Chapter 110: Threesome
In the eyes of many, the first impression of Italian football is defensive counter-attack. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, this is only a one-sided view. The most important thing in Italian football is not defense, but tactics.
Italian football is almost the most passionate about tactical theory in the world, and it is here that people talk about football in bars not about the stars, but about tactics. What is Ancelotti's forward midfielder, what is Bologna's ball-controlled center, almost every fan can say one, two, three, four.
And they are not only interested in offensive tactics, but also in defensive tactics.
In other countries, if a team is back in the back and wins with a counter-attack, most of the time it will be despised by ordinary fans. But this is not the case in Italy, where fans will see the victory as a win won by the players' excellent tactical execution. Even the opposing fans don't feel like their team has been robbed of a victory.
This is true for fans, not to mention coaches and media who specialize in football.
There are a lot of so-called academic coaches in Italy, in fact, many of them are not professional, but their research on football tactics is as serious and rigorous as a professor writing a thesis. Many Italian coaches have a superstitious belief in the primacy of tactics, believing that all players should serve the overall tactics of the team. No matter how big the star is, it's no exception.
Therefore, it is rare for Italy to have stars like Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo who are known for their outstanding individual ability, and even many Italian players will have a sharp decline in their performance in foreign leagues.
Because a lot of their players are real system players. After losing the tactical bonuses that were created just for them, their performance naturally plummeted.
The reason why Baggio is known as the closest player to the king of football in Italy, but he has been displaced by major giants, is actually because he was born in a country like Italy, where tactics are paramount.
Baggio's technical characteristics dictate that the team's tactics must be developed around him, and with his quality, this is not unacceptable, and the Italian coaches are capable of doing it. But his injury-prone nature has led to the managers of the big clubs not daring to put all their chips on him.
Throughout Baggio's career, apart from the years when he was physically fit at Juventus, he was never at the heart of the team, whether at AC Milan or Inter Milan. Only small clubs like Bologna and Brescia, which don't have more options, get the treatment of the core. Baggio was also the best performer at the two smaller clubs.
And Baggio, who can't get the core position of the exclusive tactic, is difficult to integrate into the ordinary team tactics. He's not defensive, he's not physical, he's not very athletic, he's not very athletic, and for him to play his offensive game, he's going to have to be given a lot of the ball. It's too difficult for a manager who isn't prepared to use him as a central player. So at AC Milan and Inter Milan, Baggio could only spend most of his time on the bench.
Even a player like Baggio can be given up because of tactics. One can imagine the Italian fanaticism for tactics.
But Zhang's performance against Bologna did not attract the attention of the media and the general public. Many believe that his activity on the left and right flanks in the second half was simply due to the lack of a wing-forward for Brescia.
No one would have imagined that this was Guardiola's attempt at future tactics.
After all, such an idea is too shocking to the world. If there is such a tactic, it is almost impossible to meet the requirements of the players.
First of all, he has to be a nine-and-a-half to guarantee his attack power in the middle. Secondly, he must also have the same level of threat on both the left and right flanks.
In Italy, a number nine and a half alone is already so rare, let alone a player who can play as a left and right wing-back at the same time.
And such a player must also have good physical fitness to ensure that he can run a wide range of physical exertion. At the same time, a keen sense of the holes in the opponent's lineup is also indispensable.
How can such an all-round player exist?
On the contrary, when Mazzoni put Zhang Shu, who is accustomed to the right foot, in the left midfield position, there was also a discussion about the advantages and disadvantages of the full-back's backfoot inward cut and the bottom of the foot. However, this is not Mazzoni's first time, as there were occasional wing-backs scoring through backfoot inwards before the 90s, and Arsenal's Andrea Pire has also been a backfoot insider. There is also Piero, who is not a full-back, but has repeatedly created the "Piero zone" by scoring inside points. Therefore, the analysis of Zhang Shu at that time was not on a large scale.
As a result, Guardiola's idea of what he considered to be the biggest tactical overhaul of football tactics has luckily escaped the eyes of tactically-loving Italians.
Although this game is of great significance to Guardiola, it is just an ordinary game for Zhang Shu.
On the second day of the game, while the team was on vacation, Tindy took Zhang Shu to Milan for the shooting of a Lego commercial.
Zhang Shu had already entrusted the signing of the contract to Tinti, and Tindy did not disappoint Zhang Shu, and the sponsorship contract with Lego had been negotiated a week ago.
This first commercial endorsement in his life brought Zhang Shu a lot of income, but it is not very urgent for him to make money now.
Shooting commercials, appearing on TV, and becoming famous, these benefits are more interesting to Zhang Shu than a bunch of numbers in a bank card.
In essence, Zhang Shu is still a child with a strong sense of vanity.
But now he hated his vanity a little.
"Hahaha..." Viviano was sitting in the back seat of the car, laughing to death.
"What's so funny about that?" Zhang Shu said dissatisfiedly. "I asked you to accompany me to Milan, not so that you would laugh at me!"
Turio sat next to Viviano, and although he didn't speak, the corners of his mouth were raised to betray his inner thoughts.
Originally, he just showed off to his friends in small talk that he had his first commercial endorsement, but he didn't expect Viviano to follow Zhang Shu to Milan to see the scene of the advertising shooting.
In order to achieve his own goals, Viviano also dragged Turio along.
It wasn't until they got in the car that the two of them knew that Zhang Shu was endorsing Lego.
"Emiliano, don't laugh." Looking at Zhang Shu's depressed face, Turio finally came out and said a fair word.
It's still Turio's kindness. Zhang Shu thought in his heart.
Then he heard Turio continue with the second half of the sentence.
"After all, Zhang's mental age is only 13 years old."