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Chapter 605 Century Gambling 【Two in One】

As the eldest brother Kempes stood up and made his first statement, [Prince] Redondo, [Zone of the Wind] Caniggia, and [Wizard] Veron all stood up at the same time, came to Li Tongfan, and stretched out their hands gently with a smile...

At this moment, a few big hands that were either young, white or veined were firmly held together, as if the gods were holding the scepter of the gods to control the life and destiny of all things, and everyone's face was full of passionate expressions!
Li Tongfan knew that it was from this carefully prepared information that he finally made these Argentine football bigwigs, who were either proud, humble, silent, or cynical, truly recognize him as the head coach... All this has nothing to do with the great reputation and mythical record of "God by the Football Field" in the past four years.

Football, at this moment is the common belief of all! !

And as an assistant coach Li Bing, at this moment, his heart is also surging!
Among such a group of people, assistant coach Li Bing trembled with excitement like a high school student who was about to receive an award on stage for the first time.He understood that he was not qualified to stand with these people and hold hands tightly. All these incredible opportunities were brought about by this guy who was much younger than him!
At this time, although these former football superstars are only sincerely admiring Madman Li alone... However, as a Chinese compatriot, Li Bing feels as if he is admiring himself, a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that he has never had before, drilled out of thousands of pores all over his body!

And he understands better that this is just the beginning!

The World Cup, a dream journey for one person and a group of people, finally begins!
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The media reporters were pleasantly surprised to find that since the reorganization of the coaching staff of the Argentine team, the ruthless lunatic Li suddenly seemed to be a different person. He actually opened the HPC Sports Center of the University of Pretoria with great kindness, allowing fans and media to enter the ABSA Tuks Stadium training ground and watch the daily training of the Argentine team nearby!
6 month 30 day.

This is the first day that the HPC Sports Center, the headquarters of the Argentine team, officially opened to the public for the first time since the opening of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

The weather was fine with a slight morning breeze.

The blue sky is dotted with many white clouds.

This sunny and beautiful scenery makes it easy for people to think of the saying that has been widely circulated among Argentine fans——

The blue sky is vast and quiet, and the white clouds are agile and elegant.If God is not a fan of Argentina, why is the sky blue and the clouds white?
And now, the Argentines have enough reason to look forward to the Hercules Cup, because they do have a 'God', and, at once, there are two 'God' - Madman Lee and Maradona!
The team's training has already started.

On the sidelines of the ABSA Tuks Stadium training ground, thousands of fans and hundreds of reporters squeezed into the small stands made of stone steps, watching the morning training of the Argentine team at close range.

Many people are very curious about how such an atypical [8-man coaching staff] will start their work in the Argentine team. This is why a training session can attract so many fans and media.

And it turns out that they didn't come in vain. A scene that stunned everyone was going on at the ABSA Tuks Stadium training ground——

A generation of football king Maradona has a cigar in his mouth, a gold chain gleaming around his neck, wearing a blue and white Adidas training suit all over his body, and a pair of sullen red football boots that he took away from some player.

Maradona's goalkeeper training?
The tongues of the 'audience' were almost dropped by themselves!
What surprised the fans and reporters even more was that Marshal Ma's training method is so simple and so unbearable——

Every time a smoke ring was sprayed from his mouth, Marshal Ma would lightly shoot the football in front of him. Although Maradona had retired for many years, Maradona’s footwork was obviously unquestionable. According to Marshal Ma’s wishes, the football drew various incredible trajectories in the air and flew into the goal.
"Attention!! I will shoot this ball to the lower right corner..."

"Wow, get rid of... idiot, you actually rushed to the lower right corner? Judgment in advance! Do you understand? Could it be that the opponent's striker will tell you where to shoot during the game?"

"Wow wow wow wow, beautiful save!!"

"Okay, haha, great, you have the strength to be the main goalkeeper, come on!"

Marshal Ma yelled, his training enthusiasm seemed to be very high, while the fans and media reporters in the stands on the stone steps couldn't help but have black lines one by one. This kind of training method... Uh, it doesn't take the usual way, it really fits Maradona's character!
Not far from Maradona's training ground, [Prince Elegant] Redondo and [Bald Wizard] Veron are leading the midfielders and defenders to conduct regular set-piece tactics drills. The former guides the defenders, while the latter guides the attackers. They also practice some common set-piece raid tactics in a decent way...

The big bald Veron looked very happy.

He finally returned to the national team, although only as a coach rather than a main player, but Veron is already very satisfied with this. As a 36-year-old midfielder, Veron feels that he should not expect too much.

After grinning and asking Riquelme to complete a set-piece and score the goal according to his own tactical intention, Veron walked over triumphantly, patted Romy on the back, and said with a big smile, "Hey, Romy, we were teammates half a month ago, but now, I have become a coach with a lot of power. Hey, train hard, be obedient, I like you!"

Riquelme couldn't help covering his ears!

This is already Veron using the same sentence three times in less than an hour to show off his coaching status to himself. At the beginning Riquelme would disdainfully counterattack with "You can go to the game if you have the ability"... But now, the tireless midfield commander can't wait to shoot this big bald man who has been smiling lewdly at him into a Sakyamuni with a football!

farther away.

[God of War] Batistuta and [Zonda of the Wind] Caniggia are guiding the team's strikers to shoot.These two veteran strikers with distinct technical characteristics and very different shooting styles are obviously able to hold the 'field'. Beside them, every Argentine player is listening to the explanation of these two legendary shooters in the history of Argentine football with extremely admiring eyes and the most concentrated posture...

Training side.

Crazy Li, Kempes and assistant coach Li Bing stood.

Crazy Lee is discussing something with Kempes.

These two men, while carefully observing the situation on the training field, laughed loudly and said something, while the assistant coach Li Bing, from time to time, would go to a certain part of the field to the side of the training crowd, interrupt the ongoing training, and explain something in a low voice to Maradona or Redondo and others...

Obviously conveying the meaning of Madman Lee!
And soon, the training of the 'big-name coaches' will make minor adjustments accordingly!
Although it seems that the role of Li Bing as an assistant coach is just a mouthpiece without self-consciousness, but Li Bing is willing to fulfill his duties conscientiously, without any expression of dissatisfaction or loss on his face!

Because, he understands very well that in this way, he can constantly observe, and then analyze the changes of Madman Li and communicate with Maradona, Batistuta and others to deeply understand the deep meaning of each training, and everyone's training ideas will give him the greatest inspiration!

And Li Bing believes that this is the real reason why Li Tongfan asked him to do such a job.

Undoubtedly, what was displayed in front of the fans and the media was a vivid and unique training session that had never been seen before.From coaches to players, there is no one who is not a super big name!
On the stone steps of the ABSA Tuks Stadium training ground.

The joyful laughter of the fans never stopped.

I don’t know why, everyone—even some harsh reporters, when watching the Argentine team’s training, there is always a feeling, like bathing in a river of happiness, the corners of the mouth will turn up slightly inadvertently, and the mood will quietly and involuntarily get better...

And the most die-hard Argentine fans in the crowd, I don’t know when, they have burst into tears - Kempes, Diego Maradona, Caniggia, Redondo... Finally, I saw these legends who had bid farewell to the green for a long time, and once again put on the dreamy blue and white jersey and appeared on the green field...

Before that, this was exactly what they dreamed of!
And today, I finally saw it!
It was Crazy Lee who helped them make this dream come true!

Of course, not everyone feels comfortable when facing such training!
Among the crowd in the stands, there was a short, middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap. He looked very inconspicuous among the more than 1000 fans. He was not a reporter, but he held a small video camera in his hand. With a more serious and professional attitude than the reporters, he recorded the entire training process of the Argentine team.

His name is Caral Gado, and he is the coach of the Mexican team.

The main responsibility of Caralgado is to observe the training situation of the Argentine team, provide detailed and reliable tactical reference for Mexican coach Aguirre, and help the team prepare for the quarter-finals!

Some time ago, before the opening of the HPC Sports Center to the public, Madman Li used to climb trees or walls to complete his work, but today, he can finally sit in the stands and observe the opponent's training at close range.

Caralgado is a crazy fan of the Mexican team, so crazy that he thinks that the Mexican team is the best in the world!
This has nothing to do with his profession!

In Caralgado's character, there are more or less national sentiment factors that are too proud and conceited. Except for the Mexican team, he looks down on any team-even a team whose strength and reputation are far stronger than the Mexican team!

Today, he was sitting in the stands, while filming his opponents' training and preparations, while looking at the excited and tearful Argentines around him with disdain, his heart was full of disdain...

"A group of old guys who have long passed away and been eliminated by football, do they deserve such a welcome?"

Caralgado admitted that the [8-man coaching team] reorganized by Madman Lee does look like a star-studded big-name gathering, but it just looks like it.As a professional football coach, Caralgado can clearly see that the training that Maradona, Redondo, Veron and others are doing at the moment is simply child's play-in form, it is in full swing... However, in terms of practical effect, it is far inferior to the level of those sports coaches who are cheating and drinking in poor rural schools in Mexico!

"Aside from murdering the attention of the media and fans, this group of people will do nothing!!"

After observing for more than an hour, the coach of the Mexican team, Caralgado, finally made such an evaluation.He wrote his evaluation on the small notebook he carried with him for the reference of head coach Aguirre!
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ABSA Tuks Stadium training ground.

After the regular training, the adult team and the under-21 youth team played a small match. At this time, it was the turn of Kempes, who was in charge of the team's tactical training, to play. The first team put on the 3-2-1-4 formation that the Argentine team had always insisted on before, and started training!

The fans in the stands screamed excitedly!

Compared with the slightly boring classification training, this kind of confrontation training that is full of competition and closer to the game is obviously more able to satisfy their watching psychology!
And the spotlight of the reporters has never stopped!

Each of the more than 30 men who appeared in front of their eyes was eye-catching enough, especially with the gimmick of Maradona and Redondo coming out again. With these precious photos, if the content planning is good, it is very likely that the newspaper will be out of stock! !

ABSA Tuks Stadium training ground.

The Argentine senior team is playing a signature 3-2-1-4 attacking tactic.

Facing Argentina's 3-2-1-4 onslaught tactics that swept South Korea and Greece with a big score, the arrogant Mexican coach Caralgado dared not neglect at this time. You must know that this tactic created by Madman Li fully demonstrated the terrifying attacking power of the Blue and White Army.

No matter how arrogant Caralgado is, he also knows that in the face of such a violent attack, the pressure on the Mexican team will be unprecedented. With his personal ability, he is completely unable to find a way to break this tactic.

Calaldado began to record the Argentine team's 3-2-1-4 tactical drill in earnest.

ABSA Tuks Stadium training sidelines.

Li Tongfan seems to have been paying attention to the team's training.

In fact, as early as one or two hours ago, I discovered the Mexican scout crowded among the fans in the stands.Because about four or five days ago, when the group stage was coming to an end and the week of the quarter-final match was basically determined, that short, strong and dark guy began to sneakily appear on the fence of the HPC Sports Center and the giant trees around the training ground, peeking at the training situation of the Argentine team...

Li Tongfan knew from the first day that this guy was a spy of the Mexican team, but he didn't specifically pick him out!

Today's training is the first time that the '8-member coaching staff' has been formally employed.

The training conducted was not to familiarize the players with the secret tactics against Mexico, but just to stabilize the mentality of the players through this relaxed training method in the event of a major change in the coaching staff, so that the entire team can find the rhythm and state of the previous three-game winning streak in this relaxed and happy atmosphere!
This is why Li Tongfan is willing to take the initiative to develop the HPC sports center - the screams of the fans in the stands and the cameras of the reporters can always stimulate the adrenaline secretion of men and boys at such moments.
Therefore, Li Tongfan was not at all worried that that guy would be able to spy on any useful information. On the contrary, Lao Li felt that maybe keeping this guy, letting him record everything today, and deliberately passing some wrong information to mislead and interfere with his old opponent Aguirre's judgment and formation in the upcoming game would be a more "meaningful" thing than directly driving this "spy" away!

What's more, Li Tongfan has never felt that the Mexican team can pose any threat to the team, so whether it is physical strength or technical dexterity, it is not as good as the Argentine team.

On this day, the Argentine team's training throughout the day has been open to the public.

Fans and media who came to watch the team's training crowded the HPC Sports Center, while the coach of the Mexican team named Calaldado has been crowded in the crowd, observing and recording for a whole day!
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The entire process of the Argentine team's [8-member coaching staff]' first day of work was reported and reproduced by countless media. Maradona's exaggerated goalkeeper training methods, Veron and Redondo's simple set-piece training process, and Kempes' tactical analysis drills are all hot topics in the football world!
Fans were overjoyed at what they saw -

"Finally saw [Prince] put on the Argentine team's training uniform again, woohoo, so happy, at this moment, even if I die, I am willing, thank you Crazy Li!"

"...Seeing Veron and Riquelme, the two art masters of Argentine midfielders who have been fighting for the position of the national team for many years, smiling all over their faces during training, I suddenly felt warm in my heart. This scene is like watching [The Lion King] Kahn and Lehmann shaking hands in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

"Madman Li and Maradona, the heavyweight combination of two gods, this is definitely a classic scene that will be forever engraved in the history of the World Cup!"

"Even if we can't win the championship in the end, this is definitely the greatest Argentine national team in history. As a fan born in this era, I am so happy!"

"Batistuta smiled, Messi, Higuain and Tevez surrounded him... Seeing this scene, I was so excited that I wanted to cry!! God of war forever!"

"..."

Compared with the reaction of the fans, although there are voices of praise in the media, more prestigious football experts and commentators, starting from the realistic ability of the coaching staff, are not very optimistic about this combination——

"...I don't want to comment on the abilities and experience of Maradona, Kempes, and Redondo as coaches. I don't want to say more. I just want to say one thing: 8 people want to complete the work of at least 25 people. This is simply impossible. From this perspective, I am not optimistic about the next journey of the Argentine team."

The famous German football player [Tiger] Effenberg, in his personal column, pointed out the root of the problem.

Zinedine Zidane, a French art master who holds a similar view, said, "It's hard for me to imagine how the 8-member coaching staff can complete all the training data, tactical analysis, opponent analysis, and team physical testing. You must know that football training is not just on the field. The coaching staff must complete an unimaginable amount of work off the field! Could it be that the crazy Li has to complete all the work by himself?"

Compared with the relatively gentle tone of [Tiger] Effenberg and Zidane, some people's tone is quite harsh, it is simply a naked attack——

Former Juventus general manager and [conspirator] Moggi, in an interview with reporters, said in a very disdainful tone: "If Crazy Li can reach the quarter-finals with such a miniature pocket coaching staff, then I will jump bare buttocks to the Mediterranean Sea to swim naked!!"

[Conspirator] Before Mo Ji and Li Tongfan, there was a grudge!

In the 08-09 season, in the knockout round of the UEFA Cup, Li Tongfan led Newcastle to bloodbath the Alpen Stadium, and Moggi, as a fan of the Bianconeri, had a bloody verbal battle with Lao Li at that time.

Next, something that made the media excited -

Crazy Li, who has always been dismissive of media criticism, unexpectedly responded to [conspirator] Moji's provocation in the most positive way: "Joke, that dirty and shameless old guy, who has the right to tell me what to do? If I can't lead the team to the World Cup semi-finals with the 7 partners around me, then I will kneel down and kiss that bald old man's toes!"
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Two in one.

Spent a day on the train today.

Just arrived at the hotel.

Brothers and sisters, please forgive me.

(End of this chapter)