"Boss!"

Although the content of Yang Cheng's first training session was very relaxed, in fact, none of the players felt that it was simple, because being stared at by that person like this, the pressure was very high, and they all had the feeling and pressure of being supervised by the leader.

But after the end of the training, Schweinsteiger and others caught up with Yang Cheng for the first time.

In the current German national team, Schweinsteiger, Deisler, Klose, Thomas? Muller, Mesut Ozil, Podolski, Tony? The 7 players of Kloss are Yang Cheng's old team, some of them are Yang Cheng's old players in the Kaiserslautern period, and they were brought up in person, and some are Yang Cheng's players in the Real Madrid period.

Yang Cheng looked at this group of smiling guys, and he was happy in his heart, but he shook his head, "I'm disappointed with your performance in this World Cup, very, very disappointed!" ”

This group of boys was stunned one by one, and they stood around Yang Cheng, not knowing why, and the Bayern players such as Ram and Bad Stuber who were standing around were also very convinced of Yang Cheng, and they were all stunned after hearing it.

"Originally, I had a lot of words in the column that I wanted to curse, but I deleted them later, and the reason why I was disappointed was not because you didn't have the strength, on the contrary, I was disappointed because I knew that my group of students, you ......" He pointed to the group of players in front of him, even including Lahm, Bad Stuber, Marin, Khedira, and Jérôme? Boateng et al.

"You all have very good strength and potential, but you are acting like a mess, you are not playing as well as you should. That's the reason I'm disappointed, especially the boys who came out of Kaiserslautern, you have all forgotten what the Red Devils spirit of Kaiserslautern is, you all put Fritz? Walter's spirit has been forgotten! ”

When Yang Cheng said this, their group of people immediately lowered their heads one by one, especially Schweinsteiger and others, who all came out of Kaiserslautern. All these years they were proud to have come from Kaiserslautern, but now they were ashamed to be told so by the great leader of Kaiserslautern.

Many players, including Neuer, Bout, Mertesacker, Kiessling, Janssen and other players have come closer one after another.

"When we were Kaiserslautern we were in the Bundesliga, but we still beat Barcelona and Chelsea in the Premier League in the European Cup Winners' Cup. Aren't we relying on our tenacious fighting spirit and team spirit? Are we relying on top stars? ”

"Winning the Bundesliga promotion horse and winning the Bundesliga treble, do we rely on individual performance, or do we fight as a team?"

"Remember the season we won the Champions League?" Yang Cheng looked at Schweinsteiger.

The latter nodded heavily, he still keeps the video of every game in Kaiserslautern, even though he was only a young player at the time, but he is proud of the team, "Remember! ”

"How did we do in the group stage?" Yang Cheng asked.

"I was beaten badly by Manchester United, and I almost couldn't get out of the line!" Schweinsteiger gritted his teeth and said.

"The result?" Yang Cheng asked again.

Klose's eyes were red, and those were two of the most memorable seasons of his life. One is to win the treble in Real Madrid last season, "We killed the invincible Manchester United in the Champions League final and avenged the group stage!" ”

"Then you answer me, what did we rely on at that time?" Yang Cheng asked again.

Klose and Schweinsteiger looked at each other, and the latter replied: "The spirit of never giving up!" ”

"When I go back. Get the chance to flip through the video of the miracle of Bern. Let's take a look at how our predecessors fought back then, and then think back to our own current situation, compared to what we are now. After the people heard this. Some nodded.

"When I take the helm of Germany, I want to put the spirit of the Red Devils of the past. I hope that all of you, whether you love this country in your heart or not, whether you are satisfied with me as a person or not, but at least wear this jersey and you will fight for it until the last minute, which is the most basic quality that a professional player and a footballer should have. ”

"If someone can't do it, I don't think he deserves it!"

This group of players are very young and vigorous, to some extent, this is a good thing, but how to condense them into a fighting force, this is the most urgent difficulty that Yang Cheng is facing now, and he also knows very well that it is impossible to send them away and return them to their hearts by simply relying on a few words, he must have his own team.

So on the same day, after returning to the hotel, Yang Cheng successively talked to Deisler, Klose, Schweinsteiger, Ozil, Thomas? Muller and a group of old courtiers communicated, first telling them about their plans, and then communicating with several core figures in the team, such as goalkeeper Neuer, Friedrich, Mertesacker, Khedira, Boateng and other players.

In the conversation, Yang Cheng's attitude was very clear, that is, if the German team wants to qualify, everyone must reorganize their mentality, must ensure 100% dedication and focus in the game, and at the same time require all players to have a team spirit of sacrifice.

It took Yang Cheng 2 days to communicate with 23 players, and two days later, the media gradually received the news.

The news of Yang Cheng's representation of the German national team gradually spread, and the chairman of the German Football Association, Zwan Ziger, made a speech, expressing his welcome to Yang Cheng, and at the same time reprimanded Loew's irresponsible approach, believing that the latter pushed Germany into the abyss of no return, and must be responsible for the current situation of the team.

Sienna and Heidi? Krum also rushed to South Africa as soon as possible, and they had to deal with some things for Yang Cheng, such as the fact that he had promised to write columns for some newspapers, as well as some matters related to the German head coach and sponsors.

When the matter comes to an end, many times it is solved in chaos, and there is a situation that cannot be solved. Everyone discussed taking a step back and coordinating things, anyway, things are like this, either continue to cooperate, or break up, it's a very simple thing.

Yang Cheng's gold mine is something that all sponsors are unwilling to give up casually, so they all choose to continue to cooperate. Then they can only take a step back, and everyone wants to make money in harmony, not to mention that Yang Cheng has brought them benefits over the years, and the sacrifice is not trivial at all.

Yang Cheng has completely let go of business matters, but he has to worry about football matters personally.

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"Why do you always like to do things like this?"

After the coaching staff arrived in Johannesburg, Yang Cheng officially started the first tactical discussion session in the hotel room, except for Yang Cheng's old partners. Flick, who is now the nominal acting head coach, also came with a three-member coaching staff, after all, it was a tactical meeting for Ghana.

"Are you afraid?" Yang Cheng asked with a smile.

"Don't use the agitation method, you kid, I'm afraid I won't come!" Paul? Bayer laughed and scolded.

Everyone is used to getting together and making trouble, and they all laugh and coax, but the four of Frick are a little restrained.

"Straight to business, Tim!" Yang Cheng looked at Tim? Hank.

The latter nodded, "Ghana's team has a good record, 1:0 against Serbia in the first round, and a 1:1 draw with Australia in the second leg, how to say it?" He has very different characteristics from the West African team. Their players are not as physically strong, but they are more cooperative, more teamwork and ground attack. "Compared with Ghana, the German team also has a lot of problems, the biggest problem is the change of coach, and another problem is that our offensive impact is insufficient. The four goals against Australia were beautiful. But in fact, that doesn't mean anything, our lack of impact is an obvious flaw! ”

What is impact force called?

It is the ability to break down the opponent's defense line in an instant!

At Real Madrid, the likes of Ronaldo, Kaka, Villa and Sergio Aguero have the ability to do so, but in Germany. It's true that I don't see a player like this, and Ozil is full of spirit. But in reality he is not a shock player at all.

'It's understandable that Loew is playing ground penetration when the impact is insufficient, but our backline is too slow, especially the two centre-backs turning and chasing back, which is already a well-known thing, and because of this, it is impossible for our defence to press forward and shorten the attacking distance.

As Yang Cheng has always said, the modern football system, although it is the organization of the back, but how to press the defense line forward, is an important topic of offensive tactics, but Germany due to the defects of the central defenders, has never been able to sit at this point, which makes Germany face a big problem, when the performance is good, hearty, but once it is grabbed seven inches, it will completely cease.

It can be overwhelming against Australia, but it can't do anything against Serbia, because of tactical constraints!

However, this obviously can't be overly demanding, Germany's central defenders are all of that tall type, with excellent frontal defense and air defense capabilities, but it is precisely because of this that they will have defects such as slow turning and chasing, it is difficult to find perfection in this world, otherwise, Kompany, the perfect central defender, will not be so admired by Yang Cheng.

Yang Cheng couldn't help but think of his former veteran Sebastian in Kaiserslautern? Kyle, who is now the captain of Kaiserslautern, has been playing for Kaiserslautern all these years, but he has always played in a central midfield position, plus he was injured before the World Cup, so he was not brought into the national team by Loew this time.

Today's Kyle is not the injured glass man in Yang Cheng's previous life, Kaiserslautern introduced the entire set of equipment from Yang Cheng's research laboratory from the beginning, although Kyle is 30 years old, but there are not many injuries, and the state is also maintained very well, but unfortunately, the troubled Red Devils captain ended the whole season early due to injury in April.

Over the years, Loew has advocated the youth of the national team, and Kyle's position in the back has many stars such as Ballack and Schweinsteiger, so Kyle's position in the national team has gradually been marginalized, but Yang Cheng still decided to find an opportunity to talk to Kyle to see how his recovery is.

Yang Cheng has never forgotten that Kyle was the backbone of Kaiserslautern's back three, his vision was very broad, his long and short passes were accurate, and he had excellent ball control ability. Interceptions and tackles are fierce and decisive, especially now that he is 30 years old and experienced, Yang Cheng wants to try again to see how effective he and Mertesacker can do in central defence.

'Ghana is very strong but still young and this team has typical African characteristics. Lack of tactical discipline! Benitez hit the nail on the head.

Yang Cheng nodded, "So in this game, we have to give full play to our strengths and strengths, use the way we are best at to disintegrate their weakest points, and then destroy him in one fell swoop!" ”

Since Chemnitz, Yang Cheng has paid great attention to running without the ball. When Yang Cheng formulated the youth training system for Germany, there was a very important feature of running without the ball, and the running without the ball that Yang Cheng proposed was not Ozil's overly focused on talent and vision, but the overall running without the ball as a three-person unit. ..., when attacking, one up, one with, one side echoes; When defending, one is marking, one is co-op, and one is side protection.

If you take a closer look at the performance of the German team in recent years, it is not difficult to see. In fact, since '02, Germany's off-ball runs have been excellent, always running in triangle teams, controlling areas and defending each other's distances with precision.

This is not just the style of the German national team, but also the teams of the German professional league. The entire German youth system is based on such a routine. So it's true that there is no player in the German team who has a very strong ball ability and can tear apart the entire defense by himself like Ronaldo and Kaka, but the German team has a group of parts that are just right to run. It's almost assembled into a fighting machine.

Among the three attacking defenders in Germany at the moment, Yang Cheng's three most optimistic people are Ozil and Thomas? Muller and Deisler.

Ozil is characterized by a very fine technique. Finding gaps and catching and passing the ball is his forte, but he also has a strong ability to take the ball and attack, but he prefers to seek cooperation; Deisler is no longer the wide attacker of his youth, he is now playing more with skill and awareness, with an unrivalled big-picture vision, a sharp and lethal penetrating pass, and he is also praised by Bundesliga fans as having the same precision as David Beckham's crosses and free-kick skills.

Thomas? Muller is the most favored one of the new generation of players, who grew up in Kaiserslautern and has a very standardized and rigorous technical movement, and his off-ball running can even be said to be the best among these people, especially in the dense defense, interspersed with running ability, and a calm mind, so that he can move calmly in any situation.

But one of the reasons why Yang Cheng thinks he will be great is the moment he gets rid of the ball after stopping, combined with the pace of the ball, the control of the ball, and the anticipation of the situation, which allows Muller to complete the task of attacking well.

The two midfielders are Schweinsteiger and Khedira, and there is no problem with this pairing, the former is organised and coordinated, the latter is the main defence, and the other is Tony, who has a very good overall view? Close is also a rising star that Yang Cheng admires very much.

In Yang Cheng's view, the biggest problem of the German team now lies in the front and back, that is, the forward and back line.

There is only one Klose on the front line to reassure, Gomez and Podolski are not satisfied, although the latter is Yang Cheng's favorite apprentice, and he returned to Kaiserslautern from Bayern before, and performed well, but Yang Cheng feels that he has not improved much over the years, and it is estimated that he is also tired of becoming famous as a teenager.

In addition, strikers like Kiessling and Kakau can only play a dozen substitutes, so the forward line is always a problem.

But if the problems are relatively small up front, then there are more problems at the back.

Let's not talk about the two central defenders, let's just say that the full-backs, just one Lahm can't hold the two wings, so once Lahm gets to the left, the right becomes a problem, and once Lahm gets to the right, the left becomes a colander, which is very embarrassing.

"We're going to open the net, let it go, and hit it!" Yang Cheng made a choice.

Benitez thought for a moment and nodded: "One side is dedicated to attacking, and the other is dedicated to defense, and now that's all I can do!" ”

Loew's previous tactic was to resolutely press forward with two wings, but after a number of games, it proved to be a big problem for the backline, and the defeat to Serbia caused multiple problems on the German side.

Now it's not in Real Madrid, Yang Cheng can't say that there is a lack of a fullback, just find one in the transfer market, Germany's fullbacks and forwards have a long history of defects, from Klinsmann to Loew, they have not been able to solve this problem well, to put it bluntly, it is a stubborn disease, as obvious as Brazil's midfield problem. ..., so in this case, all Yang Cheng can think of is to use tactics to make up for the shortcomings in staffing.

Either way, make sure your team qualifies from the group!

"Let Lahm play on the left and get in on the attack, Jérôme? Boateng plays on the right and defends! Yang Cheng looked at Frick.

The latter is the first time to experience Yang Cheng's tactical discussion, I have heard that Yang Cheng and they are meticulous in preparation, and now I see that although they are all newcomers, whether it is the opponent or the analysis of the team itself, it seems to be very targeted, not to mention anything else, just to Tim? Hank and Chris? The stacks of tactical reports that Schmidt brought with him were hundreds of pages long enough to confirm the outside world's impression of Yang Cheng.

"I agree!" Flick nodded.

"Then the next few days of training will be carried out according to this routine, if there is no accident, goalkeeper Neuer; Behind-the-line Lahm, Friedrich, Mertesacker, Jérôme? Boateng; the double midfielders Schweinsteiger and Khedira; Attacking avant-garde Thomas? Muller, Ozil and Deisler; Single striker with Gomez! ”

"It's a game to attack from the start, take the initiative from the first minute, focus on the left, defend Gian and Kevin? Boateng is active on the right side and is trying to take out Ghana! ”

After listening to Yang Cheng's decision, everyone immediately nodded in unison. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )