By the end of December, the Bundesliga has become the happiest league among the four major European leagues.
Because they have a long winter break.
Due to the Club World Cup, Bayern's winter break was more than a week later than other teams. The vacation officially started after the team finished playing the Club World Cup in Japan, returned to Munich, and held a celebration banquet.
Other Bundesliga teams start from the seventeenth round of the Bundesliga, and have a winter break of more than forty days.
Although more than a week is missing, Bayern is happy enough, especially after winning the Club World Cup. The club gave each player a generous bonus, allowing them to start their vacation happily.
As in previous years, Su Dong also distributed a big red envelope to everyone in his personal coaching team.
The help of Nuno Cruz and others to Su Dong is obvious to all. Although they are not familiar to fans, they are well-known in the industry. For example, Robben has rarely been injured this season. Compared with last season,
After getting up, the attendance rate has improved a lot, and behind this, in addition to Bayern's miracle doctor Wolfat, Su Dong's personal physiotherapist Grant Downing also played an important role.
In addition to giving them generous annual salaries, Su Dong would also give them big red envelopes during every festival. Su Dong was never stingy when it came to major happy events such as winning a championship, which also made them devoted to Su Dong.
This is also the way Su Dong has always behaved.
No matter how good a personal relationship is, it's another thing. Don't talk about relationships when talking about work. After all, people rely on work to earn a living and support their families, so you need to give them enough money and sincerity, and give them appropriate leave so that they can spend more time with them.
Spend time with your family.
This resulted in Su Dong working with Nuno Cruz and others for many years, and their relationship became increasingly strong.
After seeing off his personal coaching team, Su Dong also took Wang Chuqing to the Aegean Sea in Greece for a vacation.
After the two arrived in Greece, they rented a luxury yacht and went out to sea, enjoying a leisurely vacation with vast sea and sky.
Even though they are both serious in front of outsiders, when they are in this world, it is called an infatuation, especially in the beautiful Aegean Sea, where the yacht floats aimlessly on the sea, and both of them are physically and mentally exhausted.
After being completely relaxed, my life became more shameless.
After floating in the Aegean Sea for a full week, they passed through 2008 and entered 2009. Only then did Su and Dong go ashore, but they did not set out to return to Germany, but continued eastward to Dubai.
Su Dong and Wang Chuqing spent two days in Dubai and were taken to Abu Dhabi by their sponsor.
This time, Su Dong is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Promotion Authority, referred to as Abu Dhabi TCA. The sponsorship fee is very high, 10 million euros per year, and Su Dong serves as the global ambassador for Abu Dhabi tourism and culture promotion.
You only need to shoot a tourism promotion advertisement for them and participate in two or three activities.
It can be said that this money is really, really easy to make.
In the words of Mendes and Ma Dawei, the wealthy people in the Middle East are simply here to give away money.
Once you get the money, you naturally have to do something.
After Su Dong arrived in Abu Dhabi, he immediately started shooting advertisements. He also took a lot of promotional photos and participated in an event with the Tourism and Culture Promotion Bureau. Many media reporters from all over the world came to the scene to witness it.
signed by both parties.
What really attracted Su Dong's attention was not the event itself, because the event was actually nothing special. It just promoted some tourism projects in Abu Dhabi. But to be honest, Abu Dhabi's tourism industry has just started. Compared with Dubai next door,
It's a lot different, but the prospects are still very promising.
After all, Abu Dhabi is rich as hell.
Su Dong met two old acquaintances at the event, one was the God of War Batistuta.
He used to play football in the Middle East and was very famous, so he was often invited to participate in some activities in the Middle East.
The other one is Guardiola, who also played football in the Middle East and is now the head coach of Barcelona's second team. Unexpectedly, he was also invited to participate in this event.
For Batistuta, Su Dong no longer has the admiration he once had. He still respects Batistuta very much, but he will no longer have the same admiration as before. Even his nickname of "Little God of War" has been changed.
It has not been mentioned by anyone for many years. Even if it was mentioned, they would not add a small word in front of it, but would call him the God of War.
Batty had many acquaintances in the Middle East. After chatting with Su Dong for a while, he went to find friends.
Guardiola was left alone.
Su Dong has always been curious about this legendary leader of Barcelona.
It was Begiristain who prompted Guardiola to coach Barcelona's second team, but now, Begiristain has gone to Manchester City.
According to the information obtained by Su Dong, Guardiola is likely to take over from Mark Hughes to coach Manchester City after the end of this season.
Su Dong has also heard about Guardiola's reforms in Barcelona's second team.
This is a bit like Cruyff's reform of Barcelona. Guardiola's reform has been quite effective, but it is unrealistic to say how magical it is. After all, youth training is about long-term investment.
Su Dong has always wanted to have a good chat with Guardiola and listen to some of his ideas.
Because he was curious, why did Guardiola convince Soriano and Begiristain that he would become a famous coach?
You must know that Manchester City will invest huge sums of money to build a top team, and Guardiola must be valued because he must have his own advantages, but a person who has never coached independently in the first team has
What's so special about it?
What Su Dong didn't expect was that Guardiola's jaw dropped as soon as he took action.
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"You mean, you want to transplant Barcelona's passing and possession system to the Premier League?" Su Dong was very surprised.
But Guardiola nodded very firmly, "I think it is very feasible."
"But the Premier League is really fast. Even when it comes to possession of the ball like Arsenal, the pace is actually very fast."
The reason why Arsenal often collapses in the second half is because of problems with the players' physical fitness. Why do players have problems with their physical fitness? It's because they have a fast pace and need to control the ball, so the players run more and consume more.
Big, if your physical fitness is strong in the first half, your performance will be good. As your physical fitness declines, your performance will also decline, or even collapse.
"This definitely requires some adjustments, but I think there is no need to change the fundamentals. The passing and possession system can survive in any league and in any environment." Guardiola is full of confidence.
Later, he took the initiative to mention to Su Dong the peak of the Dream Team during the Rijkaard period, which was the team's tactics when Su Dong played for Barcelona.
Guardiola emphatically mentioned Barcelona's 5-0 victory over Real Madrid, which was the starting point of the Dream Team II. It left a deep impression on Guardiola, especially Barcelona's full-court press.
"Cruyff said that as long as you keep the ball in your hands as much as possible, it will be difficult for your opponent to score."
"To achieve as much ball control as possible, we need to do two things well. When we have the ball, we need to ensure the stability of our passing and control through organized and purposeful passing and cutting cooperation. When we don't have the ball, we need to
Get the ball back as quickly as possible."
Guardiola mentioned the madman Bielsa. He said that he specially went to South America to learn from the experience and had a long period of communication with Bielsa. He was very knowledgeable about Bielsa's coaching of the team, training of players and daily management.
I admire him and think Bielsa is one of the best managers in the world.
Another one is Ferguson.
"Belsa has a six-second theory, which is that after one's team loses the ball, everyone must counterattack and press as quickly as possible, trying to get the ball back within six seconds. Then it will be difficult for the opponent to create an effective game.
A threatening attack.”
Guardiola also analyzed the case of Dream Team II and believed that Rijkaard's team did not do a good enough job in regaining the ball, which led to Barcelona's performance at that time being unstable, especially in the first season.
The performance was like riding a roller coaster.
Su Dong has a personal experience of this that no one else has, and he really feels that what Guardiola says makes sense.
At least it is an analysis of Barcelona's dream second team from another angle, and it is a three-pointer.
In addition to defense, Guardiola believed that on the offensive end, the Dream Team did not do a very good job. Sometimes they controlled the ball for the sake of controlling the ball without a clear purpose.
Or it should be said that Rijkaard has never figured out why he controls the ball.
"Actually, it's very simple. What I want is not to pass and control the ball. Controlling the ball and passing the ball are just tools and means for me to achieve my tactical goals. What I really want is to mobilize the opponent through passing and controlling the ball.
players, forcing, luring or misleading them out of their positions, thereby disrupting the opponent's formation and creating a situation most beneficial to our offense."
Guardiola combined some real-life cases and introduced his ideas to Su Dong in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.
Su Dong was a little confused after hearing this.
It's not that he didn't understand, it's that he heard it so clearly that he was a little confused.
Many aspects that he seemed to understand but didn't understand before, after Guardiola said this, he suddenly had an enlightenment and understood them all.
Now he can truly feel why both Soriano and Begiristain think Guardiola is so awesome.
Su Dong also felt that he was either a theorist, a master of deception, or a top-notch coach with his own set of mature technical and tactical concepts.
Many of his ideas and ideas were unheard of by Su Dong before.
This guy is such a genius!
A genius in coaching!
After a conversation, Su Dong admired Guardiola immensely.
But Su Dong didn't know that after the exchange between the two, Guardiola had a further impression of him. Especially seeing Su Dong's understanding of football and his understanding of his technical and tactical concepts, Guardiola was very impressed.
These days, not many people can accept and understand his philosophy in such a short period of time, especially a superstar like Su Dong, who is naturally the core of the frontcourt offense.
When he was playing in the Middle East, Guardiola had already determined in his heart that Su Dong was the ideal center candidate in his mind.
Not only him, but over the years, Benitez, Mourinho, Rijkaard, Heynckes and others, who has not used Su Dong as a perfect center?
But Guardiola is confident that he can transform Su Dong and sublimate him again.
