Frenzy [football]

"So, you added his number to your contacts only to find out that he is actually Lazio's coach? Pablo?"

"Yes... yes."

"So, after chatting with him for so long, you didn't realize that he looks familiar?"

"Yes... yes."

"Leiy, maybe I should remind you that there are only seven teams in the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season, and Lazio in Serie A is one of these seven teams?"

"I... I... I'm just a football player... No, I don't understand coaches..."

"You just talked for so long with a stranger you met outside the Bernabéu that you didn't know? And ate the ice cream he bought you? The day before we had an important league match?"

"..."

At noon that day, after the long and short legs went home, they even had no time to eat lunch, so they initiated a call to their team leader, and told the other party about the adventure they encountered this morning.Obviously, the long and short legs didn't realize the seriousness of the matter when they told Enzo about it.So after being reminded by Enzo, Lei Yi was completely dumbfounded.

The Spaniard on the other end of the phone seemed to be able to understand the expression on the face of the winger with the strongest scoring ability in their team at this time, so he sighed and said: "Leiy, you should pray now that you won't Someone just took a picture of you chatting with the Lazio coach and eating ice cream because if someone took those pictures and put them in the public eye, whoever they were would think you were in the Champions League quarter-finals We had already reached a tacit understanding with Pablo in the first final, and we wanted to move to Lazio this summer. Then we will have a headache and how to explain it to Mr. Alberto. But I am more worried about you Strangers are not at all wary. You have to know that you are not ordinary people, we are all players with positions, and football is a sport that can drive many people crazy. You, can you understand me?"

"I'm sorry..." Lei Yi who said this really felt a little frustrated.He could feel that he was worrying his friend and club captain.And it was indeed his fault, which he had nothing to defend himself against.

Hearing Long and Short legs apologize to himself in that muffled voice, Enzodun felt that he couldn't get angry with this troublesome guy, so he could only exhale and say funny : "Well Leiy, if such an unfortunate thing really happened, I will explain it to you and Mr. Alberto. I am also the captain of Atletico Madrid, am I not?"

"Thank you, Enzo!"

In this way, Lei Yi and En Zuozai explained carefully and clearly what happened this morning, and also frankly and leniently explained to the captain of his own club what happened after he knew the man's identity as the Lazio coach. .

Obviously, Pablo was also very surprised that Lei Yi didn't recognize who he was from the beginning to the end, and said that although the draw ceremony for the quarter-finals has not yet been held, as the main scorer in the top eight teams How could Garrincha not even know the coaches of the other seven teams?

Regarding this, Lei Yi still smiled, saying that it is not their coach's job to study the head coach.

"He said he came to the Bernabeu to see if a player from Real Madrid should be brought in this summer. But he didn't tell me the name of that person. He just told me that he also realized that he came too early. Yeah, when I bumped into him, I was checking nearby bars on my phone. I wanted to have a drink before the game. Then he sent me home! Said that I was out of the sun, and it was time to go home and have a good rest After a while, I said that athletes can’t live without a nap! Eat well, rest well, and have sun exposure, so athletes can be in good shape! Then we said goodbye... I think Mr. Barbro is very nice and very Interesting! He's different from any team coach I've ever met before!"

Enzo listened carefully to what the long and short legs said about the Serie A team coach, and carefully thought about the Argentine coach's intention to catch up with Lei Yi and talk to him, and then he said: "Pablo is the representative of the young and strong coaches in the five major European leagues. He is still very young, not even 40 years old. If I remember correctly...he may be 38 years old, or 39 years old. He is young. When he played in Europe, he played in the Premier League and Serie A. After his competitive state declined, he returned to South America and continued to play in the Argentine Serie A."

"Then...and then?"

"Wait a minute, I'll check for you."

As he said that, Enzo walked to the computer and inquired about the information of the young and strong football coach for his long and short legs. After a while, he said again: "Not long after he returned to the A League , their coach was unable to continue the work of the coach because of a stroke, and Pablo, who is a defensive midfielder, took over as the coach of the team during the last ten weeks of the league. And because he was in the ten weeks He did a good job, he decided to retire early to start his coaching career. But the experience after that was not smooth, he changed five clubs in three years. His last job in the South American league was Rapp The coach of the Lata University team, this time he did a good job, helping the La Plata University team to get the second place in the A League. At that time, the performance of the Lazio team was much worse than it is now, and the club executives found it He. Now, he's been at Lazio for two and a half years and he seems to be doing well."

Listening to these short words outline the professional resume of a South American player over the years, Lei Yi let out a sigh of relief.Apparently, such a career was something he had never even imagined.And he is far from being exposed to topics such as "retirement" and "what to do after retirement".

Not only is he still ten or twenty years away from retiring, even the friends he knows are still on the rise or at their peak.

It is precisely because of this that he cannot understand what kind of choice it is to retire early in order to become a coach.But that does not prevent him from admiring such a former defensive midfielder and now the head coach of the Serie A club.

Lei Yi: "Enzo Enzo, then tell me...how strong is Lazio this year?"

Enzo: "Well, it's really hard for me to answer such a question. I can only say that this year's Lazio has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League with us, but Real Madrid has not."

Enzo's words made his legs amused, and Lei Yi, who was talking to someone in his bedroom, suddenly fell down on the bed. After thinking for a while, he continued to ask tentatively: "So... what if we immediately Compete with Lazio, who do you think has a better chance of winning?"

Enzo: "Leiy, maybe I have to tell you that I really don't have a part-time job as a researcher in a gaming company. However, the Roma duo have had a strong momentum in the past two seasons. They let the Milan duo, and even the veteran northern three Qiang feels that his status is endangered. However, this is not the first time. At the beginning of this century, the Roman duo almost overtook the top three in the north of Serie A for a period of time, and it seemed that they were about to break through. The structure of the Serie A league has changed."

Lei Yi: "What happened next?"

Enzo: "There is no later. Serie A has always been the league with the most average strength among the five major leagues. They still have seven different teams rotating to be the top team in the standings. But Serie A is good at infighting. This The downfall of the Roma duo at the turn of the century was basically the result of a holy alliance between Juventus and AC Milan. It’s famous, Leiy, even though it’s been a long time ago.”

The so-called holy alliance single-handedly contributed to the decline of the Roman duo, of course it does not mean that they defeated the Roman duo once, twice, or even three times in a certain season.

The holy alliance formed by AC Milan and Juventus defeated and even defeated the Roma duo outside the field.

In the era when the buying and selling of players across leagues was not so free, Juventus and AC Milan first created a false prosperity in the player transfer market, even if it was a young player who had just made his mark in Serie A. Players can be fired to tens of millions of euros by them.

This has spurred Roma and Lazio to invest heavily in the transfer market, far beyond their healthy finances.

Then, these two veteran Serie A northern teams suddenly stopped all player buying transactions at a certain point, leaving the Roma duo with a large number of overvalued players.

And then?The owner of AC Milan, who is Italy's prime minister, has prompted a special law that barred all financially troubled clubs from their registration in Serie A.In this way, all shareholders of Lazio went crazy and withdrew their funds.

The Blue Eagles Lazio wanted to overcome this difficulty by selling their players, but in the end they still had no choice but to declare bankruptcy and fell to the Italian D-League that they had never thought of before.Lazio have to travel to various mountain villages in Italy every two weeks for their league games, and the players there may be many of their fans...

And their city derby Roma, although not as heavy as the loss of the Blue Eagles Lazio, had to sell players who were of great significance to them in that turmoil, and the regrets caused by it were no longer possible. get made up.

Since then, the vitality of the Roman duo has been severely damaged, and they have not been able to return to their previous heights for more than ten years, and they have never been able to qualify for the top European teams.

This is a past event that happened more than ten years or even 20 years before the two were born.Hearing the dark past of Serie A from Enzo made Lei Yi feel extraordinarily unreal.Such a boy who has engraved the enthusiasm and straightforwardness of South American football in his heart can't even understand why football... can be influenced by politics.

Lei Yi: "But, but, the Prime Minister of Italy...how can he be the owner of the team?"

Enzo: "Why not? In fact, until now, many people believe that a large part of the reason why Berlusconi bought AC Milan was that he wanted to pass the support of AC Milan fans. To achieve his goal of running to become Prime Minister of Italy. For this group of businessmen and politicians, the meaning of football is not so simple."

Although Berlusconi made many, many jokes in his later years, and even made the Italian people feel ashamed that they had such a prime minister.But his experience in his youth is legendary.

A child from an ordinary family, he founded his own consortium, established a brand new political party, became the owner of the world's richest football team, and became the Prime Minister of Italy for three times.

No matter which one of these four items, it is enough to make people amazing.

It is precisely because of this that after Berlusconi, of course, some people will imitate the road he once walked.

That is the current boss of Inter Milan.

Outside of Italy, there may be more fans who like AC Milan than Inter Milan.

But in Italy, the number of fans of Inter Milan has an overwhelming victory.

Clearly, the current owner of Inter understands this better than anyone and what it means.

Enzo: "Leiy, you don't understand many things now. But you have to know that running a football club itself does not make money, or it is difficult for people to make money. Therefore, many football club owners will think The way is to earn what he wants elsewhere by running a football club. Businessmen hope to earn money, and politicians hope to win some longer-term benefits through the support of fans. For example, running for the country’s prime minister or something. But as Players, we don’t need to worry so much. As long as we play well, that’s enough. I hope you can remember what I’m going to say to you next. Always remember, can you promise me?”

The topic they mentioned in their casual conversation was obviously too complicated for the current Lei Yi, making him unable to understand.But he could understand that the advice Enzo gave him must be kind and for his own good.

So the long and short legs gave an affirmative answer seriously after trying hard to digest the information but failed.

Hearing that answer, the son of Golden Wolf said: "Leiy, never get involved in the club's high-level or even the struggle between the club and the club. Because the ones who get hurt in the end will always be our players. .We are small in the face of power struggles."