amazing coach

Chapter 5 Let the game speak ()

There was not much time left in the morning. Jiang Mu did not lead the team in training. The players mainly played by themselves.

Lunch was eaten in a coffee shop. Li Wei ordered four dishes from a nearby Chinese restaurant and also got a bottle of Maotai. The two brothers Ke Ming and Ke Liang, the absolute main players of the team, stayed with them.

It was only during lunch that Jiang Mu understood why the Eastern Dragons were in the quarter-finals of the Immigration Cup. It turned out that the Immigration Cup had just started and there were only ten teams in total. The eighth team was actually the third from the bottom.

Later, the Oriental Dragon Club never left the bottom three in the Immigration Cup, because amateur teams mainly competed for body and physical fitness. The Chinese suffered a lot physically and technically, and it was difficult to compete with immigrants from Europe, America and Africa.

Team confrontation.

Since the 1998 World Cup in France will start next year, the popularity of football is heating up again in the Netherlands. This Immigration Cup is not only supported by the government, but also sponsored by Philips.

China's professional league is in full swing. Ambassador Tan from the Embassy in the Netherlands attaches great importance to this Immigration Cup and even came to watch the training. He hopes that the Chinese in the Netherlands can also rise up and represent the Chinese team in the Immigration Football Championship in Barcelona.

World Cup.

The All-Dutch Immigration Cup will be held in June. The Oriental Dragons Club has started training two months in advance. However, a month ago, their coach and main defender Wang Wentao went to Libya for business. The Oriental Dragons could not find a suitable coach.

It happened that Li Wei saw the news about Jiang Mu on the Internet and decided to invite Jiang Mu to coach at Oriental Dragon.

When Jiang Mu heard that the Immigration Cup was only about half a month away, he immediately used the time before the players arrived to make an intensive training plan after the meal. Unfortunately, computers in 1997 were still very backward, otherwise Jiang Mu would have completely

He could make a perfect training plan with pictures, pictures and text. Even so, Li Wei and the Ke brothers were impressed by Jiang Mu's proficient business ability.

As soon as the afternoon training started, Jiang Mu had another conflict with the players because of position issues.

Ke Ming, who plays as a left winger, said very dissatisfied: "Coach, I am left-footed, but you put me on the right. How do you ask me to pass the ball? Do you want me to bring the ball into the penalty area?"

Jiang Mu is a reborn person. His football thoughts and training methods have surpassed this world for thirty years. Even if Jiang Mu has used the minimum requirements and tried his best to use football tactics and training methods that are closer to this era, conflicts are still inevitable.

, the Dutch wingers and full midfielders in the 1990s mainly made crosses from the bottom instead of cutting inside, so they basically played on the left with their left foot and on the right with their right foot. Now Jiang Mu puts Ke Ming on the right.

It's normal to give opinions.

"Yes, I just want you to take the ball to the front of the penalty area, the ribs of the penalty area, or cut from the bottom line to the goal." Jiang Mu explained patiently.

Oriental Dragons center Chen Xiong sarcastically said: "The wingers and midfielders have all cut inside. What are our forwards doing? Who is going to pass the ball to us? Are we supposed to go back and defend?"

"You are right. In my tactics, the forward must defend, from the first moment the ball is lost. When the winger and full midfielder cut inside, the forward must retreat to make space for his teammates. Do it at any time.

It's better to prepare for the response instead of waiting in the penalty area to grab points." Jiang Mu said calmly.

The players of the Oriental Dragons are a little dizzy. Although the Netherlands is the birthplace of total offense and total defense, it would take at least seven years for wingers and midfielders to cut inside and forwards to retreat to support. Jiang Mu proposed at this moment that these

It is normal for amateur players not to accept it.

Football is a holistic sport. The wingers and midfielders cut inside, and the subsequent change is that the center forward retreats. This way, the central midfielder responsible for organizing has less time to get the ball. Jiang Mu moved the central midfielder back in front of the four defenders.

With two defensive midfielders, this is a defensive counterattack 433 formation. A few years later, Mourinho swept the world with this formation. Now Jiang Mu has come out with it seven years in advance.

However, after Zhang Mu arranged this formation and tactics, several main players of the Oriental Dragons took the lead in opposing it, including the absolute main forward Ke Ming and central midfielder Huang Tao. The two of them could not accept this style of play. They believed that

In this way, you cannot use your own strength at all, and this conservative formation has little power.

Jiang Mu doesn't want to use his status as head coach to force the players. They are just an amateur team with no contract restrictions. They can come and leave when they want. The approach of a professional club is not suitable here.

"Well, since you don't like this formation and tactics, then we might as well do an experiment. I will choose 11 Chinese, Huang Tao and Ke Ming, you opponents and foreign players to form another team. We will play in an hour.

If we win, you will train according to my requirements. If we lose, you will train me obediently. How about that? Do you dare to compete?"

Jiang Mu looked at these opponents very confidently and decided to teach them a lesson with facts, otherwise there would be many troubles in the future. Time was very tight, so it was better to solve them all now.

Dutchman William is also among the opponents. He is the only native Dutchman in the Oriental Dragon Club. He has a strong sense of superiority in football. He looked down on Jiang Mu from the beginning and heard Jiang Mu challenge them.

, immediately responded: "Let's compete, but we can't just say we lose, what if you lose?"

"I won't lose."

Jiang Mu is very confident about this, because technically speaking, the players in this team have similar technical levels and are all very bad. With similar technical levels, tactically speaking, according to the deployment he just made, most of them play offensive football.

To lose to the defending side; in terms of morale, he used all the Chinese to deal with the motley crew of immigrants from various countries. The morale will definitely not be weaker than that of William's side. In terms of cooperation, they are all on the same team.

There is a huge difference. Apart from luck, Jiang Mu can’t think of any reason why he lost.”

When William saw that Jiang Mu didn't answer his question directly, he thought Jiang Mu was afraid of betting with him, and said contemptuously: "What Chinese people like most is bragging. If we lose, I will crawl around the court. You lose."

, you climb around the stadium, do you dare?

"Okay, I'll climb ten laps if I lose, but I still hope you will think about it again." Jiang Mu saw William's rude provocation and decided to attack him to give these people a blow.

Li Wei, the manager of the Oriental Dragon Club, initially hoped to test Jiang Mu's coaching level through this confrontation, but now he saw that the bets of both sides were to circle around the court, so that unless there was a tie in the end, one person would definitely not be able to get off the stage. He hurriedly

He stepped forward to dissuade him and said, "Forget it, we are all on the same team, not rivals or enemies. Let's just bet on a dinner."

"Chairman Li, you don't have to stop us. We are doing this voluntarily. Of course, if he admits that he is bragging, I can consider changing the bet." William said confidently.

Jiang Mu chuckled and said to Li Wei: "Chairman Li, since Mr. William wants to practice dog-pawing on the turf, you should let him do it."

Seeing that both sides were confident, Li Wei couldn't say anything, so he had to wink at the players and signal them to make a draw, so that William and Jiang Mu would not be unable to get off the stage. After all, Jiang Mu also seemed to be a capable coach.

, and William is the team's main defensive midfielder. Although he cannot play in the Immigration Cup, he is indispensable for the Dutch Cup, which is the most important for amateur teams.

An hour later, the game started, and Li Wei, the chairman of the Oriental Dragons, served as the referee of the game.

After the opening, William's side used familiar tactics to launch an attack on Jiang Mu's side. The winger pulled away and the full-back assisted. After opening up the space in the middle, they used short passes to penetrate and attack the goal. Although their skills were not as good as those of professional players.

In comparison, the offensive routine of Dutch football is quite impressive. The reason why Dutch football is strong is because there are so many amateur teams and football enthusiasts at the bottom.

Jiang Mu's side had only practiced for an hour and was very unfamiliar with the tactics. It was more of a defensive posture. However, when defending, Jiang Mu arranged three midfielders. Although William's side took the initiative, they were unable to break through.

Jiang Mu established a defensive system of four defenders and three midfielders.

Although Jiang Mu's side made many mistakes because they had to adapt to new tactics, amateur players have poor ability to seize opportunities. This is also one of the biggest differences between amateur and professional players. William's side did not take advantage of the opponent's mistakes to score goals.

In the first ten minutes, William's side seemed to be playing hotly, but except for Jiang Mu's mistakes, they did not pose a substantial threat to Jiang Mu's goal.

Although Jiang Mu looked confident before the game started, it was his first time coaching after all, not to mention that there was a bet he couldn't bear in this match within the team. It was impossible not to be nervous. From the beginning of the game

At that time, Jiang Mu had been shouting to the players. He couldn't remember the names of the players, so he called the numbers behind them. Since there were no fans on the side of the stadium, Jiang Mu's shouts could be clearly heard on the field, but most of these players

At that time, he did not follow Jiang Mu's instructions.

Jiang Mu knew that the establishment of the head coach's authority and the change in playing style were not temporary achievements. He only made slight adjustments to the original playing style. In addition to the winger cutting in based on the cross and the center retreating, that is

Change the three central midfielders into three defensive midfielders, and the rest should be played according to the players' original habits.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Mu's players gradually stabilized the situation and began to launch a counterattack.

Most fans think that defensive counterattack is easy to play. In fact, defensive counterattack is not less technical than offense. However, for amateur teams, defensive counterattack is obviously much easier than positional offense. In positional offense, you are required to

The passing must be accurate and fast, and the coordination must be tacit, but when it comes to counterattack, even if the passing is rough and the coordination is poor, as long as there are more opportunities, you will definitely seize a few.