By Luke James.
It is not up to elite point coaches to resort to control of their national team, especially after taking a young team to a historic league and cup double.
After leading Red Bull Salzburg to his seventh consecutive Austrian Bundesliga title, Jesse Marsch admitted to having such ambitions. Perhaps the detail to keep in mind is that Marsch is from the United States.
A true major League Soccer product, Marsch’s 13-year career has been split between seasons with D.C. United, Chicago Fire and the latest Chivas USA. Since retiring in 2009, the Wisconsin local has held six leadership roles, alternating between assistant and chief training positions.
Bob Bradley’s assistant at the 2010 World Cup, Marsch has left his countrymen behind. With the exception of Alphonso Davies, the former head coach of the New York Red Bulls is the most talked about figure in North America in this charming game. Marsch from MLS to hipster icon has been quick, however, shows no symptoms of stagnation.
The New York Red Bulls have become true contenders in 2015, earning a record 18 league wins for the club in the direction of winning the fan shield. The Red Bulls were defeated 2-1 in the Eastern Conference final through Columbus Crew, but defeat tarnished the feeling that an era had begun explained by Marsch’s taste.
By April 2018, the Marsch Red Bulls had solidified their tactical identity. They traveled to the West Coast at the end of the month to face Sigi Schmid’s LA Galaxy, winning a memorable 3-2 victory at StubHub Center.
In a fit partially explained by the individual excellence of Zlatan Ibramhimovic, the Red Bulls harassed and put the Galaxy well, especially in wide areas. The strength of New York’s giant press was such that it created the first purpose of the game.
Dave Romney, forced to go off the right flank, put his Galaxy teammates in a precarious position. While New York was engaged at half-pressure, Tyler Adams intercepted a loose pass from Bingham, before launching Alexander Gamarra. Isolated from the backpressure of LA Galaxy, the Paraguayan midfielder played the ball in the opposite half, 900, allowing Bradley Wright-Phillips to penetrate the defensive line.
With the Galaxy stretched across Gammara’s vertical pass, Daniel Royer had freedom of movement on the left flank. At this point in the Marsch project, the result was inevitable. Bradley Wright-Phillips made a low center at the time of the pole, allowing Royer to give the Red Bulls a quick lead.
From a primitive level of his career, tactical flexibility has been the cornerstone of Marsch’s approach. The Red Bulls’ first purpose versus the Galaxy was not born of fortune. It’s no coincidence that Romney pressed as he crossed the middle line, nor is it surprising that he showed the inside.
Romney, deployed on the right side despite his left foot, the main target of the New York press. The Red Bulls’ victory over the Galaxy was based on two elements: quick and specific transitions.
While Marsch remains committed to these principles, the American double has eliminated a number of shortcomings in his training. With New York on the rise opposite to the Galaxy, Marsch replaced Aurelien Colin and moved Adams from midfield to right-back. The resolution almost charged the Red Bulls with the game.
The replacement allowed the hosts to take center of the field, nullifying LA Galaxy’s legal responsibility to beat the New York press. With Marsch’s strategy overturned, Ibramhimovic began to dominate and almost earned Schmid a point.
Bob Bradley’s European adventure has come to be explained by ridicule and failure. After a good fortune with Stabok and Le Harve, Bradley arrived in Swansea in 2016 in the hope of revitalizing a team he was suffering from. Instead, the former USMNT head coach was overthrown after only 85 days at the head of the Premier League team.
Bradley’s main league delight ended in poor condition. Swansea has won only twice in Bradley’s 18 games, tying twice and losing seven times. Only John Toshack and Colin Appleton also misbehaved on Swansea’s bench.
The defining symbol of Bradley’s time in England was not the 4–1 loss to West Ham, who commissioned him; it was his use of American terminology that put the cat among the pigeons. After a 3-0 loss to Middlesbrough, Bradley rated a “PK” penalty and his team’s scale in the Northeast a “match on the road”.
In the end, Swansea’s American delight failed. If Bradley’s delight in the Premier League had yielded positive results, the British press could have forgiven him for occasional Americanism. Instead, Bradley’s language barrier created an additional obstacle that he had to overcome. The resolve to fire Bradley caused serious damage to American football’s reputation and contributed to the birth of Ted Lasso.
In the context of Bradley’s failure, Marsch’s arrival in Europe was met with some skepticism. Marsch, initially assistant coach at RB Leipzig, has so far moved away from the traps that plagued his predecessor.
Upon his arrival in Lower Saxony, Marsch installed a “punishment wheel” to inspire spirit.
“There’s a wheel in the locker room,” RB Leipzig head coach Ralf Rangnick told Bild. “There are other segments about this with other punishments.
“Monetary fines rarely do anything. This hurts more when they have less free time, for example.”
Having evolved under the Red Bull style in New York, Marsch’s transition to life in Europe accelerated as Rangnick’s assistant. After an audition in Leipzig, Marsch ran out as red Bull Salzburg’s head coach in April last year. Salzburg sporting director Christopher Freund said:
A few months after his appointment to Salzburg, it has become clear that Marsch is the right person.
Red Bull’s style was to namely Salzburg’s 5-2 win over Wolfsberger AC in August 2019. Although the score flattered Salzburg’s performance, tactical trends continued through the club and the coach was evident on an afternoon in which Erling Haaland fully dominated.
Salzburg was covered with an undeniable 4-4-2 formation for Wolfsberger’s visit. Haaland and Patson Daka led the line for the hosts, while Andreas Ulmer, Jerome Onguene, Andre Silva and Patrick Farkas were Marsch’s 4 side.
While Haaland’s hat-trick made headlines, Takumi Minamino’s virtuoso most vital to Salzburg’s success. Drifting inside the right flank, the Japanese alien controlled the lane between the defense and Wolfsberger’s midfield. Minamino’s freedom helped generate an area that Farkas could exploit on the flank, but it also created an overload in the central areas.
As Royer’s first purpose opposed to LA Galaxy 16 months earlier, Salzburg created opportunities by exploiting the media spaces. The mastery of Salzburg’s stopped kicks also played a decisive role in the good fortunes of Marsch’s canoe and led to the purposes that allowed Salzburg to win the issues opposed to Wolfsberger.
Contrary to intuition, Salzburg’s 4-3 defeat to Liverpool was the adjustment that propelled Marsch to the world stage. Praised for his team speech at halftime, a war cry pronounced in German and English, Marsch said: “You’ll have to feel, guys, you’re going to have to know we’re here to compete, not only that we’re here to stylistically try playing the same way, but we’ve come to play.
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He demonstrated the tactical flexibility to succeed in a primary league. While LASK remains the main source of opposition to Austrian hegemony in Salzburg, the festival in Europe remains a real challenge for Austrian Bundesliga champions.
After the league and doubles of the Salzburg Cup, Marsch was involved in several jobs in the German Bundesliga, not in particular with Borussia Dortmund and Hoffenhiem. Although the U.S. head coach made the decision without delay to cancel the forecasts that he could leave Salzburg this summer, it is telling that Marsch is discussing at the same time as a imaginable holiday in a primary European league.
After proving his worth in Salzburg, Marco Rose moved to Borussia Monchengladbach. Marsch is lately the sensible thing about a control conveyor; If you continue to expand Salzburg’s prodigious team, control will come in in countries such as England and Germany.
Jesse Marsch is about to take off; Red Bull gave him wings to fly.
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