"Is our opponent this little guy who has never even attended a coaching class?" Fulham coach Roy Hodgson pointed to the screen and said to assistant Riley Vinson: "But if you hadn't told me first that he has not received systematic training,
, I must have thought that he had the experience of studying under a famous coach like Mourinho..."
Swedish Riley Vinson has been Hodgson's assistant for more than 30 years, which was during the latter part of Hodgson's coaching career at Malmö in Sweden from 1985 to 1990.
"Originally one of the highlights of this game was the 'pair between the two youngest coaches in the Bundesliga'. At that time, I was talking about Labbadia and Herlihy. At the beginning of this season, the youngest goalkeeper was born in 1966.
Labbadia, after Bochum hired Herlihy, who was born in 1971, midway through the season, Labbadia gave up his position as the youngest player. Therefore, after December last year, the German sports media's attribution to Labbadia became ''
The coolest Bundesliga manager'..."
Hodgson was watching the England pay-per-view football channel, and the live match was broadcast by Hamburg TV, and the commentator was Karl Heinz.
Many paid football channels in Europe have purchased the rights to broadcast matches of the Bundesliga team Hamburg in the past month or so. Since Chinese players joined Hamburg, especially the excellent performance of Hamburg in the Europa League, Hamburg has
The team quickly gained many Chinese fans in Europe.
Generally when the scene is dull, the commentator becomes the protagonist. Wonderful commentators can add a lot of color to a mediocre game. Of course, mediocre commentators will also make a classic game look imperfect. Choose Carl.
Market research was also conducted on the games Heinz narrated. Probably because the Hamburg commentator was more familiar with the Chinese player, the Hamburg games he narrated always had a higher popularity rate.
"After Labbadia was sent to the stands with a red card, the actual 'fuck player' of the Hamburg team is the Chinese player Patton who is the goalkeeper on the field. He was born in October 1981 and is now (one year old, although Patton is not a certified
There is no head coach like Herlihy.
After such systematic training, theoretical knowledge and practical experience as an assistant coach and youth team coach, but from the first half, it seemed that the Hamburg team commanded by Patton still had the upper hand. Several of Herlihy's offensive tactics were
Patton saw through it and responded effectively..."
By the way, the record holder for the youngest coach in the Bundesliga is not Labbadia or Herlihy, but Skibe, the current head coach of Frankfurt. In 1988, at the age of 22, he was the assistant coach of Schalke 04. In 1989, he was the assistant coach of Schalke 04.
Becoming the head coach of the Dortmund youth team, 9 years later, in 1998, the 32-year-old Skibbey officially became the head coach of Dortmund. He still holds the record of being the youngest coach in the Bundesliga to this day.
Like Labbadia and Herlihy, Skibe also received systematic theoretical training and became the head coach after accumulating a lot of practical experience as an assistant coach and in the youth team.
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The same is true for the Fulham coach. Hodgson, the England coach who was born in 1947, was only 37 or 38 years old when he started his coaching career in Sweden. Assistant Riley Vinson is one of the many people who has witnessed the ups and downs of the old coach for more than 30 years.
one of the.
During the five years when Hodgson coached Malmo from 1985 to 1990, the Malmo club won two league championships and two cup championships, which also became a good start for Hodgson's coaching career.
From 1991 to 1996, Hodgson served as the coach of the Swiss national team. After more than three years of training, he led the Swiss team to the World Cup again in 1994 and broke through the group to enter the top 16, making Hodgson famous in European and even world football.
rise to fame.
After that, Hodgson coached Inter Milan and Blackburn respectively, leading Inter Milan to the 1997 UEFA Cup final. The following year, he led the relegation team Blackburn to "outwit the strong and capture the weak" in the Premier League, winning the title for Blackburn.
A seat in the UEFA Cup.
However, in the later period of Blackburn Rovers, Hodgson fell into the low period of his coaching career. In 1998, Blackburn suffered a series of heavy losses and was relegated. Hodgson left sadly. The subsequent Danish league championship was only a token of comfort for him.
Then he led the Finnish national team but lost in the 2000 European Championship qualifiers and retired sadly again.
For many years after that, Hodgson coached in some leagues in Nordic countries, including Denmark, Sweden, Norway and other national leagues. During this period, he also declined invitations to coach the Swedish and Norwegian national teams until he coached in 2007.
Premier League Fulham team, Hodgson finally got through his 8-year "low period"!
After a season of running-in, in Hodgson's second season in charge, in the 0809 season, Fulham ranked seventh in the Premier League and won the last Europa League spot for the Premier League team.
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Unlike Hamburg who directly entered the Europa League group stage in fourth place in the Bundesliga last season, according to the rules of the Europa League, whether Fulham can enter the group stage will have to go through a two-round qualifying round and a two-round play-off round.
, only then can we know whether we have a place in the group stage.
At that time, no one thought that this mid-table team in the Premier League could make a difference in this marathon competition.
Fulham's Europa League journey began in July 2009. In the qualifying round, Fulham eliminated the Lithuanian Vitra team 6-0 in two rounds. In the subsequent play-offs, Fulham lost 0-0 in the away game.
After losing one game first, Fulham defeated the Russian Super League Ankar 3-1 at home, reversed the situation with a total score of 3-2 and advanced to the group stage.
Fulham's three opponents in the Europa League group stage were Roma, Italy, Basel, Switzerland, and CSKA Sofia, Bulgaria. In the end, Fulham defeated Basel in the last round and beat Basel, Switzerland by 2 points to enter the top 32.
In the knockout stage, every step Fulham takes is extremely dangerous. In a 32-to-16 match, the first knockout match is against the defending champions of the last UEFA Cup, Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine. Fulham won 2-1 at home.
The away game drew 1-1 and finally advanced.
In the 16-to-8 match, Fulham's opponent was considered insurmountable. The Italian giant Juventus lost 1-3 in the away game in the first leg. However, after returning home, Fulham won an incredible game.
It was this game that swept the Serie A hegemon 4-1, making people remember Hodgson again who once led the Swiss team to create miracles.
In the just-concluded 8-4 game, Fulham double defeated Wolfsburg. You must know that Wolfsburg was the Bundesliga champion last season! Along the way to the Europa League, behind Fulham, the champions were littered with corpses.
It has been 13 years since Hodgson's last UEFA Cup final. Hodgson, who has been silent for too long, has already set his tone. He will defeat Hamburg and advance to the Europa League final! Even if he gives up the league, he will not hesitate!
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Compared to Fulham, Hamburg's Europa League journey seems much easier.
Hamburg's three opponents in the group stage were Israel's Hapoel Tel Aviv, Scotland's Celtic, and Austria's Rapid Vienna. In the end, Hamburg had 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, accumulating 10 points, ranking second in the group and entering the top 32.
One is the Israeli team Hapoel Tel Aviv.
The next knockout rounds are the three two-leg matches that Chen Zhuo participated in, PSV, Anderlecht, Standard League, and the defending Europa League champion, Serie A champion, and Bundesliga champion against Fulham.
In comparison, they are much weaker in terms of strength. In other words, the three whetstones of Hamburg are many times inferior to the three whetstones of Fulham.
After defeating three powerful enemies before facing Hamburg, Hodgson was naturally full of confidence!
Hodgson has seen all the information from the three and six rounds of the knockout rounds, especially the two rounds against the Belgian team. Hamburg won a big victory in the first round to establish an advantage. The win or loss in the second round has no bearing on the overall situation, and Hodgson also
Seeing such an important knockout match,
The Hamburg team actually used an Asian foreign player who had just joined the team for a short time as an "executive coach". However, the Chinese player's ability to read and control the game is no weaker than that of those who have received systematic theoretical training and have been coaching for more than ten years.
Coaches with professional backgrounds!
Hodgson's request to his assistant Riley Vinson was to collect and organize two sets of information. One set was to summarize and analyze Labbadia's coaching style, and the other set was to study what would happen to the Chinese player if he was ranked in the lineup and played in person.
What unique ideas are there?
Labbadia's information is not difficult to collect and organize. From Stuttgart last season to Hamburg this season, Labbadia has only coached so many times.
Chen Zhuo's information is easier to find. The information in the Chinese league should not have much reference value for the Europa League, and the number of games he played in the Bundesliga and the Europa League only add up to a few games!
Despite this, Hodgson still attaches great importance to it. There are two Bundesliga games before the Europa League. Hodgson wants to watch them all. In the next round of Hamburg’s home game against Mainz, Hodgson has already booked a flight to Hamburg for Riley Vinson.
That game was on April 17. Five days later, on April 22, Fulham would visit Hamburg. Riley Vinson happened to be in Hamburg making advance arrangements and waiting for the big team.
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In the live broadcast, the Bochum team kicked off the second half, and neither team has made any new adjustments to their personnel for the time being.
Are the injuries of the two goalkeepers serious? Which goalkeeper will be on the field after 11 days? Is it possible that this Chinese player will still be guarding the goal after 11 days?
Hodgson, the two goalkeepers of Hamburg, has also been studied. Hodgson also watched Chen Zhuo's short goalkeeping experience in the game against Frankfurt several times.
Bochum is really too weak, and the players' execution ability is too poor! Hodgson understood Herlihy's gestures in the first half. Herlihy asked the players to seize the opponent's weaknesses to break through and form a shot. To deal with a non-professional goalkeeper, you have to
He bombed several times to find his weak link, but in the entire first half, Bochum only had four shots, two of which missed the goal, and the two shots that were on target were basically weak...
Even so, the Hamburg team is not without loopholes. The young players are still a bit immature, especially the cooperation between them. Their movements are still stiff and lack of tacit understanding.
After a throw-in in the 8th minute of the second half, the Bochum team asked for a substitution. Bochum's young coach took the initiative to make changes. After all, they were lagging behind now!
