road to victory

Chapter 320 World Cup ([-])

"That's right, he is obviously sacrificing the national team's performance for his political goals. This kind of person is simply hateful!" The other assistant coaches were also filled with righteous indignation, and they all saw through Jean-Marie Le Pen's ugly face.

"Aimee, leave it to me. I'm also an immigrant. I think I'm more convincing than you." Fan Shang took the initiative to take over the job.

"Can you?" Jacques still asked.

Fan Shang nodded, "Do you think there is a better candidate than me?" Fan Shang smiled, "I'm going to complete the task now." After speaking, Fan Shang walked out of the office and walked to the training ground.

At this time, the training has not yet started, but some players have entered the field one after another, and began to pass the ball to each other, pouring the ball down.

But at this time Vincent could see that after Jean-Marie Le Pen's remarks, the team is now divided into two or three small groups intentionally or unintentionally.

A group of French natives headed by Didier Deschamps and Blanco, a group of African immigrants headed by Desailly and Vieira, and the last group, Vincent observed, turned out to be Bordeaux, headed by Papin and Zidane.

"Well, I haven't put out the fire of the race, but it has also come in my own backyard." Fan Shang thought to himself.Then he walked to the edge of the training field, greeted the six people above, and walked into a conference room.

Ten minutes later, several team members discussed with each other and walked out of the meeting room. They were obviously more excited than when they first entered the door. After returning to their small groups, they also had a brief exchange with other teammates.

In the subsequent training, Jacquet obviously felt that the players were really more active.Jacquet felt a little surprised, how could Vincent change the players' minds in such a short period of time.

"Fan Shang, how did you do it?" Jacques said with some admiration. He has been the head coach for so many years. He believes that the players' emotions are subtle and cannot be changed with a few words. It takes a long time. Only the effect of time will do.

"Coercion and lure" Fan Shang said deeply, without explaining to Yakai, he ran into the training ground to help other coaches with their training.

In fact, Fan Shang didn't say anything, he was really intimidating and luring, the ones who threatened were the players under him, and the ones who were luring were other players.

In fact, as soon as he entered the conference room, Fan Shang directly scolded Papan and Zidane.I think the veteran Papin is definitely the oldest player in the national team. When he was in full swing in Marseille, the current French captain was just a young player who had just transferred to Marseille from a small club.

When he saw Fan Shang pointing at Papan's nose and scolding him, Deshang felt his heart ache, he had to call Papan his senior, this Fan Shang is not as old as he is, he is really powerful.

Desailly and Vieira actually had the same idea as Deschamps, they were both overwhelmed by Vincent's aura.

Seeing that everyone else was stunned, Fan Shang felt that the effect was about the same, so he began to paint cakes, talking about the benefits of winning the World Cup as hype, and then slowly transitioned to unity within the team, and finally said that unity is the key to winning the World Cup premise.

Under Vincent's constant brainwashing, the French team has achieved a short-term balance, so that at least there will be no major problems before the end of the World Cup tour. The goal of the whole team is the World Cup, so they have time to care about race issues You have to fight for your own future.Of course, national honor is also part of it, haha.

This kind of concentrated training passed quickly, and it was the opening day of the World Cup in a blink of an eye.During this period, Bordeaux only made two transactions, that is, sold Dacourt to Leeds United for 800 million US dollars, and another transaction was that Bordeaux introduced a player named Stephen Dalma from the relegated Charruto. The midfielder, this midfielder spent a transfer fee of 400 million US dollars in Bordeaux.

This price is obviously a bit high, which is also the result of discussions between Theo and Vincent. They hope that after getting the money, Charruto can find a few capable players in Ligue [-], and then rush back to Ligue [-] next year. Bordeaux is more favorable.

On the World Cup side, the opening ceremony is actually meaningless for the French team, because France was assigned to Group C in the grouping.

Their first game started on the third day after the opening, and the venue was Marseille's Velodrome Stadium. On the opening day, the French team flew to Marseille to prepare for their debut two days later. .

In the opening game, the last champion Brazil defeated Scotland 2:1, and then Norway and Morocco drew 2:2 in another match in Group A.

The next day's Group B match was breezy, with Italy and Chile, Cameroon and Austria all having draws.In today's game, Fan Shang's disciples appeared in the World Cup for the first time, and Song appeared in the game as Cameroon's main central defender.

With his own memory, Fan Shang seems to vaguely remember that Song was sent off with a red card in the World Cup, but he can't remember which one.So before the match, Fan Shang called Song specifically to ask him to pay attention to his defensive actions and try to avoid taking cards.

Song really didn't think that the head coach of the club would care about his performance in the World Cup. After hanging up the phone, Song told his teammates, but no one believed it. You coached!" These are the exact words of his Cameroonian teammates.

Song was originally grateful to Fan Shang, but now he feels that Fan Shang is really worthy of his hard work as the head coach.

Fan Shang didn't know Willy on the phone, he was really just out of concern for his players.

On the third day, the French team finally ushered in their first game. Although the opponent was not strong in this game against South Africa, because it was the first game, the whole team paid special attention to it.

From the confirmation of the formation to the selection of the main lineup, Jacques and the coaching staff were cautious, and of course Fan Shang also provided some suggestions.

In the end, France confirmed that the defense line is dominated by Desailly and Blanco, and the offensive organization adopts the dual core of Zidane and Djorkaeff. Zidane is relatively organized, while Djorkaeff is similar to a No. [-] half position.

The game against South Africa is actually a warm-up match for France. In the end, France defeated South Africa 3-0 without bloodshed. The goals were Papin, Issa (own goal) and Henry.

When the game was over, Jacquet breathed a sigh of relief, indeed he was under a lot of pressure before the World Cup.France, as the host, has not entered the finals in the previous World Cups, and this time it has been given great expectations.

(End of this chapter)