358 Pure Football
At the Barcelona pre-match press conference, Guardiola was asked by reporters about the showdown between him and the two young coaches, Situ Yunbing.
Guardiola laughed and said, "I don't know if I can afford to be a young coach. No matter what, let's take tomorrow night's game seriously.
In the past decade, many young and promising coaches have emerged in European football, and Situ Yunbing is undoubtedly the biggest star.
He redefined the background of a successful coach in European football. He came from China, a football desert that we don’t understand, are not familiar with or care about, but he succeeded.
He also redefined the age of successful coaches in European football. For a long time, people would not think that coaches under 35 years old can lead the team to great success because of experience, lack of mature ways to manage the team, and have control over the locker room.
But Situ Yunbing completely broke this age limit, and in his 20s, he won many coaches' honors for life.
So his success inspired many young coaches. I think many young coaches working hard in Barcelona will be excited to see his success story, hoping to become the next Situ Yunbing, because people always eager to succeed in a short period of time.
At the same time, at the professional level, I think he is a phenomenal coach in European football. Putting aside factors such as age, nationality, coaching time, etc., let’s see what he has done in Monaco and Hamburg.
If you only look at him coaching Monaco or Hamburg, most people will say with a scrutiny attitude: Well, he does a good job, he is good at coaching the team's defense, well, he has a lot of ideas in building the team's offense.
But when the two are combined, let's think carefully about how many coaches in European football can create two teams with very different styles in such a short period of time?
Although similarly, his team is full of passion, all of which are so young and enviable, his work results are amazing in many outstanding details!
I won't underestimate him, never, I will say that Hamburg is the favorite team to win the Champions League this season!
I look forward to fighting him at Camp Nou tomorrow night, and I also want to know how powerful the burger he has made is."
Guardiola's remarks definitely gave Situ Yunbing a lot of face. To a certain extent, famous coaches actually have similarities, that is, they will not blindly belitt up to belittle their opponents.
Any remarks involving contempt are mostly affected by other factors.
If Situ Yunbing was not coaching this year's Hamburg, then there may be famous coaches who disdained Hamburg. But since Situ Yunbing, who won the Champions League championship a year ago, the situation is completely different.
How stupid is it to look down on a coach who has proven successful?
European football focuses on the battle at the Camp Nou, and Barcelona's mouthpiece "World Sports" also titled: The magical young coach will meet the challenge at the Camp Nou!
Although Barcelona and Real Madrid both belong to Spain, in fact, Barcelona is the banner of the Catalonian region. The root of the relationship between Barcelona and Real Madrid is actually at the political level, but after it continues, the confrontation between the club has become the norm.
There is a saying that war is the continuation of politics. In Spain, this sentence can be perfectly interpreted by football as the continuation of politics.
Catalonia is striving for independence year after year. It is conceivable that the confrontation between Barcelona and Real Madrid has no ease of external environment, or what fans from clubs are looking forward to, they do not want the two clubs to turn war into pleasing. In that case, the "classic war" will naturally be much more overshadowed.
On the night when Situ Yunbing led his team to Barcelona, he was bored when he was resting in the hotel and turned on the TV to watch the football program.
Unexpectedly, I couldn't sleep when I saw it.
Because he was full of shock!
He saw a local football program in Barcelona and learned that this program will be held in a live discussion every week to talk about Barcelona's games!
If you can basically have a general understanding of Barcelona's performance in the game just by looking at the Spanish media reports, then this program puts all the details about Barcelona players and coaches' performance in the game under a microscope to observe.
Extremely picky!
Even if Barcelona won the game, they still have to tire of picking the bones in the eggs, as if they were hoping to make Barcelona perfect!
Although Situ Yunbing couldn't understand Catalan, he could also understand through the post-production effect of the video in the program that the program measured the distance of players running, drinking water, who did not participate in the celebration after scoring the goal, who had the expression after concealing the ball, and who seemed to have nothing to do with it, etc.
These seem to be irrelevant. At least when viewed rationally, the head coach will allow players to have some room for mistakes.
Excessive harshness will only tighten everyone's heartstrings, and maintaining a high level of tension may make the probability of making mistakes higher. This is why commentators are very popular saying that teams perform well are more relaxed!
Even with more than three years of coaching experience, I have experienced different football cultures in two different leagues, and have been involved in a long journey across Europe.
But Situ Yunbing still couldn't understand Barcelona's local attitude towards football.
In his opinion, football is an indispensable part of life for fans in most European countries. The team won the game today and went to have a happy drink!
The team lost today. Don’t mess with me if you are depressed!
But it would be a bit perverted to say that the team must be pulled out again regardless of the winner or lose.
Perhaps, this is the power of faith!
Barcelona is the belief of Catalan fans!
Who would allow their faith to be flawed?
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The next day, in the evening, the Hamburg bus drove into the magnificent Camp Nou Stadium.
Sitting in the visiting team locker room at Camp Nou, Situ Yunbing once again carefully observed the little things here. Perhaps for those who believe in Barcelona, they can tell the grass and trees here as they know them.
Situ Yunbing tried to find some unique sense of déjà here, but unfortunately, no.
He has been to Bernabeu, to Old Trafford, as well as Allianz Stadium, Stamford Bridge Stadium, etc.
What excited him was not the decoration and space of the visiting team's locker room, but the pride of sitting here as a visitor and preparing to challenge the owner here!
As for the difference between defeating Barcelona and defeating Real Madrid, Situ Yunbing may not be able to say that because he is not very interested in these two teams.
The day after he arrived in Barcelona, he spent the whole day thinking about a question: What is my faith?
It was not until he sat in the locker room of Camp Nou that he suddenly realized that he had never had faith and could not have faith.
Before becoming the head coach, he lived a walking dead life, repeating his work mechanically, watching the similar day and night changes every day, and was already numb by real life. Faith? What you can't eat is useless.
As for the past three years, Situ Yunbing has only done one thing: work hard.
His ability to complete challenges one after another was not based on faith, because he never possessed this illusory thing.
In the past, there was no soil for cultivating faith in the trajectory of life, but now I am whining without any reason to look for faith.
Barcelona is special after all, and he is very good now, so there is no need to bother himself anymore.
Seeing the blooming flowers in European football, don’t explore the heavy reality behind it.
It would be nice to keep your current condition.
When the players returned to the locker room for the final preparations before the game, Situ Yunbing stood up, and he stood among the crowd, in a familiar position.
Everyone habitually looked up at him, waiting for his pre-match talk.
Situ Yunbing took a deep breath in his hands and chuckled: "This is my first time playing against the defending champion of the Champions League. I feel a little stressful, and the defending champion is different!"
Hahaha!
Situ Yunbing's opening remark made everyone laugh.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little relaxed.
Situ Yunbing said to everyone with a soft look: "After 24 hours in Barcelona, I felt a lot of feelings and led me to reflect.
We are facing unprecedented strong enemies, and Barcelona's strength is undoubtedly the one we envy.
Yesterday I will fill you up the oil and re-inject lubricant to let them start the engine, and the roar will resound in all directions, driving at full speed and galloping through the Camp Nou at all!
But today I want to give you a vacation and forget the goal of winning. I will not squeeze out all your last point of energy.
We just want to go out and play a game with Barcelona. Just like children around the world who play football at this moment, they will show themselves in the game and try to act more like a team in the game.
We will certainly do better than they do, but I expect you to enjoy the purest football and the joy of great games. This is the reason you first fell in love with football. Maybe the profession has left us all in the dark corners.
But I'm sure we need to regain this happiness and regain our initial feelings for football.
I don’t need to repeat the tactics, nor do I need to give you chicken blood. I just need you to play this game with the simplest mentality.
No matter how strong Barcelona is, whether they are in good condition or bad, we are just going to enjoy our football at Camp Nou!”
Although Situ Yunbing's words were light and simple, the effect was that every Hamburg player became more fighting after nodding!
The initial feeling of football is of course to be the protagonist on the court and win after sweating!
Chapter completed!