Chapter 195: Refining the Heart

A successful person must have a firm and strong heart, but at this time, Li Mudi seemed to be a little shaken, and he had a lot of doubts about whether he could complete the goal that he was still very sure of before in the position of commander of the Torino team.

The one who mixed up very badly before the crossing naturally didn't have a strong enough heart, otherwise he would have lived a happy life a long time ago, but after having the big bug of the FM system after the crossing and the high starting point of coaching in Castile, Li Mudi's self-confidence swelled in a short period of time, thinking that even if he is not the protagonist of this planet, at least he should be one of the protagonists. Therefore, when leading the team to win the first cup championship in team history, the first double championship, and creating league points and goal records, although they also encountered a lot of twists and turns, they always believed that they could definitely succeed. However, today the old lady used a set of lineups that lacked three absolute main players to let him see how big the gap between the two teams is, in the case of a high degree of consistency in tactics and basically the same execution of players, Juventus players have completed a big reversal with a higher individual ability, which is a bit murderous.

The lack of ability of the players and the all-round disadvantage is a difficult problem to solve in a short period of time. Reality is not like a game, you can have a big change at any time, the stability of finances and squads does not allow a team that wants to strive for good results to make big changes at will, and even the highest level of local tycoons like Real Madrid and Chelsea does not mean that they can always buy their favorite or best players, and in terms of the current prestige of the Torino team, it is really not possible to introduce a few people who are better than the current team players. Before Li Muddy joined the Red Bulls, he planned to tap the potential of youth training and restore the dominance of the "Great Turin era" when ensuring that the team's blood transfusion ability became the top in Europe. However, the reform of the youth team is much more difficult than he previously thought, in the game he can terminate all the players who have no potential, even if it is to pay a liquidated damages, but in reality, no one dares to do this, which will seriously affect the recruitment of young players in the future.

Since the problem of youth training cannot be solved in a short period of time, there must be higher requirements in terms of results, but after this Torino derby, Li Mudi feels that even if Juventus's strength seems to have declined slightly compared to the past two seasons, it is far from being something that the Torino team can compete with. In fact, after all 10 matches in this round of the league, they have been opened up by their city rivals by nine points, and after Napoli and Lazio both won the table, Torino has also slipped to sixth outside the European qualification zone, and Atalanta and Fiorentina behind them have also sharpened their knives and are ready to overtake them.

Faced with a prospect that seemed almost hopeless, the Torino coach naturally felt deeply helpless and confused, and at the same time sighed in his heart: even if he has a plug-in in his hand, he has not been able to take his fate into his own hands, which is really a shame for the traverser!

As a result, the players and coaches of the home team were in a state of extreme frustration and disappointment on and off the field, especially the latter still had a lost expression when the opposing coach came over to shake hands, and looked so fragile that many people felt too inferior.

As the Juventus players walked off the pitch and returned to the dressing room after celebrating their victory, the stadium broadcast the Torino anthem's anthem, "Ancora Toro", followed by a chorus of more than 20,000 home fans who remained in their seats and barely left the stadium early:

It's the jersey I've dreamed of since I was a kid

My dad always went to the Municipal Stadium

There's Turin, the Turin of dreams

The red garnet color is the second layer of skin

Wearing it is like traveling between the stars

I know that's history, that's legend

The flame of our battle will never be extinguished

Still a bull forever

On the long road, we sang hand in hand

Still a bull forever

The great Turin makes you timid

Still a bull forever

We sing, we sing together

Still a bull forever

Great Turin, it makes you timid

I want to be the captain of this team

Eleven people hold hands and are heart-to-heart

Victory: We always fight with honor

For Turin, for its great heart

It's an emotion I can't let go

I belong to Turin, I cry out in my heart

Come on lads fight proudly

The red grenade color symbolizes loyalty and love

Still a bull forever

On the long road, we sang hand in hand

Still a bull forever

Great Turin, it makes you timid

Still a bull forever

We sing, we sing together

Still a bull forever

Great Turin, it makes you timid

This is not the first time that Li Mudi and his players have heard this song, no matter whether they are playing home or away, they can always hear it from the fans before and after each game, and the pronunciation is very beautiful Italian, with a concise and powerful melody, it is a very beautiful song. (In fact, the anthem of many Italian clubs are very good, and the old versions of the anthem of Milan, Sampdoria and Juventus are classics among the classics) but none of the players and coaching staff, including Li Mudi, have come from the Turin academy or have worked here for a long time, so they didn't have much feeling in the face of this song that has accompanied the club through the top of the world and decades of lows. Today, however, it is different, and when this old song that has been sung for more than 70 years is heard again at this moment, all the members of the Torino football team feel deeply touched, as if their hearts have been cleansed.

Unlike the lyrics of the rivals' anthem, "You can only prove yourself by running" and "People stand up and cheer for you sincerely", all describe how strong that team's competitive ability was to win the love of Juventini (the nickname of Juventus fans). The song "Still the Bull" still reveals a belief between the lines: as long as the bull's tenacious fighting spirit is still there, the fans will always be by their side and never give up.

While every Torino fan wants to beat Juventus and sing and dance on the corpses of their sworn enemies, after decades of being firmly suppressed by their opponents, the mentality has moved away from the usual hostility and the feeling of wanting to eat their flesh. Originally, this season, the team had a big explosion under the leadership of Li Mudi, and there was a chance to trample the opponent under him, giving the fans infinite hope, as if they saw the second opportunity in 22 years to celebrate the victory against the sworn enemy, especially in the opening 16 minutes to take the lead, when people were already in a frenzy. It's a pity that the Celestial Empire and his players disappointed everyone again, since Higuain scored the goal in the 83rd minute, many people in the stands have left tears of sadness, and after the final whistle sounded, not to mention tears, at least it was sad everywhere. But in this case, when the fans saw that their head coach and players were still immersed in the pain of the defeat and couldn't extricate themselves, they ignored their own sadness and still sang "Ancora Toro" loudly like when the team was singing and advancing before, how could this not move Li Mudi and them!

Turin's supporters are perhaps the most grumpy, the most volatile and aggressive fans in the world, having beaten fans at other clubs, assaulted the police, besieged players who betrayed the club, regularly organized protests when they were unhappy with the club's hierarchy, and had limited financial resources to bring the club the same huge financial support as Manchester United fans, and failed to raise millions of euros when the club went bankrupt. However, this does not prevent them from loving this team from the bottom of their hearts, even engraved in their bones, even if the bull split from Juventus, the first championship was 23 years later than the other party, and the first five consecutive championships were 14 years later than the other party. None of these hardships and disadvantages have stopped these people from following the team to the death and stumbling through more than 100 years, and passing on the Bulls spirit from generation to generation.

With such a group of lovely fans who seem to be a combination of devils and angels, how can Li Mudi and the players continue to grieve anymore? They must be motivated, do their best to play the rest of the game, and give an account to all the fans who support them. So just like those protagonists in Xiuxian, the coach of the team who has exercised his mood and got rid of his demons will soon get rid of all the negative emotions caused by the reversal, walk into the field and pull up the players who have not been able to stand up, and then hug them in turn, and tell them to go back to the locker room as soon as possible to take a hot shower, and continue to devote themselves to training tomorrow. The Torino players also regained their motivation after receiving encouragement from the fans, and after greeting the boss, they waved and bowed to the stands, and then jogged off the field.

Uncharacteristically, several broadcasters did not cut the camera back to the commentary room after the game, but instead broadcast the touching scene, with both the British and Celestial commentators awarding various accolades to Turin fans, saying they deserved the title of best twelve. And the 280 million viewers around the world watched this game, and the team in Turin also had a deeper impression, which also brought about 100 points to the prestige of the club, so that since Li Mudi took over, this value has changed from 6900 to 7091 (the full value is 10000, and now the highest prestige in the world is Real Madrid and Barcelona, with a value of 9350). This five-minute broadcast scene turned out to be more effective than the team's previous fifteen league games, and Li Mudi was a little crying and laughing after learning about the situation.

In the subsequent post-match press conference, the reporters were surprised to find that the Torino coach had lost the unreasonableness of the previous period and his attitude became very kind, while the reporter from the Spanish newspaper Marca saw that the Celestial Empire manager had regained the relatively relaxed mentality he had when he led Castile last year. And when answering questions, he talked more, no longer as concise or insubstantial as before, although it was a surprise to Italian journalists, but it seemed that Li Mudi could be removed from the previous blacklist.

The press conference was still an interview with the two teams, and the first to appear was the head coach of the home team with the three core players of the team, Belotti, Benassi and Rosettini, but it was clear that Li Moody alone received more than 80% of the questions from the audience.

A reporter from Corriere della Sera asked: "Coach Li, how do you feel about losing this game, which should be the most important game so far?" Also, can you comment on the process of the competition? ”

'I'd love to say that every league game is just as important to the team, it's all the three points that we need to fight for, but obviously people don't believe it, and of course, I don't believe it myself. Before the words fell, there was a little laughter on and off the stage, seeing that this old terrier was really bought, Li Mudi paused for a moment and continued to answer this kind of question that he didn't like very much before: "It is always a pleasure to be able to crush the sworn enemy of the same city under him. No matter how long you do it, you won't get tired of it. It's a pity that it's the other party who is cool today, just like countless days before. Day and night. Well...... It's not dirty, is it? How do you feel like you're going to be 404? ”

"Haha......" This time there are obviously more people laughing from the heart, even applauding, it seems to have gotten it.

After making a gesture of secretly wiping a cold sweat, Li Mudi continued: "How excited the other party is, how sad we are, the moment the game ends, my heart is about to break, this feeling is so bad, I definitely don't want to try again." However, this feeling is far less than the blow and suffering suffered by our fans, so I would like to sincerely apologize to the Red Bulls fans who have always supported us, please forgive me for my incompetence and sorry! Although he did not stand up and bow, everyone could see sincere emotion in his eyes.

After about five or six seconds of silence, the answer continued: "As for the game, there was really nothing to praise it about, the players did a great job and overdid everything I set up before the game, and you can see how hard they worked in the post-match statistics. But in the end, we still lost, and in the end it was a slight gap in ability, and the Juventus players were able to burst out with superstar energy at crucial moments, and we were not at that level for the time being, that's all. But I think in April next year my boys will make great progress, and then we'll see if there's a chance to turn over and sing as serfs. ”