In fact, judging from the situation of this red and blue battle, the two teams are indeed quite far from their respective peaks, and their tactical ideas are relatively chaotic. And the employment of the two coaches is also debatable, after all, most of the core players in the current team are over 30 years old, and God knows how much gas is left in the tank. If we can't take advantage of the two years left in the next tournament to completely replace the German team before us, we may continue to be a stepping stone to a real powerhouse. According to the latest national team rankings released by FIFA on September 15, both Italy and Spain have slipped three positions, and both have fallen out of the top ten. Spain is at its lowest ranking since 2008, Italy is 13th, and only sixth and eighth among European countries, with Russia not even seeded two years later.

However, since the national team is mentioned, it is natural to mention the men's football team of the Celestial Empire, according to the latest ranking list mentioned above, the men's achievements of the Celestial Empire are enough to beat Guatemala (does anyone know how the football level of this country is?). Ranked seventy-eighth. However, Li Mudi feels that in the next ranking updated on October 20, this position must not be kept, because before the red and blue battle has not started, the Sanqin Provincial Sports Center in Chang'an City, which is nearly 10,000 kilometers away, has just finished the third round of a World Cup qualifier Asian top 12 matches, and the men's football team of the Celestial Empire was considered the weakest Syria before losing 0-1 in the group in its blessed land, and only got one point after three rounds, and it seems that there is no hope of qualifying.

Although Li Mudi naturally has no special feelings for that team, he can't even hate it. But it's impossible to stop paying attention to it at all, after all, it's all in the same circle, and it's impossible to completely avoid it, so you can only try not to get closer to that side. But there are too many bad things in this world, and some of them have automatic navigation functions, if you don't provoke it, it will come straight to you. Originally, the Torino coach had a happy life in Italy, and after the fans in this country scolded those so-called internationals and senior coaches for bloody, all of which were traced back to the heads of the ancestors of several generations before, a question naturally appeared in everyone's minds: "Who else can save Celestial Football?" ”

This question was put in the most prominent position by major websites and sports media early in the morning of October 7, the day after the loss to Syria, and judging from the answers and votes of many experts and netizens, Li Mudi was of course the candidate who was not allowed. After this news was passed on by Lin Zixu to the Turin coach who had just gotten up and was about to swipe SNS with his mobile phone, he was immediately frightened and jumped up from the bed, and a sentence couldn't help but come to mind: "There are always Diao people who want to harm me!" "The pit of the national football team is too deep, even if all the bulldozers in the world are pulled over to fill the hole, working 24 hours a day, I don't know if there is a chance to see the hope of success before digging up all the usable soil on the earth...... This glorious and great task is still handed over to the most beloved old friend of the Celestial Empire - Silver Fox Lippi, so Li Mudi immediately confessed to the domestic agent, seized the time to hire a wave of Internet trolls to scold himself, first stirred up the controversy, and then contacted CCTV Sports Channel, "Sports Weekly", "Football News" and many other well-known domestic sports media, at the cost of giving them more convenience in the future, please transfer the goal of the new coach of the national football team to Lippi.

After arranging all this, his mood gradually calmed down, after all, the news was too scary, and if he was not careful, it would be a catastrophe! After arriving early in the club's cafeteria and picking up a breakfast of bacon, omelette, and milk, Limdoudi's phone rang again. Not surprisingly, it is Gines, who still has an extremely sensitive sense of smell, this guy has always had ideas about the position of the coach of the men's football team of the Celestial Empire, and every time there is any trouble, he will come out to try the direction of the wind. But fortunately, he also knew that the intention of the partner was the most important, so he still knew how to measure himself, and found that Li Mudi still did not have the slightest interest in changing the topic in time, and ended the exchange within three minutes, which made the Turin coach a little crying and laughing.

Because he came out early, it would only be 7:40 after eating these things, and there were still 50 minutes before the time when the team gathered at the training ground, so Li Mudi took the opportunity of strolling around the office building and exercising (if walking slowly) took out his mobile phone and made a call to Coach Gao Hongbo, who was in dire straits. If you want to say who has had the most difficult time in recent days, there will definitely be the name of Gao Gui on the list. The 2-3 defeat to South Korea away and the 0-0 draw at home to Iran are not too bad, after all, the poor signing was drawn into such a strong group, and it is not too bad for the two strongest opponents to get a point. However, the home loss to Syria, which was originally considered a "fish belly", was too surprising, after all, the other country is suffering from the invasion of war, and it stands to reason that it should not have too strong combat effectiveness. Even Li Mudi didn't expect before the game that the national football team only got 50% possession at home, and there was one less shot than the opponent in the number of shots, not to mention that the only shot on target of the away team scored in the whole game, which is indeed a bit unreasonable.

Before going to bed last night, the Torino coach still couldn't hold back, and watched the condensed version of the Tianxu battle through the video replay, and found that the whole game was in addition to goalkeeper Gu Chao's very poor attack selection (after that, Buffon's almost identical mistake occurred, is this a tribute to the goalkeeper of the Celestial Empire?). There's really nothing very eye-catching. The 352 formation used by Gao Gui for three games actually has a lot of advantages, especially in the face of Syria, which mainly plays defensive and counterattack tactics, the number advantage of the national football team in the midfield is still relatively obvious. Therefore, in the game, the ball can usually be transmitted quickly, and even if the offensive pass is wrong, it can often be successfully rebounded in time and control the ball at your feet again. This can be seen from the 59% to 41% offensive dominance and 56% to 44% possession before half-time, and their pre-game set-up is still basically effective.

However, the biggest drawback of the national football team is the creativity and finishing ability of the frontcourt players, whether it is Gao Lin or the teenager Zhang Yuning, they are not able to bring enough pressure to the opponent, even the popular Wu Lei and Yang Xu do not have the ability to score goals steadily, I really don't know why good strikers are dead in the Great Heavenly Empire! In the call with Director Gao, Li Mudi also felt the helplessness of the other party about the weakness of the forward line and the lack of clarity of the players' thinking on the field, and after a few words of simple comfort, he hastily ended the presumptuous call. If the memory is not wrong, the Torino coach knows that four days later, this long-faced man who has contributed a lot to the football of the Celestial Empire will finally be dismissed, which is really embarrassing!

After pinching the point and entering the training ground, Li Mudi threw off all those meaningless thoughts, after all, he was really powerless about the affairs of the Celestial Empire National Football Team, so he could only bless it in his heart. However, with the players and coaching staff assembled, the team is ready for a new journey, with the exception of a few international players who are still in the national team, and the rest of the squad will have to focus on the league in ten days' time. Although Palermo's current situation is a bit bad, the first seven rounds of 1 win, 3 draws and 3 losses are only in 17th place in the standings, and it is a well-known home bug and away dragon, the previous three home games have all lost, but it is really undefeated away from home, which is really strange.

However, if the Torino team wants to continue its previous good form and continue to be at the top of the standings, it must not be careless, especially when facing opponents who do not seem to be strong, they must be prepared to fight the lion and the rabbit, after all, not every time they play against a strong team, there will be good luck. In fact, Li Muddy is ready to lose a lot of points in the game with the Roma duo, the Milan duo and Napoli, the current red bull is at the level of seventh to tenth place in Serie A in terms of strength, if you want to fight for a European ticket, you can't easily lose points on the weak team, so in the face of Palermo, who sold the absolute core of the team for two consecutive seasons, the team coach issued the first must-kill order since entering the ownership. Due to the fact that several main players were drawn by the national team, and then there was a new rival Lazio at home, Li Mudi had already begun to plan for a larger rotation at this time.

Just when the Torino coach was making unknown plans for a meeting with Mihajrovic in the ninth round of the league in more than ten days, and I don't know if God was joking, a multinational sports and culture development company called Gadley International appointed a person in charge of the Celestial Empire named Wu Junzhen to come to the door and invited Li Mudi: this company has reached an agreement with Lazio FC that the two sides will jointly launch an activity called "Celestial Dynasty Youth Football Growth Program". Lazio FC will send two professional youth coaches (UEFA A level) to Tianchao for a long time, combining the characteristics of domestic youth, to establish a complete youth training system suitable for local youth in Tianchao, and strive to bring more fresh and interesting football experience to the youth of Tianchao. Moreover, the two sides have jointly selected a number of training bases with complete facilities and superior conditions for the training of young people and coaches, and contribute to the cultivation of football talents in the Celestial Empire. They found Li Mudi this time, hoping that the hottest head coach in domestic football could attend the press conference held in the magic capital a few days later, of course, as a mascot.

This big bunch of things smashed over, making the Turin coach look confused! Is this thing reliable? It seems that there have been a lot of such football aid programs before, and they were all thunderous at the beginning, but it seems that there was no rain in the end, and the youth football of the Celestial Empire is still that virtuous, and grandma doesn't love uncle and uncle. So Li Mudi thought that this thing was a lie and useless at the first time. However, this Wu Junzhen was found with the official document stamped by the Demon Capital Sports Bureau and the business card of the deputy secretary general of the Celestial Empire Football Association, which made the Turin coach a little difficult, not because the relationship with Lazio was a little tense, after all, if they were sincerely operating this matter, it would be no problem for Li Mudi to take out some of the money himself. It's just that before I am not sure of the other party's true intentions, I really don't know how to deal with the past, but fortunately, the specific time has not been decided for the time being, so I left the contact information of the other party to see if there will be any variables in the next few days.

On the morning of the 8th, the Turin coach temporarily missed the team's training session, but took a plane to Florence, the capital of the Tuscany region in central Italy, to observe the ceremony of being awarded the honorary citizen of Florence by the god of war Batistuta as an ordinary person. When he saw that his idol back then was dressed in a dark suit and dark tie, had already shaved off his long flowing hair, and appeared in front of the gate of the city government with an unusually clean and neat image, Li Mudi, who was dressed in disguise again and wore big sunglasses, almost left tears. In order to win a Serie A title before retiring, the god of war resolutely switched to Rome, and his statue in the center of the city, which was raised by local fans, was also overturned by the erectors, although the club officially claimed that it was removed because the statue was too old, but only a heroic statue of David has been left in the city (Michelangelo's masterpiece, the protagonist is the legendary Israeli hero who defeated the giant Goliath).

In the evening of the next day, after a day of training, Li Moody flew from Turin to the capital of the Renaissance again, and at the Stadio Franki, the home stadium of Florence, there will be a football charity match between the Italian veterans and the world veterans. When he stepped on this stadium again with the captain's armband after nearly 16 years, I believe that many fans at the scene saw tears flashing in the eyes of the god of war, who was already a little blessed, but the forty-seven-and-a-half-year-old god of war instantly became the top killer on the green field in the past after the opening whistle sounded. First, in the 19th minute, he used realistic feints to fool the goalkeeper and easily pushed a penalty created by his team-mate into the net; Then, ten minutes later, "high-speed" into the box, after receiving a cross from the left, the chest unloaded the ball firmly in front of him, faced the attacking goalkeeper, easily shook the opponent with a shot feint, and then stabbed into the net like an understatement; Before the end of the first half, he showed that he still had an excellent sense of grabbing points, also receiving a cross from the left, ghostly shaking off the marked defender and smashing a tackle on the line of the small penalty area, and the ball went into the net. There was no passionate celebration after the three goals, let alone the classic machine-gun strafing, but the hat-trick in this half still proved that the god of war is not old, but Barty's goal has come to an end......