Chapter 185 Beckenbauer of Modern Football

Bai Ran took the USB in his hand and looked at Zidane with a fiery look.

Zidane was full of hope for Bai Ran, nodded, patted Bai Ran on the shoulder and said: "Come on, in the last few rounds, you must lead Real Madrid to victory."

Bai Ran nodded firmly.

"Of course!"

For the next few games of Real Madrid, Bai Ran was very confident. In La Liga, all Real Madrid could do was win every game and wait for Barcelona to show its flaws.

However, if Barcelona did not lose or draw, but won the championship in the end, then Real Madrid would have nothing to say, and Bai Ran also recognized this result, after all, their schedule in the first half was too messy.

Problems in the locker room, conflicts between the club's top management and the players, as well as the head coach's tactical arrangements and the wrong use of people.

All these made the performance of Real Madrid in the first half of this season very unsatisfactory.

In other words, Real Madrid actually only played 100% of its strength against Barcelona for half a season.

Even if he won the runner-up, there is nothing to say.

There is nothing to regret.

If this is the case, Bai Ran also has full confidence and confidence to regroup in the next season and rebuild the old mountains and rivers. In the 16-17 season, he will definitely be able to beat Barcelona and win the league championship.

As for the Champions League, as Real Madrid has half a foot in the semi-finals, the teams they face are getting stronger and stronger, and their strength is comparable to that of Real Madrid.

This is still a little pressure for Bai Ran.

After a day of training, Bai Ran packed up and set off to go home.

At home, Bai Ran simply washed up and sat in front of the computer and inserted the USB drive.

The file Zidane gave him was a collection of top stars in certain specific tactics.

These videos are dozens of hours long, enough for Bai Ran to watch for several days.

The first thing that caught his eye was the ancient god of football - Beckenbauer!

As we all know, Beckenbauer is also known as "Emperor Beckenbauer". He is the beginning of the free man tactics and one of the pioneers of classical tactics.

The term "libero" rarely appears in modern football. The increasingly industrialized training of young players and the requirements of coaches for players are gradually fading this system out of football.

In the eyes of modern football, teams need players with strong physical fitness, because the crushing of strength can make the entire team indestructible.

In the early years of classical football, everyone thought that the so-called libero had no fixed position and appeared at will in the position he thought he should appear. Later, everyone's understanding of football became deeper, and they gradually understood that the libero was actually a fixed position. Although the degree of freedom was high, it still had its fixed role responsibilities.

The libero tactics first require that the tactical thinking of the whole team must be highly unified. In addition to the libero players, other players must have fixed positions, and they must also coordinate with the libero to cooperate and fill in positions.

The libero has a higher degree of freedom on the offensive end than on the defensive end. He can appear in the midfield, winger, or even center forward. When the libero appears in the corresponding position, the teammates next to him must also make coordinated runs.

In most cases, the libero controls the ball in the defensive midfielder and the front midfielder position, and coordinates the offense of the whole team as the offensive core.

This is what Bai Ran did on the court.

Under Zidane's transformation, the defense was mainly completed by defenders and Casemiro, and Modric was gradually shaped by Zidane into an engineer role beside him.

Steal, organize, receive, pass...

All kinds of dirty and scattered work were done by Modric.

With this master by his side to help Bai Ran "help", Bai Ran can fully play his offensive talent.

Before, this role was played by old teammate Hermoso.

It seems that Zidane has been trying this system and has never given up.

Then look back, in the ancient 64-65 season, Bayern coach Tchaikovsky began to try to let Beckenbauer try a free man without man-marking tasks and participate in the midfield organization during the offense.

In the following seasons, Beckenbauer got inspiration from Facchetti and tried to dribble the ball in the middle to the opponent's penalty area. Such scenes appeared repeatedly. Finally, after a few games of running-in, the complete "free man" was born.

Since 1971, Beckenbauer has been a free man in the national team, helping West Germany win the 1972 European Cup and the 1974 World Cup. Bayern also opened its first dynasty, winning the Champions League for three consecutive years from 1974 to 1976, writing a legendary story.

Unlike Cruyff's "all-out attack and defense" tactics that rely on teammates and systems, Beckenbauer's "free man" tactics are completely based on personal superb technical ability and physical fitness.

If you can do everything by yourself, you don't need teammates.

This requires extremely high personal ability of the players. It can even be said that among the current players in football, except for Zidane who discovered Bai Ran's ability, there is no other one.

No one can make Zidane think of such a tactical arrangement like Bai Ran.

No one can guarantee the completion of such a heavy workload, and the difficulty is very high!

It seems that Bai Ran is deeply trusted by Zidane!

Zidane is also gambling. If it doesn't work, Zidane probably wants to transform Bai Ran into a passing and organizing core like Pirlo.

But one game after another gave him hope. Bai Ran's growth rate was frighteningly fast, and his level in all aspects could basically reach the level of a free man.

This system can probably be tried out!

Although it has been eliminated by the times, Zidane always has a way to strengthen this system, summarize the shortcomings exposed before, and then formulate a new set of free man tactics.

Of course, this system is aimed at Real Madrid, or rather at Bai Ran.

Without Bai Ran, this system would be gone.

From the video, Bai Ran can see in the highlights of the game that this tactic requires players to quickly retreat to the middle of the defenders or even behind them when defending, relying on observation and reading to understand the opponent's attack strategy and the defensive loopholes of their own side, and plugging and blocking everywhere to make it leak-proof.

When attacking, you must press forward quickly, not only with precise long and short passes to organize and plan, but also directly charge from the back line when necessary, rushing into the opponent's hinterland to attack.

Unlike Bai Ran's current playing style, Zidane assigned Bai Ran the task of being a free man in the frontcourt, mainly responsible for all matters in the offense, and the defense behind does not need to be handled by himself.

Beckenbauer is different, from defense to offense, he is in charge of everything.

At the beginning of the development of football tactics, forwards were only responsible for offense and defenders were only responsible for defense. Later, midfielders appeared, and both offense and defense had to participate. Now, forwards have to participate in defense and defenders have to participate in offense. The idea of ​​a free man with multiple functions can even be said to be ahead of the times.

Unconsciously, Bai Ran watched several hours of videos, and his understanding of football has deepened.

Every touch and handling of Beckenbauer has benefited Bai Ran a lot.

On the offensive end, there are too many wonderful moments that make Bai Ran feel a little inferior.

This is the strength of the ancient gods!

Now, Bai Ran has personally experienced the libero's playing style and perspective, and can better understand what Beckenbauer does on the field.

But at this moment, a question also emerged in Bai Ran's mind.

A question that made him think for a long time, but he didn't get the answer.

These videos have shown the strengths and advantages of the libero, and also the reasons and reasons why this system is not suitable for today's football.

Bai Ran still didn't understand. Since the libero needs to be both offensive and defensive, and act as the absolute core in the front and back fields, all players on the field must act around the libero.

In this case, isn't the "B2B midfielder" in modern football also like this?

Because the libero's game is too old, we only know that the libero can enter the opponent's penalty area when attacking and retreat to his own penalty area when defending, and the traditional "box to box" English midfield is also like this.

Modern stars Matthäus, Ballack, Vieira...

And the most well-known B2B midfielder in today's football, Yaya Toure, are all absolute spokespersons for this position.

Even Roma, the midfielder that Bai Ran faced in the Champions League quarter-finals some time ago, Naingran, they all have the responsibility of this role.

What is the difference between the two, and what is the evolution process?

Bai Ran looked up at the time, and it was already one o'clock in the morning. Considering that he had to train normally tomorrow, Bai Ran kept this question in mind and prepared to rest.

The next day, Bai Ran went to the Real Madrid base as usual to participate in the team's training.

During the training, Bai Ran picked up the small notebook where he took notes last night and came to Zidane.

"Coach, I took a look at the information you gave me yesterday."

Zidane saw Bai Ran coming over and showed a relieved smile.

"How is it, are you touched?"

Bai Ran nodded: "But I don't understand a question."

Then, Bai Ran opened the notebook and told Zidane about the things that puzzled him yesterday.

Zidane looked at Bai Ran's notebook and frowned slightly.

Hiss…

Although his tactical system template was improved and changed from the ancient free man, it evolved into the set of tactics formulated for Bai Ran.

But if you compare it with the B2B of modern football, what is the difference?

This really stumped Zidane.

At this time, Zidane said calmly: "This question is quite complicated. Let's do this. You go to training first."

"I just have something to do here."

Bai Ran also accepted it happily, watching Zidane leave the training ground with his hands in his pockets, looking thoughtful.

Zidane walked on the road, feeling a little uneasy. He didn't expect Bai Ran to have so much thinking, and such a question really stumped him.

He came to one side and immediately took out his mobile phone to call Raul.

On the other side of the phone, Raul was also leading Castilla in collective training.

Zidane explained Bai Ran's questions to Raul in a very thorough manner, and Raul on the other side of the phone was also hesitant.

"Uh..."

"I haven't really done much research on this aspect."

"To me, both are pretty much the same."

"I'm not good at using this system either!"

Raul was powerless, and Zidane hung up the phone.

After thinking about it, Zidane was still at a loss. Finally, he had an idea and thought of someone.

Raul is the current coach of Castilla, and he is the coach of Real Madrid. Neither of them can understand this problem.

Then why not...

Ask the former coach of Real Madrid?

Of course, Benítez is impossible. During the period when he led the team, it can be seen that he had no tactical understanding of his own.

And a generation ago, Ancelotti might have this ability.

It seems that Zidane and Ancelotti also have some personal connections, so Zidane decisively called Ancelotti.

On the other side, training is still going on as usual, and Real Madrid players are doing stretching exercises on the court.

During this period, when Zidane was away, they also chatted.

Marcelo said, "Brothers, how far can we go this season?"

At this stage of the season, Real Madrid still has the burden of the Champions League and the league, and the pressure is still a bit high.

And the competition becomes more and more intense as time goes on.

Casemiro said, "Do your best."

Modric on the side grinned, "Of course it's the championship."

"What nonsense are you talking about? There is no doubt that we want to win all the championships we can."

"What? Are you under too much pressure recently?"

"Do you want me and the coach to ask you to rotate for one game?"

Marcelo shook his head repeatedly, "That won't work!"

"These games are more and more critical, and I'm worried."

"Although it's tiring, I'll do it myself!"

It's obvious that even though Real Madrid's schedule is a devil, the players' physical loss is very serious, and everyone is more or less tired, but everyone is very eager to play and contribute to Real Madrid.

Their spirit is rising and has now reached an unprecedented peak.

The team's morale is also very strong!

Everyone is eager to bring victory to Real Madrid. This is the way the team has never been before Zidane took office.

Bai Ran saw everyone's reaction and smiled with relief.

These days, he has been constantly trying to adjust the relationship between the superstars in the locker room. After all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. It is not so easy to adjust so many star players into good teammates and good brothers.

It seems that now, there have been great results.

At the beginning of this season, Real Madrid was simply in trouble both internally and externally, and it was a mess. This also made the players of Real Madrid cherish the present time more.

This united Real Madrid is what everyone wants to see.

Especially with Bai Ran's leadership, they can go to the next level.

At this time, Ramos behind him slapped Marcelo on the back of his head: "What are you worried about!? We have Bai Ran, and we will definitely not lose next time."

"We must be the double champion this season!"

Marcelo felt pain, but he did not dare to argue with Ramos. After all, what he said made sense.

"Yes, there is a BUG-level character in our team, you must keep in good shape! Bai Ran!"

"With you here, we are sure to win!"

"Yes, you have to perform well, whether we can win the championship depends on you!"

"Bai Ran, there is no problem, you have been performing well since you came, you just need to keep it up."

The players around him expressed their appreciation and trust in Bai Ran.

In these games, Bai Ran has indeed been the key man, constantly bringing victory to Real Madrid.

I believe that with his current state, as long as he keeps it up, there will be no problem!

Bai Ran also chuckled and said, "Everything is due to everyone's efforts. We are a whole."

"As long as we are united, there is no opponent in the world that can defeat us."

"Come on!"

"Come on!"

The Real Madrid players are united, and the roars are carried through the sky above the base.

At this time, no one noticed that while Ronaldo shouted "Come on", his face was a little listless, and it can even be said that there was a little discomfort.

The players all like Bai Ran very much...

In this Real Madrid team, this Asian seems to have become the object of respect and admiration for everyone.

Bai Ran occupies an absolute core position in the team.

Whether in the locker room or on the court, he is always the most shining star.

Everyone else has to play the role of supporting him.

And Ronaldo actually has nothing to be dissatisfied with, after all, Bai Ran's performance conquered everyone, including himself.

He can indeed be called the king of the Bernabeu, which has been repeatedly proven.

But for some reason, Ronaldo always has a strange feeling in his heart.

His expression seems a little stiff, although there is a smile on his face, and he and his teammates are shouting Bai Ran's name in unison...

But before that, the player in this position should be Ronaldo!

The training of the day went on as usual, and Zidane still did not give Bai Ran an answer in the end. It seems that Zidane can't find the answer to that question.

At this time, they have no time to care about the miscellaneous things outside the field. After all, four days later, they will usher in the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals.

This time, Real Madrid will take advantage of the home court and start the final battle with Wolfsburg.

The 4-1 lead in the first round made them feel less pressure in this game, but it does not mean that they can be careless.

There are countless dramas of big reversals in history, and Real Madrid does not want this story to appear on the Bernabeu field.

They want to be down-to-earth and bring the Champions League trophy back to the Bernabeu step by step. This is what they want to see.

Looking ahead to the game, Real Madrid has gone through the La Liga with substitute rotation, and all the main players have been fully rested.

All the players of Real Madrid are ready!