.

"Technique is the hardest because it takes a long time to work on it, and at the same time, it is necessary to train the players from a young age to play freely in the game, to be skilled in the use of technique, so that they can strengthen their technical ability and strengthen themselves from an early age. ”

"When they are fifteen or sixteen years old, when their skills are basically formed, they start to pay attention to developing their physical confrontation ability, instilling current tactical knowledge, improving their tactical literacy, and then allowing them to start entering the professional arena in two or three years. ”

Iron also needs to be hard.

As a professional footballer, the hardest thing is your own technical skills.

As long as he is hard enough and his technical skills are reached, then no matter how the skills and tactics change, no matter how the team's style and characteristics change, he can integrate into the team after a certain period of adaptation.

However, judging from the current youth training system and material selection standards of the Serie A League, it is completely upside down, and if it continues like this, let alone talents, I am afraid that it will be difficult to maintain the foundation of the entire Serie A League.

You must know that the rise and fall of professional leagues depends largely on their own hematopoietic ability.

Serie A teams are not as good as the Premier League, they don't even have their own stadiums, there are very few matchday operations, the Italian economy is not particularly good, and there is a lack of commercial income, which has led to Serie A teams themselves being a lot less than other leagues in terms of revenue.

In the past ten years, Serie A has been able to rely on rich bosses such as Moratti and Berlusconi to burn money behind their backs, but can this situation last?

The decline of Lazio and Roma, the fall of teams such as Parma, Sampdoria and Perugia is the strongest proof of this.

If the team's finances are not ideal, but the youth training is excellent, it can barely be maintained, but if it can't even be trained in the youth, then what can it rely on?

When it comes to football and youth training, Moratti and Facchetti are not as good as Gao Han, but when it comes to club management, Gao Han is definitely not as good as them, but it is precisely because of this that they know how serious the prospect described by Gao Han is.

In the past ten years, hasn't Inter Milan relied on Moratti to burn money?

But how long can he Moratti burn again? three years, five years, or ten years?

Guardiola, Moratti and Fachetti originally just came to talk to Gao Han, but they didn't expect that while chatting, they talked about such a big topic, and they felt scared even when they thought about it a little.

If it really comes to the day described by Gao Han, wouldn't Serie A be even worse than the current Bundesliga?

At the very least, the Bundesliga is now vigorously promoting youth training reform, and the financial revenue is much better than that of Serie A.

As for La Liga and the Premier League, I'm afraid it's even more of a no-brainer.

Moratti gasped and looked deeply at Gao Han, "What do you think should be done?"

Obviously, he really made up his mind.

"In two steps, we will standardize the operation and management of the club and expand the financial revenue as much as possible, and I think the focus should be on overseas market development and new stadiums. ”

Gao Han has seen the overseas development of Premier League teams and the huge benefits that a stadium brings, so Arsenal would rather cut back on a diet for many years than build a new stadium.

It's the same with Atletico Madrid, and so should it be with Inter.

As for how to build it, he didn't understand, it should be Moratti's own headache.

"Another step, vigorously promote the reform of youth training, the introduction of advanced foreign youth coaches, or arrange for the club's youth coaches to receive training in other advanced youth training bases in Europe, improve the level of youth coaches, but also improve their salaries, this is not something that can be done overnight, but perseverance, there will definitely be results. ”

Moratti understood what Gao Han meant, thought about it again, and nodded heavily.