Van Gaal determined that AZ Alkmaar would also defend against counterattacks at home, and he began to conduct targeted training according to this method. However, at this time, assistant coach Mourinho put forward different opinions.
Yes! This assistant coach Mourinho is the later famous madman, the Portuguese Jose Mourinho who claims to be God second. The 37-year-old Mourinho was born in Setubal, Portugal, and his father Felix?
Mourinho is the former Portugal national goalkeeper.
Due to the influence of his father, Mourinho has been fond of football since he was a child. Unlike his father, Mourinho played as a midfielder on the court. Mourinho grew up in the Rio Ave youth training camp, and he occasionally played in the 1980/81 season.
He will represent the team's first team in the Portuguese second-tier league. In the summer of 1981, Frakes became the head coach of Rio Ave. Mourinho only got more playing opportunities due to his father's nepotism.
During his two years at Oave, Mourinho played 16 times and scored 2 goals.
In the 1982/83 season, Freix moved to another Portuguese second-tier team, Belenises, and Mourinho also followed his father in the transfer. In this season, the Madman played 16 times and scored 2 goals. However, due to Freix
Rex was fired at the end of the season, and Mourinho was also purged by Belenises. After Rex lost his job, he was unemployed for 11 years. Mourinho, who lost his protective umbrella, was even in the second league.
No more. From 1983 to 1985, Mourinho played for the Portuguese third-tier league team Ses Mbula. He played 35 times and scored 1 goal. From 1985 to 87, Mourinho played for Portugal.
In the fourth-level team Comosio Industrial and Commercial Team, Madman scored 8 goals in 27 appearances. That is to say, at Comosio Industrial and Commercial Team, the 24-year-old Mourinho hung up his boots early and took coaching courses.
Mourinho's career as a player is no longer enough to describe its despondency, but his decisive decision has deprived the world of football of a bad player, but added a great coach. It's just that in
When 27-year-old Jiang Mu was already famous all over the world, 37-year-old Mourinho was still just an assistant coach.
Mourinho held management positions at Amadora and Setubal before taking his first high-profile job in football: working for Bobby Robson at Sporting Lisbon. First as Robson Sr.
Translator, and later gradually became involved in the team's management affairs. Old Robson went to Porto, and Mourinho followed suit. Old Robson joined Barcelona, and he brought the very capable Mourinho to Barcelona. Old Robson
When Sen left Barcelona, Robson recommended Mourinho to his successor Van Gaal when he left. Mourinho stayed at Camp Nou and continued to serve as Van Gaal's assistant coach.
More than ten years of working as an assistant and translator have greatly improved Mourinho's knowledge and abilities. Even the autocratic Van Gaal admitted that Mourinho was better than him in tactics and certain aspects. In some games,
We should listen to Mourinho's opinion and even let Mourinho direct some less important games.
In this game against Alkmaar, Mourinho's job was to observe Alkmaar's training, make videos, and then participate in the formulation of training plans and tactics.
After observing Alkmaar during this period, Mourinho believes that Van Gaal’s judgment is only partially correct, because Jiang Mu may change his playing style and formation according to the opponent’s situation during the game, and Mourinho believes that Barcelona’s
Guardiola's single defensive midfielder is a bit weak. Enrique intervenes too frequently, which affects the defense in the middle. Cocu can only defend and organizes the offense too poorly. If Alkmaar strangles Guardiola, Barcelona's offense will be poor.
There is a danger because the talented forwards in front cannot touch the ball.
However, Van Gaal believes that Mourinho's suggestion is based on fantasy, because the opponent cannot contain Guardiola. The 29-year-old Guardiola is in his prime, both offensive and defensive, and has great dribbling skills.
Both long and short passes are good. Even if the opponent presses Guardiola, Guardiola can use medium and long passes to organize the attack. If the opponent really targets Guardiola, Van Gaal believes that he still has Xavi as a surprise player.
, so Van Gaal rejected Mourinho's suggestion.
However, Van Gaal accepted Mourinho's other suggestion. He also believed that Jiang Mu's tactical command ability was very strong. It is no exaggeration to say that Van Gaal has never seen anyone with better on-the-spot command ability than Jiang Mu.
Yes, Van Gaal admires Mourinho's tactical ability, but he thinks Jiang Mu is better than Mourinho.
If he did not make adequate preparations before the game, Van Gaal believed that he would not be able to compete with Jiang Mu on tactics during the game, and would be asking for a headache if he could compete with a guy who changed three or four tactics in one game.
Mourinho first reminded him, and then publicly debated with Van Gaal in a team management meeting, but Van Gaal refused to accept it. Mourinho was angry at Van Gaal's arbitrary approach, but he was only an assistant coach.
It's like a staff officer. If the head coach doesn't listen, there's nothing he can do.
The two teams not only competed secretly, but also launched a psychological war in the media.
Jiang Mu knows that Van Gaal is a dictatorial person, knows the arrogance of Barcelona people, and knows the hatred between Barcelona and Real Madrid, but he chose to accept an interview with the pro-Real Madrid newspaper AS and specifically singled out Barcelona for heartache.
Where to say.
"Barcelona is a giant, this is already recognized, I can't deny it, but they have too few Champions League trophies, only one. In addition, their record in the Champions League is also a bit shabby, and they were beaten 4:0 by AC Milan in the final.
.We are not afraid of them, and we will not set up an iron barrel formation. I believe we can defeat them with dignity at home."
"Van Gaal is a very good coach, and his record at Ajax is brilliant, but Van Gaal can't defend. A team that can't defend can't go far in the Champions League, no matter how many players he has.
superstar, and Van Gaal is too authoritarian in the team, which will cause dissatisfaction among the players and they will not listen to correct opinions."
Van Gaal was very angry. He was not angry at the verbal abuse. He was angry that a young boy like Jiang Mu dared to publicly teach him a lesson and talk about his own weaknesses. He really didn’t know how high the sky was. Van Gaal also publicly responded in the media.
Jiang Mu.
"I don't need a rookie who has just coached for two years to tell me whether I can defend, because he still doesn't understand what football is. So what can I do if I don't know how to defend? I can still keep AC Milan clean and win the championship. I can do this game too.
Advance without defense, offense is the best defense.
"The most important thing for a head coach is to have his own football philosophy, and then instill this philosophy into the players and express it on the court, instead of listening to correct opinions. Those are just trivial skills."
Although Van Gaal did not listen to Mourinho's advice, Mourinho still hoped to help his team. When being interviewed by reporters, the future madman attacked Jiang Mu like this.
"He just won an Eredivisie championship and a Dutch Cup. There are too many people who have achieved such results. The reason why Jiang Mu is so famous is mainly because of the media, because he is Chinese and he has a yellow race.
, received a lot of attention, so he became famous. In terms of true talent and learning, he is far inferior to Eriksson, Gretz, and even Skibe who were defeated by him.
If there is any suspense in this quarter-final round, it is that coach Van Gaal not only hopes to win, but also hopes to win beautifully, and it is definitely not good to think so much. This is also Alkmaar's last chance. If it is
I'll arrange the troops and Jiang Mu won't stand a chance."
If a new head coach was ruined like this by an opponent's assistant coach, he would surely rise up and attack Mourinho, but Jiang Mu did not. He knew full well that Mourinho attacked his opponent without talking to him at all.
Jiang Mu did not keep any dealings with him, and Mourinho was now an assistant coach and not on the same level as him, so Jiang Mu did not fight back against Mourinho.
Jiang Mu was attacked by Mourinho, a young assistant coach. Alkmaar's players and coaches were very angry. In their hearts, Jiang Mu was a perfect idol. Jiang Mu kept silent. Assistant coach Linna
Zhou opened his mouth and fought back.
"Is this man named Mourinho crazy if he wants to be famous? He actually said this. Jiang Mu doesn't want to argue with him, but I can't stand it. An Eredivisie champion and a Dutch Cup champion are nothing, but
It depends on how it was achieved and what kind of team achieved it. Coach Jiang Mu led a newly promoted team to win the double crown. Is this something an ordinary coach can do? Can Mourinho do it? Van Gaal
Does the coach dare to say that he can do it?"
The team's captain Van Bommel also ridiculed Mourinho for speaking without thinking, "Assistant coach Mourinho please think more when he speaks. Coach Jiang is a real strength and does not rely on media praise to become famous. If Mourinho
If Neo is not convinced, he can replace coach Van Gaal and give it a try."
Mourinho knew that it was useless to have a war of words with minor players like Lin Nazhou and Van Bommel, so he still insisted on Jiang Mu. "Since people at Alkmaar say that Jiang Mu is a powerful person, he does not rely on the media.
He is famous for bragging to fans, so does he dare to fight Barcelona in this game? Does he dare to have a decisive battle between men with a pseudo-rich club like Barcelona as he said, instead of just fighting against
Fight with fish belly."
Jiang Mu was disgusted with Mourinho's insistent attacks, but he kept a low profile and never gave his opponents any room to bite. He simply mentioned this in an interview with UEFA's official website
, said: "Alkmaar is already the fattest team after reaching the quarterfinals. Where can Mr. Mourinho ask me to find the fattest team?"
Jiang Mu's fans were furious at Mourinho for humiliating Jiang Mu, and they all said they wanted to show Mourinho some shame. Some even went to demonstrate outside the Camp Nou stadium.
Van Gaal was not interested in a war of words. Seeing the raging crowd of Jiang Mu's fans, he was worried that something would happen in the Netherlands. After all, he was still a Dutchman, so he stopped Mourinho from continuing to attack Jiang Mu. Before the game, he
At the press conference, he expressed his willingness to fight Jiang Mu in any way.
Jiang Mu also happily said that it was an honor to play in the quarter-finals with Barcelona. He believed that this game would leave a deep impression on fans around the world.