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Managers are often behind the scenes, not in the spotlight and even grossly underrated.

Therefore, the selection of various star awards every year often affects the hearts of fans all over the world, especially the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer, the two most important individual awards, which are recognized as the Oscars of world football.

But on the other hand, the head coach's awards are often not noticed, and even if they are reported, they are all brushed aside.

Since 199, every year in September, UEFA will hold the European Head Coach Summit at its headquarters in Nyon, inviting about 20 of Europe's most popular head coaches to attend and share and exchange experiences with each other, which is also praised by the head coach circle as the world's highest level of head coach exchange platform, and they are all proud to attend.

But how many media reporters and fans are paying attention?

Now, this situation is gradually changing, especially with the rise of Alpine, more and more people are beginning to notice the role of the head coach and begin to realize the importance of a good manager to the team.

Especially this year, Gao Han's players first won the five major individual awards in Europe, and they were famous all over the world for a while, and then UEFA President Platini announced that Gao Han would be invited to give a keynote speech, which undoubtedly aroused the curiosity of the media and fans.

Therefore, when this year's European Coaches Summit was held, many media reporters from European countries and even around the world came to this remote place in the southern suburbs of Nyon, Switzerland, just to be able to catch a glimpse of the cold and the demeanor of many famous coaches, and also pay attention to this grand event.

Even if they are not allowed to attend the summit.

But after the first day's agenda was in order, Platini specially invited five managers, including Gao Han and Alex Ferguson, to attend a press conference to answer questions from reporters about the first day's agenda.

Gao Han mainly mentioned some of his thoughts on the reform of the UEFA Cup.

For example, he said that his first European championship trophy was the UEFA Cup, but in the past few years, the UEFA Champions League has attracted more and more attention, but the influence of the UEFA Cup has declined sharply, and the reason for this is that the UEFA Cup has gradually become a chicken rib after the expansion of the UEFA Champions League.

Is it that the UEFA Cup doesn't matter?

Gao Han thinks that this is not right, because the teams participating in the UEFA Cup are not the same as the teams participating in the UEFA Champions League, and the strength is not bad, but it lacks the attraction of top league teams.

Therefore, Gao Han said that after listening to UEFA's plan for the reform of the League Cup, he proposed that he hoped to organize a lifting channel between the League Cup and the Champions League, so that some teams that failed to qualify for the Champions League in the league also have the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League through the League Cup.

Platini expressed his gratitude to Gao Han's proposal, which he believes is very pertinent, but it involves a wide range and complexity, which needs to be carefully studied and discussed, but UEFA will definitely pay attention to it.

Gao Han also mentioned youth training, he took Spain, where he served as a technical consultant, as an example, and believed that in the past few years, there has been a good situation of talent blowout in Spain, which is inseparable from Spain's emphasis on youth training in the past.

But it is not enough to just pay attention to youth training, but also to give young people enough opportunities to play, for example, Spain allows the second team of professional teams to participate in low-level professional leagues, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity to increase the training of young players in Gao Han's view, so he also called on UEFA to organize more youth competitions, especially club echelon games.

In the past few years, with the rapid expansion of the influence of the Champions League, UEFA has made a lot of money in this competition, although it has invested a lot of money in youth training and supporting weak countries in football every year, but it is still far from enough.

For example, in some European club youth teams, the competition is often organized by each club itself, lacking unified management, and the competition is naturally unsatisfactory, basically relying on the investment of each team to maintain.

However, Gao Han believes that UEFA needs to take on this responsibility and organize relevant events.

Gao Han's appeal was also strongly supported by Alex Ferguson, and the Scots also believe that UEFA should indeed strengthen this aspect, after all, it has a huge role in promoting the long-term development of European football.

Platini said on the spot that UEFA would take it seriously and discuss this aspect.

However, for the special speech on the second day that many media have paid attention to, Gao Han smiled and said that he was still preparing.

Platini, Ferguson and others have said that they are very much looking forward to it, and UEFA will also broadcast it live on the official website, and fans will also be allowed to log on to the official website to watch the video of the speech in the future.

But by the next day, UEFA's headquarters was still full of dozens of media outlets and a group of fans who had travelled from afar.

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2nd floor of UEFA headquarters.

More than 20 of Europe's top coaches were invited to participate in the conference, all of whom sat under the podium like students in class, together with UEFA President Michel Platini and a number of key management and technical personnel.

Gao Han stood calmly in front of the podium in full view of everyone.

There was silence in the venue, and everyone looked at Gao Han and listened carefully.

"Once, when I was back in China on vacation, I was having a party with a few friends, and they had an argument. ”

"Some of them think that in the days of Pele, Maradona, the Dutch Three Musketeers, football was more sexy and moving, and the stars were stronger and better than they are now. ”

"But there are also some people who oppose it, they think that the previous techniques and tactics were very rough and not rigorous enough, which made the stars of the time outstanding, otherwise, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, and even ......"

When Gao Han said this, his right hand pointed to UEFA President Platini who was sitting in the front row, and the audience burst into laughter.

Even Platini himself applauded with laughter.

"They think that if these former legends were put in the current top European league, they would not have performed so well, and they might not even be as good as our current first-line superstars. ”

"Neither side was able to convince the other, neither could produce strong evidence to convince the other, and the quarrel was red-faced, but it was never possible to come to a result that everyone was generally convinced. ”

Everyone present also nodded, which is indeed the case.

The drama of Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong, thick and thin, or thin ancient and thick modern, not only exists in China, but also in Europe.

"Later, one time, I sat down with Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, and Hoeness, and I talked to them about it, and we talked a lot, but we basically came to some consensus. ”

"For example, we all agree that modern football is much faster paced than it used to be, and there is a tendency to get faster and faster. ”

Once again, everyone nodded their heads, and as long as they have experience in coaching in Europe's top leagues, they will not deny it.

"But we don't think that modern football will be better than before with a generally faster pace, we can only say that there have been good things before, such as Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo, for example, they often played a single savior, but now, this kind of wonderful scene is very rare, because our rigorous tactics do not give the opponent such space. ”

"Of course, this does not mean that the players of the past cannot play now, which is unrealistic, and it cannot be judged that all the players in the past cannot adapt to the development of modern football because the development of some players with more traditional styles has not met expectations. ”

"It's like Kaka, when I first met him, he wasn't taken seriously in Brazil, nobody liked his more modern style of play, they liked the classical, but in Europe, Kaka rose. ”

"I mean, if you take all the players from the past, maybe there will be a group of superstars who won't become superstars, but there will also be a group of nobodies who will rise up and become new superstars, just like Kaka. ”

As soon as Gao Han's words fell, there was a burst of applause at the scene.

"We also have a consensus that history is always repeating itself, and football techniques and tactics tend to develop in a spiraling way, but I think there are two things that will not change at the very core. ”

"One is passing and receiving skills, and the other is running without the ball. ”

"We all know that in a game, the vast majority of players are in a state of no ball, so running without the ball determines the overall strength of a player, and the reason why passing and receiving skills will become more and more important is because the overall rhythm is gradually accelerating, which certainly improves the viewing and increases the intensity of the game, but also puts forward higher requirements for the player's passing and receiving skills, and we will find that some players whose basic skills are not solid enough have been difficult to gain a foothold in the top league. ”

"With the ball and without the ball, it makes up the whole of a game. ”

Gao Han's opening remarks, although he didn't shake out anything dry, made everyone present curious, because they all knew that Gao Han would explain his ideas and his actual actions around his opening remarks next.

In fact, for these theories, this group of European first-line coaches in the audience are no strangers, especially Ferguson, Wenger and Benitez and other managers who have been coaching for many years, and they are even more familiar.

It's one thing to know, it's another thing to be able to do it.

Football, in the final analysis, is still a player, and if you want to play your own football, you often need to bring in reinforcements, but the recruitment is limited by many other aspects, such as the club's finances, and the support for the manager.

It's like Gao Han went to coach Bayern Munich, and the management triumvirate is all figures who have been immersed in professional football for many years, but they still choose to give power to Gao Han, and take out a transfer budget of 100 million euros, allowing Gao Han to introduce the players he wants.

If you are someone else, can you have this treatment?

Okay, even if there is, can anyone else have the vision of Gao Han to bring in a gem like Modric, dig out Hummels from the youth team, and make Schweinsteiger transform from a wing-back to play in a backfield?

Even if these conditions are met, does the manager have the connections and status of Gao Han to make players such as Robben, Ribery and Aguero give up invitations from other big teams to join a team that can't even play in the Champions League?

At the end of the day, theories just exist in theories.

The reason why Gao Han is where he is today is not only because he understands these theories, but because he is Gao Han.

Therefore, relatively speaking, everyone is more interested in Gao Han's next actual analysis.

And Gao Han did not hide his selfishness, from the selection of players when recruiting, to the daily training requirements, to the communication with the players, and how to mobilize the enthusiasm of the players and maintain their desire to win......

He dissects his coaching philosophy from a number of different perspectives and perspectives.

Some of them are not unusual, and many of them have been used by many people present, but some of them have made everyone's eyes shine and feel fresh.

But what Gao Han really shocked everyone present was the dry goods he put at the end.