You must have heard that Messi has a "historical talent", and you may remember the so-called Azurin whose "talent is ten times that of Messi". It seems that "gifted teenagers" in various media can hit a few by throwing a brick, and it is not a rare word to have a three-piece suit like a shemale star and a demon front.
Where's the coach? This job often requires long-term accumulated experience, and it does not have direct sensory stimulation like a player's painting. The last coach who was dubbed a genius originated from the ridicule of Liverpool and Manchester City fans on their sworn enemies.
Now, a head coach is appraised as a genius by more and more media and fans, and the famous German coach Hitzfeld has recently joined the touting camp. This "genius coach" is no longer a mockery, but a real compliment.
He has various post-wave titles, such as the youngest coach in Bundesliga history, the youngest coach in the Champions League/knockout/quarter-finals/quarter-finals ... Although the semi-final was defeated in front of Paris, people still think that he can lead an era in the future.
He is: Julian nagel Mann.
Business students who don't want to be coaches are not good players.
Nagel Mann was originally on the road of being a serious professional player.
Born in augsburg Youth Academy, he moved to Munich at the age of 15, and returned to the second team in augsburg at the age of 1860. However, before he made his professional league debut, he suffered a serious knee injury against Frankfurt U 19. After two years of repeated injuries, the doctor finally concluded that he could not continue playing football.
2 1 year-old hangs up his boots, and the dream that has not blossomed has withered.
The discouraged teenager left football temporarily, and he entered the university and began to study business administration. However, the love of football is not so easy to cool down. Only two years later, nagel Mann transferred to the major of sports science (and later got a degree in business administration) and began to pursue his dream of professional football in another field.
Since you can't play football, teach others how to play football!
-After graduation, nagel Wiseman's first job came from the youth training system of his old club, augsburg. It was also at this stage that he began to obtain the necessary coaching certificate step by step. The referee is Tuchel, the coach who has not played for the second team in augsburg for a long time, and also the opponent who met in the semi-final of the Champions League this season.
-In order to accumulate necessary conditions and experience for textual research (he has no preferential treatment for professional players), nagel Mann began to coach the U 16-U 19 youth team in various clubs in southwestern Germany, and finally went to Hoffenheim. With the continuous enrichment of his resume, the continuous upgrading of his certificate and Tuchel's endorsement, the young coach began to make his mark in German football.
-Many people think that nagel Mann's intimate contact with the Bundesliga began on 20 16, but strictly speaking, it actually started at the end of 20 12. In the year of 65438+February, Hoffenheim once fell to the bottom three in the Bundesliga. They fired coach Babel and chose a new combination of Frank Kramer and nagel Mann.
Externally, 40-year-old Kramer's official title is temporary coach, and nagel Osman, who hasn't got a top coach certificate, is an assistant coach. Internally, the club's positioning of the two men is more like joint coaching, and even the details of training and tactical arrangements are arranged by nagel Mann.
That year, Kramer was called Jong, but he was older than nagel Osman around him 15 years old. It was also during this period that Wei Ze, the goalkeeper of the famous "Muscle School", was six years older than nagel Osman, and he was nicknamed "Mini Mourinho" because Nashuai loved to drill into details in training.
Soon, Hoffenheim found a formal coach, and Kramer went to coach the second team. Later, he became the coach of the German national youth team at all levels, and now he is the youth training director of Salzburg Red Bull.
And nagel Mann to coach Hoffenheim U 19 youth team and lead the team to win the German U 19 championship in 2013/4 season.
After that, we became familiar with the story.
In 20 16, 28-year-old nagel Mann became the first-team coach of Hoffenheim, the youngest coach in Bundesliga history. In Huocun, in his first full season as a coach, he won the best record in the history of the team with the fourth place in the Bundesliga and touched the Champions League for the first time. (Although the qualifiers were eliminated by Liverpool)
The following year, the third Bundesliga set a new record and advanced to the Champions League for the first time.
The most commendable thing is that even if Zhu Lai, Rudy, Wagner and other central axis players leave the team one after another, he can still quickly create a new tactical framework to ensure that the team's performance will not collapse.
20 19 Leave Hoffenheim to take over RB Leipzig. In the first season, we witnessed the youngest coach in the history of the Champions League knockout/quarterfinals/quarterfinals.
Ah, this open life.
Black technology is just a gimmick?
Why did Hoffenheim give the little-known nagel Wiseman such a good chance?
As a player who actually has no professional record, this kind of "academic coach" can hardly be completely trusted in the traditional system. However, Hoffenheim is obviously not traditional, and even now he is still scolded by German extreme fans as deviant.
On the other hand, Hope, the boss who helps Hoffenheim, is mainly engaged in SAP software company, which is highly compatible with nagel Mann's sports science major.
So, we saw a lot of black technology in Hoffenheim.
For example, the "soccer Naut" system. This is also called cage football. The wall is divided into 72 small squares. Players stand in the center of the field to catch the ball that pops up from the random window, and then kick the ball into another designated window at the first time. This system can set different ball speeds and rotations to simulate various situations in the game. Klopp did the same thing in Dortmund and later brought it to Liverpool.
Another example is the spiral. This conceptual system uses 180 degree projection screen. One way to use it is that two teams 1-4 virtual players move randomly along the virtual direction. When they stop, the trainer standing in front of the screen should find out the movers and judge their movement direction.
In recent years, SAP has also added other training items to the system, such as judging the impact point of the high ball, fake action trajectory and so on. It is all to temper the players' concentration and dynamic visual acuity.
There is also a "screen wall". Hoffenheim erected a huge 40-square-meter TV wall next to the training ground to display the training pictures taken by surrounding cameras and high-altitude drones in real time. Nagel Mann controls the angle and focal length of each camera through the iPad. If problems are found, he will immediately stop training and give a tactical explanation.
As for GoPro HD camera, Google Glass, sports vest, big data analysis ... you can think of football black technology, Hoffenheim of nagel.
Of course, there are still many people who are skeptical about how much the so-called black technology can play in real football matches, and think that these expensive toys are just gimmicks. However, under the leadership of nagel Wiseman, we can clearly see how he uses these black technologies to train players to have the special abilities he needs, and how to explain and arrange tactics for players.
Let's take this season's RB Leipzig as the latest example and approach the tactical chessboard of this "genius coach".
"genius coach" tactical board
Throughout the season, Leipzig played 442/433/3412/3142/343/41etc. They played almost all the formations you have heard. It was not until after the rematch that the first choice was stabilized as a three-guard system.
But for nagel Mann, the formation is just a number, or more because of the targeted arrangement of the existing personnel and the configuration of the opponent, and the tactical core of the team is always the same.
A German coach training institution summed up nagel Mann's football philosophy in one word: vertical strike.
First of all, unless they have a big lead and need to slow down, they generally don't like to divide the ball in the backcourt. Make sure there are at least two support points before and after, and then pass straight to the middle.
In the four-guard system, one of the two backyards retreats to catch the ball and the other presses forward to become the catching point of the next stage of the vertical line.
In the three-guard system, Upamecano, as the most skilled and flexible central defender, can throw the ball or even turn around, and be pushed to the midfield position, taking on some core responsibilities of delaying organization. Based on his movement, the overall formation switches seamlessly in the three-four-guard system.
For example, 1/4' s Champions League final against Atletico Madrid, 9 1%' s passing success rate, 10' s successful long pass, 3 passes, 3 interceptions and 5 clearances are simply reminiscent of the brilliance of German freemen such as matthaeus.
The goal of the next stage is the space between the opponent's midfield and defender.
Who is here? Sabitz, the retreat center (Paulson/Hick), one of the double midfielders (such as Laemmel), and sometimes one of Werner or Nkunku.
At this stage, they often play some quick back-and-forth cooperation with the wingers, but most of the time the purpose is to open the distance between the two lines of the opposing defensive formation.
When the frontcourt players in this area get the ball, a group of speed strikers represented by Werner are ready to sprint from the back of the defender at any time. If the opponent has a speed winger close to his body or offside in advance, he will often try to attack the weak side with another round of fast continuous passing.
In short, reduce the unnecessary use of width, and use rapid and continuous longitudinal passing to puncture, so that the opponent's response is not as good as that.
Leipzig's high defense is also unique.
They often don't rob their opponents' goalkeepers and central defenders at first, and even deliberately let the full-backs go to lure them back and forth (which they don't like).
Wait until the full-back or the midfielder wants to move forward, then surround and cut off all the passing routes. At this point, the overall formation will move, including the central defender and goalkeeper will be watched at any time. If necessary, the stratum can even be tilted into the following extreme form.
Set-pieces are also carefully arranged.
Nagel Mann's research for many years proves that although most defensive players will take a man-to-man approach when positioning the ball, they must keep an eye on the ball when the high ball comes, and it is often easy to miss the players who were originally backward but suddenly changed their positions.
As a result, the tall people in Leipzig will squeeze into a point before the free throw, and then disperse into a line through various emergency stops, turns back and cross-covers. The speed of the ball must be fast, in line with the thinking of sports warfare, and the opponent's reaction is not enough. Many times, the front point is a cover, and it is fatal to have a person running empty in the middle and back point.
In addition, in all kinds of change-direction running and multi-point catching, Leipzig will also have a person rushing to the other side that is not where the high ball falls. Defenders here tend to be more relaxed than landing. If the first score can be given in time, the success rate of scoring will be further improved.
The following goal is a typical example.
Looking back, are all the black technologies I mentioned before reflected in the tactical board?
Nagel Mann attaches great importance to players' quick pitching ability and reaction speed, and also relies heavily on seemingly simple tactics, but in fact, running position and reality are very complicated. And his advanced academic theory and black technology bring out the best in each other, which is exactly what Hitzfeld called "the most perfect counterattack".
Of course, there is definitely no perfect tactics in the world, and tactics only account for part of the success or failure factors of the game. For example, if the opponent's central defender passes well, this high-level forced grab that lures the enemy first and then rushes wildly can be easily cracked. It's time to bet on the speed of Leipzig players. Look at the animation below. How many Leipzig players are crazy about flying shovels? Even after the opponent's first offensive is defused, the strikers will still rush back.
Nagel Mann's tactics, another easy problem often comes from physical fitness. In the attack, the speed is improved instantly, the defense is in the middle and high position and the pursuit is correct, and the set-pieces have to be turned back to run the collective charge, which consumes much more players than the general tactics.
Therefore, compared with traditional giants, Leipzig is more likely to suddenly collapse after a high-intensity confrontation. Moreover, if nagel Mann goes to a big club in the future, this kind of kicking is really unfriendly to meritorious veterans.
Staying in Leipzig will be a new test, that is, the staffing is inevitably subject to various restrictions. For example, although he reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, Werner's departure from the first team still had a great impact. For example, center Paulson's footwork is too rough and Hick's fulcrum is average, so he has a crush on Sorlot, 193 but it's fast.
A more intuitive contrast, that is, in the semi-final of the Champions League, Campr was stunned by the furious Trident Neymar+Mbappé+Di Maria, and the whole backcourt system completely collapsed. Counterattack is no longer a vertical acceleration, but a lot of division and meaningless passing, which is exactly what nagel Mann usually opposes.
In Hoffenheim and Leipzig, nagel Mann went through many tests and handed over quite good answers. At the age of 33, you are still young in Jong, and you still have plenty of time to conquer the wider world.
He once described the feeling of being a coach like this: "I am like a baker, mixing things according to the formula and proportion, then pushing them into the oven to see if they taste good enough."
I think he must be a genius at baking bread.