Chapter 389: Bad Mood

At the post-match press conference, the two sides still praised each other kindly, and the personal relationship between the two coaches was very good, so the tearing X battle expected by the media did not appear as they had hoped. However, Gasperini still had a slight message about playing in such fog today, and he believes that a large part of the goal conceded in the early opening game was due to the weather conditions. However, due to the pre-match test results in line with the range stipulated by the Football Association, the losing Atlanta can't say anything meaningful, considering that the second leg will be a guest in Turin City, the game is more difficult, and the outside world has reduced the probability of Poseidon Son counterattacking to the final to a low level, which can be fully seen from the odds of several bookmakers.

However, Li Mudi, who won this game, was not in a very good mood at this time, because the situation on the field has been in a very tense state, so he did not let several core teams get the opportunity to rest early, which also led to the FM system showing that there are many physical abilities in the Torino team lineup up and down the red cordon, especially the midfielders with the most running distance, it is almost impossible to recover to the extent that they can play Sampdoria after four days. Over the next few days, the team's coaching staff will need to work out a new squad in time for the Luigi Ferraris Stadium to get out of the stadium.

On the morning of Thursday, February 1, "Italian Football Network" issued a report that Roberto Fabriccini, the commissioner of the Italian Football Federation, officially confirmed the list of candidates for the new national team coach, and Conte, Ancelotti, Ranieri and Mancini are all on the list.

Former coach Ventura was sacked for failing to lead the Azzurri to the World Cup, and the acting president of the Football Association, Carlo Tavicio, resigned, and the leaderless Football Association has been slow to identify a replacement for Ventura. It was only after last week's election failed to elect a new president of the Football Association that the Italian Olympic Committee had to appoint the association's secretary-general, Fabrizzini, to take the post until the end of June at most.

The new president immediately confirmed that the selection of the national team manager was on his agenda, saying: "The potential successors are all familiar names, and at the moment there is no one to lead the shortlist, so we have to evaluate all aspects. Roberto Mancini had previously rested at Roma and we had not been in contact with him, Antonio Conte seemed keen to return to the Azzurri, Carlo Ancelotti was still hesitant and Claudio Ranieri was not out of contention. In order for the most suitable person to be in this most important position, we also have to assess the difficulty of signing them and a new blueprint for the future of the team, so the final result may be a while away, and the appointment of the new manager will follow the advice of Costacuta, who has just become assistant commissioner of the Italian Football Federation. ”

Although the defeat of the World Preliminary Tournament less than two months ago caused Italian fans to mourn more than the pain of death, after time to heal, their love for football has been rediscovered. So the news about the new national team quickly caused a lot of buzz inside and outside the football world, with the four candidates' respective supporters debating online to prove who is the best candidate. Not long after the cold winter of Italian football arrived, it was driven away by the early arrival of spring.

However, the mood of the Turin coach at the moment is as cold as a blizzard, the variety show "Xiaoli's Homestay Season 2" filmed by his girlfriend has been scheduled to be broadcast in Kimchi Country on February 4, and the producer began an overwhelming publicity work last week, and today a lot of details have been revealed. But no one expected that because of the identity of a guest guest, Celestial Empire netizens launched another wave of boycotts, and Lin Li CP was also involved in the turmoil.

This male Xiao Xianrou, surnamed Pu, was criticized by many people in the Celestial Empire for filming an advertisement with an insulting plot of "The Great Wall", but after the production company apologized painlessly, people should still film and make money, and their career development was not delayed at all. However, this time he wanted to record a show with Lin Yun'er, the "quasi-daughter-in-law of the Heavenly Empire", which instantly made some people who had always been jealous of Li Mudi's girlfriend find an opportunity, and various articles criticizing her began to spread on the Internet, becoming a hot event in the entertainment industry in the past few days.

Originally, the variety show filmed by the Kimchi Country, the people of the Celestial Empire didn't like to watch it, so they didn't pay attention to it, but as soon as those people with ulterior motives instigated it, the nature of the incident changed, as if the girlfriend of the Celestial Empire couldn't cooperate with the artists who had made negative news about the relationship between the two countries, otherwise they would be ignorant and seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. Even with it, the Turin coach who failed to "discipline" his lover has become a typical example of forgetting his roots, and is evaluated as "forgetting his mother when he has a daughter-in-law".

Some people even took advantage of the topic to play and slandered: "People have already entered the Spanish nationality, and they still pretend to be our own people, come back to be an endorsement, make benefits, and earn hundreds of millions of dollars from our people a year." Now that such a thing has happened, he can finally let everyone see his true nature, he just forgot about it, and called on all the people of the country to resist this kind of immoral guy and drive them out of the Great Celestial Empire completely! ”

Seeing these messages, Li Mudi's glass heart really felt very hurt, although he is now holding a Spanish ID card, but in addition to those documents for paying insurance, whether it is ideological or daily living habits, he is an out-and-out Celestial Empire person, how could he be rejected by the people of his motherland? Although after having some fame, he also gained a lot of trolls and black fans, but basically for his coaching ability and not introducing domestic players and other things, the first time he was questioned by others as unpatriotic and even not a person from the Celestial Empire, the mood was naturally extremely bad, and even when he was connected with his girlfriend on video at night, he couldn't adjust his expression in time, so that the other party also looked dark.

England full-back Flanagan twisted his ankle in a tackle during a training session on Friday afternoon, and although it was not too serious after the team doctor's diagnosis, it was certain that he would not be able to play a day later, which also disrupted the manager's early plans and added a touch of unease to the squad heading to Genoa City.

Saturday's team practice was scheduled to be very light, and now in order to avoid unnecessary injuries, Li Mudi has even canceled the afternoon training, and only let the players have a tactical drill before lunch and announce that everyone can rest. In the evening, the 23-man squad for the tournament, led by the coaching staff and the medical staff, traveled in a bus along the highway southeast of the city of Turin, and arrived safely in Genoa, the capital of Liguria, after about two hours.

From the moment you enter the city to the time you enter the hotel's gates, you can always see Sampdoria supporters greeting the less friendly ones to the buses marked with the red bull logo. In order to ensure that there were no accidents, assistant coach Kevin Sumfield urgently informed all Torino players that they were not allowed to go out at night after the room was assigned. The head coach then announced that there would be an intra-team live soccer esports match, which made a group of hormonal overkill guys smile, and the team's morale was slightly boosted as a result. However, Li Mudi, who has always played invincible opponents in this game, was not very lucky on this night, losing to his previous subordinates Dimarco and Goldaniga in succession, so that he could only return to his room with a sad face.

Although there were a few Samp fans outside the hotel that night to interfere with the sleep of the Torino players, due to the small number of players, it did not have much impact, and the players were more accustomed to the off-market tricks encountered in the away game of the sworn enemy, and the overall quality of rest was good. The coach of the team who only recognized the bed was a little in good spirits, but after washing up and coming to the restaurant for breakfast, he basically made adjustments, and after an hour-long tactical meeting, he led everyone to the Genoa team's training ground to warm up.

Sampdoria's sworn rivals are going to the capital to challenge Lazio this round, so they lend the idle No. 2 training ground to the Torino team, and the logistics are also very complete. Before the Red Bulls left there, the maintenance staff of the venue also sent their best wishes, hoping that they would be able to win in the evening, and the hostile relations between the clubs in the same city were naturally the most intense, and in this regard, the Torino team was deeply touched.

After the warm-up in the morning, the players' condition has improved a little compared to before, which has boosted the coaching staff's confidence in winning the game, but Li Mudi's slightly improved mood still did not last long, and when he returned to the hotel, he was furious because of a reporter who appeared out of nowhere.

When the Torino coach was the last to get off the bus and was about to enter the gate, he was stopped by a figure who suddenly came out from the right, the other party was holding a miniature microphone, and without introducing himself, he directly asked: "Coach Lee, the current Weinstein sex in Hollywood. Disturb. Harassment has become a topic of worldwide concern, with actresses joining the ranks every day to complain about being harassed. And as we all know, your girlfriend is also an actress, has she had a similar experience? ”

"What did you say?" Li Mudi, who didn't plan to ignore the other party and wanted to bypass him, immediately became angry when he heard this question, stared at the questioner with fierce eyes, and then shouted loudly: "Which media reporter are you?" Who gave you the right to slander my girlfriend? Take the microphone out of the way! Also, do you have a camera on your head? Turn it off! I'm XX, I can't understand people, right, I'll tell you to turn off all the devices! At this moment, the nerves that had been tormented by all kinds of negative news in the past two days finally showed signs of breaking, and the Torino coach finally couldn't hold back, grabbed the person who asked the vicious question, and began to manually dismantle the filming and recording facilities in the fierce resistance of the other party.

The two men who were entangled were immediately spotted by the Torino staff and players who had just entered the hotel lobby, and the defensive coach Baldi and the veteran Moretti, who were walking in the back position, immediately turned around and ran out, holding down the team's manager's actions as if he was crazy. Samfield and others, who arrived later, also quickly joined the conflict, and while controlling the reporter who was shouting, he strongly inserted himself between the two people to prevent the two sides from making physical contact again.

Hotel security also quickly arrived at the scene of the incident and brought everyone present into the lobby, and no one suggested calling the police during the whole process. The reason is simple, the team does not want their manager to be caught in this kind of negative press, and the hotel does not want the conflict to be exposed, which will cause problems for them in the future. As for the reporter who claimed to be an unknown local tabloid in the negotiations, he was very aware that his problem might involve rumors and slander, and he really called the police, not to mention how the Turin coach who took the lead would be punished, and he himself could not eat and walk around.

So after Li Mudi was escorted back to his room, the team's assistant coaches Sumfield and Zheng Xiaoyang came forward to negotiate, and the two sides finally reached a private settlement agreement, the reporter will receive 3,000 euros for equipment damage, and at the same time promise not to disclose the relevant details of the incident to the outside world. In this way, a skirmish was erased before it expanded. Afterwards, even if someone came to explore the truth with clues, after the person concerned denied it, he failed to dig up anything, and it completely became a fragment of history that no one paid attention to, and disappeared in the passage of time.

Li Mudi, who was persuaded by everyone in the room, gradually calmed down, he also knew that his sudden rampage was somewhat unnecessary, and it was really a bit of a shame to start with reporters who have always been good at making up lies and creating incidents, and if he was not careful, he might even get himself into a quagmire, so he happily agreed to the terms of settlement. However, objectively speaking, after such an outing, his emotions that have been plagued by various bad news in the recent period have also been adjusted to a certain extent, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

Sampdoria's clash with Torino kicks off at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday and is the only one of the eight games to start today, while the Red Bulls received decent news in the two early matchups last night. Although Roma continued their hopes of finishing third in the league after a narrow one-goal win away to Hellas Verona, Inter Milan, who had already fallen into a winless circle, were unable to redeem themselves this round as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by relegation side Crotone. The draw also gives Torino a good chance to continue to widen the gap between the two sides, and as long as Li Moody can lead the team to victory today, they will lead the Nerazzurri by a full nine points with only 15 rounds of league games remaining, and the probability of qualifying for the Champions League will also be increased to more than 50%, which will also further improve the mood of the Torino manager.