Godfather Of Champions

    Chapter 16 Benitez

    The UEFA Super Cup is a traditional event that has been held since 1972.

    It was previously said that Nottingham Forest FC is Europe Champion because they are winners of the Europe Champion Cup.  But at Liverpool FC, Liverpool FC fans also think they are Europe Champion because their team has just won the Europe UEFA Europa League.

    In this case, there are two more European Champions, but Champion must have only one and only one.  What are you going to do? Then there is a game between Champion in these two events, and the final winner is decided.  This method is a bit "king Wang", everyone is king, but which king is stronger? I believe many fans will be very interested in the answer to this question.

    Originally Europe had three major cups, the Europe Champion Cup, the Europe Winners Cup, and the Europe UEFA Europa League.

    The Europe Champion Cup, as its name implies, is the only one that can be played by League Titles. This is the Champion with the highest gold content and the coveted honor of countless giants.

    The Europe Cup Winners Cup is played by the Champion of the National Cup, which is second to the Champion Cup.

    The UEFA Europa League has the shortest history. Its predecessor was the "Expo Cup". The participating teams are neither League Title nor Champion, but several teams outside the Champion and League Title, the final score of each national league. The places you arrive are different.

    The UEFA Super Cup was originally competed for victory by the Champion Cup champion and the winner's Cup champion, and later, as he entered 21st century, UEFA thought the cup of winners had fallen and its attractiveness had fallen as the underdogs in the League of Nations squeezed into the cup of winners, Could no longer attract richer sponsors, a cup reform was carried out to merge the Cup winners with Uefa Europa League, cancelling the 38-year-old cup.  Instead, use the UEFA Europa League instead.

    Today's UEFA Super Cup's two teams became Champion Cup Champion and UEFA Europa League Champion.  The Super Bowl system has also changed from the previous two rounds of the main away game venue to a single-game final. The venue of the competition has been fixed in the tourist attraction AS Monaco FC since 1998.

    AS Monaco FC is indeed a beautiful country. There are always a variety of luxury yachts in the sea, and only the real rich are eligible to enjoy.  For people like Twain, he doesn't have the money to raise a yacht, and Shania is not enough.  Among the people he knows.  Perhaps only Wood's Agent Billy.Woods is most likely to have a search for a private yacht.

    AS Monaco FC is best known for motor racing, and Monte Carlo is the famous f1 circuit.  Before becoming a Manager, Twain knew about AS Monaco FC from two aspects, one is racing and the other is football.

    AS Monaco FC also has its own professional football club, and participates in the France Football League, which is not a force that can be neglected in France.  One of Twain's most impressive impressions was that the former Real Madrid CF Striker Morientes was Loaned to the AS Monaco FC team.  Then on the knockout stages of the Europe Champion Cup, he scored a goal to abandon his Real Madrid revenge – his goal helped AS Monaco FC eliminate Real Madrid CF.

    After the game, Morientes comforted his good friend Raúl to make Twain unforgettable.

    It was a legendary Champion Cup, and the two teams that finally entered finals were not the most famous and powerful teams of Europe at the time. The Cup made two young marshals – Manager of AS Monaco FC France Deschamps, Portugal FC Porto team manager Mourinho.  Finally, Mourinho laughed to the end.  He got the Champion Cup, and he also completed the triple jump from League Title to UEFA Europa League Champion to the Europe Champion Cup and became Europe's hottest manager.  Everyone knows the story after that.

    The same thing happened to the last season, which happened just now on Twain.  The team completed the league from the first division to the Premier League, and then to the Champion Cup Champion's Twain also completed the triple jump as much as Mourinho, considering that he is in the more competitive and stronger English Premier League league, said Uncertain difficulty is even greater than Mourinho.  Today's Tony Twain has also become Europe's most sought-after young manager.  There is nothing unusual about a high-achieving Manager. It is a matter of experience and wisdom, and wisdom and experience are replaced by time-age.  Older Managers The more experience and wisdom they have, think about Ferguson, Wenger, Capello, Scolari, Bosque, Aragonés…Which one is not fifty years old, a white hair is more eccentric.

    In the coaching circle, forty years old are considered handsome, and if they are players, I am afraid they have to be called "old".  Mourinho was already forty years old when he got the Champion Cup, but Twain was under forty.  At such an age, such a high achievement has been achieved, and it is difficult to make people pay attention.  Young coaches have succeeded.  Explain that they still have more glory than the old man can look forward to.  The old man always wants to be old, and by then the football is a young man.  Twain doesn't mind taking advantage of his age to re-master the world for thirty or forty years…

    After winning the Champion Cup at Nottingham Forest FC, there was a fear that the Forest fans would have a big salary like Abramovich to dig their "heads".  Mourinho also jumped to the more advanced English Premier League after relying on FC Porto to get the Champion Cup.

    In this regard, Twain once in the celebration that night, in front of more than 30,000 live fans, and countless TV viewers promised that he will not leave Forest.  He did not say "will not leave during the contract", nor did he say "will not leave in the future youngster", he said "I will never leave."

    He did receive some invitation letters from Club and hoped to invite him to coach those teams.

    The most famous of these is Real Madrid CF.

    Both Calderón's chairman and Real Madrid fans suspected that Capello's Real Madrid was too rigid, and there was no such thing as Artistic Football's beautiful football. So after getting the League Title, Capello swept the door out.  So when Twain received the invitation, he felt ridiculous.  Can his football be better than Capello? Nottingham Forest FC was attacked by the European media all the time. It was the representative of ugly football and negative football. Letting the team like Nottingham Forest FC get the Champion Cup is simply a retrogression of modern football…Wait, how can Calderón look at him?

    So Twain treated the invitation as a joke and didn't reply to the other party.  Soon after, he heard that Real Madrid CF finally won Schuster and they paid a penalty for Getafe.  Getafe agreed to let go.

    That's right, Schuster played pretty football when he coached the small team. He used to be Real Madrid player, he is currently the most suitable for Real Madrid Manager.  I don't want to go to the fun of Twain…

    AS Monaco FC is a beautiful coastal city, but the Forest team is not a holiday here.  They came to AS Monaco FC two days in advance to do the training for the venue. The two days of life are the hotel and the Stadium.

    The hotel where Liverpool FC stayed is not far from the hotel where the Forest team stayed. It only takes 20 minutes to walk – AS Monaco FC is a pocket country.  The narrowest place in the north and south is only two hundred meters.

    The residence is so close, even if you go out and take a step, you may run into it.  The two teams have been heated by the media, and now it is just a slap in the face.  So it’s okay to not meet, especially to provoke the “culprit” of this war of words.

    At this time, the people who have been reviled by countless Liverpool FC people are sitting in the hotel lobby, drinking coffee and accepting interviews from the China media group, which is very leisurely.

    Why is it a "media group"? Because there is more than one media's journalist.  There are ten people around Twain, all from the journalist of China.  Since the German World Cup, Twain and Tang Jing's newspapers have been writing about drafts, so he and many Chinese media have met, this year's AFC Asian Cup.  As a foreigner, he took the Chinese Team from the Football Association to the player and caused a great uproar in China.  But after all, there was only a reaction in China, and Twain did not pay attention to it, and tossed with the media and fans.

    This interview was agreed upon from the AFC Asian Cup.  He is just fulfilling his promise.

    The questions asked by journalists are very broad. From the Super Bowl that will start tomorrow, I asked the previous AFC Asian Cup and asked some personal hobbies from Twain…For example, why does he like China culture like this?

    Twain is very comfortable in answering their questions in Chinese, and has passed the addiction of "native language."

    There is a China journalist who is very kind to remind him: "The competition is coming soon, Twain coach, are you not worried about tomorrow's game?"

    Twain is a little dumbfounded: "I worry that I don't worry about having to go to your interview here."

    "As far as I know, coach Benitez is busy studying opponent data at this time.  ”

    "That's just because we don't know when we research our opponents.  "Twain's face is up."  He has some doubts that this unopened journeylist is deliberately deprecating.

    Or Tang Jing, hurry out and muddy, round the field.

    "Twain coach, can you make a vision for tomorrow's game?"

    Twain got up and it was the last question. He didn't spend so much time playing word games with journalist.  Prospect What are the good prospects? We will certainly win.  "When he finished, he grinned and made a gesture of victory. The camera journals pressed the camera shutter in their hands very well."

    Ended the interview.  Twain and the journalist shook hands and said goodbye.  He has to go back to his room to prepare for the evening Tactics meeting.

    “Tell me a lot of good words in front of Chinese readers. I know that my reputation in China is not very good now.  He said jokingly.  Raised the journalist and laughed.  "I may have a chance to go to China after mixing, and everyone will take care of it!"

    He arched his fists in his hands and made a very Chinese-style movement.

    Then I turned and walked away.

    Is he talking about jokes? Some people think that it is, some people think it is not, such as Tang Jing.

    The Nottingham Forest FC team has a China player, a China assistant, and a manager who loves China culture and has chosen to travel to China twice…How can such a team that is closely connected with China turn a blind eye to China’s “virgin land”?

    Real Madrid has been to China, Barça has been here, and Manchester United FC, Chelsea…The English Premier League is very loyal to the development of the Asia market. These teams are coming, so will the new Champion Europe Champion be far behind?

    She is looking forward to it.

    Twain didn't go back to his room. He walked straight into Don's room, where the coaches were there and discussing the issues at the evening Tactics meeting.  See Twain coming in.  Everyone just looked up and continued to go on their way. No one cares.

    Tang got up and greeted him.

    "How is the interview?"

    "It’s much better than the United Kingdom media.  "Twain glanced at the room," is still discussing? ”

    "Basically, there are some divergent discussions.  Tang introduced.

    A divergent discussion is a discussion that is not directed at this game, but rather a question that arises from this.  In fact, it is plain, it is "running the problem", but this run is more professional…

    The coaching staff believe that Benitez will choose a moderater Tactics in this game.  That is not to defend the main, but not too much emphasis on the offense, but patiently and the Force team to deal with, even if dragged to the penalty shootout.  Then start with this topic, go to Benitez, what he likes, what habits he has, and how the identity of Spain affects the football Tactics he chooses.  After all, the Spanish football concept is completely different from the England football concept.

    Then, continue to run and ran to the tradition of Liverpool FC, and the topic quickly changed again.  This time, Twain became the protagonist.  Everyone was talking about Twain alone and half of the population of Liverpool FC (meaning the fans of Liverpool FC).

    This time I saw Twain sitting next to me, and everyone talked and watched Twain smirk.

    Chrislake is still joking about Twain, so that he won't go to Liverpool FC for a lifetime, otherwise there may be danger.

    Twain is sitting on the side.  Without joining their run-off meeting, his mind followed the discussion of these people and then stopped on the topic of Benitez.

    As a Manager, researching a team will naturally start with peers.  He knows Benitez and knows very well.  Thanks to developed information communication technology, he can easily know a lot of things he wants to know.

    Like him, Benitez is a master of Tactics, a manager who is good at on-the-spot command.  Remember the 2004 Champion Euro Champion Cup finals? Benitez took over the first season of Liverpool FC.  It created the miracle night of Istanbul.

    Twain knows that he is directly promoted from the rookie to Manager. He does not have an orthodox education. In addition to relying on his own talents, he is constantly learning the experience and knowledge of others.  So he looked at a lot of Tactics notes, studied the techniques of other Managers, and studied many classic battles in the history of football, from the battle to the highlights of the predecessors.

    Ordinary fans watch the game only to watch the Football Star play, Twain is a fan who likes to study Tactics before crossing.  So he only plays cm and fm when playing games.  And playing live football, he is a rookie, the five-star computer can not win.  Don't talk to people.  Playing the Football Manager game is not the same. He plays against people online and always wins.  He has benefited a lot from these habits.  There are always things worth learning and learning from those classic war cases.

    In the match between the Champion Cup finals and acMilan, George Wood followed Kaka in an inseparable way, not to mention that it was not affected by Benitez.  Remember the Champion Cup finals? Liverpool FC's Defender Finnan was injured, Benitez replaced Hain with Finnan and Liverpool FC changed to 352.  Hamann debuted, and the Red Army had a special person to stare at Kaka. As a result, the unusually active Brazilian in the first half disappeared.

    Sometimes, a Manager's substitution adjustment doesn't have to be earth-shattering, and it looks even more inconspicuous.  Benitez is such an introverted Manager, and most of his masterpieces of Tactics look unremarkable.  Still the season, Liverpool FC took the home 2:1 score as a guest Turin and challenged Juventus.  At that time, I was optimistic about the Italy people with the public opinion, but Liverpool FC smothered the old woman at 0:0 at the away game venue.  The other fans in that game were boring, and at 2:45 in the morning, people were sleepy, and Twain watched the game from the beginning.  He saw Benitez's Tactics wisdom, and the three central defenders changed their miracles.  Juventus, who is best at defensive and sullen, was suffocated by the sudden change of Liverpool FC, and Capello could only return to hate again.

    Twain remembers that he led the team to the first season in the English Premier League. At the time, he beat Arsenal FC 1:1 at home and beat Chelsea at home 2:1. He had the meaning of "spring breeze" and the result was in the away game. Venue 1:4 defeat to Benitez's Liverpool FC.  Even after two more seasons, the game was still the biggest score since he coached Nottingham Forest FC.

    Until now, he still remembers every detail of the game, because the 1:4 score is too dazzling.  All the Tactics arrangements in the game were inspected by the other side, and the proud commander was also suppressed by Benitez. No matter how he changed the adjustment, there was no way to bring out Benitez's circle for him.  At that time, he had a kind of powerlessness that Sun Wukong couldn't jump out of the palm of his hand.

    Twain is not a person who will be blinded by the anger of failure. He is willing to gamble and lose.  Since you lost, the only thing you can do is to study the game carefully, find your own shortcomings, and then improve it in future games.  Successfully fucking when he failed, although this sentence is very vulgar, it is indeed a famous saying.  What he learned from this game far exceeded the winning streak.

    After that, Twain is no longer the former Wuxia Amon, Nottingham Forest FC also has a good chance to face Liverpool FC, the two sides are no longer the relationship between the strong and the newly promoted.

    The best part of Twain is that he has never been exposed to the "phobia" in China's football habits, so he will not have any boring psychological shadows because he once lost to an opponent, and then always stumbled by the same stone.  He is a person who believes in the philosophy of struggle that "others have slapped me a slap in the face, I am going to fight back a hundred slaps", saying that the good thing is "to make me a god-powerful person, although it is far away", saying that it is difficult to listen is called " I will report"…

    Benitez is a steady Manager, so before the game Twain tried every means to provoke his war of words against Liverpool FC and also tossed RCD Espanyol.  But is Benitez really affected?

    He did not reply to Twain's provocation and insult to him in the media. He only talked about the game during the interview, not to mention the other.

    It seems that Twain's psychological Tactics doesn't work for him?

    No, it really doesn't work, I don't know until the game.

    Twain has come back from his meditation, and his coaches have ran the subject from Earth to Mars.  A group of people are eager to discuss a fat male star recently in the United Kingdom, in the United Kingdom Genius elective show by the singing drama blockbuster Paul.Perth (paul_potts).

    "Okay, guys.  If nothing happens, you should go back. Don’t you think that it is too crowded? ”Twain stood up and clap his hand to interrupt their discussion.  "After the dinner is over, inform the player to have a meeting.  He said to Chrislake.

    Chrislake nodded and he didn't leave immediately: "What else?"

    "Remind them to rest early today.  ”

    After explaining this, Chrislake and other coaches went out.

    Then Tang stood in front of the sofa and looked at Twain who sat down: "You don't go back to your room?"

    Twain was asked a glimpse, then he looked up and looked around, oh.  "It turned out to be your room…"

    Tang cried and laughed and pushed him out.  "I will call you when I am at dinner. You are better off taking a break now. I think you are tired.  ”

    Twain muttered "I used to live with you" and walked back to his room.

    Lying on the bed in his room, closing his eyes and falling asleep, he was still thinking, "What is Benitez doing at this time…"