He is obviously a Capricorn, but why is he so picky than Su Dong, a Virgo?
From the team's overall tactical framework to specific execution details, and then broken down into daily training programs, Guardiola not only crushed his own tactical thoughts and instilled them into the players, but also pursued perfection in every detail.
.
Do you think that's all?
Wrong, dead wrong!
This guy even has very high requirements for training venues.
After arriving at the training base in the United States, he found that although it was isolated by barbed wire, fans could still see the team training outside the barbed wire. In order to avoid being watched, especially by competitors, he directly shot the ball.
The team applied for advertising curtains and covered the entire barbed wire fence around the training ground.
After doing this, he was still worried and arranged for people to patrol everywhere to check for anyone acting suspiciously.
This gives the players in the sealed training ground the illusion that they are guarding against James Bond.
But one thing to say is that Guardiola's preparations are really meticulous to the extreme.
Before every day's training, he requires the players to come to the locker room an hour in advance. He and the coaching staff will post different tactical drawings on the wall every day, and then use the hour before training to explain the contents of the tactical drawings to the players.
.
Before the players step onto the training field, he and the coaching staff will once again emphasize to each player the details they need to pay attention to during training, what they should do and what they should not do, and they will have a very clear understanding.
Su Dong was also very surprised by this, but at the same time he began to understand why Guardiola needed so many assistants.
The current coaching staff of Manchester City's first team has nearly thirty people engaged in various tasks, which is even more than the players of the first team. Compared with the coaching staff of other teams, the number of people is much larger.
Why does Guardiola need so many assistants?
The reason is that his preparations are too detailed, breaking down all the content to the extreme, which naturally requires more manpower, and he also adds many items that other teams do not have.
For example, he will take videos of each training session and conduct targeted analysis on the videos.
Just this one thing alone, it would be impossible for three or five people to handle it.
Not only that, for such a large team to operate in an orderly manner, especially the division of labor and collaboration, Guardiola needs to have a clear enough understanding and a mature tactical framework so that everyone can be assigned tasks.
After doing this, coupled with a large coaching team, every player can clearly know what he needs to do and how to do it.
At this point, Su Dong had to admit that Guardiola was very efficient, unprecedentedly efficient.
Of course, knowing it is one thing, but whether it can be implemented is another matter.
Guardiola also has a very special quirk, that is, he looks very elegant and calm, even a bit difficult to get along with, but there is a rock and roll heart hidden underneath.
Every time the team takes the bus or before training in the locker room, he plays some rock songs.
To use the player's private joking saying, even his cold and arrogant appearance can't suppress his restless heart!
…
At the tactical level, Guardiola adopts the most original tactics in the fourth position.
In order to better explain what the fourth position tactic is, Guardiola even spent an hour making some PPT to introduce in detail the evolution of the entire tactic.
From Brazil's 4-2-4 ancient formation to Michels' 4-3-3 total offense and total defense, the tactics of the fourth position were not clear at the time, and later Michels' total offense and total defense tactics were also criticized by Bei.
Defeated by Ken Ball's libero tactics.
What is used is that the defense of Total Attack and Total Defense is too weak when transitioning from offense to defense.
Does it feel familiar?
Yes, this is also what Guardiola's Manchester City has been criticized for.
It can be said that this weakness has been inherited from generation to generation.
Because of the natural weakness of total offense and total defense, in the later Three Musketeers era, the Netherlands' total offense and total defense was obviously much more conservative, and the positioning was even a bit like the four-two-three-one at the beginning of this century.
The fourth player at the time was Rijkaard, but his position was at centre-back.
When Cruyff was coaching Barcelona, he actually often used the 4-4-2 tactic. The core organizer at that time was Guardiola who was deep in the midfield, but what he was running at that time was not the current 4-position tactic.
It was Louis van Gaal's Ajax who really matured and finalized the tactics of the fourth position.
Rijkaard, who returned to Ajax, was unable to take care of defense, so he was placed in the midfielder position by Van Gaal. The team also adopted a three-four-three or three-three-one-three tactics.
Shining in the fourth position.
In 1997, Van Gaal was invited to coach Barcelona. At that time, his plan was to continue to promote his No. 4 tactics in Barcelona, and he believed that Barcelona captain Guardiola was a natural No. 4 player.
What caught Van Gaal off guard was that Guardiola was seriously injured and missed most of the games this season. As a result, although Barcelona won the La Liga championship with an overwhelming advantage, the Champions League ended in the first round of the group stage.
Guardiola did not return from injury until December of Van Gaal's second season in charge of Barcelona. This caused Barcelona to stop in the group stage for two consecutive seasons. Van Gaal struggled to get the fourth position, although he won the title in both seasons.
They won the La Liga title, but failed in the first round of the Champions League.
It should be noted that the UEFA Champions League back then was more intense than the current expanded UEFA Champions League.
Due to the lack of breakthroughs in the Champions League, even though he has won the league, Van Gaal is still questioned. In addition, he is a sworn enemy of Cruyff, the godfather of Barcelona. Therefore, in his third season of coaching, Van Gaal and the media
The relationship with the fans has always been very bad, and finally he resigned angrily after failing to win the league championship.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! From beginning to end, Van Gaal failed to get a complete No. 4 player.
He later promoted Xavi, actually hoping that Xavi could fill Guardiola's vacancy, but unfortunately, Xavi at that time was still too immature and was not able to meet Van Gaal's expectations.
However, from the way Xavi praises Van Gaal every time he is interviewed now, it is not difficult to see that Van Gaal cultivated him during that period, which benefited him immensely.
…
After introducing this piece of history that he had personally experienced, Guardiola was full of regrets.
Guardiola believes that that serious injury caused him to lose a lot and also affected many people, especially Van Gaal.
It is difficult to find a player in the fourth position. Van Gaal went from Ajax to Barcelona just to push his coaching career forward, but he did not expect that Guardiola was seriously injured.
From Guardiola's tone, although he didn't say it clearly, it can be heard that he still has a very high opinion of Van Gaal. In his heart, Van Gaal is even the hero behind the rise of Barcelona in recent years.
Especially this wave of youth training reformed by Van Gaal.
This also explains why Guardiola brought Busquets, his direct descendant from Barcelona when he coached Barcelona's second team.
This player is very similar to Guardiola back then. His defense is relatively average, but his passing organization, vision and overall view are his strengths. This is a perfect match for Barcelona's passing and controlling style of play at the fourth position.
However, Guardiola also believes that after entering the new century, especially in recent years, tactical innovation has been very rapid.
The position of deep-lying midfielder requires a certain amount of defensive ability, so that when the team is positioned to defend, it can protect the defense line.
This is also the reason why Rijkaard's defense was always unstable after having Deco and Xavi, and it was not until the introduction of Marcos Senna that he stabilized the backcourt.
Unlike Rijkaard's Barcelona, Guardiola emphasizes pressing in the midfield and frontcourt, so the defensive ability requirements of the fourth position player are not particularly high. He feels that Busquets is the best fourth position player that best meets his requirements.
.
…
Just one hour passed in a blink of an eye.
The content is very detailed, allowing Su Dong to basically understand Barcelona's inheritance of passing and controlling the ball, especially his understanding of the tactics at the fourth position.
The most important thing is that he made Su Dong's evaluation of Van Gaal even higher.
Even Su Dong began to feel that Van Gaal was greater than Cruyff!
After understanding the development of the fourth position tactics, everyone can look at Guardiola's tactical drawings and understand Guardiola's intentions and ideas more clearly.
Don't underestimate this.
Only when players understand these, implement them on the court, and cope with the ever-changing changes on the court can they become more comfortable.
This is why Guardiola makes these tactical drawings and spends so much time explaining them every day.
However, don't think that Guardiola is just talking words.
On the contrary, this guy was really like a devil during the summer training camp.
Especially when it comes to physical reserve training, it is definitely the most terrifying devil training that Su Dong has ever experienced.
After experiencing the Premier League last season, Guardiola and his team have a clearer understanding of the characteristics of the Premier League, especially the fact that there is no winter break. Therefore, during the summer training period this season, his training volume
It is obviously much larger than before.
He even made it clear that he wanted to train a team that could run the best in the Premier League and even in European football.
If you want to ensure stable passing and controlling of the ball, you need to have enough contact points, and each contact point is created by running, so it requires all the players on the court to run.
This requires very good physical fitness.
Even the excellent physical fitness to cope with running through thirty-eight rounds of the league.
Because of this, he specially customized physical reserve training for Manchester City.
This made all the players who participated in the summer training training cry for their fathers and mothers, and every one of them was in pain.
Who would have thought that behind Guardiola's seemingly elegant nature, there is such a "brutal and brutal" side.
It was precisely because all the energy was exhausted in the physical reserve training that Manchester City performed unsatisfactorily in the subsequent warm-up matches, which once again aroused doubts from the media and fans.
