The debate of “inside and outside” in football: from coconut white, etc.
1. Correct misunderstanding: top football needs smart players
In our country, many people will have a prejudice against sports students, athletes and coaches who are engaged in sports work, that is, these people are “well-developed but simple-minded” and “poor learning”.
But in fact, in the real world’s top athletes, it is necessary to have a smart brain and the ability of continuous learning. On the one hand, they can help players better understand tactics and improve themselves; on the other hand, they also help players learn more skills and gain more development opportunities after retirement.
More and more players have realized the importance of higher education.
Similarly, we are also familiar with a slogan, that is, “can’t let the layman manage the expert”, but in the football field, what is the expert and what is the layman? This is another vague problem.
Under the modern football industry system, various positions have been deeply specialized, and sometimes people who seem to be “laymen” are real “professionals”.
A great star is not like an ordinary company chairman who is more expert in football industry management, A great coach does not know more about the financial development of football than a club accountant who can’t play football at all.
Florentino, the greatest club chairman, doesn’t play football at all.
Therefore, in today’s modern society, if a football player wants to continue to work in football after retirement, he must continue to study deeply and master more skills, otherwise, if the ball is played well, it will be eliminated by the industry after retirement.
Perhaps the following examples can clearly tell us the meaning and truth of continuous learning.
2. Higher education and even prestigious school qualifications-a stepping stone to a new job
(1) Chiellini: dual degree in Economics and Management, University of Turin
Chiellini is one of the most educated players in football today.
Chiellini can be regarded as one of the most representative players in Serie A this century. He is not strong and fast, but he can hold the position of the world’s best defender for a long time, this is inseparable from his intelligent brain-it seems that no one will deny that kiellini is a wise athlete.
Both inside and outside the stadium, Chiellini has full wisdom, which can also be shown through Chiellini’s study career.
The high-pressure atmosphere of professional football did not make Chiellini give up his studies. During the period of Juventus, Chiellini still entered the economics department of Turin University, an Italian elite school.
The University of Turin, founded in the 15th century, is a famous Italian university, which has trained many Nobel Prize winners and national politicians.
Zi said: “Learning while learning” probably means that we need to combine learning knowledge with practice, and kielini is a figure of learning while learning. In 2010, kielini got a bachelor’s degree in economics, his graduation thesis is “budget analysis of the club”, which is 25 pages long and has 109 points out of 110 points. Meanwhile, Chiellini also studied English and Spanish.
A few years later, in 2017, Chiellini received a master’s degree of science of business administration from the University of Turin. His graduation thesis was “analyzing the business model of Juventus from the perspective of internationalization”-
Kiellini would not have done worse than Nedved if he took the leadership.
After ten years of campus life, Chiellini deeply analyzed the economic problems of football industry and the business problems of Juventus from a professional perspective.
If such a person can return to the Juventus leadership for management positions after retirement, isn’t it a thing worth looking forward? Similarly, if a club wants to have retired superstars engaged in management work, isn’t people like Chiellini the most sought-after talent?
(2) Changyou Youdu: Japanese captain from Meiji University
The weak Japanese team is one of the teams that can play football with their heads, however, Japanese veteran Changyou Youdu is the representative of playing football with his mind-the defender who is only 170cm tall is not even a professional player!
Although I loved football, throughout my youth, long friends and you couldn’t hook up with “football talent” at one time. Due to poor physical conditions, changyouyou even showed the water dispenser to the team in the campus of middle school football match.
Finally, in 2005, Changyou Youyou passed the college entrance examination and was admitted to a famous Japanese university-the Department of Political Economics of Meiji University. His career plan was the same as that of other students, that is to become an ordinary office worker in the enterprise after graduation.
Changyou Youyou didn’t play professional league before college
There is no intention to insert willows and willows.
Long friends who have no idea of relying on football have been discovered by FC Scouts in Tokyo in Japanese university football matches due to the reasons of balanced left and right feet, active running and clear mind, and was given a chance to go to the club for trial training.
Changyou Youyou seized this opportunity and turned over at one stroke. He became the champion of the Japanese league from an amateur football fan, finally landed in Europe and even entered the elite Inter Milan.
The counterattack of Changyou Youdu is not only a story about hard work, but also a mind-Changyou Youdu can always clearly find his own shortcomings and formulate targeted reinforcement training plans for himself, and reasonably Foster strengths and avoid weaknesses.
Without smart mind and enough thinking, it is impossible for a 170cm East Asian amateur player to enter Inter Milan.
Of course, Changyou Youdu did not stop his studies because of his sudden football career. He still insisted on finishing the university course and got a bachelor’s degree in economics.
Such a character, whether by virtue of qualifications or academic qualifications, can completely enter the Japanese Football Association and the J League club as management work after retirement. He will certainly be able to make the Japanese football level by going up one flight of stairs-this is to really integrate individual water droplets into the collective ocean.
(3) Falkau/Mata: future sports media experts
Kiellini pounced his attention on the field of club management. Falco and Juan Mata, who are also top players in European football, found another way to focus their learning energy on the media field-long before landing in Europe, falkau, who also worked for the riverbed team, got a bachelor’s degree in media at the University of Buenos Aires. Almost at the same time, Matera became alumni with Florentino and got a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Madeira University of Technology.
The second-ranked Madrid Polytechnic University in Spain is Florentino and Mata’s alma mater.
Dear readers, don’t underestimate the difficulty of the media industry. In Europe with rich sports culture, there is extremely fierce competition among sports media.
There are a lot of football stars who work in media after retirement, but there is only one who can really do a good job in media at present, that is Gary Neville, the predecessor of Mata’s club.
Although his career as a coach is bleak and he often publishes absurd arguments as a TV show guest, Neville is definitely a very excellent sports media reporter. As the columnist of the British serious newspaper Daily Telegraph, neville has written many column articles and excellent interviews, and won many British Media Awards.
Among the players, Neville has the best writing style; Among the literary world, Neville has the best understanding of football.
Gary Neville is an excellent sports journalist.
Neville became the benchmark flag for retired players to switch to the media industry before jade beads, and Mata, as a junior, may also become the second Neville.
Long before joining Manchester United, Mata began to serialize Mata Zhou Ji in his personal blog, which attracted a lot of fans. This is a very good writing practice, mata kept this writing habit for many years.
Finally, Mata Zhou Ji was directly transferred to the club’s official website on Manchester United football club, and Mata became the spokesman of the club. This is a very good media operation.
Finally, Mata Zhou Ji was directly transferred to the club’s official website on Manchester United football club, and Mata became the spokesman of the club. This is a very good media operation.
Mata Zhou Ji was finally transported to Manchester United’s official website.
During that difficult time, perhaps reading a few weekly notes of Mata every week was one of the ways Manchester United fans looked for hope. His girlfriend, Evelyn, is also a social media operating celebrity with a large number of personal fans.
Mata, a football superstar, comes from a background and receives professional systematic training in news communication. If he devotes himself to the media industry in the future, it is only a matter of time before he succeeds.
Is Mata’s ambition to go to the media industry?
(4) Iniesta: new ideas for football coaches
Today’s fans and friends are used to dividing football coaches into two categories. The first category is coaches who have grown up as retired superstars such as Ancelotti, Zidane and Guadiola, that is, the so-called “star coach”; Another category is coaches such as boas, Nagelsmann and tuhull who do not have enough professional experience for players and mainly rely on school teaching, this is the so-called “academic coach”.
In an interview with DAZN, Iniesta made it clear that he would serve as a coach after retirement. So, is Iniesta the “Star School” or “Academy school school” as a coach “? You know, Iniesta is a serious Master of Sports Science!
Iniesta completed the university courses of sports science in his career as a player and got a master’s degree.
Iniesta is obviously the “Star School” of the most stars and the “academic school” of the most colleges “. Of course, the good brother of Iniesta and the current Barcelona coach Harvey are the same.
During his master’s degree in physical education in Iniesta, Harvey was also a classmate of Iniesta.
Not only has the rich experience of long-term competition in top football, but also has abundant scientific systematic knowledge accumulation. Such coaches are rare in today’s football world. Harvey, who won the league championship when he first coached the five major leagues, has a promising future, and Iniesta is likely to keep up with Harvey.
“Little White” Iniesta may have a high ambition
However, Iniesta differs from Harvey in that Iniesta has a double degree. Besides sports science, Iniesta also has a degree in biology. This discipline helps Iniesta to have great advantages in terms of the fundamental principles of sports and the understanding of sports injuries that other coaches cannot catch up.
If one day in the future, Iniesta can wear a suit and stand on the edge of the green field of the five major leagues as the head coach, perhaps there will be another huge wave leading the football revolution.
In fact, the three-player group “ha Baibu” in the Barcelona universe team actually had extremely smart minds. In a few years, these three people are likely to achieve greater achievements than the player’s career in the coaching field.
In recent years, the six strongest midfield players in La Liga actually have six smartest brains.
3. Talk about the “expert” and “layman” of football”
Education is just a symbol, and deep learning is the essence behind education. Smart people need deep learning, while top football needs smart people. The above example has already strongly illustrated this truth.
At the same time, these examples actually clarify the concept of internal and external players in football-the so-called “Don’t be a layman to manage professionals” is a pseudo proposition to many extent.
In fact, a large part of the leading figures in European football have never experienced long-term football at all.
Because now the sports industry has been very specialized, the division of labor between different positions is extremely clear and professional, and it cannot be competent without long-term professional study and work experience.
In short, football is a university question, a big subject and a big industry. It is composed of many different subjects. It is not a single subject at all.
The current chairman of the Japanese Football Association, kyoshida, is neither a football superstar nor an elite club management background, but a scholar background and a bureaucrat background.
After graduating from the Department of Sports and Sports Science of Tsukuba University, he stayed in the school to teach and worked as an associate professor. After that, he left the teaching post and entered the Japanese Olympic Committee to engage in organizational management. The last step went to the position of chairman of the Football Association.
According to the standards of some people, the chairman of the Japanese Football Association, Yoshida Shimizu, is not a football “expert”
One has no sports competition experience in professional league matches, the other has no professional club operation and management experience, and the third has not personally participated in the football youth training work, however, this does not prevent kyoshiko Toyoda from leading Japanese football step by step to a higher ladder.
Similarly, there are former Premier League president David Richard. Everyone has to admit that the Premier League has become the most profitable league in the world and the first largest league in football, he also won the Jazz title for his contribution to football.
Led by Sir Richard, the Premier League became the first league in football.
But is this Sir Richard a “expert? He can’t play football at all! He is a real professional manager. During his decades of career, he has successively served as a director in the fields of construction, telecommunications and waste disposal, it was not until 1989 when he became the chairman of Xie Fei Lian on Wednesday that he initially involved in sports.
When he was appointed chairman of the Premier League, Richard began his football career just ten years ago. However, this “novice” in football is obviously not a Cainiao. Under his leadership, the Premier League has achieved rapid development and gradually laid the foundation for growing into the most profitable football league in the future.
Today’s Premier League is already the most profitable Football League
Therefore, “expert” and “layman” are simply too general. We are not opposed to the so-called “layman management expert”, but we are opposed to “people who lack relevant knowledge do highly specialized work”.
The children’s football Enlightenment coach who can teach children to play football most does not necessarily play the ball well, but the manager who can manage a team well and seriously may not play football at all……
However, they are all the talents needed by the football industry. What we expect is that more and more talents with various academic backgrounds will enter the football industry, and each has its own position and duties.
The director of Portuguese sports youth training who has discovered giants such as C Luo, B Fei and Nani actually played the ball very well.
4. Conclusion: the progress of football industry requires continuous learning from practitioners
The football industry needs a large number of characters with various academic backgrounds to join in (for example, in recent seasons, the Premier League BIG 6 team has introduced many mathematicians as data model analysts). Of course, it is best to be a football player who can take the initiative to learn more professional knowledge besides playing football.
Because football players themselves are the core football practitioners and the source of talents in other fields of football industry such as coaches and operations.
Athletes are the core talents of sports industry.
From a big point of view, continuous learning and learning can continuously improve the personnel level in every link of the football industry and finally promote the progress of the overall football industry.
From a small point of view, such study can also provide more jobs for active players to live after retirement.
Just imagine, if a football player with average playing level and low education level retired at the age of 34, what should he rely on to support his family for the rest of his life? Youth coach. College physical education teacher or primary and secondary school physical education teacher? Employment is narrow, and no one makes full use of it.
After retirement, a large number of players became idle people and even went to jail.
Therefore, more and more smart players in the top football field begin to go to college to study and get their education degree in the gap of playing football. Manchester City captain Kong Pani just retired and went to Manchester Business School to study MBA MBA. During his career, the Italian superstar Costacurta obtained an MBA certificate from Bocconi University, while his teammate Inzaghi completed a full set of courses in accounting University and became a certified accountant.
Even lucaku, who seemed to be “silly”, learned many languages, was able to communicate fluently in English, Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese, and also studied degrees in tourism and public relations.
AC Milan superstar Inzaghi is not only a football player, but also a professional accountant.
Therefore, at this stage, we actually need to update our concept. Football is not just a simple thing like passing and shooting. The development of modern football needs more knowledge, more subjects are needed.
If a player only plays football and knows nothing about other things, once he retires, the football industry will eliminate him.
Similarly, if the staff of a country’s football industry are simply retired players and do not have the integration of multidisciplinary knowledge, the country’s football industry will collapse sooner or later.
The great pioneer Cruyff
The great Cruyff once said, “football is actually very simple, but simple football is very difficult.” Because with the development of the times, the football industry is becoming more and more complicated and specialized, but the road is simple. The more people with profound knowledge, the more they can master the true meaning of football science.
In this respect, Cruyff is also one of the absolute pioneers. The Cruyff College, the university where Iniesta and Harvey studied, mentioned earlier, was founded by Cruyff. The teaching purpose is to cultivate multi-level football talents with real professional knowledge. Now Cruyff College is also one of the large-scale comprehensive sports professional sports colleges in globalization, and has a large number of cooperative education projects with famous universities such as Catalonia University.
Over the years, such schools have also had a set of extremely scientific and procedural training and teaching programs. They can train football fans who can’t play football into excellent coaches, top brokers, elite club managers and so on.
The boundary between the expert and the layman is vague.
Football has become a comprehensive new subject. As football fans and ordinary football practitioners, we need to broaden our vision and catch up with the continuous development of international football standards with a broader mind.
Reference materials:
[1] Ma Dexing, visiting Changyou Youdu’s alma mater, the Mi star has become a legendary inspirational story, Sports Weekly, 2012.5
[2] Manchester United official website: https://www.manutd.com/zh
[3] Sina competitive storm, Chiellini received a bachelor’s degree instead of a doctoral brilliant thesis, only 1 point to get a full score, 2010.8
[4] live broadcast, Chiellini: My achievements come from diligence, 2017.11
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