Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 277

Boas felt that when he entered Chelsea, he might have used up all the luck in his life.

Compared with the background of other coaches, his biggest disadvantage is that he has not been a player himself-but his biggest advantage is also in this.

He became a disciple of Sir Bobby Robson at the age of 16, skipping the necessary path to become a coach, saving a lot of time and cost, and he was staggeringly young when he became famous.

Therefore, he became one of the young marshals who attracted worldwide attention. If it wasn't for the sudden appearance of a guy named Anton, he could even lose the title of "one of them".

When he stepped into Stamford Bridge as the head coach, he was completely young and energetic.He carries the aura of "Mourinho II" on his body, and all he thinks about is the great achievements of establishing "Boas I".

At that time, who would have thought that he would shed tears on the Blue Bridge in just nine months?

Boas was completely smug when he took office.After he took office, he vigorously advocated oppressive style of play in the whole team.This style of play is considered by him to be the current "trend" and the panacea for today's football.

So he was immediately opposed by the veterans of Chelsea's team.Especially Captain Terry.

Boas thought: Captain Terry’s objection is completely selfish for his own sake—the defensive core and spiritual leader of the Blue Army has begun to age, his turns are slow, and his speed cannot be improved. It is easy to lose the defensive position, which is a free way for the opponent to lead to his own goal.

And other younger defenders, such as Ivan and Ruiz, are also prone to sticking to the ball when they are pressing, and they are intercepted by the opponent and counterattacked.

But Boas was very persistent. He recognized that this was the development direction of the new generation of tactics, and he wanted to go all the way to the dark.He will eliminate anyone who dares to disobey him-it has always been like this in the locker room, whoever holds the power to let people play, holds the initiative.

As a result, the former Premier League Golden Boot Anelka, who had performed well for several consecutive seasons, was exiled and left for China, Chelsea cut off his own arm.Brazilian Alexis has left the Bridge to join Ligue [-] giants Paris Saint-Germain.By this time, many Chelsea players still dared not speak out. After all, Anelka and Alex in the team cannot be regarded as players with backing.

At the same time, Boas' decision to reuse the "fellow" Portuguese Bosingwa has aroused dissatisfaction among more people-after all, not everyone has this luck, and they were born to be "fellows" with the head coach.

Seeing that the locker room was about to move around, Boas put Terry and Lampard, two "veteran veterans" of the Blues who were unwilling to change and adapt to his oppressive style of play, on the bench.

Boas knows: Lampard has always been at odds with himself, and Terry, as the captain, has always had prestige in front of the players.

What he wants is to use these two people to give himself a prestige.

So the locker room exploded.

"The locker room, shouldn't the head coach have the final say?" Boas asked himself.Premier League coach Sir Alex Ferguson, professor Arsene Wenger... many people have absolute authority, "If they are not allowed to play, what room do players have to jump around?"

Sure enough, without Terry and Lampard, the players on the field were obedient, but the team lacked this all-round midfielder and a main central defender, and immediately lost two games.

Helpless, Boas had no choice but to take the two out and use them again.

With these two, the players on the field reverted to their old ways, and Villas-Boas immediately wanted to "stand up" again, so Terry and Lampard's starting positions were once again lost...

In this way, over and over again, wobbling and wobbling.

Gradually, Boas also felt that the Chelsea players saw him differently.He didn't know that he had been repeating himself and gradually lost the trust of all the players.No player is willing to trust this head coach anymore, and dissatisfaction within the team has gradually accumulated to the limit.

"These players are so complicated, no wonder Jose couldn't handle it well!" - Villas-Boas thought.

His senior brother Mourinho left Chelsea in the first place, which had a lot to do with the chaos in the dressing room.Boas then made excuses for himself.

But he forgot that Mourinho had been at Chelsea for at least three years.When Mourinho first came, he got along well with the players, and the two sides were as good as honey, and many people were extremely grateful to that Mourinho back then.

"But so what? As professional players, do they really dare to stop training like the French team at that time?" Boas asked himself.

Yes, there is a precedent for the French team in the 2010 World Cup, and it is even more difficult for other clubs or national teams to "stop training".

But the players were disaffected and demoralized, and it was hard to imagine such players playing good-looking and successful football.Chelsea's results plummeted.The task that Abramovich originally entrusted to Boas was to compete for the Premier League title and the Champions League title, but soon, Chelsea couldn't even keep the top four in the Premier League.

And Boas also created the lowest winning percentage of the Blues coaches in recent years.

To make matters worse, at this juncture, the Blues captain Terry announced that he would be recuperating from injury.

Chelsea have officially announced that John Terry has suffered a knee injury.The British media quickly broke the news that Terry's injury would require a truce for at least 8 weeks. Terry himself confirmed that he would undergo knee surgery to eradicate the lesions.

The lack of personnel has exacerbated Chelsea's downward trend.

Villas-Boas, who had been placed high by Chelsea, not only failed to activate the golden boy Torres as Abramovich hoped, making Chelsea even more powerful, but instead dragged Chelsea into the abyss.

Chelsea's poor performance on the double-lane field also caused strong dissatisfaction among the fans.The fans jointly wrote an open letter to Abramovich, asking Abramovich: How can they tolerate the "shame" of the Blues over and over again.

The rich man in Russia is probably also muttering in his heart: the choice of "Young Marshal" this time is indeed a bit too hasty, and it seems that he is bound to pay for this poor choice.

Finally, after losing 1-3 to Naples in the first round of the UEFA Champions League Round of [-], Boas officially received the "dismissal" notice.

When the boss Abramovich announced the dismissal of Boas, the young coach had tears in his eyes and was extremely sad-but no player came forward to comfort him, not even a voice to tell him that "everything will go well" in the future.

This fully proves that Boas has lost all hope and the locker room is completely out of control-and in fact, when Abramovich faced the choice of firing Boas or firing all first-team players... Abramovich had no choice.

It is said that after Boas was fired, Terry's knee injury "miraculously" healed and he took part in the first training session of the acting coach Di Matteo.

Therefore, this is a "fake injury" specially performed by Terry in order to punish Boas.All veterans of the court know that there are many ways to express dissatisfaction, and in fact, it is not necessarily necessary to stop training.

The players did not sympathize with him, the head coach who left in tears. After all, Boas has been in charge for the past few months. According to the weekly salary agreed in his contract, Chelsea will pay him a salary of 350 million pounds. , Boas left early, Chelsea may have to pay a termination fee of up to 1100 pounds-maybe in the eyes of the players, just take money and do nothing, Boas is this kind of person.

Money can't get into Boas's eyes.Young people prefer to be more famous.

After being terminated, Boas couldn't sleep at night. He felt that he couldn't just go back to Portugal and could only stay in London.He could hardly watch any news about Chelsea in a short period of time, and he didn't want to know whether the team won or lost after he left.

So when he watched sports news, he would avoid Chelsea and watch news from other teams in the Premier League.

Until one day, he saw the news that Liverpool coach Dalglish voluntarily resigned as head coach.

Liverpool has no European missions this year, and it is said that they can concentrate on domestic competitions, but Liverpool's record is not good.

His mind came alive again.

Liverpool, a veteran giant, is working hard to rebuild after changing clubs, but due to the aging of coach Dalglish's tactics, some cannot keep up with the development trend of Premier League tactics.Therefore, Dalglish abdicates, which may be a good opportunity for Boas.

Everyone in the world knows that "Madman" Mourinho's first stop in the Premier League was Chelsea, but few people know that when Mourinho came to England, the first Premier League club he wanted to coach was actually not Chelsea but Liverpool .Later, because of the persuasion of the shrewd businessman Mendes, Mourinho gave up his original intention and created his "Mourinho dynasty" at Chelsea.

Boas is also interested in Liverpool, so he immediately called his agent Mendes.

Mendes hesitated after hearing his intentions, and advised Boas to rest for a while, and it would not be too late to consider these after his mental state recovered.

Boas heard Mendez faltering and he knew there was something else going on.He didn't say any more, but he kept his eyes on Liverpool, not letting go of the slightest sign of trouble.

Until one day, Liverpool held a press conference and announced that they had found a new coach:

Anton has accepted Liverpool's invitation and will take up the post of head coach of Liverpool Football Club from now on.The two parties signed a three-year contract.

Anton himself appeared at the press conference. This "young coach" who was a few years younger than Boas looked refreshed and energetic.

A reporter asked curiously, what did Anton do in the months after he stepped down as Sunderland coach?Anton only answered rest and adjustment, and used an ancient Chinese saying to explain himself-"One piece, one relaxation, the way of civil and martial arts."

Boas was stunned when he heard the words, and all his experiences from the age of 16 to the present came to his mind at once.He suddenly asked himself: "Am I in a hurry?"

Looking back at this life, did he walk too hastily in his entire life, so that he used up all the good luck at the beginning?

The author has something to say: I have almost finished talking about the blue army here, and in the next chapter we will talk about red.

It’s really a pity for Villas-Boas. I think his time to coach Chelsea is not very good. It’s too early. If he stays in the Portuguese Super League for a few more years and at least experiences some setbacks, he may not fall down when he coaches a big Premier League club. Too miserable.Villas-Boas went to Tottenham in the next season. In fact, his performance was good that season, but Levi still fired him after the season...

Villas-Boas went to Marseille this season, I wish him all the best in Ligue [-].