The afternoon training session went as planned.

Yang Hao planned to draw four players from the youth team, but only two came, Pablo Garcia and Antonio López.

The former is in the second team, the latter is in the Under-19s, and both have training scheduled today.

Both Torres and Gabi are at Under-17s and they don't have a heavy game to do, with the weekend off after playing.

Yang Hao was not in a hurry, just asked Parales to pay attention to it, and arranged for them to train with the first team another day.

The players who talked to Yang Hao in the afternoon basically had a certain understanding of the new coach, and even some of them reached a consensus, which also improved the atmosphere of training.

Those who had not yet been called over by Yang Hao to talk were all waiting.

In this case, whoever communicates with the manager first will have an advantage over the competition.

During the team's training, Yang Hao was still standing on the training ground, but his thoughts had drifted to distant Barcelona.

This is Atletico's opponent for the next game.

Copa del Rey semi-finals.

Today's Barcelona is very strong, no matter from which point of view, this team can be called a superstar-studded team.

Needless to say, Luis Figo and Rivaldo are the two footballers, Luis Enrique, Kluivert, Pep Guardiola, Zenden, Cocu, the De Boer brothers, Reziger, Bogard, ......

In such a star-studded lineup, Xavi, Reina, Puyol and others can only be regarded as up-and-coming young players.

When many fans in later generations mentioned Van Gaal, they would always feel that his coaching of Barcelona was a failure.

But actually, it's not.

Before Van Gaal, Barça's manager in the 96/97 season was Bobby Robson.

Although that season saw the most memorable and magical dragon Ronaldo in the history of world football, Barcelona lost to Real Madrid led by Raul, Suker, Mijatovic and Seedorf by two points in the league.

It is worth mentioning that it was in this season that a special person followed Robson to Barcelona as Ronaldo's translator, and in the summer of '97, after Robson and Ronaldo both left, he stayed to continue to help Van Gaal.

Louis van Gaal came to Camp Nou with the aura of Champions League glory.

Prior to this, Barcelona has experienced Michels, Cruyff and other Dutch coaches, and it has a very strong atmosphere of Dutch football, hoping that Van Gaal can lead Barcelona to revival.

As a result, Van Gaal single-handedly created the Dutch gang in the Barcelona dressing room.

Do you know how many Dutchmen there are in Barca's first team right now?

8 pcs!

And all of them play an important role.

It can be said that the Dutch gang has comprehensively crushed the local cards and other forces in the Barcelona dressing room.

In the 97/98 and 98/99 seasons, Barcelona performed very well, winning the La Liga championship by a large margin, and in this case, everyone has no opinion.

But gradually, when the team's performance began to decline, the originally hidden contradictions gradually surfaced.

Rivaldo, for example, complained that Louis van Gaal had put him on the flank.

The Brazilian genius thinks he should be in the middle.

This contradiction has been running through Barcelona this season, especially not long ago, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson also went down to the pitch himself, and actually expressed his interest in Rivaldo.

Van Gaal angrily lashed out at Ferguson, sarcastically saying: "Manchester United should touch their money bags, can they afford to buy Rivaldo? ”

Van Gaal also countered and said, "This is a very interesting phenomenon, Ferguson just said before, even if he sells Beckham, he will not give him a salary increase, but in a blink of an eye, they are thinking about players they can't afford at all, it's strange." ”

The fighting methods between famous marshals are often so simple, direct, and rude.

Rivaldo's farce is now getting bigger and bigger, and the contradictions are gradually spreading, especially in the league, which has not been able to catch up with Deportivo La Coruna, which has put pressure on Barcelona and fans are becoming more and more dissatisfied.

Many people in Yang Hao's previous life said that Real Madrid fans pursued too high, not only wanting to win, but also winning beautifully.

In fact, the same is true for Barcelona fans now.

Even, Barcelona's veteran central defender Abelardo publicly criticized Van Gaal, believing that his tactics this season are as ugly as Chelsea in the Premier League.

These are Abelardo's exact words, how slippery the map cannon is.

Because in 2000, Premier League teams, especially teams like Chelsea, played really ugly.

It was in this situation of internal and external difficulties that Barcelona lost 0-3 at home to Real Mallorca in the last round.

Samuel Eto'o scored twice.

Real Mallorca, on the other hand, adopted the 442 tactic, defending and counterattacking.

This will definitely be Atletico's strategy against Barcelona, the key is how to defend and how to counterattack.

For now, Atletico don't have the counter-attacking tools of Samuel Eto'o, let alone a Tristan in Mallorca.

……

After training, Yang Hao returned to the office and found the video of Barcelona's game against Real Mallorca in the last round.

Barcelona are still playing their 433, but Pep Guardiola has recently lost his place in the main team and has been replaced by Cocu.

Who would have thought that the 31-year-old Barcelona captain would be directly thrown into the cold palace.

In terms of staffing, Van Gaal still trusts the Dutch players more, so people like goalkeeper Hirsp, center forward Kluivert, central defender Frank De Boer, Cocu and others will continue to start.

Due to the lack of left full-back candidates for Barcelona this season, it is either replaced by Reziger or Bogard, who has basically played on the left wing in recent times.

Then, the backline should be Bogard, Flender de Boer, Abelardo and Puyol.

Yes, Barcelona's future captain is now playing at right wing-back.

He and Xavi are some of Van Gaal's most trusted young players, and with Gabri and Cocu, the midfield trio is complete.

The centre-forward up front is definitely Kluivert, the difference is on the wings, Luis Figo and Rivaldo should also start, after all, they are mostly big stars, and Barcelona just lost to Real Mallorca and desperately need a win.

On the bench were Finnish skates Litmanen, Figo II Simao, and Dutch winger Zenden.

If the biggest star in Atletico Madrid's squad is Hasselbaink, then Barcelona is now picking out a random player in the lineup, and the cards are not lost to the Dutch striker.

That's what's so scary about Barça.

But as a time-traveler in 2023, Yang Hao has long passed the age of superstitious stars.

He knows better than anyone that the essence of football is wholeness.

No matter how many stars there are, if they fight separately, they are as luxurious as a galactic battleship, and they will still fall apart?

Or even beaten up by a team in the lower league?

Yang Hao's original plan was to insist on attacking on the left side, but after seeing Barcelona's match against Real Mallorca, he suddenly realized that even if Figo did not actively defend back, Atletico Madrid's left side might not be able to break Barcelona's right side.

Puyol's strength is very good, he is very fast, and his single defense ability is very strong, and Solari is afraid that he will not take advantage of it.

On the other hand, on the left side, Bogard is a left-footed centre-back playing on the left, 1.88 meters tall, with Surinamese ancestry, which is enough to imagine, his physical confrontation is very good, but the technique at his feet is more frizzy, tall and strong but not flexible, and his speed is also on the slow side.

And this is precisely the advantage of Aguilera, who is only 1.74m, a typical Spanish wing.

Thinking of this, Yang Hao already had a plan in his heart.

……

After watching the video of the game, it was already dark.

After the end of training, the players and coaches left work one after another.

Parales volunteered to stay.

This young man is really clever, Yang Hao admires him very much, the key is to be reliable.

Little Hill had just called him, and knowing that he didn't have a car, he was rushing over from Calderón to pick him up, and he made an appointment to go out to dinner together, and stop by the bar for a drink or two to relieve his stress.

When Yang Hao walked out of the office, he stretched his waist vigorously and moved his muscles and bones.

The first day of his tenure was really hurried and fulfilled for him.

He hardly wasted a minute and was very fast-paced.

So much so that now, when he has leisure, looking at the training ground in front of him, he suddenly has a feeling that it is not very real.

He has really become the manager of Atletico!

It was at this time that Yang Hao found that Parrales was coming over again, and there was a person beside him.

It turned out to be Kiko.

This suddenly made his heart flutter.

Because, he's not quite ready yet.

According to Yang Hao's plan, he should get rid of most of the other people first, and then talk to Jike slowly.

In this way, even if the talks really fall apart, Kiko will not make any big noise in the locker room.

But now, Yang Hao was not ready, and Ji Ke came to the door by himself.

Did he find something?

Thinking crankily in his heart, Yang Hao greeted him with a smile on the surface.

"Hello, Kiko, haven't you gone back yet?"

Kiko's expression was a little lonely, he had lost his previous spirits, and it was obvious that he had suffered from a long period of injuries, as well as the sluggish state of the past period, coupled with physical reasons.

Those who have not experienced it will never be able to understand this mental torture.

It seems that many people blame Ronaldo for his later fortune, but Yang Hao has always felt that Ronaldo's fortune is also worthy of admiration, because his ability to return to the football field and overcome those injuries again and again is an extremely remarkable thing in itself.

The same goes for Kiko.

The Spanish prince stayed to receive physiotherapy from Parales for his rehabilitation program.

Yang Hao noticed Parales' sneaky look, and it was obvious that it was an excuse.

It seems that he really made a special trip to stay and block himself.

No way.

What should come will always come.

"Come, let's talk inside." Yang Hao warmly beckoned Kiko into the house.

Parales made an apologetic gesture, and it was clear that he couldn't stop Kiko.

Yang Hao said that he understood, signaled that it was okay, and reassured him.

Before entering the door, Yang Hao took a deep breath to calm down his emotions.

Once inside, he sat directly across from Kiko and looked directly at His Royal Highness the Prince, who was beloved by Atletico Madrid fans.

"Let's stop beating around the bush and just talk about it, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Yang Hao chose to go straight in.