Born to be a coach [soccer]

Sunderland faced Portsmouth in the FA Cup semi-final, killing a 4:0 in the first half.The Portsmouth manager turned green at half-time -

The two teams have no grievances and no enmity, so why did the opponent's Sunderland players attack their own goal recklessly this time as if their eyes were red?Could it be... is it really because of the "accident" that happened in the first half, when a Portsmouth player stepped on the Sunderland coach's glasses?

But Sunderland's head coach is obviously good-tempered, and it seems that he can command without glasses.Where did the misunderstanding come from?

Before the head coach of Portsmouth figured it out, the second half had already begun.

In the first half, Sunderland played a high-post press, with almost all players on top, but in the second half they changed to a big-health style of play.The team took a defensive stance seriously, leaving only Vardy wandering around the midfield, and immediately counterattacked whenever he had the opportunity.

In this way, before the end of the second half, Sunderland relied on this "defensive counterattack" tactic and scored two goals again.

The two "famous mouths" in the live broadcast room were also speechless: "I thought Sunderland would rush to the end, but it seems that they played very smartly!" Andy Gray watched Nodding, "It seems that Sunderland's head coach Anton is angry, but he has not lost his mind. Neither have the Sunderland players..."

"But Portsmouth look completely demoralized!" Richard Keys said, staring at the broadcast screen.The Portsmouth player who had bumped into Anton at the beginning had already been replaced. He kept covering his face with his hand, not daring to look at the situation on the field at all.

"But now I agree with the opinions of the majority of netizens. I think Anton looks better without glasses. I will vote for him as soon as the competition is over!" The comments added fuel to the fire, and the number of followers on Sunderland's official Twitter account increased a lot after the game.

In the second half, Sunderland stubbornly withstood Portsmouth's offense, but did not give the opponent a chance to score a face-saving goal, and the final score was fixed at 6:0.This means that Sunderland reached the FA Cup final with a shocking victory.

"I don't know if Carlo Ancelotti is interested in watching this game. Yesterday his Chelsea beat their opponents 3-0. Today Sunderland scored 6-0. In the finals, the two teams will meet. , I don’t know what kind of sparks will be sparked.” Andy Gray concluded today’s commentary.

At Wembley, the post-FA Cup press conference has already begun.The head coach of the Portsmouth team hardly said a word, and Anton faced countless questions from reporters after a few "official" words, all of which were about his glasses.

"Mr. Lin, did a small 'accident' on the field today disrupt your pre-war deployment? Was the tactics adopted by Sunderland also in your expectation?"

"Coach Anton, we all saw that you showed some 'emotions' on the field, and your emotions seemed to infect Sunderland's players-are these emotions the key to your team's victory today?"

"Mr. Lin, your glasses are very important to you. Today your glasses were accidentally damaged. Many people thought that you could not continue to direct the game, but you not only successfully directed the game, but also won I won a big victory, you...do you have anything to tell us?"

There were endless questions, and finally a reporter shouted anxiously in the back row: "May I ask if you are highly myopic like the rumors on the Internet?"

If Anton is highly myopic, how can he continue to direct the game without his glasses?But if Anton is not highly myopic, then why did he get so angry after losing his glasses?Isn't this... a bit contradictory?

At this time, Anton stretched out his hand and rubbed the bridge of his nose—people who wear glasses are used to the weight on the bridge of their noses, but at this moment they suddenly lost the pressure of the glasses, and they were not used to it.

As soon as he spoke, the audience immediately fell silent.

"The glasses are really important to me—"

Anton's voice was clear and clear. So far, he no longer felt the slightest bit of anger, but it was not as refreshing as before.This person is now cold from head to toe, and has a distance from this world.

"But I'm not highly myopic." Anton showed a little helplessness on his face at this time, "Everyone, haven't you heard of congenital hyperopia?"

— Hyperopia?

The reporters sitting below were basically in a mess at the moment: Who made everyone preconceived that Anton was short-sighted?People are obviously farsighted, farsighted!It is obviously more beneficial to direct the game in the vast Wembley Stadium!

The Portsmouth coach, who had been staring at his toes, let out a long sigh.

He also didn't know which muscle of No. 41 player in his team was going to crush Anton's glasses. Obviously, this didn't bring any benefits to the team at all, but irritated the opponent and made his team Having tasted such a fiasco...

Immediately afterwards, sharp questions came. A reporter asked: "Mr. Anton, do you think today's 'accident' was pure accident, or was it deliberately done?"

Anton's expression is very calm now, but no one can forget the vigorous anger he showed on the sidelines back then.If it was just a pure "accident", would Anton be so angry?

Anton did not answer this question directly: "I don't want to comment on this, but I believe that you will know the truth of this matter sooner or later."

The slow-motion replay of the game clearly showed that Portsmouth's No. 41 stepped on Anton's glasses on purpose-whether this was a private grudge, or was the Portsmouth player trying to win for his team? And what about the damage done?

The head coach of Portsmouth hastily came forward to clean himself and the team, saying that he knew nothing about the matter and had nothing to do with it.Because of this, he had to praise Anton and his team against his will, and wished Sunderland "good luck" in the final.

After the press conference, Russell was waiting for Anton on the Sunderland bus with the players, but he received a call from Anton: "I'm sorry, brother, you take the players back to Sunderland first! I have a personal matter." It's going to be dealt with in London."

The "old brother" Russell asked very worriedly, "Anton, you... are you okay!"

Today, seeing Anton furious and about to beat someone, he was terrified.

Anton smiled softly on the other end of the phone: "Don't worry! Thank you for your concern, Russell."

After hanging up the phone on the other end, Russell looked at his mobile phone, "cut" his mouth, and thought: How can I care about you?

The Sunderland player went back to Sunderland to rest, while Anton hurried into a black London taxi, gave an address, and the taxi drove to South Kensington.

When he got there, Anton jumped out of the car, entered the house in three steps and went straight up to the second floor.He opened his mouth and shouted: "Professor, professor... are you there?"

Professor Andrea Friedrich greeted him: "Little Tony, don't panic, don't panic, I'm here!"

"I was watching the live broadcast of the game when the accident happened. As soon as I saw your glasses fell off, I felt that something was wrong, so I quickly dropped the TV and rushed over. By the way, did you win?" the professor asked Anton .

"We won, 6:0," Anton, who rushed to the professor in one breath, panted slightly, staring at a person lying safely on the sickbed in the room, seeing his rosy complexion and relaxed expression, Anton felt relieved in one breath.

"6:0? Whoops!" The professor felt very excited when he heard that, but then he sighed again, "What a pity, what a pity!"

He looked at the patient on the bed with regret, "Such a beautiful victory. Bernard didn't get to see it."

"Yeah..." Anton could hardly continue, he came to the hospital bed, sat down, reached out to hold the patient's hand, the tentacles felt very warm.Anton's mood improved slightly, and he stretched out his hand to brush the curly black hair on the patient's forehead, revealing a face that was very similar to his own.

"Bernard—"

Anton leaned into his younger brother's ear and whispered the name.

But the professor rubbed his hands excitedly at this moment and said, "However, Anton, don't get too excited after I say it."

"I observed very encouraging signs this time." The professor signaled the nurse to take a stack of papers from the bedside table next to the hospital bed. "This is the record of the EEG device, which is Bernard's brain activity."

"This is the activity when your game starts, and this is the activity when your glasses have just been crushed and the signal goes out, and you can clearly see..."

Anton nodded while listening: "Yes, obviously."

At the beginning of the game, the brain waves obviously began to turn excited. Obviously, the atmosphere of Wembley Stadium made the blood rush and the adrenaline soared; and at the moment when Anton was hit by someone and his glasses were crushed, Bernard's brain waves immediately went into chaos.Anton could almost imagine that Bernard was undoubtedly experiencing anger, worry... and the despair of being suddenly faced with darkness.It took a long time before Bernard's brainwaves gradually returned to calm, and he calmed down in a daze.

"It's all my fault!" Anton reached out and patted his forehead, and said, "This time I was playing in London, and I was negligent for a while, and didn't bring a spare pair of glasses with me." He put the trampled pair of glasses on He took it out of his pocket and showed it to the professor.Those glasses are actually a small real-time image transmitter, what Anton sees and hears can be transmitted to Bernard with almost no delay.

"But doesn't this prove our conjecture that Bernard's consciousness is fully awake?" The professor reminded Anton, "We use the holographic technology used in 'Life in Greenery' to capture your thoughts when you are coaching the team and directing the game. What he sees and hears is transmitted to Bernard, who is completely able to sense it and can generate various emotions because of it."

Anton: ...Yes!

However, it is a pity——

Such a hearty 6:0 today, there is no way for Bernard to see it in its entirety.It would be impossible for Anton not to be angry—it never occurred to him in advance that someone would try his glasses.

The young man on the hospital bed was his brother Bernard, who was three years younger than him, a talented game and program developer, and also a football fanatic.

Since Bernard fell into a long-term coma for "unknown reasons" the year before last, Anton's life trajectory has changed.In the past, he had been busy with his family and his own career, but after that, he not only worked hard for his younger brother's treatment, but also wanted to fulfill his brother's wish——

Bernard has two wishes: one is that "Life in the Green" will become the most popular football simulation game in the world; The harvested champions are in the bag.

For these two wishes, Anton became the physical maintainer of the European server of "Green Life" and participated in the internal testing of the simulator.The second effort he made was to go all the way and become the head coach of Sunderland.

Professor Andrea Friedrich is a good friend of the family. In addition to the field of sports injuries and rehabilitation, this professor has also been doing research on neurology.After Anton escorted Bernard to England, Professor Friedrich carefully studied Bernard's situation and believed that Bernard was obviously different from the general "unconscious" patients.

Lying on the hospital bed for a long time, the patient's physical function will decline significantly.But Bernard did not, his limbs and muscles are still strong, without atrophy at all; his heart and lung function may be better than ordinary people; people, and it seems that they will sit up from the sick bed at any time.

In the words of Professor Friedrich, Bernard should be a "person living in another world", perhaps happily "playing games" in another world.

And Anton adopted the professor's suggestion, adding a transmission device to the old-fashioned wide-rimmed glasses he wears every day, and then using the holographic simulation technology used in "Green Life" to transmit it to Bernard.In other words, Bernard can see what Anton sees and hear what Anton says from Anton's perspective.After Anton took over Sunderland's series of measures and won a series of games, Bernard "should" be able to see, hear and feel.

But today's "indiscriminate disaster" was unintentional, allowing Anton to confirm that his brother did have a clear consciousness.

This discovery finally made Anton feel a little excited.

"By the way, did the player hit you today on purpose?" the professor asked Anton.

Anton nodded: "Obviously, it must be on purpose."

"Could it be that the head coach of the opposing team came up with such a trick in order to win?" The professor was also stunned.

Anton shook his head and said: "I had a brief chat with the coach of Portsmouth, and he doesn't look like such a boring person. Maybe some gambling|ball|organization wants my team to lose, or at least can't I won by a big margin, that's why I came up with such a trick. Really, there are so many people wearing glasses in the world, and not everyone is short-sighted, so why do some people think so hard?"

Even Anton couldn't help complaining, "This is good, once I get angry, it's completely impossible for them to get what they want."

The professor chuckled: "Maybe these people are just preconceived. After all, most young people who wear glasses are short-sighted. Who would have thought that you were born with long-sightedness?"

The two breathed a sigh of relief, and Anton turned his head to look at Bernard on the sickbed.Bernard was still the same as Anton had seen before when he came here, his face was rosy and calm, and the corners of his mouth were even slightly raised.Anton looked at it for a while, and felt that his heart was slowly letting go. The emotions that had been tormenting him were finally completely released at this moment.

"By the way, Anton, did you find anything in 'Life in the Green'?" the professor asked.

Anton shook his head: "A few days ago, I sifted through all the records of Bernard's account in detail, and found that he sent me a New Year's greeting this New Year's Eve, but I missed it at that time."

"I was so happy when I found this greeting, but after checking the underlying program again, I found that Bernard, a boring guy, actually wrote a program. Everyone will receive such a blessing message..."

When Anton talked about this, his expression was awkward, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Thinking of this, the professor couldn't help but smile: "That kid, Bernard, has believed in this since he was a child, thinking that programs and automation are enough. Relatives and friends can greet each other by writing programs... However, your father and Lingtang have always Being kept in the dark and not knowing about Bernard's recent situation is also because of this!"

When he said this, he caught a glimpse of Anton resting his chin on one hand, meditating silently, and his whole body revealed the solemnity and sadness of ancient Rome. The professor was startled and shut up quickly.

Anton laughed again, shook his head, and said, "Professor, don't worry about me. People always have emotions!"

If he had no emotions, he wouldn't have almost beaten Portsmouth's No. 41 violently, and his team wouldn't have killed for him, hitting a score of 6:0 with bang bang bang.

"However, I did find that the underlying data of 'Life in Greenery' is somewhat abnormally flowing recently. I think 'Life in Greenery' should be somewhat related to Bernard's current situation. This is worthy of my further research."

The professor also knew about "Life in the Greenery", so he nodded and said, "I also think that Bernard's current situation is related to the "Life in the Greenery" that had just been developed when his accident happened. If you have time, you might as well try it in the game Level up, generate a... full-level boss? Is it called this name! This way you get more permissions, and looking for clues left by Bernard in the game may be more effective than simply observing the flow of basic data. "

Anton nodded, and stood up as he said, "Thank you, Professor. Professor, Bernard is here for you. I have to hurry back to Sunderland, and when I get the spare glasses and put them on, Bernard's mind should be calmed down." There's a storm inside!"

Bernard stayed in London, where he could be cared for by the best medical staff, and professors like Friedrich were always concerned about his health—but for Anton, the most important thing was to let Bernard De hurried back from "another world", returned to this warm world, and reunited with his family.

Bernard, where the hell are you and what are you doing?

Why, you don't want to go back to the real world?

Anton sat on the train speeding along the northeast coastline, thinking silently in his heart.As soon as he thought of the word "reality", he felt a chill in his heart, and he reached out his hand habitually to push the glasses on the bridge of his nose, but in vain.

Ruben Smith and Mark Gary sat in the office of the "Daily Mail" editorial department, carefully studying the video of the FA Cup semi-final.

"Stop, stop, right here—" Reuben commanded Mark, "Zoom, zoom, zoom!"

They have studied almost every frame of this short piece of video data, and even zoomed in on every frame until every pixel is clearly identifiable.

"Here, that's the wrong place!" Reuben said.He pointed to a blurry bright spot on the screen, which was the moment when Anton picked up the broken glasses. The place Ruben pointed to was the broken bracket of Anton's glasses. Shiny and reflective.

"This... looks like the bracket for the glasses!" Mark felt that his boss would get nervous whenever something related to Anton happened.

Ruben glared and said, "Anton's glasses have dark tortoiseshell edges, why did you break the bright metal inside?"

Mark scratched his head: "Maybe it's the metal bracket embedded in it?"

Ruben was anxious, and yelled at Mark: "Which Italian nobleman have you ever seen, inserting metal into the tortoise shell?"

Mark: ... Hey, why does this sound so sour?

But Ruben calmed down and showed a cunning smile: "There must be something wrong with Anton's glasses. Hehehe! I have discovered the secret of this talented coach. The next step is to find a way to get Anton's glasses, take them It’s enough to get real evidence.”

Mark had a sudden thought, and asked Ruben: "Then... that Portsmouth player, did you instigate it?"

Ruben pointed to his nose and said, "Me? Can I make moves? These Premier League players earn tens of thousands of pounds a week. Who would be willing to do such a thing for the little money I can afford?" ?”

"This is obviously instigated by a high-roller who bet on Portsmouth's victory-isn't Sunderland's coach good at commanding on the spot? Then he can't command on the spot." Ruben said He continued to "hehe" with a smug smile at his conclusion, "But none of them thought that Anton of Sunderland was not short-sighted, but far-sighted, and he was born with it."

"It turned out that I, Ruben, benefited out of thin air, and got this news that will shock the entire football world in the future." The more Ruben thought about it, the more complacent he was, "Haha, hahahaha..."

Mark was at a loss by the side, thinking that the boss must want to be famous and crazy.

But Reuben's prophecy was very accurate.Only two days later, a scandal broke out in Portsmouth. The No. 41 player who ran into Anton last time, his family members were involved in high-stakes betting | football, and were investigated by the FA.

As soon as the news came out, many people immediately thought that Anton's glasses were inexplicably trampled off that day, and he made a fuss out of thin air.The Sunderland players supported the head coach and gave Portsmouth a good "lesson", telling them that their head coach is not easy to bully.

The final investigation confirmed that the player was indeed related to the gambling|ball|group, he was the target of the FA's severe crackdown, and was soon expelled from the Portsmouth club.Portsmouth club also bear a large fine for this, and publicly apologized to Sunderland and its coach Anton.This matter seems to have been uncovered in this way.

The author has something to say: Regarding congenital hyperopia, one of my acquaintances is like this. He was highly hyperopic when he was a child, and he wore a wine bottle bottom that exceeded [-] degrees. It looks like it can be seen from far and near.Anton's vision is basically written according to the experience of this "prototype".

Watched another UEFA Champions League semi-final last night, holding my chin... Our army's hole is a bit bigger... The club king is so good... Now I have no choice but to move forward bravely.I hope that the lineup will be neat in the second round, and the injuries will be gone, YNWA!

Big chapter here, that's all for today, see you tomorrow.