As Stanley said, nothing is hanging in the balance, and the 6 game unbeaten streak in the 2 months since taking office is definitely passable, and the process has reflected organized play, but in the
China Super League (soccer league)
table of scores (in exams or sports league)
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Just a tough climb from 9th to 7th.
October 9, this season's first round of Beijing-Lu battle, 3-3 results no winner, but are losers. Especially for the "guest" of the home Beijing
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For that matter, the two-goal lead was spoiled in the details of defense in the final moments. After the game, Stanley admitted in his press conference, "We were trying to keep pressing out and playing, but realistically it didn't work out."
"In the first 75 minutes, we have been playing well, that's the soccer we want. But in the last 15 minutes, Shandong kept attacking and we suffered a lot of difficulties. The whole team is definitely disappointed with this result, but considering that this is actually an 'away' game, one point is acceptable."
Whatever about Beijing
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Still for Stanley, they all hold their breath for this Beijing-Russia battle. This breath is like the first limit of the body appeared after starting from scratch, break through, in order to run farther.
Regrettable draw may have slowed down the Beijing
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of scoring, yet the entire contest continued to reflect the players' trust and belief in their manager and team. Under Stanley's rule the
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The team has to complete a sudden change from a raised eyebrow to an exhale, but it is undeniable that Stanley has injected new energy and change into this once "sleepy" team, at least from the beginning to raise the spirit of the spirit.
[Revisiting old haunts]
Much of Stanley Menzo's prestige in international soccer comes from his playing days as a goalkeeper. In the 1980s, he made over two hundred league appearances for Ajax, and also played for the Dutch
the national team
Entered the field six times.
Twelve years into his Ajax livelihood, Stanley Menzo, who played for Cruyff, got three Dutch League titles, four Dutch Cups, one League Cup and one European Cup Winners' Cup.
Stanley (back row, second from left)
A little over a year ago, when Edward Mendy was to represent the
Chelsea
go to war
European crown
At the final, Sky Sports made a point of finding Stanley Menzo for an exclusive interview - Stanley Menzo: Pioneer Goalkeeper. A legacy of dark-skinned goalkeepers across the generations was set.
"In the soccer environment I grew up in, it was necessary for the goalkeeper to be a player with a wide range of movement, not just standing in the goal. I probably belong to the first or one of the first goalkeepers who often sprinted out of the box to join the defense, just as today's soccer world requires goalkeepers to be able to play with both their right and left feet."
After being completely replaced by the young Van der Sar, Stanley's life as a player dimmed until in 2002
demobilize
. After hanging up his boots, Stanley had two choices, to enter the management of Ajax Salon, or to become a trainee coach. In the end, he decided to continue to stay in the green field, after the end of the internship went to the Dutch amateur league, officially opened the coaching livelihood.
Stanley's coaching livelihood has not been glamorous, with more than a decade's worth of stints at small and medium-sized salons - Vitesse, Lierse and Ajax Cape Town, already among the better-known presences.
Stanley joins Beijing for the first time in 2019
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Served as head coach of the reserve team. Although lacking top-flight coaching experience on his resume, the
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Almost two years into the reserve team's moment, the tactical systems and philosophies that Stanley poured into the team were met by the
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Unanimous recognition from the youth team, players and salon. Its pre-game initiation in the locker room and enthusiastic play calling on the sidelines are impressive.
This resolution to bring back Stanley is an important step for the Beijing
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It wasn't just a passing thought in a difficult situation. When Stanley first asked for a favor from the
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When he resigned, the management of the Royal Forest Army had tried to retain him and said that if there was still time to work together in the future, he would be welcome to come back to continue to help the team. Later, the two sides have always insisted on smooth exchanges, which also laid the groundwork for the old dream to be revisited now.
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Salon then launched the "big first team" form - that is, the first team and U21 ladder team unified management, the two teams will be more similar to the practice time and method, there will also be more linkage, so that young players in the first team driven by better practice and growth. The two teams will be more similar in terms of practice time and methods, and there will be more linkage, so that young players can practice and grow better under the leadership of the first team.
Every day before practice, Stanley would gather the whole team for a simple meeting. Using this half hour every day, Stanley tries his best to convey his ideas for practice and competition to everyone, followed by an hour and a half of intense practice.
In the daily practice sessions, Stanley focuses on the most English words - "dominate (control)", and in the delivery of tactical ideas to the players, his statement is also very clear: "We have to try to play a We have to try our best to play controlled soccer." "Pass, receive the ball, pass again, receive the ball again, and ultimately to find the opportunity to kill the game. After losing the ball, we have to be quick to counterattack and work together to make the opponent run after us."
In Stanley's opinion, the players under him are thoroughly capable of playing this style of soccer. In fact, it's the same style he previously played in Beijing
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The direction of development that the youth academy strives for when coaching - using possession and high pressing to demonstrate dominance, playing quick attacking and defensive conversions and passionate attacking soccer.
[Search for Balance]
In the practice field of Chinese teams, you can hardly see a young player calling out the old players on the field. The young players see the old players with respect, maybe they are stronger and in better condition, but they "don't dare".
Stanley and his team are trying to change all that, "I know it won't be easy, but it needs to be done, and it doesn't mean that the younger players don't have respect for the older players. It doesn't mean that the young players don't respect the older players. If the older players just tell them, "You're still young," they're just going to be scared. The older players should talk to the younger players more and add pride to them."
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In the reserves, Stanley had asked the players, 'How do you want to play?' And the players responded that it was up to the coach how the team played. "I told them that you should learn to think, to have your own understanding of soccer, to learn to read the game instead of waiting for someone to tell you how to play. It's also a process of moving forward, I don't want to change any culture, but communication is really important on the soccer field." Stanley said.
During winter training in Kunming at the beginning of 2020, Stanley had talked to each of the
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Prep players talk individually about how to set short-term, seasonal, and long-term goals. Afterwards, the players would go through a corporate training or team building program to enhance their sense of community. For a period of time that summer, Stanley would summarize the team's performance after practice every day, and the players would participate in it. Like Van Gaal at Ajax and
Manchester United Football Club
The way it was when I was coaching, everyone was able to speak their mind in the locker room.
It was during that summer that the Stanley administration
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Preps in the 2020 season
soccer league
Cup 1/8 finals, eliminating 1-0 the
soccer league
The team, Chengdu Rongcheng, broke into the final eight.
Now, as the core figure of the "big first-team form", Stanley will stay after the first-team practice every day to watch the practice of the U21 team. However, on the use of young players, Stanley is extraordinarily cautious.
"Playing in the reserve team before, young players can have some mistakes as they move forward, but when they get to the first team, I have different requirements for them. They need to make the transition from youth players to mature first-team players, including a change in the way they play and the speed at which they play. They showed ability and talent in the youth team, but in the first-team environment they still have a lot to improve."
In the last month or so, except for Nai Bijiang, who has been in the starting lineup many times before, the youngsters have had few moments under Stanley's command. What's more surprising is that Liang Shaowen, who had been regarded as a key target for cultivation and returned from the U21 national youth team's travel list to Europe, has even lost the opportunity to enter the roster.
How to find a balance between pressure for results and nurturing new talent is something Stanley will have to focus on afterward, by and large.
[Grouting and Polishing]
return to a meeting with
Shandong Taishan prefecture level city in Shandong
In that game, Stanley's response was overly programmed in the face of the opponent's well known long pass rush in the final stages.
Perhaps a better choice would have been to adjust for the looseness and slowness of the second "4" of the 4-1-4-1, insisting on continued pressure and disruption on the front end of the opponent's attack, rather than just replacing a center back to form a 5-4-1, signaling that the formation is backing off and going into a defensive position. In the team's post-game summary, assistant coach Sui Dongliang also expressed similar views as above.
Despite not having the pressure of results imposed by management this season, Stanley still expects to lead the team to a better roster spot. It's not just about team morale, player growth and where the future is headed, but whether his soccer philosophy can be truly implanted into a veteran team in transition.
Stanley's soccer philosophy hasn't changed much from when he started his coaching career, perhaps the only change is that he will fine-tune it accordingly for different coaching situations and team differences.
"During our time at Ajax, we followed Cruyff's soccer philosophy of controlling the game by understanding and cutting through time and space. He didn't even need a goalkeeper with gloves on. After a game, he would not count how many remedies the goalkeeper had, but how many times the goalkeeper kicked the ball with his feet." So said Stanley.
"Whether it's the goalkeeper or the center back, you have to take part in the possession of the ball, because to control the game, you need to control the ball better. Modern soccer has many goals are through the transformation of attack and defense to find the time, so my soccer philosophy has also changed a little bit, after losing the ball should be on the ground to counter-strike, when there is no ball also through the running to control the game. I focus on the speed of conversion, but also the need to have players who can control the ball, as long as the progress of control, in order to give the running players to win the moment."
Soccer may not be messy, but it's never easy to find something creative in it. If only from the language expression to feel, onlookers may be able to understand Stanley's soccer philosophy and coaching philosophy, but it is difficult to clearly appreciate the team to achieve control of the game and improve the conversion power of the ways and means.
With a relatively broad guideline, structure and system, it is still extremely difficult to make water flow according to the texture and homogenize it in one place - this is the weight of detail that needs not only to be infused, but also to be polished.
In leading the Beijing
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There may be many more hurdles for Stanley to face on the road to bottoming out.
