Some people say that professional football is a war without gunpowder.

But it's easy for fans to get caught up in the game of war and overlook the brutality of the war itself.

Professional football has always been cold and cruel, and there is no room for warmth.

Even Chinatown, which has been highly regarded by world football and fans in recent years, has brutally eliminated a large number of young players every year, and they are at best more responsible than other clubs, which naturally makes them look more warm.

As the saying goes, soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent.

There is no fixed way to win wars, and this is no different in professional football.

Therefore, it is natural to derive a variety of different technical and tactical plays, which can really be described as a hundred flowers blooming and each is good at winning, which also directly drives the prosperity and prosperity of European football, attracting various different types of football talents from all over the world.

But it is precisely because of the blooming of a hundred flowers that it will inevitably create contradictions and conflicts between each other.

For example, Gao Han and Mourinho, both debuted on the Barcelona coaching staff and studied under Louis van Gaal, but there are irreconcilable contradictions between them.

The same is true for Louis van Gaal and Cruyff.

As the grandmaster of Dutch football philosophy, the two have never been in contact with each other.

On the surface, the conflict between the two originated during Van Gaal's tenure at Ajax, and Cruyff, as an Ajax celebrity, had repeatedly criticized and criticized Van Gaal's coaching in the media and gave some suggestions of his own.

It is not difficult to imagine that with Cruyff's popularity in Ajax back then, his suggestions would inevitably put pressure on Van Gaal, and even the management could not listen to Cruyff's opinion, which was naturally unacceptable to the tough Van Gaal, and immediately gave a counterattack, and the two have since formed a bond, which has intensified later.

It is difficult to say which is right and which is wrong in the end, because the same thing has been repeated in European football, for example, Van Gaal has also blamed Ajax during Koeman's coaching, and the two have also had conflicts over this, and Cruyff's relationship with many Barcelona managers is also not ideal.

But if you get to the bottom of it, it is not difficult to find that the contradiction between the two comes from the difference in tactical concepts between them.

Professional football has developed for so many years, and the study of tactical theory has long become a systematic system.

As early as decades ago, Lobanovsky, a famous tactical theorist from Ukraine, put forward the theory of holistic football, believing that individual skills should serve the whole, and tactics are not to arrange the best eleven, but to let each player follow the arrangement of the head coach and give priority to the interests of the team, and then consider expressing himself.

During Michels' tenure, Hungarian football reached its zenith, with their sense of position, the use of every inch of space on the pitch, and the excellent overall coordination of the game, which brought a strong impact on European football at the time, and Michels pioneered the concept of all-attack and all-defense based on his predecessors.

As the name suggests, full offense and full defense refers to the participation of all players in offense and defense, players do not have an absolutely fixed position, full of fluidity, only relative positions between each other, which brings obvious benefits, especially the wave offensive system, which makes the team full of attacking power, but the forward pressure of the defensive line is too large, and the team's defensive hidden dangers due to excessive use of offside tactics are becoming more and more obvious, and they are gradually being used by opponents.

It can be said that Michels's all-out attack and defense laid the foundation for the development of modern football, and also profoundly influenced many latecomers, such as Cruyff, Van Gaal and Rijkaard, etc., they all come from the same vein, all of them respect the ability of the midfield and the backfield, and all advocate the front-court attack without a core, that is, do not set up a number ten forward and so on.

Under the premise of continuing Michels' concept of full attack and defense, the individual should be unconditionally subordinated to the whole, Cruyff and Van Gaal have an irreconcilable disagreement, that is, Cruyff, who was born as a superstar player, naturally believes that the team's skills and tactics should be based on serving the players and maximizing the strength of the players.

But Van Gaal does not agree with this, he believes that the player's individual performance is very unstable, in the long season will inevitably be accompanied by ups and downs, around the player to develop skills and tactics, inevitably will be dependent, the team's performance will also be affected, only the team of eleven through a clear and rigorous division of labor, to ensure the strict operation of the entire technical and tactical system, in order to ensure the stability of the team's competitiveness, even if the core players are absent will not be greatly affected.

This has something to do with Van Gaal's not brilliant career as a professional footballer.

This rift between the two men came to an end during Louis van Gaal's time at Ajax, but this time it ended with Louis van Gaal's success at Ajax reaching the pinnacle of his managerial career.

However, during his subsequent spell at Barcelona, Louis van Gaal had a problem with his philosophy when he faced a star-studded Barcelona, failing on both occasions, especially in the second spell, which suffered a humiliating defeat in the midst of the club's chaotic management.

Later, Van Gaal's former protégé, but closer to Cruyff's Rijkaard, was successful in Barcelona, so the game ended in Cruyff's victory.

But interestingly, Rijkaard's early success in coaching is inseparable from the role of assistant coach Ten Carter, who is known for his tough management and his philosophy is more inclined to Louis van Gaal.

If the combination of Rijkaard and Ten Carter neutralizes the ideas of Cruyff and Van Gaal, then when it comes to Guardiola, it is the best of both worlds, reaching a whole new level.

At this time, Gao Han has proved one point in European football with continuous success, the individual and the whole are two inseparable factors in skills and tactics, and only by complementing each other can we achieve success.

Cruyff has been away from coaching for a long time, but Van Gaal has always been there, especially in 2014, leading the Dutch team to the World Cup runner-up, which made Van Gaal famous, and he retired successfully, and was once linked with Chelsea, Bayern Munich and other teams, but Van Gaal did not make the trip in the end and has been idle at home.

Although it is leisure, in fact, Van Gaal has not been idle, he often goes to the coach training class in Chinatown to teach, and has always kept in touch with Gao Han, often exchanging coaching experience and understanding.

This time, Gao Han came to Ajax to watch the game, and he was specially invited to the Amsterdam stadium.

Although Van Gaal was silent the whole time, Gao Han could feel a strange look in his eyes, that is, longing.

The desire to return to the front lines.

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"Luiz, I've been planning to buy a team recently. ”

Taking advantage of the halftime break, Gao Han approached Van Gaal, who was sitting next to him, and whispered.

From the time Gao Han specially invited him to come to the Amsterdam stadium, Van Gaal already knew that Gao Han must have something important to discuss, but he couldn't guess what it was, because Valverde has done a good job in Chinatown, and the team is currently ranked second in La Liga.

Van Gaal knew that Gao Han was not trying to replace Valverde, but he was still taken aback.

"European teams?" Van Gaal asked quickly.

Gao Han pursed his lips, shook his head and said: "No, of course not, I don't mean to go against UEFA, it is a Chinese team, the negotiations are now nearing the end, it is estimated that it will be negotiated in October, the previous head coach is Zaccheroni, but he is currently out of class, so if the acquisition is completed, we must find a new manager." ”

The Chinese team?

Van Gaal's first reaction was to resist, because he had no intention of leaving the European frontline, which is the core of world football, and going to distant China almost meant going to retire, although he was 65 years old, he had no idea of retirement.

Gao Han has also been paying attention to the change in Van Gaal's expression, and he knows very well that how can the arrogant Van Gaal accept to coach in the Chinese Super League?

With Van Gaal's current prestige status, I believe there is no shortage of interested teams, and the reason why he is idle is just waiting for a better coaching opportunity, after all, at his level, it is serious to prefer lack to abuse.

"I understand what you think, Luiz, but you've got the supreme Lifetime Achievement Award and I think it's hard to prove yourself again in European football, in the Netherlands, and in this day and age...... I'm sure you understand. ”

Gao Han's words were not explained thoroughly, but the meaning was clear.

Van Gaal's ability is unquestionable, but his coaching efforts since leaving Ajax have not been very successful for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the club's landscape and coaching environment.

Of course, it is inevitably caused by his own personality.

The reason why Gao Han favors Van Gaal is very important is that he has a very complete and strict Dutch technical and tactical system inheritance, and Van Gaal himself is very good at digging and cultivating young players, which is very consistent with Gao Han's next business ideas.

Yes, Van Gaal's current concept is not advanced in European football, but it is still very advanced, and it is not something that any team can play casually, but if it goes to the Chinese Super League and the Asian League, this is simply a dimensionality reduction blow, and it is reduced by two or three dimensions.

The reform of Chinese football has begun vigorously, and the Chinese Super League teams have begun to invite world famous coaches to coach, bringing a variety of advanced training methods and coaching programs, but there is no coach like Van Gaal.

Lippi is undoubtedly a bigger name than Louis van Gaal, but at this point, he is still slightly lacking.

"You know, what makes Michels great is not only because of the height of his tactical philosophy, but also because of what he has done for the Netherlands, for Barcelona, and it can be said that he has profoundly changed the system of European football. ”

Van Gaal has also done this in Barcelona, but it is not very familiar, for example, the most typical is goalkeeper training, Frans Hawke's goalkeeper training program completely subverted the training and training system of Spanish goalkeepers, and it is still widely used in Spanish football, producing top goalkeepers including Valdés, Casillas, Reina, De Gea and so on.

"Our Chinese football is now poor and white, and we have the largest population in the world, and we have built seven of the world's top youth training centers in China, and we are considering building ten in the future, which will cultivate a steady stream of football talents every year, and the government has also begun to make great efforts to launch youth training reforms......

Speaking of this, Gao Han looked at Van Gaal deeply and said word by word.

"We need a Michels who has an advanced football concept and a tailor-made football tactical system for us. ”

He believes it was a temptation that Van Gaal could not refuse.

(End of chapter)