Chapter 169

Chapter 169 Strange Flower

Uncovering the secrets behind Ever Victory's success became a farce when the reporters realized they had been played by Rudy Gonzalez. 8 9 reading net

All the media and reporters who have invested energy and time in this regard have become a joke.

There was no follow-up report, and the topic that had been hyped up by the media before quickly cooled down, and then it was never seen again, as if this topic never existed from the beginning.

This makes readers who are still expecting the media to dig into the secret behind Chang Sheng's success feel inexplicable-why did it suddenly disappear?

They didn't know that the media really had no face to continue reporting.

They were obviously praising Rudy Gonzalez, even though their real purpose was to beat Chang Sheng.

But after all, it is also helping Rudy Gonzalez to make a name for himself. For Rudy Gonzalez, this should be a good thing.

What they have studied is that Rudy Gonzalez was dissatisfied with Chang Sheng because Chang Sheng snatched his position as the head coach. Delusions take their place.

The reporters believed that since there was such a big conflict between the two people, as long as they found Rudy Gonzalez, he would definitely tell the truth. By then, Chang Sheng would either be ruined, lose his job, or both.

Unexpectedly, Rudy Gonzalez played a trick on them.

This confuses the reporters.

Is the relationship between the two of them that good?

They believe that Changsheng brought Rudy Gonzalez to Valencia mainly to take advantage of Rudy's training ability.

Who would have thought that Rudy Gonzalez played all the reporters in reverse!

Well, since Rudy Gonzalez doesn't cooperate, that's the only way to let this matter go.

But the reporters will continue to keep an eye on Chang Sheng, they don't believe they can't find the secret behind Chang Sheng's success...

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team training,

Conduct a warm-up match to examine the training results, find problems and correct them during training, then continue the warm-up match, find problems, and continue to solve problems during training...

Time passed quickly in such a cycle.

Fast forward to the end of August. Chang Sheng and the club's general manager Pittaqi got up and went to Monaco to participate in the UEFA Champions League group draw ceremony for the new season there.

This is not the first time Chang Sheng has participated in such a ceremony. Last season, he went there with Pitage, and that time was to participate in the UEFA Cup draw ceremony.

Obviously, the UEFA Cup receives far less attention than the UEFA Champions League.

The same him, when he went to the UEFA Cup draw last time, no one paid attention to him, and the reaction of European journalists to him was also very flat.

But this time it was different. From the moment they appeared at the venue, the reporters waiting outside the venue flocked to him and surrounded him.

This is the first time that a head coach with an oriental face has appeared in the Champions League. No wonder the media paid so much attention to it.

Players with oriental faces are not uncommon, but as an oriental, a Chinese, being able to lead a team to participate in the UEFA Champions League as a head coach has a completely different meaning.

As a player, you can let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend, so you can see white people, black people, yellow people, and brown people on the football field. Each race has its own advantages.

But you must seldom see head coaches with other skin colors in mainstream European football, right?

In European football, it is basically the world of white head coaches.

Black head coaches are rarely seen, and head coaches of other races are completely extinct.

In fact, in the white-dominated Western mainstream world, most popular sports are dominated by white head coaches. Not only football, but also basketball and rugby have such problems.

People of other skin colors can serve as physical coaches, tactical coaches, technical coaches... all kinds of coaches in the team, but they just can't be the head coach.

This is a very invisible discrimination.

Usually, no one would care, and no one would think so much about it at all.

But if you look at how many teams in the five major European leagues have non-white coaches? Before this, there was only one Gullit who coached at Chelsea, and one Tigana who coached at teams such as Lyon and Monaco.

And at that time, Gullit was still a head coach without formal coaching qualifications, he was a player part-time head coach.

Gullit's Chelsea played a rare and beautiful football. At that time, the media called Gullit's Chelsea playing "sexy football", and Chelsea's results were also much better than before.

Tigana once coached Lyon and led the team to the league runner-up, which was the best record in the history of the Lyon club at that time.

He led the team to the league title in Monaco Tigana.

Later, he went to England to develop, and once helped Fulham win the League One championship and was promoted to the Premier League.

But then he began to go downhill, and the leagues he played in became more and more low-end. He was briefly brilliant in the Turkish league, and then completely silent.

Later, he went directly to Barcelona and created Rijkaard, the second dream team, who is considered the most successful head coach among people of color.

But now, the limelight that should have belonged to Rijkaard has been robbed by Chang Sheng.

In fact, whether it is Gullit or Tigana, their achievements as head coaches still make sense in the eyes of the media. After all, they all come from football powerhouses and are well-known in the football world in the player era. After direct coaching, the player era Accumulating huge reputation can help them get off the ground,. This is one of the reasons why both Gullit and Tigana performed very well in the early stages of coaching.

Even the later Rijkaard was the same. As one of the Dutch Three Musketeers, his brilliant experience as a player gave him great help. At least when he is allowed to coach Barcelona, ​​he will not be unable to restrain the rich locker room because of his lack of fame and prestige.

The players are legendary football stars, isn't it a matter of minutes to clean up your juniors?

But what about Changsheng?

What about the sudden emergence of Chang Sheng?

He is a typical outlier.

Before a season, no one in the mainstream European sports media had heard of his name.

At that time, Chang Sheng was still in Getafe, and his influence was limited to the Madrid area, which was very limited.

He participated in the UEFA Cup last season as the head coach of Valencia, but the UEFA Cup qualification has nothing to do with him. No one knows whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for such an unknown person to coach Valencia, so the media paid attention to him rare.

Maybe a month later, the head coach will dismiss get out of class? It is really not necessary to pay too much attention to the losers.

Unexpectedly, not only did the head coach not dismiss get out of class a month later, but he led Valencia to the La Liga championship and became the champion coach! He is also the second non-white head coach to win a league title in a major European league.

The first one is Tigana. In the 1996-1997 season, he led Monaco to a huge advantage of twelve points ahead of the second place and won the Ligue 1 championship that season.

And in the European arena, the young head coach of the yellow race also performed very well.

He led Valencia to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup before being eliminated by the superstar-studded Inter Milan.

One season is enough to make those who despised him look at him with admiration.

Then everyone found out that he was not even a professional player before. For European football, he was a fresh newcomer with no connections, no reputation, and no experience.

Just such a three-no-person has become Valencia's champion coach!

It is even more difficult for a non-white person to achieve such a result in this situation.

So the media began to pay attention to Chang Sheng.

This time, Chang Sheng enjoyed star treatment.

But these European media obviously don't know what Chang Sheng looks like.

Chang Sheng still remembers how the media snubbed him last season...

At the beginning, he was very happy that he was able to attend such an important occasion, and his heart was full of longing.

As a result, after arriving at the scene, the illusion was shattered.

Although he has won a second division championship and a King's Cup championship in Spain.

But in European football he is a complete unknown.

Yes, no one here knows him, no one cares about him, he doesn't matter here at all.

Even with the stunt of being the first Chinese head coach in European competition, people are not interested in him.

China has never been a strong country in football. The so-called weak country has no diplomacy, and the same is true in football.

He comes from a weak football country, so naturally no one pays attention to him, no one cares about him.

But he turned that around with his own efforts a season later and when he reemerged in Monaco, he was mobbed by reporters.

Chang Sheng did not intend to meet the interview requirements of the reporters.

"I don't accept interviews." Chang Sheng said with a straight face. "My mind is on the draw, so I'm not doing interviews until the results are in."

After speaking, he pushed away a few people who stood in front of him, and walked into the venue with Pitage.

A group of reporters looked at each other in blank dismay. They didn't expect the Chinese head coach to have a temper and dare to refuse their interview request so blatantly.

Does he know what kind of media he rejected just now?

"French Football", "L'Equipe", "442", "Der Spiegel", "World Football", "Gazzetta dello Sport", "Turin Sports", "Corriere dello Sport"... These are the European football The forum enjoys Dangdang media.

Usually it is very difficult for so many media to take root and interview a person, and it is even more impossible to interview Chang Sheng.

He turned it down!

Among the journalist crowd, the reporter of "Marca" couldn't help saying to the colleagues around him: "Come on, let me introduce to you, Chang Sheng, Chang, Valencia's head coach, Chinese, not yet thirty years old. "

Hearing what he said, the reporters around all turned their heads to look at him, and said to themselves, of course we know that this is the head coach of Valencia, Chang Sheng, we also know that he is Chinese, and we also know that he is under 30 years old... These Do you still need to say it?

But the reporters of the "Marca" newspaper ignored the puzzled eyes of these reporters and just smiled.

"He is the most wonderful head coach in La Liga, I think you have fully realized this..." To be continued.