Mister Legend

Chapter 635
Since the end of the 90s, several major competitions headed by the Champions League and the Premier League have become more popular, and giant teams such as Real Madrid and Manchester United have further improved their reputation due to their huge benefits in commercial development, making the national team more popular. The growing conflict with the club has gradually become an unavoidable focus in today's world football.

From the use of players to the schedule of various competitions, from the factions born in the locker room due to nationality to how to deal with injuries, the battle between the two always attracts the attention of countless people, and it is also It's like a soap opera with an infinite script that never stops.

The conflict between the two sides was relatively simple at the beginning, that is, some players were injured during the national team competition, and after returning to the club, they could only lie in bed to recuperate, unable to pay for the real money. The team he paid to play in the game is equivalent to the club paying for the national team for no reason, which makes many wealthy clubs who have greatly increased their voice feel unwilling.

After years of debate, UEFA finally came forward to mediate, and on the condition that the G14, which made the official football organization feel very embarrassed, was declared disbanded. Since 2008, all national teams registered under UEFA are recruiting clubs. When they are players, they must pay these international football teams a financial compensation of no less than 4000 euros per day, which is regarded as renting them to play for the country.

This method of handling can be considered to solve the conflict on this point to a certain extent, but it is only a strategy to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, because this amount of money is naturally far from enough for players with serious injuries.And it cannot be promoted to other regions, because the football industry in America, Asia, Africa and other continents is not well developed, and it is impossible for many football associations to get this huge sum of money that is definitely called a huge sum of money in their eyes.Moreover, in many regions that attach great importance to national honor, this concept does not conform to the local social ideology. For example, in East Asian countries such as the Celestial Empire influenced by Confucianism, it is impossible for the country to spend money to rent national football.

In addition to the contradiction of "who will pay the bill", the influence of the national team competition is gradually being overtaken by the Champions League and several major leagues. It has been greatly inclined to the top giants clubs such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Manchester City, Juventus and the competitions formed by them. It forced the former FIFA President Blatter to come up with the crooked idea of ​​changing the World Cup to be held every two years. idea.

The fans' "defection" also makes whenever there is a conflict between the national team and the club, the public opinion will always be more biased towards the latter, which makes the national football associations and the football federations above them very unhappy.

The last and most critical contradiction is that too many club competitions will seriously affect the player's state, making many of these big-name players unable to play in the European Cup or World Cup with a relatively good competitive situation, resulting in many traditional strong players The team's performance was not satisfactory.

Therefore, the confrontation between the national team and the club is doomed, and there is almost no good way to reconcile them. In terms of economic interests and talent training, they are inseparable, so this can only be done in this way. The state of falling in love and killing each other continued until the complete demise of the sport.

This time, on the day of the national team match, Real Madrid deliberately refused to report to the national team for several players whose physical conditions needed to be recuperated, but they did not want to use the method of making the players fake their injuries, because it would give the outside world tongue, Thus affecting the reputation of the club.

However, according to the regulations of FIFA, every player registered with the club has the obligation to obey when he is called up by the football association team he is qualified to represent.If the player or his club refuses the call-up without reason, then in addition to fines and other punitive measures, the player will not have the right to represent the club in games of any nature during the national team competition.

Of course, this regulation is limited to the official matches of FIFA and its affiliated football federations, such as the World Cup and the Intercontinental Cup and the qualifiers, and then the Olympic Games, while other friendly matches and training matches on non-national team match days , youth competitions and non-FIFA events are excluded from the scope of this article.

According to the normal arrangement, this national team match day in September every year will be used for qualifiers for major events. For European teams, it is the newly established European Nations League since 2018. This is a country that cannot refuse. A game in the ranks of a team call-up.

However, after seeing that UEFA has gained super high attention and economic benefits after the restructuring, FIFA, which is unwilling to watch others eat meat but can't even drink soup, is also plagiarized. In 2020, he quickly took the former's golden idea into his own hands and created a global national league.The nature is basically the same as the original UEFA Europa League. The system of classification and relegation is adopted. While replacing most of the friendly matches, a few tickets to the World Cup will be allocated. The copy is so accurate.

However, they also don't think about how big the area of ​​Europe is. Even if the most northwestern tip of Iceland goes to the southernmost tip of Armenia, the flight distance will not exceed 5000 kilometers, and it will take up to six hours.But if you expand the scope of the league to the entire planet, can you imagine how many hours it would take to fly from Rome to Mexico City?What about flying from Beijing to Kampala, the capital of Uganda?
Unfortunately, many Spanish internationals in the Real Madrid team will complete the hell-level flight from Madrid to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, then to Amsterdam, and finally return to their capital within the next two weeks.As for other international players such as Brazil and France, their lives are not so easy, and they have to fly at least half a circle around the earth to and fro.It is not difficult to imagine what their physical condition will look like after they return to the club.

So on September 9th, when Li Mudi accompanied his wife to the hospital for the final physical examination, facing the reporters who heard the news and surrounded him hoping to get some news, he felt that FIFA had arranged too much every year. The practice of unnecessary national team games expressed a veiled protest.

However, his complaints failed to reach Spain. The news that the central defender Skriniar was injured in the pre-match training reached the ears of the Real Madrid coach. A few swear words will come out of his mouth immediately.

And three days later, when Real Madrid received a faxed receipt from the French Football Federation rejecting their request to keep Mbappé from playing in the second game, I saw myself on the FM system in my head. After almost all the players were in a state of extreme fatigue, Li Mudi could only shake helplessly, and then walked towards the training ground.

Soon, another four young players in the Castilla team were temporarily transferred to the first team. In addition to the boys who had already stepped forward to make up for the departure of the international players, the reserve team Coaches can basically go on vacation again, because no one needs them to coach anymore.

Is it really necessary to use a large number of young players in the next league game?While doing special training on the future hopes of these teams, the coach of Real Madrid is still worrying about the fourth round of La Liga at home against Betis ten days later. The team has had some unsatisfactory momentum since the start of the new season.

But the reality seemed to be a joke with him, he was not able to appear on the sidelines of this game, because Lin Yuner happened to be sent to the delivery room on the 20th.Since it was about six days later than the expected date of delivery, although the doctor's diagnosis was that everything was normal, Li Mudi, his parents, and Lin's father and sister who rushed over from Kimchi Country all felt a little worried.

In the end, after careful consideration, Li Mudi ignored his wife's objection and missed the team's game for the first time in his coaching career due to personal reasons.

Under the double unfavorable price adjustment of most of the players due to the fatigue of the journey and the absence of the team coach, Real Madrid's unbeaten golden stature at home for a year and a half was broken on this day.They lost 1 to 2 at the feet of Real Betis, who did not perform very well in the first three rounds. The league started with only 2 wins and 2 losses. Compared with the same period last year, they are completely two extremes.

In particular, they only scored five goals in five games including the Champions League, and at the same time the goal was declared conceded six times. It is difficult to understand what happened to the entire team this summer. Many doubts The voice immediately appeared in various media and on the Internet.

One of the loudest voices is whether there is a problem with Real Madrid's decision to sell Asensio. Many people are worried that the low tide that occurred after the departure of the team's top man, Ronaldo, will come again in this team that seemed to continue to rule the world. On the super galaxy battleship of football.In this regard, people including many well-known reporters and experts have negative comments on the decision made by the Big Three, Raul, Hierro and Moody Li two months ago, and believe that Ah Xiao's staying in the team is the result of The main reason for Real Madrid's serious lack of offensive power now.

In addition, some people are also criticizing Li Moody's absence from on-the-spot command due to personal affairs. They feel that the world's number one coach has become a bit too arrogant after leading the team to the top again, and has lost the good qualities of humility and dedication .

However, this argument was quickly refuted by more people. Both Raul and Hierro supported the behavior of the team coach in interviews, believing that football games will never be more important than family, so Real Madrid The club unconditionally supports Li Moody's choice.

Immediately afterwards, "Marca" also conducted a public opinion survey on this matter. The results showed that among the more than 48 netizens who voted within 3 hours, more than 15% believed that Li Mudi's absence from the game because he accompanied his wife was wrong. Wrong, another [-]% think that although they are a little disappointed, they understand the choice of the team's head coach, and the proportion of his dereliction of duty can be said to be very small.

Compared with the habit of certain countries who are willing to launch public opinion offensives to morally kidnap people who do not meet their standards of abandoning their families for the country, Western countries obviously attach more importance to family, so even if many people I think that a large part of the reason for Real Madrid's unexpected loss to Betis is due to the absence of the coach, but for Li Moody's choice, he can give the greatest degree of understanding, which can be regarded as a little relief for him after he got Lin'er A strong sense of self-blame is felt when the team loses.

But now for the team and his coach, the most urgent task is how to regain the confidence of victory, otherwise it will be really shameless to face the support of the club and fans.

After saying goodbye to his hard-working wife and his newly born son who looked like a meat dumpling, Li Moody returned to the club on Monday, and together with his colleagues analyzed in detail the game lost to Betis last night.Then in the training session in the afternoon, while observing the status of the players, combined with the data provided by the FM system, he quickly selected the starting lineup and tactical options for the next game.

On Wednesday night, Real Madrid ushered in their second opponent in the UEFA Champions League group stage at home - last season's Bundesliga champion Frankfurt. This three-pointer is what the home team must get anyway, otherwise their qualifying situation will change. It was extremely unfavorable.Therefore, the outside world still pays a lot of attention to this matchup. Everyone wants to know whether the European king of last season has recovered some form, or just collapsed.

And Li Mudi is obviously very aware of the criticality of this game, so he finally came up with a set of lineup that was originally the last big move in the bottom of the box with an extremely cautious attitude, that is, to put Rodrigo back in his career. In the early stage of his career, the main left forward position allowed him to form the strongest front trident with Mbappé and Pellegri.

Although Rodrigo is also right-footed, the Brazilian's foot talent is properly full. His flower arrangement cross-that is, a fancy cross with the right foot on the left side around the back of the left foot , the accuracy is still good, and it can barely deliver some shells for the center forward.Coupled with his keen ability to grasp opportunities and advantages in speed, Rodrygo, who has been transformed into "Henry II", can still exert his world-leading attack power after returning to the role of winger, helping the ball. team to solve the problem.

This is also one of the most important reasons why Li Mudi dared to let Asensio go easily, because even if the performance of the new aid is not ideal, he still holds another trump card in his hand.

(End of this chapter)