Three big words "Gao Gui" appeared on the mobile phone screen, and then I glanced at the time at 16:58, the game has just ended a few minutes, why is this calling? Li Mudi answered the call with great doubts, but as soon as he opened his mouth to say hello, he was interrupted by very hurried words on the other side of the phone.

"Brother, I'm your eldest brother, and time is limited, so listen to me first. In the next few days, it is likely that the Football Association and even the General Administration of Sports and higher-level leaders will come to you and say that they hope you can come back to take over the position of coach of the national football team, so you should make preparations first, contact your agents and good friends in this area in China, listen to their suggestions, and be sure not to agree rashly. I mean...... If the starting lineup of the game can't make their own decisions, this seat should be avoided as much as possible. Okay, I still have a lot of things to do here, let's talk about it later, take care! After saying that, there was a tone from the receiver that the call was cut off.

Although the other party didn't say it directly, but in connection with the potential meaning of the words and the memory of his previous life, Li Mudi probably guessed that Director Gao was probably about to announce his resignation, what a sad day! The Turin coach who sighed a little immediately turned around and returned to the video analysis room that had not long left, turned on the computer and tuned the video software to the Tianchao CCTV sports channel, and then took out his mobile phone and began to brush the news on major domestic websites, wanting to check whether the ending was really as he expected for the first time.

At 23:04 on the evening of October 11, Celestial Empire time, at the press conference after the top 12 matches of the World Cup qualifiers in Asia between Uzbekistan and Celestial Empire, Gao Hongbo, who had just re-taken over the national team coach at the beginning of April this year and led the national football team that had almost half of his body thrown out of the cliff, successfully qualified in the first stage of the world preliminaries with amazing performance and unnatural luck, and officially announced his resignation as head coach of the national team. In front of nearly 100 domestic and foreign reporters, he said indifferently with that expressionless zombie face: "I have had in-depth exchanges with the leaders of the Football Association before, and the senior management also believes that there is a problem with the current team's poor results, and the responsibility should be borne by the head coach, I understand this meaning." So the game is over, and I myself announce my resignation. Thanks to the work team for their support to me, and I would like to thank all the Chinese fans for their unwavering commitment to the Chinese men's football team, and finally wish the Chinese men's football team better and better. The news media and the Internet public in the Celestial Empire were in an uproar.

The resignation after losing is basically something that everyone expected, but what did Gao Hongbo reflect in the paragraph at the press conference, "The senior management also thinks that ...... The responsibility should be borne by the head coach, and I understand the meaning of "no matter how you understand it, you will conclude that he voluntarily resigned because of the pressure from above, which has caused heated discussions in domestic football." The difference between taking the initiative to take the blame and being hurt is big, the number of supporters who originally supported Gao Coach was expanded to more than seventy percent of all fans in just half an hour, and various forums and sports websites are scolding the men's football team and the Football Association's messages, what "real man, take the initiative to take the blame, it's not that you can't do it, it's the national pig that can't be carried", "Escape, Chairman Cai doesn't have the courage to roll by himself?" "The Celestial Empire Football Association is all xxx!" These have received praise from thousands of fans and netizens.

But who cares about the views and attitudes of ordinary people? Just half an hour after the resignation incident, Shao Shengyi, a football commentator on CCTV Sports Channel, openly shouted on Weibo: "The game was kicked into the scene of a car accident, and I only said 'physical reasons, I want to leave the national team coach', and this is all over?" Isn't this a traffic hit-and-run? But then, he deleted this Weibo and posted again: "I feel like a large wave of keyboard warriors are on the road again, so let's do it~ Wash and wash, life has to be lived, life is not easy, good night." This kind of practice of wanting to be a biao and wanting to set up an archway will naturally cause anger among netizens.

Of course, there are also those who are bold and not afraid of spraying, the former vice president of "Sports Weekly", vice president of sports media, and now a well-known sports media person Yan Wall wrote on Weibo: "Even if he brought hope to the Celestial Empire team in March, even if he defeated South Korea in his first coaching, I still have to say that Gao Hongbo is a deserter." "And there is no sign of deletion. Look at this tone, domineering! It seems that if Director Gao does not resign, he will give his full support, which is completely contrary to his analysis a few days ago that pointed the finger at Gao Hongbo for all kinds of problems in the national football team, which is really an outstanding representative of backsliding. Of course, there are also corresponding means to deal with "tough guys", and some netizens have picked up Vice President Yan's experience, and there are a lot of self-hype and kneeling deeds of the leaders of the ** Association, which naturally got the "greetings" of many fans.

In addition, CCTV football commentator Liu Jiayuan also updated Weibo soon after, in which the sentence "I have always been an opponent of high guidance" has received tens of thousands of national scolding responses, and according to the grapevine, in the next month, the name of many dogs in China will be given the name "Liu Xyuan......

After Li Mudi knew about these incidents, he directly instructed Gines and the domestic agent Lin Zixu not to accept interviews with these people in the future, and at the same time asked the latter to inform the CCTV sports channel that the programs and articles related to the Turin coach should not have anything to do with these people in the future. That is to say, if the other party adopts it, the two football commentators will say goodbye to the live broadcast of Serie A with the Torino team playing every weekend, and the "Sports Weekly" is better, because Yan Wall has been out of office for many years, although he will occasionally contribute to them, but there is no relationship outside of human relations for a long time.

There are many reasons why Celestial Empire football has not been able to make progress for decades, but these unscrupulous media and media people without the slightest discipline are absolutely to blame. Although Li Mudi does not agree with the theory of "you can do it, don't BB" said by some netizens, after all, you don't let others criticize you if you don't do your job well, which is unreasonable. But he will not agree with a group insider who knows the inside story of the matter but is willing to incarnate as some organization or even an individual's minions, to throw dirty water on a good coach who has no merit and hard work. Although Gines said after knowing his idea that doing so would leave a very bad impression on the two most powerful media organizations in the Celestial Empire, and it might have a very negative impact on the image of the Torino coach in China and future publicity, and once this request was refused, it was really irreparable, but obviously could not convince Li Mudi, who was stubborn, so he had to sigh and began to think about how to minimize the negative impact of this incident.

For Li Mudi's wanton interference with normal work, CCTV, the largest media in the Celestial Empire, naturally would not accept it, and contacted the parties in Italy in the shortest possible time to ask the specific reason for the matter. First of all, Zhu Xiaoyu, who had a close relationship with him, called to ask for the specific reason, and then Fang Gang, the interim deputy director of the sports channel, personally communicated with the Turin coach, and when he learned that the cause of the incident was really just because of the personal evaluation behavior of the two anchors after the high guidance class, he was really a little crying and laughing for a while. If someone else threatens CCTV like this, they will definitely be considered crazy or directly ignored, but Li Mudi is like the face of the sports world today, and has very close contact with the TV station, and sometimes they have to accommodate each other in order to cooperate. And because the former director Jiang Heping had just resigned after the end of the Rio Olympics not long ago, and the former deputy director Zhang Xing retired directly, and the new leader had not yet been formally appointed, and there was no one who could really call the shots in the station, Fang Gang had to temporarily agree to transfer He Shishi to the Serie A broadcast program. Fortunately, at this time, the CCTV Sports Channel still has the broadcast rights of the Premier League, Bundesliga and Champions League, and there is no shortage of local arrangers, which calmed down the turmoil. As for the future development, it will be decided that the new leader will not be able to draw conclusions until he officially takes office.

Li Mudi, who put this matter aside for the time being, tried to contact Gao Gui the next day and wanted to have a good chat with him, but unfortunately the other party's mobile phone had been turned off. The domestic media is full of all kinds of analyses and all kinds of insider information, which looks very lively, but in fact, there is no dry goods at all, which makes the Torino coach who is far away in Italy feel unreasonable. Just when he put his main mind back to the club's daily training, Zhang Zixu from China called and informed him that the Celestial Football Association would hold a press conference at 16 o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th, and exchanged some information and messages with the media on the current situation of the national football team.

In the morning, the coach gave everyone a half-day off, after all, several players who returned from the national team had some fitness problems, and the next round of league games was a day or two later than the normal date, so it would not be a problem to take a little rest at this time. After a morning meeting with several members of the coaching staff at the club's office building, Li Mudi returned to the apartment directly in a Fiat car rented by Forcina. Because he took off his disguise and moved back to the apartment outside, he was rarely harassed by the paparazzi on the way and at the door, but fortunately, Forsina was tall and fierce, and he was very intimidating to outsiders, and the Turin coach could barely answer a few words on not too sensitive questions, so that he could sit on the sofa in the house smoothly.

Gines and Del Pino had already arrived early, the former staying at a nearby hotel, the latter renting a smaller apartment not far away, after all, spending most of his working hours with the boss, and Forsina temporarily living in the guest bedroom here. While the four of them were drinking coffee and "standby", the Spanish agent pretended to be casual and asked: "Li, a friend of mine from my side of the Celestial Empire called this morning, and he was asked to ask if you are interested in the head coach of the national football team...... There was a pause here, and then after glancing at the still expressionless Torino coach, he continued: "I replied to him that you mentioned before that you have just taken over Turin, and the situation is still very serious, and you need to put all your energy into the club. But the other party didn't say dead, I should still want to talk to you directly, I guess it should be in the next few days, you have to keep your mobile phone with you at all times. ”

Li Mudi was not interested in taking over the national football team, and it was even more impossible to wade into the troubled waters after experiencing the forced resignation of the senior director and those few words of advice, because he had expressed this opinion to Gines many times before, so there was no response here, because everyone understood that there was nothing to talk about in this matter. The reason why he didn't carry the other two people behind his back was because Delpino was in charge of sorting out the relevant information of the Turin coach when he was working at the Spanish headquarters, and he knew all these things that were not confidential; Forsina, on the other hand, can only speak a few simple words of Spanish except for Italian, and he still learned it by surprise, although he uses his free time to study every day, but at his current level, he can't understand a word of what they are saying, and he definitely doesn't have to worry about him leaking secrets.

The time soon came to 10 o'clock in the morning, which was still in the summer time period in Europe, and the time here was 6 hours slower than that of the capital, and it was exactly 16 o'clock in the afternoon. The civil activities of the Celestial Empire are always unpunctual, but the official organization is quite reliable, the camera cut to the scene on time, Cai Zhenhua, chairman of the Football Association, and Zhang Jian, executive vice chairman of the Football Association, and other major leaders sat on the rostrum in turn, and then the host announced the official start of the meeting. Chairman Cai has indeed seen old in recent years, and his hair has turned gray, although he can guess that he may have spent his efforts because of his exhaustion, but in terms of the results and current situation of the national football team, there are really few people who sympathize with him, and they are continuing the slogans of the previous Yan and Xie periods and calling him out of class. The meeting itself did not have any meaningful content, after Zhang Jian issued a report that "the leaders of the Football Association listened to Gao Hongbo's game plan before the game, they only gave suggestions on the starting candidates, and did not intervene compulsorily", and the questions from the reporters behind were all arranged before, and they were all in the control of the Football Association.

The only thing worth paying attention to is that at the end of the ventilation meeting, Zhang Jian said on the selection of the new coach: "The selection of coaches will learn from the experience and lessons of the past, and will be found within the scope of excellent coaches who are familiar with Chinese and Asian football. "It's the same as not saying it, it's just for fun.

A day later, Li Mudi received a phone call from China during his lunch break, and after dealing with the past in a few words, he knew that the day when Lippi took office was not far off.