Coaching career started as a college team coach

"You have a point." Marco Rose closed his eyes and rubbed his temples, "Maybe I am under too much pressure."

Zickler didn't think Rose was making excuses. He was Rose's assistant coach and he understood the work pressure of working at Red Bull. Red Bull Group's attitude towards the operation of competitive sports is professional, even commercial, and they really treat a team as a company.

Unlike other teams, Red Bull Group's way of expanding its territory in the football world is very different.

In 2005, Red Bull Group bought this Austrian team founded in 1933 and changed its name from "SV Austria Salzburg" to the current "Salzburg Red Bull".

Salzburg Red Bull also has several brothers and sisters.

Nine months later, in the American Major League, Red Bull Group bought the New York Metro All-Stars, and the New York Red Bulls, where Henry played in the future, was born; in 2007 and 2008, the Austrian beverage giant's expansion pace did not stop. In Ghana and Brazil, where a large number of young talents emerged, they established Brazil Red Bull and Ghana Red Bull respectively.

In 2006, Red Bull Group began to seek investment in German teams. After contacting teams such as Saxe Leipzig, St. Pauli, Düsseldorf and Munich 1860, they were "driven out" by protesters, and they finally chose to start from the bottom.

In 2009, Red Bull acquired Marklandstadt, a fifth-level team near Leipzig, and reorganized it into "RasenBallsport Leipzig", or "RB Leipzig" for short.

But unlike China, because the German Football Association does not allow the name of the sponsor to be added to the team name, and Red Bull Group is very eager to add their own symbols to their team.

So they chose "RasenBallsport" ingeniously, which means "grass ball sports", and the abbreviation of this phrase is RB, which is no different from RedBull.

So, RB Leipzig, which was playing a marginal ball, actually became the fifth team under the Red Bull Group.

And these five teams are very closely connected. They not only have the same title, almost the same team logo, almost the same management system, but also a completely shared scouting system.

A talented young player was discovered in North America and entered the youth training camp of New York Red Bull. After performing well, he transferred to Salzburg Red Bull at the market price. Then, after performing well in Salzburg, he would be "promoted" to RB Leipzig to play in the Bundesliga.

This path may be cut off in the middle, for example, the player may be directly bought by Leipzig Red Bull from other German teams, or he may have been sold before he arrived at Leipzig Red Bull.

But if you look at this operating system, you will definitely not think that this is a "normal" operating mode of a football club, at least it is traditionally different from what you think of as the operating mode of a football club.

This doesn't look like a football team, but rather, like a factory?

Yes, this can be said to be an assembly line for delivering players. From the training of young players, to giving them appropriate game opportunities, to letting the right players appear in the top arena, the Red Bull team cooperates well.

This highly commercialized division of labor system is also very utilitarian.

The Red Bull Group has a high degree of control over these teams. Here, efficiency is everything. Unsuitable players will be abandoned, and suitable players will be pushed to a higher platform without hesitation.

The same is true for coaches.

Here, the people sitting in the coaching seats basically have no right to manipulate transfers. Their job is to help the team design more appropriate tactics and use the existing personnel to achieve results.

If you don't do well, you have to leave; but if you do well, you have the opportunity to go further. The head coaches favored by Red Bull are not ordinary people.

For example, Ralf Rangnick played brilliantly in Leipzig. He discovered the tactical genius Thomas Tuchel from Mainz and promoted the German head coach Roger Schmidt in Salzburg Red Bull; of course, there is also the current Marco Rose.

At the New York Red Bulls, the American head coach Mashi is about to land in Europe, and it is said that he may go to RB Leipzig as an assistant coach.

The Yangtze River is pushing the waves behind, and there are too many people staring at Marco Rose. Although Marco Rose is now in a safe position, he can't help but feel nervous.

This season, Marco Rose knows that his superiors have very high expectations for Salzburg Red Bull in the Europa League. This is not a demanding or extravagant hope, because Salzburg Red Bull really has a group of very good players.

Kaleta Carr is a rising star in the back line, and Israeli center DebThe young players, 22-year-old Hwang Hee-chan and 23-year-old Minamino Takumi, are of similar age, from Japan and South Korea respectively, and they have taken on important tasks on the offensive line.

In the midfield, there is Malian central midfielder Amadou Haidara, who is only 20 years old now.

And the player that Wei Le is most concerned about in this lineup is neither Hwang Hee-chan and Minamino Takumi, nor other players who have already become the main players, but a young player Soboslai who has just been promoted and excavated by Salzburg Red Bull's local youth training.

Although he has not yet shown his talent, Wei Le is already looking forward to his future performance.

In this case, it is really unacceptable for Marco Rose not to achieve results.

The group's expectation for him is to at least reach the quarterfinals of the Europa League this season.

This means that they must at least beat Wolves.

But Wolves just used two textbook-like games with a total score of 4-1 to prove to the world that Dortmund is no longer as good as before. No matter how talented the players of Red Bull Salzburg are, Marco Rose dare not say that he can compete with Dortmund.

He claims to be good at coaching, but he still admires young talents like Wei Le.

In addition to admiration, he is also wary.

This is why he cares so much about how Wei Le arranges De Paul's position. He really doesn't believe that a head coach who can lead the team to escape from the Westfalen Stadium will arrange the midfield position casually.

He has played the video of the last game many times. He watched the overall video and the version focusing on De Paul. The more he watched, the more puzzled he felt - De Paul's performance in the last game was really illogical.

If you really can't think of it, then don't think about it.

"In short, we have to play what we are best at in the next game." Marco Rose said to his assistant, "I don't plan to change the formation, and we don't have the ability to change the formation." He pointed to the 4-4-2 formation arranged on the tactical board and said firmly. "The forwards are Hwang Hee-chan and Dabbur, Haidara on the right, and let Minamino come on the left. Then..."