Zhang Yang found himself in love with professional football.

In the past, he only regarded commenting on football as a job, and most of the time he came to Millwall just for a high salary, for an easy job, and to see where he could go in a new field.

It's different now.

When he felt the enthusiasm of the fans in the stadium and looked at the players who walked off the field, laughing happily, he also had a joy from the bottom of his heart. It wasn't just an individual success, but a team success, with tens of thousands of fans and more fans laughing in front of the TV.

Zhang Yang felt that he had succeeded.

Victory equals success.

In a way, delighting the fans who support Millwall is his job as head coach.

Zhang Yang greeted the players who came off the field with a smile.

"Well done!"

"Well done!"

"Your goal was outstanding!"

“……”

Zhang Yang praised the players one by one and shared the joy of victory with everyone, and then walked towards the players' tunnel, and when he passed by the camera in front of the goal, he saw a staff member pointing behind him, and turned his head to realize that there was still one thing to do.

Joe Royle had been waiting there for a long time.

Royle stood for a long time, not too anxious, just kept staring at Zhang Yang, even when Zhang Yang was about to leave, he didn't move.

When Zhang Yang walked over, he took the initiative to stretch out his hand, "I thought you were going to leave directly." ”

Zhang Yang responded with a smile, "I'm sorry, it's my first time as a head coach, and I don't understand the form. ”

The words seem to be kind, but in fact they are a bit-for-tat.

When Royle says 'I thought you were leaving', he meant that Zhang Yang was rude, while Zhang Yang said 'something formal', which meant 'shaking hands was just a formality, I didn't want to shake hands with you'.

The hands of the two men only touched once.

As the saying goes, 'a thousand glasses of wine for a confidant, and more than half a sentence without speculation', Zhang Yang and Royle only said one word, then turned around and walked into the players' tunnel tacitly, and then walked into the post-game press conference together.

The biggest focus of this game is on Curtis Weston.

Media outlets that regularly cover Millwall will want to interview Curtis Weston, as he came through Millwall's youth team and is a player with the Millwall logo.

Curtis Weston only played off the bench in both games, and both scored quickly.

The British media is good at hyping young talents.

Watching Curtis Weston walk off the court, Zhang Yang considered taking him to the press conference, but finally gave up, Curtis Weston is a little too young, and he may not be ready to face the media.

It's a kind of protection for Curtis Weston.

When we arrived at the press conference, it was Royle who gave a speech, and he summed up the game and said in a row that "the team made too many mistakes" and "not very lucky", which explained the reason for Ipswich's loss.

After that, Royle left.

Ipswich lost the game and it doesn't make sense for him to stay here.

When Royle walked out of the press conference, the media reporters became more enthusiastic, because it was Zhang Yang who was about to be interviewed.

There are too many topics on Zhang Yang's body --

He is the youngest manager ever in the Championship (formerly League One) at the age of only his early twenties, and he is also an extremely rare Chinese coach.

He's still a Weibo celebrity.

He led the team to victory in their first game.

There is also a lot to talk about in the game, for example, Millwall has always been more dangerous, the first ball luck component is relatively large, Millwall's defense is very solid, did not give Ipswich too many chances, and Zhang Yang is directly related, is the last substitution, Curtis Weston's appearance, which makes many people feel incredible, but in the end, it turns out that replacing Curtis Weston is the right choice.

Now there are more topics in the media.

Journalists raised that most of his personal questions were also meaningless.

For example, 'what do you think about being a coach at such a young age?', 'do you have any plans to get a coaching certificate?' 'do you think you can still get a coaching job if you leave Millwall?'

These questions made Zhang Yang frown.

He suddenly found that the British media is not only good at hyping young players, but also likes to embarrass young coaches, especially embarrassment, a young coach from China.

"Maybe they're jealous of me for being a manager at such a young age? Still unacceptable? Want to see me walk away with failure? ”

"Or, they think, the Chinese are bad coaches?"

Zhang Yang responded to the reporter's questions while pondering carefully in his heart.

He came to two conclusions –

First, most reporters don't believe that a young Chinese man in his early twenties is capable of being a professional team head coach.

Second, a small group of journalists don't think so, they just do it out of 'jealousy' that they don't want to believe.

If he were an Englishman, perhaps these journalists would not have targeted him at all, but would have hyped it up and then stressed with full confidence that "England will not lack excellent football coaches in the next 40 years".

The latter is purely unbelieving.

It's like seeing 'post-00 young people starting a business' and serving as the CEO of a company on the news in a previous life, when a younger person sees it, he will probably feel very excited, and he will think of himself as a CEO, and he will be outstanding in the future, right?

Older people are less inclined to believe it.

Even if this post-00s generation has achieved some success, what can it do? Is he really capable? Is he really capable? A student who is still on campus should study hard, why not start a business without doing a proper job?

When bad news appears, all kinds of criticism and questioning follow.

His situation is similar.

While Zhang Yang thought about this, he also understood why the reporters in the audience targeted him so much, but no matter what the reason, it was like Millwall's team song - Lao Tzu didn't care!

Go your own way and let others do the talking!

No matter how the reporters in the audience changed their tricks to ask questions, Zhang Yang either responded calmly, or refused to answer on the grounds that it had nothing to do with the game.

A press conference is a battle of wits with reporters.

After showing his might again at the venue, Zhang Yang didn't think about it, and when he returned to the locker room, he celebrated the victory with everyone.

in the locker room.

All the players gathered around.

Zhang Yang waved his hand and said excitedly, "This is our fourth victory!" Four wins in a row, which is remarkable! I believe in the Championship, there are not many teams that can do it. But this is just the beginning, the club has been emphasizing that we can do our best to finish relegation, but after these games, I am sure everyone will feel that the goal of relegation is easy to achieve. ”

"So we're going to be chasing more wins, maybe new goals will emerge?"

A new goal?

Millwall can successfully achieve relegation, what will be the new target? The answer is self-explanatory.

But most of the players didn't dare to think about it at all.

Are you kidding?

In the first half of the season, they were still trying to get out of the relegation zone, and after only one Christmas, they changed the target to ......? They think more that Zhang Yang is just a little joke with everyone.

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After returning to the club, explaining that he would continue training tomorrow, and letting all the players disband, Zhang Yang also took a long breath.

He looked at Aldous.

Aldous was smiling all the time and seemed to be in a good mood, and his first game as 'first assistant coach' was won, which was also his success.

Zhang Yang asked, "How does it feel to compete with the team?" ”

"It's okay, it's not stressful." Aldous said.

Zhang Yang rolled his eyes, very disapproving, during the game, Aldous was obviously very nervous, and kept nagging in his ear.

Now he says no pressure?

All right.

Zhang Yang was in no mood to tell Aldousdo, he just wanted to go home and have a good rest, and when he left the gate of the club, he simply took a taxi and arrived home in ten minutes.

I didn't come back for one night, and it felt like a long time.

The doors are a little unfamiliar.

Zhang Yang dragged his tired body to open the door, walked in and changed his shoes, and at this moment a high voice sounded, "Look who is back!" It turned out to be our head coach sir! This was followed by the sound of a slap.

He looked up and saw John clapping.

John walked over with an excited face, "Zhang, am I right?" You're the Millwall manager! ”

"yes? What's wrong? ”

"What's wrong!" John exaggerated, "You don't know how surprised I was to hear this! Come, we're going to have a good drink today and celebrate for you. ”

"But I still have work at night." Zhang Yang explained regretfully, "You said it, now that I'm the head coach, I want to use my time to study the opponent, and there have been more games recently." ”

John put Zhang Yang on the couch and said, "Of course I do! It doesn't matter, I understand! Well, it's just me who drinks, you can drink black tea. ”

"Thank you for your understanding."

As the two were talking, Catherine came out of the kitchen with a freshly cooked dessert in her hand, which seemed to be brioche bread.

"Come and try it! I rarely eat these little things. ”

Zhang Yang picked it up and tasted one, and found that it tasted sweet and not bad, he gave Catherine a thumbs up, "Your cooking skills are really good." ”

Catherine smiled.

Then Catherine went to the kitchen to continue her work, and John pulled Zhang Yang and kept talking, and there was no time to put down the beer in his hand.

In the small talk, the topic of the two became more and more in-depth.

John praised the fulfillment of his dream for many years, "I wanted to be a professional footballer when I was a kid, but unfortunately even the Fulham junior team didn't want me, they said I was too stiff and had no training value, and I still haven't figured out what kind of reason this is. ”

"That's why you let Catherine learn sanda from an early age?"

"What does that have to do with stiffness? I asked her to learn to dance! It's a dance! But she seems to prefer to fight...... When I was a kid, I was always alone, chasing a few little boys, and that was really funny! John said and laughed, "Later, when she went to middle school, she signed up to learn taekwondo, and then she learned sanda, and she seems to have learned some Chinese kung fu, of course, I don't know about Chinese kung fu, and I don't know how much she learned." ”

Zhang Yang was a little stunned when he heard this.

Catherine has learned a lot, I wonder if she will become a generation of heroines in the future?

John recalled with a lonely face, "When I was in my twenties, I went to sign up for a coaching certificate, hoping to become a football coach in the future, and my dream at that time was to lead Fulham to rise...... Unfortunately, it didn't work, I got my Level 2 coaching certificate, but no club wanted to hire me. In order to make ends meet, I had to go back to my old job and become a police officer. ”

After that, he looked at Zhang Yang, "You actually became the head coach of Millwall!" Zhang, you are so good! ”

Zhang Yang listened.

John suddenly grabbed his hand, leaned over and whispered, "I really envy you, it seems that my dream can only be realized by you!" What do you think? Sheet! If you can be the manager of Fulham in the future, I ...... I'll marry Catherine to you! ”