Julian Nagelsmann, a former professional footballer who retired from football at a young age due to injury, will not turn 25 until the end of this month.

This German, who is younger than Pan Yi now, can only be said to be a little famous at present, but in a few years, he will become a high-profile figure in German football and even world football!

Since retiring from Augsburg II, he has been a scout with head coach Thomas Tuchel, and has also started to qualify as a coach and study sports science.

Later, on the recommendation of Thomas Tuchel, Nagelsmann returned to the Under-17s of Munich's 1860 team, where he had spent his playing days, and officially began his coaching career as an assistant coach.

At that time, the head coach of this team was also an old acquaintance of Dragon fans, Roger Schmidt, who used to be the head coach of Guoan.

Both Tuchel and Schmidt were deeply influenced by Rangnick, the "godfather of academics".

These coaches all have distinct characteristics: they were not top players in their playing days, but they made up for it with their keen eye on the pitch, a wealth of tactical knowledge and a fanatical work attitude.

Nagelsmann, who has a similar experience, has been with them for two years and is naturally familiar with the way the "academy" coach works.

In the 2010-2011 season, Nagelsmann came to the command of "grandmaster" Rangnick and took full charge of youth training in Hoffenheim.

In the years that followed, Hoffenheim's youth and second teams were filled with young talents such as Jule, Amiri, Geiger, Bosch and Baumgartner, all of whom could not have been trained by Nagelsmann.

He was promoted to the first team as assistant coach and, interestingly, his first game in charge was against Hamburg......

After that, he naturally became the first-team manager of Hoffenheim, and at the age of 28, he became the youngest manager in the history of the Bundesliga (of course, now with 26-year-old Pan Yi, this record he can't break).

After leading the team to the Champions League in a row, Nagelsmann took over as RB Leipzig manager and led the team to the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2019-20.

Such an excellent record also made the German squad leader Bayern Munich throw an olive branch to him.

After arriving at Bayern, Nagelsmann also led the team to win the Bundesliga championship and became a famous coach, of course, this is all a later story.

Regardless of the period, Nagelsmann's reasonable training methods and level cannot be ignored.

Moreover, as a top student, he led the implementation of many new training equipment and training methods during his tenure at Hoffenheim.

It also includes a series of software and hardware black technologies, which apply smart devices, big data analysis and artificial intelligence to team training, which greatly improves training efficiency.

This set of things later even benefited the entire world football world.

Then, Pan Yi also believes that Nagelsmann can also make the current Hamburg take the lead in this aspect and avoid some detours.

This is why Pan Yi found him as an assistant coach.

Compared with Inzaghi, a rookie coach, Nagelsmann is obviously more reliable in terms of daily training.

When the time comes, all these things will be handed over to him, and Pan Yi will just focus on tactical drills!

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"I do."

In the face of Pan Yi's invitation, Nagelsmann replied in the affirmative.

This was actually a bit unexpected by Pan Yi.

After all, Nagelsmann still has his own set of career plans.

In fact, after he led Hoffenheim's Under-19 youth team to win the Under-19 Bundesliga title, becoming the youngest coach to win this award, many Bundesliga giants have favored Nagelsmann.

This also includes Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich.

But Nagelsmann rebuffed the hospitality of many teams and decided to continue training at Hoffenheim.

Therefore, when Pan Yi came to Huocun, he had no idea whether he could successfully recruit this excellent coach - this is also the reason why Nagelsmann was not included in his initial team formation plan.

'There's nothing special about it, it's just that I like to work around a high-level manager and it allows me to learn and grow. In response to Pan Yi's inquiry, Nagelsmann replied, "And I have studied your tactics, and it is clear that you are a true tactical genius. ”

Pan Yi smiled.

He could also see that Nagelsmann did have a hint of reverence and yearning in his eyes when he spoke, even though Pan Yi was only one year older than Nagelsmann.

From this point of view, Pan Yi's year in Milan has indeed made a very resounding name for him, and it has also made a coach like Nagelsmann who is obsessed with tactics seriously study and be impressed by it.

In Pan Yi's previous life, Nagelsmann used 442, 4231, 352, 343 and so on during his tenure at RB Leipzig, which was very changeable.

Sometimes it's because of injuries and illness, but more often it's because of the targeted deployment of different opponents, and the layout of each position is very detailed and detailed.

This is similar to what Pan Yi did in Milan.

Defensively, Nagelsmann also advocates frontcourt pressing, but pays more attention to strategy and integrity, and does not blindly let players go up.

Especially in the setting of the specific responsibilities of the players, Nagelsmann also prefers the practice of "forming a local numerical advantage and establishing a strong side", which coincides with the current tactics that Pan Yi is preparing to implement in Hamburg.

Therefore, the fit of the two people's tactical thinking is very high.

In this respect, Nagelsmann's appreciation of Pan Yi is logical.

After all, they are all "like-minded people", and the same age is even more intimate.

Of course, the timing of Pan Yi's invitation was also very suitable.

Due to Hoffenheim's sale of a number of key players, including Gustavo, former head coach Rangnick chose to hang the seal and take over the manager's position, with former Liverpool and Bayern defender Marcus Babel taking over.

Babel's crowning achievement as a coach after retiring was leading Hertha Berlin to the Bundesliga Bundesliga.

This is obviously incomparable to Pan Yi's treble in Milan, and the subtlety of tactical design is also very different in the eyes of insider Nagelsmann.

So comparing the two, Nagelsmann, who is eager to improve, is not difficult to choose at all.

And if Rangnick hadn't left, working next to the head coach known as the "Godfather of Germany", maybe Nagelsmann would not have moved his mind to leave the team.

"So, welcome to Hamburg."

Finally, Pan Yi stretched out his right hand, and Nagelsmann smiled and nodd.

The palms of the two young coaches were tightly clasped together!

(End of chapter)