Chapter 12 The Arrogant Rookie

In the jubilation, Jose waved his fist, then turned to face the canopy of the coach's bench, slowly calming down his excitement.

When he turned around, Jose's expression had returned to calm. He started clapping his hands and shouting at the players who were about to finish celebrating: "Okay, pay attention to defense next, and start blocking them from the midfield!"

Unlike José, who became more spirited, Vazquez was already on his feet when Mallorca launched a counterattack. When Ibagaza scored, Vazquez waved his hand violently and then turned around. Walking towards the visiting team coach's bench, he kept cursing, and after a few words, he waved his hand and kicked out all the players on the bench to let them go to warm up.

And after the game restarted, Vazquez changed three people in one breath-replacing a defender and two midfielders with two forwards and a midfielder, and the formation changed from four-four-two to three-three-four...

"This is really not a wise decision. Piling more forwards in the frontcourt will not increase the number of goals, but will make the frontcourt more crowded... Vazquez would make such a mistake, it seems so Impulsive, in front of 25-year-old Jose, 40-year-old Vazquez seems so impulsive..." Even Hidalgo and Bones, who had been praising Vazquez just now, couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing , Bones simply said: "This game, Mallorca will win!"

In fact, this is also Jose's idea-after leading by two goals, Vallecano's players have indeed begun to be a little confused. They are young and energetic, but they are definitely not mature. They can play well, but they are easily confused when they are in a disadvantaged situation. In this case, the head coach should play a role, but their head coach Vazquez seems to be more confused than them ——Two forwards were replaced, but no targeted attacking policy was given. In the end, the four center forwards crowded into a group in the penalty area, and even two forwards of Vallecano made a cross from the side. At the same time, the ball was directly cleared by Mallorca's defender...

Of course, the seasoned Mallorca players would not let go of such an opportunity. They took advantage of the situation and attacked. With the advantage of the number of midfielders, they suppressed Vallecano!

The Mallorca players were already better than their opponents in terms of technical ability, and now they have confidence, they are not in a hurry to attack, but are constantly passing back and forth, dispatching, and attacking patiently-now they are not in a hurry, Facing those young opponents, Mallorca's old guys can play them around with experience.

Seeing his players running around on the field exhaustedly but unable to intercept the ball, Vazquez realized that he seemed to have done something wrong, but at this time he was powerless to change the situation on the field——Three employers All the quotas have been changed, and he has nothing to do...

With the help of experience and technical advantages, Mallorca pushed forward their offensive defense step by step, but even when they were attacking, their three lines remained consistent, and the defense did not participate in the offense. —— Vallecano There is also no striker who can counterattack quickly. As long as he is not pressed too high, he is not afraid of the opponent's counterattack.

Faced with Mallorca's patient attack, the flaws of Vallecano's main lineup's young average age were once again exposed. Coupled with the reduction of defensive players, the gaps exposed on the defense line are also getting bigger and bigger.

Even Sombranos, the core midfielder, was forced to participate more in defense, and it was obvious that his defensive ability could only be regarded as mediocre-it was his foul that ruined Valleca In the last hope of equalizing, in the 87th minute, Ngonga, who suddenly advanced, dribbled the ball into the penalty area. After a defensive error, Sembranos stretched out his foot and tripped Ngonga. The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick!

"Three to zero! Three to zero! Three to zero!"

The Mallorca fans in the stands clamored wildly. At this time, they had no doubt that they would win a brilliant victory in this game!

"Let Diego take the penalty!" Jose clapped his hands off the court, and then shouted.

At this time, no Mallorca player could disobey what he said.

Tristan took the ball from captain Ngonga and put it on the penalty spot, straightening up.

Keller stood in front of the goal with open arms, staring at the ball at Tristan's feet.

Although victory is almost impossible, a goalkeeper is not willing to allow the opponent's striker to score easily.

"Diego! Diego! Diego!" The Mallorca fans in the stands began to shout Tristan's name in unison, looking forward to the third ball!

After hearing the referee blowing the whistle to take the penalty, Tristan started to run up. After running close to the ball, he swung his right foot and kicked the ball vigorously.

The ball went in! The ball flew cleanly into the lower left corner of the goal. Keller jumped in the wrong direction, and he jumped directly to the right!

The cheers in the stands broke out again!

Tristan turned around and ran off the court. This time he ignored Jose's stop, but hugged Jose up!

"Tristan, who scored twice, hugged Mallorca's acting coach José Alemani. It seems that the young coach didn't just rely on his father being the executive chairman of Mallorca to stand. In this position, at least Tristan, a striker who has emerged in Mallorca this season, loves him very much... Tristan was transferred from the Mallorca B team to the Mallorca first team before, and He Jose has served as the coach of the Mallorca B team for a year and a half. To be able to train an outstanding shooter like Tristan and get his support, Jose himself must have his excellence. Judging from this game, and Compared with the former Gomez, he seems to have learned from Cooper, emphasizing the efficiency of defense and counterattack, which is also the most suitable tactic for Mallorca at this stage."

In the commentator's commentary, the rest of the second half passed quickly, and when the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the cheers of the Mallorca fans sounded again in the stands!

After eight rounds of invincibility and three consecutive losses, Mallorca finally ushered in a precious victory at home!

Mallorca fans cheered heartily, enjoying the joy of this hard-won victory.

Although Mallorca's points were only 15 points after winning this game, and even though Mallorca's ranking was still at the bottom after this victory, this victory gave them hope, at least the hope of relegation.

When the final whistle sounded, Jose let out a long breath and began to relax, which made him feel a little lost. However, Jose soon stabilized his emotions and showed a happy smile. Hugged with Natal beside him.

After letting go of his hand, Natal said with a smile: "Congratulations, Jose, you won the first time coaching alone...it's memorable."

"Yeah..." Jose said thoughtfully.

The feeling of coaching a professional team is indeed completely different from the feeling of coaching the B team-although the Mallorca B team also participates in professional competitions, for all Spanish team B teams, the results have always been the same. Second, the most important thing is to develop players and quickly recover injured first-team members. Of course, the mentality will be completely different. And coaching the first team as a head coach is completely different from coaching the first team as an assistant coach...

In any case, Jose has already experienced this kind of experience. At least Jose himself believes that in the next coaching game, his heart will be stronger, and he will no longer be disturbed by drastic emotional changes-any Things, once you get used to it, will be calmer.

This victory has made a good start for Jose's coaching career, even if the name on his head is just "acting head coach", but no matter who it is, one thing is certain-the great head coach Jose Alema The first official game coached by Jonny was on January 24, 2000. In this game, Jose led Mallorca to a 3-0 victory over Rayo Vallecano, which opened the legend of Jose's life. coaching career.

At this time, Jose is just a rookie coach who has won a professional game.

Yet the rookie coach, after an undisputed victory, surprised everyone with another press conference.

There were not many reporters at the press conference. Apart from the local media in Mallorca, only a few Spanish reporters from other regions were present. After all, this is just an ordinary La Liga match. La Liga's youngest head coach's first game" gimmick, so it is estimated that there will be no reporters from other places to interview.

After congratulating the players in the locker room, Jose walked into the press conference with high spirits, and the players he brought to the press conference were captain Ngonga and the team who scored two goals in this game Tristan.

Vazquez came to the press conference alone. He didn't shake hands with Jose, but just sat with a gloomy face and sulking.

"Coaching a professional team on your own for the first time and then winning... What do you think, José?"

After asking a few innocuous questions, a reporter from Mallorca's largest local media "Palma Daily" (Mallorca's full name is Mallorca's Palma) asked such a question.

"I'm very happy to be able to win—it's a joy that you can't imagine, because if this game fails to win, this press conference will be my resignation conference, and this game will also be the one I have coached in my life. The only professional match." Jose smiled and threw a bomb that knocked the reporters back and forth.

Seeing the stunned expressions of the reporters present, Jose was very satisfied, but he soon became dissatisfied, because none of the reporters could respond in time...

"What's the matter, everyone?" Jose coughed.

This sentence brought all the reporters back to their senses, and the reporter from the Parma Daily was the first to come back to his senses. He immediately asked: "Why do you say that? It's just a game. Lorca has failed to win eight games, is Mallorca's management so harsh?"

As he asked, the young reporter had already used rich associations in his mind to think of a light-year away—the chairman of Mallorca is José's father. Could he be dissatisfied with his son... …

"No, this has nothing to do with the management." Jose shook his head: "It's just that I told all the players before the game that if I can't win this game, I will no longer serve as Mallorca. The head coach ... won't even be coaching any professional teams."

"Why do you say that?"

Jose was very satisfied with the reporter's cooperation, and he laughed: "The reason is very simple, because our advantage in this game is really too great-this game is our home field, and our players are stronger. Strong, our tactics can restrain them better, our defense is stronger than the opponent, and the offense is easier to score than the opponent. If such a game cannot be won, then it can only mean that I am not worthy of being a master at all. Coach, it's better to go back and take my youth team...Of course, the biggest reason for winning this game is that Mallorca's head coach is better than the opponent's head coach."

After Jose spit out the last word, there was a loud noise from the table in front of him. Vazquez, who couldn't bear it, slapped the table heavily, then stood up with a livid face, and walked out of the news without looking back. At the press conference, only Jose was left smiling on the rostrum.

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