Unlike the Premier League, Serie A has a generous Christmas holiday. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the 17th round of the league was played on December 21, it was a full two and a half weeks until January 7.

Inter Milan performed very well, the morale of the team was also very strong, and the club was also very supportive, paying all the salaries and match bonuses of the players before Christmas, and according to Gao Han's arrangement, each of them prepared a generous Christmas gift.

The holiday starts from the afternoon of the 22nd to the 29th, a full seven days of vacation, the longest vacation time in Serie A, which also makes every player in Inter Milan feel very happy.

After a lot of hard work and a few months of continuous play, I can finally have a good rest.

And Gao Han has only one requirement for their vacation, as long as they can pass the physical test of the coaching staff when they return to the team, it doesn't matter, they can go crazy no matter how crazy they want.

So, Gao Han gave an order, the players dispersed, and the Pinettina training base suddenly became deserted.

As the head coach of the team, Gao Han's vacation was actually not seven days, so he didn't consider returning to China, but flew to Madrid the day before Christmas, met with a few old friends, celebrated the holiday with Lin Xia and Chu Yao, and then returned to Milan.

It's not that he doesn't want to stay longer, but Lin Xia and Chu Yao also have work to do.

On the morning of the 27th he appeared in Pinettina.

The originally lively training base suddenly became deserted, which made Gao Han a little unaccustomed.

But stillness also has the benefit of being still.

Gao Han was idle, walking around, but suddenly found that the environment of Pinettina was really good, surrounded by greenery and beautiful scenery, and he missed it when he was busy on weekdays.

When Gao Han walked around the training base and returned to the office, he was surprised to find Guardiola sitting in his office, reading the newspaper with Erlang's legs crossed.

"Why are you here?" Gao Han was surprised, "Shouldn't you go on vacation with your wife and children at this time?"

"What about you?" Guardiola asked with a laugh.

Gao Han shook his head and sighed, "She happens to have a job, so she doesn't have time to accompany me." ”

"Each other, each other. Guardiola nodded amusedly.

Two men who were abandoned by their wives have a great sense of sympathy.

Gao Han walked over to make coffee, while Guardiola continued to sit on the sofa and chatted without saying a word.

"I went to visit someone before Christmas, guess who?"

Gao Han shook his head and smiled, "How can I guess?"

"Bielsa. Pep Guardiola laughed.

"Bielsa?" Gao Han was a little surprised, "You went to Argentina to meet him?"

"Hmm. Guardiola nodded.

"You're such a lunatic. Gao Han shook his head.

Guardiola's admiration for Bielsa, Gao Han knew it early on, but he didn't expect that he would go to Argentina in order to see Bielsa.

"Wait, you can't be abandoned because of this incident that you angered your wife, right?" Gao Han thought it was funny.

Pep Guardiola has a look on his face that you know even that.

Both of them laughed.

Soon, the aroma of coffee wafted throughout the office.

"What did you talk about with your idols?" Gao Han sat down across from Guardiola after handing over a cup of hot coffee.

"We talked all afternoon and all night. ”

Gao Han just took a sip of coffee and almost squirted, looking at the two guys as if looking at monsters, "You cows." ”

"At first, we talked a lot, but then, we talked very carefully. ”

"Tell me about it. ”

"A lot is about you. Pep Guardiola laughed.

"Me?" Gao Han was surprised again, "What do I have to talk about?"

"Bielsa told me that he was coming to Europe when he had the chance, and that he wanted to meet you and have a good chat, and he admired you very much, and asked me a lot about you, and I told me everything I knew, but he seemed to be still unsatisfied and dissatisfied. ”

Gao Han had a headache, and these two madmen actually used themselves as a topic.

Among them, one of his questions puzzled me as well. Guardiola frowned and looked at Gao Han.

"Tell me about it. ”

"He said that when you were at Atletico Madrid, the midfielder and the front court paid more attention to short players, although there was Torres who was not short, but they were also based on flexibility and speed, but when he arrived at Chelsea, he reused Ibrahimovic, and when he arrived at Inter Milan, in addition to Ibrahimovic, there was also an Adriano, and even later promoted Yaya Toure, which made him feel very puzzling. ”

"Then how do you answer?" asked Gao Han with concern.

Pep Guardiola laughed, "I told him that it had something to do with your bad taste, and he nodded tacitly, I guess he should have misunderstood me." After saying that, he was already bursting out laughing without any image.

Gao Han almost stopped crying, and compared his middle finger directly to Guardiola, day!

The great image was ruined.

"To be honest, I don't really understand either. After the joke, Guardiola asked curiously.

Since coming to Gao Han's coaching staff, he has always been a curious baby, and he will take the initiative to ask questions about things he doesn't understand and are not good at.

Gao Han thought for a while, organized the wording in his mind, and then said: "In my feeling, Italy's technical and tactical level has always been very high, and even I once thought that Italy is the league with the highest technical and tactical level in European football, from Sacchi to Lippi and Capello to Ancelotti, to Mancini and Prandelli, this country always produces tactical masters. ”

Pep Guardiola nods his head in agreement, Serie A has frequent tacticians, which is also recognized in football.

"But, again, I wondered, have they gone astray?"

When Guardiola heard this, his brows furrowed, "What do you say?"

"Starting from Sacchi, Italy generally attaches great importance to a strong overall tactic, which makes them generally attach great importance to execution and completion rate, so a team like Juventus is the most typical Italian team, with high tactical execution, amazing offensive and defensive completion of players, and the team is very compact and tight from front to back, and it seems that there are no weaknesses. ”

"And the fact is, when the tactics are so sophisticated, when the players have less and less room to play, the whole league will inevitably go in one direction. ”

"Power confrontation!" Guardiola is very clever and knows a little.

"That's right. Gao Han praised, "Think about it, are there any players in the Juventus team who have outstanding individual ability?"

The answer is, no.

The only players who have outstanding individual ability are Piero and Mutu, two players who can be described as the two breaths of fresh air in Juventus' muscular men.

But what about the individual abilities of these two players, if you look at it in the entire European professional league?

"The Bianconeri are most important for the physicality of the players, Trezeguet, Vieira, Nedved, Camoranesi, Emerson...... Almost all of them are this type of players, and if you say that you have both offense and defense, what about what you don't?"

Gao Han does not mean to belittle this group of players, in fact, each of them is the most powerful star in football today, but the question is, compared to players of the same level, do they seem mediocre and uncharacteristic?

If it's just one or two players, that's fine, but the question is, if it's like this for the whole team, and if most of the teams in Serie A are like this, does that mean that there is a problem with the selection criteria of this team, or even this league?

Pep Guardiola understands what Gao Han means.

When the tactics are tighter, there are only two ways for players to adapt to tactical play, either the more detailed the technique, or the stronger the physical confrontation.

The finer the technique, the better the player's ability to handle the ball in a tight area, and the stronger the physical confrontation, the better the player's ability to deal with the opponent in a tight area.

But the problem is that it is difficult to improve the technique in a short period of time, but the physical confrontation can.

And the professional leagues are undoubtedly eager for quick success, in this case, the team's selection criteria will definitely go to the route of the fastest results, then the problem is obvious.

The more technical and tactical the Italian football, the more it actually values the confrontation of forces.

"Actually, it's not happening right now, think about it, since when did Serie A start to pay attention to high school strikers?

Ibrahimovic, Adriano and Cruz at Inter Milan, Trezeguet and Salayeta at Juventus, Vieri at AC Milan, Luca Toney from Fiorentina, Amaury from Chievo, Iaquinta from Udinese, Corradi from Parma......

In the scorer list, it is basically these high school forwards who are shining, and there used to be AC Milan's Shevchenko and Inzaghi, but now these two players are in a slump, but it is the local center forward Gilardino who is highly used.

"When I decided to come to Serie A, a lot of people said that I couldn't adapt to Serie A, I understood what they meant, but I thought it was strange, did they think that I wouldn't be flexible?

When he said this, Gao Han suddenly laughed, full of a very mocking meaning.

'The more they think I'm not good, the more I have to prove it to them, but I also know that it's hard for a player like Villa to adapt to Serie A, even Torres, and Ibrahimovic is undoubtedly the best fit. ”

"There's Adriano, Cristiano Ronaldo, they're not afraid of physical confrontation, but they're very delicate at their feet, they can adapt to my technical and tactical requirements, they can adapt to the characteristics of Serie A, and they can fight their way for the team in the muscular forest of Serie A. ”

When Guardiola heard this, he completely understood what Gao Han meant.

These center forwards of Inter Milan, compared with the center forwards of other teams, are indeed more active at their feet, and they can understand why players like Martins, who are highly anticipated and have speed, but lack of skill at their feet, will not be looked down upon by Gao Han and will directly enter the cold palace.

In fact, Gao Han has always been very clear that if he clings to his own ideas and doesn't know how to be flexible, it is a death.

But if you blindly accommodate, blindly adapt, and don't have your own core concept, it is also a death.

Therefore, the wisdom of the Chinese told him that the way to balance the golden mean is the way to success.

From start to finish, he didn't want to play the kind of flashy passing at Inter Milan, all he wanted was to help Inter Milan find a technical and tactical system that combines his own characteristics and that of Serie A to succeed both domestically and in Europe.

It would be a technical and tactical system that belongs entirely to Inter Milan and to Italy.