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On February [-]th, after waking up in the morning, Li Wei washed his face and brushed his teeth immediately. After breakfast, he trotted to the Carrington training ground.

Although it has been more than half a season since he came to Manchester City, from July last year to the beginning of February now, Levi did not choose to buy a house in Manchester, nor did he rent a house, but lived in a house not far from Kaling. In an apartment hotel about three kilometers away from the Dunton training ground.

Although he lived in the hotel, because the owner of the hotel was a Manchester City fan, and Li Wei was protected by bodyguards, he did not receive any harassment. On the contrary, he lived quite comfortably.

Although the club allocated a Rolls-Royce to Levi, usually Levi would jog instead of taking a car.

Because the Carrington training ground is in the suburbs, and it is early in the morning, there will not be crowds watching.

The bodyguard drove a low-key MG car and followed behind Li Wei.

The hotel is in a small town, just arrived at the intersection of the town, Li Wei saw a little girl selling small wreaths, many passers-by would silently put some money in the small basket when they passed by, and then took Walk a small wreath.

Li Wei is a little strange. The wreaths are different from flowers. You can buy flowers to give to your girlfriend, or you can put them at home to freshen the air.

Wreaths are generally used for store openings and funerals.At the same time, the wreaths for the opening of the store are different from the wreaths for the funeral. The wreaths for the opening of the store are full of flowers, while the wreaths for the funeral are more monotonous in color.

Looking carefully, Levi can also see that these small wreaths are not only for funerals, but also the Manchester United team logo on the ribbon.A funeral wreath for Manchester United?
Is this little girl a Manchester City fan?

It's just that it's very dangerous for her to do so. If she is seen by those extreme Manchester United fans, she might beat her to the hospital.

Li Wei felt that he had to dissuade the little girl.

He doesn't want tragedy to happen.

"Do you want to send blessings to the players of the Munich Air Disaster? Sir?" The little girl didn't look up, she lowered her head to arrange the messy little wreath, and said in a childish voice.

Li Wei was startled, and asked, "Today is the anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster?"

The little girl raised her head, and a look of disgust flashed in her eyes. It was obvious that she recognized Li Wei's identity.

This is not surprising, Levi is a very high-profile person both on and off the court, and the love story between him and Barbara is also something that readers like to talk about.A club president, a wealthy club princess, this is a beautiful love story no matter how you look at it.

The most important thing is that Li Wei is the head coach of Manchester City, the arch rival in the same city. How could Manchester United fans not know him?
Just like the Chinese, you may not know the name of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom or the name of the Prime Minister of Russia, but most people know the names of the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the United States.

"Go away! You are not welcome here!" The little girl stretched out her hand and pushed Li Wei away, saying in disgust.

Li Wei was silent for a while, turned around and left without entanglement with the other party.

On the way to the Carrington training ground, Levi couldn't help thinking about the Munich air disaster again.

As long as fans know about the Munich Air Disaster, many people don't know how hard the Munich Air Disaster hit Manchester United at that time.

In the European Champions Cup in February 1958, Manchester United drew 2-3 away from the Belgrade Red Star and eliminated their opponents with a total score of 3-5 to advance to the semi-finals of the 4/1957 Champions Cup. The next day, the plane carrying the Manchester United team came from Belgrade to Munich to refuel and prepare to return to Manchester.In snowy weather, the plane failed to take off twice. When Captain James Tyne decided to take off for the third time at 58:3 p.m., the plane stalled suddenly due to insufficient speed and failed to climb. The plane rushed out of the runway and crashed into the airport fence and houses, and finally broke in two. The left fuselage crashed into a tree, and the right fuselage crashed into a truck full of tires and fuel parked in the barracks. There was an explosion, and disaster ensued.

As a survivor, former Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg recalled that moment: "There was no screaming in the cabin, there was no sound, the lights flickered on and off, the eyes went black, then bright, and then sparks flashed and violently. Hit, and then it was over, I thought I was dead." Greg was lucky, but God was not on his team-mates, Geoff Bent (full-back), Roger Byrne (Manchester United captain, left) Defender), Eddie Coleman (Centre Defender), Mark Jones (Centre Midfielder).Seven United players David Page (winger), Tommy Taylor (forward) and Billy Whelan (forward) were killed on the spot, while top talent Duncan Edwards died in hospital 7 days after being admitted to hospital .

In fact, if Greg hadn't tried his best to rescue the injured team-mate and coach before the plane exploded, the tragedy may have hit Manchester United even harder.

After suffering such a heavy blow, Manchester United did not just sink, they played their unbeatable Red Devils spirit.

Ten years later, Busby finally led Manchester United to win the European Champions Cup. At the scene of winning the championship, Busby raised the Champions Cup high eight times, calling out the name of a player who died in the Munich air crash every time.

Bobby Charlton and other players cut their fingers one after another, dripped blood into the Champions Cup, and then dripped on the court to comfort those lost souls.

Although he is the head coach of Manchester United's rivals in the same city, Li Wei feels that after football reaches a certain level, it will become irrelevant to national borders, let alone rivals, it is just football!
This is one of the main reasons why football can attract so many people so deeply.

There is another saying in the world, respecting your opponent is also respecting yourself.

Now Manchester City is an upstart in the eyes of many fans, and he needs to inject beautiful elements into his short Manchester City coaching career.

People leave their names, and geese leave their voices.

He doesn't want the media and fans to just say in the future: Levi coached Manchester City in the XXX season.With such a plain and ordinary sentence, I hope that the media and fans will say that Manchester City will continue the tradition left by the original head coach Levi.

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Today's training session, Li Wei announced the end of an hour earlier.

"Today, I'm going to the cemetery to deliver a wreath to Manchester United who died in the Munich air crash. Who of you would like to go with me? By the way, please note that this is a private action, there is no mandatory requirement, it's all voluntary."

The Manchester City players all looked at each other in blank dismay. They didn't expect Levi to end the training session an hour earlier because of the Munich air crash.The enemy's misfortune, I am already worthy of Manchester United if I don't snicker, let alone send a wreath to Manchester City.

Li Wei took a deep look at the players and said, "Respecting the opponent is also respecting yourself."

"I'll go!" Hazard was the first to raise his hand, and he looked at Li Wei with admiration.

Other players also raised their hands and echoed, "Let's go too."

Some players may not be willing to go, but seeing teammates raising their hands one after another, it is not good for him to be an outlier in the team, so he also raised his arm in hesitation.

In the end, the whole first team of Manchester City went. The coaching staff, except John Wolfgang who had to take care of David Silva's condition, did not go. Other coaches also followed Levi to pay homage to the Manchester United players who died in the Munich air crash. .