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As a Northern Irishman, Rogers was only 39 years old when he took over the Liverpool coach.

In the coaching profession, Rogers is absolutely young and terrifying.

However, there may be a huge gap in age from the old coaches who have rooted in Premier League football, but in personal football philosophy, the "young" Rogers is not necessarily much worse than other long-established coaches.

Rogers' struggle experience is a trajectory that the public can learn from and fits the growth trajectory of many people who dream of becoming a football coach.

After all, Ronaldo and Messi are only a few who stand at the top of the football pyramid. More children who dream of becoming football stars may end up just like Rogers: they do not see the hope of becoming a professional player, and then pursue a second career.

Rogers, who retired at the age of 20, can only get up at 6 a.m. every morning and go to a warehouse not far from home to work as an keeper, move goods, keep track of water, and then spend his free time at night for coaching and learning.

Rogers, 22, became the coach of the Reading Youth Academy, leading a group of several-year-old dolls to play football every day.

Rogers is a hardworking man. After becoming a coach at Reading College, he began to use his time to conduct study tours.

Spanish football is the most appreciated by Rogers. From 1995 to 2003, the Spanish football has prevailed in the 4231 style. The wingers such as Joaquin, Vicente and Echbelia have outstanding strength; Super Deco and Galaxy Battleship generation Real Madrid, Barcelona in the era of Rivaldo, and Valencia in the era of Mendieta all left a deep impression on Rogers.

In addition to Spain, Dutch football is also the goal of Rogers’ study. In a personal interview with Rogers, he said, “Spain and Dutch football have the greatest impact on me. This is the foundation of my entire football theory. In me When I was a player, I was interested in possession of the ball, not in English football. Because when we were playing against Spanish and French teams, we could only chase the ball but not get it. I wanted to change. "

Rogers has a long-term vision. In the years of playing wild football, Rogers learned Spanish and asked the best team and the best coach humbly.

During his eight years in Reading, Rogers has gradually been promoted from the most common youth training coach to the position of Reading youth training supervisor.

Facts have proved that gold always shines.

Rogers was introduced by Clark, who was then Chelsea assistant coach. Clark recommended Rogers to Mourinho. Rogers left the position of head of Reading youth training and became the coach of the Chelsea youth team.

Rogers followed Mourinho for 3 years and naturally learned a lot. "Following Jose, I learned a lot of experience. He trusts me very much and has always encouraged me to be a head coach. After working with him for 3 years, it feels like I have studied at Harvard University. After he left Chelsea, I was heartbroken. "Rogers is grateful for Mourinho's advice.

Rodgers, who is hardworking, studious, and meticulous, is also Mourinho's favorite type. Rogers can see the shadow of Mourinho. For example, he likes to take small records during the game and gets the true story of Mourinho's "diligence".

But Rogers has many differences from Mourinho. In handling interpersonal relations and dealing with the media, Rogers is quite self-cultivating, with appropriate language, not leaking, and a diplomat.

At Chelsea, it was the stage when Rogers became his own coach. In 2006, Rogers, who was trusted by Mourinho, became the head coach of the Chelsea reserve team.

From Reading leading a group of little boys to becoming the head coach of the Chelsea reserve team, Rogers ushered in a huge leap. "I started coaching with a bunch of 5-year-old dolls, and now (Chelsea Reserves) Shevchenko is playing under me." Rogers absolutely staged the "reverse attack" of the coaching session. myth.

Following the parting of Mourinho and Chelsea, Rogers also chose to fly solo soon to pursue his dream of a coach.

On November 24, 2008, Rogers was appointed as the head coach of the British championship team Watford. This was his first top management job. Rogers was only 35 years old at the time and was the youngest head coach in the English Champions League. When he took over, the team was 21st, only two points higher than the relegation zone. In the end, Rogers led the team to 13th in the midstream at the end of the 2008-2009 season.

A very exciting half-season coaching experience has also made the young Rogers a hot star in the English coaching session.

The first to extend an olive branch to Rogers was his old club Reading.

The previous eight years of working experience enabled Reading to successfully hire this outstanding young coach.

It's just that the young Rogers, limited by the composition of the player lineup in Reading, did not lead the team to perform extremely brightly.

In the last 6 months, he led 23 games and won 5 league games. Only 1 game was won at home. The team is only one place behind the relegation zone. In the extremely cruel British Championship, Rogers' performance in half a season Absolutely fail.

On December 17, 2009, Rogers and Reading agreed to terminate the contract early.

After that, Rodgers did not rush to find the next coaching job immediately, but used half a year to summarize his whole year, coaching the two British Championship teams for half a season, to explore and perfect his own establishment. Tactical style.

After six months of theoretical accumulation, on July 16, 2010, Rogers was appointed by the Welsh club Swansea in the English Champions League as the head coach, replacing Paul Sousa who left the team and moved to Leicester City.

Coaching in Swansea, Rogers' philosophy of ball control has won recognition from the outside world. The team's offense is launched from the backcourt and passes through the ground to the frontcourt. Focus on possession of the ball, keeping the ball under your feet, unlike other teams, which frequently use side passes.

In his first season coaching Swansea, he led the team to the Premier League for the first time in history.

To know that 46 rounds of the English Champions League, hundreds of millions of pounds of income stimulation, in the English Champions League known for more physical confrontation, more rude game style, Swansea with a style of technical genre, the success of promotion is It’s not easy ~www.readwn.com~ And just last season, during his first Premier League journey, Rogers led the newly promoted Swansea to a record of 12 wins, 11 draws and 15 losses, ranking No. 1 with 47 points. 11 bits.

Last season, Rogers' Swansea possession rate of 58.0% ranked third in the Premier League, second only to Manchester City's 60.2% and Arsenal's 58.2%. In terms of pass success rate, Swansea tied for the highest rate of 83.5% with Manchester City. .

Rogers’ Swansea has the highest pass success rate and ball possession rate in the Premier League, and the number of fouls and yellow cards is the least in the Premier League. Swansea also won the "Premier League Barcelona" reputation.

And behind these brilliant coaching data, it is only Rogers' first Premier League season, in a small club of non-traditional giants, Rogers contributed a nearly perfect coaching season.

Last season, when Dalglish made it clear that he would resign after the end of the season, Liverpool's management was also considering whether to hire a world coach or a British "local coach".

However, many famous coaches in today's football are just a carrot and a pit. In the course of the season, Liverpool's private digging behavior did not impress many famous coaches including Klopp, and Liverpool could only Carry out plan B, dig coaches from small and medium teams that are easier to start.

Rogers, who was young and full of tactical ideas, thus became Liverpool's most desirable candidate at the time.

In an ordinary Premier League team, getting the call of the traditional English giants Liverpool, this is also regarded by Rogers as an important turning point in his coaching career.

Without any hesitation, Rogers took over Dalglish and left a fairly good Liverpool team. What Rogers has to do is to paint his own style on the original plan.