Chapter 554: A Pilgrimage for One Man
In the morning, Lake Como is quiet and picturesque. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The water flowing from the snow-capped mountains of the Alps is bone-chilling, and the lake is overlooked, with a thick fog floating in the air, with a kind of misty ethereal, as if you are in a poetic fairyland.
The air was damp, the flowers and weeds on the roadside were still absorbing the dew of last night, and on the green grass under the trees by the lake, the fat mallards began to shake their bloated bodies and staggered to feed, and occasionally a few wild ducks approached the roadside, and they were not afraid of life, and they were not frightened by someone running closer, as if this was their territory.
Gao Han ran along the path on the shores of Lake Como, and by the time he reached the square, he was out of breath.
Standing in the square by the lake, looking at the dense fog on the lake, I took a deep breath of cold air, but it quickly turned into a puff of hot air and exhaled a wisp of white smoke.
In the past period of time, he was indeed too busy and neglected to exercise, and as a result, he gained a little weight, but even so, in the eyes of most people, Gao Han's body shape was still maintained very standard, but Lin Xia reminded him about this matter, so he made up his mind to start exercising again.
Reaching out and pushing away the hat that was covering his head, he was drenched with sweat and dew inside and out.
Taking a breath, Gao Han took out his mobile phone from his zipper pocket, and sure enough, he saw an MMS message, which was a photo sent by Lin Xia.
Although the two are in Spain and Italy, they will meet every morning to go out to exercise at the same time, and whoever runs to the place first will post photos, and it is no surprise that Lin Xia has won recently.
Gao Han took a picture of the foggy scene of Lake Como and sent it over, "What's the matter?"
Soon, he received a reply from Lin Xia, "Wow, it's so beautiful, I really want to fly over now." ”
"Hehe, it's not the most beautiful time, and after a while, when the camellias and rhododendrons on the side of the road are in full bloom, you must take a leave of absence to come and live for a while, and that is the most beautiful Lake Como of the year. ”
Lin Xia soon sent a beautiful photo with a bitter face and a frown, "I've started saving for vacation." ”
How long does she have to save up for a weekly trip between Madrid and Milan?
"Have you thought of your doctoral dissertation?" Lin Xia sent another text message.
The doctoral dissertation, which Gao Han told her as a joke, refers to the speech to be delivered tomorrow when she goes to Florence to accept the Golden Chair Award, which is indeed a bit like a doctoral dissertation in the field of professional coaching.
"I was thinking about it while running just now, and I was a little eyebrow-raising. Gao Han replied.
He likes to think about things when he is running, and he always feels that his brain is more flexible at this time.
"Okay, then write it out quickly, and I'll personally help you check it. Lin Xia was also very happy for him.
Gao Han smiled slightly, "Just you, can you understand?"
"Don't look down on people, okay?"
The two of them texted one after another, and before they knew it, the thick fog on the lake gradually dissipated.
The sun is coming out, and it's time for Gao Han to go back.
The trip to Kovirciano in the high cold can be said to be both a test and a pilgrimage.
As Pep Guardiola has said before, Italy's Golden Chair Award is not easy to win, at least for Gao Han.
If it's another manager, you can prepare a decent speech, talk about something that everyone is familiar with, talk about how to train, talk about tactical trends and so on, and you can get away with it.
But this is not good for Gao Han.
Renzo Uliveri, president of the Italian Football Coaches Association, had previously called Gao Han and jokingly said that everyone was eager to hear about his experience of being open and honest, because they were all extremely curious about Gao Han's coaching achievements over the years.
What is it that has allowed Gao Han to continue to win over the past few years?
Tactics?
Italian coaches are best at tactics, it is said that as early as when Gao Han coached Atletico Madrid, they were already studying Gao Han's tactics, and maybe even their research on Gao Han's techniques and tactics was more thorough than Gao Han's own.
Many people think that the Italian style is conservative and that Italy will only defend, but this is a big mistake.
The Italians were very advanced in their approach to tactics, and they had already integrated their experience into a very complete theoretical system back in the days of chain defense, passing on their experience to all those who came after them.
It's like a professional footballer who sprints on the pitch, but he may wonder why he is rushing this way, why is he rushing in this direction, why is it not going in other directions, why is it fast?
But under the Italian theory, they are able to explain these whys very reasonably, and they can even explain to you what kind of ripple effects might be if you made other choices.
But just an explanation?
No, the study of tactical theory in Italy was already very advanced.
It is said that the chain defense of the Trapattoni period was seven plus three, that is, in addition to the goalkeeper, seven players were fully engaged in defense, and three players were idle, but this set of theories was overturned in the nineties and became eight plus two.
In recent years, they have begun to study nine plus one, or even ten plus zero, and not only theoretical research, many teams have begun to put into practice and summarize from it.
Renzo Ulivieri is one of them.
The president of the Italian Football Coaches Association, the head instructor of Covelciano, is in his sixties, but he has never coached a big team in his life, and has coached more teams in the middle and lower reaches, devoting himself to the study of tactical theory.
He is currently in charge of Bologna in Serie B, but this does not prevent him from standing in Covilciano and Italian football, and he is even respected as a teacher by many famous coaches.
Italy's research on football tactics is not just influencing themselves, but the world.
Italy once led the world in goalkeeper training, with a variety of theories and training materials based on them, producing quite a few high-level goalkeepers for Italy, including Gianluigi Buffon.
Later, countries such as France, Germany and Brazil followed Italy's goalkeeper training and it was quickly improved.
As we all know, goalkeeper training in Brazil has not been very good, but now there are several strong goalkeepers such as Abbiati, Dida and Cesar in Italy, and Italy's goalkeeper training has played a big role behind it.
After Gao Han came to Italy, he personally experienced the amazing level of Italian technical and tactical theory, and also deeply felt the gap between the football level of his home country and the top teams in Europe, which is all-round.
Not just the players, not just the academy, but also the coaches, including all kinds of staff, not to mention the theoretical research.
Gao Han knows very well that he has been able to get to where he is today, thanks to the coaching system, so in the past few years, he has been constantly reminding himself and urging himself, and he is even more diligent and hardworking than before there was no coaching system.
He is constantly enriching his tactical literacy and theoretical knowledge by going through all kinds of football theory studies and various materials in the coaching system, but even so, is it appropriate to say this in front of a group of people who specialize in theoretical research in Kovilcano, as well as some head coaches from all over Europe who have heard the news?
It's not that he doesn't have the confidence to pass, it's that he wants to do better.
So, he intends to make a fuss in an area that little, if not any, pays attention to.
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"Can you tell me in advance what you plan to use as the theme?"
On the train from Milan to Florence, Pep Guardiola kept asking Gao Han, looking curious about the subject of his speech and wondering what Gao Han was trying to say.
Not only him, but everyone else in the box was equally curious.
It's also interesting to say that Inter Milan and AC Milan are rivals in the same city, but now the two sides are together.
This time, in addition to Pep Guardiola, who specially applied to be an observer, Inter Milan also has youth team coach Giuseppe Baresi, who has an excellent coaching record in the youth team, but has no idea of entering the first team for the time being.
On the contrary, AC Milan have a larger number, with assistant coach Tassotti, veterans Costacuta and Maldini, as well as retired former legends Leonardo and Franco Barresi.
Like Pep Guardiola, they are all curious about the subject of Gao Han's speech.
Covicciano is known as the temple of Italian football, and many of the world's top coaches, including Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Lippi, have been invited to speak, and each of them has left their valuable coaching experience here.
Because everyone knows that communication and collision are the driving forces behind the continuous development of football tactics.
Therefore, they are also very much looking forward to what Gao Han will leave here?
However, this guy is very annoying, he has done a lot of secrecy, he didn't show any words before, and after hearing Guardiola's question, he just laughed vigorously, but didn't say anything.
"Hey, I said, aren't you afraid of a car accident when you give a live speech?" Guardiola was depressed.
Gao Han opened his mouth and smiled very freely, "It doesn't matter, I don't care anyway." ”
That's just as well.
With Gao Han's status in European football today, even if there is a real car accident, it will not shake his influence.
Who makes the real achievements there?
However, if this speech can be successful, then Gao Han's status in European football will go to the next level.
In the final analysis, this is a bronzing trip, and it depends on his ability to succeed.
chatting on the train, the train arrived in a blink of an eye for more than an hour.
Covelciano, a national team training base in the eastern suburbs of Florence, had already learned of Gao Han's itinerary and arranged for a business car to meet them at the train station early.
To Gao Han's surprise, although the Covilciano base is known as the temple of Italian football, full of countless legends and legends, it is not at all as tall as imagined, but is surrounded by an old house, only a narrow country road passes, which makes Gao Han feel surprised when he comes to it for the first time.
"This is Kovelciano?" Gao Han was a little incredulous.
The mottled brick wall, the humble gate, the only thing that stands out is that there is a shield of the Italian national team nailed to the wall next to the door, and they use this simple and direct way to tell people that this belongs to the Italian national team.
After entering, turn left and there is a parking lot, but it is dirt and there is not even a layer of cement.
The only thing that is more than similar is that there is a hospital between the parking lot and the road outside, and I heard that the injured are diagnosed and treated here during the national team training camp.
An athletics field, five full-size football fields, four smaller-sized training fields, an outdoor swimming pool, and several low-rise training buildings make up the entirety of Covelciano.
This is the temple of Italian football.