In the morning, Lake Como is as quiet as a picture.

The lake water flowing from the Alps snow-capped mountains is full of bone-chilling coldness. Looking into the lake, there is thick fog floating in the sky, with a misty misty mist, as if it is in a poetic fairyland.

The air was wet, and the flowers and weeds on the roadside were still absorbing the dewdrops from last night. On the green grass under the trees by the lake, the fat wild ducks began to shake their bloated bodies and stagger for food. Occasionally, a few wild ducks approached the roadside, and were not afraid of being born. They were not frightened by someone approaching, as if they were born to their territory.

Gao Han ran along the path on the shore of Lake Como, and was already panting when he arrived at the square.

Standing in the square by the lake, I looked at the thick fog on the lake, took a deep breath of cold air, but it quickly turned into a hot air and exhaled a wisp of white smoke.

Over the past period of time, he was indeed too busy and neglected to exercise, and he became a little fatter. But even so, in the eyes of most people, Gao Han's body shape was still very standard, but Lin Xia reminded him a lot on this matter, so he made up his mind to start exercising again.

He reached out and pushed away the hat on the top of his head, and was soaked with sweat and dew inside and outside.

After taking a breath, Gao Han took out his cell phone from his zippered pocket and saw a MMS message, which was a photo sent by Lin Xia.

Although the two are in Spain and Italy, they will make an appointment to go out for exercise at the same time every morning, and they will post photos after running to the place first. Without surprise, Lin Xia won recently.

Gao Han took a picture of the foggy scene of Lake Como and sent it over, "How about it? Are you envious?"

Soon, he received a reply from Lin Xia, "Wow, it's so beautiful. I really want to fly over now."

"Haha, it's not the most beautiful time. After a while, when the camellia and azaleas are in full bloom on the roadside, you must take a leave to stay for a while. That is the most beautiful Lake Como in the year."

Lin Xia quickly sent a beautiful photo of frowning with a bitter face, "I have already started to save for holidays."

When will she save enough to travel between Madrid and Milan every week?

"Have you thought of your doctoral thesis?" Lin Xia sent another text message.

Doctoral thesis, this is a joke Gao Han told her, referring to the speech he would give when he went to Florence tomorrow to receive the Golden Seat Award. This is indeed a bit like a doctoral thesis in the field of professional coaching.

"I thought about it just now, and I had some clues." Gao Han replied.

He likes to think about things while running, and always feels that his mind is more flexible at this time.

"Okay, then write it out quickly, I will help you check it out in person." Lin Xia was also very happy for him.

Gao Han smiled slightly, "You are the only one? Can you understand?"

"Stop looking down on others, okay?"

The two of them sent text messages one by one, and before they knew it, the thick fog on the lake gradually dissipated.

The sun is coming out, and Gao Han is time to go back.

The high-altitude trip to Covelciano can be said to be both a test or a pilgrimage.

As Guardiola said before, Italy's Golden Seat Award is not easy to win, at least for Gao Han.

If you are other head coaches, you can prepare a well-behaved speech, talk about things that everyone is familiar with, talk about how to train, talk about tactical development trends, and you can completely get away with it.

But this is not possible for Gao Han.

Renzo Ulivieri, president of the Italian Football Coaches Association, called Gao Han before and joked that everyone was eager to hear his open and honest experience because they were all extremely curious about Gao Han’s coaching achievements over the past few years.

What exactly allowed Gao Han to continue to win in the past few years?

Tactics?

Italian coaches are best at tactics. It is said that when Gao Han coached Atletico Madrid, they were already studying Gao Han's tactics. Maybe their research on Gao Han's skills and tactics is even more thorough than Gao Han himself.

Many people think that the Italian style is conservative and think that Italy can only defend, but this idea is a big mistake.

Italy's research on tactics is very advanced. They have integrated experience into a very complete theoretical system as early as the era of chain defense, and taught experience to all latecomers.

It's like a professional player who completes a sprint on the court, but he may not understand why he wants to rush this time? Why is he rushing in this direction? Why not other directions? Why should he be fast? Can't he be slow?

But under the Italian theoretical system, they can explain these reasons very reasonably, and they can even explain to you what kind of chain reaction may occur if you make other choices.

But just an explanation?

No, Italian tactical theory research is already very advanced.

It is said that the chain defense during Trapatoni's period was seven plus three, which means that in addition to the goalkeeper, seven players devoted themselves to the defense, and three players were idle, but this theory was overturned in the 1990s and turned into eight plus two.

In recent years, they have begun to study nine plus one, or even ten plus zero, and not just theoretical research, but many teams have begun to devote themselves to practice and summarize them from it.

Renzo Ulivieri is one of them.

The Italian Football Coach Association president, Covelciano's lecturer is over 60 years old, but he has never coached a giant team in his life. He is more coaching in mid- and lower-level teams, devoted himself to tactical theory research.

He is currently coaching Bologna in the Serie B League, but this does not hinder his status in Covilciano and Italian football. He is even respected as a teacher by many famous coaches.

Italy's research on football tactics is not only affecting themselves, but also affecting the whole world.

In terms of goalkeeper training, Italy once led the world. They have various theories and formulated training materials based on theories, which have trained quite a lot of high-level goalkeepers for Italy, including Buffon.

Later, countries such as France, Germany and Brazil followed Italy's goalkeeper training and were quickly promoted.

As we all know, Brazil's goalkeeper training has never been very good, but now in Italy there are several powerful goalkeepers such as Abiati, Dida and Cesar. Italy's goalkeeper training has played a significant role behind the scenes.

After Gao Han came to Italy, he personally experienced Italy's amazing level in technical and tactical theory, and also deeply felt the gap between his motherland's football level and the top European teams, which was all-round.

Not only players, not only youth training, but also coaches, including all kinds of staff, not to mention theoretical research.

Gao Han knew very well that the coaching system was able to get to where he was today, so over the past few years, he has been reminding himself and urging him. He was even harder to work harder than before without the coaching system.

He read various football theoretical research and materials in the coaching system, constantly enriching his tactical literacy and theoretical knowledge. But even so, is it appropriate to say this in front of Covelciano, a group of people who specialize in theoretical research, and those head coaches from all over Europe who came to hear the news?

It’s not that he doesn’t have the confidence to pass, but that he wants to do better.

So, he plans to make a fuss in a field that is rarely, even no one can pay attention to.

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"Can you tell me in advance what topic you plan to use?"

On the train from Milan to Florence, Guardiola kept asking Gao Han, looking curious about the topic of his speech, and wanted to know what Gao Han wanted to say.

Not only him, but everyone else in the entire box was also curious.

It's also interesting to say that Inter Milan and AC Milan are mortal enemies in the same city, but now the two sides are gathering together.

This time, in addition to Guardiola who went south with Gao Han, who specially applied to attend, Inter Milan also has the youth team head coach Giuseppe Barreci. He has excellent coaching results in the youth team, but he has no idea of ​​entering the first team for the time being.

On the contrary, AC Milan has a large number of people, including assistant coach Tassoti, veterans Costakuta and Martini, as well as retired former celebrities Leonardo and Franco Barreci.

Like Guardiola, they were all curious about Gao Han’s speech topic.

Covelciano is known as the temple of Italian football. Many world-class coaches, including Ferguson, Wenger and Lippi, have been invited to give speeches. Each of them has left their valuable coaching experience here.

Because everyone knows that communication and collision are the driving force behind the continuous development of football tactics.

So, they were all very much looking forward to what Gao Han would leave here?

However, this guy hates it very much and does a lot of confidentiality work. He didn't reveal any slightest slightest before. After hearing Guardiola's question, he just kept laughing but didn't say anything.

"Hiss, I said, aren't you afraid of a car accident during the live speech then?" Guardiola was very depressed.

Gao Han spoke up and smiled freely, "It doesn't matter, I don't care anyway."

That's true.

With Gao Han's current position in European football today, even if he really has a car accident, his influence will not be shaken.

Who can make the real results there?

However, if this speech is successful, Gao Han's position in European football will be further increased.

After all, this is a gold stamping journey, and whether it succeeds depends on his ability.

After chatting all over the train, the train arrived in a blink of an eye.

Covelciano is a national team training base located in the eastern suburbs of Florence. They had already learned about Gao Han and others' itinerary, and arranged a business car to greet them at the railway station early.

What surprised Gao Han was that although the base of Covelciano was known as the temple of Italian football and was full of countless legends and legends, it was not as tall as imagined. Instead, it was surrounded by an old house, with only a narrow country road passing through, which surprised Gao Han when he first came.

"Is this Covelciano?" Gao Han was a little incredible.

The mottled brick walls and simple doors are the only thing more conspicuous about is that the wall next to the door is nailed with a shield badge of the Italian national team. They tell people in this simple and direct way that this belongs to the Italian national team.

After entering, turn left and get the parking lot, but it is mud and there is not even a layer of cement.

The only thing that is more eloquent is that there is a hospital in the middle of the parking lot and the road outside. I heard that the wounded were all diagnosed and treated here during the training of the national team.

A track and field stadium, five standard-sized football fields, four small-sized training grounds, an outdoor swimming pool, and several low training buildings, make up all of Covelciano.
Chapter completed!