The media hype about Atletico Madrid's invitation to coach Leon has already had an impact on Sporting Gijón's players. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hey, you say, the coach is really going to Madrid?" asked Modric.

"Maybe. Di Natale said uncertainly, "If I were a coach, I would go." ”

"No, it won't. Javier Blanco said categorically, "The boss has his dreams here, he has his plans, and he will not leave Gijón." ”

As he spoke, Javier Blanco touched the shoulder of substitute goalkeeper Robert, who was promoted by the Sporting Gijón B team, a product of the Malayan Olympic Academy, and had feelings for Gijón.

"Yes, I think so too. Robert said.

Then the two men looked at Carlos and Mata.

Juan Mata has returned from injury, but is still in recovery training and has yet to play.

In this team, if you say who is the descendant of Li Ang's lineage, it is definitely Carlos and Mata.

Although the players did not know that Carlos was the coach's 'brother-in-law', Carlos was dug up from the ghetto by Leon, who was absolutely loyal to Leon, and Mata had followed Leon to Gijón from Real Madrid voluntarily, and the two young men had no doubt about Leon's sincerity.

"I'll go wherever the boss goes. Mata said, he didn't mind saying these words, he knew his heartfelt heart to Leon, and there was no need to shy away from it.

Carlos didn't speak, just nodded. What he thought in his heart was that he was afraid that even if he didn't want to follow Leon, his sister wouldn't agree.

Ribery interjected, "All I know is to play well and give back." ”

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Assistant coach Scottry looked at the players muttering there, a little helpless, sighed, he felt the need to talk to Leon, the team's morale is a little loose now, the fortress has been breached from the inside, and the current state of Sporting Gijón is a hidden danger.

"What are you going to do? rest and continue training?" Leon's voice roared.

Then these players are like frightened little beasts, and they hurry up with a serious training attitude.

At the end of the day's training, Scott Tree found Leon.

"Lee, I think it's necessary for you to say something. Scott said.

"What's wrong?" asked Leon.

"The players are talking a lot and can't train with peace of mind. Scottery said that this team can be said to be built by Leang, and the vast majority of the players are either promoted from the youth team or introduced from the transfer market, Leon is the backbone of the team, and the words of Atletico Madrid owner Hill Jr. can have such a great impact on Sporting Gijon, which is the reason.

Leon glanced at Scottrie, then nodded, "Okay, I see." ”

The next day, in an interview with Radio/Nacional 3, Leon explicitly responded for the first time to the invitation of Atletico Madrid owner Angel Hill.

"Atletico Madrid is a respectable club and I am grateful to Mr. Hill for what he said about me, it is a testament to my work. I'm the manager of Sporting Gijón now, I have a contract with the club, and I'm happy here, but it's not time to discuss the future. ”

As soon as Li Ang's statement came out, some of the military morale of the floating Gijon Athletic finally settled down a little.

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His remarks not only responded to Angel Hill's invitation, expressed his gratitude for the appreciation, but also politely declined.

This is basically the common interpretation of many media outlets.

However, there are also some media outlets that feel like they smell something unusual.

Li Ang's words seem to be a statement that he abides by the contract with Sporting Gijón and does not talk about his future before the contract expires, but those words, if interpreted in depth, can also be understood as just not wanting to talk about the future now, so this means waiting until the end of the season?!

Anyway, it's such a paragraph, and the media naturally has their angles and reasons for interpreting it.

"As" immediately made a statement saying that Li Ang is actually showing favor to Atletico Madrid, and maybe after the season, the Chinese coach will throw himself into the arms of the giants.

As for these interpretations of the media, Li Ang did not pay attention to them after making those remarks, and sometimes, the more you say, the more disagreements and discussions will be caused.

A day later, in the 20th round of La Liga, Sporting Gijón hosted Zaragoza.

They shocked Spanish football with an 8-0 sweep in the first round of the league.

However, this time at home, Sporting Gijón drew 1-1 with their opponents.

This was partly due to the fact that the team was obviously affected by the previous media hype, some of them were out of form, and on the other hand, Sporting Gijón's luck was so bad, Zaragoza only had five shots on goal in the whole game, and only once hit the woodwork and scored.

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Atletico Madrid suffered a big upset in this round of the league and lost 0-1 away to Malaga, the second-to-last place in the league.

Malaga defeated Sevilla in the round of the league, and Atletico Madrid in this round of the league, all of which were just slaughtered by Sporting Gijón.

After the defeat to Malaga, Atletico Madrid's acting head coach - the team's youth team manager Rafael could only return to the youth team to coach, and Atletico Madrid later announced that Mexican Aguirre would become the new manager of Atletico Madrid.

Aguirre was the head coach of the Mexican national team back in 2001, when he replaced Enrique Mesa as the head coach of the Mexican national team and led the team to the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. After losing to his old enemies in the quarterfinals, the United States, he was disgraced. Since then, he has moved to La Liga, and he was still coaching Osasuna, but Atletico Madrid was stunned to poach Aguirre directly from Osasuna, and it is obvious that in the face of Atletico Madrid's invitation, Aguirre did not hesitate to throw himself into his arms.

After Leon 'declined' Atletico Madrid's invitation, Atletico made a quick move and poached Aguirre.

The rumours that Atletico Madrid are poaching Leon seem to end there.

However, at this time, Atletico Madrid general manager Angel Hill said in an interview with La Repubblica, "My appreciation for coach Leon will not change, let's see what happens in the summer." ”

Well, this immediately caused another wave of media hype.

In the face of these reports, Leon also had to talk to the players in the locker room, reassure the players, and let everyone ignore the hype, and together with the players, he has honor and goals to work on.

To sum up, it is to let the players relax, he has a plan in Gijón, everyone wants to fight for glory together, he will not abandon everyone.

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Li Ang is a little angry, he has heard that the members of the Hill family have a bad relationship with the head coach, and it can even be said that they have a grudge, and it is a little strange, now looking at Little Hill's move, Li Ang is also speechless.

Well, Little Hill's pursuit of him made Leon more proud, but, for the sake of his identity as a head coach, he sympathized with Aguirre, who had just taken office, and felt that Little Hill was too much.

Isn't it?

On the first day of Aguirre's tenure, it is estimated that the seat in the office of the Atletico Madrid manager has not yet been hot, and the club owner has made remarks to continue chasing other coaches, and has said something like 'summer promise', Aguirre's mood can be imagined.

Anyway, Leon felt that if he was Aguirre, resigning in anger was the only option.

Of course, not everyone has Leon's arrogance and backbone, Aguirre did not go berserk, and then, little Hill also seemed to feel that he had said the wrong thing, and it was necessary to appease Aguirre, so he praised Aguirre twice, and the latter immediately expressed his allegiance to Atletico Madrid, and also praised the Hill family's contribution to Atletico Madrid, which was very harmonious.

Three days later, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, Sporting Gijón faced Sevilla at home, where they had played just two weeks earlier.

In this game, Li Ang did not rotate, he sent all the main players.

On the one hand, facing the opponent who had won 5-1 in the league before, his pride did not allow the team to fail.

In addition, in the case of the team's fluctuating military spirit in the past few days, a victory is needed, and there is nothing more stable than victory.

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The first half was tied at 0-0 and Sporting Gijón had some bad luck as Diego Milito and Luka Modric hit the post and crossbar respectively.

And Sevilla are also the main force, and it is clear that Caparos is also holding his breath for revenge in this game. He knew that Sporting Gijón was a little unstable now, and he planned to take advantage of it, and throughout the first half, Sevilla fought fiercely.

Seventeen minutes into the second half, Sporting Gijón took advantage of a free-kick opportunity to break the 10-finger pass of Sevilla goalkeeper Esteban.

The goal was scored by the team's right-back Branislav Ivanovic, and the Serbian and Montenegrin defenders beat Navarro in the box and finished a very beautiful header on the back of the net.

In this game, Ivanovic continued to start, in the case of Dorado's injury, Ivanovic firmly sat in the position of the main right wing-back, and now Dorado is about to return from injury, but, obviously, he wants to regain the position of the main right wing-back, some difficulties.

Branislav Ivanovic was very active today, providing assists on the right flank, completely neutralizing Sevilla's left flank, and scoring a deadlock-breaking goal, which is also the best compliment for him.

The game was not over yet, but Sporting Gijón was even more excited after the goal, especially Franck, who was also very sharp in his assists on the left flank. Towards the end of the game, taking advantage of Sevilla's big counterattack to equalize, Ribery and Di Natale combined on the wing, and after a beautiful breakthrough, Di Natale found a good opportunity to shoot and send the football into Esteban to guard the ball for the second time.

Originally, Sevilla coach Caparos made a very detailed defensive arrangement for the offensive tactics of Sporting Gijon, from retreat to attacking and suppressing. Unexpectedly, today's Leon tactics emphasized the wings, Ribery and Ivanovic, one left and one right, flying on both wings, directly suppressed Sevilla, which made Caparos's specially formulated tactics based on the previous situation of the two teams suddenly ineffective.

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On the Spanish side, reports that Atletico Madrid owner Hill Jr. was going to poach Leon began to cool down as Leon later did not participate in this topic of discussion.

However, in the distant Apennine Peninsula, there was a ripple.

Pinettina, the training base of Serie A giants Inter Milan.

The Pinettina base was built in 1962 at the urging of then-coach Herrera and financed by Moratti's father, Angelo Moratti. But the base was built only for training, and there were no accommodation facilities at all, only training grounds, gyms and swimming pools. In 1965, there was a small main building at the Pinettina site, but the structure of the base is not coordinated and the function is not perfect.

The players' rooms at the Pinettina base were cramped and poorly lit, with the only windows the size of a palm located near the rooftop, and the air-conditioning system was a mess, with cold winters and hot summers. On January 12, 2003, Vieri and Di Biagio did not play in the game against Modena, and the team claimed that they had the flu, but in fact they left the base without permission, and the two repeatedly insisted that it was because the room was too hot to sleep.

The Nerazzurri have always had the habit of having their players sleep in their rooms at the Pinettina base before home games, and training in closed quarters before games in order to avoid outside interference.

The current Inter Milan manager, Roberto Mancini, was not too impressed by this, and suggested to Inter Milan boss Moratti that arranging for the players to stay in a luxury hotel before the game would help boost morale.

Moratti has not yet agreed to this suggestion, and on this day, Moratti came to Pinettina to inspect it, intending to talk to the players and understand their views. The chairman, affectionately known as 'Daddy' by many Inter fans, is indeed very good to the players.

The rooms in Pinetina are poorly insulated.

Moratti was in the hallway when he heard loud discussions in Vieri's room.

"HEY, BOBO. A voice shouted, "I seem to have heard that Atletico Madrid wants to hire a Chinese to coach, is this true?"

It was Cambiaso, who had just arrived at Inter Milan on a free transfer from Real Madrid last summer, Bobo was Vieri's nickname, and he played for Atletico Madrid, where he made a name for himself. 'Newcomer' Cambiaso is very good at coming to things, chatting with the veteran Vieri, and things on Atletico's side seem to be a good topic.

"Well, that's right. Vieri said lazily, "It's true." It's all about it in Madrid. ”