Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 88

Everton coach Moyes originally wanted to hate Mourinho and talk about his "third-rate player career", but he "accidentally injured" Anton.

Anton took off his jacket and began to warm up by bouncing around on the sidelines.His manner was frank and natural, and he seemed not at all annoyed by Moyes' earlier teasing.

Moyes stood there with embarrassment on his face. He is 47 years old this year. It is really not kind to have trouble with a 27-year-old "junior" in public.

But Moyes talked too much before, and even invited Sir Alex Ferguson to judge.In addition, I heard that this group of well-known coaches will play a training match with me, and many young players in the youth training camp also cheered loudly, eager to try.This game is really impossible——

So Moyes stubbornly insisted and said, "That's good! Just let the children see the gap between professional players and non-professional players..."

He himself was a little speechless.No matter what, these former "professional players" are all dozens of years old. No matter how brilliant the player era was, it is not known whether they have the ability to be three times successful now.

——But at least it's better than Anton who has never played in a professional team, right?

Moyes took chances.

Soon the lineups of the two sides have been determined. Each team will be composed of 4 coaches and 6 young players from the youth training camp. The goalkeepers of both sides will be provided by the youth training camp.In addition, each team can assign a coach to conduct on-the-spot command.

At this time Mourinho suddenly stopped Anton and introduced a young coach who had just arrived at the youth training camp to Anton.

"Anton, meet Luis, André Boas. He's the one I've been trying to introduce you to!"

The moment Anton shook hands with Boas, he immediately understood why Mourinho said that Boas was very similar to him——

The two are indeed alike.

Andre Villas-Boas, the young coach who has just won the coaching position of Porto, a traditional strong team in the Portuguese Super League, is only 32 years old this year.Together with Anton, the two of them are the youngest participants in the entire coaching forum, and they are both tall and handsome. If they are people who have come out of the fashion industry, some people will believe it.

Another similarity is that both of them have no professional player experience at all, unlike Mourinho who has been a third-rate player after all.Anton became a monk halfway and suddenly entered the football world; Boas is basically the same. He directly embarked on the road of football coaching after graduating from high school, and he has never been a professional player for a day.

So the Everton coach Moyes teased Mourinho just now, not only accidentally injured Anton, but also spared Boas by the way.

But in terms of similarities, there is a big gap between Anton and Boas.The story of Boas’ success in his youth is particularly legendary: he was the neighbor of the famous British coach Sir Bobby Robson, and he was favored by the master at the age of 17 and became his disciple.In addition, Boas is also a "student master" in the football world. He is a top student in Lagos. He was a UEFA coach C card at the age of 17, a B card at the age of 18, and actually coached a small country at the age of 21. The talented boy of the national team.

As Mourinho's "junior brother", Boas seems to be rushing forward in the footsteps of his "madman" brother. After he assisted Mourinho to lead Inter Milan to the Serie A championship in 2009, Boas decided to fly solo and came to the Portuguese Super League.Last season, he took over the Portuguese Super League Keimbra University team and helped the opponent successfully avoid relegation in just four rounds. As a result, he was favored by the old Portuguese giants Porto and became an unprecedented 31-year-old head coach of the Portuguese Super League.

Everyone is looking forward to Villas-Boas leading Porto this season to replicate Mourinho's success.

Of course, without Anton, the 27-year-old Premier League coach, Boas may have more bragging capital.

Therefore, when Mourinho introduced Boas to Anton, Boas's expression was a bit faint, but somewhat curious, and his amber eyes kept looking up and down Anton.

"I suggest that Andre be the commander of your team!" Mourinho suggested when he saw that the training match was about to start.

The coaches and children of Anton's team had no objections, so the matter was settled.

On the other hand, Anton's opponents were all relatively "successful" players in their careers and then transformed into coaches, including Moyes, the initiator of this game.The person in charge of the command is Ancelotti, an Italian who is obsessed with food after retirement and has lost his shape.

Chewing gum, Sir Alex Ferguson stood with his arms folded in the cool breeze of a Scottish summer.The head coach of the youth academy next to him took a whistle from his pocket.

The whistle blows, the game begins—

"This Boas is indeed a very talented coach!" Anton thought to himself while running on the turf of the youth training camp.

Just before the start of the game, Boas briefly asked the names of all the participating children in their team and the opponent's team.

After that, Boas made a temporary command on the sidelines, calling out the names of these children. Whether it was his own player or the opponent's player, Boas never missed it once.

Moreover, in a very short period of time, Boas roughly figured out the actual level of everyone in the team, and quickly arranged everyone's position.Anton was placed in the front midfielder by him, two of the other three coaches played as a central defender, and the other played a forward.The other positions are half-old children of the youth training camp.

Anton could hear Boas clearly instructing the children running on the field: "Come on, Jack, pass the ball out, don't let Bran grab it, yes, pass it to Anton in front of you, good job , you can try harder next time..."

- What a meticulous trainer!

As Anton thought so, the ball had already reached his feet.He stretched out his foot and dunked the ball. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his little teammate rushing forward. With a push of his arch, he immediately sent the ball out.Anton's calculations were accurate and his footwork was proper. As soon as the ball was pushed out, it immediately reached the little player's feet.

"Pretty!"

The children of the youth training camp who were watching from the side applauded together.There has always been a local tradition of "grabbing football from a baby". Even if the children in the youth training camp can't send such accurate passes by themselves, their appreciation level is there. For a good shot, they all gave a big cheer.

Anton made a trial pass, and he knew that the basic skills he had practiced hard in "Green Life", a few basic technical packages, were not lost, and he could use them in reality, so he could play football with peace of mind.

An Dongsheng is young and has good physical strength, and he will not lose his strength in the physical strength of a group of teenagers.In addition, his foot skills are not bad, and Boas arranged him in a key position like the front midfielder.Anton's team immediately began to gain the upper hand.

On the opposite side, Moyes was really depressed.In fact, his player era was not very successful, and he gradually became proud after becoming a coach.Today, it was just because of a verbal dispute that he dug a hole for himself and had to play football in person, and it seemed that the opponent's young midfielder was very good, and he didn't look like an amateur at all.

Then the question arises: Why didn't Anton think about being a football player in the past?Players first, coaches later, isn't this the same path that football has been repeating generation after generation?

With dark circles under his eyes, Jiang Yueming left the conference center with the camera from the reporting team.The reports and interviews produced for this European Coaching Forum have been completed in the early hours of this morning, and they were sent back to China for broadcast.

After recording and editing the program day and night, Jiang Yueming felt completely exhausted, but he couldn't sleep during the day.Hearing that the coaches have already gone to the youth training camp of the local club, Jiang Yueming has no special interview plan, but he still brought a camera, ready to collect some material, if it can be used.

The two immediately hired a local driver to drive them to the youth training camp.Along the way, Jiang Yueming tried his best to communicate with the driver in his not-so-fluent English, but was defeated by the driver's thick Scottish accent.When he arrived at the youth training camp, Jiang Yueming found out that there was a training match there - but this training match was rather peculiar, the ages of the participating players were uneven, young and young, old and old... Standing on the sidelines to judge the game , It turned out to be Sir Alex Ferguson himself.

Jiang Yueming was very happy. He is a fan of Ferguson Ferguson, and this time he finally met his idol. He immediately greeted the camera casually: "Old Xu, turn on the camera, and take pictures first if you have any material. Let's take it slowly later." Cut."

Except for the two Chinese journalists who arrived later, there were not many media and professional cameras in this youth training camp located next to the Scottish coastline.

Jiang Yueming suddenly became interested and wanted to find an opportunity to talk to his idol, so he and Lao Xu quickly approached the stadium with their cameras.

At this moment, the children around the court clamored loudly together.Professionalism made Jiang Yueming and Lao Xu rush forward. Lao Xu picked up the camera on his shoulders and pointed it at the field——

But the next scene shocked both Jiang Yueming and Lao Xu at the same time.At this time, the penalty area in the training ground was in chaos. The ball flew into the air and found Anton with his back to the goal.

In the penalty area, Moyes led another small player to intercept and grab at the same time.Anton did not choose to stop the ball at all. Instead, he leaped high, exerted force on his back, turned around suddenly, and kicked his feet violently—his jump was too high and too floating, not so much a volley with an extremely tricky angle. A volley, or rather a... barb.

The ball crashed into the net.

——What a beautiful goal!

Anton fell back to the ground, raised his hand to stabilize the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and then gathered with his big and small "teammates" around him to high-five and celebrate.

Jiang Yueming, who witnessed this scene with his own eyes as soon as he came up, was completely dumbfounded. He stood still and took a long time to save himself: Is this Xiao Lin?His new acquaintance, Kobayashi?

"I'm so good!—" Xiao Jiang was shocked, and dialects that he hadn't used much for many years popped up.

The same is true for Lao Xu, who took a long time to remember the camera on his shoulder.Only his professional camera equipment was on in the audience, and only his camera recorded the scene.

Moyes stood where he was, and several coaches around him couldn't believe their eyes.

Someone who knows Moyes came up and patted this person on the shoulder as a sign of comfort—Moyes dug too much for himself today. "The gap between professional players and non-professional players"? ... This gap may allow Moyes to bury himself in the pit.

And Mourinho happened to be standing beside Sir Alex Ferguson at the moment.When Mourinho was coaching Chelsea, he was quite at odds with Ferguson, and had countless spats.

But at this moment, the two seem to have forgotten all the previous quarrels. Mourinho was stunned for a while, and then asked: "I heard that Anton once studied under you. At that time, he was... 23 or 24 years old?"

Sir Alex Ferguson's face was a bit hard, and he didn't bother to chew the gum in his mouth for a long time.

"Didn't you realize that he had this talent? Didn't you persuade him to register a player first?" Mourinho asked a few times.It's not a question, it was Mourinho who blurted out the question in shock.

Sir Alex Ferguson froze for a while, then started chewing gum again, and replied to the people around him after a long time: "...No!"

The author has something to say: Moyes... This is indeed the figure who took over Manchester United after Ferguson retired.

There is a saying called "Moyes, a strange injustice through the ages", which probably means that Moyes is actually not that bad. Compared with other coaches, his results are not too bad.

But we can't forget that the black cat Sunderland was led into the ditch by this guy, and was relegated from the Premier League during Moyes' tenure.

The story of Boas’ rise to prosperity is indeed legendary, and there are many versions derived from it. I will tell you one by one after a while.