Unlike the British League, the Christmas holiday in the Serie A is very abundant.

It took two and a half weeks from the 17th round of the league on December 21 to January 7.

Inter Milan performed well, the team was very morale, and the club also strongly supported it. They paid all the players' salaries and game bonuses before Christmas, and according to Gao Han's arrangement, each prepared a generous Christmas gift.

The holiday starts from the afternoon of the 22nd to the 29th. There are seven days of holidays, and the holiday time is the longest in the Serie A, which also makes every player in Inter Milan feel very happy.

After working hard and playing for several months, I finally got a good rest.

Gao Han only has one requirement for their holidays. As long as they can pass the physical test of the coaching staff when they return to the team, it doesn't matter. Even if they want to be crazy, they can do whatever they want.

So, Gao Han gave the order, the players scattered, and the Pinetina training base suddenly became deserted.

As the team's head coach, Gao Han's holiday was actually not even seven days, so he didn't consider returning to China. Instead, he flew to Madrid the day before Christmas to meet a few old friends, celebrated the festival with Lin Xia and Chu Yao, and then returned to Milan.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to stay too much, but that Lin Xia and Chu Yao also have work to be busy.

On the morning of the 27th, he appeared in Pinetina.

The originally lively training base suddenly became deserted, which made Gao Han a little uncomfortable.

But quiet also has the benefits of quietness.

Gao Han was idle and walked around, but suddenly he found that the environment in Pinetina was really good. It was surrounded by green shade and the scenery was beautiful. I missed it when I was busy on weekdays.

When Gao Han walked around the training base and returned to the office, he found Guardiola sitting in his office, crossing his legs reading the newspaper, which surprised him a little.

"Why are you here?" Gao Han was very surprised. "Aren't you supposed to accompany your wife and children on vacation at this time?"

"What about you?" Guardiola asked with a smile.

Gao Han shook his head and sighed, "She has a job and has no time to accompany me."

"Each one another." Guardiola nodded in a funny way.

Two men who were abandoned by their wives felt very sympathetic.

Gao Han walked over to make coffee, while Guardiola continued to sit on the sand and started chatting without a word.

"I went to visit someone before Christmas, guess who it is?"

Gao Han shook his head and smiled, "How can I guess?"

"Belsa." Guardiola smiled.

"Belsa?" Gao Han was a little surprised. "You ran to Argentina to see him?"

"Yeah." Guardiola nodded.

"You are such a lunatic." Gao Han shook his head.

Gao Han knew Guardiola's praise of Bielsa early on, but he did not expect that in order to see Bielsa, he would go to Argentina specifically to see Bielsa. Without further ado, it would be difficult to run back and forth.

"Wait, you can't have angered your wife and been abandoned because of this incident, right?" Gao Han found it very funny.

Guardiola has an expression that you even know this.

Both of them laughed.

Soon, the strong aroma of coffee wafted throughout the office.

"What did you talk to your idol?" Gao Han handed over a cup of hot coffee and sat down opposite Guardiola.

“We talked for an afternoon and an overnight.”

Gao Han had just taken a sip of coffee and almost spit it out, looking at the two guys as if they were looking at monsters, "You guys are awesome."

"At first, we had a lot of chats, but then we had a lot of chats."

"Speak and listen."

"A lot of it is about you," Guardiola laughed.

"Me?" Gao Han was surprised again, "What do I have to talk about?"

"Belsa told me that he was coming to Europe if he had the chance. He hoped to meet you and have a good chat. He highly praised you. He asked me a lot about you, and I also told me everything I knew, but he seemed to be still unsatisfied and very dissatisfied."

Gao Han had a headache, and these two madmen actually regarded themselves as the topic.

"One of his problems is puzzled by me." Guardiola frowned and looked at Gao Han.

"Speak and listen."

"He said that when you were at Atletico Madrid, both the midfield and the frontcourt attached great importance to short players. Although there were Torres who were not short in height, they were mainly flexible and versatile. However, when you arrived at Chelsea, you used Ibrahimovic. When you arrived at Inter Milan, in addition to Ibrahimovic, there was an Adriano, and later vigorously promoted Yaya Toure, which made him very puzzled."

"Then how do you answer?" Gao Han asked with concern.

Guardiola laughed loudly, "I told him that this has something to do with your bad taste. He nodded tacitly. I guess he should have misunderstood what I mean." After saying that, he had already hilariously unrealistically.

Gao Han almost cried and directly pointed at Guardiola and raised his middle finger, Sun!

The excellent image was destroyed like this.

"To be honest, I don't understand it very much." After the joke, Guardiola asked curiously.

Since he came to Gao Han's coaching staff, he has always been a curious baby. He will actively ask questions about things he doesn't understand and is not good at.

Gao Han thought about it, organized the wording in his mind, and then spoke: "In my sense, Italy's technical and tactical level has always been very high. I even once thought that Italy is the league with the highest technical and tactical level in European football. From Saki to Lippi and Capello to Ancelotti, to Mancini and Plandeli, this country always has tactical masters."

Guardiola nodded very much in agreement. Serie A frequently appeared tactical masters, which is also recognized in football.

"But, I wonder again, have they gone astray?"

Guardiola frowned when she heard this, “What do you say?”

"Since Sachi, Italy generally attaches great importance to tactics with strong integrity, which makes them generally attach great importance to execution and positioning rate. Therefore, teams like Juventus are the most typical Italian teams, with high tactical execution and amazing offensive and defensive rate. The team is very compact and strict from front to back, and looks like there is no weakness."

"In fact, when the tactics are so meticulous that the players can get, when the space for swinging is getting smaller and smaller, the entire league will inevitably be in one direction."

"Strength confrontation!" Guardiola was very smart, and she could see through it at a glance.

"That's right." Gao Han praised, "think about it, are there any players in Juventus' team with personal ability groups?"

The answer is, no.

The only ones with excellent personal abilities are Piero and Mutu, who can be said to be two breezes inside the muscular man of Juventus.

But what if the personal abilities of these two players are included in the entire European professional league?

"What the Zebras attaches most importance to is the physical confrontation of the players. Trezege, Vieira, Nedved, Camoranesi, Emerson... Almost all of them are players of this type. To put it nicely, they have both offense and defense, so what if they don't say it nicely?"

Gao Han has no intention of belittling this group of players. In fact, each of them is the most powerful star in football today. But the question is, compared with players of the same level, do they seem mediocre and have no characteristics?

If it is just one or two players, it is understandable. The problem is, if the whole team is like this and most Serie A teams are like this, does that mean that there is something wrong with the selection standards of this team and even the league?

Guardiola understood Gao Han's meaning.

The more strict the tactics are, there are only two ways for players to adapt to tactical play, either the finer the skills or the stronger the physical confrontation.

The finer the skill, the stronger the player's ability to handle the ball in a narrow range; the stronger the physical confrontation, the better the player's ability to fight the opponent in a narrow range.

But the problem is that technology is difficult to improve in a short period of time, but physical confrontation is OK.

The professional leagues are undoubtedly eager for quick success and instant benefits. In this case, the team's material selection standards will definitely follow the route of achieving the fastest results, so the problem is very obvious.

The stronger the technical and tactical ability of Italian football, the more they actually advocate power confrontation.

"In fact, this situation is not happening now. Think about it again. When did the Serie A start to generally attach importance to high centers? And this season, do you calculate for me, which Serie A team does not have high centers?"

Inter Milan's Ibrahimovic, Adriano and Cruz, Juventus' Trezege and Salayta, AC Milan's Vieri, Florence's Luca Toni, Cyvo's Amauri, Udinese's Yaqunta, Palma's Corradi...

In the scorer list, these high centers are basically shining. In the past, there were AC Milan's Shevchenko and Inzaghi, but now both players are performing sluggishly, and local center Girardino is highly valued.

"When I decided to come to Serie A, many people said that I couldn't adapt to Serie A at all. I understood what they meant, but I found it very strange. Do they think I won't be flexible? Am I so stupid and insisted on copying the Atletico Madrid's set and coming to Serie A?"

When he said this, Gao Han suddenly laughed, full of a very sarcastic meaning.

"The more they think I can't do it, the more I'll prove it to them, but I also know that players like Villa are difficult to adapt to Serie A, and even Torres is difficult, and Ibrahimovic is undoubtedly the best and most suitable."

"And there are Adriano and Cristiano Ronaldo, they are not afraid of physical confrontation, but their feet are very fine. They can adapt to my technical and tactical requirements, and adapt to the characteristics of the Serie A. They can make a way for the team in the muscle forest of Serie A."

When Guardiola heard this, he completely understood what Gao Han meant.

Compared with other teams, these centers of Inter Milan are indeed more active, and we can understand why players like Martins who are highly anticipated and moderate, but lack skills in their feet will not look down on them and will directly enter the cold palace.

In fact, Gao Han has always been very clear about it. If he holds his own ideas and does not know how to adapt, he will be dead.

But if you blindly accommodate and adapt without your own core philosophy, it would be a death.

Therefore, the wisdom of the Chinese tells him that the balance of the mean is the way to success.

From beginning to end, he never thought of playing the gorgeous mercury pass in Inter Milan. All he wanted was to help Inter Milan find a technical and tactical system that combines its own and Serie A characteristics and can succeed in both domestic and European arenas.
Chapter completed!