Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 435 Defending Mourinho
After the Spring Festival, Chinese football ushered in the Haigeng spring training, and the transfer period also began to open. Now is the time for the bosses and coaches of the clubs to show their talents.

Naturally, Yunjia Tianyu is no exception. After Mourinho returned to China, Pei Wei and Mourinho discussed the personnel composition for the next season. Pei Wei promised to open a list of who he wants to bring in. Do it by yourself immediately - Pei Wei felt very comfortable when he said this, just like Abu in the future.

However, Mourinho did not make any demands. The composition of Yunjiatianyu's personnel is already top-notch in the country, and there are not many players who can surpass Yunjia in terms of strength. What's more, Yunjiatianyu is only weak at right back. , and in this position, there are indeed no outstanding players in China-the best right back in China is now in the Premier League.

Veteran Xie Feng officially announced his retirement. In fact, he didn't play any games last year. He played more as an assistant coach in the team. This season, he became the coach of the reserve team. Ding Yu was promoted to the first team After becoming an assistant coach, he will be in charge of the reserve team.

It is very beneficial for a veteran like Xie Feng who is famous in the league and the national team to serve as the head coach of the youth team after retiring. His personal level is high enough to calm down those young people. Young people are more eager for their own success - often a person wants to succeed, lacking desire and fighting spirit is absolutely impossible.

Through Ding Yu's recommendation, seven players from the reserve team were transferred into the first team at one go. This was the first time in Yunjiatianyu's history that such a large-scale transfer of personnel was made. In the past, it was very difficult for Yunjiatianyu to select players from the reserve team. Strictly speaking, apart from outstanding players like Zheng Zhi and Adriano who can be entrusted with important responsibilities as soon as they enter the team, it is difficult for other players who are not particularly outstanding, such as Qian Dapeng and Qi Lin, to get a chance to play.

Although the seven players who were transferred to the first team knew that they might not be able to play the main force, but being able to enter the first team itself was a hope-if they stayed in the reserve team, God knows when they would be able to make their debut.

Among these seven players are the 17-year-old goalkeeper Chu Ran who volunteered to enter the Yunjiatianyu reserve team last year, and the wide player Du Zhenyu-they are full of confidence and ambition.

Especially Chu Ran, the goalkeeper who is only 1.7 meters tall has a self-confidence that is not commensurate with his size, especially after he knows that Chen Wei, the main goalkeeper of the first team, did not perform very well last year. Full confidence to get the main position in the new year.

Although in the hearts of coach Mourinho and owner Pei Wei, he is just the third goalkeeper just in case.

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After seven players from the reserve team were transferred into the team, Yunjiatianyu's first-team players quickly expanded to 30 players. The number of people has been expanded to 30, but there is no introduction of any big money, so people can't help but feel underestimated.

Yunjia's largest local sports newspaper "Yunjia Sports Daily" even lamented: "In the era of coach Wenger, we only had 23 permanent first-team players and won the A-B championship and the Football Association with undefeated results. Cup champion, in the era of coach Benitez, we only had 23 first-team players to win two consecutive league championships, but after our handsome coach Mourinho took office, we have [-] players In the case of first-team players, no one is available. Maybe our talented head coach thinks that more people means more strength. Unfortunately, football matches do not allow [-] players to play at the same time, otherwise we will win All games."

The complaint of "Yunjia Sports Daily" is justified. Over the past year, coach Mourinho has done many things that make them uncomfortable.

This coach is indeed handsome—so handsome that he can act in a movie, even if his acting skills are zero, his face alone can attract a large number of nympho fans—but he is not an idol actor, but a football coach!What's the use of being handsome in a football coach?

Among his first two football coaches, Wenger and Benitez, none of them had more grace and style than him-although Coach Wenger is famous for being personable and elegant, but his face But it's not very attractive. To put it mildly, he is a thin version of Mr. Bean, not to mention Benitez, who has a dead face all day long, as if someone owed him two hundred hangs-but he What a result!In football, especially for football coaches, grades always come first!

This coach has never had any cooperation with the media. Every time he attends a press conference, he dismisses the reporters with a few words. When there is any important game, he never opens any training content to the media. What's annoying is that this guy doesn't even have a reporter friend to talk to, so trying to dig out some private information is nothing short of impossible.

In addition, the coach's verbal skill is not ordinary, which often makes the reporters unable to get off the stage at all-the reporters hate him to death, so why not trample on him to death?
Wenger would not do such a thing of confrontation with the media. Although no matter what should be concealed or should not be said, he still has a good attitude. Paparazzi are also human beings and should be respected.Although Benitez also ignored the reporters, he never satirized the reporters. The Champions Cup and the Asian Club Cup were won all at once. Yunjia fans regarded him as a god and lost. The reporters would not touch his bad luck, but even so, in the end without winning the championship For a year, Benitez was not less criticized by reporters.

It stands to reason that Mourinho's results last year were considered very good. The runner-up in the league once kept pace with the final champion Liaoning, and he also won the cup. There is a lot of chance. When Benitez led the team, he was invincible in the league and only won one cup championship. It is well known that Yunjia Tianyu's strength has declined seriously last year, but what can be done about it?The media just can't understand you.

Originally, Yunjia fans had mixed opinions on Mourinho. Last year, the team played quite a few games under the leadership of Mourinho, which proved that his level of leadership is still quite high, but The emotions of the fans are often guided by the media. When the media has criticized Mourinho for a long time, many fans are not optimistic about Mourinho. Some enthusiastic fans even wrote to the club, asking for another one. The coach may invite Benitez, who has not yet taken office and found a job.

Mourinho turned a deaf ear to this and was indifferent—this doesn’t mean he didn’t know about these things. Having done translation work, his talent in language is quite outstanding. He can barely understand Chinese language after he’s been in China for a year. Newspapers, but with his character, these criticisms are like hearing farts—no, it’s not farts, most people will always cover their ears and noses when they hear farts, and he doesn’t cover them at all. All become air.

Pei Wei also chose to ignore the discussions in the media. He absolutely believed in his own judgment. Mourinho is a man of quality, otherwise he would not have achieved such great success in the future history, even if he did not Knowing the future, and through contact with Mourinho, I also know that the other party is an excellent coach.

After getting along with famous coaches like Wenger and Benitez, Pei Wei has a lot of experience in judging whether a coach is good or not.

However, he can ignore the voices of the media, but he cannot ignore the voices of the fans - this is the first time in Yunjia Tianyu's history that fans have written to the club asking for a coach change - although Yunjia Tianyu's history is only a few years old.

Fans have always been a very important part of Yunjiatianyu Club. If the fans' dissatisfaction with the club gradually escalates due to the media's fanning the flames, it will be a very serious problem.

For this reason, Pei Wei held a special press conference. At the meeting, he and the player representatives-captain Zhu Guosheng and vice-captain Wu Jiang expressed their support for Mourinho. Pei Wei also appealed to the fans to be more patient. , give Mourinho time, and no club in the world can permanently monopolize a country's league, the championship needs a joint effort.

In order to increase the persuasiveness of his words, Pei Wei also cited two examples - Ferguson of Manchester United did not do well when he first started coaching Manchester United, and he was almost fired several times. How could there be the subsequent Manchester United dynasty and the Treble Crown Albert in 99?The Inter Milan in Serie A is the opposite example. After becoming the chairman of Inter Milan, the boss Moratti did not know how much money he spent, but because he was too eager for quick success, he changed coaches one after another, but he still could not bring a league. champion.

"Before the contract ends, unless Mourinho himself is unwilling to do it, no one can drive him away." At the end of the press conference, Pei Wei expressed his firm position with these words: "I absolutely I believe in coach Mourinho, and believe that Yunjiatianyu will create a new glory under his leadership."

Under Pei Wei's resolute attitude, the media gradually stopped attacking Mourinho. After all, Yunjia Tianyu Club is Pei Wei's private property, and Yunjia's local sports media dare not offend Pei Wei. Pei Wei means that they will no longer get any news from Yunjiatianyu, this is something they don't want to see, cooperation will benefit both, and division will harm both.

(End of this chapter)