Chapter 6 The First Team
Guy Roux is perhaps the most committed football coach in the world, having managed AJERRE for 40 years, single-handedly taking AJERRE from the French fourth division to the first division, and gradually becoming a team with a reputation throughout Europe. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Because of Guy Roux's proposal, the AJ Auxerre Academy, built in 1975, was the earliest and best academy in France, producing first-class French stars such as Cantona and Blank, if he hadn't left the stadium last year due to heart bypass surgery, it is estimated that it would not be easy for Joseph Sofine, a little guy, to think of West Ham United.
Before Joseph Sofine could finish speaking, the young players of the youth team and three of Paul's colleagues came to the pitch one after another, but it suddenly dawned on Paul that he already had a strong curiosity about Guy Roux, the French coach.
During the lunch break, Paul used the computer to search for the situation of Guy Ruoux, and also knew that the French coach did not perform well when he played, so his coach of the Auxerre team in the fourth division, it took him 40 years to finally build Abroad into a force to be reckoned with in world football.
After reading this, Paul felt that there was some similarity between him and Guy Lu, and if Guy Lu could be successful, why couldn't he succeed if he had a higher starting point with his abilities!?
After all, Magnussen, the president of West Ham United, has been in English football for some years, and he has always kept Paul's affairs in mind, especially about Paul's lack of coaching qualifications.
The coaching qualification certificate is actually not difficult to obtain, because most of the players have been putting their energy into playing football since they were young, they don't care about cultural classes at all, and the cultural foundation of these players is almost none, if they are really allowed to study in the classroom like students, stipulating their test scores, it is estimated that there are not many qualified football coaches, but if there is time, and a layman like Paul, it is best to listen to the class, discuss and deduce the change of tactics with his classmates, which is also very beneficial. It's just that Paul is now............ Busy!
Magnussen also called Paul Goddard several times to ask about Paul's situation, and the response was also highly praised by Paul Goddard, and even the heavy drinking youth team director suggested that he must keep Paul as much as possible, and he will be able to contribute greatly to the resurgence of the Hammers.
Paul Goddard is a man Magnussen trusts very much, otherwise he would not have been able to become the leader of the youth team, and after listening to the report made by this subordinate who just likes to drink heavily, Magnussen can finally confirm that Paul, a young man who once showed his talent in front of him, really has real skills.
Now, Paul is almost the busiest of West Ham's under-19 youth team, not only learning the textbooks of football coaching every day, but also observing the young players on the pitch every day, recording the statistics of each player in detail, and even recording the methods used by three colleagues to train the young players, so as to compare which will make the players improve faster, and summarize the most suitable training methods for the players.
At this time, Paul, like a dry sponge, after touching the sea of football, immediately sucked in, although every day is busy from morning to night, and sometimes he has to analyze the situation of the young players until midnight, but Paul is never tired of it, in his twenty-four years of life, he has never been so fulfilling, especially engaged in his favorite football work, so that Paul found fun in it.
At the end of July, the Hammers first team began training and preparing for the game, and the youth team, from coaches to players, all ran to join in the fun, and Paul finally met the first team manager Harry Redknapp for the first time.
The 55-year-old Redknapp was born in the West Ham youth army, signed a professional contract with the team at the age of 17, scored 8 goals in 149 appearances for West Ham United, and returned to the Hammers as an assistant coach in the 1991~1992 season.
After watching the training of the first-team players of the Hammers, Paul finally saw with his own eyes what kind of players are professional players, Carrick, Joe Cole and other stars who have become famous, not to mention, even the first-team Mlins, David Connolly and other players are also the kind of players who have more than half of the values of 1o, compared with the hairy boys in the youth team, this gap is quite large, the French kid Joseph Sophie belongs to the category that stands out in the youth team, but he is not in the first team.
As if seeing Paul's shock, Paul Goddard leaned over to him and smirked: "Paul, how is it, do you think our first team is very strong?" ”
"Yes!" Paul nodded vigorously and said with a wry smile: "I thought Joseph was already great, but I didn't expect him to be ordinary in the first team, our team is really strong!" ”
Paul Goddard smiled and nodded: "Actually, Joseph's little guy is still very promising, after all, he is only 18 years old, and after two years, when he matures, there will not be such a big gap compared to these first-team players." ”
The two of them did not have a high opinion of Joseph Sofine, thinking that it was difficult for him to find his place in the first team for the time being, but when the internal confrontation of the first team began, the two were surprised to find that the most active of the 22 people on the field was the French boy.
After listening to Paul's words, Joseph Sofine has decided that he should be a right winger, and there are not too many rules and regulations in this team's practice match, plus he is a newcomer, and other players also want to see his strength, so the French kid has a lot of opportunities to get the ball on the right side, plus West Ham's left-back Rafs Boulvet is 32 years old, and he can't keep up with Joseph Sofine in terms of degree, and he has let the French kid break through successfully many times, and Joseph Sofine's several in-cuts, It also makes the defensive pressure on the main team wearing a yellow vest a lot.