[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills":3,"chapter-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-347":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The God of Football Starts With Passive Skills",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},484083,734,"Chapter 347 - 80: Blitzkrieg! Klopp’s Rise to Power! Suarez: I’m Not as Good as Wang Shuo! The Ill-fated Van Gaal","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-347",347,"\u003Cp>Take Santana, for example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was definitely going through some things in his personal life, and Klopp knew it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, for this match, Santana was benched. It was a form of protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just think, what would a player think in that situation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would definitely be moved to tears with gratitude for the head coach!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another classic example happened not too long ago. After Mourinho poached Sneider from Real Madrid for Inter Milan, he immediately gave him a long vacation, letting him clear his head and take care of his personal affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After he returned, Sneider’s form was explosive, and he was completely devoted to Mourinho!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there are counterexamples. For instance, a manager might treat his players well but end up losing the match, or even the entire season, and get sacked for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to the code of confidentiality in the locker room, no outsider would ever know what the head coach really did for the players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But everyone inside that locker room remembered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt, Klopp was the type of head coach who could earn the complete trust and support of his players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of which, Wang Shuo recalled an interesting story he had heard during his time at Mainz.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did Klopp rise to power back then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, the head coach of Mainz was Klauen, who had a bizarre level of confidence in his own influence in the locker room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the team performing poorly and the players holding major grievances against him, the famous German coach decided to do something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took all the players to a hotel, ordered them drinks to give them some liquid courage, and then asked them to make a decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you still support me staying on at Mainz?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they chose to support him, then everyone would work together to help Mainz out of its predicament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they refused, Klauen would resign on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to insiders, Klauen’s plan was to use this method to force the players to declare their continued support for him as head coach. He would then stage a touching reconciliation scene, making peace with everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grand finale would be Mainz staging a comeback from the depths of a slump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the classic script Klauen had envisioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the final result was completely beyond Klauen’s expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he returned to the hotel and asked everyone to declare their stance, aside from a small group who remained silent, every player who spoke up said NO!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This outcome was completely unexpected, and Klauen completely fell apart!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’This isn’t the script I was expecting!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how could the head coach of Mainz be willing to give up so easily?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, he went back on his promise. Instead of resigning, he decided to hold a press conference to try and oust the locker room leaders, including Klopp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, Heidel and others intervened, dissuaded Klauen, and forced him to resign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that was how Klopp subsequently came to power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the moment he took over, Klopp had the full support of everyone in the locker room. Mainz immediately went on a winning streak and successfully avoided relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through this incident, Wang Shuo learned a lot from Klopp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Almost all of a team’s problems don’t come from the outside.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Neither the fans nor public opinion can really bring down a team.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’What truly causes a team to collapse is always something internal to the locker room.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Either the management is making trouble and severely affecting the locker room, or irreconcilable conflicts have arisen within it.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’And when the locker room is forged into a solid, united block, that’s when the team’s fighting spirit is at its absolute strongest!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Klopp’s method of managing the locker room might require more heart and energy. It might be slow to show results, or you might not see any effect at all.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Sometimes, when dealing with players with more eccentric personalities, it might not be very effective.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’But once he succeeds in unifying them, the team becomes incredibly formidable!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the case with Mainz before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shuo believed that the current Dortmund team was the same!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Morning of February 8th. Amsterdam-Zuidoost, Netherlands.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ajax had been in excellent form recently, boasting an undefeated record of four wins and two draws in their last six matches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was especially true for their last two games, a 4-0 victory over Roda JC and a 3-0 win against Twente, both of which were decisive victories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This allowed everyone at Ajax to breathe a collective sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere at the De Toekomst Training Base was also very lively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As training time approached, the players gradually arrived, chatting and laughing all the way from the parking lot where they met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once they reached the locker room, the discussions grew even more animated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to their historical ties, and with two former Barça players, Oleg and Gabriel, currently on the squad, the Barça influence at Ajax was very strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After every match day, the most discussed topic in the locker room was Guardiola’s Barça.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Real Madrid was also a team that Ajax followed closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past weekend, there had only been one clash of titans: the Premier League’s London derby, where Chelsea defeated Arsenal 2-0 at home.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unlucky Gunners had once again fallen further behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only the beginning of February, and their hopes for the title were already gone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Luis, did you see yesterday’s Bundesliga match between Dortmund and Frankfurt?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young Uruguayan midfielder, Nicolas Lodeiro, asked Suarez.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lodeiro hailed from the Montevideo Nacional Team. He had just joined Ajax from Uruguay at the end of January for a fee of 4 million euros, and he shared the same agent as Suarez.\u003C\u002Fp>",960,"2026-05-30T11:12:32.829Z","2026-06-01T04:31:05.348Z",1,"novelbin.me","c5be849959c85398bb12261e7568ad492ad50876d98bbe4ea753a6c485918f50","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-348","the-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-chapter-346",400,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-god-of-football-starts-with-passive-skills-cover.jpg"]