Godfather of national football

Chapter 5 Playing football for fun

Thomas Muller is called Erwa in Chinese. Li Guo remembers that he became popular only after Van Gaal took office at Bayern in 2009, and it was the 2010 World Cup in South Africa that really made Muller famous.

Li Guo faced the computer screen and looked at Mueller's photo, but the miracle did not happen, there was no number on Mueller's head in the photo.

"Is this system only effective if you see real players? In other words, you have to watch it on the spot."

Li Guo is a man of action, and he does what he says. Germany is his second home. He bought a plane ticket and flew to Germany.

When he arrived in Munich, he found the training place of Bayern's second team. Li Guo saw Thomas Müller, who became famous later, but is still young now.

Li Guo turned on the system in his mind and glanced at Muller. A miracle happened. Two sets of numbers appeared on Muller's head. The blue number is 65, which represents the ability value, while the red number is as high as 90.

Everything in front of him made Li Guo extremely excited.As a coach, the biggest difficulty is to discover talents, and with this system, Li Guo has a senior scout by his side.

Of course, this does not mean that Li Guo can easily discover talents, because this system can only display football-related data, and there are many factors that determine the success of a player. For example, Balotelli in Italy is a top-notch talent in football. Unfortunately, Balotelli is so rebellious that his talent is wasted.

But no matter what, Li Guo was very excited to have such a helper. When he returned to the hotel, Li Guo thought, "I don't know what else this system can do?"

At this time, a new problem arose, that is how to control this system. Li Guo already knew that this system should be a coaching support system, but the question was how to control it?

It would be better to use voice control, just like in many sci-fi movies, so Li Guo tried to shout, "Hey, Brother System, is there anyone, hello."

But no matter how Li Guo shouted, no one answered him.

Suddenly, Li Guo seemed to have a big brain hole, and suddenly thought, "Could this be touch-sensitive."

You must know that in 2007, although Jobs released the first smartphone, at that time, sliding a mobile phone was still a new thing that very few people tried.

With an attitude of giving it a try, Li Guo stretched out his index finger and swipe lightly on the virtual space in front of his eyes. The next second a miracle appeared, and the interface in front of him moved along the direction of Li Guo's finger sliding.

"3D Virtual Interface,"

Let alone 2007, even the year 2016 before Li Guo's time travel is out of reach.

To calm down his inner excitement, Li Guo began to study the system in front of him. He found that most of the things in this system were gray and locked, which was very similar to a game. Sliding and sliding, Li Guo found a window, but this window was not locked.

Open it to see the window of novels, and then click in to see that they are all football-related novels, one of which Li Guo is very familiar with is called "There is a Faith Called Football". Li Guo especially likes several characters in it.

Suddenly, Li Guo thought, why did the system allow me to read this novel? Could the characters in the novel appear in reality?
Thinking of this, Li Guo was very excited. He decided to give it a try. He opened Du Niang. Li Guo entered "Dynamo Kiev, Li Qiao", but the result was disappointing. Du Niang showed that there was no such person.

It seems that the characters in the novel do not exist in reality, but Li Guo did not give up, he decided to continue to try. I remember that in that novel, besides Li Qiao, Li Guo’s favorite is the captain of the Chinese team—Zhou Dun.

So Li Guo searched on Google, Chile, Zhou Dun, and as the results slowly came out, Li Guo's eyes lit up.

"So there really is Zhou Dun,"

Li Guo thought that such people must be recruited into the national team. With his own coaching support system and these young talents, Li Guo is full of confidence in the future of Chinese football.

But everything has to wait until after the World Cup qualifiers in October. Li Guo wants to play in the Philippines. The current group of players is enough. Next year's Olympics and the World Cup in South Africa, he still has a lot of work to do.

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On the training field, Robin Dutt and Redondo are leading the team to train. Robin Dutt is watching from a distance. He is in charge of tactics. For example, Robin Dutt is equivalent to the "Loew" next to the German team "Klinsmann" in the 2006 World Cup.

And Redondo is specifically responsible for the technical aspects, ranging from a player's pass to a free kick, Redondo will correct it.

Just as everyone was sweating profusely for training, Li Guo walked into the training ground.

"Everyone stop, come, gather around me,"

Everyone didn't know why, but when the head coach spoke, no one dared to defy him. Soon, more than 20 players gathered around Li Guo.

More than 20 people shouted "head" in unison.

"Very good," Li Guo said, looking at the energetic players in front of him, "May I ask you a question?"

Everyone nodded.

"What do you think Chinese football lacks the most?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. This question is not easy to answer.

Seeing that everyone dared not speak up, Li Guo laughed, "The system is not working?"

"No, I've been to Costa Rica. It's much worse than our China. It's the same as ours in the 80s, but their football is good."

"No talent?"

"No, China is so big, what kind of talent doesn't it have?"

"No money?"

Before Li Guo could speak, everyone laughed. Although the league hadn't started the money-burning war in 2007, Chinese football was not short of money.

"What's missing?"

This is Li Guo's final question.

At this time, everyone was looking at Li Guo, expecting Li Guo to give an answer, and Li Guo didn't deliberately tease everyone's appetite, just heard Li Guo say word by word, "What is missing is happiness."

"I want to ask, how many of you play football for fun?"

Many people lowered their heads, Li Guo pointed to a dark-skinned young man beside him, "What do you think is your purpose in playing football?"

The dark-skinned boy lowered his head.

"Okay, we have three chapters. No one is allowed to speak out about today's conversation. Must we speak and act freely?"

Li Guo looked at the young man in front of him, "Speak, I promise you in the name of the head coach of the Chinese national team, you can say anything."

"For money," the young man said in his heart under Li Guo's assurance.

"So are you enjoying playing football?"

The young man didn't continue talking, but everyone understood the answer. Li Guo went over and put his hand on his shoulder, "If you are unhappy, then I can let you go back to the club."

Li Guo said to everyone: "I will say it for the last time today. By 12 o'clock tonight, players who want to withdraw from the National Olympics can send emails to my mailbox. I only hope that the people who stay are those who play football for happiness."

In order to dispel everyone's worries, Li Guo reiterated that today's conversation will never be circulated.

Then Li Guo asked people to hang a few big characters on the building of the training base-playing football for happiness.

Li Guo’s approach can be described as groundbreaking, but Chen An, Robin Dutt, and Redondo all understand Li Guo. Leading a football team is like leading an army. Everyone must have the same values. Without this, everything else is empty talk!
(End of this chapter)