Chapter 97 Atletico Madrid reached the top!
The next morning, before the training session, the coaches and employees arrived at Majadahonda early.
Before each day's training session, the team holds a routine morning meeting to arrange today's training program and some matters of attention, such as player injuries.
Each department informs each other of their own situation to facilitate communication and avoid information asymmetry.
This has always been a very difficult problem at the management level.
Almost everyone who has worked in a company can deeply understand the importance of this issue.
Now, even if we don’t consider the administrative department of the Calderon Stadium, the number of people in the competitive department of Majadahonda alone has reached hundreds.
Even if we ignore all the players in the first team and youth training, there are still more than a hundred people.
If this happens to a company, without a complete and reasonable management system, such a team will not be able to operate well, let alone develop.
Yang Hao also realized this problem very early. As a time traveler from 2023, he is extremely dissatisfied with the current efficiency of information flow between departments in the team.
In his previous life, it was already a paperless cloud era.
He tried many instant messaging tools, such as ICQ, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, and found a very sad thing, that is, these instant messaging software have no group chat function and almost no office attributes.
In other words, today's instant messaging tools are just for chatting.
Within Atletico Madrid, communication between departments is still mostly done through emails or even documents, which is very troublesome.
So, when negotiating cooperation with the University of Madrid in the summer, Yang Hao used his connections to contact a professor in their computer department and paid for him to help find someone to develop an instant messaging software that supports text, voice and video chats.
Its biggest feature is that it supports special functions such as file transfer and group chat.
At the beginning, each department of Atletico Madrid was not easy to use, but after getting familiar with it, everyone exclaimed that it was really great.
In the past, before the regular morning meeting, each department had to hold a small meeting to communicate internally and then report to the morning meeting.
The most troublesome thing is cross-departmental communication, which involves all kinds of things, big and small. Sometimes, even the same thing needs to be repeatedly explained to multiple departments, and several meetings of various kinds need to be held, which is very energy-consuming.
Now what?
No.
The office is equipped with computers, and everyone is proficient in computer operation. Each department has its own small group, and cross-departmental groups are also created. All information is updated directly in the group.
Every day, information from each department is compiled into a document. All information is clear at a glance and forwarded to every department and every employee. Many issues can also be communicated and fed back in the group in the first place.
This efficiency is many times faster than email.
More importantly, after using it, the employees of Atletico Madrid Club have greatly improved their office efficiency.
Now, not only Majadahonda is using it, but Calderon's administrative departments have also started using it.
The Fan Service Department is also actively promoting it among fans, advocating that each fan club set up groups to facilitate communication between clubs and fan clubs and organize various activities.
Yang Hao was also happy to see this happen. The only trouble was that in order to ensure quality, the server had to be upgraded.
But Yang Hao has already agreed with Hill that Atletico Madrid is willing to pay a usage fee.
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It is precisely because of this software named "Line" by Yang Hao that the office efficiency of Atletico Madrid's coaching staff has increased dramatically.
Before the morning meeting, everyone had received information from other departments and was fully aware of the team's situation, so when the morning meeting began, they basically got straight to the point.
In their free time, everyone excitedly chatted about various news.
After playing against Valladolid, the hottest news in Spanish football is that Atletico Madrid has reached the top!
Although only two rounds of La Liga have been played and everything is still unknown, Atletico Madrid's ability to top the La Liga standings, even if only temporarily, has made everyone in the club excited and thrilled.
Parrales even volunteered to serve as a newspaper reader, reading news reports from major newspapers at the meeting.
"Ahem, here 's the front page headline of Marca. The headline is, Yang Hao and his Atletico Madrid, young but fierce!"
Parales read out the title in a very lifelike tone, which made everyone present burst into laughter. They all looked at Yang Hao with admiration in their eyes.
With two consecutive La Liga wins, plus the Super Cup and UEFA Cup, Atletico Madrid has played a total of 5 games so far this season, with 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. This record is amazing enough.
More importantly, Atletico Madrid leads the La Liga standings with an 8-goal difference, which is the most amazing thing.
You know, before the summer, the Colchoneros were still struggling to avoid relegation.
And the one who brought about this change was Yang Hao.
When many teams perform well, their players are praised the most and receive the most acclaim, but it is a little different in Atletico Madrid. Yang Hao is often more likely to become the focus of media attention than the players.
"As the team with the youngest average age in La Liga this season, Atletico Madrid was considered by everyone to be the favorite to avoid relegation before the start of the season. Among the odds offered by the four major European bookmakers, Atletico Madrid's probability of avoiding relegation is one of the least optimistic teams."
"Among the 20 La Liga teams, Atletico Madrid's probability of avoiding relegation is fourth from the bottom, which shows the outside world's pessimism about this team."
"But after the Spanish Super Cup, and especially after the two rounds of La Liga, Yang Hao and his team topped the standings, winning two games in a row 4-0. Atletico Madrid played the most exciting game and a half at the start of the new season."
When reading this, Parales stopped to explain, "Marca also specifically noted that the one and a half games was the first round against Oviedo and only the second half was counted." After saying this, he couldn't help laughing out loud.
The others also smiled.
After reading the report in Marca, Parales read reports from El País, ABC, and even several major media outlets in Catalonia, which were almost all full of praise for Atletico Madrid.
He was generous in praising the 25-year-old Yang Hao, saying that the Atletico Madrid team he coached, although young, was full of passion and vitality, especially the offensive football presented by the team.
"He is transforming Atletico and injecting his own football philosophy, an aggressive and attacking football!"
This was after the live broadcast of Atletico Madrid's game last night. Spain's famous gold medal host and Atletico Madrid die-hard, De La Morena commented on Yang Hao's coaching achievements at Atletico Madrid on the SER Radio program.
This evaluation is quite high.
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Yang Hao felt very happy and accomplished about the praise from the media and his assistants.
But he still sat there very "reservedly", with a smile on his face, trying his best to look humble.
Only after Parales finished reading the newspaper did Yang Hao signal him to go back and sit down.
The meeting is about to end, and before the players return to the team for training, the coaches and staff still need to set up the field, prepare the equipment, etc.
Everyone knew that he had something to say, and the meeting room suddenly fell silent.
"First of all, this is something to be very proud of. I am very happy that our team can achieve today's results. It is thanks to all of you and everyone in the club."
"But here, I have to pour some cold water on it. La Liga has only played two rounds now."
Everyone nodded.
This is an almost perfect start, but if Atletico Madrid becomes complacent because of this, it will soon fall from the clouds and even be shattered into pieces.
"I hope everyone can remember the pride and sense of accomplishment at this moment, because it will motivate us to work harder." Yang Hao is not only motivating the players, but also the team.
"Looking at the past few games, we still have a lot of problems, such as the players' lack of tacit cooperation, the lack of in-depth implementation of tactics, and the players' own shortcomings need to be strengthened..."
"We are still a semi-finished product. Believe me, we can become even stronger and better!"
Yang Hao's last words received applause from everyone in the conference room.
"Real Madrid beat Malaga 4-2 away from home. Raul scored twice, Celades and Guti also scored, but the most important thing was that Zidane scored a penalty."
As early as the beginning of the season, Yang Hao told everyone in the team very clearly to keep a close eye on Real Madrid and not let go of them. He even said, "As long as we play better than Real Madrid, we can win the championship!"
In the past, no one dared to have hope, but now, they feel more and more that there is a chance.
Look, Atletico Madrid is still ahead of Real Madrid in the standings.
"Zidane and Figo are both actively integrating into the team. This penalty kick may be an opportunity and we must not be careless."
Yang Hao reminded everyone in the team that Real Madrid, with Zidane and Figo, is the most terrifying opponent.
Especially after these two superstars have integrated into the team.
On the contrary, Barcelona has one win and one loss in two rounds of games and is currently ranked 13th in La Liga. In this round, they lost 1-3 to Athletic Bilbao away from home, and suffered a tragic reversal.
This is very embarrassing.
In addition to Atletico Madrid, there is another surprising team, Celta Vigo.
This summer, Celta Vigo sold two strong defensive midfielders, Celades and Makelele, at once. Currently, Celta Vigo is ranked second in La Liga, second only to Atletico Madrid.
Not to mention the two consecutive wins, they scored 6 goals and conceded only 1 goal. This report card is truly dazzling.
After losing to Real Madrid in the first round, Cooper's Valencia defeated Real Mallorca coached by Aragones 4-0 at home in the second round, showing strong offensive firepower.
In particular, Cooper also changed the previous 442 diamond midfield tactics and adopted a more balanced 4231 formation.
After playing against Real Mallorca, Cooper himself admitted that he drew inspiration from Yang Hao's Atletico Madrid team last season.
But Valencia's cards are much stronger than Atletico Madrid's.
The double defensive midfielders are a powerful combination of Albelda and Deschamps, the frontcourt is Kily Gonzalez, Zahovic and Mendieta, and the center forward is the Norwegian giant John Carew who is 1.96 meters tall.
Atletico Madrid's opponent in the third round is Valencia.
