champion godfather

Chapter 881 Volume Seven Lion Heart Red Cape

Raul Gonzalez has some regrets now-if he retires a year later, he might be able to use the tenth European Champions Cup in the club's history as his retirement gift.Now he is the manager of the Real Madrid club, mainly responsible for the communication between the top management and the players. Many times he is still in the team, like a player in a suit.

When the team practiced, he stood on the sidelines and watched with Coach Michelle. He didn't express his opinion unless Michelle asked him.

But today he talked a little more.

"Michelle, tomorrow's game..." Raul frowned.

"Do you want to ask how sure I am of winning?" Michelle smiled. "I don't know."

"No, I'm worried that Nottingham Forest's style of play will restrain the style we are good at." Raul shook his head lightly.

Michelle was stunned when he heard what he said, and then said: "This is a problem... But Real Madrid's football is like this, no matter what kind of opponent we face, we always play with our style. Do you have any suggestions, Raul?"

Raul obviously had no good advice, he shook his head and stopped talking.

"Our scouts have come up with the latest information about Forest, they played a surprise full attack in the first half of the FA Cup final against Tottenham, and I think it may have something to do with us. .” Michelle was still talking to herself.He suddenly turned his head to look at Raul, "Maybe Dunn wants to fight us at the Bernabeu."

Raul, who focused on observing the team's training situation, was taken aback by his statement.

"Confrontation?" As soon as the next words came out, he laughed himself first. "It's crazy."

Yes, there are few teams in the world who dare to do this against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, perhaps Barcelona is one of them.But definitely not Nottingham Forest.

"I don't think it's possible... The Forest team is characterized by defensive counterattacks. Coach Twain has always believed that the championship comes from defense. It is impossible for him to face us in such an important game. The possibility of defensive counterattacks is very high. "

Michel laughed seeing Raul's smooth talk: "Why didn't you choose to be the head coach after you retired, Raul?"

"Me?" Raul was suddenly asked such a question, but Raul didn't respond immediately, "I don't think I'm suitable to be a coach."

"It's not the head coach. You can be the director of youth training... If you want to do it, I can recommend it to Mr. Chairman."

"It's not the difference between the head coach and the coach." Raul thought for a while before saying, "In Real Madrid, I think being a coach is too tiring and difficult..."

He didn't continue to say the following words, but Michelle already knew what he wanted to express.He nodded silently.

Raul was on point.Although Michele has done well in Real Madrid in the past few years, he has always been subject to the power checks and balances of the club's top management. Although this is the tradition of most clubs in Spain, in a giant team like Real Madrid, the head coach receives Extremely restrictive.He only has the right to suggest the introduction and transfer of players, but not to make decisions.There are too many factors to consider when buying a player for a club like Real Madrid, and the competitive level becomes less important.

In the management of the locker room, the head coach's role is also very limited.It is inevitable for any rich team to have many factions in the locker room, but the Premier League coaches are better than them in this regard, because the Premier League coaches have absolute authority, and the factions in the locker room cannot compete with one head coach. The authority comes from their football tradition and the support of the club's top management. The players are like a group of children under the head coach who are in awe of the boss.The coaches of La Liga are a bit miserable. If they have a gap with a certain faction, then his authority here will be greatly challenged.Coupled with the small actions behind the club's top management, the head coach is a doormat caught between the top management and the players, and neither side is pleasing.

Michel is doing well in Real Madrid now because he met a good general manager - Valdano.Think of Mijatovic in the past, being the head coach under him is simply a kind of torture.Valdano knows that proper decentralization is good for the team, and he will not make things difficult on the head coach's transfer list.Hence the revival of Real Madrid.

Otherwise, this team might fall in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. That would be the laughingstock of the century.

Both Michelle and Raul put these problems behind them, they don't need to have such worries now.Otherwise, they will not be able to reach the Champions League final.Tomorrow's game is a good opportunity to re-prove the value of Real Madrid to the world, and it is an opportunity for Florentino to rebuild the Real Madrid empire.Such a game cannot be lost.

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Tang En would not have the time to chat with the people around him about the hardships of being the head coach. He was leading the team to conduct tactical drills on set kicks.Set kicks in important games are absolutely not to be ignored.Twain predicted that the team would face a lot of pressure in the match against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu. At that time, the set kick might be the key to knocking on Real Madrid's door.

After all, there are free kick players like Gareth Bale in the team.

Chris Lack explained to the players the coordination of offensive set-pieces on the field. The coaching staff designed several sets of set-piece tactics, hoping to be useful in the game.

The place where the team trains is the Bernabéu Stadium, and it can be regarded as adapting to training on the field.

The turf at the Bernabéu is better than at the City Stadium, but there is no noticeable difference.Moreover, Tang En can't guarantee that the stadium workers will not sprinkle too much water on it when the next day's game is played...

The reporters have been driven away by him, and the team's current training content must not be known to outsiders.For this reason, he also specifically emphasized to the Bernabeu that he did not want the Bernabeu to have any equipment to photograph their training content. You must know that this is Real Madrid's home court after all, and it is difficult to guarantee that Real Madrid will not play tricks.His repeated reminders and insistence also angered the Bernabéu staff. In their eyes, Tang En's doing so was completely questioning their professional ethics... and Real Madrid is a club that attaches great importance to its own reputation. They understand Tell Twain unequivocally: Real Madrid Club disdains to do such indecent things.

It was only then that Tang En reluctantly gave up his persistence shamelessly.

It's a typical villain's heart and a gentleman's belly - I always do it at the city stadium, there is no reason other clubs can't do it.

But in fact, the Real Madrid club did not install any cameras or send people to spy on the Bernabeu. As the staff member said, the great Real Madrid disdains to use such despicable methods to help the team win.

Tang Enke kept looking at the stands, searching for suspicious persons.

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At the press conference in the afternoon, Dunn was "besieged" by the Spanish media.

The media in Spain and England were clearly divided into two factions.The Spanish media are keen to ask questions that embarrass Twain, such as: "The outside world is unanimously optimistic that Real Madrid will win the championship. Will you be affected by this prediction?"

Another example: "The outside world criticizes Nottingham Forest's football as conservative and utilitarian. Would you consider changing this status quo?"

The Spanish media have obviously studied Tony Twain and know that he has a bad temper and speaks out loud.So deliberately provoking him can actually receive miraculous effects and get some gimmicky revelations.

But their research was not professional. They only wanted to stimulate Tang En, but they forgot that Tang En himself was not a hedgehog. When he was besieged, he curled up to defend himself.He is a cunning wolf, if you dare to provoke him, be ready to bear his wrath.

Tang En showed disdain for the first question: "The outside world is optimistic about Real Madrid, so Real Madrid will definitely win the championship? Then let's not play this Champions League final, and let the outside world announce that Real Madrid has won the championship, okay?" Tang En shared He opened his hands and looked at the Spanish reporters coldly.

Such rhetorical questions embarrassed Spanish journalists.

As for the second question, Tang En pretended to be surprised: "Why should I change this situation? I can win the championship now, why should I give up the championship to satisfy the wishes of the outside world? I think...anyone with a normal mind can Wouldn't you make such a choice?"

When he said this, he stared at the reporter who asked the question with a smile, as if saying to him: "Only someone with an abnormal mind like you can ask such mentally retarded questions, Mr. Reporter."

The Spanish reporter blushed and turned pale, and finally sat down angrily.

"But it doesn't mean you can't win the championship if you play well, Mr. Tang En." Another reporter stood up.

Where is this press conference?This is clearly the Champions League version of a war of words against Confucians.

"I don't need to choose a more risky way to win the championship. Besides, in my opinion, playing well is equal to the runner-up." Tang En was deliberately trying to annoy those Spaniards who seemed a little arrogant because they took advantage of the home court.

Fortunately, Michelle had already finished his press conference before, otherwise it would be hard to say that there would be any conflict when the two sat together.

"So are you implying that your tactic tomorrow will be a defensive counterattack?" A bald middle-aged man stood up and asked with a slight color on his face.He still set the forest team's tactics on the second day.

Tang En certainly knew what he was planning, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to find out his tactics for tomorrow, but there was no way! "That's hard to say, maybe tomorrow I will go all-out and all-out?" Tang En spread his hands, "Besides, don't you think I can only defend and counterattack? Oh, I think it would be nice to have a duel with Real Madrid interesting……"

"Don't you want the champion, Mr. Tang En?" The middle-aged man continued to bicker with Tang En without changing his face.

"Of course I would. Why wouldn't I?"

"Then you said before that playing well is equal to the runner-up..." The man who thought he had caught Tang En laughed.Beside him, many people also laughed, and these were Spanish reporters.

In their minds, this is an endless loop - Tang En thinks that if he plays well, he will not win the championship, but if he wants to win the championship again, then he must play conservative football, but he does not admit that he plays conservatively, and He also said that he wanted to attack Real Madrid.Then let us see how he rounds the field!
Unexpectedly, Tang En said with a relaxed face, "I am confident that I can win against Real Madrid."

As soon as these words came out, the reporters present, whether they were from Spain or England, were all taken aback.

A reporter wanted to ask more questions, but Tang En stood up and signaled the end of the press conference.

"Mr. Dunn..."

"Mr. Tang En, please stay!"

"Coach Tang En..."

"Hey, Tony!"

A group of reporters panicked now, so what were they doing before?After bickering with Tang En, in the end, what else is left of him other than a mouthful of hair?
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David Chris Lack was sitting in the guest room, sipping the fragrant small ground coffee while reading the newspaper with his glasses on.Of course, he doesn't know anything about Spanish, but fortunately, there are enough pictures to pass the time, which is better than nothing.

"Half football, half bullfighting, the Spaniards have so little hobbies..."

The assistant coach muttered, and suddenly heard a soft sound of the door lock, he raised his head vigilantly, and stared at the door with burning eyes.The door slowly slid open a gap, and then a hand was stretched in, and the fingertips made a few fancy gestures, followed by a quick shake, and a scarlet cloak was thrown out like magic.

The door of the room was opened, Tang En held his head proudly, stepped on the Rumba steps and danced into the room arrogantly, humming the tune of "One Dada, Two Dada", his strong and straight body spun in place. After two laps, one suddenly appeared: "Yahho! Come on! Madrid Bull!"

The poor assistant coach jerked his head forward, and his mouth full of coffee spouted onto the newspaper and the table in his hand, and some of it flowed down the corners of his mouth and chin, dripping and splashing on the newspaper in his hand.Franck Ribery in the newspaper was grinning at Chris Lark, a drop of black coffee landed right on his white teeth, which looked as if one was missing...

While frantically wiping the coffee off the corners of his mouth and chin, and rubbing up the newspaper to wipe the table, Chris Lark asked Dunn, "Did you go to the bullfighting show this afternoon?"

"No, I stopped by to buy this after attending the press conference." Tang En shook the cloak in his hand, making a clattering sound.

"Travel souvenir...?"

Tang En shook his head and smiled: "Isn't the souvenir the Champions Cup? I have a special purpose for it." After speaking, he did another matador's signature move.Swipe to the left, swipe to the right, and then turn around smartly, as if an angry bull just passed him by.The wind ruffled Chris Rucker's hair. "Do you see how I'm doing?"

"I've never seen such an old matador." Chris Lak finally cleaned up the mess in front of him, he looked at Tang En and laughed. "What are you going to use it for?"

"Secret, secret." Tang En winked at him, and then he laughed happily.

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PS, the author's words:
Recently, there have been a lot of slightly sad messages in the book review section, saying that the Godfather of Champions is coming to an end... I am very grateful to my friends for their concern for Godfather of Champions, but... this really makes me dumbfounded.Before this volume, I said that the Godfather of Champions still has two volumes according to my outline. This is the seventh volume, and there is still an eighth volume that has not been written... How could it end here?
Please don't worry, I plan to finish writing this book within this year, but in terms of my procrastination habit, I plan to finish it before the end of the year...

So it's not time to say goodbye yet.Let's keep reading, Tony Twain's story is not over yet.

(End of this chapter)