Fame with a ball

When Lin Zhigao saw John again, he was standing beside a silver-white Novolari.

"Cool~" Lin Zhigao couldn't help whistling, and then ran to the side of the car drooling, stroking the body.

This Liuyun sports car is a concept car of the Fiat Group. It was proposed by the group's designers five years ago, but it really started production last year. In the end, it will be promoted as a future car model, or it will be mass-produced and put into production. an unknown.Generally, concept cars have very advanced design and technological content, and most of them will not be put into the market for sale.

Although the Fiat Group owns Ferrari, Maserati and many other high-end car brands, it is the first time that the parent company has launched a concept car, and as the Fiat Group, which has many automotive technology patents, the first concept car launched by the main company has technological content. It is unquestionably high.This concept car is mentioned in almost every issue of several famous Italian car magazines, so Lin Zhigao is no stranger to it, and is extremely eager to see the real car appear.

However, he was not surprised that this car appeared here now. As the president of the Fiat Group, John Elchin could own one of this car right after it was produced, which was nothing more than a normal thing.

John looked at Lin Zhigao's salivation with a smile on his face: "This is the world's first Novolari. Although it has not yet been mass-produced, its safety has gone through multiple tests."

"Will it be put on the market?" Lin Zhigao caressed Liuyun's elegant and smooth body, the textured paint surface with some fascination, and peeked inside the transparent brown glass to see how the seat design is. What kind of leather is it made of.

"It should. It's not quite the same car as the original concept, it's a little more practical, and you'll see it in stores next year or so."

"Then I have to buy one." Lin Zhigao sighed with a smack of his lips.

"This car can be given to you."

When John felt Lin Zhigao's surprised and strange eyes focused on himself, he paused and said, "I mean, you can take this car and drive it. I have a driver, and there is no shortage of cars in the garage." , and don't use it very often."

Lin Zhigao rubbed his hands together: "Well, how embarrassing this is." Having said that, his cheeks were slightly flushed with excitement.

John just raised his eyebrows slightly, then handed out the key.

Seeing how generous John was, Lin Zhigao simply took the key, then got into the car immediately, walked around the club's office building, and finally stopped beside John. He pulled down the window, his eyes widened with excitement. Liang: "Come on, get in the car, let's go for a drive."

Take a ride, take a ride...

A familiar image suddenly appeared in John's mind: his flirtatious brother Rapo drove various famous cars, stopped randomly on the street, and then said to beauties of various colors, "Hey, honey, would you like to come with me?" Go for a ride? ’ And Rapo has an almost 100-percent hit rate.

"Aren't you going home?"

"Anyway, they're all in the suburbs, so drop by the road!"

John showed a helpless expression, and obediently sat in the passenger seat.But when Lin Zhigao started the car and rushed out of the gate of the club with almost speeding horsepower, John suddenly thought of one thing: Lin Zhigao seemed to have got his driver's license for less than a week...

Oh God!

……

The Chinese National Men's Football Team flew to Seoul to prepare for the match as early as the end of August.

Therefore, Lin Zhigao will not return to China this time. He will take the Turin-Seoul flight on the 4th. After arriving in Seoul on the 5th, he will adjust the time difference and start training immediately.There is not much time left for him. He only has five days to integrate into the national team, train new tactics, and understand the enemy South Korean team.

Fortunately, his recent physical condition is very good, and because he hasn't played a decent game for several months, there is an urgent desire to score in his body, which is very strong.

The national team stayed in a five-star hotel in Seoul, close to Seoul National University. A series of daily training after the national team arrived in South Korea was also held at the Seoul National University Stadium.

Originally, the Chinese Football Association wanted to apply for the venue for the China-Korea match, which is the Seoul World Cup Stadium for training. Even if you can't go there every day, it would be good to get used to the lawn a week in advance.However, after the Asian Football Association conveyed the request of the Chinese Football Association to the Korean Football Association, the Korean Football Association rejected it. They said that the Korean team had already booked the Seoul World Cup Stadium for training, and the Chinese national team could only adapt to the lawn conditions one day in advance.

In fact, it is very expensive to apply for training on such a large stadium.The Chinese national team originally prepared a lot of funds, and was going to buy the right to use the field directly with money when the South Korean side made things difficult. Unexpectedly, the South Korean side also paid great attention to this game this time, and directly dealt with China. The national team said no.

If the lawn cannot be adapted to the competition venue, it would be a waste to spend expensive rental fees to rent other large stadiums. Therefore, the Chinese Football Association simply found a cheap and practical Seoul National University football stadium near the hotel where the Chinese team stayed for training. .

The Seoul National University football stadium has always been one of the venues for South Korean college football matches. It has complete facilities, good lawn quality, and cheap rental fees. The Seoul National University football stadium, which is an open-air stadium, has brought a lot of trouble to the Chinese national team.

No two countries that share a border are truly good-neighborly and friendly.This is the case in the United States and Canada, not to mention China and South Korea, which have been entangled and entangled in history, and wars have occurred many times.It is a big talk to say that the people of the two countries hate each other. The Chinese people can get along well with the Japanese now, but there are constant small frictions and the phenomenon of looking down on each other has never stopped.

Ever since I heard that the Chinese team is going to train in Seoul National University, people around the Seoul National University Stadium have not stopped.College students, reporters, scouts with unknown purposes, and ordinary Korean people.They gather around the football field all day long, sometimes just watching, staring at the Chinese team all the time, sometimes even booing, which can interrupt the training of the Chinese team.

There are also some extremists shouting in Korean outside the football field: "Chinese pigs get out of the Republic of Korea!" and continue to make noise.

Fortunately, neither the players nor the coaches of the national team could understand Korean, so there was no conflict.But the domestic translators who came with the team were very angry, but they also knew the seriousness. Instead of learning these words to the players, they chose to respond to the officials of the Football Association-even so, the players of the national team It can also be seen from the faces of those Koreans that they didn't say anything good, and they have been silent all the time.

Perhaps the most embarrassing of all the players is Huang Bowen-he is currently playing for Jeonbuk Hyundai Club in South Korea, and he is also the only player on the team who can understand and speak Korean.

Every word of those South Korean people scolded his heart, making him ashamed and angry, but he could only hang a calm expression, not revealing much to those excited teammates.With an embarrassing identity and a dilemma, he couldn't help but think of the contemptuous and disdainful expressions on the faces of those teammates when they mentioned Chinese football when they played in the club...

The officials of the Football Association are also very annoyed, but they can't raise this matter to the level of national conflict, which is too contrary to the current principle of "peaceful rise" of the country.They can only hire some security guards to prevent those troublemakers from approaching the stadium, and then smile like a spring breeze to the Koreans on their faces, but secretly curse in their hearts: Koryo sticks, die during the game!

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The plane arrived at Seoul Airport in the morning. As soon as Lin Zhigao got off the plane, he waited for the national team bus and was taken directly to the Seoul National University football stadium.

Italy is in the western hemisphere of the earth, while South Korea is in the eastern hemisphere. Lin Zhigao, who spans more than half of the earth, cannot automatically adjust his biological clock like Salted Egg Superman.So in the bus, when he was talking to Guo Bingyan, the deputy team leader of the national team who came to pick him up, he couldn't help feeling drowsy.

Guo Bingyan asked him kindly: "What's the matter, Xiao Lin, is it because the biological clock has not been adjusted? Shall I take you to the hotel to rest for a while? You can go to the stadium in the afternoon."

"No need." Lin Zhigao patted his face to wake himself up, and then said: "The game will be played in a few days. I'd better meet my teammates and coach as soon as possible, so I can prepare for the game."

"Young people are not impetuous, and their attitude is very serious and firm." Guo Bingyan praised him with a smile.

Lin Zhigao just showed a polite smile.

Along the way, Lin Zhigao did not look out through the car window.The streets of South Korea, which he has never been to before, are no bigger than a bed at all, or even a comfortable chair. If he can, he will just lie down like this, and the journey will never stop.

By the time the bus drove into the Seoul National University campus, Lin Zhigao had recovered a little.At least the softness of the body caused by exhaustion has disappeared. If the lower body is warmed up, he can still play a friendly match that is not so intense, Lin Zhigao thinks so.

However, when the car approached the periphery of the football field, something happened.The football field was surrounded by many people, and the appearance of a police car could be seen faintly. The bus couldn't drive in, so it had to stop at a place [-] meters away from the stadium.

When Guo Bingyan and Lin Zhigao approached the football field in a daze, they saw a few South Korean police officers pressing down a group of Koreans, getting into a police car, and the police car roared away, and the crowd was circled outside the field by dedicated security guards. No admission allowed.

"What happened?" Lin Zhigao asked Guo Bingyan.

Guo Bingyan frowned, with an ugly expression: "Could it be a fight?"

Before Lin Zhigao could ask him who was fighting with whom, Guo Bingyan had already rushed into the field, and Lin Zhigao had to follow quickly.

The head coach of the Chinese team, Camacho, was standing in the stadium flipping through a booklet with a blank expression on his face.All the players of the entire national team lined up one by one. Standing on the field, most of them lowered their heads, but there were also some who looked disrespectful and held their heads high. In front of them stood a middle-aged man.

Lin Zhigao didn't know anyone in this team, so he just stood on the sidelines and watched all this.In the distance, flashing lights kept flashing, and it seemed that quite a few reporters surrounded... Was there really an emergency?Could it be the same as the Olympic team at that time, fighting again...

As a former member of Queens Park Rangers, Lin Zhigao knew very well about the fight between the Chinese Olympic team and the players of Queens Park Rangers. Bosroyd even described his fight to him jokingly. How extraordinary is the group of compatriots, each of them is like Bruce Lee reborn.

But Lin Zhigao knew that Bosroyd deliberately saved face for both parties, and wanted to resolve the embarrassment with a joke.Football is associated with violence, which is something that the Football Association cannot tolerate for players and fans in any country.

Violence on the football field has always been severely punished, and once a star is a recognized football bully who likes to fight and bully other players, his status in the public mind will also plummet, which is worse than scandals such as drinking and gambling. It's a little bit better than taking doping or something.Because it is related to a player's professional ethics, and drinking is only a matter of character.What is the difference between a player who can only fight and a hooligan?

"You are, Lin Zhigao?"

Suddenly hearing his own name pronounced by a typical foreigner, Lin Zhigao turned his head and saw when Camacho arranged to come to him.

Camacho stared at Lin Zhigao's face for a moment, and then smiled: "Are you really Lin, did you just get off the plane?" He spoke in English.

Lin Zhigao immediately replied in English: "Yes. But, what happened here just now? I seem to have seen Korean police."

"It was a mess, Lin. The good thing is that no one got hurt." Camacho said with a bit of helplessness in his voice: "Some Korean fans are very unfriendly to us. They have been here for several days. Our training often Being disturbed, even the security guards are useless. Especially today, they pulled up a banner with some insulting words written on it, which was very ugly. So Li, Chen, and Han were so excited that they almost fought with the Koreans Get up. Fortunately, we called the police immediately, otherwise, it would have been really difficult."

"However, why aren't you training them?" Lin Zhigao finally lowered his head when he saw several national players being reprimanded by the middle-aged man, and couldn't help asking: "Isn't it the head coach's job to let the players know their mistakes and admit their mistakes?" Responsibility?"

Camacho just smiled and didn't say anything, this wordless move made him extraordinarily cunning.

Lin Zhigao thought for a while, and understood what Camacho meant.Jiang Shupeng once told him that in the national team, Camacho was only in charge of tactics, and he had no control over other matters. At that time, Lin Zhigao didn't realize how seriously the power of the head coach was divided.But now, the players are reprimanded by others when they make mistakes, but the head coach can't intervene like an outsider... Is this really a good situation?

The national team trains players to play games, and the choice seems to have always been the separation of powers and responsibilities.The head coach is only responsible for the game, training, and tactics.The day-to-day affairs of the team, which clubs are recruited to the national team, and even when the training dates start and end are not decided by the head coach-they are either decided by the Football Association or the team manager.Even the punishment for players making mistakes is given by the Football Association, not the head coach.

This method sounds good, and it seems to give the head coach more time to plan tactics. However, Lin Zhigao, who already has a good understanding of the European football system, knows that two or more A talker can only create division and confusion, because the players will not know who they want to listen to when they are on the court.

The team leader really won't dictate the team's tactics?Can the players really listen to and implement the words of the head coach without power?If they each have their own little calculations and decide not to follow the head coach's tactical instructions on the court and play their own game, then who will be responsible if something goes wrong?Presumably it would definitely not be the one who created the chaos first.

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After Cao Jingwei, the leader of the national team, scolded the players who took the lead in making trouble, and said that he would write it down, Camacho finally got the chance to play, and he and Lin Zhigao went to the stadium.

Cao Jingwei saw Lin Zhigao standing behind Camacho at a glance, his eyes lit up, he put on a completely different expression from before, and said with a smile: "Lin Zhigao has arrived? Come, come, hurry back to the team, Now all of us are waiting for you!"

Lin Zhigao's gaze flashed past the dozens of people who were staring at him for a moment, then calmly put on his casual clothes, walked to the end of the line, and stood there.

A young man in his twenties standing beside him was secretly looking at himself, and the other people in the team were also looking this way intentionally or unintentionally.Among these gazes, there are curiosity, scrutiny, disdain, vigilance, and envy.

Cao Jingwei coughed and was about to give an all-round speech again, but Camacho suddenly said at this time: "There are only five days until the game, Cao, can we start normal training?"

Camacho spoke English, so Cao Jingwei waited for the translator to finish speaking, and then smiled awkwardly and said, "Ah, of course, of course, the competition is the most important thing now! You guys go to practice, I will go back to the hotel first. Once If anything happens, call me immediately, you know?" He said this to the deputy team leader Guo Bingyan.

Cao Jingwei finally left the field. Camacho clapped his hands, and after attracting everyone's attention, he said, "Now that the players are all here, let's have a match. I want to see your status."