Today, Dutch giants Eindhoven announced that German Rogge Schmidt will be the team's head coach for next season. This is the second time that former guoan manager Schmidt has picked up the whip after class, but coaching Eindhoven is destined to become the biggest challenge for Schmidt.
| screenshot of the official website of the Eindhoven club
With Schmidt's ability, there is no doubt that re-employment in European football is sooner or later. Despite his flaws, overall he is a coach who is recognized in Europe.
In the end, Schmidt and Eindhoven held hands, it should be said that from the level of the team and the coach, the two sides can still be regarded as a door-to-door match.
Schmidt's coaching resume, in addition to guoan, is mainly in Red Bull Salzburg, Austria, and Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. One is no.1 in the third-rate league and the other is the second-rate team in the top flight, but what about Eindhoven?
Eindhoven is one of the traditional top three in the Eredivisie, tied with Ajax and Feyenoord, who have won 24 Eredivisie titles, ranking second in the history of Dutch football, behind Ajax, who won 34 titles. And there are 9 more than Feyenoord.
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In the Champions League, Eindhoven and Feyenoord, although inferior to Ajax, have also won the championship. Eindhoven won the title in 1988, when the team's leader was Ronald Koeman (who later joined Barca) who was the world's best free centre-back at the time, known for his heavy artillery long-range shots and long shots at the back. In addition, there is van Brucklen, the greatest goalkeeper of Dutch football, and centre-forward Kift (who played for Serie A Pisa and Turin).
Later, Romario, Ronaldo, Van Nistroy, Robben and other superstars played for Eindhoven and moved from Eindhoven to Serie A, La Liga and Premier League.
| from left: Gurlitt, Romario, Ronaldo, Van Nistelrough, Robben
Eindhoven has a lot of great Dutch stars in its history, but many of them are not well known, because the history of Dutch football is the history of the competition between Ajax and Eindhoven, in the process of competition, Ajax is often better, players from both sides will be excluded from each other in the Dutch national team, so Ajax stars are often more famous because they are often able to participate in major competitions such as the World Cup and the European Championship, and Eindhoven's stars are often turned away. For example, the aforementioned goalkeeper Van Brookelen and the centre-forward Kift are among the best players in the history of Dutch football, but they are not well known because they rarely participate in world-class competitions.
Speaking of which, in fact, everyone can know the position of Eindhoven in the Dutch league, in other words, he is the absolute "second boss" of Dutch football.
The quality of the Dutch league in the Europa League is not high or low, certainly not as good as the traditional five major European leagues, but much stronger than the Austrians that Schmidt has coached. Eindhoven can be regarded as a traditional strong team in the second-rate european league, and it is also a regular visitor to the UEFA Champions League, just like the portuguese super three (Porto, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon) and the top three teams in the Turkish Super League (Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbahce), and they can qualify for the Champions League group stage and be at the bottom of the group stage if they play well.
This is indeed a door-to-door pair for Schmidt, who has coached Bayer Leverkusen and Red Bull Salzburg.
But for Schmidt, Eindhoven could be the biggest challenge of his coaching career. Why?
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Coaching at Red Bull Salzburg is not difficult for Schmidt, a team that is significantly better than the rest of the Austrian League due to its backing on the rich in the sports circle of the Red Bull Group. Mane, Soriano, Alan and Campoir are clearly not configured to play in the Austrian league. Therefore, Schmidt coached Red Bull, and it is right to win the championship, and it is not right not to win the championship.
At Leverkusen, Schmidt's goals were different. Although Bayern is also one of the strongest bundesliga teams, because Bayern's power in the Bundesliga is too strong, a team like Bayern can only guarantee that they can win a Champions League qualification, even if they are successful, it is more difficult to shake Bayern. So, for Schmidt, as long as the results are not too bad, he can also make a difference.
In Guoan, when Schmidt took over, it happened to be the trough of Guoan, and it was the time when the replacement of the new and old was just completed, and with the large investment of Guoan in the past two years, it was not difficult to pull the team out of the trough.
But Eindhoven is different. After all, this team is Ajax's sworn enemy, and the champion has won a lot. For Eindhoven fans and bosses, there were only three outcomes, with PSV Eindhoven winning, Ajax winning and other teams winning. If the result is the latter two, then sorry, the coaches are not qualified.
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Winning the championship is definitely a goal to be achieved
Eindhoven has been taking turns with Ajax to win the Eredivisie title for several years, and this season the team has not done well, currently only fourth in the league, so the team's head coach Van Bommel is dismissed and temporarily taken over by assistant coaches, which has the plan to hire Schmidt next season.
Then next season for Schmidt is very stressful, or win the championship, then he is the hero of the team's re-emergence after two years, if he still does not win the championship, then Schmidt and Van Bommel are no different, they are losers.
When Schmidt was in charge at Red Bull, his team was in the position of being challenged. He coaches Bayer Leverkusen, he belongs to the challengers, but neither the fans nor the top management have such a strong desire to challenge Bayern. In Guoan, Schmidt is also a challenger, the team hopes that he can lead the team to challenge Evergrande and SIPG, and win the league championship, but in the end Schmidt did not complete this task, which is related to his personal ability on the one hand, and on the other hand, there is also a certain relationship with the team lineup of Guoan.
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But Eindhoven is not Beijing Guoan, and Eindhoven is indeed capable of challenging Ajax. In other words, Eindhoven is more likely to win the title than Guoan, which is more pressure on Schmidt.
In Schmidt's coaching career, he has not yet successfully challenged as a challenger. From Leverkusen to Beijing Guoan to Eindhoven, Schmidt is a challenger, less difficult but under pressure.
So, arguably Eindhoven is the biggest challenge of Schmidt's coaching career, definitely the most stressful.
Finally, a little digression. Eindhoven is a team with Asian players. In the past, Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-woo started from here and went to the Premier League, and then Sun Xiang also played several seasons at Eindhoven, and also played European competitions with the team. Now there is also a Japanese young general in Eindhoven's squad. Previously, there have been rumors that the national security young general Wang Ziming may choose to stay in the West in the next year, with Schmidt coaching here, will Wang Ziming's dream come true?
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A lot of encouragement was also given
In fact, as a foothold for Chinese players to stay in the West, Eindhoven may still be a little stronger, and if it is a midstream team in the Dutch League, it may be more suitable. But in any case, Schmidt coached in the Dutch first division, and there is also one more way for the Dutch first.
I hope that among the Guoan players, someone can become Schmidt's disciple again.