Godfather of national football

Chapter 195 The Alternative Dutch Team
"Stubborn old man, do you really want to leave? Just because of my words, are you disregarding our friendship for so many years?"

On the training ground, Li Guo was roaring, but the players didn't dare to look at him, their hair was blown out, and no one dared to touch the tiger's butt.

Heinrich said: "Li Guo, you have changed. You are no longer the Li Guo I knew before. You don't care about the health of the players. You are not worthy of being a coach."

The German stubborn old man refused to admit defeat at all, and the two quarreled loudly at the training ground as if no one was there.

Li Guo pointed at Zhou Dun, "Stubborn old man, how do you know that you were not misdiagnosed? Zhou Dun played very well in the last game. I think you misdiagnosed. You just don't admit it."

This is the first time that Heinrich has been questioned about his professionalism since he has been in the industry for decades.

"You rascal,"

"You're rigid,"

"You rascal,"

"You're rigid,"

The players on the side looked at each other, thinking: "Will this start to play Qiong Yao's drama?"

Finally Li Guo got annoyed and said, "I know where your home is, I know your daughter and wife."

"What are you going to do?"

Li Guo chuckled, "If you leave me, I'll go sit in front of your house and attract the media from all over Europe. Don't blame me."

"Also, if you dare to leave today, I will kneel down for you now,"

"Li Guo, you are a rascal."

"Correct!"

Heinrich was really convinced, "Okay, I will forgive you for the last time, but you have no right to intervene in the players' health issues in the future."

Li Guo spread his arms, "Of course."

*****
Li Guo took care of Heinrich, who immediately brought some bad news to Li Guo, and the condition of Dun's abdominal groove deteriorated in the first week.

This was expected by Li Guo, and it was the same with Chen Gelin last time. The healing potion is time-effective and cannot cure the root cause.

But Li Guo still asked timidly: "Will Zhou Dun be able to play in the next game?"

Heinrich didn't speak, but the cold look in his eyes showed that Li Guo had crossed out Zhou Dun's name in his mind.

The second person with a physical problem is Sun Jihai. This time it is not an injury, but a problem of age. Under such high-intensity and high-density competitions in the World Cup, Sun Jihai's physical condition has become very poor.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Sun Jihai also rests," Li Guo behaved very well, he didn't dare to provoke the stubborn old man anymore, besides, Li Guo knew that Heinrich was right.

As a result, three players were removed from the main lineup. Fang Suo was suspended due to accumulative yellow cards, and Sun Jihai and Zhou Dun were due to injuries.

"Three people are missing, and the opponent is still the World Cup runner-up in the previous life. How can we fight?" Li Guo was a little distressed.

*****
Seeing Li Guo drooping his head and thinking about the problem, Chen An walked over and said, "Actually, the situation is not that bad. Feng Xiaoting can replace Zhou Dun, and Hao Junmin can replace Sun Jihai. Datou's comeback this time just makes up for Fang Suo's position. Look, it's all settled!"

Li Guo chuckled, what Chen An didn't know was that Li Guo was not worried about this, but this was the disadvantage of the traversers, because Li Guo knew that the Netherlands was the runner-up, that is to say, if the history did not change, then the Chinese team would not be able to pass the Netherlands.

"The Netherlands is very strong," Li Guo said.

"Argentina is also very strong, but I have never seen you afraid,"

"Different,"

"Why is it different?"

Li Guo didn't continue to explain, "If I told you that Holland was the runner-up, would you believe it?"

"So unlucky?"

Because the Netherlands is known as the uncrowned king in the World Cup, no matter how strong they are, they only won the runner-up. So when Li Guo said that the Netherlands team was the runner-up, Chen An naturally felt that Li Guo was joking.

"Hehe, maybe," Li Guo said perfunctorily.

*****
Because of historical reasons, there are many Dutch descendants in South Africa, so the Dutch team can feel the feeling of the home team in South Africa.

When the Dutch team came to Durban, they also received a warm welcome. Although the captain of the Dutch team is Van Bronckhorst, because he is the son-in-law of the head coach, Van Bommel always stands by Van Marwijk more, just like the captain.

The reporter was also very knowledgeable. When they saw the Dutch team at the airport, they all extended their microphones towards Van Bommel.

"Excuse me, what do you think of the next opponent, the Chinese team?"

Van Bommel chuckled, "I don't know much about Chinese football,"

The reporter reminded: "The Chinese team is the Olympic champion."

"Sorry, I haven't watched the Olympic men's football."

In fact, the outside world's view of the promotion of the Chinese team is that they were very lucky. They lost to Argentina, won in Côte d'Ivoire, and finally drew with France, which is infighting. It seems that all the good things fell on the Chinese team.

The Dutch team also has the same view, so their whole team does not pay much attention to the existence of the Chinese team. In the football world, the Dutch team still has the capital to be proud of.

In the end, Van Bommel always felt that he should say something, "For China, I only know the Great Wall, and they are quite rich. I am also looking forward to seeing how the football in this country is."

At this time, an uninterested reporter asked an inappropriate question: "I heard that you were selected for the national team because you are the head coach's son-in-law."

Van Bommel's face turned dark all of a sudden. This question is a bit hurtful. No matter what country you are in, relying on nepotism is disgraceful.

"I can only tell you that the Dutch team is not the French team. We are clean and I don't need to rely on anyone."

After answering this question, Van Bommel's good mood was swept away and he left the airport in a hurry.

*****
95% of the focus of public opinion before the game was on the Dutch team. What is puzzling is that it is all negative news, and the most vicious ones are the Dutch media.

"This is the ugliest Holland!"

The Dutch football used to be a representative of artistic football, but look at the current Dutch team. The midfielders are De Jong and Van Bommel, who are better at kicking people than football.

Although the Dutch team under Van Marwijk has achieved good results, the style of play is indeed quite ugly. It is incomparable with the era of the Three Musketeers and the Cruyff era.

In his previous life, what Li Guo remembered most about Dutch football was the 2000-6 victory over Yugoslavia in the European Cup in 1. You must know that Yugoslavia is the representative of European Latin football, but the Dutch football offense in that game was as comfortable as mercury pouring down the ground.

Li Guo knows that good football doesn't go very far. The ugly Dutch team finally made it to the final. If Robben didn't make it single-handedly, perhaps the ugliest Dutch team would have realized their dream of the World Cup.

So in the face of such a Dutch team, Li Guo was even more worried. At this time, Li Guo was greedy. He had already led the Chinese team a long way, and if he wanted to go further, he had to go beyond the Dutch team.

(End of this chapter)