Chapter 17: The Camacho Case
The head coach of the São Paulo team scolded Ray Yi bloody, and after scolding him, he still felt that he was not satisfied, so he picked up the phone, dialed the mobile phone of his old buddy Andric, and scolded the poor Brazilian from his sleep. (Flower Good Pastoral ML/3/3266/IML)
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is time for the Chinese team to gather in Beijing. Players who play in the Chinese Super League have come to the Chinese team's training base in Beijing one after another due to the special arrangements of the Football Association for the league. But...... Those players who stayed abroad sent bad news back to the team.
"Who recommended little Leiy to you? It's me! But who insisted on insisting that I must be drunk no matter what in the first place? Who said that a sixteen-year-old should go to the junior team? Who said that the club he coached, even if it was a youth team, would not need such a young imp who had not yet been weaned? I don't care, you've got to give me Garrincha! You have to put it too! If you don't put it, you have to put it for me! ”
The head coach of the Chinese team, Brazilian Andric, was there to argue with his old countryman on the phone, and he also slapped the table there while arguing. Hearing the content of his argument with someone on the other end of the phone, the assistant who was selected by the Chinese side and assigned to Andrik because he could speak Portuguese was very worried. If he could, he really wanted to take a few steps back, silently leave the office, and then thoughtfully close the door for Andrik.
"Do you think I don't dare, old man! I'm flying back to South America with my team! I don't mind coming to São Paulo in person and asking for someone when the time comes! Just wait!! ”
Hanging up the phone suddenly, head coach Andrik looked at his Chinese assistant with a blank face.
Chinese Assistant: "............"
Chinese assistant: "One, one, one unfortunate news! ”
Andrik's expression didn't change, and he just looked at the assistant. This made the Chinese assistant even more apprehensive, and he tried to muster up his courage and said: "The four players you have called up to play in Europe this time!" They all said that the club did not agree to let it go so long in advance! ”
"Go sue the people of the Football Association." At this moment, Andrik seemed very calm, but that made the Chinese assistant even more panicked, "If none of these people can go to Quito for training in advance, then I will hand in my resignation letter to the Football Association in two weeks." ”
Two weeks later, it was almost ...... It was a week before the first leg of the Chinese team's intercontinental play-offs.
It seems that every foreign coach who comes to China as a head coach will find a set of ways to get along with the Football Association and deal with the Football Association.
When it comes to the "bad fate" between this group of foreign coaches and the Chinese Football Association, this is a very long story.
Since a few decades ago, huge amounts of hot money have started to flow into the football market. One of the most iconic is the Russian businessman Abramovich. Many people say that he tried to put his money in another place as much as possible to protect his assets from the domestic political situation. And this "other place" is obviously Chelsea, a team in the English Premier League.
In addition to the famous Abramovich, the largest group of "playing football" seems to be the Arab sheikhs who have formed a group to play the Premier League. In the beginning, there was always a joke that these staggering wealthy chiefs couldn't find anything new, so they entered the football world one by one, but the fact is that these sheikhs' big moves in European football have boosted their country's tourism and helped the UAE expand its business around the world.
It was with the good start of this group of predecessors that many entrepreneurs in Asia began to pour their hot money into the football market. Some people go abroad to show their terrible financial resources, and of course, there are also people who are either low-key or high-profile to support local Chinese Super League teams, or even become sponsors of the Chinese Football Association.
Under such circumstances, the Chinese Football Association can be regarded as a "good life" for a long time. They are blind and ignorant to the point of ridiculously squandering the conscience money of those sponsors at will, and instead of building a good youth training career, they pursue a castle in the air, thinking that the national team cannot recruit people with money, so it is okay to spend a lot of money to hire "famous coaches" from abroad.
Anyway, as long as you have money, there is no one who can't be invited.
Anyway, everyone knows that cancer patients don't live long, and they are good doctors who treat death and life.
In this case, they resounded the call from above, went around looking for patrons, and then brought back one big fool after another from abroad. One after another foreign coaches who can fool more than the officials in the Greater China region.
It can be said that the particularly famous "Camacho case" has had an extremely bad impact on the development of the Chinese national team for many years. This legendary "world famous coach" has been in charge for more than 40 years and has only won one championship.
In the 96~97 season, he went to La Liga Sevilla, and only one year, the team was relegated, and Camacho successfully brought La Liga Sevilla, which has the best team in history, into La Liga Sevilla.
In the summer of 1998, he went to his old club as a player, Real Madrid, and was ousted after only 22 days in charge, setting a record for the fastest dismissal of a manager in Real Madrid's history.
But such a coach, I don't know what kind of terrible magic he had, was hired as the head coach of the Spanish national team immediately after such two bad coaching experiences. Spain were a star-studded team at the time, but they had won just two of their 11 meetings with European teams of comparable calibre. Under his stewardship, Spain reached the quarter-finals of Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup.
After the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, Camacho, who set the best result of his coaching career, announced his resignation on the grounds that he was dissatisfied with the referee's unfair decision in the match between Spain and South Korea.
Immediately afterwards, Camacho rushed to the Portuguese Super League powerhouse Benfica to take office, and within three years, only the Portuguese Super League powerhouse, which is famous in Europe and even many giant teams have a headache for it, won a Portuguese Cup championship. And this turned out to be the only title in Camacho's coaching career.
The only one!
The only champion!
In 2004, Jose went to whoever was unlucky, and every time he harmed a good team, he could find another good team to take over, but I could not bear the world, and the world could not bear me, please call me Mr. Wonder of Spain, Camacho once again performed his magic skills, returning to Real Madrid and returning to Benfica.
But it is clear that what Camacho has done to these two teams who have been overly kind in their treatment of him has been disastrous. Four months after his return to Real Madrid, he was swept away again, again. And during the second time he coached Real Madrid, he had a very unpleasant quarrel with almost every player in the team, constantly contradicted the players, and the results were miserable, which made Real Madrid lose 0-3 to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions Cup, and lost 0-1 to Espanyol in La Liga. If only his fat face could still make people see his chin.
After leaving Real Madrid for the second time, Camacho once again pit the kind Portuguese Super League Eagles Benfica, and was dismissed according to the usual practice after the season. After returning to La Liga, Osasuna won only five games in 23 league games under his leadership, and was relegated immediately after Camacho stepped down again, and finished ninth in La Liga.
After settling those kind and stupid clubs, Camacho finally returned to the fields, chopping wood, feeding the horses, caring for food and vegetables, and living a happy and comfortable life.
Do you think this is Jose, who goes to who is unlucky, every time he spoils a good team, he can find another good team to take over, but I am responsible for the world, and the world can't bear me, please call me Mr. Fantastic Camacho of Spain?
You guys are so naïve!!
In July 2011, Wanda Group signed a contract with the Chinese Football Association, expressing its willingness to fully sponsor Chinese football, and agreed to invest 50 million yuan per year to hire foreign head coaches for the national football team.
The jubilant Chinese Football Association immediately discarded Gao Hongbo, the head coach of the Chinese team with an annual salary of only a few hundred thousand yuan, and searched for the Chinese team, and found Jose Camacho, a big hole!!
Anyone who has followed La Liga and the Portuguese Premier League has been in despair when they hear the news. Sevilla fans even apologized that Camacho is really the worst coach in La Liga, they feel sorry for China, sorry, but in any case, don't let Camacho go back to Sevilla.
It's a pity that the Chinese Football Association hired the "world famous coach Camacho" for the Chinese team, but it is flying all over the country.
Do you want to know how much the national football team spent to invite such a big hole as Camacho? It's not about hiring Milou's $200,000 annual salary! It's not Gao Hongbo's annual salary of hundreds of thousands of yuan! According to the information available to the Chinese media, the Football Association spent a full 4.3 million euros in annual salary after tax to invite Camacho and his team!
But then, the "French Football" magazine, which enjoys a high reputation in European football, ranked ninth on the list of football coaches they announced, and Camacho ranked ninth with a value of 6.1 million euros!
The officials of the Chinese Football Association do not understand football, do not understand the law, and do not even have the money to hire a legal counsel to see them sign Camacho's contract, but they have already shouted at the "world famous coach" to praise the millions of euros paid by the patron of conscience for the revitalization of Chinese football.
But that's not all, the whole thing is that the Chinese Football Association, which doesn't understand the law, completely forgot that when Camacho invited Camacho, he still had to pay taxes and fees to the head coach's salary, so they pushed all the problems to the hacked teammates with just one sentence "I hope Wanda can continue to pay the excess taxes".
In the end, the Chinese team was brought to lose miserably by such a Mr. Wonder, and the angry Football Association immediately said that it wanted to fire Mr. Wonder's squid, but it was not until after Qiē entered the legal process that they were surprised to find that they had to pay 76.5 million yuan in liquidated damages to get rid of the foreign coach who did nothing and led the Chinese team to retreat!
As a result, the Chinese Football Association has lost a big face in world football, and China has become a sweet spot in the eyes of many people, and countless "world famous coaches" have begun to recommend themselves to the Chinese Football Association, saying that they are very willing to come to China and coach the Chinese national team in China.
It was an extremely deformed period, in which the teams of the Chinese Super League reached a height never imagined by fans in the past, but the Chinese team was mired in a quagmire, leaving fans disappointed again and again.
Subsequently, those sponsors who cared about Chinese football learned to be obedient and said that they couldn't just hand over the money to the Football Association and let them fool themselves.
If you want to spend my money, you have to do what I say.
At first, just a few Chinese billionaires who have made great contributions to the Chinese Super League team formed a small but meaningful federation. Subsequently, some wealthy people who were ready to take out money to sponsor Chinese football gradually joined the federation. They gathered a small group of people who really knew the ball as their advisory group, and looked for ways to help Chinese football.
This group of patrons began to cautiously sign sponsorship agreements with the Chinese Football Association with a series of additional terms. For example, the sponsorship money they pay will be advanced to a third-party regulatory platform. If the Football Association wants to get money, it must have their projects approved by the Federation, and all contracts that will cost the patron's money must be reviewed by the President of the Federation before they can be signed. Moreover, the Football Association also needs to consider the advice given by the Federation.
Under such circumstances, the Chinese Football Association has become less lavish and more rational in spending.
Subsequently, several foreign coaches who have been of great help to Chinese football have been brought in. Among them, there are real "famous teachers" who are unbearable to be pointed at by the Football Association. There are also some coaches who may not be well known, but they are pragmatic and strive to understand Chinese football and seek good medicine for Chinese football. The return of the former head coach of the Chinese team, Gao Hongbo, is a shot in the arm.
But none of those are as good as the German head coach Mr. Horn created when he was in charge of the Chinese team.
The German head coach has brought a German chariot ethos to China, integrating the midfielders who play in the domestic league and trying to find out the good form of this group in club football in the national team competition. And Yue Yihuang and Chen Shen, two outstanding players, have strengthened the national team coached by German Horn.
So, the topic returns to what I said before, it seems that every foreign coach who comes to China as a head coach will find a set of ways to get along with the Football Association and deal with the Football Association. Without learning that, they simply won't be able to do their job.
At this point, Mr. Horn seems to be following the principle of saying that you are okay in everything at all times, but when you really want to meddle in something, he closes the door and stops all the laymen outside.
The Football Association thought that this was not just a lawless German with better coaching results, but it didn't expect to hire Brazilian Andrik to know how honest the previous Germans were. For the Football Association, this Brazilian has always pushed the problem to be solved to the Football Association, and I think, if this problem is not solved, we will lose in the next game, what should we do? You can see what you do.
After losing, this Brazilian will spread his hands again and say, look, I will say that you Chinese are right, the Great Wall is not built in a day.
But...... Isn't that supposed to be a foreigner, that Rome wasn't built in a day?
But no matter how much the Football Association spurned the scoundrel and shame of this Brazilian, how angrily asked who said that Brazilians were stupid, and how they said that they would never invite Brazilians next time, Andrik had strictly fulfilled the restrictions on performance indicators in the contract, and the Football Association couldn't find his fault for no reason.
What's more, after firing Andrik, who will sign next, don't you have to look at the uncle who paid the money, and the face of the federation to act?
But now, the Brazilians, who are full of the Football Association's belief that they should do somersaults at home without being fired by them, are threatening them! If he can't solve the problem, he will resign on the eve of the intercontinental play-offs where the Chinese team will play the World Cup qualifiers!
What should I do!!
What to do!!!