Mister Legend

Chapter 670 (Final Chapter) Mr. Legend
In fact, Zheng Xiaoyang's achievements in leading the team in the past four years are quite impressive. After all, he is a high-achieving student who graduated from the Spanish football system. He has been an assistant coach in the Premier League team Coventry City for two and a half years, and his level is beyond doubt.

Therefore, even though he faced fierce competition from many famous coaches when competing for the position of head coach of the national team in the summer of 2030, he finally gained the trust of the National Sports Directorate and successfully took over the high-level coaching class.

During his term of office, the national football team first reached the semi-finals in the 2031 Asian Cup, creating the best record in the last seven sessions, and then won a third place and a championship in two consecutive East Asian Cups , the performance is quite good.

Especially in the Asian qualifiers for the 2034 World Cup in Spain, the national football team whose age structure is still not very reasonable due to the crisis of talent shortage, can finally get a ticket to qualify directly. Zheng Xiaoyang's tactical arrangements and on-the-spot The conductor has played an immeasurable role in it.Saying that he is the most successful national football coach in the past 25 years, this evaluation can still be recognized by most fans.

It's just that in the first round of the World Cup finals, in the crucial battle to qualify for the group stage, Zheng Xiaoyang, who had no external protection, still failed to lead the group of players to create a miracle against the Egyptian team whose overall strength was half as high as his own. Come on, the final goal was a small loss to the Pharaohs, and they stopped in the first play-off for the second consecutive year.

The process and results of this game also made all Chinese people see the upper limit of this European coach, thinking that with his current ability, it can basically be concluded that he will not be able to lead the national football team in 2038, which is about to be held in China. With better results in the World Cup, the decision to change coaches will not appear particularly abrupt.As for who will take over this position, naturally there will not be even the slightest suspense.

Faced with an invitation that has risen to the level of a national mission, even if Li Modi is about to die, he has to grit his teeth and say that this is a duty for a person from the Celestial Dynasty, not to mention that he planned to use the opportunity of this local World Cup to expand football. The influence in the folk paves the way for subsequent reforms, so he didn't pretend to wait for others to pay attention to the cottage, and quickly nodded and returned to the position of head coach.

Perhaps it was because he had disappeared from the world football world for four full years. Apart from the news of his comeback that caused quite a stir in East Asia in the first month, his original main battlefield in Europe was at most a small turnaround. It's just a splash, and it didn't attract too many people's attention.

But soon, the name Li Moody appeared on the pages of major mainstream media in Europe, evoking the memories of many old fans.Because in the schedule of friendly matches announced by FIFA in the second half of the year, the two opponents of the Tianchao men's football team will be Italy and England, two old world powerhouses, and according to rumors, the Spanish national team will also be in early 2035. In the first match day of the national team against that big East Asian country, people have to sigh that the former world No. [-] coach has a wide network of contacts!

In addition, the Tianchao Football Association has also formulated a three-year European training plan for the national team. In the next 30 months, it will use the pre-season preparation period of European and South American football to cooperate with the major giants. In order to achieve the purpose of rapidly improving the technical level and actual combat experience of the players.

Once these heavy news were disclosed, they immediately caused great repercussions in the country. Before that, the media and so-called experts who were still questioning Li Moody’s abandonment of all veterans and turning the new national team into a boy scout suddenly changed. He changed his original position and praised the new coach's courage and social circle.

After the World Cup in Spain, players from 2000 and 01 represented by Li Tenglong, Jiang Shenglong, and Sun Qihang all chose to withdraw from the national team or even retired directly, which caused a huge decline in the overall strength of the Chinese men's football team.As mentioned before, the group of players born in 05-10 did not have particularly outstanding leaders. Even if some people caught up with the good time of studying abroad and went to play in Europe, it would be difficult to reach the level after four years. Li Mudi's employment standards, so the new national football coach simply overturned the original team building concept, and excluded all players over the age of 25 from the list of the new national team. No small doubt.

But talent is really not a lie. Even though these teenagers in their early 20s were not so outstanding in their youth, since they were sent to the European arena by Li Moody, their level has improved every year. Three or four years later It left the domestic peers far away.

And unlike the two countries in Japan that have the same number of European players, this group of players scattered in Germany, Portugal, Spain and other countries' leagues can quickly find a tacit understanding with each other after gathering together. It's like training together for a long time.Although this situation is very strange, outsiders still haven't noticed the super cheat of the FM system, because everyone will only attribute it to Li Modi's super high level, and there will be no extra troubles.

Because of the help of plug-ins, this batch of national football teams made up of a group of "raw melon eggs" still achieved impressive results in the following year, although it is inevitable that they will lose when facing top teams like Italy, England and Spain. It was quite miserable, but at least when facing several opponents with similar rankings in the global national leagues, his performance became more and more stable and excellent, and he secured the top spot in the fifth-level group B early on. , For the first time in history, he was able to participate in the subsequent promotion play-offs.

And the improvement of this team's ability was finally reflected in the East Asian Cup and Asian Cup held in 2035. In the summer of this year, Li Mudi led the young men's football team to announce the birth of a new generation of Asian kings in India. Iraq, Vietnam, Australia and Japan, many powerful enemies, won the first Asian Cup championship trophy in the history of China with a record of complete victory, finally fulfilling the dream of the Chinese people for half a century.

As for the East Asian Cup held in Kimchi Country two months later, Li Modi used the second national team composed of young domestic players to pass all the way, and in the final, he defeated his biggest sufferer in the past few decades with three goals The host, let the sticks who were not convinced before have to admit that the pattern of Asian football has undergone earth-shaking changes.

After winning two important championship trophies in a row, the domestic media have published reports claiming that the system transformation project of Tianchao Youth Training has achieved initial results. Although the content does not conform to reality, it has indeed played some positive effects. It has aroused more young people's love for this sport and their confidence in daring to invest more energy.

However, what attracted the public's attention the most was an article from the famous football commentator Mr. Zhan Jun. The article introduced in detail how Li Modi became a trapeze man in the past year.He flew to various European countries almost without interruption to provide individual technical and psychological counseling for the young players who played there. Except that his father "taken half a month's leave" when he fell ill again, the rest of the time was used to help improve every player. In terms of the ability of the famous Chinese players.In the end, Zhan Zhi expressed his deep respect and support for Li Moody with the sentence "Such a great football player, how can we not let us love him", which aroused the resonance of all the people.

Therefore, with the double support of the people and the government, the performance of the national team has gradually produced a near-quality improvement.

In the 2036 Olympic Games, the Chinese Olympic team, which entered the finals again after Seoul 48 years ago, almost created a miracle under the leadership of Zheng Xiaoyang, and finally missed the knockout round only because of the disadvantage of slightly less goal difference. However, this team won the first Olympic Games in the history of Tianchao football, and was widely praised by domestic and even foreign media.

However, before this national Olympic trend was fully fermented, it was robbed of the limelight by the national team. Li Mudi led the increasingly mature men's football team in the America's Cup hosted by Paraguay (the national football team is a specially invited team. ), even broke into the semi-finals all the way, and finally defeated the Chilean team and won the third place. It has become the highest-ranked non-South American team in this competition since 118 years, and has reached the cusp of global football.

But who knows that this is not the highest peak that "Li's National Football Team" can finally reach. In the past few years, the Chinese national team, which has already made its name in the world football, first easily defended the East Asian Cup champion, and then won the East Asian Cup. In many warm-up matches, they drew with the powerful German and Brazilian teams successively, and defeated Uruguay and Portugal, two strong players who have been ranked among the top [-] in the world all year round, in a row, shocking the entire football circle.

This time, Li Moody finally abandoned his usual strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. There is still a big gap between the strong teams, and he can only use one victory after another to strengthen the players' confidence in daring to compete with all opponents.

The result is that in this crazy way of training and running-in, the Chinese men's football team, which will go to the 2038 local World Cup as the host, will explode with unbelievable energy. First, it successfully broke through the group stage with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss. , reached the minimum goal, and then defeated Romania with three goals in the knockout round, and made it to the quarterfinals in a historic way.

However, the miracle did not stop there. In the next quarter-finals, the men's football team dragged the game into a penalty shootout when the whole court was passive, and relied on the excellent performance of goalkeeper Zhao Yijun to be eliminated by surprise. Argentina, one of the favorites to win the championship, reached the semi-finals, detonating the entire land of China.

Even though he lost to the Samba Army due to overall strength, he defeated the Three Lions in a penalty shootout in the battle for third place, breaking the best Asian football record created by the Kimchi Kingdom in 2002. At this moment, Li Moody declared Officially apotheosis.

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A year later, the long-awaited autobiography "Born for Football" by Moody Lee was finally published and hit the market, triggering a frightening frenzy of buying books, and naturally created an astonishing sales record.Prior to this, the former national football coach who submitted his resignation shortly after the end of the World Cup due to his father's serious illness has not appeared in everyone's sight for a long time, so taking advantage of this opportunity to publish a book, all The media and fans are looking forward to seeing this legend who has contributed a lot to the development of Chinese football.

It's a pity that everyone was disappointed in the end. Li Moody did not show his face from the beginning to the end. The last time he was photographed in public was when he went to Madrid to attend Lafayette's funeral in Madrid at the beginning of the year. It was as if he had completely retired.

However, from the mouths of football professionals such as Huang Jianxiang and Zhan Jun, news about this legendary coach will occasionally pop up, such as how many football fields have been donated, which new competitions have been held, and how many impoverished families have been funded. young players and so on.So everyone knows that even if they are out of people's sight, their most beloved national idol is still quietly making unimaginable contributions to the development of Chinese football, and that's enough.It seems that in everyone's mind, as long as Li Mudi is still around, our football level can be continuously improved, and the construction of youth training can be gradually improved. strength and confidence.

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In 2040, in the activities of the top [-] famous coaches in history jointly selected by the five authoritative media of France "French Football", Spain "Goal", British "Guardian", German "Bild" and Italian "Evening Post", although deliberately emphasized The top ten rankings are in no particular order, but Li Moody is the one who appears in the first place, followed by great names such as Michelle, Chapman, and Ferguson, which arouse readers' infinite reverie.

The comment on the Chinese coach is: "He broke the traditional idea that Europe is the center of world football. During his 13 years of European coaching career, Coach Li won a record seven Champions Leagues, which was agreed by everyone. A miracle that cannot be rewritten. In addition, there are five La Liga, two Premier League and one Serie A, plus the European League, Club World Cup, various domestic cups and Super Cups, etc. More than 40 championships Trophy, this will still be a record that makes latecomers feel desperate.

But what Coach Li most admires and even worships is not the above-mentioned achievements, but the youth training concept he has brought to many teams and even countries, helping world football to make great strides on the most correct development path. Steps, to which all footballers should take their hats off.Such a legendary figure with such influence is extremely rare in the entire sports field and even in all fields. Being able to witness this great era should be a proud experience for those of us in football.

I hope that one day, this legendary gentleman will get tired of the peaceful daily life and return to his beloved football stadium again, believing that it will be a gift from God to all of us. "

(End of this chapter)