Chapter 114 The Man in the Shadow

Some people naively thought that after Chang Sheng left and saw the tragedy of Valencia, Soler must regret his decision.

In this way, he will correct his mistakes and learn from the pain, so that Valencia can get back on track...

But this idea is naive and ridiculous.

If it was because Chang Sheng told Sorel to correct his mistakes, it would be absolutely impossible.

With Soler's hatred for Chang Sheng, it is absolutely impossible for him to change for Chang Sheng. Even if he knew it was wrong to do so, as long as Chang Sheng objected, he would stick to it.

So when "L'Equipe" published an exclusive interview with Chang Sheng, Soler was furious when he saw that Chang Sheng called him "son of a bitch" in public.

"More than one person asked me if I regretted letting go... why should I regret it? I never regretted the decision! Although he could have brought us titles in Valencia, Valencia's image suffered because of it. To the devastation, in the whole of Spain we became the unpopular team, in the media we were always smeared and attacked, and it was all because of who? Because of him, he was like a mad dog, he likes to go around Bite and growl." Soler strongly criticized Chang Sheng in an interview with "Marca".

Of course, this is what the "Marca" newspaper likes to hear. Chang Sheng had offended "Marca" a lot at the beginning, so they were very interested in all black Chang Sheng's remarks.

"After his departure, the club can finally reorganize the image of the team. Now in Spain, Valencia has regained respect and our bad relationship with many clubs has been repaired. I think this is the right thing to do. Roads. Valencia is definitely not a public enemy."

Soler said so.

In this regard, Chang Sheng responded to Soler when he led the team to land at Valencia Airport.

"Valencia is very popular now? Of course, everyone likes to be friends with someone who can't threaten them. Look at Valencia's current misfortune. I want to be friends with it. Anyway, say two A word of praise costs nothing at all. It is those who can threaten them, they will speak ill and wish their opponents to die quickly. Just like Lazio’s current situation in Italy. I don’t care if my team is popular or not. Well, I only care about whether we can win the championship. If we can't win the championship, no amount of praise from many people will make me happy."

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The verbal battle between Soler and Chang Sheng is just one aspect of the various verbal wars before the game.

In the atmosphere where everyone is scrambling to spit at each other,

Valencia's head coach Flores finally couldn't bear it anymore.

In fact, Flores was originally an arrogant and unruly person. This is the time and space before Chang Sheng traveled.

It was during his time coaching Valencia that he became famous.

Flores was always grim, sly, and sullen. His arrogance comes from his family environment, which is different from Mourinho. Flores had an uneventful childhood. That doesn't mean he doesn't have dark memories, though.

In fact, he was born in a prominent Spanish family, and he lives under the shadow of the famous elders of the family all the time.

Flores' father was a legendary Real Madrid star in the 1950s and won five Champions Leagues. Mother Carmen is a famous actress. In his later years, he galloped into politics and served as the Spanish ambassador to Argentina.

In addition, Flores has an aunt who is the most famous flamenco singer in Spain, and his cousin and cousin are also famous singers in Spain.

Living and growing up in such a harsh environment since he was a child, Flores couldn't allow himself to be relaxed in the slightest. Adler's childhood inferiority complex had an obvious reverse effect on Flores at this time, and Flores's pursuit of victory and sense of conquest reached an indescribably paranoid level. When he was at Real Madrid, he repeatedly beat Luis Enrique while playing video games, causing the latter to smash a glass table in a rage.

Similarly, Flores, like Mourinho, the mediocrity of the player era has become another inferiority complex that stimulates him. Flores plays for Real Madrid. But beside Michel Laudrup and Enrique, he has never been known. Flores was unwilling to admit defeat. He once secretly said to his mother: "Stars only rely on their legs to eat, but I want to be the kind of person who uses my brain to defeat others."

That is, from that time on. Flores aspires to be a football coach. While his teammates wasted energy in discos and bars, he sat in front of his computer every afternoon playing an early version of Football Manager.

After retiring, Flores also studied for a master's degree in psychology. This is the origin of his proficiency in psychological warfare and power struggle after coaching.

Spaniards generally believe that Flores has an arrogant personality but is gloomy and restrained, reticent but often shocking, and his relaxed acting talent may come from family inheritance.

In fact, Flores has endured Chang Sheng for a long time, and he is not a mild-tempered person in the first place. When he first took charge of Valencia, people always liked to compare him with Chang Sheng, because both of them came from Madrid, and their coaching journeys were very similar. The team switched to Valencia, and even the teams they coached were the same, Getafe and Valencia.

After retiring, Flores worked as a commentator for a year. When he was a commentator, he was known for his biting sarcasm and was considered one of the most stubborn commentators at the time. Later, when he became the head coach, he became even more arrogant.

When he was at Getafe, he was inevitably compared with Chang Sheng, and later became the head coach of Valencia, and this comparison was even more exaggerated. After all, Getafe's influence is still very small, and Valencia is also a big team, with more people paying attention.

This kind of comparison made Flores feel motivated at first, but later, when there were more people making such comparisons, he didn't like it.

After all, no one wants to live in the shadow of another person.

You have to live if you don’t want to, and Flores’s life is almost a standard template for how to live in the shadow of successful people.

He has lived in the shadow of his brilliant family since he was born. When he became a professional player, he not only had to live in the shadow of his teammates, but also in the shadow of his father. To become a coach. In the Real Madrid youth academy, he lived in the shadow of Benitez - Benitez was a big success in the Real Madrid youth team, but Flores left a big joke, every time the team's results slipped , Flores would promise to "at least secure a championship", but when he left, there was nothing left.

After finally becoming the head coach of the first team, he lives in the shadow of Chang Sheng, and he still can't get rid of it so far. Whether in Getafe or Valencia. That's all.

Some media even believe that Flores is deliberately imitating Chang Sheng. From his suits and ties directing the game to his choice of coaching teams, he is consciously imitating Changsheng.

This remark made Flores very unhappy. He never wants to imitate anyone, all this is just a coincidence, with his self-esteem. Nor can he tolerate being a poor imitator of others.

He once defended himself, but his weak justification was quickly drowned in the tide of public opinion.

When everyone recognized him as an imitator, no matter what he said, no one would care.

When his grades are not good, this identity makes him feel particularly painful, because everyone will laugh at him and say: "He still wants to imitate Chang? Look at his grades, he is really far behind Chang!"

The taunting pained Flores at first. Later it made him angry.

He has no way to refute one by one, there are too many opponents, he is outnumbered, the smart way is to single out. So he concentrated all this anger on one person. That person is Chang Sheng.

The thing is actually very simple.

As long as he can lead his team to defeat Chang Sheng, wouldn't it prove that he is not a copycat of Chang Sheng, and that he is stronger than Chang Sheng?

Perhaps it is to make the players realize that their "respected and beloved" Chang Sheng is no longer their head coach, or to cheer themselves up.

Anyway, Flores declared war on Chang Sheng when he was interviewed by reporters.

Of course. The flames of war were not ignited by him, but because a reporter asked him: "Real Madrid youth training camp. From Getafe to Valencia. You have traveled the same trajectory as Chang..."

Flores immediately interrupted the reporter with a gloomy face, because he knew what the other party was going to say next, and that was what he hated the most.

It's his "forbidden speech"!

He interrupted the other party in a very bad tone: "I have nothing to do with him, I am tired of you comparing me to him! Even if he is a successful head coach, I don't want to put him together. He is He, I am me! What he achieved in Valencia has become a thing of the past, why does everyone here still cling to everything in the past? I can't understand. Now the coach of Valencia is me , not the Chinese named Chang! Even if he gets the best grades, it has nothing to do with you! Don't deceive yourself! Now he is the enemy of Valencia, and I am on your side, but why? You always have to help him speak?!"

Reporters who interviewed Flores were taken aback by his sudden outburst.

But Flores still had more to say, so he continued, not caring about the eyes of the people around him.

"Valencia fans welcome him? I don't welcome him, I will beat him at Mestalla, I want to let him know whose territory Mestalla belongs to! If anyone wants to see Chang's team in Win here, and you will be disappointed."

"I don't think Chang's way of leaving Valencia was immoral. When the team needed him, he chose to leave. Before he left, he kicked his old club hard. Such behavior makes me despised. .I really don’t know what to support such a rotten person. You should cherish the present, not miss the past!”

After Flores finished speaking, he felt as refreshed as if drinking a bottle of cold beer in the dog days. For many years, the backlog of words in my heart can finally be said!

Finally, he can express his thoughts unscrupulously!

He raised his head and looked at the stunned reporters defiantly. In his eyes, they were just a group of stupid birds.

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