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  "Many people think that the creator of total football is Michels, but I don't think so. He was deeply influenced by Jack Reynolds and then after his retirement, he absorbed the strengths of many schools and merged them into a football philosophy. So he's great because he's a synthesizer, standing on the shoulders of Jack Reynolds to explore a broader world!"

  "Well said! Jack Reynolds, nowadays few people still remember this Englishman, when he was coaching Ajax, it was him who first established the Ajax youth training, offensive football, speed and unified style of young and adult teams, all of which were quoted by Michels."

  Paul Boyle was amazed, he didn't think that Yang Cheng, who was so young, would remember Jack Reynolds, a British man who created a brilliant era in Ajax in the 1920s and 1930s, and Michels was his proud apprentice at that time, deeply influenced by him.

  "What is called all-out attack and defense, in fact, is a football philosophy. The basis of this philosophy is overall coordination. Once the overall coordination is lost, the all-out attack and defense will be like a castle in the air, everything can be seen but cannot be reached!"

  "That's right, so I despise those guys who spend all day commenting on outdated all-around defense, they simply think that all-around defense is just advancing and retreating together, but they don't know that the core idea of all-around defense lies in freedom, not constraint!" Paul Beyer deeply agrees with Yang Cheng's view.

  "That can also be seen as freedom under constraint!" Yang Cheng has always believed that on the football field, freedom and constraint are not contradictory, the key is to see how to achieve balance, just like controlling the ball and controlling space, they are both ends of the scale, if you can make this scale balanced, everything can blend together.

  But wanting to achieve this is difficult, at least there are hardly any famous generals in ancient or modern times, China or abroad who can do it!

  Paul Bierhoff was visibly excited, apparently in Chemnitz, few people could communicate with him like this, which made him very enthusiastic. "You just said that the emergence of all-out attack and defense has brought about tremendous changes in football tactics, what you mean is the refinement of positions?"

  Yang Cheng nodded immediately, but in his heart he was praising, Tim Hanks was right, Paul Beyer indeed had rich tactical knowledge, at least from this one sentence with great foresight.

  In 1995, there were really few people who could predict the position of the ball on the field!

  The attacking midfielder evolved into the offensive midfielder, defensive midfielder and traditional central midfielder. The offensive midfielder can be further divided into classic No. 10s, deep-lying playmakers, advanced playmakers, and box-to-box midfielders.

  In addition to the type of striker, the transformation of wingers and so on. If analyzed carefully, it is not difficult to find that the positions on the football field are becoming more and more detailed, but what happens after they are refined to the extreme?

  The court is just that big, and there may be a few more lines between the three lines, but there will always come a day when it's refined to the extreme. How will football divide labor at that time?

  "Blurring positions, weakening the division of labor in specific positions, starting to pay attention to the interlaced cooperation between players, allowing players to take on different responsibilities according to their different positions on the field. As a result, when the defensive midfielder moves to the attacking midfielder position, he naturally takes on the responsibility of the attacking midfielder, and when the side defender moves to the side attacker position, he naturally makes a breakthrough and participates in the attack!"

  Paul Beyer was thoroughly shocked by Yang Cheng's words, because he only thought about the refinement of positions, but never thought about what would happen after the refinement reached its extreme, because in his view, that was too long and too far away.

  But Yang Cheng is very clear that with the advent of the information age, everything in the world is accelerating, and football tactics are no exception. So in the next ten years, football positions will become more specialized, but in the following decade, football positions will be so specialized that they will start to become blurred.

  He was so sure because Yang Cheng realized before crossing that the side wing reverse foot, the side back defender front plug plays the side wing role, the pseudo front wing, the pseudo side wing, the no wing tactics... Isn't all of this tactical root in blurring the limitations of position?

  Everyone can imagine that when a team of 10 players, excluding the goalkeeper, is playing on the field, the center back can become a forward at any time, the side back can become a side forward at any time, and the forward is always playing the role of defender. Every player on the field can switch roles freely according to the situation on the field, playing the role that the team needs most at the time. How powerful would such a team be?

  This is an all-out attack and defense!

  It's precisely because of this that even when Barca reached its peak in 2011, Yang Cheng still believed that although the team was great, it hadn't yet reached greatness to the point where they could play extreme football, because they hadn't even achieved the ultimate in all-out attack and defense.

  At most, they were just very close to all-around!

  Of course, with the progress of the times, after all-out attack and defense, how football will develop, Yang Cheng doesn't know, he can't guess either!

  But at this moment, Paul Pierce was thoroughly shocked by Yang Cheng's remarks, which can be said to be ahead of his time. Especially when he thought about it carefully, he had to admit that after the positions were blurred, the players on the court would evolve their roles according to the situation on the court, and such a team would be the strongest.

  "But can you find such a player?" Paul Baierner wondered.

  What kind of high demands should be placed on players who want to play the all-out and all-defensive football that Yang Chen talked about?

  "The times create heroes, but now there aren't any. However, in a few years, as football tactics mature and professional coaches understand and grasp all-out attacking and defending tactics, the players they cultivate will naturally start to develop in this direction. Only by then, geniuses like Pelé and Maradona will be hard to come by again!"

  Once football enters the era of overall development, the personal performance of soccer stars will be restricted. At that time, there will still be superstars in the football world, but they will be superstars who play under the premise of the team's overall performance, not like the current superheroes who single-handedly challenge the opponent's entire backline.

  Paul Bier couldn't help but look at Yang Cheng with admiration, although young, he had extraordinary vision, especially in terms of understanding and foresight of football tactics, even Paul Bier felt inferior.

  It was also at this moment that Paul Baier discovered that Chemnitz could not accommodate Yang Chen, and perhaps he came here just to find a stepping stone, a stepping stone that would allow him to thoroughly enter the core circle of football. Once he achieved such a leap, he would leave Chemnitz without hesitation and set out to find his ideal football path.

  "I finally understand now why you asked the players to switch positions and practice against each other so often!" Paul Byer said after this conversation, clarifying some of his previous doubts.

  Positional training is to let players get used to the pressure and difficulties they face in different positions, which can promote the tacit understanding and cooperation between players, and also improve their multi-position attributes, so that they can deal with such situations more calmly in the future.

  In short, the most important requirement for players in a blurred position is versatility and familiarity with different positions!

  Positional training is where forwards and centre-backs compete against each other, wide forwards and wide defenders compete against each other, etc. All of this is to help players better cope with situations on the field and improve their competitive ability.

  "By the way, can you reveal who is your favorite player in Chemnitz?" Paul Bayer suddenly wanted to know if Yang Cheng's vision was the same as his.

  "Balak!" Yang Cheng smiled and replied.

  "How high can it reach?"

  "I don't know, maybe the world's top, maybe..." Yang Cheng really didn't know, a player's potential can change, this is true even in the Super Coach Assistant System, after all every person has infinite possibilities, and he also didn't dare to guarantee that his arrival would bring what kind of change to Barak.

  However, he will not give up on training Barack, and wants to cultivate Barack in his own way!

  Fortunately, after the conversation with Yang Cheng a few nights ago, Barack also expressed his trust in Yang Cheng. Now, Yang Cheng has even asked Tim Hanks to give Barack more challenging tasks during training - diamond-shaped running positions!

  Many people think that the triangular formation is the core tactic of football, but the triangle also has its drawbacks, which is the control of the area. The diamond shape looks like two triangles, one positive and one negative, which is worth studying. Yang Chen clearly knows that the diamond shape is more flexible in opening up and controlling space on the field than the triangular formation.

  The triangular running position is already very demanding, and the diamond-shaped running position is even more complicated, with higher requirements for the player's field of vision and game ability, but Yang Cheng believes that Barak can definitely handle it.

  However, the diamond-shaped running position is of great help to the team's technical and tactical aspects, but it is destined not to be the protagonist that appears on TV screens because TV broadcasts always follow the ball, while the person in the diamond-shaped running position deviates from the ball.

  Of course, the position set by Yang Cheng for Barack is in the midfield, if he really develops, it will definitely not be too low-key, after all, Yang Cheng's purpose is to maximize his attacking potential, while also maintaining his strong impact in the midfield and even his defensive ability in the frontcourt.

  That's why Yang Chen promised Barack that night to formulate Kemnitz II tactics around him!

  "But I have a feeling, he was born to be the core!" Yang Cheng added with a smile.

  Paul Bier was stunned for a moment, but soon also nodded silently with a smile, apparently acknowledging Yang Cheng's judgment.