Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 169

As soon as Messi said it, Anton immediately understood: "'Crazy' Bielsa?"

Messi nodded cheerfully: "You also know?"

Anton sighed, "How could a master who has influenced so many people not know about it?"

Marcelo Bielsa is an Argentine football coach.His coaching performance is not outstanding, but he has won several Argentine domestic league championships and an Olympic champion.But as a "crazy" football theorist, his impact on the global football is almost incalculable.

Many meritorious coaches in football have said that Bielsa has had a huge impact on their coaching style.Guardiola, Pochettino, Simeone and others who have risen in recent years are all his loyal followers.

This "genius" is also a "madman". He is arrogant and paranoid, but at the same time he is hot and straightforward. He is obsessed and despised by others.

"It should be him, player M is Bielsa!" Anton was confident in guessing the "vest" for the first time this time.

Because Bielsa's biggest characteristic is that he loves to watch game videos, and also loves to explain tactics to players through videos.It is said that he once collected videos of thousands of games, edited them one by one, and used them to explain to the players.

When Bielsa was coaching in Lille, he was once asked by a reporter how he would spend the Christmas holiday.Bielsa replied at the time: "I will spend 2 hours a day exercising and 14 hours watching game videos."

So when Messi mentioned Bielsa, Anton felt that he could basically lock the target.

Guardiola regards Bielsa as a life mentor. When preparing to embark on a coaching career, he even flew to Argentina to listen to Bielsa's opinions in person.

Anton thought to himself, from this point of view, it makes sense for Gua Shuai and Bielsa to share an account in "Green Life".

So Anton nodded: "Then I probably won't be able to escape."

He simply announced loudly to the team: "Guys, Gua Shuai said that he will come to see you play in two months."

"Really!" I was still guessing and guessing who is the player of "Mr. M", but now I woke up "scared".

Who is Guashuai?

In the not long past 2008-09 season, Guardiola led Barcelona to win the "Six Crowns", creating an unprecedented feat.In the last season, Guardiola won the 20th league championship in the history of the team and created the highest scoring record in the history of La Liga.

Such a powerful head coach is going to watch them play football——

Everyone turned to look at Messi.

Messi was extremely embarrassed, scratched his head and said: "Besides Gua Shuai, there may be... other people!"

"My God!—"

Now the players are all excited, this one is asking: "Is Xiaobai coming? Is Harvey coming? Is Zlatan coming?"

That one is chasing Macy: "Where's Aunt Pu, can I see Aunt Pu?"

Messi nodded, indicating that the whole team is coming.

Some Sunderland players were so excited that they almost fainted, and they hurriedly asked: "When are they coming?"

Messi shook his head: "I don't know, maybe the next game will come."

As soon as the words fell, the excitement turned into nervousness.In this conference room, which has always been used for pre-match mobilization meetings, several young players stood up abruptly and asked Anton, "Boss, when do we start preparing for the game?"

After hearing that Barcelona might visit, this group of young people in Sunderland were somewhat conflicted.On the one hand, they are very excited to see the "Cosmic Team", but no one wants to be underestimated by the "Cosmic Team", no matter what strong team it is, come to my place to watch me play football-it has to be a game It's a beautiful kick, isn't it?

Anton properly grasped their psychology, clapped his hands lightly, and said, "Very good, let's take a look at the next stage of the schedule."

After they played Chelsea, they rested for a few days. They will play against "Toffee" Everton at home on the 22nd, and "Wolf" away on the 27th. Home game against "Hammers" West Ham on December 12th, away game against "Farmers" Fulham on December 1th, play the last Europa League group match on December 12th, home against Odense, December 5th. Home game against Bolton on the 12th - the subsequent schedule will be after Christmas, and they will play Manchester United away on the 11th.

Anton guessed that the two games Guashuai is most likely to bring the team to watch, one is against Bolton at the Stadium of Light on the 20th, and the other is against Manchester United at Old Trafford on the 26th.

The previous game was because, according to the La Liga schedule, the last game before the winter break will end on December 12. At that time, the players have not yet had a holiday, and they should be able to come with the team to watch the game.And Anton guessed that Guashuai should not want to miss the game against Manchester United on the 18th, because Manchester United is likely to be Barcelona's opponent in the knockout stage.

"It's great to see you all cheering up," Anton said. "The season is long, especially when there is no end in sight. I just hope you don't forget your original intentions, no matter who is watching, no matter who they are Whichever game comes, I hope you will show the most positive state."

The weather in the UK is like this. When the winter time is adjusted, it gets dark very early. It gets dark at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the moon rises at five o'clock.Long nights and little light during the day can easily make people depressed.

Training and playing outdoors has also become a matter of perseverance, especially when the team is still facing a difficult schedule that can't be seen at a glance.

As a result, by mistake, Messi brought the news that Barcelona was coming. The players partly admired the "cosmic team" and partly wanted to win. In short, they should not be ashamed in front of Barcelona.As a result, the whole team cheered up like a chicken blood.

Seeing this, the coaching staff were all overjoyed, and they all felt that the players in this class were the most innocent and the best to lead.

In this way, Anton's team beat Everton 1-0 at home, and then bullied the "home bug" Wolves by a big score.The Wolves team is very interesting. Others are "home dragons and away worms", but it is "home worms and away games".

In this way, Anton's team continued to complete the November schedule with an unbeaten record.He was also named the best coach of the Premier League in November because of this achievement.

To be honest, Anton and Sunderland have achieved similar results in the previous few months, but the Premier League probably thinks that Anton is too young to be awarded the "Best Coach" prematurely. public.

In November, although Sunderland also drew two games, but this team won Chelsea away by a big score, and tied with Tottenham in the goal battle. Anton's performance is really unsatisfactory .So the title of "Best Coach" can be regarded as "well-deserved", and it fell into his hands.

Unfortunately, when the news came out, Anton had already led the team to Switzerland.

Bern, the capital of Switzerland, is the most "expensive" away game for Sunderland in the UEFA Europa League group stage. The price is much higher than that of the United Kingdom.Many Sunderland fans have little money other than air tickets and tickets.Some of them even brought sleeping bags for camping, planning to spend the night at the stadium or the airport.

Even so, the fans still raised money to buy a pair of gloves for the starting goalkeeper Pickford, wishing him never to be troubled by "butter hands".

Pickford almost cried because of this little "gift".

The last "butter hand" accident was caused by his own carelessness, but the fans didn't blame him at all. Instead, they sent him this-Sunderland fans are too warm.

It has been two and a half months since the last time he played against "young people". Perhaps Pickford himself did not realize that he has matured a lot, and he is no longer the frizzy young goalkeeper he used to be.After he played, he put the gloves on his lips lightly, then held them up high, with a determined face, and saluted the fans.

Sunderland's fan area suddenly burst into jubilation.

Sure enough, in this game, Pickford's performance was so steady that it drove the opposing striker crazy.His "Northeast Dialect" combination with Hummels made all the offenses of the "young people" fail.It seems that the two of them in the back line are enough.

After Sunderland's other players fought for half the time and earned a 2-0 lead, Anton made appropriate rotation adjustments so that the main players could take a break.Only the "full-time party" such as Pickford and Hummels stayed on the court.

This score was maintained until the final whistle.

The opponent's head coach, Muller, is Anton's friend, and immediately came to congratulate Anton: "Old man, congratulations, your team's qualification is basically stable."

Now Sunderland has achieved 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in Group H with 10 points, and their qualifying is basically stable. However, Sunderland's three opponents are still in a mess. Except for Odense, there is only "" In addition to the possibility of "theory" qualifying, the other qualifying place is still unknown.

Muller also said: "Continue to work hard after entering the knockout round! I hope you can lead the team to beat that Portuguese kid."

Portuguese kid?Anton raised his eyebrows: "You know this too?"

Muller nodded: "Of course, the coaching circles in continental Europe have spread the word. I still know a lot of details! I know that you even went to Portugal for this purpose. The agreement between you two was made in the stadium of Benfica. "

Only then did Anton come to his senses: So he went to Portugal for this? !Even he himself knows now.

Although it is true that British football has a wall with the European continent, even the coaches of the Swiss league have heard about it, but he himself has not heard any of it. This still makes Anton quite admire.Regardless of whether Boas released the wind or Mendes arranged this matter, the effect is very good.

If his team can really go to the end together with Villas-Boas, the final showdown between the two teams will definitely attract the attention of the whole of Europe.

Anton suddenly thought of Abu again, and immediately thought: If Abu can fall in love with Boas, it might be a good idea.It's a good thing for Boas himself, for his agent...even for him, and for Sunderland.

Muller suddenly saw a sly smile on his friend's face, which reminded Muller of the big holes that Anton dug in Danchao, and couldn't help but shudder for Boas.