Mister Legend

Chapter 173 Appointed to go to Milan as an endorsement

As the Turin coach's answers were very short, the process of the press conference was carried out very quickly, at least half of the half hour earlier than expected.The reporter who finally got the chance to ask questions still wants to make a fuss about the two clubs and the two head coaches: "According to the news from the Chinese media and Lazio officials the day before yesterday, the Football Association in the country where Coach Li was born and the Lazio club are cooperating on a project about Chinese youths. The football training program, they once invited you to participate in the launching ceremony of this activity, why did you not go? Is it because the relationship between Coach Li and the Lazio club is in a freezing period, or is it because you don’t pay much attention to youth football in your country? In addition, what do you think of Mr. Lippi, the new coach of Tianchao Men's Football? It was reported that you were once one of the most popular candidates for the national team coach. May I ask whether Coach Li gave up on his own initiative, or is he working with the former Italian national team? Lost in the coaching competition?"

For the media who want to slander him maliciously, Li Mudi has always been willing to go back. He stood up and responded with a smile that was not a smile: "How many questions do you have? The word count! But since there is still a little time left, I will kindly help you to answer the confusion in my heart. First of all, it is the training plan of the Tianchao youth football. Since there is also a game in the middle of this week, I cannot personally attend the scene. If the Italian Football Association allows the game to be postponed, maybe I have already boarded the plane back from China. However, I have appointed an agent in China to keep an eye on the development of the situation. If the promotion of the time has a positive effect, I am still willing to participate in some things within my ability. As for whether I pay attention to China’s youth football, everyone will know in two days, if your information network is really powerful in China.”

After telling the above passage, the Turin coach suddenly tightened his face, looked at the reporter who asked the question, and sternly accused: "The last question is about the Chinese men's football team. I want to know, where did you know about me? Is it a candidate for the head coach of the national team? Is it on Mars? That’s not true. No one from the Chinese Football Association has mentioned this to me. Maybe you have monitored some people and heard them mention me. name, but that has nothing to do with the new coach of the men's football team. I was invited to join the executive committee of the Chinese Football Association, and they once asked me on the phone what I think about Mr. Lippi taking over the national team. The answer is naturally that he will It is the best choice, and this is the answer to your last question. However, the guy in charge of monitoring is not very good at Tianchao, and his translation ability needs to be strengthened."

How did this lead to surveillance? The 24 Hour Sun reporter hurriedly shouted from below: "What surveillance? We didn't..."

"I'm not interested in whose phone calls you listened to. That's the job of the police and the prosecutor's office. My job is to lead the team in training and games, and then be provoked and attacked by Western reporters like you. Today's task is completed, so , goodbye!" After saying that, he put down the microphone, turned around and left, leaving dozens of reporters with constipated faces.

After returning to the apartment, Li Mudi had dinner with Guinness and others, and hurriedly held a meeting with Lin Zixu in China through the Internet, and settled all kinds of endorsements and advertisements.At present, cooperation intentions have been negotiated with many powerful companies. Yili Dairy, 362 Degree Sports, Huawei Mobile and FAW-Volkswagen have become the first batch of brands endorsed by the Turin coach. The company received 2200 million after-tax soft girls, and the contract period was two years. He was required to shoot one advertisement for each company, attend events twice, and take several print photos every year.After deducting the share of the two agents at home and abroad (10% for Guinness and 16% for Lin Zixu), there is still more than 1600 million yuan per year. Li Mudi didn't take any money, and directly invested in a project he set up In fact, those four companies also participated.The name of the project is "Let Children Fall in Love with Football". It will select 100 impoverished primary schools in the western part of China, and provide each child there with a free piece of milk every day to improve their physical fitness; In elementary schools, three footballs are provided free of charge for each grade to activate children's leisure activities.Yili Dairy and 1000 Degrees Sports joined the project by providing some items, while Warwick Mobile and FAW-Volkswagen each donated 362 million to support the Turin coach's charity.This is the project about the development of Chinese youth football mentioned by Li Mudi at the press conference. Although it seems to have only a small part of the relationship with it, in the opinion of the Turin coach, the activity he set up is very important to his motherland. It is more meaningful, and it is not comparable to those ostentatious.

However, the most urgent task now is the commercial shooting. There is one national team match day left this year, from November 10th to 16th. According to common sense, Li Moody can get a three-day vacation.However, it takes a whole day or more to travel back and forth. For the Turin coach who only has a little shooting experience, it is absolutely impossible to produce four fine commercials in a few days. impossible.And it would be too unprofessional for him to ask for leave when the league is in full swing, so the filming plan was ruled out before it was formally proposed.From the perspective of time, the most reliable one is the winter break. It is not impossible to rush out of the one-week holiday if you hurry up to shoot, but it will take two months, and these four companies will not be able to wait anyway. At that time.

In the end, it was the experienced Guinness who made the decision, and asked Yili and 362 Degrees to complete the preliminary planning as soon as possible, and then the four companies hired the same director and film crew to come to Italy and use the Turin coach's daily free time to shoot.Although the cost of doing this will increase, but because it is packaged together, the film crew should be able to give a "group price", and the time to complete the shooting should be the fastest, so it has been unanimously approved by everyone.According to the previous plan, the design of the four advertisements will be officially finalized in about a week, and Li Moody will start the hell mode after ten days, and he will have no private time every night and the rest day after the game.So, taking advantage of the time he still has in the past few days, he hastened to study the opponents in the next five rounds of the league thoroughly, so that his personal affairs should not interfere with the team's official affairs, so that his daily sleep time would be compressed. After about four hours, I had dark circles under my eyes in two days, and I tended to transform into a national treasure panda.

Since this week's match is a double match, Li Modi's focus in these two days is the opponent Inter Milan in the middle of the week.Frank De Boer can be said to be the second rival of the Turin coach after Mikhailovich. At the beginning, in order to pretend to be B, he clearly stated at the press conference that he was not optimistic about the former Dutch international's trip to Inter Milan. But completely offended the other party.Although what Li Mudi said was the facts of his previous life, after careful reflection, it was indeed a bit too much. Although the two parties because of the competition between the clubs (of course it was unilaterally by Turin or Li Mudi), Inter Milan never thinks that the two teams It’s on the same level), the two head coaches don’t necessarily have to be friends, but at that time they were so hot-headed that they questioned them at will, and no one would be happy if they changed.From another point of view, there is no difference between Li Mudi's behavior and Miha's actions against him. He inadvertently became the kind of person he hates the most, and every time he thinks about it, he feels extremely guilty.

After figuring out the cause and effect, the Turin coach no longer cared about Frank De Boer's repeated verbal provocations, and even said a few good words for the other party when he was interviewed by the media, trying to ease the relationship between the two. , It's a pity that people don't appreciate it at all.However, the outside world’s evaluation of the two coaches has produced a very interesting turning point. At the beginning of the league, Inter Milan had a bad record of one draw and one loss, while Torino’s one win and two losses were not much better, so the media criticized them together , the Celestial Dynasty received a stronger fire attack because they had ridiculed each other; and then the two teams ushered in a wave of three consecutive victories. At that time, Frank De Boer was naturally praised by the outside world. Li Mudi was nitpicking, saying that the opponents Torino faced were relatively weak, and the winning streak did not explain anything. He did not say at all that Inter Milan’s opponents at the time were Pescara and Juventus. Empoli; but the situation after that was completely different. The Red Bulls maintained a strong performance and did not end their winning streak until the last round, while Inter Milan only got one draw and three losses in the following games. 3 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses and 11 points ranked No.14 in the standings. This is definitely a record that makes all Nerazzurri feel extremely humiliated.If it wasn't for Moratti's old age and complete resignation of power, I believe the Dutchman would never have had the chance to face Li Moody.

However, after losing to Atlanta in the last round, almost all Italian local media are reporting an unofficially confirmed news: If they can’t beat Turin at home, Inter Milan will immediately start the coaching process; In the next three rounds of the league with at least seven points, the Dutchman will not continue to stay; in the end, if he cannot get at least one draw in the following Milan derby, De Boer still has to take the liquidated damages paid by the club to find him. a new job.The reason why this news can make such a big fuss is because Zhang Jindong, the new big boss of Inter Milan and the chairman of Tianchao Su Ning Group, flew to Milan City at the weekend. When he was blocked by the media at the airport exit, he didn’t respond According to the usual practice, he gave a negative answer, but instead used the reason of "not knowing and not participating", which immediately caused an uproar.Two days later, the situation became more complicated.

The Turin team arrived in Milan on the afternoon of the day before the game. Since AC Milan is going to challenge Genoa away in this round of the league, the Red Bulls can use the training ground of their rivals in the same city on the second day. The turn of events was reversed, which was dramatic.But when the players were resting and relaxing in the hotel, Li Modi was invited to a well-known local Tianchao restaurant, and his brother Zhang wanted to treat him to dinner.Su Ning Group, as the top large enterprise in the country, naturally had no contact with ordinary people like Li Modi before, but through the bond of football, the two parties still had a lot of ties.Two people, one is the head of a large company that has made great efforts to develop the football industry in recent years and holds two first-class clubs at home and abroad, and the other is the only representative of the Chinese football community in the world, no matter from the perspective of the country From the perspective of football, both sides should be natural allies, so the story of a billionaire and a multi-millionaire hit it off is officially staged.

In just one and a half hours, the two parties did not put their minds on eating. Instead, they had active exchanges on the development of the club, the relationship between performance and commercial interests, and the development of domestic football. The owner of the club, but he himself doesn't know much about football. The club's operations are managed by hiring other chairmen.Although the things he talked with Li Moody have already been analyzed by others, but he is still very happy to get some different perspectives from one of the hottest compatriots. After all, the other party is a coach of a European team. A young coach, although his views are a bit radical, but that kind of vitality is indeed difficult for others to possess.During the entire meal, the two of them could say that the guest of honor had a good time, and the big boss Su Ning didn't rashly propose to Li Mudi to change jobs. After all, the current results of the Turin team are very good, and he himself has spoken with the senior management of Inter Milan. It will not be easy interfere with their work.However, if there is a chance in the future, it is definitely an exciting and good idea to completely build Inter Milan into the first home team of the Chinese people, and Zhang Jindong will inevitably foresee it in his heart.

Although this dinner had nothing to do with the Nerazzurri's coaching position, the media didn't think so. The next morning, the news that the Turin coach was about to replace Frank de Boer had spread throughout European football. .Even the numerous newspapers and websites in China followed suit with gossip, and some even vowed to prove that the two parties had signed the draft agreement, and then officially announced the signing after the Dutch packed their bags and left.Although the Inter Milan Club, the Turin Club and Li Moody himself all quickly made a statement that there was absolutely no such incident, but before the start of the game, everyone's focus was on the coaching change, and not many people paid attention to the game itself.

(End of this chapter)