I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

In today's game, Manchester United's starting lineup is the classic 442 formation.

This is also Sir Alex Ferguson's best formation.

Ferguson is a legendary coach recognized around the world. In the more than 26 years since he took charge of Manchester United, Manchester United has gone from decadence to becoming the leading team in the Premier League and even world football, and also created a passionate era for the Red Devils.

Strictly speaking, Ferguson is not a tactical head coach. His core ability is management, and it is also a godfather-type management.

What is a godfather? To put it bluntly, it’s Dad.

Ferguson has been the eldest father of all Manchester United players since he trained Class 92. Whether it is Keane, Beckham, or Cristiano Ronaldo, Ferguson always appears as a strict father.

Keane was fearless, but when he saw Ferguson, he respectfully and obediently called him "boss".

Not to mention Beckham, the flying boot scandal almost destroyed Beckham's handsome face, which he relies on for survival. Beckham still did not dare to fall out with Ferguson.

Sunderland defender Bardsley was the one who tackled his popular star Cristiano Ronaldo in his debut game at Manchester United. In an interview more than 10 years after Ferguson retired and stopped coaching, he said, He was walking on the road in disbelief when suddenly the window glass of an old car rolled down, and then Father Ferguson stuck his head out and yelled at him: "Son! What did I tell you? Shave your damn beard!”

Bardsley said that he was scared to death at the time. The fear of being dominated by his father in the Manchester United youth training team and the Manchester United first team when he was young rushed straight to his head, even though he was no longer a Manchester United player, even though Ferguson had long since I haven't been a head coach for more than ten years, but the feeling between father and son is still so strong.

When Ferguson became the coach of Manchester United, no Manchester United player disrespected or feared Ferguson.

Ferguson is known as the hairdryer, and this nickname is definitely not unfounded.

Once a Manchester United player doesn't play well enough, Ferguson really scolds them.

Manchester United during that period were all world-class big names, but in front of Ferguson, any big name was not a big name.

In Ferguson's dressing room, Ferguson himself is the biggest.

This is godfather coaching.

Ferguson is a team-building and management-oriented coach, so when he just moved from the Scottish League to the Premier League to take over Manchester United, Manchester United's results were still in a mess.

But fortunately, the top management of Manchester United at the time gave Ferguson great trust, and Ferguson patiently built the world-famous Class 92 for Manchester United in accordance with his own philosophy.

It can be said that Ferguson's coaching philosophy and Manchester United's Red Devils spirit of never admitting defeat and never giving up complement each other. Therefore, this is why Ferguson has coached Manchester United for more than 26 years. He has led the team to participate in more than 1500 games and achieved great results. A staggering 895 wins.

In the 26 seasons that Ferguson coached Manchester United, Manchester United won a total of 13 championship titles including 2 Premier League championships, 5 Champions League championships, and 38 English FA Cup championships.

The most glorious one was in the 1998-1999 season, when Ferguson led Manchester United to achieve the feat of "Triple Crown", and was awarded the honor of the Queen and became a British lower knight, with "sri" in front of his name. affix.

You must know that these dazzling results took 26 seasons on the surface. In fact, in the first five years of taking charge of Manchester United, Ferguson had been silently cleaning up the fabric of Manchester United and cultivating the youth training talents of Class 5.

Therefore, if all calculations are made, Ferguson only took 22 seasons at most to win these awards. Based on these results alone, no one dares to question that Ferguson is the number one coach in the Premier League.

One of the main reasons for Ferguson's success at Manchester United is that Ferguson adopted a high-pressure management method for the resilient Manchester United. This kind of godfather-style management was very marketable in the 90s. Therefore, it is said that the times created Manchester United. Not an exaggeration.

However, godfather-like and paternalistic management is actually a double-edged sword.

First of all, the paternalistic management that was popular in the 2000s and s has become somewhat outdated for players after entering the year .

As players become more famous, and as other clubs begin to use dog-licking methods to poach players, many well-known players have begun to become less interested in godfather and paternalistic management, a sense of collective honor, and sacrifice for the collective. The idea of ​​self-interest has also been replaced by a free and undisciplined social atmosphere.

Therefore, as the times changed, Ferguson's coaching style also encountered unprecedented difficulties.

Ferguson also saw this. When he realized that his absolute authority in the locker room was being challenged by the environment of the entire era, Ferguson knew that his era had passed. This was why he chose to retire after 2012. s reason.

However, the glory of the Ferguson era also led to a mess in the post-Ferguson era.

Only a godfather and paternalistic head coach like Ferguson can suppress a top club like Manchester United. Not only can he suppress world-class players, but Ferguson can also suppress mentally ill senior executives so that they don't dare to mess around.

And once Ferguson left the locker room and retreated to the second line, the devils and monsters all came out to breathe, and even intensified.

After Ferguson retired, neither Moyes, the successor appointed by Ferguson, nor Louis van Gaal, the famous employing master chef, nor Mourinho, the master tactician, could truly control Manchester United, which was already running wild.

Given how much "benign suppression" Manchester United suffered during the Ferguson era, they have intensified their mischief after Ferguson left.

In particular, coupled with the constant blood-sucking of the Jewish conglomerate Glazer family, not many years after Ferguson retired, the once dominant club in Premier League football and even world football was falling at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Except for Ferguson, no other head coach can perfectly control Manchester United, a wealthy club that already has various contradictions and problems, like Ferguson.

So, from this perspective alone, Ferguson is really awesome as a club manager.

After Ferguson retired, he often gave lectures at universities, and the content of his lectures was also about management.

but--

It would be a big mistake to just think of Sir Alex Ferguson as a patriarch who only knows how to yell and use high-pressure policies to manage troubles.

Ferguson is definitely a top-level head coach at the tactical level, especially in chasing trend tactics.

Over the past 26 years, almost no coach can thoroughly study his tactical system.

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