Born to be a coach [soccer]

The referee whistled, Anton turned and shook hands with the Blackpool manager.

The words are not speculative, and the head coach of Blackpool made a lot of harsh words during the period when Sunderland "disappeared", and now his face hurts.So after saying "Congratulations", the opponent's coach immediately ran away, not daring to say anything more.

After all, after this game, the two sides went their separate ways, Blackpool continued to work hard in the English Championship, and Sunderland was about to restart the Premier League road.If there is no meeting in the FA Cup, we should not have any intersection in the next year.

Anton then took his players to the Sunderland fan area and applauded the fans.The fans in the stands shouted his name in unison: "Anton, Anton, Anton—" expressing their gratitude to the young coach.

Where would they be without Anton...the Championship?Or League One?

Sinking to the bottom, is there a chance to wake up?

At the same time, Anton also saw two large banners that the fans had prepared for a long time were displayed in the stands. The banners were spread out, each of which was tens of meters square, and a large group of fans held them above their heads.One reads "Premier League, we're back!" and the other reads, "Tremble, Magpie!"

"Magpies", of course, refers to Newcastle United, Sunderland's arch-rivals, who are currently waiting for their return in the Premier League.

——Didn’t you forget to declare war on the mortal enemy at this time? !

Anton couldn't help feeling the corners of his eyes twitch slightly.He himself has a personality of "it's better to resolve enemies than to make knots", so he may not fully understand the grievances and grievances between the two teams on Tyne that have been entangled for decades.

However, he learned from the media earlier that Newcastle United also said: If Sunderland is promoted, they can only celebrate with gongs and drums-after all, they only know how to cherish once they have "lost". This season, how boring!

Newcastle, far in the northeast: Black cat, let the horse come!

After the game, the players naturally went back to the locker room to celebrate crazily - double.In order to prepare for this promotion play-off before, everyone won the FA Cup and held back abruptly.At this time, the joy can finally be completely released.

Also worth celebrating is the start of the summer holidays, when, with the exception of Eriksson and Shaqiri, all players without national team duty can enjoy a short break with their families.They will return to Guangming Academy in early July to start preparing for the new season and play a few warm-up matches.The new season will start again in August.

But Anton couldn't join them immediately, there was a press conference waiting for him.A while ago, Anton hid from the media for the team, which must have caused a lot of complaints.Therefore, Anton decided to appease them this time, answer more questions, and give them something to talk about, so as not to always have grudges with these reporters.

At the press conference, sure enough, all kinds of questions flew towards Anton.The most asked question was about Sunderland's "secret training camp" a while ago.Anton "had no choice" to "recruit" the Brighton team, and the reporters got the new material contentedly, and were going to study the relationship between Brighton and the Anton family.

At this moment, a reporter with a slightly weird accent asked Anton loudly:

"Mr. Anton, can I ask you an interesting question?"

Anton quickly passed through his mind, and suddenly remembered this accent... It seemed that he had heard it from Arsenal's head coach, Professor Arsene Wenger.

"Your Excellency is French?" Anton nodded, asking him to ask this "interesting" question.

"Yes, I am a reporter from the French "L'Equipe"." The visitor answered loudly.

Anton narrowed his eyes slightly: This is interesting.What has just ended is just a play-off match for the British Championship to decide promotion.The game was held at Wembley Stadium. It seemed glorious, but in fact it was only the No.3 of the British Championship.Its importance is not the same as that of the FA Cup final a week ago.

And it was the French newspaper L'Equipe that came to interview, not the British media, nor the Italian or Chinese media.

"Do you think that your great success in the British Championship team Sunderland has something to do with the fact that you have more players with wind and water signs?"

This question was asked in English with a distinct French accent, not only Anton, but even the British reporters on the scene were dumbfounded.

Star... Constellation?

"As far as we know, your sun sign is Pisces, a water sign, and an air sign is often very suitable for your personality and temper. We have noticed that many of the disciples brought out under your command are Air sign. In connection with the amazing results your team has achieved this season, we would like to ask, will you decide the lineup based on the player's zodiac sign and horoscope?"

As soon as the French reporter finished speaking, the press conference was silent for at least 2 minutes.The whole room can only hear "click" and "click", the sound of pressing the shutter.Most of the photojournalists felt lucky—it was rare to have the opportunity to capture Anton's bewildered expression. He looked a little cute, and was obviously shocked by this question.

Anton reached out and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, thinking: Are you kidding me?

But counting, there are indeed many players under his command who are of the wind sign.For example, Eriksson is an Aquarius, Shaqiri is a Libra, Henderson and the soon-to-be-joined Royce are all Geminis; there are probably a few water signs... But, who would really choose players based on their zodiac signs? Look at the lineup!

Anton's fingers tapped lightly on the table in front of him once or twice, and he suddenly remembered something.

"Excuse me, is your question related to the current head coach of your country's national team?"

The other party "crashed" and showed Anton a French enthusiastic and unrestrained smile, "We just want to hear the views of the head coaches from all over the world. You are a newly emerging young coach in England. We think you may have something to say. experience..."

Anton's fingers couldn't help tapping again——

Are these French journalists still crossing the channel to find approval for their head coach?

Anton also knows a thing or two about the "deeds" of Domenech, the coach of the French team.He heard that Domenech had repeatedly popularized constellation knowledge for colleagues from various countries at press conferences for free.And it seems that the French national team coach does use the constellation as the main reference factor in selecting players.

In 2006, the French team narrowly lost to Italy and won the World Cup runner-up.Domenech was already the coach of the French team at that time.The French coach believes that in the French team, Cancer players are beneficial to the team, such as Zidane and Vieira; while Scorpio players are not conducive to the team, such as Trezeguet (in the World Cup finals). The one who missed the penalty), Pires and others.

This is not a matter of wind signs and earth signs, Cancer, Scorpio... This is simply a matter of the water signs fighting among themselves!

So on the eve of the upcoming World Cup in South Africa, the French people finally felt that they had no idea about Domenech, so they simply probed out to the outside world to hear what others had to say.This year, Sunderland has suddenly emerged, and Anton is a young marshal with a mysterious background, which makes it completely confusing.Looking at today's football, the most "metaphysical" head coach should be Anton.

But Anton's thoughts may not be consistent with the French people: Why can Domenech choose players based on their constellations? ——That's because the French team is full of talents, and there are many useful people in every position!

He has become so rich, and he waved his hands to the world, saying that he has difficulty in choosing, and he doesn't know "which" stars should be selected to enter the national team.Asking such a question, in Anton's view, is really suspected of "a full man doesn't know a hungry man is hungry", and he is showing off properly.

Anton could have replied directly to the French reporter: They don't have so many choices, thank God for signings.But it's a bit reconciled to be poor after being flaunted like this!

Thinking of this, Anton suddenly became playful, leaning his body towards the table, with a harmless smile on his face, and said: "Actually... astrology, especially the sun sign, is just a kind of personality and ability. Very, very basic analysis.”

Now everyone in the room was in high spirits: Ouch, I didn't expect this to be really interesting!

If the "sun sign" is too basic, then what is Anton studying, is it the "moon sign" or the Chinese "feng shui".

"Everyone, the conditions are limited, I can only show you a very simple presentation." Anton took out his mobile phone and searched directly on the Internet.His mobile phone could be connected to the projector at the press conference, so Anton projected a picture onto the scene.

As a result, all the reporters present, including the French reporter who asked for approval, saw a magnificent map of the 28 constellations for the first time in their lives.

"Everyone, come and see the ancient Chinese star map that divided a week around the ecliptic equator into 28 unequal parts."

28 unequal parts, it sounds like it is a bit more advanced than twelve equal parts!

"The twelve signs of the zodiac that you are familiar with, the water signs, the wind signs, etc., are also found in ancient Chinese star maps, called 'twelve times', and they can correspond one-to-one with the twelve signs of the zodiac. However, In the astronomy and calendar of ancient China, they often rely more on the use of the 28 constellations. I believe that this can be used for divination of good luck and fortune."

"So, if you really want to introduce astrology into the management of a team, my suggestion is to use some more sophisticated methods and not pay too much attention to those superficial things."

In the twelve signs of the zodiac, the constellation determines the character and luck, which is really the rest of the east.If you really want to play, play something more advanced!

"But what I want to say is that no matter what the way to select players is, the players who finally enter the club's first team, whether in terms of skills or character, are recognized by me. I also try my best to let them get what they should be able to get. achievement."

After making a big joke, Anton Surong said this seriously in front of the reporters in the room who were already dumbfounded.

The author has something to say: France coach Domenech will consider the constellations when choosing the members of the national team, which is true.But there are a lot of "metaphysics" on the football field, and this may not be the most "metaphysics".