Chapter 123: Press Conference
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Let's put aside the heated discussion on the Celestial Empire for the time being, and not mention that the director of the CCTV sports channel has already gathered people to plan a reporting team to Italy for a detailed interview, and at this time, the major sports media on the European continent have also shifted their attention to Turin, a famous football mecca.
After breaking a number of jaw-dropping records last season, the name Li Muddy is already familiar to those involved in European football, and it will not come as a surprise that he left Castile to take over a stronger team. But it's incredible that the second team in his managerial career will be the fifth-most successful club in Italian history (Juventus with 32 Serie A titles, Milan Milan with 18 titles, Genoa with nine titles, and Torino with seven titles) in just his second year. Including the most famous gossip publication "The Sun" in the United Kingdom, a number of insiders and can always target the three generations of the ancestors have been thoroughly studied by the media, have published columns for the Celestial Empire coach to jump to the Italian famous family, and also invited famous reporters, even retired football stars and some general managers and directors of giants to discuss whether the Celestial Empire's capital and personnel have "invaded" European football in large numbers, is it good or bad?
Among them, most of the media led by Britain and France believe that the emergence of the coach of the Celestial Empire, whose football development level is far inferior to that of Europe, is likely to have a negative impact on European football, which is already in the bottleneck of growth, and with the support of a strong capital background, it is likely that more and more Asian coaches will get involved in the top European leagues in the future. And once these fixtures, which represent the highest level of world football, are filled with various Japanese coaches, North Korean assistant coaches, and even Vietnamese scouts and Afghan team doctors, it will undoubtedly be one of the darkest and most ridiculous periods in football history.
As soon as the comments of the article with such similar views were released, many Asian media and football figures were angry and refuted. The football associations of countries with relatively strong football, such as Japan, South Korea, and Iran, have even threatened to use racist remarks against those unscrupulous Western media in order to justify Asian football. It's a pity that these teams have not been able to give the Europeans who hold this view a strong counterattack in reality, although these countries are all frequent visitors to the World Cup, and occasionally there is no lack of brilliant records against the top 30 teams in the world, but their national teams are often led by foreign coaches in the most outstanding period, once the local coach is changed, it will not work, which is ironclad evidence to prove that the British and French media are true, it is really helpless and sad!
In contrast to the foreign media, which has been singing about Li Mudi's trip to Turin, it is the Italian media that has a cautious welcome to the yellow-skinned coach who is a little too young. "Torino Sport" published a reporter column on the day the news of the new coach was confirmed, and Sarelli, deputy editor-in-chief of the football department, personally made a reasoned analysis of what kind of positive impact the arrival of the former Castile coach will have. In addition, other major Italian media such as "Milan Sport" and "Roma Sport" have published intermediate evaluations that can be waited and seen for the time being, which has played a positive role in calming the controversy of Li Mudi's new appointment. Of course, the fact that these media were able to help in a critical moment was not because they were really optimistic about the abilities of the Celestial Empire, but because the club's president, Mr. Cairo, used his influence as a media mogul to temporarily help the team's new manager through this first difficulty. As for the direction of future development, we still have to talk about the team's results, and if we can't satisfy everyone at that time, the outcome can be imagined......
Just when the media of all sides were closely watching the Torino club and its new manager's every move, Li Mudi's first fire in office surprised the people who were waiting to see the joke. With the departure of the veteran coach Ventura who has been in charge of Turin for five years, a large number of staff members of the team have also left one after another, some of them do not recognize the reason why the new coach is from the Celestial Empire, but the bigger reason is that the previous chairman Urbano Cairo has had a lot of estrangement with Ventura, and the staff who are the cronies of the old fox still stand aside with the old leader without hesitation at this time. As a result, when Li Mudi's contract officially took effect on July 5, he faced the dilemma of only six people left in the three departments of coaching, scouting, and medical team, and the first-team coaching staff was wiped out. As soon as the news was reported by the media, it immediately attracted a heated discussion from the outside world, and most people thought that the work of the new coach who was not familiar with the new season was likely to collapse immediately, and without the help of these assistants, he would not be able to play alone. Even Qi Zu, who was on vacation in Australia, called after learning the news and asked if there was anything he needed help, but all he got was confident and resolute laughter and rejection from his friends.
At three o'clock in the afternoon of July 10, local time, in the media reception room of the Olympic Stadium (Olimpico), the home of the Turin club, the media meeting of the new head coach will be held. There are 23 or 4 online media reporters such as NetJane Sports, PBTV, and Xiaoshi Sports, which occupy half of the press seats. This situation also caused European counterparts to complain: it was really a dumpling into the city, and so many relatives from the countryside came together, all of whom looked like they had never seen the world.
When the time came to 2:55, when Li Mudi entered the room through the door on one side, he once again appreciated the power of the large flashing lights, but fortunately he squinted his eyes wittily, so as to avoid being blinded. However, because of this, he left many photos that seemed to be grimacing, which were later released by many media present, and became one of his many black histories and embarrassments in the future.
The meeting was hosted by Valentino Cairo, the crown prince and newly promoted to the club's marketing department, and in addition to the protagonist Li Mudi, the president Urbano Cairo, the director Antonio Comi and Pantario Longo, in addition to the protagonist Li Mudi, were on stage.
After all the people above were seated, the event officially began, Valentino first officially introduced the newly signed head coach of the Torino club, of course, in fact, it is a matter of a few words, because the other party's resume is really simple and amazing, and the details have long been picked up by the media, so naturally there is no need to talk nonsense. After a minute and a half of introductions, warm applause from the media reporters of the Celestial Empire and symbolic polite clapping of hands from Western reporters, the meeting quickly entered the second session: free questions. According to the usual practice, the first question belongs to the largest local media: Corriere della Sera, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Italy, and the reporter sent by it took the microphone and asked in a very calm tone: "First of all, on behalf of all the staff of our newspaper, I would like to congratulate the Torino club on the union with Coach Li Mudi, and then I would like to ask Mr. Li, how do you see the relationship between Italian football, Spanish football and Celestial Football?" Do you have the confidence to do well in a completely unfamiliar environment? Thank you! ”
The new manager of Turin looked prepared for this question, but he unhurriedly put his head slightly closer to the microphone on the podium and replied in a slightly slow voice: "Thank you for your congratulations." My understanding of football may not be quite the same as some people's opinions, the sport was originally used more for performance since the dawn of the Celestial Empire, but with the development of the times, it has evolved into a completely win-winning sport with the addition of competitive play. And my understanding of modern football is: it doesn't matter what the region, culture, tradition, as long as you can lead the team to win, you are a good coach, so whether it is Italy, Spain, or the Celestial Empire or even Brazil, it is no different. As for verbal confidence, I would prefer to respond with action in Serie A at the end of next month. ”
As soon as this sentence, which is not a lot of words, ended, it caused various exclamations from dozens of domestic and foreign media reporters below. My God! This guy is so fluent in Italian! Not only can you understand the questions of the previous Italian journalist without the need for a professional translator, but you can also quickly organize the language and respond very appropriately, which is a very high level of language mastery, at least B2 level (Italian can be roughly divided into six levels in terms of mastery: A1 Simple Communication, A2 Daily Life, B1 Introductory, B2 Intermediate, C1 Advanced and C2 Complete Mastery). You must know that Li Mudi's life experience has been clearly investigated by them, from the student days of the Celestial Empire to the football circle after immigrating to Spain, there is no information that he has taught himself this foreign language. If according to the difficulty of Italian and the learning ability of normal people, it will take at least half a year to eight months for a person to grow from the first contact to this level, even if he is fully committed without distraction, can it be said that this person had plans to coach an Italian team as early as last year? It's incredible! At this time, the European reporters stared at the yellow man on the rostrum as if they had seen an alien visitor, and they did not even react to the forcibly defined birthplace of football as the ancient Celestial Empire just now.
It was not only the following reporters who were surprised, but also the senior executives of the Turin club, you must know that many of their exchanges were carried out through translators before, and they usually basically used English, even Valentino Cairo, who claimed to be a fan of Li Mudi, didn't know that this guy's Italian was so good, this is really a real person! At this time, Li Mudi's Italian ability has grown to 7 (full value of 10) in the evaluation of the FM system, which is a very low level.
At this time, the reporters of the Celestial Empire also reacted, not only applauded in their hearts for the domineering spirit shown in Li Mudi's response just now, but also felt particularly amused to see their European counterparts who had always looked down on the Celestial Empire media with a lofty attitude being frightened by their compatriots, and immediately had a lot of good feelings for the head coach on the stage who had not been in contact with him before, and also laid a good foundation for the good cooperative relationship between the two sides in the future.
After a short period of small confusion, Valentino, who quickly adjusted his mood, handed over the second opportunity to ask CCTV reporter Zhu Xiaoyu, an old acquaintance of Li Mudi, who naturally did not lose face, and asked about the mood of coaching a Serie A team and personal goals for the near future. This kind of cliché is naturally not difficult, and the task is completed in a few words. The questions that followed were carried out in the order of a European journalist and a Celestial Empire media, and the overall situation was also a situation in which outsiders made things difficult and their own people released water to defend them.
As soon as a reporter from the French newspaper LEquipe forced the president of Torino to give an acceptable minimum standard for the team's performance, PBTV asked him about the company's intention to sponsor the club, and used this benefit to relieve the pressure on the new coach; The British "Times" asked Pantario Longo, who was in charge of personnel affairs, about the specific content of the head coach contract, and the Penguin Sports reporter here stood up and expressed to Li Mudi that he wanted to sign him as a special live broadcast guest on their website for a large price; "La Repubblica" pointed out that Ventura's team has been very stable in the past few years, and has also participated in the Europa League, and Modu Sports used last season's super record of Castilla to make a fuss, proving that the Celestial Empire coach is stronger. The smell of gunpowder in this-for-tat confrontation is really not small, but under the "not bad money" style of the Great Celestial Empire, those European media reporters don't seem to be able to take any advantage, and Xiao Li, who was sitting on the rostrum, laughed secretly.
Until Agmento, a reporter for Roma Sport, asked: "As far as the outside world knows, the vast majority of the staff of the Torino club have chosen not to renew their contracts with the departure of Ventura, which makes it difficult for the team to function properly." Does this mean that they are dissatisfied with the new manager, or that they do not trust it? In addition, in the face of this very unfavorable situation, how should Coach Li deal with it, knowing that the team's assembly time is next week, if a sufficient number of capable staff cannot be found by then, Torino's preparation before the start of the new season may be greatly affected, and the subsequent league is likely to have various problems. ”
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