Saint-Germain León Training Base in the western suburbs of Paris, France.

Paris Saint-Germain, who has returned from the Middle East training camp, is preparing for the final 64 knockout match of the French Cup. The opponent in this game is not strong, and a team named Alas in the low-level league.

But if you can break out of the knockout rounds in the first three rounds, your strength is probably not too bad.

Gao Han stood silently on the sidelines, watching the training class on the court, and never spoke.

Assistant coach Mark Lele is responsible for leading the large army for training. Zidane assists from the side, just like Gao Han, and watches from the side. However, once someone performs poorly, he will immediately stop training and walk over for one-on-one guidance and special training.

Since the beginning of this season, this scene has become the norm on the training ground. Gao Han fully delegated power to the two assistant coaches, and more of them watch and supervise from the side. Commanding and training and training players are completed by Marklele and Zidane.

The other members of the coaching team also perform their own duties and work together, and there will be no problems. Instead, they will give Gao Han more time and more energy to devote himself to the team's preparations.

Zidane called for a timeout this time because the 16-year-old player Kingsley Koeman, who was recently promoted to the first team, was too blind and hasty when dealing with the ball just now, which made Zidane unable to bear it. He walked into the field and scolded Kingsley Koeman hard and personally demonstrated a move to get rid of the ball.

Although Zidane has been retired for many years, he has maintained his body shape and his movements are still stretching as usual, very elegant, winning a burst of cheers on the training ground, and Kingsley Koeman humbly accepted the guidance from his predecessors.

This is the advantage of legendary celebrities.

Because they have reached that height, and even many players have grown up watching their games, what they say is often more convincing.

Of course, not every celebrity has the ability to coach. For example, Maradona has no doubt about his football talent, but he obviously cannot fully instill his ideas and ideas into his players, which makes it difficult for him to play the role of head coach. However, judging from the cooperation over the past year, Zidane undoubtedly has this ability.

Looking at this scene on the court, Gao Han couldn't help but recall his cooperation with Cantalero.

I still remember that when coaching Chelsea, someone said that the combination of Gao Han and Cantalero is very similar to the coaching combination of England's legendary Brian Clough and Peter Taylor. They are also responsible for commanding the entire team, and the other is responsible for one-on-one detail craftsmanship. The two divided the work and cooperated to complement each other.

But later, as Cantalero transformed into technical director, Gao Han began to become a lonely man.

At this moment, looking at the division of labor and cooperation between Maclale and Zidane on the training ground, Gao Han couldn't help but recall his memories.

Zidane is not Cantalero because Cantalero lacks the domineering and decisiveness that a head coach should have, and he is like Guardiola.

Kingsley Koeman is a young player brought by Gao Han from the youth team. Like Rabiot, he is the future of Paris Saint-Germain. However, judging from the current situation of the team, he does not seem to attach great importance to youth training, but Gao Han still decided to give Kingsley Koeman a chance, and he will play in the French Cup knockout two days later.

As for how long you can play, it depends on the progress of the game. If it goes well, it will be fine if it plays for half an hour.

This is undoubtedly a pretty good start for a young man who is only sixteen years old.

On the contrary, Rabiot will replace Pirlo in this game, and Paris Saint-Germain will play with a full substitute.

After a training class, the players returned to the locker room one after another. Whenever they passed by Gao Han, they would politely say goodbye to Gao Han and then leave the training ground.

They all knew very well that although Gao Han didn't say a word, he was the most powerful person in the team and dominated their life and death.

After the training, the staff began to enter the venue to clean up, the grass maintenance staff was on standby on the sidelines, the coaching staff also cleaned up, returned to the office, summarizing the results and situation of today's training class.

After the meeting, Gao Han returned to his office.

But soon Zidane knocked on the door of his office.

"Is there anything wrong?" Gao Han looked at Zidane strangely and called him to come and sit down.

Zidane walked over with a shy smile and sat down next to Gao Han, "That's right, I'm going to go back to Spain to receive coaching training in February, you know."

"I know, what's wrong?" Gao Han still felt strange.

It's not a day or two for Zidane to receive coaching training, and he's receiving training at the Chinatown training base. According to Gao Han's guess, it seems that it's been almost two or three years.

After following Gao Han to Paris Saint-Germain, he also returned to Spain to class every once in a while, mainly focusing on national team match days and league suspension periods. Gao Han also knew this clearly and did not think anything strange.

"I... am about to get a certificate." Zidane grinned and laughed.

"Is that true?" Gao Han was also very happy. This was a good thing, "Which train will be in May this year?"

Zidane smiled and nodded without saying a word, as if saying, "Brother, you don't care about me too much. Fortunately, I'm still chasing you to class."

Gao Han shook his head awkwardly and laughed. He had never cared much about such things.

In fact, for former professional players like Zidane, the Spanish Football Association has a training course called crash course, which can get a coaching certificate in the top league within about 60 days. However, many head coaches did not choose this method to get the certificate, but instead received the certificate after a systematic theoretical training.

Zidane and Marklele both signed up for the coaching training class in Chinatown, and the French midfielder was one period later than Zidane.

"Then I really want to congratulate you on your successful graduation!" Gao Han laughed and really reached out his hand.

Zidane shook his head and laughed, but he still shook hands with Gao Han and accepted Gao Han's congratulations.

"Then are you looking for me for graduation thesis?" Gao Han asked again.

Zidane nodded, "I hope you will be my instructor."

"Me?" Gao Han was a little surprised.

Zidane nodded seriously, "I plan to focus on Paris Saint-Germain's offensive and defensive system, so I hope to get your guidance, I don't know..."

"Of course!" Before Zidane finished speaking, Gao Han agreed first, "For me, this is an honor."

Zidane smiled immediately after hearing this. He knew that Gao Han would agree, but before he got the answer, he must have been a little nervous. After all, Gao Han's position in European football is too high, so high that his former superstar feels that he is a little taller.

As far as he knows, as the instructor, Gao Han brought out only one coach, that is Guardiola.

And everyone knows how high the former Barcelona coach is in today's world football.

Everyone has no doubt that once Gao Han leaves the front line of coaching, Guardiola will become the hottest head coach in the world.

"Since you chose me as your instructor, I think we should have a good talk."

Zidane nodded repeatedly when he heard this, "Of course."

"I still clearly remember that when you retired, you once said that you would not choose to be a head coach, but why did you change your mind later?" Gao Han asked with concern.

When Zidane heard this question, he first laughed, but did not answer immediately. Instead, he asked Gao Han curiously, "You should have kept this question in your heart for a long time, have you been wanting to ask?"

Gao Han was frank and laughed, which was a default.

Zidane knew very well that Gao Han was not trying to slap him in the face, or to use his words back then to mock him, but was just purely curious, or wanted to understand him more deeply.

He is a person who doesn't like to express his worries. Whether he treats the media or the friends around him, he will not easily tell his worries. It's like a question similar to Gao Han. If someone else comes to ask, he will definitely not answer it, but since Gao Han asked, he will say it.

"Actually, I don't know either." Zidane smiled shyly, "I didn't think about coaching just now. You know, coaching is a hard work. I have experienced so many head coaches. I often tell myself that only those masochists like to be head coaches, stay at home easily, spend time with their family and children, invest in some careers, and have a very leisurely life."

Gao Han understood Zidane's initial thoughts very well.

At his level, money is no longer the most important thing for him. With Zidane's past and current reputation and influence, he doesn't have to worry about money at all. Even after retirement, he can still earn a good business income every year. With his previous deposits and investments, he can spend the rest of his life comfortably and comfortably.

"In 2009, I remember it was March. It was the first time Florentino told me that he wanted to return to Real Madrid. He planned to invite Mourinho as the club's head coach and Valdano as general manager. He hoped that I could help him. At that time, he gave me the position of the chairman's special counsel and sports director."

"You know, with my relationship with Florentino, it's hard for me to say no to him. After three years of vacation, I suddenly realized that the days without football were not easy at all. It was okay at first, but gradually, you will find that these days were boring, just like a useless person. Can you understand that feeling?"

Gao Han nodded slightly, "After coaching Chelsea, I have been resting for a year and feels very similar to you."

"It was great to follow Florentino back to the Bernabeu and return to the familiar environment." Zidane closed his eyes and looked very enjoyable. "I am very obsessed with the pressure brought by the game, even the nervousness and anxiety before the game, the tension and excitement in the game, I am particularly obsessed with it."

"People are always very strange. It's like a person who is addicted to smoking. He tried hard to quit, but the more he quit, the more he smoked, the bigger he got. When I came back three years later, there was a voice in my mind telling me that you belong here, you returned to the world you are familiar with, and you can't live without it."

Gao Han could fully understand Zidane's feeling. In fact, many players have talked about this to Gao Han, and Guardiola also said that Zidane was able to fight for it from refusing to accepting, and even now taking the initiative to fight for it, it can be seen that he is following his true feelings to change himself.

Change is a normal person.

Gao Han also always believed that no one would make fun of him three years later for a sentence from Zidane three years ago.

"My job was the link between the head coach and the chairman in the early days of Real Madrid, but you know, why would I want to try to get into the head coaching field?" Zidane asked.

"I don't know," Gao Han shook his head, "Why?"

"Because of you!"
Chapter completed!