long live football

In order to avoid the frantic English media following the club bus, and to repay Irving's "enthusiastic" hug after the game, Karl took him to the press conference.

As Karl expected, the game process, results, Lyon coach Houllier, and even himself became Owen's background board, and the "England Golden Boy" became the absolute protagonist in the hearts of reporters.

Facing the hundreds of questions thrown by the media, Owen could only pick up the answers he could hear clearly: "How do I feel now? Very excited, very excited, I really want to thank some people, especially my wife Louise and Carl .” He turned his head and looked at the team coach with incomparable sincerity: “Boss, thank you.”

Carl would never tell anyone that his eyes were a little sour at that moment.

He just smiled at Owen, then lowered his head to drink water, hiding his mood.

When the reporter asked Carl what he was thinking at the moment, Carl smiled: "I have known for a long time that he (Owen) will regain success."

"At the end of the World Cup, when Irving was plagued by such serious injuries, how did you strengthen your confidence?" The "Bild" reporter wondered: "Because many people disagree with you, until today, your transfer The decision was also considered reckless by some fans."

"Then they certainly won't say that now."

The "Times" reporter raised his hand: "Why did Owen recover so quickly in Germany?"

Carl thought for a while: "Because we have very advanced medical equipment, the best sports medicine experts and a healthy recovery environment? That's about it."

The reporter sat down with satisfaction.

When Carl attended the press conference, he would never have imagined that these few words he briefly summarized would trigger a series of discussions about medical treatment in the UK in the next few days-because the team doctor of the England national team and the team doctor of Newcastle United They all vowed to say that Owen's injury "don't even think about playing without a recovery period of seven or eight months", but now Owen has only stayed in Germany for more than 4 months, and he played bravely on the court again, so almost all British fans, Questioned the medical level of the FA and major Premier League clubs.

The British economy is among the top in Europe, and the Premier League is the most expensive football league in the world, but the medical level of many domestic clubs is at the bottom of the top five leagues... Why hasn't this ranking caused the major teams to reflect and correct it?

In other respects, Newcastle began to regret sending Owen out on loan, and set the lease for such a long period.

At a regular meeting of the club's top management, someone suggested: "Why don't we observe Irving's game for another month, and then bring him back during the winter break?"

But Newcastle chairman Shepard replied with a grimace: "Impossible. We have signed a preemptive purchase agreement with Munich 1860. As long as they reach an agreement with Owen, they can buy him out at a price not exceeding the termination fee." Walk."

The high-level executives looked at each other, and everyone's expression was not very good: Chairman Shepard had settled Irving's loan contract at the beginning, because there was no money to take, and few of them paid attention to this matter, but they could temporarily get rid of it when they heard about it. Owen's high salary burden nodded in agreement.

Shepard gritted his teeth with regret: "And we can't break the loan agreement in advance, let alone sell Irving to a third-party club before the lease expires, otherwise we will pay Munich 1860500 million pounds in compensation. Damn it!"

……

After the five UEFA Champions League group matches, 1860 Munich ranked first in the group with two wins and two draws and a total of 8 points, Lyon ranked second with 7 points, Real Madrid ranked third with 6 points, and Dynamo Kiev ranked the worst. , only accumulated 4 points.

Although temporarily topped, it will be difficult to maintain this result until the end, because the opponent of the Lions' last game is Real Madrid.

In Lyon's final match against Dynamo Kiev, the French will probably win the final victory. By then, Lyon's points will become 10 points, and they will firmly lock in a group qualifying place.And if Munich 1860 can defeat Real Madrid, they will join hands with Lyon to qualify. If they draw, they will qualify in a thrilling manner, but if they lose to Real Madrid... the expressions of Lions fans may immediately change from laughing to crying.

As for Real Madrid, if they want to qualify for the Champions League group stage, they must beat Munich 1860, and there is no second choice. Ridiculous, especially in the Catalan media, which gloats every few days.

If Real Madrid can't even qualify for the Champions League group stage, then this season will undoubtedly become one of the most humiliating seasons in the history of Real Madrid's European war. In the next ten or eight years, unless they win the Champions League, the Galaxy Battleship will never even think about it. Liberated from the pillar of shame.Therefore, in the final match against Munich 1860, Real Madrid will definitely go all out.

According to Madrid media reports, Real Madrid chairman Calderon has also given a death order to Capello and the players in the team: the last battle is also a last stand, and Real Madrid must win!If this opportunity is not seized, then during the winter break, not to mention many bench players in the team, even the job of the head coach will be lost.

Whether Calderon really made such a statement to the coaches and players of the team, no one knows, and it is impossible for the Real Madrid club to stand up to confirm or make a statement. However, in this preparation for the game, Capello did not provoke Calderon again. The war of words is real.

The biggest effect of psychological warfare before the game is to paralyze and shake the opponent, but when both teams are ready to go all out in the game, psychological warfare will lose its most important function and become tasteless.

The players of Munich 1860 are concentrating on preparing for the recent European league games. Carl took the time to care about the performance of other groups when his life was running normally. After all, once the Lions enter the knockout round, any team may become their new team. opponent.

He knew that in the recently concluded round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester United beat Benfica, but Chelsea lost 0:1 to Werder Bremen.

This game caused Mourinho and Chelsea to be criticized, and domestic criticism was endless, because the Blues, which have many well-known stars, always implemented Mourinho's "defense first" tactical policy in the game. Huddled in their own defensive area, allowing the Parrot Legion to bombard them indiscriminately, the game was extremely ugly.

It doesn’t matter if it’s ugly. In the past two years, Chelsea fans have gotten used to their home team’s playing style not being beautiful enough, but they not only played ugly, but also lost to their opponents.

English football advocates passion. Since the establishment of the Premier League, teams playing gorgeous offensive football will win respect even if they do not win the championship. This is one of the reasons why Arsenal are loved by fans.

Since Mourinho took charge of Chelsea, although he has brought two Premier League titles, a Charity Shield title and a League Cup title to the team, his football philosophy runs counter to the beautiful offensive football, so the Blues fans are very fond of it. He is simply love and hate. Although everyone is grateful to him for bringing so many honors to Chelsea, it is an indisputable fact that the attendance rate of Stamford Bridge has been getting lower and lower since this season.

The house leak coincided with the continuous rain. In the latest round of the league, Terry was injured. The Chelsea defender accidentally sprained his right foot during the game.This means that Terry will be absent from the game for at least three weeks, and all the media in England who don't like Mourinho ushered in a carnival. Lost streak in several league games.

When all the media and most of the fans are confronting Mourinho, Karl's unique friend still refuses to stop. The Portuguese recently complained that "the team's poor record recently is because we The supplementary position has not been supplemented, and there is no need to increase the bench seat but a large number of players are sitting." was over-interpreted by the reporters, and it was extended as "The Blue Army coach and the boss finally had a conflict! "This news caused ridicule from many Chelsea fans when it first appeared in the newspaper, because who knows that Abramovich and Mourinho have a tacit cooperation in their careers. The former waved money to buy the best and most expensive superstar in the transfer market. The latter used these stars to bring honor to the Blues, and they were called "the best partner in the world".

However, when disagreements arise, cracks in any relationship in the world are likely to appear. Carl clearly remembers Mourinho complaining to himself about his boss's "top striker collection" - when Mourinho had just joined When he was at Chelsea, Abramovich once offered him a list of superstars, and boasted that he could buy them all. There were names of superstars such as Zidane, Ronaldinho, and Shevchenko on the list, but at that time Mourinho Ao declined, because he knew that these superstars were not suitable for his tactics.

And this summer, Abramovich insisted on buying Shevchenko for the team regardless of Mourinho's opposition. good.

Even though the two countries were separated, Mourinho complained to Karl about Abramovich two or three times. Karl did not believe that his friend could remain absolutely silent in London.

"Internal troubles and foreign troubles, Mourinho has suffered setbacks", now open the online Premier League column, and there are similar titles on the news.

Carl realized that he hadn't had in-depth communication with his friend for more than a month, so he called patiently: once, twice, and when no one answered the third time, he hung up the call.

An hour and a half later, the call back came.

"If you want to help me save overseas calls next time, you can call back earlier." Carl said sarcastically: "Nine ten minutes, I almost reported your disappearance to the London police."

"I just finished a work meeting." Mourinho's voice sounded a little tired, but the sharpness was the same as before: "Call the police? Come on, even if I was really killed, the police will not come more than tabloid reporters quick."

Karl wasn't sure if he was at Black Scotland Yard, or satirizing the British media, or both.He changed the topic: "Work meeting? But it's nine o'clock in the evening."

"The people who receive the salary have no right to decide when the meeting will be held. The boss has the final say."

Well, Karl is really sure now that there is a resentment hovering in Mourinho's heart.

"You called me three times, what's the matter?"

"Well……"

"If you want to express some condolences to me, save yourself, I don't need any sympathy and comfort."

"No, I'm..." Carl said in a hurry, "I want to ask you about a player, and I'm very interested in him."

"Who?"

"Aryan Robben."

Mourinho's voice rose: "You want to poach my corner?!"

"Don't get excited, man." Carl said coolly, "I don't believe you haven't thought about selling him." Robben moved to Chelsea in 2004 and achieved great success in his first season. The whole world looked sideways, but later, when the Premier League defenders studied him thoroughly, they began to use continuous fouls to stop Robben's offense. In the past year, Robben has suffered from constant injuries, and gradually lost his main position in the team. .

Karl will mention Robben, one is that he has indeed done some research on this player, and the other is that Chelsea's striker has a strong bench. Robben, who has been a little fragile due to injuries recently, has become dispensable.

"I don't want to cheat you, Carl, Robben has a glass body."

"That's because the Premier League is not suitable for him, your defenders are too rough with him."

Mourinho thought for a while, and chose to put this topic aside for the time being: "Let's talk about it during the winter break. If you still want to buy then, submit a formal offer to the club."

"No problem." Carl agreed, and asked seemingly unintentionally: "Old man, I heard that you have made enemies everywhere again recently?"

Mourinho is very perceptive: "What are you trying to imply? Don't hide it, tell me the truth."

Carl sighed: "Okay. I just want to suggest you, sometimes don't be so outspoken."

"That's my personality. And I'm in my 40s, do you want me to change?"

"Maybe I just don't want you to lose your current job?"

Mourinho said stubbornly: "I don't lack jobs."

The atmosphere became a little tense.

It seems that England did put too much pressure on Mourinho, and even took away his humor, leaving only tit for tat.

Carl sighed: "Are we really going to make the atmosphere so stiff? I don't care about you, okay? If you really... I mean if." He joked halfway: "You lost your job, you can Come join me in Munich."

Mourinho revealed his heart for the first time: "After Christmas, I need to talk to Abramovich again. If he refuses to agree to my proposal, I will consider the plan to leave in the summer."

"Really? Chelsea is the team you built after all."

"At the same time, it is also the team built by Abramovich. He exchanged a huge amount of pounds for the current Chelsea. I understand this deeply." Mourinho said with some emotion: "Abramovich regards himself as the god of the team, Carl, you Knowing my temper, I also feel like the God of the team."

"It's impossible to accommodate two Gods in one team."

"Yes."

After a moment of silence, Karl suggested: "If you don't think Germany is too cold, you can come here for Christmas and treat it as a vacation."

Mourinho smiled: "Why did you bring up such a good idea now!"

"Maybe it's because I just remembered that more than one person has already called Munich a nursing home?"

"Sanatorium? Shouldn't it be a monastery?" Mourinho joked: "I read the newspapers in the past few days, and your players compared you to a priest."

Carl laughed: "Owen was kidding, he's not even a Catholic."

"But the British media took it seriously. I even saw a photo of you wearing a sacrificial costume in the newspaper."

"Fake photos." Carl didn't care. "I didn't think the British media could report this matter seriously. They always like to make weird things."

"They are not completely dishonest, in fact, sometimes I also wonder, do you have some magic power or something." Mourinho pointed out: "Portillo, Beckham, Irving have all been asserted that their careers It is about to enter the bottleneck period, but after going to Munich, they have recovered their vitality one after another. And Robben, there are so many players in my team, and you are interested in him with poor physique. I am a little puzzled by this .”

"...I knew I couldn't hide it." Carl said in a low voice mysteriously, "Jose, I have to tell you a secret."

Mourinho pricked up his ears.

"actually……"

Mourinho scratched his heart and lungs curiously.

"Actually, I'm a wizard."

"..."

Carl's voice sounded very serious: "I come from the magical world, and I was sent here to save the world. I also have a boss, she..."

Mourinho's rationality told him that his friend was probably teasing him, but his thinking was still aroused by the serious tone of "Her?"

"Her name is JK Rowling."

"..."

Carl laughed wildly.

……

Later, Carl received an email.

"Switzerland is beautiful, thank you for recommending the hotel with a great view to me, it feels good to wake up with the snow-capped mountains every morning.

Half a month later, the trip ends, and "RealDream" premieres in Los Angeles. The invitation letter should have been sent to you, please come and attend.

PS: The weight loss effect is remarkable, and I can wear small size jeans again.

Allen. "

Turning on the computer, Carl first checked his mailbox, and sure enough, among several courier packages, he found a letter from Los Angeles, USA.

Inside was a handwritten letter from Anthea and an invitation to the film premiere.

After reading the letter, Carl first replied to Allen's email, with only a short sentence: Happy travels, I will attend the premiere.

Anthea said that the film poured a lot of emotion into Allen, and maybe he should go and see what the film is about.

……

The minute hand and the second hand coincided perfectly and gradually separated. Carl raised his wrist, looked at the dial, and counted silently in his heart: one second, two seconds... 15 seconds, 16 seconds...

On the training ground not far away, twenty first-team players in training uniforms were repeating squats and leg presses on the turf.

Most of the players look quiet and honest, like they don't think about anything but training, but in fact, some of them are going crazy.

If Karken got closer, he might still hear some distressed whispers: "It's already past eight o'clock, why haven't they come yet?"

"I don't know! When I called them 5 minutes ago, Ozil said they were at the gate!"

"I said yesterday afternoon that if they have a party, they must remember to set ten alarm clocks, or they will definitely be late today—you see, my words have been ignored by them again."

"Maybe Koch didn't forget your words, it's just that ten alarm clocks aren't powerful enough."

"It's over, the boss has already started counting down the seconds..."

"If they don't show up in five minutes, do you think we will be implicated?"

"Here they come! They come!"

Accompanied by the sudden noise on the court, at the entrance of the training ground, four young men in casual clothes were passing through the gate and running towards the court.

In the blink of an eye, several people had already run in front of Karl, four people lined up, it was Ozil, Koch, Lars and Sven.

All of them were sweating on their foreheads, their faces were flushed, and they were panting like thunder. To put it bluntly, if they were not afraid of the power of Karl's gaze, the four of them would have been lying on the ground tired and sticking out their tongues.

The players on the court were warming up and running around the court at this time. When they ran to the side of the court, they all slowed down gossiping, deliberately stopped in place to do frog jumps, and at the same time wished they could amplify their hearing hundreds of times.

The assistant coach originally wanted to urge the players to continue running, but when he saw the scene happening on the sidelines, he also shut his mouth, walked over slowly and waited to watch the excitement.

"Two minutes and 40 seconds." Carl walked over to the four of them, twitching the corners of his mouth hypocritically: "Very good, you have kept the lateness within 3 minutes."

The other three lowered their heads, and Koch mustered up the courage to look up: "Boss, we yesterday..."

Karl interrupted him with a wave of his hand, then approached abruptly, twisted up the corner of Koch's coat and sniffed it.

Everyone who saw this scene was stunned. The players on the training ground maintained a posture as if the pause button was pressed, and after a few seconds, they almost exploded: "Boss, what is he doing?!"

"Looks like sniffing Koch's...clothes."

"smell!?"

Koch was so stiff that he couldn't move.

Carl muttered under his breath, "Smoke."

A faint smell of alcohol wafted from Lars and Sven.

As for Ozil.

"...It smells so heavy." Carl stared at the round-eyed player with a stature like a stick, and raised his voice a little: "It seems that you had a very exciting night yesterday, and there were more than one intimate contact with women."

"We didn't go to that kind of place! I swear to you, I will never go again!" Amid Ozil's frightened expression, it was Koch who couldn't help but say: "We just, just do it at home. We had a party, because we won against Lyon, everyone was so happy..."

Carl turned and glanced at Koch, who didn't look like he was lying.

However, Karl raised his eyebrows and looked at Ozil, implying that it is self-evident: Men's gatherings smell of perfume?

Only then did Ozil reply timidly: "I, I invited a few friends, female friends."

"Model? Actress? Singer?"

"Some of them are nurses, some are college students, and none of them are dishonest. By the way, there is also a TV host."

Carl was choosing whether to believe it or not. After a few seconds, he said, "Name."

Ozil opened his big eyes even more roundly: "Huh?"

"Tell me their names, and I will test to see if you are lying."

Ozil seemed relieved, but worried: "Of course I remember the names, but how do you check their identities?"

Carl was noncommittal: "You don't need to worry about this, I always have a way to find out a few."

Ozil immediately explained all the names he knew, including the location and time of their party yesterday and so on.

"Now put on your training clothes and go to train with the other players. When the training is over in the morning, find Hasler. He will tell you what the punishment for being late is." Karl nodded towards the court, then turned to stare at the four The kid who arrived late said: "I'm going to check your confession now, and I better pray that I don't find out that you are lying, otherwise, I will..."

The four listened with trepidation.

"...kick your asses."

After finishing the last few words slowly, Karl found with satisfaction that all the players who heard these words were stunned.

Shao Jiayi, who was closest to the sidelines, fell on his back to the ground because of his shock.

After intimidating his players, Carl finally turned and headed for the office building.

Sven Bender stretched out his hand to soothe his heart, and couldn't wait to share his feelings with his brother: "The boss can actually smell alcohol on me? I only drank a few glasses of beer yesterday! His nose is really sharper than a dog. "

Russ gave him a sympathetic look.

Sven's hairs stood on end.Half a second later, he felt a blast of hot air on his neck.

"Sven Bender, I haven't gone far," said the sinister voice behind him.

Sven was trembling all over and didn't dare to turn around. He silently lowered his head and made a dying voice: "Boss, you, punish me...whatever you want..."

Then he felt his butt hit.

With a "scream", Sven pounced on the turf in front of him with a ferocious dog pounce.

Carl was slightly stunned: the kick he just kicked was actually very weak, let alone flying out, even the fat on his butt would not have a bruise.

Then Karl immediately realized that this was a deliberate prank by his players, trying to gain his sympathy.

To confirm the guess, Carl looked at Sven who fell to the ground.

But just happened to see Sven covering his face with his hands, but his eyes were looking this way through the gaps between his fingers. He caught a glimpse of Carl staring at him, and the younger twin immediately smashed his head to the ground again.

Carl turned and left expressionlessly, but he couldn't help laughing the moment his body turned around completely.Although silent.

He's going to investigate whether the players' confession is true, and if it's true, he won't do anything to them—at most, he's just feeling his youth.Everyone will fall in love, and of course the players will also get married and start a family. As long as they are looking for a good girl, he will even send blessings.

On the other side of the training ground.

Sven has already got up from the ground in a hurry. After seeing the head coach really walk away completely, he acted like a baby to earn sympathy with his friends: "My ass really hurts."

But no one around pity him, including his brother Russ, they all laughed.

Sven felt that his heart had been seriously hurt.