"Puskash?! Real Madrid that Puskas?! ”

As a fan, Melanie has naturally heard of Puskas's name, and she never imagined that the old man with dementia lying on the hospital bed was the best star who once shined on the planet.

Aldrich nodded lonely and began to tell the story of him and the old man.

When Aldrich began to study all over Europe, he was pious and humble, but when he had read a thousand sails, he inevitably made the same mistake that many people have: pride!

In 93, Aldridge's mind was full of tactics, he not only studied the tactics of various football countries, but also mastered the trend of football tactics later, he thought that he had learned a great art, so he began to have a desire to try his hand at bullfighting.

Almost 50 years ago, Hungary, which joined the socialist camp after World War II, also began to play football with a "national system", and at that time, it created an extremely powerful golden team.

There are many golden generations in history, but there are not many teams that can really be called golden teams, Hungary is one of them, and whenever the best team of all time is selected, the Hungarian national team in the early fifties will repeatedly make the list.

At that time, football tactics were state-of-the-art, and it was a group of literate scholars who studied tactics while drinking coffee, studying kicking techniques, formation movements, strategies and tactics.

They adapted the WM formation of Arsenal tactician Chapman, and may have even created a tactical system of frequent switching of inside and wingers with a back four, and this tactic, after being brought to Brazil by the Hungarian coach, perfected the classic 424.

At the same time as the tactical research is maturing, the division of the king built with the strength of the whole country is gradually taking shape, Puskas is one of the most dazzling figures, known as "Flying Major", he really has an official position, almost all the players in the Hungarian national team have official backgrounds, pulled out of the army.

During the Cold War, England, the originator and boss of modern football, proudly invited Hungary to play a friendly match, which was already slightly famous and performed well in the Olympics, so the friendly match was touted by Britain before the game: the battle of the century.

It was so rendered as a pinnacle game, but England lost 3:6 at home, England was not reconciled, and returned to Budapest after half a year of hard training, and was bloodbathed by Hungary 7:1.

This is the case in English football, where you start to rest on your laurels after a little achievement, and only then do you learn from the pain when you get a bloody slap on your face.

Hungary, on the other hand, began to fight all over the world, and the invincible opponents were proud of the others.

Before the start of the World Cup in '54, the Hungarian national team maintained a proud record of four years undefeated.

Not only is it the best hope at home, but even internationally Hungary is considered the favorite to win the championship.

In the group stage, they slaughtered South Korea 9-0 and defeated West Germany 8-3, but Puskas was tackled in the game against West Germany.

In the knockout round, defending champion Uruguay won both games 4-2, and Hungary lived up to expectations and advanced to the final.

It's just that no one expected that the opponent in the final turned out to be West Germany, which they met in the group stage.

West Germany, Hungary, how in line with the context of the times at that time, two teams, two countries and nations, needed a victory.

And God played a joke on Hungary, they have not lost a single record in four years, but on the day of the final, they had the intention to kill the thief and had no power to return to heaven!

Puskas, who was tackled by the Germans, went into battle with an injury, and the two-goal lead was played out as the predicted script, but it rained heavily, and the Germans took out magical non-slip spikes, and the Hungarians could only fall on the muddy grass and miss the goal, the Germans made a miraculous reversal, and Puskas's equalizing goal before the end was blown away by the English referee.

This is the miracle of Bern, which everyone in the world knows, and even the Germans agree that it is a miracle, and this miracle has brought excitement to German football and even the whole nation, and it has an impact to this day.

On the other hand, Hungary lost in the final and became a national sinner, when the domestic political situation was turbulent and the Soviet tanks drove into Budapest, the Hungarian national team was put on the judgment seat, and the goalkeeper may have been exiled to the border for conceding three goals in a row in the final.

How familiar does this sound?

Later, countless people ridiculed North Korea with such a bridge, but all this was really staged in Hungary in history.

The Golden Team fell apart, Major Fei began to wander, he was labelled treason, but at the age of 31 he joined Real Madrid and became a legend.

Puskas coached a number of European teams after retiring from football, including leading the Greek side to the Champions League final, which was a remarkable achievement, and it was then that Aldrich arrived in '93 when he took up the reins of the national team in Hungary in an attempt to revive Hungarian football.

At a time when the country had just stabilized, and it had only been four years since Marxism-Leninism had been abandoned, and football had long since lost its glory, Aldridge took out forged documents showing his age of 20 to apply for assistant coach of the national team.

When he first met the national team coach and his immediate boss Puskas, Aldridge's thought was simple: let this old man see what I can do!

In a teaching game, Aldridge commanded a group of substitutes against the main players, put on a utilitarian defensive counterattack formation, using the chain defense that is popular in Italy and the English wing counterattack tactics, and easily won the game with a 3:1 victory.

While Aldrich was triumphant, Puskash was expressionless.

"He's angry, I can feel it, but I stubbornly think he's right, I think he's old, he's not in line with the trend, he's the king in the past, but the future doesn't belong to him. However, instead of scolding me, he took me out of the national team training base and went to a small stadium in the city, where a group of middle school students were playing football, and they were very excited to see Puskas because he was a hero, and Puskas asked me to play a game with middle school students, and I asked him what he was doing, and he didn't explain, he just asked me to do it. I thought to myself: these kids don't know anything, playing football with them? It is equivalent to playing the harp to the cow. But when the sun went down, I took off my soaked shirt and walked back to the stand seat, and the old man, whom I had dismissed, smiled and asked me, and I was completely convinced. ”

"What did he ask?"

"Are you happy?"

"What?"

"He just asked me: Are you happy?"

"What does that mean?"

"It's very simple, I'm happy, yes, I played all afternoon with a bunch of kids, I didn't care if I won or lost, we laughed when we scored, we hugged each other to celebrate, we were frustrated when we scored a goal, and then we got up the fighting spirit to kick off again, and I suddenly realized that day I didn't play football for a long time, I didn't feel the fun that football brought me, and that's the essence of football. The football tactics stuffed in my mind are nothing more than boring numbers and lines, so there is no meaning, utilitarian football will always have a purpose that is not pure, victory? What's the point of winning if the person playing is unhappy? But this will be the mainstream of football in the future, because football is a tool for many people to earn a living, and only by winning can we avoid losing our jobs. I was right about Puskas, he was outdated, he couldn't keep up with the times, but he taught me thinking football, he taught me that failure is not terrible, what is terrible is when you can't find joy in football, and I'm the manager and I have an obligation to make my players happy. ”

Speaking of these, Aldrich was embarrassed.

He also planned his professional life a long time ago, he thought that his initial stage should be to put up a fence and let the team play that kind of utilitarian football, so that he can quickly win the championship, but he got the baptism of thought in Hungary, he does not want to suppress the talent of the players, he does not want to make them bored with the game, let them lose the motivation to create, he must let the players feel the essence of the sport in the process of creating goals and creating victories.

Puskas couldn't teach Aldrich anything tactically, but he was regarded as a mentor by Aldrich, and life always needs a qualitative change in the process of accumulation, and Puskas gave Aldrich an epiphany, which is precious.

Puskas used to be beautiful, the pride of the whole country, and was praised to the altar, but he also fell the worst!

Perhaps it is this kind of experience that allows him to forget everything on the road of wandering, pick up football, and enjoy the most simple and beautiful fun.

Aldridge felt that he was simply favored by God, he had a new life, and he was able to meet a professional mentor who woke him up, and during his six months in Hungary, he began to sort out the football knowledge he had learned in the past, and then sublimate it to create his own football philosophy.

Maybe he can't start a sect, but he can at least learn from the strengths of a hundred schools of thought and make up for their weaknesses.

He could not forget Puskas's teachings in his mind, and he couldn't talk about the teachings, and the two of them were like old friends.

But now, his mentor has begun to suffer from the invasion of illness, and his life will enter a dark page.

Aldrich and Melanie sat in chairs outside the hospital room and stayed up all night.

PS: Thank you for the reward of "Flying as First Seen" and "A Little Less Than Ordinary"!