Since ancient times, in professional football, stars have been the focus of attention of the media and fans.

Head coaches usually come up with advice behind the scenes, not being noticed, and even their role is seriously underestimated.

Therefore, the annual selection of various star awards often touches the hearts of fans around the world, especially the two most substantial individual awards, the European Golden Ball Award and the World Football Master, which are recognized as the Oscars in the world football world.

But on the other hand, the head coach's awards are often not paid attention to, and even if there are reports, they are all reported.

Since 199, every September, UEFA will hold a European head coach summit at Nyon headquarters, inviting more than 20 most popular head coaches in Europe to attend to share and exchange experiences with each other. This is also hailed by the head coach circle as the world's highest-level head coach exchange platform, and all of them are proud of attending.

But how many media reporters and fans are paying attention?

Now, this situation is gradually changing, especially with the rise of Gao Han, more and more people have begun to pay attention to the role of the head coach and have begun to realize the importance of an excellent head coach to the team.

Especially this year, Gao Han's players first won the personal awards of the top five European players and became famous all over the world. Later, UEFA Chairman Platini announced that he would invite Gao Han to give a special speech, which undoubtedly aroused the curiosity of the media and fans.

Therefore, when this year's European Head Coach Summit was held, many media reporters from all over Europe and even from all over the world came to this remote place in the southern suburbs of Nyon, Switzerland, just to see the style of Gao Han and many famous coaches, and also pay attention to this grand event.

Even if they are not allowed to attend the summit.

But after the agenda of the first day ended in an orderly manner, Platini specially invited five coaches, including Gao Han and Ferguson, to attend the press conference to answer reporters' questions on the agenda of the first day.

Gao Han mainly mentioned some of his ideas on the reform of the UEFA Cup.

For example, he said that his first European-level champion trophy was the League Cup, but in the past few years, the UEFA Champions League has attracted more and more attention, but the influence of the League Cup has declined rapidly. The reason is that after the UEFA Champions League expanded, the League Cup has gradually become useless.

Is that not the League Cup important?

Gao Han believes that it is wrong, because the teams participating in the League Cup are not the same as those participating in the European Champions League, and their strength is not bad, but they lack the appeal to top league teams.

Therefore, Gao Han said that after listening to UEFA's plan for reform of the League Cup, he proposed that he could organize a lifting and lowering channel between the League Cup and the Champions League, so that some teams that failed to qualify for the Champions League in the league also had the opportunity to qualify for the Champions League through the League Cup.

Platini expressed great gratitude to Gao Han for his proposal, believing that this proposal is very pertinent, but it involves a wide range and is complex, and needs to be carefully studied and discussed, but UEFA will definitely pay attention to it.

Gao Han also mentioned youth training. He took Spain, where he served as a technical consultant as an example, and believed that in the past few years, there has been a good situation of talent boom in Spain, which is inseparable from Spain's emphasis on youth training in the past.

But it is not enough to just pay attention to youth training, and young people should also be given enough opportunities to play. For example, Spain allows the second team of professional teams to participate in low-level professional leagues. In Gao Han's view, this is undoubtedly a good opportunity to increase young players' game training, so he also called on UEFA to organize more youth competitions, especially club echelon games.

In the past few years, with the rapid expansion of the influence of the Champions League, UEFA has made a lot of money and enjoyed this event. Although it has invested a lot of money every year in youth training and supporting weak football countries, it is still far from enough.

For example, in some European club youth teams, events are often organized by each club, and lack unified management, so the events are naturally not satisfactory. They are basically maintained by the investment of each team.

But Gao Han believes that UEFA needs to assume this responsibility and organize related events.

Gao Han's appeal has also received strong support from Ferguson, and the Scots also believe that UEFA should indeed strengthen this aspect, after all, this has a huge promoting effect on the long-term development of European football.

Platini said on the spot that UEFA will pay attention to it and discuss this aspect.

However, in response to the special speech the next day, Gao Han smiled and said that he was still preparing for it.

Platini, Ferguson and others have all expressed that they are looking forward to it. UEFA will also broadcast live on the official website, and fans will be allowed to log in to the official website to watch speech videos in the future.

But the next day, UEFA headquarters still gathered dozens of media and a group of fans from afar.

UEFA headquarters second floor.

More than 20 top European coaches who were invited to participate were sitting under the podium like the students in the class, sitting together with UEFA President Platini, several core management teams, and technical department staff.

Gao Han stood calmly in front of the podium in front of everyone.

There was silence in the venue, and everyone stared at Gao Han and listened carefully.

"Once, I went back to China for a vacation and had a party with a few friends, and they had an argument."

"Some of them think that in the past, in the Pele era, in the Maradona era, and in the Three Dutch Musketeers era, football was more sexy and touching, and the stars at that time were stronger and better than now."

"But there are also some people who objected, and they believed that the previous skills and tactics were rough and not rigorous enough, which led to the outstanding performance of the stars at that time. Otherwise, they would have to take Bailey, Maradona, Cruyff, and even."

Gao Han said this and pointed his right hand at UEFA President Platini sitting in the front row, and burst into laughter.

Even Platini himself laughed so hard that he clapped hard.

"They think that if these former legendary superstars were put into the current European top league, they would not have been able to perform so well, and they might not even be as good as our current first-tier superstars."

"Neither side can convince anyone, and neither can provide strong evidence to convince each other. The quarrel is red, but it has never been able to achieve a result that everyone recognizes and believes in."

Everyone present nodded, and that's true.

The drama of Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong is that he is more generous than the present, or he is more complicated than the present, not only exists in China, but also in Europe.

"Later, one time, I sat together with Beckenbauer, Rummenigge, and Heness and I talked about this issue with them. We discussed a lot, but we basically reached some consensus."

“For example, we all think that modern football is much faster than before and is in a trend of getting faster and faster.”

Everyone nodded again. As long as they have experience coaching in the top European leagues, they will not deny this.

"But we don't think that modern football will be more exciting than before when the pace is generally accelerated. We can only say that there were exciting things in the past, such as Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo often performed a one-slave savior, but now, such exciting scenes are very rare because our rigorous skills and tactics will not give the opponent such space."

"Of course, this does not mean that the players in the past cannot play until now. This is unrealistic. It cannot be judged that all players in the past cannot adapt to the development of modern football because the development of some more traditional players has not met expectations."

"It's like Kaka. When I first met him, he was not valued in Brazil. No one liked his modern style of playing. They liked classical ones, but when I came to Europe, Kaka rose."

"I mean, if all the former players are brought to modern times, there may be a group of superstars who cannot become superstars, but there will also be a group of unknown people who will rise up and become new superstars, just like Kaka."

As soon as Gao Han finished speaking, a burst of applause immediately broke out at the scene.

"We have another consensus, that is, history is always repeating itself, and football skills and tactics are often developed in a spiral upward way, but I think there are two things that will not change at the most fundamental core."

"One is the passing and receiving technique, and the other is running without the ball."

"We all know that in a game, most players are in a state of no ball, so running without ball determines the overall strength of a player. The reason why passing and receiving skills are becoming more and more important is that the overall rhythm is gradually accelerating. This certainly increases the viewing and increases the intensity of the game, but also puts higher requirements on the players' passing and receiving skills. We will find that some players with insufficient basic skills are already difficult to gain a foothold in the top league."

"There are balls and no balls, which make up the whole game."

Although Gao Han's opening remarks did not reveal any useful information, they made everyone present curious because they all knew that Gao Han would explain his ideas and his actual actions around his opening remarks.

In fact, these top European coaches in the audience are familiar with these theories, especially Ferguson, Wenger and Benitez who have coached for many years, who are so familiar with them that they are no longer familiar with them.

But knowing that it is one thing, but whether it can be done or not is another.

Football is ultimately a player, and if you want to play football in your mind, you often need to sign a player, but the signing is subject to many other restrictions, such as the club's finances, support for the head coach, etc.

Just like Gao Han coaches Bayern Munich, the three giants in management have been immersed in professional football for many years, but they still choose to delegate power to Gao Han and take out a transfer budget of 100 million euros, allowing Gao Han to introduce the players he wants.

If someone else could have received this treatment?

OK, even if there is, can others have the vision of Gao Han to introduce treasures like Modric? Dig out Hummels from the youth team? Let Schweiingsteig transform from the original wing forward to play and drag the back midfielder?

Even if these conditions are met, does this head coach have the connections and status of Gao Han, which makes players such as Robben, Ribery and Aguero give up the invitations from other giant teams and join a team that can't even play in the Champions League?

Ultimately, theory only exists in theory.

Gao Han has today not only because he understands these theories, but because he is Gao Han.

Therefore, relatively speaking, everyone is more interested in Gao Han’s subsequent actual analysis.

Gao Han did not hide his own interests, from selecting players during recruitment, to daily training requirements, to communication with players, and how to mobilize players' enthusiasm and maintain their victory**

He analyzes his coaching philosophy from many different aspects and angles.

Some of them are not uncommon. Many people present have used them, but some of them have made everyone's eyes shine and they are very fresh.
Chapter completed!