From coaching Real Madrid

After Casemiro joined Real Madrid, he once heard a legend about Valdebebas.

In the first team coach's office, there is an unused desk, and word of mouth says that it is an office area exclusively for Gao Shen.

In 2006, when Gao Shen coached Real Madrid, he transformed from a fledgling rookie into the coach of Real Madrid. However, he did not move out of the coach's office, but continued to work with all the coaches of the first team.

Because, he may leave get out of class at any time.

But under such pressure, he finally left Real Madrid with his head held high with his legendary double crown, and the desk dedicated to him was always empty.

Real Madrid's head coaches have been changed again and again, but no one has ever moved the table.

Until now, Gao Shen is back.

The desk is still there, but Gao Shen has entered the head coach's office to work.

It is like a legend, making everyone who passes by the door unable to help but take a second look at it.

Just like Casemiro at this moment.

After reading it, he continued to walk to the head coach's office.

Knock knock knock.

Casemiro knocked on the closed door and heard a deep voice coming from inside.

"Please come in."

Casemiro opened the door and went in. When he saw Gao Shen working in front of the computer on his desk, he smiled and raised his right hand, "Boss, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, come and sit quickly."

Gao Shen invited Casemiro to sit down on the sofa, where he typed for two or three minutes. He was obviously dealing with some documents, which is also one of the jobs of the Real Madrid head coach.

Soon, Gao Shen came over and poured Casemiro a glass of water.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to chat with you." Gao Shen smiled and sat down next to him.

"No, why would I be nervous?" Casemiro said with a smile.

But the face of this young player who had just turned 20 was indeed nervous, and he was just pretending to be relaxed.

It’s not too difficult to be profound.

It wasn't unusual for the twenty-year-old general to be nervous in front of him, and he wasn't even surprised at all.

With his current status and achievements, there are not many players who can remain relaxed in front of him.

The last time Gao Shen talked with Casemiro was about a week ago.

At that time, Casemiro had just returned from the Brazilian national team.

Yes, this kid joined the Brazilian national team, last year.

The reason is quite simple. He performed very well in the 2011 World Youth Championship and helped the Brazilian National Youth Team win the championship. He received rave reviews. With both offense and defense, he was able to enter the national team early.

It was also at that World Youth Championship that Real Madrid, Juventus and many other teams were eyeing Casemiro.

After Gao Shen took office, he instructed Real Madrid's technical department to sign Casemiro.

Gao Shen will communicate with the players about once a week, which can help him clearly understand the changes in the players, including physical, psychological, and emotional.

When it comes to a team at the level of Real Madrid, to be honest, the strength of all the players, including young players like Casemiro, is unquestionable. They are all very good, but at most they lack experience.

The key is how to help them exert their strength.

During the last communication, Casemiro mentioned that he hoped to bring his mother to Madrid, but some procedures were not completed.

After Gao Shen learned about it, he asked people from the Madrid administrative department to help deal with it. This time he also used this topic as an entry point, and Casemiro also told him that the problem was solved and his mother's visa to Spain had been issued.

Approved.

The Brazilian was very grateful to Gao Shen for standing up for him.

He knew very well that since he was a low-key person and had no high-level knowledge to step forward, the people in Real Madrid's administrative department might not be willing to handle such a trivial matter for him.

Almost every Brazilian who plays in Europe will encounter a situation like this. Casemiro often hears it from his teammates and friends, but he really handled it smoothly this time.

Gao Shen also congratulated Casemiro for his mother and son being reunited soon, because he had heard before that Casemiro's father ran away from home after a quarrel with his mother when he was very young.

Dependent on each other.

In fact, sometimes Gao Shen really feels that one of the important reasons why football cannot develop in China but can develop in Europe, South America and other regions is the gap between the rich and the poor and the solidification of classes.

Before, he had read Simon Cooper's [Football Economics], which mentioned that British football players are basically from the lower-middle class and have little education. This is especially true in South America and Africa. Engineers like Kaká

My father's family is already considered to be of a very good background.

Of course, relatively speaking, there are very few like Pique and Marcos Alonso.

No, Zidane's children weren't kicked out either.

The reason is actually very simple, because for many children from middle- and lower-class families, playing football is within their reach, and it is the only bridge to get rid of their current family difficulties and achieve a class jump.

This is a bit like the college entrance examination.

Becoming a professional player is equivalent to passing the bachelor's degree. Becoming a European professional player is equivalent to passing the first degree. If it is better, you can enter the mainstream European leagues. Congratulations, you have passed the 211. If you enter the five major leagues

, then it would be 985. If you are more outstanding and enter a wealthy team, you would be like Tsinghua and Peking University.

If you look at the thinking logic of European and South American players taking football in accordance with the domestic thinking logic of taking the college entrance examination, it will be very smooth, because apart from this, they really have no other path.

It's the same situation at Casemiro's house.

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"You must have noticed what the chairman said recently, right?"

After chatting for a while, Gao Shen changed the topic.

Real Madrid is a members-only club and holds a general membership meeting every year in October. Before each general membership meeting, there are two preparatory meetings.

Florentino was asked many sensitive questions by media reporters at the press conference after a recent preparatory meeting.

This is actually quite speechless, because since Gao Shen took over as coach, it has been difficult for the outside media to find out news from Valdebebas, and Gao Shen still has relatively strict control over this.

Therefore, media reporters targeted the management.

The problem is not only for senior students, but also for Ronaldo, and even more for youth training.

For example, some media inquired that Gao Shen asked Ronaldo to participate in defense and asked Florentino what he thought.

The Real Madrid president did not answer directly, but supported Gao Shen.

"Real Madrid needs geniuses, but geniuses also need to run on the court. If you don't run on the court, the fans will boo you."

"Gao Shen knows Real Madrid very well, so he knows how to help players perform better."

There is another issue that has caused quite a bit of controversy.

Media reporters asked that Real Madrid's first team has a lot of young players, which has never been done in the past. At the same time, it has not invested much in the transfer market. Has Florentino changed Real Madrid's business route?

This is a big question, and Florentino's answer is, no.

The president of Real Madrid said that Real Madrid's business philosophy over the years has always been to invite the best players to play for Real Madrid, and this will never change.

"The whole world loves young players, but there is also an important problem, they all lack experience."

"I have said before that if Zidane joined Real Madrid at the age of 18, he would not be able to get playing time."

"No one has ever said that in the best clubs in the world, players from the academy must play. This is a mistake."

Florentino also explained Real Madrid's youth training philosophy. For example, there are currently 39 Real Madrid youth training players in La Liga, and there are 39 Real Madrid youth training players in other European league clubs, which proves that Real Madrid's youth training is successful.

The president of Real Madrid said that if youth training players cannot get a chance in Real Madrid, they should naturally go to a team that can give them a chance to play. Therefore, Real Madrid will carefully select teams for them and give them more chances to play.

"If you go to those teams and they still don't let you play, and you can't play for a year or two, this is very bad, and it is also a loss for us. It will be difficult for us to let them return to Real Madrid to play.

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This is Real Madrid’s current youth training philosophy.

Regarding the current first team, Florentino said that the team has been selecting and looking for suitable players, hoping to further strengthen and enhance the team's competitiveness.

This situation is temporary at this time.

This was interpreted by many media as a disagreement between Florentino and Gao Shen.

Because Gao Shen wanted to reuse youth academy players, but Florentino didn't allow it.

Gao Shen himself didn't even know that he and Florentino still had this kind of disagreement.

But he is asking Casemiro this question now because Casemiro is 20 years old, exactly at the age that Florentino said he needs to rent or sell to get more playing opportunities.

This news was highly hyped by the media, including the "conflict" between Real Madrid's chairman and head coach, and Casemiro naturally heard about it.

But he didn't understand what Gao Shen meant?

"Let me tell you frankly, Casemiro, you are a player I personally signed. I still hope you will stay at Real Madrid and continue to play, but you must show convincing performance and ability. You understand what I mean.

Do you mean it?"

Casemiro nodded heavily, "I understand, boss, and I will work harder."

"Your training attitude is very good. The coaching staff and I are very satisfied with you. We also hope to help you further improve your performance. I want you to start in the next game against Deportivo.

But I hope you can give your best performance."

The last time Casemiro started, it was an away game against Sevilla. The score was zero to zero. After the game, Gao Shen received a lot of criticism and the pressure was very high. Now Florentino has expressed this attitude again. The team members

Many young people worry that they will never get another chance.

Casemiro is one of them.

But now, Gao Shen said that he would give him another chance to start.

The Brazilians were surprised and delighted.

"Last time we played against Sevilla away from home, your performance was pretty good, but it was not enough. You know, what Real Madrid wants is always the best player. Even if you are not the best now, you still have to show it."

A convincing performance proves that you can be the best, understand?"

Casemiro felt the deep trust and cultivation from the head coach, which made the Brazilian teenager Huo Di stand up.

"I promise you, boss, I will fight tooth and nail this time and never let you down!"