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2-4. There is a big gap between South America and Europe. Does Philippe Louis become a world-famous coach?

2:48pm, 2 July 2025【Football】

Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Xiaozhong reported

After the Brazilian civil war lost to Palmeiras's Botafogo, Flamenco became the second Brazilian team to be eliminated in this Club World Cup. Bayern has obvious advantages, and the gap between South American football and European football is huge.

The game just started 10 minutes, and Bayern led 2-0. Flamengo has been behind the score since then. But compared to the first half, he was 0-4 behind Paris Saint-Germain. If Paris Saint-Germain did not stop, Miami International, which would even lose by a larger score, Flamenco scored at least two goals, and Gerson's first goal scored was quite beautiful.

Flamenco conceded 4 goals, one was an own goal, two were intercepted in the backcourt and scored, and the other was cleared by the penalty area and passed to the opponent's feet. These 4 goals were all caused by Flamengo's own mistakes and were gifts he gave to others. But this cannot deny Bayern's strong frontcourt pressing, and it cannot deny Bayern's absolute advantage. Flamenco's mistake was made under Bayern's oppression.

Bayern pressed at the beginning, and Flamenco was stunned. In just 6 minutes of the game, Bayern won three corner kicks in a row. In the third corner kick, Flamengo Chilean midfielder Eric Poulga headed the ball and scored an own goal. In the 42nd minute, he fouled against Kane and Pulpga received a yellow card. If the referee enforces the law more severely, the yellow card may be a red card. What's even more unfortunate is that when confronting Kane, Pulga's foot bone was still cracked and had to be replaced.

Flamengo's second goal conceded in the 10th minute was that De Alascaeta was intercepted by Bayern French central defender Dayo Yupamecano when he was taking the ball from behind in the backcourt. After Kane got the ball, he shot hard outside the penalty area. The ball hit Flamengo's right post into the net. Gorecca scored in the 41st minute by Flamengo striker Luis Arauroo cleared the ball not far from his penalty area. The ball fell to Bayern 8's feet. Gorecca shot from a long distance outside the penalty area, and the ball flew into the lower right corner of the Flamengo goal. In the 73rd minute, Flamengo scored a goal in the backcourt, and Luis Arauroo was intercepted by Lemmer. Kimmich made a straight pass, Kane pushed the ball into the lower left corner of the goal, and he scored twice, and the score was locked at 4-2.

Bayern's four goals were all due to the opponent's mistakes. In addition to the own goal, the accuracy, calmness and strength of Bayern players when scoring the last three goals are also commendable.

Of course, Flamenco played no uselessly. In the 33rd minute, Luis Arauro made a cross from the left, and Gerson shot hard in the penalty area. In the 54th minute, Da Alascaeta made a cross from the right, Olise made a handball, and Jorginho scored a penalty, which once tied the score to 2-3.

According to the live broadcast data of Brazil's "Global Network", flamenco took 51% of the ball, and Bayern 49% of the ball; the number of passes, flamenco 453 times and Bayern 398 times; the success rate of passes, flamenco 88% and Bayern 85% of the ball; the number of shots, flamenco 12 times, shots 4 times, Bayern 7 times, shots 4 times; the number of corner kicks is 4-4, the number of fouls is 18-17, and the number of yellow cards is 4-5.

The data on the official international football website are: flamenco takes 50% of the ball, Bayern 38%, and the other 12% is the time when the two teams are in a fight; the number of shots, flamenco takes 13 times, 3 shots, Bayern 8 times, and 4 shots; the number of fouls, flamenco takes 18 times, Bayern 19 times; the number of passes, flamenco takes 517 times, 449 times, Bayern 471 times, and 404 times.

In terms of data, Flamenco even has certain advantages, but Bayern plays colder and more efficiently.

Boards were hung at the end of 2023. In the first half of 2024, Felipe Louis coached the Flamengo U17 and U20 youth teams successively. On September 30 last year, Felipe Luis replaced former Brazilian national team coach Titt as the head coach of Flamengo. The match against Bayern was just the 50th official game of Philippe Luis coaching Flamenco First Team. Of course, this game is also the most important game in his coaching career so far. Against Bayern, Flamenco lost 2-4, which is the first time since Philippe Luis has lost with more than 3 goals since he became the head coach of the Flamengo team. In 50 games, Felipe Luis scored 34 wins, 14 draws and 6 losses, scoring 91 goals and conceding 29 goals. In the previous 49 games, Flamengo scored 89 goals and conceded 25 goals.

At the post-match press conference, Philippe Luis also admitted that Flamengo's skills were not as good as others, and Bayern won was convincing. He said: "(Bayern) is a team that is very high-level and better than us. It's very simple, it's like that, it's better than us, they should win and should advance. This is my point of view on the game. We made a mistake in the backcourt, which led to the goal. After being scored the second goal, we didn't make any mistakes in the backcourt. We played content at one time, quite a bit of content, and we once turned the score 2-1. But since that moment, Bayern forced us into the penalty area of ​​our side, and we couldn't get the ball because The opponent is a very high-level team. They don't concede the ball, they press you so hard that they suffocate you. After conceding the ball, they put very strong pressure, and physically they have an advantage. There were several times when we tried to fight back, but they returned very quickly, with 6, 7 or 8 people coming back at the same time. But we can't give up our way of playing, which makes us closer to victory. "

As a player and as a left-back, Felipe Luis played in Europe for 15 years. He is diligent and studious, and he uses his brain to play football. In the old continent, he has won respect and praise. This time, in the Club World Cup, on the biggest and highest-level stage in his coaching career, Felipe Louis' performance was also very impressive, and he also won respect and recognition. In the 3rd match of the Club World Cup Group D, Flamenco defeated Tunisia Hope 2-0, defeated Chelsea 3-1, drew 1-1 with Los Angeles FC, 2 wins and 1 draw, and qualified as the first in the group. Farren, Flamenco also played his own style. Bayern coaches also respect Philippe Louis, who is now the head coach.. When they went to the locker room after the final whistle, Bayern generals greeted or hugged Atletico Madrid's front left-back. As the head coach,

in the match against Bayern,

has won praise from European media despite not coaching for a long time. On June 29, Spain's "As" said: "After his team's outstanding performance in the Club World Cup, as an elite team coach, Felipe Luis has become famous worldwide. He has trained a team that combines physical, technical level and ambitions to defeat any opponent he encounters."

Unlike what Asa said, Flamenco failed to defeat Bayern, but this did not affect his evaluation of coach Felipe Luis. After Flamengo and Bayern's match, the Spanish website of Marca commented: "Filipe Luis received a doctorate degree at the world level. He has a future and a very big future."

Interviewed by CBS TV in the United States, Flamengo Club football manager José Botto also praised Filipe Luis, saying that he will become a world-renowned coach in the future. The Portuguese said: "His player career, his ability, his wisdom, his desire to improve every day. This is a mark of great coaches. I have no doubt that in the next two years, he will become one of the greatest coaches in the world." Why is José Botto so confident in Filipe Luis? The Portuguese explained it themselves. Botto said: "He has a style of playing very well. He doesn't change his football style for no reason. This is also a characteristic of great coaches. He is very well prepared, he is a workaholic. He likes to do that very much, he has knowledge of European football. That's why I left him and I'm very happy with his job."