Godfather of national football

Chapter 3

No matter in the previous life or now, one thing is the same, that is, the Chinese people still like the black national football team very much.

When Li Guo became the new head coach of the national team, most of the people immediately sent complaints instead of blessings. Although there was no Weibo in 07, the Internet was quite developed.

"Li Guo? I'm sorry, I haven't heard of it. What kind of bird is this? Is the Football Association asking him to save money?"

"In my opinion, Milu's success proves that Chinese football should hire a foreigner as the head coach instead of hiring a local coach to save money. No matter how poor the national football team is, it cannot be poor."

These complaints are mainly from the online media. Although the print media are not optimistic about Li Guo, they are more polite.

The comment article of "Sports Weekly" listed several reasons why Li Guo is not suitable to be the head coach of the Chinese national team.

First: Li Guo has a hot temper, big mouth, and outspoken words. When he was coaching in Germany, Li Guo quarreled with Bayern coach "Hitzfeld" on the sidelines, and was banned by the German Football Association for this reason.

The big mouths are mainly Li Guo, Robin Dutt, and Chen An. Three people put on a radio program in Germany. On the program, Li Guo commented on the big names in the football circle one by one.

Compared with his predecessor Milu, Li Guo is a thorn in the side. Is such a person suitable to be the head coach of the national team?

Second: Li Guo learned from German football, and the German coaches have bitter memories in the hearts of Chinese people. I think the German "Slapner" was like an emperor in China, giving what he asked for, but the final results were so miserable. Therefore, the editor of "Sports Weekly" clearly doubted that German football is not suitable for China at all.

Third: Li Guo has too many gossips. When he was in Germany, he had scandals with many German female stars. This seems to be a potential problem.

In short, in the week after Li Guo took office, people across the country criticized Li Guo one-sidedly. Some fans even went to the Football Association to protest and demanded that Milu be brought back again.

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In the early morning, after finishing his morning jog, Li came to the restaurant to have breakfast. Chen An and Robin Dutt went to the restaurant first. After Li Guo sat down, he grabbed the newspaper from Chen An’s hand and opened it. Li Guo’s expression became more and more ugly. Finally, he pushed the coffee in front of him and slapped the newspaper on the table.

"The chairman of the Football Association has said that now I have the final say on Chinese football, and these media are still twittering,"

In his previous life, Li Guo was very disdainful of the distorted values ​​of many media. For example, the editor of a certain online media, whenever Japanese football won something, this editor must add a sentence, where is Chinese football?
Although the Chinese football is not up to the mark, but the hypochondriacs in many domestic media are even more disgusting. No matter how good the results of Little Japan are, they belong to them. If you blackmail the national football team at this time, what kind of psychology is that?
In the end, Li Guo made up his mind and had to make a statement, "Chen An, hold a press conference tomorrow afternoon and send invitations to the major media."

"What are you doing? Li Guo, please don't cause trouble. It's not easy to do the job when a new official takes office,"

"I told you to go, you just go, so so much nonsense,"

Chen An knew Li Guo's temper, so he didn't talk too much. To be honest, he, the second assistant coach, was really an assistant. He could do whatever Li Guo ordered.

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At the press conference, representatives of various media whispered to each other. It stands to reason that the highlight of this year is the Asian Cup. After the Asian Cup is over, except for a World Cup qualifier in October, the national football team will have no competition tasks. What kind of press conference is there at this time?

One hour later than the scheduled start time of the press conference, Li Guocai was late, which made the media reporters at the scene very dissatisfied.

"Pretend to be a big name,"

"Today you ignore me, tomorrow I will let you down," said a reporter angrily.

Everyone was not optimistic about Li Guo at first, coupled with his late arrival, the atmosphere at the press conference can be said to be undercurrent.

Li Guo did not apologize after sitting down on the stage, but snapped his fingers, and then the staff began to play the PPT on the big screen.

The first page was a clipping from a newspaper. The content was—the reporter predicted that Li Guo would leave get out of class within a month and become the shortest-lived head coach of the national team. The last reporter's signature was Wang Dafu.

"Is Wang Dafu here?"

After a while, a fat man in the front row slipped quietly through the back door. Yes, he was Wang Dafu. This time everyone understood that Li Guo was having a grand banquet.

Li Guo gestured to put down a PPT page, "When the Japanese football players are reflected in reality, where is Chinese football?", signed by Cui Kai.

"Is Cui Kai here?"

Cui Kai was different from Wang Dafu, he didn't slip away, but stood up, "I'm here, how about it."

As soon as these words came out, the reporters at the scene felt like they had taken a stimulant. If these two people broke up on the spot, that would be great news.

Unexpectedly, the development of the matter disappointed everyone, Li Guo did not get angry, but calmly said: "What you wrote is a dog."

Cui Kai was not convinced. As a reporter, being insulted by someone for his articles was worse than being scolded.

"I'm sorry, I wrote an article about you not being as good as Milu, it seems that you have held a grudge, and now you find out an article and you are going to run on me," Cui Kai said righteously.

Li Guo still said flatly: "You must not be convinced, that's great! I not only say your article is shit, but I also prove it to you."

"To support an article on football analysis, the most important thing is statistics, shooting, ball control, pass success rate, number of threatening passes, and the number of times you scored the opponent's 30-meter defense zone. And you don't have any data in this rubbish. How do you prove that Chinese football is not as good as Japan?"

"Also, Yoichi Takahashi created Captain Tsubasa in the 70s. At that time, Japanese football was still rotten, but the Japanese did not blackmail their national team. Instead, they created YY masterpieces like Captain Tsubasa to encourage their own people."

As soon as Li Guo said these words, the scene suddenly became quiet. Cui Kai's face turned blue and white. He wrote this kind of article to cater to those who complain about Chinese football, so it is impossible to do any investigation, just for fun.

Li Guo went on to say: "Next time before hacking the national football team, let's do a data survey first, and the article you hacked on me is also bullshit. After all, Chinese coaches are not as good as foreign coaches, but you can't prove it at all."

After being slapped in the face by Li Guo twice in a row, Cui Kai wanted to refute, but he couldn't say anything, because Li Guo came prepared, and when he wrote the article, he was really black for black.

Afterwards, Li Guo gave examples one by one and slapped faces one by one. In the end, Li Guo picked up a book in his hand - "Who Will Feed the Chinese in the 21st Century".

"In the 90s, Americans wrote this book, but unfortunately, in the end, the Chinese not only supported themselves, but also lived well."

"I want to tell you that maybe Chinese football was not good before, but Chinese football will rise like this country in the future. You can continue to blackmail me and the national football team, but please at least be black with quality."

After saying this, Li Guo didn't look back, and left the press conference, leaving only a group of stunned media reporters.

(End of this chapter)