Chapter 4 The preliminary team (")

Mallorca, located in the center of the Balearic Islands, is the central and largest of the three major islands of the Balearic Islands. It covers an area of ​​3,640 kilometers and has a total population of nearly one million. Nearly half of the population lives in the largest port. It is also the capital of the Balearic Islands Autonomous Region Palma de Mallorca - referred to as Mallorca, which is also the home and headquarters of the Mallorca Club.

It is full of sunshine, and there are sunny and good weather for 300 days a year. It is full of sandy beaches, steep cliffs, fields with olives or apricot trees. It is precisely because of such beautiful weather and scenery that Mallorca is known as the "park of the Mediterranean". There are always many tourists flocking from European countries to enjoy the sunshine and sea water here. As the largest port on the island, Mallorca has become prosperous.

Tourism is naturally the largest economic pillar of Majorca, and most of the historic buildings here are Gothic buildings. There are many hotels, bars, restaurants and discos on Palma Esplanade. At Bilff Castle, when you climb a circular Gothic building, you can enjoy the whole city with a panoramic view of the entire city: Gothic Catholic Church, Amdane Palace - former Arab fortresses, Gothic District, Cote Square, City Hall, King James III, Dell Boon Boulevard, Wiler Square and Las Ramblas - Chopin also lived here.

It is precisely because of these characteristic ancient buildings and good weather that hotels are everywhere in Mallorca. Needless to say, Mallorca, the capital of the region, the coastal cities such as Andreich, Soler, Alcunia, Santa Margarita, Alta, Manacor, Campos have gradually become prosperous. Jose's father, Alemane, is a businessman in a hotel chain, and can earn millions of dollars a year - and he can

The biggest factor in becoming the chairman of Mallorca without shares is that he is a native of Mallorca - while the other shareholders, the Asensio family, who controls 60% of the shares, actually controls the scope of the control in Malaga, where they are just a group of outsiders, and the headquarters of the Drake company where Vicente Grande, who controls 30% of the shares, is not in Mallorca. The appointment of Alemane did not receive any objection.

Mallorca's home stadium, the St. Mois Stadium, which just moved into last year, is located a little bit east to the east of Mallorca city, with quite developed traffic. Mallorca's Doral training base is located a little further east, and it is only a ten-minute drive from the St. Mois Stadium.

When the order to appoint Jose as the head coach of the second team was conveyed, there was not much resistance in the second team. Jose itself came out of the second team and had a good relationship with the coaches of the second team. The head coach of the second team Francisco had already determined to retire and Jose returned from the first team to serve as the head coach of the second team. This is very reasonable.

After meeting with a few coaches from the second team, Jose came to the second team's training ground. Although it is the middle of the season, the second team's players' training has not ended. They still need to work hard for a long time before entering the first team.

"Roan, how is the second team going to be like in the past few months?" Jose asked the oldest assistant coach of the second team, Joan Mesqueda, with a smile.

"It's very good. I finally managed to relegate in the Spanish Second Division last season... Diego Tristan you valued performed so well. He scored nineteen goals in thirty-four games. No wonder the first team valued him so much." Mesqueda replied.

"I'm twenty-three years old, so it's time to use it." Jose smiled slightly: "So...what is the guy I brought back from Brazil?"

"That tall man? Very outstanding. Although he has only been here for half a year, he is already the core of the offensive team of the second team... His feet are very good and his organizational ability is strong. If it weren't for him, we might not have been able to relegate successfully." Mesquida nodded, then pointed to the training ground: "Although he is a Brazilian, he is very hard..."

Following Mesqueda's hand, Jose smiled - it was a tall young man with a high nose and deep eyes, and was doing a short pass training back and forth with another young man on the training ground. It can be seen that he was doing it very seriously.

Looking at this young player, Jose smiled with satisfaction - this is not a superstar, but he is also an excellent player. Half a year ago, he took advantage of a trip to Brazil to intercept the midfielder Thiago Mota, a Brazilian club Juventus.

Jose does not want to use his understanding of the future to attract a large number of future superstars. However, before becoming Mallorca's head coach or even being able to truly control Mallorca, he has no right to do so. Spanish transfers are not something that the head coach can be responsible. Only a special transfer manager can grasp the power of the transfer. He, a coach of a youth team, does not have this power at all. At the same time, he is not willing to reveal too much information to let others know... This is not a person's credit.

As for Mota to come, it was a complete accident. He was seriously injured in Brazil a year ago and was basically abandoned by Juventus Tude. At this time, Jose met Mota who was free and used the pitiful little power in his hand to bring Mota to the youth team for free.

Seeing a glimmer of hope when he was about to despair, Mota cherished this opportunity very much, so after Jose arranged a set of training content for him, he has been strengthening his physical exercise and paying attention to protecting his knees.

"Tiago, Alberto, you guys are working hard."

After chatting with Mesqueta for a few words, Jose walked into the training ground and said to the two people who were doing training.

After seeing Jose, Mota's eyes showed a hint of gratitude, while the other young player was much more normal: "Hello, Mr. Jose."

Jose nodded slightly to the other young man: "Alberto, Diego will enter the first team after the start of this season, and the second team will rely on you to score goals... perform well, the days when you enter the first team will not be too far away."

Alberto Luke nodded vigorously. With the example of Diego Tristan in front of him, he began to become more confident about his future.

"Next, I will become the head coach of the second team... In the next season, I hope we can perform better than last season. And in the new season, I will train you in new ways. Do you understand?" Jose said with a smile.

Mota and Luke looked at each other, with uncontrollable excitement in their eyes.

When Mallorca fans began to look forward to the team's performance in the Champions League in the new season, Jose began his career as a head coach of the second team.

Not many people care about this news. An assistant coach returned to the youth team to serve as the head coach of the youth team. As Alemani said, this is a very normal transfer and not many people care about it.

This step is very important for Jose. He started to implement his tactical concepts from the youth team and tried his best to make the tactical system of the youth team in the future affect the tactical system of the first team in the future, so that it can be inherited from the same line - for a club, this is a foundation for a lifetime.

Cruyff ruled behind the scenes, and for twenty years behind the scenes, Jose certainly knew this story - although at this time, Ramacia still had no reputation.

It’s not like Real Madrid, who buys so many superstars every year, spends money to form a powerful team, and then leads this team to sweep the army... However, Jose, who has traveled back more than ten years later, knows that even if he is as strong as Real Madrid, under the command of the world’s best coach Mourinho, leading the most expensive group of players in the world, still cannot gain an advantage when facing Barcelona. What’s more, no matter what Mallorca does, it will not be possible to have the financial resources and appeal of Real Madrid. Taking the Barcelona path may be more suitable for Mallorca.

So from now on, he has to implement his tactical ideas in the youth team, which is one of the reasons why he requires himself to become the head coach of the youth team - if he is just an assistant coach, he does not have such power.

While Jose began working hard on the youth team, Mallorca began their journey in the new season.

However, what no one expected was that this season would be so difficult for Mallorca!

As the fourth place in La Liga last season, Mallorca first participated in the third round of the Champions League qualifiers, that is, the last round. As long as he can defeat Molde from Norway, he can enter the Champions League peripheral group stage and gain rich returns.

Away match was zero to zero, and home match was one to one - in the painful eyes of 20,000 Mallorca fans, Mallorca ended his first Champions League experience with an unbeaten record. However, what Mallorca fans don't know is that greater pain is still behind.

In the first round of the league, he lost 1-2 to Real Madrid at home, in the second round, he lost 1-2 to Vallecano away, in the fourth round, he lost 1-2 to Real Sociedad away, in the sixth round, he lost 0-1 to Celta away, in the seventh round, he tied 2-2 to La Coruna at home, in the eighth round, and lost 0-3 to Zaragoza away.

After the 19th round of the league, Mallorca only won three games in the league, tied three games, and lost thirteen games! The 12-point score ranked last and was deeply trapped in the relegation zone.

Mallorca fans were angry and they were unwilling to relegate for the seventh time! Returning to the La Liga two years ago was their seventh time back to the La Liga, and they were unwilling to wait for the eighth time to return to the La Liga!

"If you can't win the next game, Gomez will be fired!"

Alemani made a decision at the club meeting, which in fact was equivalent to verdicting Gomez's death penalty - because in the next round, Mallorca will go to the Bernabeu to challenge Real Madrid.

The management has no objection to this decision. Gomez's poor performance over the past six months has made everyone feel that Cooper's assistant is really unreliable. Mallorca's strength this season should not have declined compared to last season. Why did it look like this? It's really not as good as Cooper.
Chapter completed!