Julian Nagelsmann, a former professional football player who retired due to injury at a young age, will only turn 25 at the end of this month.
This German, who is now younger than Pan Yi, can only be said to be slightly famous at present, but in a few years, he will become a figure that attracts attention in German football and even world football!
Since he retired from the Augsburg second team, he has worked as a scout with head coach Tuchel, and has also begun to obtain coaching qualifications and study sports science.
Later, under the recommendation of Tuchel, Nagelsmann returned to the U17 team of Munich 1860, where he had stayed as a player, and officially started his coaching career as an assistant coach.
The head coach of this team at the time was also an old acquaintance of Long Guo fans, Roger Schmidt, who had served as the head coach of Guoan.
Both Tuchel and Schmidt are deeply influenced by the "academic godfather" Rangnick.
These coaches all have obvious characteristics: they were not top-notch in their playing days, but they made up for their shortcomings with their keen court insights, rich tactical knowledge and fanatical work attitude.
Nagelsmann, who has similar experience, has played for them for two years and is naturally familiar with the working methods of "academic" coaches.
During the season, Nagelsmann even came under the command of the "grandfather" Rangnick and took full charge of youth training at Hoffenheim.
In the following years, Hoffenheim's youth team and second team emerged with young talents such as Sule, Amiri, Geiger, Pausch and Baumgartner, all of whom were inseparable from Nagelsmann's guidance.
Cultivation.
Later, he was promoted to the first team as an assistant coach. Interestingly, his first game after taking office was against Hamburg...
After that, he naturally became the head coach of Hoffenheim's first team. At the age of 28, he became the youngest head coach in the history of the Bundesliga. Of course, now with 26-year-old Pan Yi, this record cannot be broken by him.
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After leading the team to the Champions League consecutively, Nagelsmann became the head coach of Red Bull Leipzig and led the team to the Champions League semi-finals this season.
Such an excellent record also made Germany's top team Bayern Munich offer him an olive branch.
After arriving at Bayern, Nagelsmann also led the team to win the Bundesliga championship and became a famous coach of a wealthy club. Of course, this is all a story later.
No matter in which period, Nagelsmann's reasonable training methods and levels cannot be ignored.
Moreover, as a top academic, he advocated the implementation of many new training equipment and training methods during his coaching period at Hoffenheim.
It also includes a series of software and hardware black technologies that apply smart devices, big data analysis and artificial intelligence to team training, greatly improving training efficiency.
This set of things later even benefited the entire world of football.
Then, Pan Yi also believes that Nagelsmann can also let Hamburg take the lead in getting the benefits in this regard and avoid some detours.
This is why Pan Yi found him as an assistant coach.
Compared with Inzaghi, a rookie coach, Nagelsmann is obviously more reliable in terms of daily training.
Just leave all these things to him when the time comes, and Pan Yi can just focus on the tactical drills!
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"I do."
When faced with Pan Yi's invitation, Nagelsmann simply responded in the affirmative.
This is actually a bit beyond Pan Yi's expectation.
After all, Nagelsmann still has his own career plan.
In fact, as early as when he led the Hoffenheim U19 youth team to win the U19 Bundesliga championship and became the youngest coach to win this honor, many Bundesliga giants favored Nagelsmann.
This also includes Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich.
But Nagelsmann rejected the kindness of many teams and decided to continue training at Hoffenheim.
So when Pan Yi came to Huocun, he had no idea whether he could successfully recruit this excellent coach - this is why he did not include Nagelsmann in his initial team preparation.
Reason.
"There is no special reason, it's just that I like to work next to a high-level head coach, which allows me to learn and grow." Faced with Pan Yi's inquiry, Nagelsmann replied, "And I have studied your tactics.
, it is obvious that you are a real tactical genius."
Pan Yi smiled.
He could also see that there was indeed a hint of reverence and yearning in Nagelsmann's eyes when he spoke, even though Pan Yi was only one year older than Nagelsmann.
From this point of view, Pan Yi has indeed made a very famous name for him during his year in Milan, and it has also made coaches like Nagelsmann who are obsessed with tactics study it carefully and be impressed by it.
In Pan Yi's previous life, Nagelsmann used 442, 4231, 352, 343, etc. when coaching Red Bull Leipzig, which was very changeable.
Sometimes it is due to helpless choices due to injuries, and more often it is targeted deployment when facing different opponents. The layout of each position is very detailed and meticulous.
This is similar to what Pan Yi did in Milan.
On defense, Nagelsmann also advocates frontcourt pressure, but pays more attention to strategy and integrity, and does not blindly allow players to attack.
Especially when it comes to the specific responsibilities of players, Nagelsmann also prefers the approach of "forming a local numerical advantage and establishing a strong side", which coincides with the current tactics Pan Yi is planning to implement in Hamburg.
Therefore, the two people have a high degree of compatibility in their tactical thinking.
From this aspect, it is logical that Nagelsmann admires Pan Yi.
After all, we are all "kindred spirits", and they are similar in age, so there is a sense of intimacy.
Of course, the timing of Pan Yi's invitation is also very suitable.
Since Hoffenheim sold many core players including Gustavo, the original head coach Rangnick chose to leave and the former Liverpool and Bayern defender Marcus Babel took over.
Babel's highest achievement as a coach after retiring was to lead Hertha Berlin to win the Bundesliga Championship and be promoted successfully.
This is obviously incomparable with Pan Yi's triple crown in Milan, and the subtlety of tactical design is also very different in the eyes of expert Nagelsmann.
Therefore, comparing the two, it is not difficult at all for Nagelsmann, who is eager to improve, to choose.
And if Rangnick had not left and worked next to the head coach known as the "German Godfather", maybe Nagelsmann would not have thought about leaving the team.
"Then, welcome to Hamburg."
Finally, Pan Yi stretched out his right hand, and Nagelsmann also smiled and nodded.
The two young coaches held their hands tightly together!