Chapter 528 Italian Chain Defense
"Francisco-Totti-"
Over the huge Roman Olympic Stadium, the name of Prince Totti of Rome resounds! The voice of nearly 90,000 Roman fans made Totti, who had just scored a goal on the court, leave tears with excitement!
90,000 fans!
This number sounds very frightening, but in fact, the overall capacity of the Rome Olympic Stadium is about 105,000 people. In the usual league, the stadium can only sit about two-thirds, but today is different, because today Rome's opponent is Inter Milan, and the two strong matches in Italy naturally attract a large number of fans. Note, 100,000 tickets before the game have already been used up!
In the second half of the game, the time entered the 67th minute. Totti received a pass from his teammates and jugglingly turned the ball into the goal with his heels to help Roma overtake the score. This wonderful goal won the cheers of all Roma fans. More importantly, it was Totti, Francisco. Totti is Rome, the pride of the whole Italy!
As an aggressive midfielder, Totti's performance at the Roma club is far better than that of the Italian national team. In the game, Totti is used to standing behind the two strikers and creating opportunities for them by passing the ball. At the same time, Totti is also an excellent shadow striker. With his excellent running ability, he can find opportunities to follow up the shooting score.
In today's world football, few strikers have both strength and technology, but Totti is one of them. And his ability to command and dispatch on the court and strong impact make all opponents afraid.
There was an ironic event in Italy!
When the 2,000-year-old Italian Parliament voted by secret ballot to elect the chairman of the parliament, some voters actually filled in Totti's name on the ballot. At that time, the staff in charge of singing couldn't help laughing and saying, "It seems that there are really a lot of Roman fans in the parliament!" Many parliamentarians under this funny event even bent down with a smile.
The use of Totti, who is not a member of parliament, as a candidate for the chairman of the parliament is, of course, just a prank of a member of parliament, but it also reflects the status of Toti in the Italian people.
This huge reputation comes from Totti's strength and loyalty!
Unlike other big stars, they will transfer frequently after their excellent performance. Totti has joined the Roma club since the age of 13 and has been playing for Rome for 16 years. Regardless of Rome's good or bad results, no matter how the coach and chairman change, Totti has always belonged to Rome. It is this loyalty that makes Totti win the title of "Prince of Rome" among the fans.
Last year, after the 28-year-old Totti renewed a long-term contract with Roma Club, Totti was ready to devote all of his career to the Club Roma.
The most interesting thing is that when Totti was 16 years old, AC Milan had plans to acquire Totti by leading the Roma junior team to defeat the AC Milan junior team to win the Italian junior league championship. Unfortunately, the transaction was rejected by Totti's mother. The reason is simple, because she is a loyal fan of Rome.
Due to his amazing talent in the second team, he officially entered the adult team in Rome in 1992, when Totti was 16 years old. After that, the legendary coach Boskov recruited Totti to the first team in Rome. On March 28, Totti finally waited for the opportunity to play in Serie A. At that time, Roma led Brescia by 0 on the road, and Totti was replaced in the 87th minute. Totti was only 16 years old, 6 months and 1 day old, which made him the third youngest player in the history of Roma to participate in the Italian Serie A.
For Totti, the first teacher in Rome is Mazoni, who is currently coaching Brescia.
Mazzoni not only tried his best to help Totti grow rapidly, but also gave Totti the first opportunity to participate in Serie A as the main force. On February 27, 1994, Totti made his first appearance in Serie A. Although the result of the game was that Roma lost 0-1 to Sampdoria at home, the famous Milan Sport gave Totti's performance 7 points, a rather encouraging score.
During his time in Rome, Totti followed six head coaches. The only coach who dissatisfied Totti is the Argentineian Bianchi, because he has never paid attention to or appreciated Totti's talent. Because he was not heavily used under Bianchi, Totti asked to transfer to Real Madrid in Spain at that time. Fortunately, soon after, Bianci left because of his poor record, and Totti was able to stay in Rome. Otherwise, Roma will lose the talented player who later became the symbol of the club.
After Bianche, Czech Zeman took over as the team's head coach. Zeman's tactical style of attacking is undoubtedly very suitable for Totti, a player with a strong sense of attack, and Zeman is also particularly fond of Totti. It was at Zeman's instigation that Totti took Rome's captain's armband and has been the captain ever since; when he first became the captain of the team, he was only 21 years old. However, what impressed Totti most was the current England coach Capello.
Totti once praised Capello: "Cappero is really a great coach. He is almost perfect in all aspects. His greatest credit is that our players have built up the confidence to win, thus ensuring the strong competitiveness of the team.
After leading Roma to win the Serie A championship in the 2000-01 season, Totti reached his personal peak in the club. In the national team, Totti is also smooth sailing.
Totti made his first appearance for the national team on October 10, 1998, when Italy played against Switzerland at home. But Totti really gained a foothold in the national team in the European Nations Cup in 2000. Although Italy lost in the finals and lost to France in overtime and became the runner-up, Totti's performance during the whole tournament can be said to be almost perfect. As a result, he was named the Italian Footballer of the Year 2000 by the Italian Players Association.
In the next season, he won the team's first Serie A championship in 18 years, and he scored 13 league goals. Last season, Francesco. Totti has set a new career-high number of goals - 20 goals. For a midfielder, 20 goals are already very scary. In the Italian Serie A, which is famous for its defense, 20 goals almost represent the highest number of goals.
However, when the media thought that he had become the leader of the national team, Totti remained modest and said, "This kind of evaluation is too early for me. My level has not reached its peak, and I am confident that there is more room for progress."The Italian media have compared Totti with the legends of Rivera and Mazola in the history of Italian football. Totti has proved the reliability of these evaluations in the club's game. In the national team, Totti wears Del, who is also a teammate of the Italian national team. Piero has passed through No. 10 before.
No. 10, represents the core of the team!
Don Jack is also No. 10. He is the core of Newcastle United, and Totti is the core of the Roma team and the Italian national team!
Compared with the two, even Jack Don has to sigh at the honor that Totti has won!
"Totti is one of the best football players in Italy!" It is not an overdone to say this sentence. If you add the year or era, it can really be said that Totti is one of the best players in Italy now.
This is Francisco. Totti!
Obviously, such a player who is bound to enter the annals of history is what Newcastle United must pay attention to in the next game. Totti almost represents Rome. Both the Italian media and the English media believe that the focus of this game will be the head-on collision between Don Jack and Totti.
The victory or defeat of the two is directly related to the victory or defeat of the two teams!
The same core, the same strength.
Before the start of the game, The Sun made a prediction about the strength of the two players. In terms of personal technology, it is obvious that Jack Don is better. No matter how many honors and how many famous players have been, they can't compare with Jack Don in terms of personal technology, and because of Jack Don's The number of goals and the dominance of technical performance on the court are the 'accidental' wonderful performance of the stars, which can't be compared at all.
But as the core, in terms of leading the team, the 'young' Don Jack can't be compared with Totti!
"Totti is the core of Rome. He is the best midfield commander in the world today!" It can be said that even Gerard and Ronaldinho must admit this. It can be said that Rome without Totti is not Rome!
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"The strongest spear meets the strongest shield!"
The day before the game, Roma Sport reported on the top 16 of the UEFA Cup with this title. If the 16 teams retained in the League Cup are concerned, Roma and Newcastle United are indeed the strongest among them, and it is not too much to say that the UEFA Cup final was staged in advance.
As an Italian team, Roma's defensive ability is naturally strong. Newcastle United is recognized as the first offensive team in England, and now even Arsenal is not as good as it.
On the one hand, it is possible to get out of the circle of 16 teams in the League Cup. Roma Sport is a little suspicious when it comes to Rome as the 'strongest shield'. After all, in Italy, Rome is not the 'strongest shield'. Juventus and AC Milan are the strongest and acceptable. Rome is indeed in the 'shield'. It's really a little worse.
But this does not prevent fans from learning about Rome's defensive ability, but also the defensive ability of Italian football.
The football guard produced in Italy is the best in the world. This is not a famous saying said by a football anor, but a thing recognized by the whole world. Italy's football atmosphere and environment have created defenders with excellent consciousness. The sense of running of defenders cultivated since childhood cannot be compared with defenders from other leagues. In this way, the four defenders of the 'flow of consciousness' are added together, so that every Italian team can have a good defense.
The four-person combination is the most famous 'chain defense' in Italian football defense!
Chain defense first appeared in the 1930s, Austrian Carl. In order to strengthen the Swiss national football team, Lapan adopted a defensive system called a scavenger. However, many people think that the real chain defense appeared in 1947, when Nereo. Rocco's Tristina Football Club was used for the first time. This year, Tristina surprisingly defeated the strong teams with defense and won the runner-up in the Italian Serie A.
In the 1960s, Argentine coach Ereno of Inter Milan. Herrera adopted this style and achieved good results. In the Italian league, Inter Milan often defeated their opponents with a score of 1:0, which also made the chain defense tactics famous. It was adopted by many Italian clubs, gradually forming an Italian football defense environment, and the chain defense system began to prevail.
The reason why the chain defense system is popular is naturally because of its practicality. In the chain defense system, the formation of the whole team has two chains. The purpose of defensive thinking is that it is almost impossible for the opponent to break through each defender head-on.
On the field, the gap between the players and the players is linked. To put it simply, if the player is a point, then the space is like a line. When the line is under pressure, the point will naturally close to the source of the pressure.
If there is only one chain, it is easy to be broken. In the Italian football system, a line is usually built on the forward line, and then the guard line is added to form two chains, so that there is in-depth protection.
The forward line is generally composed of three people in a chain, and the guard line is composed of four people. The empty space of the forward chain is just a defender to make up for it. Many people will see that the Italian defense is that the forward line players are wrapped in the opponent, and the defender is on the right time. However, chain defense has high requirements for defensive formations. As long as the formation is chaotic, chain defense will no longer exist. Even if the formation is always maintained well, it does not rule out the possibility that the opponent's superstar can break through head-on. Therefore, the highest level of chain defense also requires a defender with strong defensive ability to travel between the two chains. Defend the opponent's core players.
In this way, the chain defense system is completed.
From the principle, it is known that many league clubs cannot adopt this kind of defense. First, it is because of the football atmosphere, such as Arsenal, Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur. Such a team's history has the bloodline of attack. The club's fans like the team because of the attack, but only the chain defense is already After consuming 8-9 players, only 2-3 players can really attack. This must be a defensive counterattack situation. Even if the attack is pushed forward, it is mainly defensive. Obviously, this is not acceptable for offensive clubs.
On the other hand, chain defense has very high requirements for players' awareness, and the ability of 'consciousness' is not cultivated in a day or two, or even a year or two. Don Jack has been playing in the top league for nearly three years, but when it comes to consciousness, he is still at the level of ordinary players and a real giant. The reason why the star gap is that 'consciousness' is cultivated from an early age. It is very difficult to improve this ability.
Therefore, the football style of the general league is difficult to cultivate defenders suitable for chain defense, and only the players trained by Italian football clubs with a defensive tradition can meet the requirements. Therefore, chain defense can almost be said to be unique to Italy. Even Chelsea and Manchester United, which are famous for their defense, are also very It is difficult to play such a defense, because they can't find four Italian defenders.