I am Maradona (novel) Zhang Baotong 2017.2.9

This is the first meeting of the newly formed Chinese national team. The meeting was held in the conference room on the second floor of the National Football Team Training Center. The conference room is not very large, there is a long table on the rostrum, four rows of the same long tables under the stage, and dozens of leather chairs, which can probably accommodate more than 40 people. The meeting room was very ordinary, not luxurious at all, and nothing special. On the walls are several large portraits of the World Footballer of the Year, a national flag and several banners with slogans such as "Train hard, win glory for your country".

This is the unreachable temple that many football people dream of, and it was also a place that they couldn't even think about. But now I'm sitting here, and I'm a member of the national team. It made me feel like I was still in a dream, and I felt that this place was so ordinary, so ordinary that people couldn't feel the sacredness and greatness at all. Is this the national team?

When we think back to the training center of the Chinese table tennis team, it feels so different. When you enter the table tennis training center, you feel like you have entered a sacred hall, and those who can't play suddenly feel that they can play, and those who can play feel that they have become masters. It feels like this is the place where gods are made. There are so many trophies and flags, so many world championship titles, and it is awe-inspiring. However, when you enter the national football team, why don't you feel like this? However, the Chinese football team always has a negative image in the minds of Chinese fans, such as "Koreanophobia", "weak but not strong", "insider in civil war, layman in foreign war" and "black three minutes". Therefore, the fans nicknamed the national football team "Stinky Foot Wrap". A few days ago, the national football team lost to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in a very favorable group, and was eliminated in the group stage. You can still hear the fans scolding to this day. If it weren't for this reason, why would the Chinese Football Association disband the original team of the national football team and regroup? If it wasn't for the regrouping, how could I have been selected for the national team this time?

When I entered the meeting, there were already quite a few people sitting inside. But almost no one here knows each other, and they are all relatively young players, because most of these players are not regular main players in the team and rarely appear in games.

The back seats were full, and I sat in the first row. I think sitting in the front row can make it easier to get the coach's favor and attention. Because I wasn't familiar with others, I was looking at my phone with my head down. While others sit together, asking and talking to each other.

After a while, someone sat next to me, he was really tall, about 1.87, and he was also big, at least 80 kilograms. I think he might be the goalkeeper of which team. He sat next to me, took out a pack of Chinese cigarettes, and handed me one. I waved my hand to indicate that I wouldn't suck. So, he lit a cigarette and asked me as he smoked, "Which team were you on?" ”

I said, "I used to be from the Puhang team." ”

He blinked and said, "Team Puhang? Why haven't you heard of it? ”

I find his tone to be distinctly discriminatory and arrogant. It made me a little disgusted with him. So, I fanned the smoke that came out of his nose and shouted in front of me, and patiently replied, "Our team is not a strong team, and it may not be very noticeable." "Yes, the football field is the same as the climate of the rivers and lakes, the strong are king, and the weak can only stay aside.

He said, "I am the striker of the Luneng team, my name is Wang Qi. He said the three words of the Luneng team very loudly. Because Luneng is the boss of the Chinese Super League.

At this time, someone in the back row greeted Wang Qi and said, "I've seen your game, and the goal you scored against Qin Feng is simply a classic." ”

Wang Qi said proudly, "That's just a piece of cake, it's nothing." ”

The man in the back said, "Modesty and modesty, in the end, is the main force of the championship team, the atmosphere." ”

Wang Qi asked, "Which team are you from?" What position to play? ”

The person in the back said, "My name is Chen Peng, and I play guard in Evergrande." ”

Wang Qi immediately stretched out his hand, shook hands with him in a sympathetic manner, and said, "Evergrande, old enemy, admire and admire, if I hadn't scored that winning goal in stoppage time, the champions and runners-up of the Chinese Super League would have been reversed." ”

At this time, the meeting room suddenly fell silent. It turned out that Director Fang was here. Coach Fang is Xiang Dong, the new head coach of the Chinese team. He sat in the middle of the podium and looked at everyone with a very serious gaze. On either side sat assistant coaches Fu Xinmin and Li Changshun.

Although Director Fang's gaze was very serious, there were still people whispering in the meeting. Obviously, he didn't take Fang Gui seriously. As soon as I came to the training center last night, I heard some people talking about him, saying that he had little qualifications, his professional level was not high, and he had only been a coach in a third-rate team, and he had never even participated in international competitions, and he had never had the experience and experience of international competitions. This time as the coach of the national team, it was completely recruited through assessment, and it was also very controversial, it is said that the Chinese Football Association just regarded him as a transitional figure, and eventually had to invite foreigners to be coaches.

Director Fang looked at the person who was talking in a low voice for a while, waiting for the person who was talking to be quiet, and then pointed to the person sitting in the last row, "You all sit in the front, all of you sit in the first three rows." I counted and there were 24 seats in the first three rows. And we only have 23 people on the team, which is enough to sit. The people in the last row slowly rose up, got up very displeased, and sat down in the empty seats in the first three rows.

After everyone was seated and quiet, Instructor Fang began to speak, "You are all the best players I have selected from each team. Being a member of the Chinese national team is the dream of every football player who wants to win glory for the country. I can tell you clearly that I only have a one-year probationary period as the head coach of the Chinese football team, and if I don't train you into good football players and bring you into a team that can fight tough battles and win battles, then I will have to leave here with a roll up, and at that time, you will be disbanded immediately. I don't think that's what we want to see. Therefore, my work depends on your hard work, and your future and honor also depend on your hard work. So, I ask you that the eight big characters that are on the wall. ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to the eight big characters on the back wall, "unity, hard work, strictness, and discipline", and continued, "These are the principles of our work and life, and no one is allowed to violate them. ”

Teaching Fang stopped, glanced at everyone again, and said in a very serious tone, "I'm very dissatisfied with the behavior of some team members in the meeting just now, because it's the first time we meet, I won't criticize, but if there is a violation next time, don't blame me for being polite." So saying, he turned around and left.

Coach Fang left, but he didn't say that the meeting was dismissed, so everyone didn't dare to leave. Everybody looked at the assistant coach. However, the two assistant coaches did not dare to take charge. So, the two discussed a few words in a low voice, and asked Director Li to ask for guidance.

After a while, Director Li came back and said to everyone, "Director Fang is angry, I spoke to him, but he ignored me." So, I don't know what he means. ”

So, Director Fu pointed to the three or two people who spoke at the meeting just now and said, "You people are used to oiliness, and you still think that this is in your original team, and you don't regard the coach as a leader?" ”

Everyone also looked at them with very angry eyes, blaming them for being cheap, causing everyone to follow them and suffer foreign crimes. The team members lowered their heads and didn't dare to say anything. One of them explained in a strong Northeast accent, "We didn't expect this coach to have such a big temper." Now that we know, we just won't commit it in the future. ”

The Wang Qi next to me said, "It's too late to know now, so that we will all accompany you to be punished." But he immediately said, "Fang Gui's temper is too big, what is it to say a few words in a meeting, as for having such a big temper?" ”

Fu Gui immediately turned gloomy and said to Wang Qi, "Are you afraid that the world will not be chaotic?" What's the matter, it's reasonable to talk in a meeting, do you think this is in the Luneng team? It's in the Luneng team, the coach speaks at the top, can you have a small meeting below? ”

Wang Qi said, "Fu Gui, I didn't mean that, don't misunderstand." ”

Director Fu said, "What misunderstanding is not misunderstood, what you shouldn't say, less nonsense." ”

Listening to Director Fu teaching Wang Qi a lesson, I was secretly happy in my heart, thinking to myself, this kind of person owes a beating.

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