Beijing time this evening, Manchester United officially announced Ajax coach Tenhag to join the team. Taking office after the start of the new season, he signed until 2025 with a one-year extension clause.
Tenhag this man, what?
After Dutchman Tenhag and Manchester United reached a gentleman's agreement, someone on social media joked: "Next season, two clubs in Manchester will be the first time, led by a bald coach at the same time!" The person who said this said only said the most conspicuous point of the many commonalities between the two teams. It is said that "smart brain melons do not grow hair", Tenghag has no Pep Guardiola smart, outsiders can not say. Tenhag is far from playing as well as Melon, that's for sure. This year, whether the kicking kung fu is good or not is no longer the first element of coaching. Not even a factor. Just look at the resumes of Tuchel and Nagelsman, and you know that the most important thing in today's professional coaches is professional ability. Your personality, appearance, beliefs, or sexual orientation don't matter. The important thing is: will you teach? Can you win?
Tenhag and Gua had a brief intersection. During the three years of Guadalcan bayern, Tenhag was the pipe band of bayern second team. Knowing that Manchester United intended to find Tenhag to coach, Gua half-jokingly said: I am willing to recommend Tenhag to Berghiristan to inherit my position. In addition to the early retirement, Tenhag's football philosophy and team-leading style have too many similarities with Gua - everything is big and meticulous; in life, in addition to football, it is still football. The two sowed the seeds of future coaching in their hearts very early on. Very early on how to build a team and how to win games. The subtle difference may be that Tenghag is a "hundred thousand whys" type of child who always offers extraordinary insights into conventional practices. Not every coach likes kids who are so inquisitive and gushing. But it's very "Dutch". Feel that you are different from others, and do differently from others. It is a Dutch tradition to argue for a day over a trivial matter.
It is this spirit of breaking the casserole and asking the question to the end, and the tireless attitude of learning, that has allowed the Netherlands in the land of bullets to give birth to generations of outstanding players and coaches. There is nothing in Tenhag's life that deserves a big book. He was born in Enschhede, not far from the Dutch-German border, but not in the city, but in Oldenzal, a small town a dozen kilometers outside the city. Full countryman. That place, quiet and peaceful, there is no difference between the morning peak and three o'clock in the afternoon. "The chances of being hit by a local's bike are higher than those of a car!" Outsiders feel this way. Such a small place, out of a Tenghag, very long face to the villagers. Last season, Tenhag took Ajax to the Second Dutch First Division, and a group of young men spontaneously set off fireworks at the mouth of the town to greet him. Tenhag got out of the car, took a picture with them, got in the car and went home. The whole time there was no fuss. Just like the people on this side, there is money in the pocket, but it is not at all squealing. Tenhag was by no means a poor child. There are not many high-rise buildings in the town, the Teng family is the largest local real estate agent, operating the largest local financial management company, the office building is in the center of Enschhede, the logo is very eye-catching.
But Tenghag is not the "second generation of the rich" and "the second ancestor" that people imagine. Playing small, what he wants, his parents want him to earn money to buy. For example, if he wanted to buy a bicycle, his father asked, "Do you have money?" Can you afford it? "Nothing? Then you have to think about earning. Fortunately, children in Europe and the United States want to earn some pocket money, and there are still many ways. The Teng family is three young, only Eric is obsessed with football, and he forgets to eat and sleep. His footballing inspiration grew out of a local amateur club, small in size but better in facilities than many Championship clubs. Such clubs abound in the Netherlands. The club's bar walls are dotted with jerseys and photographs from the Tenghag player era. Tenghag's childhood friends also tutored their children to play football here. In Oldenzal, the surnames of the residents are very chic. Before Napoleon invaded the Netherlands, the Dutch had no name. Take the emperor's order: all must have a surname. So everyone got a surname. A bit like during the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese took the name of occupation, place of residence, and environment, and derived a large number of "Yamaguchi", "Yamashita", "Watanabe", and the Dutch mostly used the place of residence as a family name.
Tenhag, which literally means "in... The witch above" and "ten" are unique and indivisible parts of the Dutch surname, underscored in Dutch, but in the Flemish region of Belgium, not only capitalized, but often merged with the following words. Dutch surnames mostly lead with "Van", "Van Den" or "Van der" at first glance, "Teng", and 90% know where the Honorable Driver's House is. The original meaning of the word Hahe is unknown, but according to the ancient language, it is almost synonymous with the same word in English. Tenghag Sheding's dignity, Bao Buqi will be compared with the ugly and vicious witch. Most of his friends have the same surname. Speaking of the interesting things about Tenhag's childhood, the words are common: Tenghag not only loves to ask questions, but also loves to talk back. For example, if anyone says that Federer is the number one in the tennis world, he must bar Nadal, just to be different from others. Because there is no need to play football for money, Tenghag's motivation to love the sport is more pure, and it is also very hard and deep to study. Playing football is just the only way he has to go in order to coach in the future.
His playing career, although not dazzling, is also a pass. Represented Twente in the Dutch Cup. Twenty years ago, Tenhag hung up his boots. Playing football doesn't give him any more credit and income, but it lays a good foundation for him to coach. He immediately took up his post at Twente as an assistant coach in the echelon, with the club's senior assistant coach Luten as his teacher. After 6 years of drying, Lu Teng left and he continued to work. In 2008, Tenhag was promoted to a team assistant coach, supported by McLaren, who had just been fired by the FA. As soon as McLaren took office, Tenhag was impressed: "He pulled out a folder with a detailed plan for 6 weeks of pre-season preparations, accurate to every minute of each day. McLaren sighed: "Before I thought I knew ball, then I thought I didn't understand anything." The pursuit of correctness and perfection in detail has become Tenhag's motto. Even if some details are felt unnecessary by many people, he still cuts them to the end. At best, this is professionalism, not good, that is, "turtle hair", nitpicking and so on.
How "turtle hair" is Tenhag? During training, different training vests can not be put together casually, and he even interrupts training for this reason. Even in training, everyone has to pass the same socks. When training, all players must come out of the locker room at the same time to go to the court, not in pairs. Tenhag's life was not idle for a moment, the Champions League eliminated Juventus and Real Madrid, he did not enjoy the victory, but immediately threw himself into the Preparation for the Dutch League, even if the opponent was only Fortuna. His training program is also full of work, pressing from the front court to the rear organization. McLaren Quatenhag: He can foresee things in the game that other people can't see, including me. I had to climb into the stands to see the formations of both sides, and he could see them all from the sidelines. He always has a contingency plan for all situations. McLaren assisted Ferguson, and he blew Tenghag to this level: I used to see Ferguson's substitutions puzzled. But every time the change was right. The same goes for Tenhag. If someone else blows it like this, there is still a loss of credibility. McLaren blew it like this, and you can't help but sigh: it turns out that the England head coach is a big straw bag!
Tenhag only worked as an assistant to McLaren for one year, and then he jumped ship to Eindhoven and his former teacher Luteng round, where he was still an assistant teacher. After 3 years of drying, he went to the Dutch Second Belt forward eagle, and the first test cry brought the team back to the Dutch first division in 2013. The Forward Eagles had been in Dutch Second Division for 17 seasons at the time. Achieving his goal, Tenhag pulled out the camp again and went to Bayern to coach the second team. At the same time, Gua also attended classes at Bayern. He felt that following Gua could further consolidate his coaching connotation. At Bayern, Tenhag not only has the opportunity to learn about how clubs operate abroad, but also avoids the pressure of coaching. Bayern's affairs, whether on or off the pitch, cannot escape the media's pursuit. "Even if a hundred things are done correctly and one thing is not done correctly, the media can make a big fuss." He will soon taste it at Manchester United. Tenghag learned and taught, and did not mechanically copy melon's theory. He was particularly stressed about pressing, even if the players on both sides were no more than two meters apart.
Two years after Bayern, Tenhag set off again. He returned to the Netherlands to coach The Dutch side Utrecht. Here, Tenhag has made new progress – how to speak to the media. When he first arrived, he had too much breath in his sentence, "Hum haha" was distracting. This problem has always accompanied his transfer to Ajax. Ajax's coaching seal is second only to the national team. Here, Tenhag really learned to speak, and in the face of a large number of media, he was talking endlessly. He took Guadalcan's training model to Utrecht — stopping the confrontation every 30 seconds and telling the players what was wrong. As a result, Tenghag's training session was similar to That of Gua, and the players were tired of remembering in their minds, and the fatigue of the body fell second. Two months later, the quality of the confrontation and the efficiency of the match in Utrecht changed dramatically. It is said that Steele, the former goalkeeper coach of Manchester United, was invited to give a lecture in Utrecht, and he was also impressed by Tenhag's on-site command, how to deal with the players at every moment on the field, Tenhag helped you think about the arrangements. Steele specifically mentioned: I have a heavier accent, he can understand me, his English is fine.
Tenhag stepped up Utrecht's defence, and for two and a half seasons Utrecht was firmly in the top five of the Dutch first division. The Eredivisie top three: Ajax, Eindhoven and Feyenoord, were able to hold the top two in the remaining 15 teams, and this answer sheet won him Ajax's chances. People who have worked with Tenghag say: Tenghag is a good person, has a firm will, and has a clear goal. You are willing to go to the soup for him. On 21 December 2017, Tenhag was hired to coach Ajax. The history of the Ajax team has been passed between the famous players of the team since Cruyff, and there are also examples of outsiders leading the team, but the background is as ordinary as Tenhag, or rare. At first, Ajax's players also looked down on him, thinking that a countryman was incompetent. But like Gua, he overcame the adversity in the early days of leading the team and won the Dutch first division twice in three years. Tenhag is always prepared and predetermined. Someone asked him how he succeeded, and the answer was: Some people always walk out the door, but ride a tall horse back to their hometown.
Wen | Lin Liangfeng
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