Born to be a coach [soccer]

The European Coaches Forum, its predecessor is the G14 Coaches Forum.

1998年创立的G14,是一个由14家欧洲顶级足球俱乐部联合创立的组织,后来扩展到18家，号称是欧洲的“豪门”俱乐部。这个组织在21世纪初存在的10年里,简直就是欧足联的眼中钉肉中刺,是欧洲豪门用来对抗欧足联垄断式管理的终极利器。

At one time, member clubs of G14 were planning to establish a "European Super League", which made FIFA and UEFA extremely afraid.But in the end, the organization accepted UEFA's "recruitment" and officially announced its dissolution in 2008.

After the disbandment of G14, the original G14 coaching forum was transferred to the alternative organization "European Club Federation", forming the current European coaching forum.The forum is held once a year according to the previous G14 specifications, but the participants have expanded from the head coaches of the [-] wealthy clubs to the entire European coaching group.

Most of the coaches who can receive invitations to participate in the forum are from the teams that performed well in their national competitions or European competitions that year.Receiving an invitation is a great honor for many coaches.

However, although many rookie coaches can receive invitations, most of the right to speak is still reserved in the hands of those "rich" head coaches.In addition, the location of this forum is Lagos, a small town in Scotland. The head coaches of the top clubs in the Premier League, Sir Alex Ferguson, "Professor" Arsene Wenger, Ancelotti, Lao Lei and others all came.

The only major change is Liverpool Football Club. In mid-June, Liverpool's current head coach Rafa Benitez broke up with the club peacefully and announced that he would no longer coach next season.The new head coach has not yet been announced.Therefore, in this forum, the position belonging to Liverpool is missing.

Apart from the giants of the Premier League, the position of head coach in European football has also undergone some remarkable changes, the most eye-catching one being the "madman" Mourinho.In the past season, Mourinho led Inter Milan to sweep the football world, defending the Italian league championship, winning the Coppa Italia, and winning the Big Ears Cup he dreamed of in the Champions League final, achieving Italy's first "Triple Crown" King" team.

In this year, Mourinho won various awards, but after the end of the season, he chose to "retire after success", switch to La Liga, and prepare to serve as the head coach of Real Madrid starting next season.

So in this coaching forum, Mourinho is undoubtedly the most dazzling star.Even though Barcelona head coach Pep Guardiola single-handedly created the "six crowns" feat last season, Barcelona was defeated by Inter Milan in the Champions League this year, which made Mourinho finally slightly better than Pep Guardiola.

Compared with Mourinho and other celebrities, Anton is naturally not a big man, but he is also happy to relax. At least after arriving in Lagos, others are surrounded by reporters.But Anton can easily walk out of the hotel where the conference center is located by turning up his collar to enjoy the scenery of Scotland, or do it himself, fishing or something.

He was too young, too young to be thought of as a coach.

Who would have thought that he caught a group of "Chinese fish" while fishing beside a fish pond in the suburbs.

It was a young man in a photography vest and a sun hat.In July in Scotland, when the wind blows, it can be so cold that people shiver.This thinly dressed young man is like this. Seeing Anton wearing thick clothes, he can only greet in a trembling voice with envy: "Hello, hello——"

Anton turned around.

His short black curly hair and dark eyes are very familiar to those who come here.

So, the young man tried to speak with a glimmer of hope: "Excuse me, do you speak Chinese?"

A black line slowly descended from the back of Anton's head. He simply put down the fishing rod in his hand, turned around and waved: "Hello! Are you from the same town?"

Lin's father used to call Chinese people "villagers", and Anton also took over his father's habit.

"My fellow, it's my fellow!..." The young man, who had been looking for a way in the cold wind for a long time, was about to shed tears. "Help, we ask for help!"

Anton went over to ask, and found that, as he thought, it was a Chinese reporting team that came to report the "Coach Forum" and got stuck in a car near the town, and he didn't know how to get back.

"Hello, we are the joint reporting team of CCTV and Sports Weekly," said the young man who found Anton, whose surname was Jiang, and his name was Jiang Yueming.He shook hands with Anton excitedly: It took him a long time to find such a living person, and it happened to be a "villager", but looking carefully, Jiang Yueming found that this "villager" looked like his own from a distance, but from a closer look—why? Seems like a combination of Chinese and Western?

"My name is Lin Andong." Anton reported his Chinese name calmly, "Do you want to go to the conference center?"

He looked at the distance behind Jiang Yueming, a van was parked beside the roadbed, half of the car body rushed out of the roadbed, and the rear wheels were stuck in the mud that is common in the Scottish Highlands.

"It's not far away anyway, you guys go back to the conference center with me first, and when you get there, you can ask the hotel to arrange a tow truck to help you out. Waiting here, it's hard to wait for someone. There should be no signal on the phone!"

"Yes—" Jiang Yueming held up his mobile phone, feeling like crying.

Anton felt that this was a common thing. If the car got stuck in Scotland, it would be delayed.So Jiang Yueming and the people in the car next to the car explained the situation, and everyone got out of the car together, taking only the most important equipment with them, and prepared to walk back to the hotel.

"Mr. Lin, do you live near here? Are you a staff member here?" Jiang Yueming and An Dong, who led the way, walked in the front.

"Me? I'm a coach and I'm here to participate in the forum." Anton said casually.

Jiang Yueming stopped immediately, like a wood carving, he stood still in place for an instant.People catching up behind almost ran into him. "Xiao Jiang, what's the matter?"

Jiang Yueming slowly turned his face and looked at his colleagues.

"Our little fellow is... the coach who came to participate in the forum!" Jiang Yueming looked at the big guy, and it took him a long time to say what he wanted to say.

With a "boom", Anton was immediately surrounded by his compatriots.Everyone looked at him together.

"So young!"

"Little fellow, what's your name?"

"My name is Lin Andong!" Anton began to realize that he didn't look convincing enough, and he didn't look like a head coach.

"Xiao Lin, you mean, you are the coach who came to Lagos to participate in the forum?" The reporters all looked at him with wide eyes.

"Stop, stop... I have a list of all the coaches who participated in the forum. The youngest one is, Antonio Lin... Kobayashi, it's really Kobayashi!"

Anton didn't know when he became "Xiaolin", but it was obvious that all the members of the reporting team unanimously recognized this obviously intimate title in an instant. I can't even think of fate!"

"No, what a coincidence!"

No matter how coincidental, the top priority of the reporting team is to return to the conference center collectively.Along the way, Jiang Yueming clarified Anton's resume in a few sentences. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so you are the young coach who led the team to win the FA Cup! I just remember that the fans called 'Anton' and 'Anton' during the game... I was taken aback when you said your surname was Lin I didn't expect it."

Anton nodded: "They all call me Anton."

The villagers came up and called him "Xiao Lin".

After returning to the conference center for a while, Anton helped the fellow villagers and found the manager who specially arranged the conference affairs to arrange a tow truck to drag the report team's car back from outside the town.

The reporting team was very interested in the report "materials" they picked up from the roadside, and sent Jiang Yueming to interview this "compatriot". After all, Anton has an oriental face and speaks fluent Chinese , next season will command the game in the Premier League, which is definitely a highlight for domestic audiences.

Anton smiled, "It's easy to say on my side, and you are welcome at any time. It's not too late for you to complete the original interview tasks before arranging for my side."

He knew that the Chinese reporting team had come all the way to the Scottish town, and it was definitely not for him.Famous coaches gathered here. In addition to the coaches of the major giants, Milu, the former head coach of the Chinese team, also came. Famous coaches such as "Silver Fox" Lippi, who has been rumored with the national football team, are also invited to this forum.Therefore, the main task of the China Reporting Group may still be on these people.

Anton was so considerate, Jiang Yueming immediately felt that this "compatriot" brother was really considerate, and reached out his hand to give Anton a high five: "Then we have made a deal, Xiao Lin, I will admit it to you, I must Make you a whole special, about you."

After saying that, Xiao Jiang ran away, and then went to discuss interview tasks with other reporters and directors.

At night, Jiang Yueming came to Anton with a bitter face: "Xiaolin... tell me, what should I do?"

"Today, several foreign colleagues pointed to a video and asked me if it was true. Sigh, I don't know how to explain it."

Jiang Yueming picked up his laptop and showed Anton the video he was talking about.It was a video in Chinese. In the video, a Chinese football player, who is said to be a celebrity, was commenting on the World Cup match that just passed.

Unfortunately, what he commented happened to be the game between the Ivory Coast team and the Portuguese team.The celebrity was asked about his opinion on Ronaldo himself. The celebrity waved his hand and said with certainty: "At most three years!"

This was originally an unintentional remark in the Chinese media environment, and it was not spread to the outside world during the World Cup.But for some reason, not long ago, this video was spread abroad, and the speech of this celebrity was translated into subtitles.

The foreign colleagues who came to ask Jiang Yueming did not want to question the words of the famous Chinese. In their view, Chinese people have a halo of "metaphysics", and if they suddenly say something, it must be accurate.

But Jiang Yueming was embarrassed, because he knew that this was an unintentional evaluation with no basis.

——How did it become an international incident?

What's more, Jiang Yueming and that foreign colleague are both fans of Ronaldo. Looking at the worried look on the foreign colleague's face, he probably thought that Ronaldo was under some magic spell from the East. Jiang Yueming felt more and more unhappy. My son, when I saw Anton who "combines Chinese and Western", he hurried up to ask for help.

Anton also frowned, thinking that this matter was indeed nonsensical.He suggested: "In China, the number 'three' is a false finger. Can you explain to your friends that it means several years?"

Jiang Yueming shook his head in embarrassment, and stretched out his finger to point to the gesture of the celebrity on the video, and sure enough, he saw that person gestured with three fingers—"At most 'three' years!"

Anton: Er...

But these words sounded familiar to him, and it inspired Anton a lot.

"Listen to me, can we explain it this way..."

The author has something to say: From watching the game until now, I always feel that I have a lot to say, but I don’t know how to say it.Last year's UEFA Champions League final is still fresh in my memory, clearly. First, Pharaoh shed tears on the field and had no choice but to quit. Then there was the "super super huge mistake". Teacher Zhan Jun's explanation was full of unrelieved bitterness. . .

But after the game, I saw a video of Uncle Zha singing and dancing with a group of Liverpool fans. Uncle Zha promised that he would bring a championship to this team, and he immediately felt a lot better.Football is such a sport, always urging you to look forward and never letting you lose hope.

The scene of this game was not very good, but we were very lucky at the beginning, and we had a very good goalkeeper and a very sober coach, so we won this game...

Not much to say, today is an update to celebrate, and there will be a lot of updates at [-]:[-] pm, please pick it up!