The variable lies in one of the big names of the Italian team.

Judging from the technical level of the players alone, Lu Zhuhu is actually not particularly afraid of the Italian players at this time, as he himself said, he and Li Huitang are the world's top technical players, and others such as Dai Linjing, Feng Jingxiang, Chen Zhenhe, Tan Jiangbai, Huang Jiliang, can also be called the top of the list in their own position, and their previous game with Inter Milan finally achieved a draw.

The only player who was a little unsure of his level and reputation was Giuseppe Meazza – Lu Zhuhu thought he was going to meet in Berlin – but it is now known that the ancient god did not compete at the Olympics.

Then, the opposite side must be much better than his side, that is, the head coach of the Italian team, Pozzo.

Before the time crossing, Lu Zhuhu only knew that the coach of this team was the only person to defend the World Cup title as a coach and win the Olympic gold medal at the same time, and if it weren't for World War II, he and his team would probably have created even more incredible achievements. The only surviving manager who can compete with this is the former Arsenal manager Chapman - but Chapman has actually passed away.

And these two are still very good friends.

Always regarded the other side as the biggest threat to his own championship, Lu Zhuhu naturally searched for the opponent's materials from the beginning of landing in Europe and setting foot in Italy, giving him the feeling that the great achievements of this coach are not just because of "the low level of football in the early days".

Pozzo, nicknamed "The Old Master", is probably the pinnacle of many famous managers in Italian football. In addition to the two World Cup champions in 1934 and 1938, the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, and the Central European Cup champions in 1930 and 1935, he led the Italian team to remain undefeated for nearly five years from December 1934 to 1939!

Pozzo has been in charge of the Italian team for almost 20 years, leading the Italian national team to 95 games - a record that will be difficult for future generations to achieve! The past 20 years have been an incomparably glorious 20 years for Italy, from the national team to the club, from the players to the coaches, countless legends have been born, and they have made outstanding contributions to Italian football.

Pozo, like Juventus and the God Team, is "produced" by Turin and has a wealthy family, so Manchester, who once went abroad to study in the UK, I don't know if it's a coincidence, because the time he was in Manchester in his twenties happened to be the first period of Manchester United's gradual rise. (Pozzo was born in 1886)

Compared to England, Italy at this time was still a pioneer land - although some small clubs were established in Turin, Genoa and other places, these clubs were basically founded by British, and similar to the situation in Spain and South America, these clubs adhered to pure Britishism - "non-British people are not allowed to join football clubs", only British people played, and Italians were refused to join, until 1897, when an English doctor pushed for Italians to join Genoa clubs.

To this extent, the start of Italian football is not even as early as Ah San, and it is not surprising that the level is low. In the early days of Italian football, the national team and clubs were completely inspired by the style of English football: the pursuit of speed, confrontation and long passing, but Italian players basically did not have the physical conditions of English players, did not have many decent games to play, and did not have the same combat experience as English teams. At the beginning of the Italian national team, they could not even beat Reading II from the English second division......

In this context, Pozzo, who stayed abroad, was naturally eye-opening, as for whether he was a Manchester United diehard at this time, it is hard to say, but Manchester United is indeed a team supported by Pozo, Charlie Roberts in their team, a central midfielder with a good overall view and passing ability, and at the same time can complete the defensive task well, is Pozo's super idol, he is deeply overwhelmed by Roberts's ball control, passing ability and comprehensive quality of both offense and defense, As a result, a large part of his future coaching ideas for the Italian national team came from the Manchester United centre-back.

He learned a lot here and brought back to Italy what he had learned about football from England. At the time when United were starting to move up to the First Division and start their journey to the title, Pozzo returned home from the Zurich Grasshoppers in Switzerland to help found Torino and played for Torino until 1911. Perhaps the early Great Britain was indeed much more advanced than other places, as the one who drank British "foreign ink", in 1912 at the age of 28, Pozzo was appointed as the head coach to lead the Italian team to the 1912 Sturglemo Olympics in Sweden!

Therefore, if you count from the time he is the Italian coach this time, he has been in charge of the Italian team for more than 20 years......

(However, the reason for his selection is quite funny, and the main reason for such an important personnel arrangement is simply that the top Italian leaders think that Pozzo's English is good and conducive to communication with the outside world, especially with Britain...... Belch...... ）

Of course, at that time, football was indeed completely under the control of Great Britain, with three championships in four Olympic Games, Italy's strength was mediocre, and the young version of Pozzo did not have the ability to lead his team to a piece of the pie, so naturally there were no outstanding results.

The unexpected gain was that he got acquainted with Hugo Mesr, the referee of the game that blew the Italian team at that time, to say that a referee is useless, but this part-time referee is the future coach of the Austrian "dream team"! Austria's football situation at this time is also completely opened by this bull, so if the Chinese team meets the Austrian team that is still in charge of him in the semifinals, even if Brother Da Long pulls out his sword to help, it is not so simple to win.

The two have formed a deep friendship, which is a bit of a Jinlan knot, and mentors and friends can naturally promote each other. Messer is a strong player with technical football and short passing strategies, as well as a high demand for players to move flexibly and cooperate with each other. At this time, Italy was a student of Austrian and Hungarian football, and Pozzo also benefited greatly from Mesr. From 1912 to 1922, after returning from the Olympic Games, Pozzo served as the coach of the Turin team, and from 1921 to 1924, he briefly coached the Italian national team for a period of time, and finally because of the recognition of his coaching level, in 1929, the 43-year-old Pozzo regained the opportunity to take charge of the Italian team.

At this time, Pozzo also got acquainted with Arsenal coach Chapman, and he often exchanged ideas and discussed football tactics with Messer and Chapman. Faced with the new offside rules of 1925, Chapman created the "M" formation, which was widely regarded as the optimal solution, and Pozzo improved on the traditional 2-3-5 pyramid formation, creating a 2-3-2-3 formation, which can be described as a "" formation by analogy - which made the Italian team more solid defensively, although Pozzo was not a conservative manager.

The relationship between the three best managers in European football at the time was so good that they were brothers, but the tactical differences were huge, Chapman was based on a reinforced defense through precise counter-attacks and precision strikes; Messer, on the other hand, is an attacking football with a core philosophy of self-centeredness, aggressiveness, and versatility in attacking organization.

Pozzo's choice of "" is considered the third way, and the official name is called "Metodo", which means "way". He doesn't fully trust Chapman's M, but he is not not high enough, he also sees the positive side of M in strengthening defense and improving the quality of counter-attacks, the most iconic strategy of the center midfielder in M's tactics to retreat to the center back also gave Pozzo a lot of inspiration, because from Charlie Roberts of Manchester United at that time, he knew that a central midfielder with both attack and defense was very necessary, but his central midfielder position can be more flexible and adjusted at any time according to the actual needs of the game - the position of the central midfielder can be slightly withdrawn, It plays the role of protecting the defense line and driving the overall formation to quickly retreat; At the same time, there is no need to retreat too much, and it can also quickly participate in the offensive when attacking, and play the role of an offensive organization hub.

In Pozzo's design, the central midfielder has a certain degree of retreat to drive the recovery of the forward line position, leaving the space to be occupied by the retreat of the inside and wingers, the team's depth system is richer, up to 5 tactical lines, the distance between each line is closer, and the horizontal and vertical can be more effectively connected through long or short passes, which is of great benefit to improving the personnel input of the positional attack and the accuracy of the defensive counterattack. His formation combines the best of both M and Austrian football, intelligent and cunning, and the reason why it has not become a popular formation, and only the Italian team under his rule can use it, is that the key is the ability of the head coach - ordinary people really can't come.

In this formation, the Italian team is not only good at fighting and defending solidly, but also pays more attention to tactical organization. In defence, the two wing-backs have to return to goal when they are attacked in the penalty area, and the midfielders have to recycle protection when the opposition is attacking, pay attention to the opposition striker, and can immediately pass the ball to launch a surprise attack after a successful counter-attack.

In attack, it makes the most of the space, using the wingers to unleash fast and precise attacks in depth – this sounds a bit like modern football, and it can be said that in Pozzo's time, the rudiments of the "defensive counter-attack" tactic were already in place, and set the tone for the Italian team's later tactical style, although Italy turned completely conservative because of the crash......

Italians are generally considered to be naturally romantic, but Italian football is exceptionally rational, holistic and disciplined. The Italian team's adherence to tactics, discipline, and emphasis on defense and confrontation are likely to come from the coach at this time. Pozzo is a believer in technical football and attacking football, but he will never be liberal or even casual like the Brazilian team that later generations will let the big players play freely (in fact, when Brazil is too luxurious and has too many stars, sometimes it is not the best time to win the championship). ）

Not to mention that at the time, Pozzo's management of the team was very strict even in modern times, in his own words, "the conduct of football matches is guided by some natural rules that require us to practice discipline under strict management, without which there is no order". In order to enforce discipline, Pozzo will implement some common management strategies in later generations, such as centralized management, curfews, room rounds, tracking players, etc., Lu Zhuhu has been staying in the Olympic Village for more than half a month, and often goes to participate in athletes' friendships, singing on the field or something, but basically I have not seen the football players of the Italian national team - there are still some other athletes. This frustrated his repeated attempts to get the best out of his players.

As soon as I inquired, I found out that I had been grounded by the head coach...... Kick the ball, play the ball, and when you win the championship, you can play wherever you like......

Depend on! So Pozzo was so mixed up under Mussolini, maybe because he was also a fascist?

It's hard not to think so.

Although Pozzo was not a fascist and provided assistance to the anti-fascist partisans in Italy during World War II, it is also true that he made full use of the fanaticism and propaganda weapons of fascism during his tenure in charge of the national team, preaching fascist patriotism, collectivism and devotion to the players in the name of the country, and requiring the players to perform a Nazi salute before the game, and constantly strengthening the "patriotic" indoctrination of the players. This can be understood as the philosophy of many people who survive under the fascist system, but it may also show that Pozzo can choose all feasible means to achieve his ends!

Such an opponent is capable, wise, and extremely ruthless! How not to make people afraid!

But after all, Lu Zhuhu has come all the way, and he has seen so many powerful opponents, Arsenal, Barcelona, Ajax, Inter, the British Empire - he has also learned it, and he will not be helpless in this final final.

His teammates have gone through thousands of miles of battles, and they are more and more able to gain his trust, believing that their progress is enough to challenge the most powerful existence in world football today!

Just like Pozzo is very commendable, in addition to being very strict in managing and shaping his own team, he also requires to play more games and accumulate enough experience, between 1929 and 1934 - Pozzo led the team to play nearly 40 games, which is indeed a very large number for the national team at this time.

But the Chinese team ......

Not to mention 4 years, in just these four months, I am afraid that there are more than 40 games...... So many games have accumulated enough confidence and experience for everyone - although the strength of those teams in Southeast Asia in the early stage is relatively watery......

Playing snakes has to play seven inches, since the most important thing for your Pozzo's Italy is the central midfielder, the connection of this position, the choice of attack and defense can affect the operation of a whole team, then we will make a targeted operation for your central midfielder......

Lu Zhuhu gradually had a plan in his heart, Brother Da Long was not there, he had to give full play to his "Little Zhuge " ability, let his teammates and supporters of the Chinese team see that as a real practitioner on the court, his name of "Green Tiger" is not in vain.

As a result, Lu Zhuhu, who was full of pride in his heart, felt empty after seeing a person in the morning - Dean Dai sent someone to find him again. Although he was summoned by Dean Dai in an abnormal way last time, and there was nothing wrong in the end, Lu Zhuhu was not stupid, he could clearly detect the other party's defense and investigation of himself, if there was something wrong with him last time, under Dean Dai's tiger power, he could only be a kitten......

Fortunately, it was not a big deal, someone came to inform that the driver of Dean Dai last time was out of danger, and the other was that Dean Dai accompanied Chancellor Hitler to watch the drama at night and invited Lu Zhuhu to accompany him.

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