What is the future football here?

?"What does it mean?" Klopp frowned, and a hint of inspiration flashed in his mind, but he didn't catch it.

"Yes, Marcelo, what does it mean?" Simeone also realized it and attached great importance to it.

Although Tuchel did not ask, she also showed a deep thought.

The first reaction of the three was Southampton's artificial genius plan that was widely promoted by the media.

Could it be that this is also part of the artificial genius program?

Bielsa looked at the three people in front of him leisurely. To be honest, all three of them were his juniors.

But these three are outstanding talents with extraordinary understanding of football, so he is very interested in communicating with them because communication can promote each other's progress.

"From ancient times to the present, football tactics have been a game, an offense and defense game, a game between the side and the middle game, a game of rigorous positioning and smooth running, a game of controlling the ball rights and controlling the space..."

"As we all know, from the birth of modern football to the present, the development of football tactics has always adopted a spiral upward approach. Many people think that the driving force that drives the spiral upward of football tactics is the mutual generation and restraint of tactics, but it is not actually!"

"I won't talk about the far-reaching ones. In the 1990s, technical front midfielders with slow pace but strong ball control capabilities were popular. But later, with the arrival of the so-called new era football, classic front midfielders gradually lost their position, and replaced them with modern front midfielders like Kaka."

"Then I want to ask, what is new-age football? How to evaluate new-age football and 1990s football? What is the relationship between the two?"

Bielsa's problem made the three people on the other side frown and fall into thinking.

"They said, "integration, but you should know that football has always had the concept of holistic. From the moment there was football tactics, there has been holistic, and it has not only existed until now."

Simeone nodded heavily, and he was personally very skeptical about this.

Because he was once a world-class midfielder, he knew very well that if it was really integrated, then this integration would have long appeared, and it was even popular in the 1990s. Why is it so important to this day?

Bielsa quickly solved the puzzle, "because the players' running ability has improved!"

Just this simple sentence made Simeone, Klopp and others suddenly lit up, as if they had cleared away the fog that had been hidden in front of them for many years. They completely saw the scene in front of them and also saw the distant future.

"With the advancement of science and as more and more high-tech enter the field of football, the players trained have become more and more excellent in their physical fitness, and their running ability has also reached a higher level than in the 1990s."

"In the past, Zidane took the ball at the front of my penalty area, and I couldn't defend you, but now, I can't defend myself by myself, I'll play two, what? One will lose his position? It doesn't matter, I can run!"

"In the past, I was afraid of losing my position because I was worried that the players would consume too much. But now, my players' physical fitness has improved, and more and more players can run. What are I afraid of? I don't have enough two to get two, and two to get three to get three, I'll be careful of you!"

Isn't this the case in reality?

In the early years of the new century, the so-called beastly waist represented by Essin, Gattuso, Maclale and others became popular. To put it bluntly, it was to use running ability to curb the performance of technical players.

Because no matter how outstanding the technology is, it is impossible to perform well in the face of intensive oppression.

Even if Zidane was born now, he could do nothing to face such intensive defense.

It can even be said that if Zidane was born now, he would not have been Zidane!

"This is true for Rehagel's Greece, Mourinho's Porto and Chelsea, Benitez's Liverpool, and Ancelotti's AC Milan, so Kaka can replace Rui Costa as the main force, and Gattuso is indispensable."

"It is precisely because of the improvement of running ability that more rigorous tactics are needed to regulate players and assign players' on-field responsibilities. So it seems that it is the integration of tactics, but in fact, what is driven behind it is the improvement of players' running ability."

After hearing this, Simeone and others nodded constantly.

Besa's words were indeed thought-provoking and insightful.

The improvement of players' running ability is indeed too critical and too important.

Just imagine, if the average running average of nine kilometers in the 1990s was nine kilometers, then it entered a new era. With the promotion of scientific training and the improvement of players' physical fitness, the average running average of ten thousand kilometers.

Do you know what this concept is?

This means that when the two teams compete, the team that runs more can have almost one more person than the team that runs less, which is equivalent to twelve people fighting eleven people!

The effect even exceeded a red card!

More importantly, this active running not only caused earth-shaking changes in the players' technical characteristics, but also, it completely subverted the entire set of tactical theories when they averaged 9,000 kilometers per game.

The reason is very simple. This kilometer improvement means that the team's running coverage is larger and the controllable space is wider.

Many tactics and routines that were unthinkable when running nine kilometers per game were now completely imaginable, or even used.

What is revolution?

This is the revolution!

A revolution that happens on the football field, silently and is not valued by everyone!

"Look at Barcelona again, why is this team phenomenon? Can it dominate European football with such an amazing advantage?"

Speaking of this, Bielsa smiled proudly because there was a deep shadow in this team.

"The spiral upward development of football tactics has always been the improvement of players' running ability, and the tactics that focus on running have also been improved. With the promotion of players' running ability, this running tactic has also been rapidly promoted and developed."

"But there are bottlenecks in scientific development, and there are also bottlenecks in players' abilities. So, gradually, the leader will catch up with the latecomers. When most of the top European teams are popularized and everyone is on the same level, what will happen in the end?"

"The answer is that simple running will no longer satisfy these strong teams, so they will want to improve the quality and efficiency of the game on the basis of maintaining their existing running ability. Therefore, paying attention to technology and awareness has once again raised the issue of the coaching team!"

"So, let's look at it again, why is Barcelona great?"

"Because when it is difficult for players to make any breakthroughs in their physical fitness and running abilities, they have put the players' skills and awareness, as well as the team's overall tactics to the extreme!"

Simeone, Klopp and Tuchel were both dumbfounded and listened to Bielsa's words, and they were really stunned.

Even, they probably have an idea, which is to pry open Bielsa's head and see what is inside.

They also deeply realized Bielsa's uniqueness and finally understood why Guardiola had a long talk with Bielsa and realized it. After returning to Europe, they immediately implemented his ball-handling tactics in Barcelona.

After all, he is putting some ideas that Bielsa imagined but had no resources to try to put into reality!

As professional coaches, they know better than anyone else that the real core of Barcelona's entire tactical system is not the ball control or technology, or even the so-called youth training. In the final analysis, the key lies in two aspects.

Oppression and offense and defense conversion!

Among them, oppression is the basis!

Then what is the oppression?

Isn’t it just the 11 or 2 kilometers of running data that were produced one after another by Xavi and Iniesta?

So, to put it bluntly, the most critical basis of Barcelona's tactics is running!

However, what makes them better than other teams is that they promote stronger overall oppression through running, and use technology to maximize the simplification of offense and defense conversion.

Even Guardiola has said more than once that the so-called ball-control tactics of Barcelona and Spain lie in defensive oppression.

It was at this moment that the three people present suddenly understood why Yang Huan chose the three of them as the head coaches of Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid and Hamburg.

Because, the three of them have a common characteristic and attach importance to running!

It is precisely because they all attach great importance to running and have used this advantage to reach the peak of their careers, so they have a deeper understanding of Bielsa's words.

Especially Simeone.

"No wonder Young Master Huan told me that the team must be reorganized and introduce a group of high-level, highly shaped and more technically capable players!"

At first, he thought that Young Master Huan’s idea was to enhance the team’s control.

But now it seems that it is not just that, but to make Atletico Madrid go further towards Barcelona and even surpass Barcelona from the original simple reliance on running pressure.

Just thinking about the earth-shaking changes that the pair of midfielders Ilia La Mendy, Coke and Isco brought to Atletico Madrid this season is enough to make Simeone believe in all this.

But only one set of midfielders is obviously not enough. It will only make sense if all three lines complete such a transformation!

Bielsa captured all the expressions of the three of them and smiled slightly, "I believe that everyone should have seen the data reported by the media before. Atletico Madrid's average running distance in the Champions League is 11 kilometers, and the La Liga is slightly worse, but it is also more than ten kilometers."

Simeone nodded. They had tested this data internally at Atletico Madrid and were very authentic.

"Our Southampton averages 11.3 kilometers per game in the Champions League, and we can almost maintain this data in the Premier League. However, with the changes in our entire training system this season and the improvement of many concepts, we can even say that starting from the next season..."

Simeone, Klopp and Tuchel all looked at Bielsa with wide eyes, listening carefully to every word he said.

"…Our average running average will likely exceed 12 kilometers!"

"Twelve kilometers?" Simeone was stunned.

It's one kilometer more than Atletico Madrid. If you deduct the goalkeeper and ten players, you'll have ten kilometers more!

Oh my God, how is this possible?

"Really? Can the players endure it?"

"Yes, if you simply pursue running per game, many teams can do it in the short term, but the players' physical consumption and..."

Tuchel couldn't continue halfway through the talk, because he immediately realized a key link.

That is what Bielsa just said, and the future tactics are all in this plan.

Could it be...

Simeone and Klopp were also smart people, and immediately realized it and immediately looked at Bielsa in amazement.

At this moment, in their eyes, Argentine madman was no longer an individual.

But a existence that shines from the sky with golden light!
Chapter completed!