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Chapter 531 Establishing the Team Style
Chapter 531 Establishing the Team Style
What has Guardiola led Bayern over the past three years?
how to say?
If you look at the data, there should be nothing to say, but compared with his predecessor Heynckes, Guardiola is weak, especially in the Champions League.
For a team of Bayern's level, the Champions League championship is the only pursuit. After all, with Bayern's configuration, winning the Bundesliga championship is not a big deal.
Guardiola also understands this truth very well, so he said when he came three years ago, "If you don't win the Champions League, you will fail."
But things backfired. He failed to leave Bayern a Champions League. For the city of Munich, Guardiola is destined to be a small one. Maybe the fans will forget him soon. Bayern fans will not remember a head coach who has not won the Champions League.
This season Sammer took office, the so-called new official took office three fires, and Sammer's goal is the same-the Champions League.
He even quoted Guardiola's original sentence-"If you don't win the Champions League, you will fail."
The disciples sitting below heard Summer's bold words, on the one hand, they were excited, and on the other hand, they were also stressed.
Champions League?That means you are in the greatest club in Europe, but looking at Europe, there are many century-old giants everywhere. It is not easy to become the overlord on the top of the mountain in this football continent?
"If we want to win the Champions League, then who is our biggest opponent"?Summer asked.
The answer was the same-Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Atletico Madrid were also mentioned. Sammer nodded, and then said, "No, our only opponent is ourselves."
"This is a bit of nonsense," Li Qiao thought.
Because this is a big truth, but it is also a nonsense. It can be used to inspire people when giving motivational speeches, but to achieve results, you have to come up with some "dry goods".
Summer himself knew this, and then he seemed to be a university professor and began to talk about Western history, starting with Alexander the Great of Macedon, to Caesar later, and finally, Summer put the finishing touch—"What we have to do now is to establish the style of the team this season."
"Team style"?Li Qiao thought.
Bayern's style has undergone several obvious transformations. In the Heathfield era, he focused on defense. Even at that time, some football commentators joked that Heathfeld was a more Italian coach than Italy.
Later in the Klinsmann era, he wanted to transform Bayern into a "Premier League style", emphasizing rapid advancement, but it turned out that Klinsmann was a failed reformer.
After Klinsmann was Van Gaal. What Van Gaal brought to Bayern was the style of Dutch football-emphasizing the wing. The "Robery" combination of Robben and Ribery was born during this period.
Van Gaal was followed by Heynckes, which was also the most glorious two years for Bayern. They reached the Champions League final in both years and won the championship once.
While retaining the essence of the Van Gaal era, Bayern in the Heynckes era injected the strength of German football.
After Heynckes came Guardiola. Everyone is familiar with Guardiola. He is the pioneer of pass control football in Spain.
If you are not familiar with the history of Bayern, it is difficult to understand why Sammer puts establishing the team style in the first place.
After talking about the history of Europe, and then about the history of Bayern, Sammer was finally ready to get to the point. He asked a shocking question-"What is the most important thing for football"?
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This question made everyone fall into silence. Yes, everyone has played football since childhood, but everyone has never thought about such a profound question. It is like asking you why one plus one equals two.
"Possession of the ball"?someone said.
"If possession of the ball is useful, then Guardiola will not be unable to win the Champions League for three years."
As a native German, Sammer still has opinions on Guardiola's set, because Guardiola was actually handpicked by Rummenigge, and he did not discuss it with Sammer, but Sammer used to be the sports director. In order to maintain the unity of the team, he can't make irresponsible remarks on Guardiola.
In fact, "ball possession is useless" has long been raised in Europe. The most typical ones are Mourinho and Simeone. Their teams don't want ball possession.
And the coach represented by Guardiola is a person who regards ball possession as everything, emphasizing that without ball possession, there is nothing.
Sammer's words put himself and Simeone in the same camp, and the players vaguely felt that Guardiola's set would be completely eliminated in Bayern.
No one dared to come out and tell Sammer what to do, so Sammer was also welcome. He released two sets of data on the big screen, which were the average statistics of Bayern's participation in the Champions League in the past 10 years.
And Sammer deliberately drew red circles on two statistics-the ball possession rate and the running distance.
For the next 10 minutes, Guardiola didn't say anything, because everyone could see that in the Guardiola era, Bayern's ball possession rate was much higher than that of their opponents, but their running distance was regressed.
In the Heynckes era, Bayern's running distance was higher than that of their opponents in every game, especially in the 2013 UEFA Champions League semi-final home game against Barcelona 4-0, the Bayern team's running distance was 13 kilometers higher than their opponents, that is, one more person ran.
what does that mean?This means that Bayern was actually equal to 12 against 11 in that game, and it is no wonder that the game will have such a big advantage.
Knowing this, Summer said—"The most important thing in a football game is not that you control the ball more than your opponent, but that you run more than your opponent."
The players nodded involuntarily. These words are well-founded, and you have to be convinced. At the same time, everyone also admires Sammer. He is not like some coaches. He is not like some coaches. I say, you just follow the same way, but break it apart bit by bit, so that you can truly understand his tactical thinking.
"Then what are you going to do, coach? Is the training plan going to be completely changed?"
Summer smiled, with a sly look in his eyes.
"certainly",
Everyone didn't know why, but they suddenly felt chills on their backs, and had a bad feeling, "Ah, don't you want to torture us?"
Then the mystery was revealed.
"Tomorrow morning, on the outskirts of Munich, our whole team will run a half-marathon," Sommer said.
"Nani"?
Of course, they didn't call the Portuguese "Nani", but a joke, "Half Marathon"?
Müller’s grown-up mouth is enough to stuff an orange. You must know that the half marathon is 21 kilometers. The average running distance of an average player is only about 10 kilometers, which is equal to the running distance of two games and 180 minutes.
Seeing the terrified expressions of the disciples, Summer was happy, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. First, the team doctor will monitor your health throughout the process. Second, if you can't bear it, you can quit at any time."
As soon as these words came out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Some people may think that Sammer is too hasty, but in fact there are quite a few people who did this in the history of the Bundesliga. The most famous one is Magath. He is an amateur marathon enthusiast.
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The next day was sunny and sunny, but the weather was a bit hot. August is the hottest time of the year in Germany.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, everyone gathered, put on professional sports vests, and then began to warm up and prepare for activities.
At this time, everyone saw Summer not far away, who was also warming up, and then saw his outfit, and everyone was stunned—is the coach going to run with us?
No, Summer didn't run with them, but led them first.
While everyone was shocked, they were also a little moved. You must know that Summer was born in 1967, and he is almost 50 years old.
"Coach, why don't you ride a bicycle, we won't be lazy," Muller said.
"Hehe, I'm most afraid of you being lazy",
Muller stuck out his tongue, thinking: "My good intentions have been misunderstood."
"Don't worry, maybe it's you who ran to the ground in the end, not me."
Three black lines appeared on Muller's forehead, and he thought to himself: "If I lose to a 50-year-old man, I don't want my salary, and I'm embarrassed to ask for it."
Bulls can blow wildly, but they show their real skills when they run. After 5 kilometers, many players obviously feel powerless, especially veterans like Alonso and Lahm, and technical players like Thiago.
At 10 kilometers, Thiago, Bernat, Alonso and Rafinha all gave up, and after a while, Lahm, "Bad Stubel", Ribery also retreated.
Marathon is a thing that becomes more and more difficult towards the end. Every step feels like dying, and it feels like my heart will stop beating at any time.
Gradually, more and more people gave up, but the bald old man was still at the forefront.
At this time, Li Qiao was almost at the point of exhaustion. We know that people who run fast generally have poor stamina, and Li Qiao is the same.
Running, a car drove up to Li Qiao, rolled down the window, and Dr. Wolfart poked his head out.
"Li Qiao, stop, your body can't take it anymore."
"It's okay... it's... coming... soon".
"I command you to stop",
According to the data monitored by the doctor, the electrolyte level in Li Qiao's body has dropped to an abnormal level.
But Li Qiao's stubborn temper came up, "Samer is about the same age as my father, he can run to the end, but I can't"?
In the end, when the persuasion was ineffective, the doctor handed Li Qiao a bottle of sports drink, and Li Qiao ran the whole distance in a state of collapse.
Summer also gave up his life, but for the prestige of his coach, he gritted his teeth and persisted.
Finally, after counting, no more than half of the Bayern team can persist in running. Obviously, this level of physical fitness is far from Sammer's expectations.
(End of this chapter)