Mister Legend

Chapter 409
Just when the Turin coach returned home to deal with some private matters and was about to return to Italy, the results of several national team friendly matches that had attracted much attention from the outside world had been drawn respectively, allowing fans to enjoy the charm of football and the glory brought by the victory and defeat and sentimental.

On the 3rd and 22nd, the second Tianchao Cup International Football Championship was held in Yongcheng City, Bagui Province. This is a special FIFA A-level event set up to improve the level of national football. It was funded and coordinated by Wanda Group and officially started last year. hold.In addition to the host national football team this year, there are three strong teams from South America and Europe from Uruguay, Wales and the Czech Republic. According to the requirements, all teams must send the strongest lineup to fight, so the quality of the competition is still unquestionable.

In the opening game, the national football team did experience what it is like to compete with the semi-finals of the European Cup.Although Real Madrid once tried to prevent Bale, who had just returned from injury, from being selected for the current Welsh squad, the British spirit of contract is still commendable. The Great Sage finally came to his "legendary hometown" with only about six Qicheng's state appeared in the starting lineup.But even such Bell completed a hat-trick and added an assist in 62 minutes, and surpassed the legendary star Ian Rush to become the player with the most goals on behalf of the Welsh national team.

In the end, the Chinese men's football team, which was full of loopholes on the defensive end, disorderly on the offensive end, whose personal skills were comparable to elementary school students, and whose mental outlook was like walking in its own community, lost a clean 0-6. The invitation fee ended up saving face for the host.

This score is the second largest loss in the history of the Chinese men's football team, second only to the 2012-goal loss to Brazil in a friendly match in 8.However, in Li Moody's view, this is because they have too few opportunities to play against the world's top teams, otherwise the double-digit point difference is still possible.

Lippi rarely lost his temper after the game and said that he "selected the wrong list and used the wrong person"!He also made more intense criticisms on the players' preparation and attitude, which received enthusiastic responses from the vast number of domestic fans.All kinds of abuse against the national footballers immediately flooded the major online forums, but more people have long since become numb, thinking that it is rare for the national football team not to lose, and even sent out "I hope that group of pigs will represent the Chinese football team." Going out of Asia and going to the world is simply the biggest joke in the world", anger and sadness were intertwined for a while, and it gave a heavy hammer to the development of domestic football.

Just when Li Moody’s flight landed at Turin’s Caselle Airport, the China Cup third place competition also came to an end. The national football team was reversed by the Czech team 1-4, and ended in two losses with a big difference. This national team match day.The players went back to their respective clubs to enjoy high wages and high treatment, leaving nothing but devastation for Tianchao Football and the fans.

Turning our attention back to Europe, on Friday night, local time in the UK, Italy and Argentina played a friendly match at Manchester City's home stadium, the Etihad Stadium. As a result, Di Biagio's national team debut was unfavorable , lost 0 to 2 under the eagle claws of Pampas, which has no club king.The interim coach of the Azzurri overturned his predecessor's tactical thinking and focused on a 4-3-3 formation. Immobile, who led the Serie A scorer list, became his main center forward, and Belotti could only sit on the bench Waiting for the opportunity.

However, this Italian team still failed to solve the biggest problem they have had since the Ventura era. Their offensive organization ability in positional warfare is very average, and it can even be said that they are extremely bad at breaking defenses in a stalemate. Ratti seems to have lost the spirituality of his youth, and the other midfielders are all engineers with balanced abilities, so the team can only rely on quick counterattacks to threaten the opponent's defense.

On the defensive end, Di Biagio came up with his own ideas. The Azzurri launched high-intensity high-position presses in the frontcourt many times, hoping to contain the Argentine offensive organization while waiting for opportunities to counterattack on the spot.At the beginning of the first half, there was a situation where five Italian players pressed against four Argentine defenders. This interim head coach who was good at fighting for slots during his player days was indeed courageous enough.

In the No.408 minute of the second half, Italy used this method to almost score a goal.The siege of two frontcourt players caused the midfielder Paredes, who had previously played for Roma, to make a low-level return pass error. Immobile got the ball and crossed the ball low and flat at the front of the penalty area. Insigne Formed a one-handed trend, but unfortunately his right-footed volley went wide of the post, and the Azzurri missed an excellent opportunity to lead.

But except this time, the other high-position presses of the Italian team failed to receive too good results, making the game scene still controlled by the Argentines most of the time.Although Insigne, Immobile and others have also scored two more threatening shots, they were all created by counterattacks, while the opponents always patiently organized cooperation among multiple players while in control of the ball. , and the opportunities created are naturally more.

In the end, with the two strong shots of Banega and Lancini, the Argentine team won the first two goals after the coaching change in the absence of core players such as Messi, Aguero and Mascherano. The Italian team has tested the standards of many rookies and built a lot of confidence at the same time.Although Di Biagio's debut has occasional bright spots, it is still somewhat lackluster overall, and the road to revival still seems to be far away.

It is worth mentioning that in the last 630 minutes of the game, the Italian national team only scored three goals, and the degree of offensive weakness is two grades lower than that of the Chinese national football team. It is really surprising.The days of the Turin striker twin stars have become a bit sad. Fans are calling for the return of strikers such as Balotelli, Zaza and even Pellet. Chiesa and Cutrone, who have risen rapidly in the past two years, are also received higher approval ratings.Belotti's main position was no longer guaranteed, and Immobile felt great pressure. The emotional state of both of them was not ideal, and Li Modi had a headache.

However, the two players will also play a friendly match against the England team with the national team on Tuesday, so the Turin coach has no way to have in-depth exchanges with them for the time being, and can only wait until they meet to deal with them.But never worry that the job of the head coach of the team will always be smooth sailing. Many troubles are already lined up for him to deal with.

On Tuesday afternoon, in the No. [-] conference room where the Turin Club is located, a high-level meeting that will have an important impact on the development of the Red Bulls for many years is being held. The chairman, several directors, heads of various departments and the team's The head coach, the key figures in these clubs are all gathered together, which is difficult to see at the beginning and end of the season.

At the end of the season before Li Moody took over as the coach of the Turin team, some people in the club proposed to change the name of the team's home court, adding the word "Team of God" between the original Turin and Olympic, and becoming the Turin Team of God Olympic Stadium (Stadio Olimpico GRANDE TORINO).This suggestion has been supported by many people, and the chairman Urbano Cairo is naturally a little tempted, but since the team's performance in those two years was not very good, it is far from worthy of this mighty and domineering name , this was not implemented.

Last season, the Red Bulls achieved some records in the league No.4 with outstanding performance, and got the qualification to participate in the European League.Although this result is still far behind the Team of Gods that dominated the Apennine Peninsula back then, the chairman of Turin, who has always regarded restoring the former glory as his business philosophy, could no longer sit still, and finally put the matter of renaming the stadium into the into the club's plans.

For this matter, Li Mudi's opinion is that it doesn't matter, and the high-level people can do whatever they want.The vast majority of Italian stadiums belong to the local government, and the names are decided by the parliamentary meeting. Many of them use city names and local characteristics. If there have been particularly great celebrities in the location, including the club. Stadiums are often named after them, or changed.

For example, the famous San Siro/Meazza Stadium was originally named after the San Siro area where it is located, and the earliest origin of the name came from a famous saint in a local church. In 1980, in order to commemorate the famous player Giuseppe Meazza who played for the Milan duo in the 40s and [-]s, the Milan ZF renamed the stadium Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, which is also its only one. The official name, so the San Siro that AC Milan fans are now talking about is actually an old calendar, which is not accurate in a strict sense.

Similar to the Meazza Stadium, there are still many names named after people. Apart from religion-related ones, in Serie A alone there are Benevento’s Ciro Vigorito Stadium, Chievo and Verona’s joint stadium. The Marco Antonio Bentegotti Stadium in use, the Ezio Cida Stadium in Crotone, the Frankie Stadium in Florence, the Luigi Ferraris Stadium shared by Genoa and Sampdoria, the Pall's Paul Mazza Stadium and six other places.

Of course, in recent years, newly built stadiums still use more sponsor names, such as Allianz Stadium, Emirates Stadium and so on.But this is temporary, and once the sponsor changes, the name may change with it.

It is not common to name the stadium after the club itself, for the simple reason that the ownership is not in their own hands.Only local tyrants like Juventus who build a new stadium by themselves can obtain independent naming rights, otherwise they have to apply to the local council, and then they can only wait for the result.

The Turin club's attempt to add the term "Team of God" to the name of the stadium this time requires the vote support of the Turin City Council and the final approval of the city ZF, each of which is very difficult.

For example, in 2003, in order to commemorate the greatest star in the history of the local football team, the Naples City Council voted on the renaming of the San Paolo Stadium to the Maradona Stadium after a proposal by a member of the council. Winning by a narrow margin surprised all the fans. No one thought that the resistance to changing the name would be so great.However, in the subsequent ZF review, this proposal was ruthlessly rejected, because a bill in Italy stipulated that it is forbidden to name public places after anyone who has died within ten years.In this way, even a great superstar like the ball king cannot make an exception for the Naples ZF, let alone requests from other clubs.

Therefore, the renaming of Turin's home stadium has been under preparation since last summer. It was not until the beginning of this year that it officially entered the scope of discussion in the parliament. It is expected that the voting process will be carried out at the end of this month.However, when the wish of many years was about to come to fruition, Urbano Cairo's thoughts changed, and he wanted to withdraw his application, which caused a lot of trouble in the club.

The chairman of Turin changed his plan at the beginning of this year. During that time, there were so many tourists from China and Asia that the attendance of the Turin team was in short supply for three consecutive games until the Spring Festival holiday. Then it will return to the original level.However, with the steady rise of the team's performance, the number of fans who came to watch the game has increased significantly compared to last season, especially in some leagues with strong dialogues and most of the European games, there have been ticket sales Out of stock situation.

Some time ago, various Italian clubs successively announced their financial status for the first half of the season. From the reports, we can see that, apart from the unstable transfer market revenue and expenditure, most of the important income of the clubs comes from sponsors and matchdays. Income, especially the latter, shows a trend of rapid increase year by year.The increasing number of fans who are willing to go to the stadium, coupled with the gradual increase in ticket prices and the increase in the prices of other souvenirs, makes this season's matchday income expected to double that of ten years ago. China's economy is still relatively sluggish, but the football industry has shown an unusually hot trend.

However, Urbano Cairo felt very unhappy when he saw the income of his competitors. Turin ranked second in the home game day income even though the sponsorship fee had already entered the top five in Serie A. No.11 of ten teams.Considering the top attendance rate of the Red Bulls, it is obvious where the problem lies. The facilities of the Olympic Stadium are too old to afford the ticket price. In addition, the capacity is not enough, which wastes a lot of consumption power.

I also saw that the city government has to pay a high stadium rental fee every year, and the opponent can use the stadium to hold various activities without restriction, and all repair costs need to be paid by the Turin club. After the 2008 Winter Olympics, the internal facilities of the stadium, which had not been refurbished for a few years, were not maintained in a timely and effective manner due to the poor finances of the Turin Club during that period. to noticeable results.

After careful consideration of various pros and cons, a crazy idea was born in Urbano Cairo's mind, that is, can a brand new stadium belonging to the club be built?

(End of this chapter)