Father Green

Chapter 11: Running in the Lineup
In fact, after Charlotte took office as the head coach, she declined the inauguration press conference arranged by the club, but let the club handle it in a low-key manner, so there is only one sentence in the news and the club's official website: "The club officially announced that Southampton's head coach for the new season The coach will be Mr Charlotte!"

As for who is Charlotte?from where?No one pays attention to how old he is, and his previous employment history, and the biggest local news of the Southampton club is that Swansea captain Gary Monk has returned to Southampton, where he trained him.

But between this summer's frenzied 'transfer drama', the arrival of Charlotte as Southampton manager and the news of the 32-year-old Gary Monk's move to Championship side Southampton, among those 'big-budget' transfers There was not even a single wave in the news.

Manchester United introduced Spain's talented goalkeeper De Gea from Atletico Madrid, spent 700 million euros to poach England's talented central defender Phil Jones from Blackburn, and introduced winger Ashley Young from Villa.A group of Red Devils veterans such as Van der Sar, Scholes and Gary Neville withdrew from the green field and retired with the memories of a generation of Red Devils.

And Chelsea have been relentless this season. They spent 3000 million euros to buy Spanish winger Juan Mata from Valencia, and then spent more than 1000 million pounds to buy 17 from Ligue 17 giants Anderlecht. The 2000-year-old center Lukaku, and according to the speculation of the Sun, including various additional terms, the [-]-year-old Belgian center known as the "Little Monster" may have cost Chelsea [-] million euros.

There are also transfers of Aguero, Nasri, Modesat, Fabregas, Varane and Sanchez. Among these famous stars, talents and those jaw-dropping transfer fee figures, Charlotte's name is hardly seen, so most people don't know that the young man is already Southampton's manager.

Even Southampton's own fans did not expect their head coach to be so small and young.

They saw this young man at the training base, but everyone thought he was a new signing of the team
Even the Manchester City players on the field found such an interesting scene, and their eyes frequently looked at the young man standing in the command area of ​​the home team coach.

The Manchester City players were a little distracted, so the offense was a bit out of control, and even the defense made mistakes.

Lambert on the field did not hit the goal by himself after taking the ball, but used his physical advantage to lean against England's big brother Lescott and then gave the ball to Adam Lallana, who took the ball and hit it directly Door.

Fortunately, Manchester City's Ding Haishen Pinkong Pani was focused. Although he also glanced towards the sidelines, he was obviously much better than the other teammates, so he directly blocked the opponent's shot with a sliding shovel.

Joe Hart was shocked into a cold sweat, because he glanced at the young coach when Lambert passed the ball. If it weren't for Kompany's clearance, the goal would have probably been scored.

At this time, the Italian coach Roberto Mancini, who has always seemed very gentlemanly, showed his dissatisfaction. He called Aguero, Clichy, Gareth Barry and Nasri to warm up.

Obviously, if the Manchester City players on the field make such low-level mistakes again, he will be ready to make a substitution.

In the first half, with Yaya Toure's penalty, Manchester City temporarily led [-]-[-]. Although this score is a bit unworthy of the strength gap between Manchester City and Southampton, anyone with a discerning eye can see that most of the first half was the same. City are dominating the game.

Charlotte stood on the sidelines to greet every player who left the field, and patted the shoulders to encourage everyone: "Good job, guys."

When Jack Kirk was off the field, Charlotte touched the opponent's head: "Don't think too much, Jack, it's just that your luck is not very good."

Jack Coker thanked him, then returned to the locker room with his teammates with his head down.

Charlotte shrugged helplessly. The penalty kick in the first half was a gift from the 21-year-old England teenager.The most difficult player in the Southampton team in this game is Jack Cork. After all, it will take time for him to get used to the new position.

And Charlotte's tactical requirement is that when the team turns to defense, the whole team must participate in defense. Lambert on the forward line is even the team's first line of defense.It has always been a difficult problem to let offensive players participate in the defense. It would be much better if Jack Cork was used as a defensive midfielder or a central midfielder. After all, interception of the midfield and protection of the backcourt have always been his tasks.

All in all, Jack Kirk was too nervous, and he cared too much about the frontcourt tasks Charlotte arranged for him.

Charlotte sighed. He knew that Jack Cork's ability was not capable of organizing the attacking midfielder, so pushing him up was entirely to play the role of an engineer attacking the midfielder.

After the start of the second half, Charlotte dropped Jack Cork back into central midfield.Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at this position, Cork cooperated with Schneiderlin and Hammond like a fish in water, and even for a while made the powerful Manchester City offense unable to start the situation.

Mancini began to make substitutions and adjustments. Aguero and Nasri played. As important signings for Manchester City this summer, these two did not come to sit on the bench, so Mancini had to give them time to get acquainted with their teammates.

And when the game entered the 10th and [-]th minute, Charlotte also started to make substitutions.Right back Fraser Richardson was replaced by left back Dennis Fox. Although Fox was bought by former head coach Adkins this season, Charlotte saw the opponent's ability and attitude in training. , so I decided to give the other party a chance. As for whether to catch it or not, it depends on the Scots themselves.

But with Danny Rose on the left, Fox can only be the second choice as a substitute, so Charlotte let the opponent adapt to the position of right back.

Then the 32-year-old veteran Gary Monk was replaced by the young Dutch defender Bruma. Monk is the backbone of Charlotte's defense.

Then Pogba replaced captain Hammond and Sterling replaced Adam Lallana.

Whether it is the famous coach Mancini or the "rookie" Charlotte, this game is regarded as an ordinary friendly match, in order to run-in the lineup and examine the status of the players.

In the end, Southampton naturally couldn't match the upstarts of the Premier League and lost at home with a score of [-] to [-].

However, this game naturally cannot be too demanding for Southampton, so after the game, the media focused on the young coach Charlotte.

But there is obviously not much information about Charlotte, they don't even know where this guy came from, and judging by his skin color, he is definitely not European or American.

This is not to say that the British media and fans have racial discrimination against him. In fact, the Premier League is one of the countries with the lowest racial discrimination among the five major leagues. It is very inclusive here, and even many black players have become idols here. Compared with the other major leagues, this is definitely heaven.

What the media are interested in is the story of an Asian coach from the football desert who was coaching in Europe, and another selling point of this story is that he is too young! ! !
"Excuse me, Coach Charlotte, how old are you?"

"Coach Charlotte, where are you from?"

"Are you a member of the coach? Or the head coach? Or an interim head coach?"

"Why did Southampton choose you as their manager?"

The questions from the reporters erupted completely when Charlotte walked into the post-match press conference. Charlotte, a rookie head coach, was not as stage-frightened as the reporters imagined.

He pressed down with his hand, and then naturally sat in the position of Southampton's head coach, and the reporters below subconsciously fell silent.