Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 284

Things have to start from the first half of the 2012-13 season, when the Red Army robbed the rich and gave to the poor.

After Anton joined Liverpool, he inherited the basic set left by Dalglish.The Red Army has iron and blood attributes, so many players in the lineup are serious and resolute, such as: Gerrard, Carragher, and the two iron guards Skrtel and Agger on the back line.Most of the newly joined young players are also represented by Henderson's personality.

This heavy and stable "basic disk" style continued until Dalglish signed Raheem Sterling, who was born in the Queen's Park Rangers youth training.

Sterling was born in 94, born in Jamaica, and moved to England with his family when he was two years old.When he was receiving youth training at Queens Park Rangers, his football talent had been discovered by many scouts at the same time.Big clubs such as Manchester United and Arsenal have offered olive branches to this talented kid.

Dalglish, the Liverpool coach at the time, took a slanted sword and played the emotional card.He invited the entire Sterling family to Anfield to watch a Liverpool home game.

Dalglish firmly believes that the atmosphere at Anfield can impress anyone.The result was indeed as he expected. Sterling was very moved and immediately decided to sign with Liverpool.

When Anton took over the team, Sterling was an outlier in the "Iron Blood Red Army".

- He is too "happy".

After Torres left, Liverpool retained Suarez, the Eredivisie golden boot, as the striker.But Sterling is fast and has a good sense of grabbing points. Anton put him on the wing to cooperate with Suarez in the center and Sturridge on the right.

Behind these three arrows, there are Coutinho transferred from Roma, Emre Can transferred from Leverkusen, and captain Steven Gerrard.This midfield combination will send a steady stream of passes and continue to create opportunities for the front line - this is a good configuration and combination.

But soon, Sterling's "happiness" attribute was undoubtedly highlighted, and it was manifested in all kinds of spitting out cakes. Whenever the cakes that must be eaten come to Sterling, they must be vomited out, and they must not enter when encountering empty doors.People gave him the nickname "Cake Spitter".

The opponent was also very happy when they saw Sterling holding the ball, knowing that the boy was not shooting, but insisted on clearing the siege.With the strategic thinking of "robbing the rich and helping the poor", the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League will feel more at ease when they meet Liverpool.

But it is rare that Liverpool fans rarely boo the boy's "spit cake", because he often spits out too funny.There was a lot of haha ​​on the sidelines, who cares about "spit cake"?

For example, in the first half of this season, Liverpool met the mid-range team Burnley at home.Anton made all the strategic arrangements before the game and turned to look at Sterling.

Knowing that the head coach was worried about himself, Sterling patted his chest to promise that he must score, and stretched out three fingers, indicating that he would score three.

Anton felt sweat on the back of his head: he didn't expect Sterling to score three goals, he just hoped Sterling could pass the ball to Suarez as much as possible, and let Suarez complete the final blow, that's all.

Burnley is indeed difficult to play, and the defense is extremely stable, like an iron barrel.

But Sterling's fast speed, good running position, and the support of his teammates quickly got a chance in the frontcourt and shot directly——

Poof, the ball went straight into the goalkeeper's arms.

Anton on the sidelines: ...children, can you not aim at the goalkeeper?

One minute later, Sterling got the ball again and came to Burnley's goal-his speed was indeed fast, which caught the opponent's defense off guard.The Burnley central defender rushed forward, and Sterling made a fake move to try to shake the central defender——

Heck, this boy was knocked down by his fake move and fell into the opponent's penalty area.At this time, neither the Burnley goalkeeper nor the central defender had rushed in front of Sterling, and no one touched him. Naturally, it could not be a foul.The referee looked at the boy lying in the penalty area and told him to get up quickly.

Anton turned around, behind him was the entire coaching staff: the head coach and the coaching staff just looked at each other, unable to speak a word.

On the contrary, the fans in the auditorium hugged their heads in disappointment, and then laughed loudly: Someone was fooled by his fake moves... Hahahaha!

Sterling's performance was not over yet. At the last moment of the game, he got another excellent opportunity in the frontcourt, facing the goal, and Suarez was beside him.

The young man glanced at the position of his teammates from the corner of his eye, and then decided to shoot by himself——

Biu, the ball flew straight into the stands behind the goal.To be honest, it is more difficult for him to kick the ball into the stands than into the goal, and I don't know how Sterling did it.

Anton had the same reaction as the fans this time. He also stretched out his hands and hugged his head, and his flowing short curly hair leaked between his fingers.But Anton knows very well: If every game continues like this, his hair will be damaged a lot.Gradually, he seemed to understand a little bit: the two coaches (and prospective coaches) he likes very much in the entire football world, Guardiola and Zidane, it turns out that the hairstyles of these two evolved in this way.

In the end, Liverpool drew with Burnley, and Sterling is using practical actions to call on everyone to watch the game not to care about the score, just be happy.

During this happy time of "robbing the rich and helping the poor", Anton discovered that "happiness" is contagious.

The first is the atmosphere in the locker room: Sterling himself is a meme king in the locker room, and there are countless jokes about himself; within two days, Suarez and Sturridge joined; two days later, Those "tough guys" even joined in.As soon as Gerrard opened his mouth, he could make a joke about his old friend Carragher, making the younger generations laugh, and almost rolled in the locker room with his stomach in his arms...

Anton no longer has to worry about the atmosphere in the locker room being too dignified. On the contrary, he has to control it from time to time to prevent the atmosphere from being too turbulent.

Immediately afterwards, there was laughter and laughter on the training ground. The lap robbing played by the players during the training intervals has become extremely popular.

So Sterling became the person most imitated by his teammates, and Sterling's running became the most imitated bridge section by his teammates.

This "happy" emotion not only affects the players, but gradually, it also affects the fans.Originally, Liverpool fans had always had high expectations for the team. After all, they have won so many trophies and achieved such impressive results in team history.But gradually, the fans also began to laugh at themselves and blackmail themselves, and gradually became "Buddhist" fans. Even if Sterling is not as good as the empty goal, they can still laugh, instead of blindly criticizing the players as before up.

In such an atmosphere, in the second half of the 2012-13 season, Liverpool gradually broke the tradition of "robbing the rich and helping the poor", and their performance improved steadily.This has nothing to do with the relaxation of the team's mentality.

In addition to playing "happy" football, Anton also reminded them that there is another way to express "happiness"-to celebrate goals!

After scoring a goal, players can have a variety of celebration actions, and they can use their creativity."Happiness" after scoring a goal is obviously double the happiness bonus compared to being "happy" before scoring a goal.

So the team developed a variety of celebrations.

Among them, Sturridge's robot dance is the most impressive-this is of course because he has more goals.

Soon, Crouch, the former Liverpool player and Anton's old subordinate in Sunderland, made a statement on social media, stating that he is the founder of the robot dance.

Both sides have fans, so the fans on both sides started a "fighting picture" battle on social media. The competition was the "awkward dance" of Crouch and Sturridge.

Anton: ...Since everyone knows it's an awkward dance, what's so aggressive about it?

But these two "odd" were unwilling to let it go, and both expressed that they must carry this competition to the end.In addition to these two, there are also many players who can dance awkwardly from other clubs in the Premier League to join the battle group, forming a vigorous "celebration" battle.

However, since you want to "celebrate", you have to score first.

It is because of this that Liverpool's goals have gradually increased.

This trend continued into the 13-14 season.

In the 13-14 season, Mourinho returned to the Premier League and re-entered Chelsea.Liverpool led by Anton will inevitably face him.

Mourinho is also a verbally unforgiving guy. After the first match with Anton's team, Mourinho mercilessly criticized Liverpool striker Suarez's "diving".

Mourinho means that Suarez always dives in the penalty area to trick the referee into awarding Liverpool a penalty or fouling a Chelsea player.

Facing Mourinho's accusations, Anton naturally had to defend his players.

Suarez didn't say anything.

Mourinho probably felt that Suarez's silence was an admission of cowardice, so he let this guy who had "bowed his head" go.

But who knows that Suarez didn't admit cowardice at all. In the second round of the contest between Liverpool and Chelsea, Suarez personally scored a goal for Chelsea, and then quickly ran from the vicinity of Chelsea's penalty area to the front of Chelsea's command area. To Mourinho, arms outstretched, leaping—

He performed a "diving" in front of Mourinho.

Since you say I "diving", then I will "diving" for you after scoring the goal.

Mourinho may have forgotten what he criticized Suarez at the beginning. He remembered it when he saw Suarez performing in person. He was half funny and half annoyed. He turned his face and frowned at Anton, and shook his hand. As if to say: "Why are your players like this?"

Anton also had no choice but to shrug his shoulders at the opponent and spread his hands, which meant: "My players have such a personality. He scored a goal for you. I can't help celebrating like this."

Mourinho: ...

Of course, the "happy" atmosphere is not only spreading in Liverpool. When Anton contacted his former friends, he found that Sunderland is also the same.He looked at the European football world and around his old friends. The momentum of "happy football" seemed to be unstoppable.

The author has something to say: The spokespersons of "Happy Football": Sterling, Welbeck, Benzema, Cavani... Let us take it slowly.