Chinese champion

Chapter 235 The Road to Glory, Mysterious Coach
After the victory over Siena, Inter Milan again experienced a 1-0 victory over Brescia at home in the last league game before the winter break. Old Miha scored the only free kick in the No.203 minute. With one goal, Inter Milan's points reached 26 points, securing its No.4 position. In this round of competition, Juventus and AC Milan tied 0:0, still ranking with 39 points and 35 points. In the top two places in the standings, No.3 is unexpectedly occupied by Udinese. They have achieved nine wins, four draws and three losses with 31 points in [-] league rounds, which is really eye-popping.

Udinese's good results are inseparable from the joining of Hu Yong. The midfield composed of him, Chilean midfielder Pizarro, Denmark midfielder Jorgensen and Czech midfielder Jankunovski can be called the best performance this season. One of the best midfielders, Hu Yong is particularly outstanding. He has done well in stealing, passing, launching fast breaks and returning to defense. He has already shown the level of a world-class midfielder. They have achieved nine Seven of the seven victories have not conceded a goal. In terms of defense, I am afraid that only Juventus can be better than them in the entire Serie A.

The winter break is here, and the players are on vacation one after another. Unfortunately, the two Chinese players, Pei Wei and Hu Yong, have no free time. They will return to China to participate in the national team's training camp for the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup that will start in February next year. prepare.

The Chinese team played three qualifying group matches within half a year after the end of the Asian Cup. He Jin did not recruit overseas players into the team, but sent a team composed entirely of domestic players.After a 0:0 draw with Kuwait in the away game, the Chinese team qualified ahead of schedule.

This training camp, the first is to prepare for next year's quarter-finals, and the second is very important. The Chinese Football Association will hold a press conference before the training camp to announce the candidate for the new head coach.

This time, the actions of the Chinese Football Association are very hidden. It is not as big as before, making it known to everyone in the world. In the end, a so-called "famous coach" who has never heard of it came back. Ali Han came to power before. At that time, someone on the Internet said a very classic sentence in a joking tone.

"I believe that I can do a better job than Ali Han as the head coach of the Chinese national team. Why? In the hearts of Chinese fans, Ali Han has zero popularity, and I also have zero. We are comparable in this regard. Ali Han dare not guarantee that he will be able to lead the Chinese national team to the World Cup, but I use my gender to guarantee that I will be able to lead the Chinese Olympic team to the finals of the 2008 Olympic Games!"

Although this is a joke, it also satirizes the current situation of the Chinese Football Association's previous coaching selection of "a big splash in a basket, a big tail in a broom, and a mysis".

This time was different. Fang Yatao quietly sent three coaching teams consisting of senior football veterans, college students who had studied sports management, and people familiar with the current situation of football coaches to three places in Europe, South America, and Africa. The itinerary is extremely hidden, the media only know that there are these three teams, but they don't know who they contacted.

So this also adds to the mystery of this operation. When the Football Association announced that it would hold a press conference on December 12 to announce the candidate for the new head coach, all football journalists across the country were like leeches that had seen blood. , flocked to BJ.

In advance, the Football Association has never revealed the candidate for the head coach. Even if someone familiar with it asks, they will only answer: "I can't disclose this in advance, but I can guarantee one thing. It is definitely a world-renowned coach, and Whether it is in South America or Europe, it has a high reputation, and it will definitely lead the Chinese national team to enter the World Cup and achieve good results."

Such an answer whetted the appetite of the media and fans. They began to speculate which famous coach was invited by the Chinese Football Association. They counted the famous coaches who were still at home one by one, but I can't guess who it is.

Jacques?Cooper?Heathfield?Turner Pattoni?
It looks like all of them, but it doesn't look like any of them, my mother, it's really puzzling...

In this noisy atmosphere, Chinese overseas players returned home.

When I came to Kunming Haigeng base again, the same building gave Pei Wei and the others a different feeling.

There is no big wolf dog, no "front and rear locks" on the iron door, no football bureaucrats with a straight face and abusive words...

"This looks like a training ground for the national team!" Pei Wei said.

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"Hey! You guys are finally here!" Wu Qi gave Pei Wei and Hu Yong a bear hug as soon as he saw them: "Everyone is here, let's go to Zhu Jun's room together, then The kid is ravaging Zhang Qi with a football on the computer."

"Hehe, he stopped pestering Zhang Qi to play billiards? Did he use computer games instead?" Pei Wei said with a smile.

"I guess I think there is no hope in this life with billiards... It's not bad to use games to find pleasure!" Hu Yong added.

The three of them walked towards Zhu Jun's room happily. Zhang Qi was being ravaged by Zhu Jun until she turned pale. When she saw them coming, she hurriedly gave up her seat: "Come on, come on, let me go, mother, this kid must have done nothing else in Spain." Yes, just practice this!"

Seeing that Wu Qi was about to take over, Zhu Jun hurriedly said, "Anyone can go, but you, Wu, are not allowed to go. It's not fair!"

"Why isn't it fair?" Wu Qi said strangely: "Why can't they go to me if they can?"

"Hey!" Zhu Jun smiled slyly: "We all eat with our feet...you are different, you eat with your hands, so you have an inherent advantage. Of course, it is only fair for other feet to fight me. "He still remembers the first time he played football with Wu Qi seven years ago and was beaten badly.

"Okay then, I'll come!" Pei Wei called out, took the handle Zhang Qi handed over, and asked with a smile, "Which team do you choose?"

"Do you still need to use a strong team to deal with you? Just barely use Spain!" Zhu Jun said triumphantly, he really didn't take Pei Wei seriously.

"OK, let me choose a weak team." Pei Wei also chose a team, and everyone around them opened their eyes wide: "Chinese team?"

"Wow, you're so despicable!" Zhu Jun yelled, "Is the Chinese team still called a weak team with a few of us? Shameless!"

"Spain is also a strong team..." Pei Wei said with a smile: "Spain is even better in this regard!"

While Pei Wei and Zhu Jun were having a great time playing, the others were watching the fight between the two while guessing who the new head coach would be.

So many media and fans across the country couldn’t guess it, and they naturally couldn’t guess it either. Du Wei first gave up after guessing wildly: “Hey, it’s useless for us to guess here. Tomorrow is not a press conference. Is it? Don't you know when the time comes?"

"That's true..." Li Min nodded: "But in fact, He Tou and Coach Feng are also good, just choose one of them, or it will be like last year when Pei Wei was in Mallorca. , Two coaches can coach at the same time.”

Hu Yong smiled: "It seems that this request was made by He Tou and Coach Feng. Now Chinese football needs a famous coach to help improve its reputation. This will also affect the international reputation of our country's football. Why? They will also be assistant coaches, and it is a good thing to learn from those famous coaches."

"I'm afraid that if we still find a parallel importer, it's better to let He Tou command us." Zhang Qi said sullenly.

Pei Wei, who was playing against Zhu Jun, turned his head when the ball went out of bounds and said, "Probably not. I heard that this time we only look for coaches who are very famous and have achieved good results. I don't think there will be Schlapp again." Coaches like Na and Ali Han."

Pei Wei said in his mouth, but his men were not messed up at all. On the computer, Zhu Jun broke through and passed the ball to Pei Wei. Pei Wei shot a strong shot from the front of the penalty area. Casillas couldn't make a save. The Chinese team led Spain 2:0 Team.

"Damn it, how are you playing so well!" Zhu Jun saw that the defeat had been decided, and he threw away the handle depressedly: "Substitute, I'll rest for a while, and I'll clean you up later!"

"Let's fight, let's fight! Whoever loses will play!" Pei Wei yelled enthusiastically.

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On the 22nd, BJ.

Although there was light snow in the sky, they couldn't suppress the flames flickering in the hearts of the reporters from all walks of life. No less than [-] reporters from all walks of life were crowded into the wide press conference hall, and there were nearly a hundred more who failed to get the pass. The reporter was still waiting anxiously outside the gate of the Football Association.

Finally at nine o'clock, Fang Yatao, Luo Gang, Zhang Long and other important officials of the Football Association walked up to the rostrum, but the reporters did not fix their eyes on them, but anxiously searched among the crowd.

Huh?How come all the people who come out are from the Football Association?Not to mention foreign teachers, I didn't even see a single foreigner!What the hell is the Football Association doing?

Seeing the restless reporters whispering to each other, Fang Yatao smiled, and whispered into Zhang Long's ear, "Hehe, it seems they are waiting in a hurry!"

Zhang Long also couldn't help laughing: "You guys are really good at pretending to be mysterious. You didn't let him come out with us at this time, but put him behind. I really don't know what to say about you!"

"It's called building momentum!" Fang Yatao proudly said, "The entertainment industry applies to the football industry as well. Now we have fully aroused their appetite, so that their interest will come. Otherwise, you think they will specialize in it for them. A live broadcast of a press conference?" He pointed to the CCTV-5 reporter who was setting up camera equipment next to the venue.

Zhang Long had to admire Fang Yatao's brilliant ideas. A press conference announcing the head coach of the national team actually alarmed the CCTV Sports Channel, the leading sports media in China, to conduct a live broadcast. The highest point, this Fang Yatao, does have the potential to be an entertainment company.

"Everyone, please be quiet!" Fang Yatao raised his voice, and the audience immediately fell silent: "Thank you very much for participating in the press conference held by the Chinese Football Association today. I believe everyone knows that this press conference is to announce the new appointment. Candidates for the head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Team."

Having said that, he paused for a moment and looked at the audience with piercing eyes: "This time our three coach selection teams have been dispatched to Europe, South America and Africa since September. During this period, we have contacted more than ten world-class coaches. We have inspected their current situation from various aspects, of course, their abilities are unquestionable, what we investigated is whether they are suitable to lead the Chinese national team and whether they can bring out the full potential of Chinese players."

"Here, I would first like to thank the members of our inspection team. During the four months, they traveled back and forth all over the world, collecting various materials, and constantly contacted the coaches. The hard work is the guarantee of the quality of our selection of coaches. Here, on behalf of the Football Association, I would like to say thank you."

Having said that, Fang Yatao and other Football Association officials stood up and bowed deeply to the TV camera.

The fans who saw this scene were all taken aback. This was the first time they saw on TV that the officials of the Football Association paid tribute to those behind-the-scenes heroes. Maybe you can say that this is a show, but at least those who can show It's much better than those who don't even want to show off, right?
It was also from this day that the outside world's vision of the Football Association has gradually changed. A football association that is not so bureaucratic really makes people start to have a good impression.

After bowing, the officials of the Football Association sat down one after another. Fang Yatao said with a smile on his face: "Next, please introduce the new head coach of our Chinese national team, the champion coach from Argentina: Cesar Luis Menotti! "

As his words fell to the ground, a tall and thin figure came out from the side door, with thin long hair, a thin face, and a cigarette that never left his fingers—leading the Argentine team to the 1978 World Cup championship The "smoker coach" Menotti!

"Wow! No way, how could it be him!" Pei Wei, who was watching the live broadcast in Kunming, jumped up: "It's actually the one who dared not call the 17-year-old Maradona into the team, but still won the World Cup Menotti! Didn’t he stay at home after he resigned from the Rosario Central team in 2002? Fang Yatao’s hands are really long, and he stretched them there..."

"He is probably in his 60s? Can he still lead the team? The old man has to be dragged out, Fang Yatao is really cruel..." Zhu Jun said without hesitation.

"Dare to speak ill of the chairman! I think you don't want to be in the Chinese football world anymore!" Zhang Qi cursed with a smile, and the few people started to make fun again, completely forgetting that the new head coach is far away in BJ...

(End of this chapter)