Chapter 38: Different Reactions
Ling Feng was surprised, Maradona obviously had something to say, and at this time, he heard Maradona continue: "Don't you remember the good things you did?" Think about it, how did Magath get out of power by you? β
With a "boom", it seemed like a thunderbolt from the blue, Ling Feng suddenly grasped something in his mind, but it was very vague, and he couldn't see it clearly at all, but compared to the two choices just now-either go back to help the Football Association, or completely turn his face-there seemed to be one more way......
"You always have a lot of fans supporting you," Maradona's voice continued: "This is your greatest advantage and your only advantage at the moment. β
Ling Feng nodded, Maradona was for a player, he naturally didn't know the specific relationship between Siyue and Ling Feng, but the actual situation was similar, Ling Feng's only advantage was his prestige, and everything else was much worse.
"Fans all over the world have the same common problem, that is, they are particularly protective of the players they love," Maradona continued: "I believe that your position in the hearts of the fans of your country is irreplaceable, but if you don't return to China, and you can't explain the reason, this will be very detrimental to your reputation, plus someone secretly provokes it, those fans who don't understand the actual situation will naturally be misled, and when the time comes, you won't even have the last advantage." β
"But in the future, the fans will understand me, there is a saying in China that people will see the hearts of the people over time." Ling Feng argued unconvinced.
"The Chinese proverb is really wonderful," Maradona said with some sarcasm: "But this is just a stupid approach, a smart man will not wait for others to accept him, but - take the opportunity to make everyone think you are right - you have arranged so many Chinese players overseas, isn't that the purpose?" β
Ling Feng was speechless, he was indeed a stupid move, and he was a bully, but he was so incomplete, no wonder Maradona laughed.
"There is an incentive for everything," Maradona continued: "When the fans are all focused on the national team, if you returnees can't achieve good results, then the fans of your country will be disappointed, and in the same way, only with you overseas players as the team to win the Asian Cup, you can really establish your correct image in the hearts of the fans - of course, the team should be all overseas players, at least to achieve that the main players are brought out by you, Otherwise, it is not convincing. At the same time, there is another problem that needs to be solved......"
"Coach!" Ling Feng blurted out that a large part of the reason for a team's performance depends on the coach's tactical arrangement - this is also a tool often used by the Football Association to carry the black pot, once the results are not good, the Football Association easily changed a coach to calm the anger of the fans, from domestic coaches to "foreign coaches" to domestic coaches, this trick has been tried and tested by the Football Association. If the results are good, it seems that the Chinese team has not achieved a "good" result in any competition in recent years.
In other words, the coach also represents the thinking of the Football Association to a large extent, which is also Ling Feng's biggest headache, because if he achieves good results, then the coach will take most of the credit alone, so he has been reluctant to return to the national team at this time.
"Think about how you got Magath out of power." Maradona's words just now were still echoing in Ling Feng's mind, and Ling Feng felt that the third path in his mind was getting closer and closer to him.
"You mean, let me remove the current head coach of the Chinese national team?" Ling Feng asked tentatively.
"God, God forgive you, oh no, may Satan forgive you," Maradona said with a smile on the other end of the phone, "Your style is impossible to be God's people, but even Satan will be furious when he sees a believer like you who can't even do bad things." β
Ling Feng had the urge to reach out and pull Maradona over from the other end of the phone and beat him violently, when was it, this guy was still making fun of him here.
"The current head coach of the national team is surnamed Qi, that person you must not get him down, at least at the beginning of the Asian Cup, not only do you not get him down, but you have to play exactly according to the tactics he has set - the more ugly the scene, the better - you better not play, otherwise just a free kick can help you win."
"We're going to lose the game, what do you want me to do back?" Ling Feng asked angrily.
"Listen to me, young people are so anxious." Maradona muttered.
"Young man?" Ling Feng had a bitter face, his stomach was knotted with laughter, he was much better than Maradona in his previous and previous lives, and he was still a young man......
"Remember the European Championship when Bernd quit the national team? At that time, before the final, Bernd and Rummenigge quarreled very fiercely, but the German team is a team that attaches importance to the whole, so Bernd can only choose to endure, but you are different, with all due respect, the overall attack power of the Chinese team is not necessarily as strong as you, so you naturally don't have to compromise like Bernd. If you want to make trouble, the more fierce the trouble, the better. β
"What's the fuss?" Ling Feng was interested, and Maradona's words were very thoughtful.
"You've got to prove to the fans that you're right and that your Football Association is wrong, so there's always going to be a comparison, you get it?"
"You're saying let me lose first and then win?" Ling Feng's eyes lit up, this is indeed a good way, as long as he is not on the field, he will lose the game, and he will pull the score back as soon as he plays, this kind of gap, even a blind person listening to the radio knows who is right.
"It's not just about losing first and then winning," Maradona continued: "You have to amplify the conflict, it's better to quarrel with the manager until you can't play like when you first arrived in Hamburg - but it's basically impossible, the national team is different from the club, and if you want to make trouble to this point, I'm afraid you'll be expelled from the national team, so you have to see the right time, beat your opponent in one fell swoop to the point where you can't turn over, and then take advantage of the victory to announce your retirement from the national team, which is much better than if you don't go back. And it can lead all the spearheads to the Football Association. β
The two of them were talking about winning the championship on the phone, as if the Asian Cup champion had been won by Ling Feng - in fact, in the eyes of the two, such a low-level trophy was really unsightly, at this time, the level of South Korea and Japan was not much higher than that of China, and the status of the boss of Asia was still in the hands of Iran and Saudi Arabia, but even these two teams with a style close to Europe could not necessarily resist Ling Feng's impact.
"You mean, I fully exposed the weaknesses of the Chinese team in this competition, and then I went out to turn the tide, and after winning the championship, I patted my ass and left? You think too highly of me, don't you?! Ling Feng complained, this is a bit difficult, and if you don't get it right, you will play with fire.
"That's interesting," Maradona smiled on the other end of the phone: "There's no fun to do without difficulty, besides, it's just an Asian Cup, and you can't get it when you go." β
"!" Ling Feng scolded in a low voice, it is not difficult to win the Asian Cup, the difficult thing is to drag the Chinese team into a stalemate first, and then save it, isn't it obvious that he will play with fire first and then be a firefighter.
"Wait a minute," Ling Feng suddenly remembered something, and shouted into the microphone: "You let me expose all the weaknesses of the Chinese team, how can I expose it, as long as I am on the field, I am definitely the core, what went wrong at that time, don't you still come to me?" β
"You're stupid!" Maradona scolded on the other end of the phone: "Aren't you just okay if you don't play?" For example, today, Bernd shoveled you out, you can do a self-harm during training, don't hurt too much, as long as the team doctor says that you are not comfortable to start, other overseas players are not like you, as long as there is a little contradiction, they will be honestly arranged on the bench, besides, there is a temporary substitution quota for various cup competitions, you can urgently transfer a person into the team at that time, at that time far away in the United Arab Emirates, as long as you have the coach in the air, the whole Chinese team will be deployed with you. β
Ling Feng gestured his middle finger at the phone, self-harm, this guy thought of it, but this is not a good idea, that is, the team doctor is more sad, how can he hurt as much as he wants?
Schuster on the side watched Ling Feng and Maradona chat for a long time, and suddenly Ling Feng stopped talking, so he asked very strangely, "Ling, what do you want?" β
"Diego asked me to pretend to be injured, but I don't know how to fool the team doctor." Ling Feng replied with a bitter face, "Bernd, do you know of any medicine that can make the team doctor think that I am injured but harmless to my body?" β
"I really don't understand if you're a genius or an idiot," Schuster looked at Ling Feng with disdain: "You can come up with such a complicated idea, you might as well arrange for a team doctor to go in and save trouble." β
"yes, why didn't I think of that?" Ling Feng hugged Schuster happily and kissed him, and Schuster hid in the corner of the wall with a jump, and muttered vigorously: "Ling, I love my wife's ...... very much."
"Solved!" After Ling Feng and Maradona explained a few words of support to themselves when they announced their retirement from the national team after the Asian Cup, they hung up the phone with satisfaction, and began to think about how to turn Qi Wusheng into the second Magath, the first point is to pretend to be injured and not participate in the first game, or go up at the last moment to turn the tide, and then compete with Qi Wusheng for the command of the team - but before that, it should not be difficult to transfer all the overseas players back - it should not be difficult, and he Qi Wusheng does not dare not give himself this face.
The more Ling Feng thought about it, the more refreshed he became, and the expressions on the faces of those Football Association officials had already appeared in his mind when he said at the press conference after winning the Asian Cup was to quit the national team.
"Ling!" Schuster interrupted Ling Feng's YY, which made Ling Feng very unhappy all of a sudden, mother, don't you know that Lao Tzu is YY?
"There's something I've thought about for a long time, and I've finally decided to tell you," Looking at Schuster's solemn face, Ling Feng's curiosity was greater than his anger, and he waited intently for Schuster's next words.
"The game is coming to an end and unfortunately we are 2-0 up." Schuster had a playful smile on his face β like an old fox......
"I'll do it!" Ling Feng jumped up in flames, he had hidden what he had done in the Hamburg team from an honest and honest German like Beckenbauer, but he couldn't hide anything from the German football alternative like Maradona in front of him - especially because he knew Ling Feng's temper well.
Schuster and Maradona both know that the real head coach of the Hamburg team is Ling Feng now, so Maradona will say that Ling Feng will be replaced by the head coach after returning to the national team - but the Hamburg team has no one in command now, even if there is one more person than the Leverkusen team, he can't win the ball!
"Bernd, you guy knew but didn't tell me earlier, I killed you!" There was a terrible snort in the lounge, followed by a crackling......
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"Haidong," Ling Feng smiled and walked to the sidelines, at this time there were still a few minutes left in the game, anyway, it was already a lack of skills, Ling Feng didn't bother to pay attention to the head coach Lille who was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and walked straight towards Hao Haidong.
"I decided to go back and play in this Asian Cup together." Ling Feng said with a smile in Chinese, even if the substitute players of Hamburg and Baron who was replaced on the field could not understand what Ling Feng said again, but now Ling Feng's expression was the usual grinning Ling Feng, which made people feel much better than the cold appearance before the game began.
"Really?" Hao Haidong is overjoyed, with Ling Feng, this Asian Cup is in the bag of the Chinese team.
"Don't be in a hurry to be happy," Ling Feng's face was pulled down, making the Baron and the others next to him sigh, it is said that there is a traditional Chinese skill - changing face, Ling Feng is very good at three flavors.
"A week before I go home, we players who are overseas will get together, and I have some arrangements to tell you, if you don't agree, first, I will never be able to return to China, and second, you also know my temper."
Ling Feng's cold tone made Hao Haidong feel that the temperature around him had dropped by a few degrees, and he nodded busily, the fame that these people came out of was brought by Ling Feng, if this "little thing" couldn't be done, it was better to find a piece of tofu and kill him.
Seeing Hao Haidong nodding, Ling Feng's face returned to his usual smile, which made Baron and the others completely relieved, Schuster deserves to be a famous name in German football, and Ling Feng's attitude changed with a word to Ling Feng, but I don't know if he has any good ways to let Ling Feng stop coming up with these crooked ideas?
At this time, the person who was in tatters and had two dark circles on his face staggered out of the lounge and staggered out: "Ling, you ungrateful guy!" β
Qi Wusheng was a happy mess today, and after hanging up the phone call from Ling Feng, he hummed helplessly, "The common people are so happy today."
Why are you happy? Ling Feng had already given him an exact reply, he must return to China to compete, there may be a League Cup match to go back during the group stage of the Asian Cup, but at that time it was already the last game of the group stage, if the first two games were won, it didn't matter if the third game was won or lost.
However, Ling Feng also made a small request, that is, Hao Haidong, Fan Zhiyi, Yang Chen and others need to be recruited into the national team in the overseas legion, saying that these people have been training abroad for a year, and it is time to return to China to verify it.
Qi Wusheng is also happy to be a favor in this regard, anyway, these players are also well-known players in China, even if Ling Feng doesn't say it, Qi Wusheng will recruit them back to the team, so as to add some chips to the competition for this championship.
Qi Wusheng's most brilliant record is to lead the national team to win the runner-up in the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, which is also the best result of the Chinese team in Asian football, but because the Asian Games are the same as the Olympic Games, the lack of attention to football competitions, some West Asian countries have not sent the main force to play, Qi Wusheng, the runner-up, is also relatively poor - at least he thinks so.
Now is a great time, with the addition of Ling Feng, a top superstar, the championship of this Asian Cup can be said to be determined to win - whoever dares to stand in front of ****** eyes will be destroyed!
"I can finally breathe a good breath!" Qi Wusheng said to himself that he failed to hit the Olympics half a year ago and experienced the cruel "black ten minutes", and he has always been unable to raise his head in front of the fans.
The team's record is bad, the fans complain about the Football Association, and the Football Association blames the coach, but what about the coach? Who can he, the coach, blame?
As soon as he thought of this, Qi Wusheng's tears were uproaring, those old players in the team, one by one is bigger than the other, everyone is a cow in the club, who is willing to listen to him as the head coach, obviously they are all old and can't run, and they still refuse to get off the field, and they replaced him and actually chirped at themselves, saying that they don't give him a chance to play for the country - you just want to play, you have to have that capital! - Qi Wusheng almost said to him: "You can sit on the bench with peace of mind, or you can just go home and forget it, I will change a group of young players, this is the biggest contribution you have made......"
But this can only be said in a dream, he is just a poor coach, one has no power, two has no power, and three has no reputation except infamy, and he has to listen to the command from above when he arranges a lineup, and he will be scolded by the fans if something happens, he is not wronged!
(In the future, all negative characters will appear, all of them are fictional, and even the name is not related to the real person, and the ice soul is also one with no power, two without power, and three with no money, and he eats by writing something, and he can't afford to provoke anyone, and the ice soul can't afford it)
Fortunately, fortunately, there is a Ling Feng in China, this young man is really good, in addition to his personal achievements abroad, more importantly, his contribution to Chinese football, sent batch after batch of potential players to study abroad, although some people scolded him for admiring foreign flattery, but Qi Wusheng himself knows that Chinese football is a big dye vat, whoever falls in will be finished, even if Ling Feng comes by himself, he has to finish playing - how many Ling Feng have been ruined by Chinese football!
Qi Wusheng knew better than anyone else how much power there was behind some people in the team, and he didn't want to recruit these people into the team, but the pressure was there, wouldn't he recruit them? The Chinese team is not the German team, he is not Vogts, you can't say who you want to catch whomever you want, you don't want whoever you want, there are so many Brazilian and Italian stars that it is a waste, and you will never be given to the team if you don't fit the team's style, no matter how good you perform in the league, it is useless. Look at the Chinese team again, except for some young players who have not yet been assimilated, no matter how everyone else thinks - there is no most dish, only more dish!
Thinking of the "Black Ten Minutes" half a year ago, Qi Wusheng's heart was dripping blood, why didn't he want to recruit Ling Feng into the team, such a player, although he was not yet 16 years old, but it was just an unspoken rule, who could be more serious, if Ling Feng joined the team, he might have been at home with China's first Olympic men's football gold medal now, how could he fall into today's situation?
At that time, some people above had spoken, not letting Ling Feng be selected, Qi Wusheng didn't dare to ask, but he knew in his heart that Ling Feng had arranged so many players to go abroad some time ago, which had seriously damaged the interests of some people, in this case, he could only choose to give up, now he just hopes, just hopes, the above can give this cup a relaxed environment, don't mess with anything behind the scenes......
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Shanghai Tianmu Group Headquarters, Rooftop Conference Room.
"Boss, Ling Feng has just officially held a press conference, announcing that he will miss the Bundesliga in November and return to China to participate in the Asian Cup." A man in a black suit stood respectfully at the table and said to the man in the shadow.
"Very well, how's the handicap going?"
"The opponents of the Chinese group in this Asian Cup are not very strong except for the Japanese team, Uzbekistan will barely create some trouble for the Chinese team, as for Syria, there is no need to think about it at all, even those wastes can beat them on the field, due to the addition of Ling Feng, the handicap of the Chinese team to qualify for the group has fallen to nearly 1:1, and the odds of not qualifying are 13:1, and the championship is 3:1 According to the highest Asian team, it is estimated that it will fluctuate with the state of Ling Feng in recent games."
"Excellent! Ling Feng is worthy of being our God of Wealth, if the Chinese team can't qualify from the group, then how much can we earn? β
"Because of Ling Feng's joining, the fans are very excited, if the Chinese team can't qualify from the group, we will earn nearly 200 million, but if the Chinese team qualifies, according to current estimates, at least more than 70 million will be lost......"
"Wealth is in danger!" The man in the dark shadow interrupted the words of the black suit: "There is no risk, where is the profit?" β
"But this national team is different from usual, those wastes we bought may no longer be able to play, why don't we try to buy Ling Feng?"
"You're crazy!" The man in the shadows was furious: "This person is not a last resort, don't have anything to do with him, he grew up in France since he was a child, and the attitude of foreign countries to severely punish this kind of incident has long been deeply rooted in his heart, his way of thinking is different from ours, you better dispel this idea as soon as possible, and say a word to those wastes, let them resist Ling Feng out, even if he plays, don't pass the ball to him, I see how he can play alone?!" Also, say hello to the above, let them talk to Qi Wusheng's old stubbornness, don't be so self-conscious, delay us making money, and delay himself. β
"Yes!" The black suit nodded respectfully.
"Ling Feng is really for the development of Chinese football, but are there fewer such people? How many of these lumps of wood have we cleaned up before? Or that sentence, everything is fake, only the money earned in your hand is real, since Chinese football has disappointed so many people, why not give us greater hope? Hope built on the disappointment of hundreds of millions of people, hahahaha......"
There was a burst of crazy laughter from the top floor, but no one heard it, or rather, it could no longer be called a human being......
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"Don't you worry, aren't you just scolding the Football Association? I'm the best at this, if you don't believe it, ask Vogts, what was he scolded by me back then? Beckenbauer didn't dare to say anything! Needless to say, only Effenberg could say this, and Ling Feng couldn't help but curse - "What a fucking scoundrel!" β
Ling Feng called these stars he knew one by one, asking them to get ready, pay attention to this Asian Cup that they never paid attention to, and at the last moment when Ling Feng announced his retirement from the national team, he collectively put pressure on the Chinese Football Association at the same time.
The gentleman's Batistuta and Zidane naturally agreed, and Zidane also said that if needed, he could inform his teacher, the head coach of the French national team, Jacques, to stand up and show support to Ling Feng at the same time.
But Effenberg, a hooligan, was different, as soon as he heard that Ling Feng had invited his idol Schuster, Effenberg was full of energyβwhy? Similar things gather together!
Schuster and Effenberg are hailed as the best midfielders in German football in the 80s and 90s respectively, but neither of them is a good bird, and both played a game of quitting the national team - and even Beckenbauer did not give face!
Ling Feng regretted it a little, if it was said that Barty, Zidane, Ronaldo, Laudrup Jr. and others said words of solidarity with Ling Feng and represented a common voice in the ears of the media and fans, then the addition of Schuster and Effenberg was purely coaxing - these two guys clearly intended to bring Ling Feng to bad - brought as bad as them......
However, Effenberg's next words made Ling Feng very depressed, because the Bayern team had officially sent him an invitation, and Beckenbauer also personally called him to hope that he could join Bayern, but Effenberg refused, because they had already said that they would go to Fiorentina in Italy together next season, but even if Effenberg refused, Ling Feng was scared into a cold sweat - the acquisition of Fiorentina should be accelerated, otherwise there may be something wrong with this changed history...... Due to the non-EU player limit in Serie A, each team can only have five non-EU players, and a maximum of three of them can play at the same time (this EU is not the current Union EU, but its predecessor, the European Union, which had strong ties at that time), so it seems that in Ling Feng's scheduled lineup, Batistuta has an EU passport, while France's Vieira and Thuram, Germany's Effenberg, Denmark's Laudrup Jr., England's Ferdinand and Portugal's Rui Costa are not restrictedThe restrictions are Ling Feng, Shepchenko and Carlos, exactly three non-EU players, so that although there are only two local Italian players, Nesta and Toldo, the rules still allow the existence of such a multinational team.
As for the Chinese players that Ling Feng planned to bring in to study, he arranged them to the second-tier team, anyway, the training was carried out with the first-team team, but there was no chance to play, but this was enough.
Siyue is already negotiating with the top management of the Fiorentina club, and according to her reply, it is very promising, after all, Fiorentina is now short of money, and there is such a "wronged boss" who is willing to buy it, no matter who she is, it is only right to sell it at a good price.
But at this time, the thing that gave Ling Feng a headache came, that is, he returned to China to participate in the Asian Cup, what should the Hamburg team do?
He is now the absolute core of the Hamburg team plus the spiritual leader and coach, three weeks of the Asian Cup plus a week of return to training, Ling Feng has to miss two Bundesliga games, one German Cup and one League Cup second round game, although Ling Feng has decided that the first game against Chelsea in the second round of the League Cup must be rushed back, but for the other two Bundesliga games, Ling Feng is completely unable to help.
Ling Feng wants to go back, Hao Haidong also wants to go back, the two offensive knives in the Hamburg team have to leave, and Lille is a parallel commodity who can't preside over the overall situation at all, the remaining two games of the Hamburg team are very dangerous, maybe they will be caught up by Bayern and Bayer Leverkusen.
Seeing the "resentful" eyes of Baron and the others, Ling Feng sweated evilly, didn't he just go back for a while? It is necessary to cry and mourn one by one, as if mourning, and it is not that he will not come back!
"Phew!" Ling Feng spat a few mouthfuls of saliva, why don't you curse yourself......
But thankfully, according to the schedule, those two opponents are Werder Bremen and St. Pauli, and if you lose the match with Werder Bremen, you can forget it, but you can't lose the game against St. Pauli, because St. Pauli is a team that has never won much!
What's more, the German Cup game, so far the opponent doesn't know who it is, from the perspective of the matchup, the most likely opponent is the Stuttgart team, the last game Ling Feng broke the bridge of Kevlick's nose, this time Ling Feng is not there, I don't know whose home is it, if it loses, then the second round of the game will not be easy to play.
But there is no way for Ling Feng to do all this, the only thing he can do now is to let the players in Hamburg adapt to the situation that he and Hao Haidong are not there, Ling Feng decided that from the next game, he and Hao Haidong will sit on the bench as substitutes, and wait until the second half to play, the game must be won, and the teammates must adapt to the situation of their absence.
The other one who has to participate in the training is the parallel goods Lille, during the period of Ling Feng's absence, the tactical dispatch of the Hamburg team completely depends on this parallel goods......