After the big battle with Juventus, time entered the international match day.
For some small teams, the international match day is a good opportunity to summarize experience and lessons learned from the game and adjust the team's status.
For big clubs like AC Milan, which basically have international players from all over the world, they have to take a holiday on international match days because they can't even put together a decent small-scale confrontation lineup.
Not to mention the main players of the national team like Ibrahimovic, Silva, and Boateng, even Mane, Salah and others who have just emerged this season have also been called up by the national team.
Even though younger kids like De Sciglio can't make it to the national team yet, they were still called up to the Italian U20 youth team.
Therefore, for Pan Yi, international match day is a rare holiday.
But Pan Yi didn't really go on vacation or anything.
He should use this time to recharge himself!
Yes, after defeating Juventus, the mysterious strongest coaching course system opened some new tutorials for Pan Yi.
This time, it's not just the coaching tactics courses presented before, but more detailed versions of those courses.
There are also some management methods used by the head coach to manage the entire team, including how to deal with bosses, agents and players, how to deal with various emergencies, etc.
Pan Yi guessed that it was precisely because the tactics he proposed that defeated Barcelona and Juventus that the system determined that his current ability could absorb more knowledge.
Although he is only an assistant coach now and most of the time he only provides tactical and training assistance to the head coach. In fact, he has no need for that management knowledge yet.
But after all, Pan Yi is not willing to be an assistant coach forever.
He is a man who is going to be a great head coach!
Therefore, it is appropriate to start preparing from now on.
Who knows that one day he won't be suddenly poached by which team?
After all, there is no so-called transfer window for a coach's "transfer".
So during this international competition day, Pan Yi was reading these tutorials.
"Ferguson: After the flying boot scandal, why did Beckham have to leave?"
"Mancini: When Balotelli is thinking about life, what am I thinking about"
"Guardiola: Ibrahimovic and Messi, this is not an easy choice"
"Ancelotti: What to do when you have four No. 10s"
"Mourinho: Why finishing second at Manchester United is my greatest achievement"
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In particular, Ferguson's tutorial aroused Pan Yi's strongest interest.
It was February 15, 2003, in the fifth round of the English FA Cup, when Manchester United faced Arsenal at home.
Arsenal, playing away from home, eliminated Manchester United 2-0 with goals from Edu and Wiltord in the 37th and 52nd minutes respectively.
After the game, Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson became furious in the dressing room and violently criticized the Manchester United players.
During this period, Ferguson and David Beckham had an argument over the second goal. Ferguson kicked a football boot that flew to the ground, and the boot just hit Beckham's left eyebrow bone.
There was a sudden flow of blood, and it was known as the "Flying Boot Gate" in history.
In addition to causing Beckham to bleed and nearly lose his appearance, this injury also marked the end of his close relationship with Ferguson.
After the 02/03 season, Beckham was sold to Real Madrid.
Of course, in this tutorial, it is not just a simple description of this event.
It details the various trade-offs Ferguson made and why he ultimately made the decision.
For example, from the beginning, Ferguson and the coaching staff had actually begun to realize that Beckham's work efficiency was declining, and they also heard rumors of contact between Real Madrid and Beckham's team.
So Ferguson was ready to start negotiations with Beckham's team and communicate with Beckham himself.
But at that time, Beckham had been obviously affected by factors off the court. He did not listen to Ferguson's words very much, and even some of the tactical arrangements on the court were not implemented seriously.
This is actually the trigger for the "Flying Boots Gate" incident.
After this incident occurred, the damage to everyone at Manchester United was obvious, and it also caused a public outcry.
Ferguson told the board bluntly that Beckham must leave.
the reason is simple.
When a player thinks he is better than the head coach, he must leave.
Once the head coach loses his authority, he will no longer be able to control the club.
The players will take advantage of the coach, and then he will be in trouble as a coach.
Ferguson's attitude is very tough because this is his principle as a head coach.
The final result, of course, was that Beckham left Manchester United and joined Real Madrid.
After sending away the best long-passing midfielder in the world, Ferguson still achieved success at Manchester United.
The next five Premier League championships and one Champions League championship proved that as long as the head coach's authority is there, the team's cohesion and combat effectiveness will be there.
In the tutorial, Ferguson's negotiation process with players, his operations in the transfer market, and his game with agents are also described in detail.
These contents were presented in Pan Yi's mind, as if he had personally participated in it all.
In the process of learning, he gradually realized the experience and wisdom of this world-famous coach in managing the team, which really amazed him.
Then, Pan Yi saw another negative case.
Same at Manchester United.
But the time came in 2018, Ferguson had already retired, and Manchester United had not won a decent championship in several years.
This was the period of madman Mourinho's coaching.
Although he also did not win the Premier League championship, he still won second place in the powerful Premier League and won the Europa League, League Cup and Community Shield. This is already the best performance in the post-Ferguson era.
But later, Mourinho fell out with the team's midfielder Pogba.
The reason was that Pogba never returned to the team for training that summer because he was doing rehabilitation training in Miami.
As a result, a reporter photographed Pogba and his wife on vacation, and Mourinho contacted Pogba's agent Raiola.
Pogba was furious and directly asked Mourinho if he was serious and if he knew how to behave.
This triggered the conflict between the two.
From then on, Pogba walked around the field and acted, trying to force Mourinho out.
Including one time when Manchester United played an away game, Pogba did not want to take the team bus, but wanted to take his own Rolls-Royce to challenge Mourinho's authority.
What's outrageous is that many Manchester United fans supported Pogba that year and wanted Mourinho to leave.
Many fans chanted that they would rather lose than play offensive football instead of the three trophies Mourinho brought.
Then the management made the decision to keep Pogba and fire Mourinho.
Obviously, they all regretted it in the end.
After Mourinho left Manchester United, Pogba's performance did not improve. In the end, he chose not to renew his contract and re-invested in Juventus for free, which was equivalent to costing Manchester United 100 million euros.
And Manchester United's performance has never improved, and they can't even play in the Champions League.
This is a typical negative example of players being superior to coaches.
After all, after such an incident, who of Manchester United's new coaches can control Pogba, and how can he control the locker room?
Without authority, the coach's tactics will be impossible to discuss, and the intensity of execution will definitely be greatly reduced.
When Pan Yi saw this, he nodded secretly.
If a team invites you in the future, then ensuring your right to speak in the team and establishing your prestige in the entire team must be the top priority.
Just then, Pan Yi's phone rang.
It's Valentina.
"Pan Yi, where are you? Didn't you make an appointment to meet with someone from SI today to talk about the Football Manager game?"
Pan Yi suddenly jumped up from the sofa.
Damn, I was so engrossed in studying that I forgot about this!