Chapter 479: A Smooth Trip to Asia
Galeries Lafayette also attended the press conference and gave high praise and sincere thanks to Qi Zu, the legendary chairman who single-handedly brought back to the top of Real Madrid, which had gradually lost the halo of the top giants due to economic reasons, said:
'It was a very unexpected decision for me and today was a sad day, for the players, for the staff. Zidane knows we want him to stay, but when he makes his decision, we can only choose to respect him. I was shocked when I learned the news yesterday, and no one could have prepared for it. I want to thank Zizou for everything he has done for Real Madrid, who will always be a role model for us here and who will pass on the values of Real Madrid. I'm sure he'll be back in the future and if he needs a break then we're going to give him that chance. ”
But when faced with reporters' continuous questioning that the resignation was due to the huge disagreement between the two people, both sides denied it, but in the subsequent question answering session, Zidane still involuntarily revealed that he was not without guilt.
He mentioned that he found it difficult to continue to be successful here, so he was looking for something to change. He also claimed that Real Madrid's current squad is very good, and the players have proven themselves, but he himself has no say in the next recruitment. This sentence seems to mean that he will no longer dictate the team's work after resigning, but quite a few people understand that it is because he cannot exercise his due authority in the recruitment work, so he has to choose to leave.
After that, Qi Zu also made it clear that his decision had nothing to do with Ronaldo's stay or not, and it was quite a bit of a matter of not having three hundred taels of silver here.
In the end, the former world superstar, who turned 46 a month short of turning 46 years old and only had five years of experience in the coaching position (including one year barely being an assistant coach and more than a year of coaching experience in Spain's third-tier team), but has entered the ranks of palace-level coaches, ended his fantastic Real Madrid journey with tears of thanks and blessings, leaving the world with a mysterious back.
Zidane's departure has also caused another focus of attention in football around the world, that is, who will become the new coach of the world's No. 1 giant, without Real Madrid taking the initiative, the media of various countries and countless people who eat melons have naturally entered the state of consultants, and the names of Allegri, Loew, Conte and other famous coaches have been involved in the hottest incident before the start of the World Cup.
And the next day, Guti, who was originally revealed to be leaving Real Madrid in the summer to coach a foreign team, unexpectedly signed a new contract with the club, replacing Solari, who has an expired contract and will coach La Liga team Numancia in the new season, as the new head coach of Castilla. This also means that the "Fourteenth Master" officially embarked on the road to Zidane's ascension that year, becoming an alternate candidate for the head coach of the first team, once the new coach can not successfully gain a foothold in the team, then he will be replaced by the Real Madrid lineage, it seems that Lafayette is looking forward to replicating the previous Qizu model. It's a bit unreliable, but Guti was really good at coaching the youth team, and maybe he can really do a miracle!
At this time, after completing a four-hour interview assignment in a high-end hotel in the capital of the Celestial Empire, the Turin coach was enjoying a belated lunch while discussing a new endorsement contract with his domestic agent Zhang Zeming and the future development process of the "Let Children Love Football" charity campaign, when he suddenly received a call from Arsene Wenger from Europe. When I heard it, I learned that Real Madrid had sent someone to contact him, hoping to invite the former Gunners to take over the coaching whip of the Galaxy Battleship, and round the fate that had not been achieved in the previous ten years.
Although the professor is not very willing to wade into this troubled water, but in the face of the invitation of the number one giant in world football today, he naturally cannot refuse hastily, and the due cautious attitude is still necessary. Having just left the arsenal after 22 years, this old Frenchman, who can still be among the top ten active coaches, is facing a big juncture in his career at this time.
Judging from his own wishes, it is clear that he wants to continue to appear on the sidelines as a manager and general manager (except for the Premier League, the transfer power is almost not in the hands of the manager), but so far, only Paris Saint-Germain has sent him an invitation, and the position is still behind the scenes, which is not very in line with the professor's wishes.
Of course, Arsene Wenger is not without other options, and the position of head coach of the French national team is a very desirable position. It has been rumored that Deschamps, who has been coaching the Gallic Roosters for six years, is likely to choose to leave no matter what results he will achieve in Russia, so it seems that the handsome candidate can be determined early.
It's just that this seemingly wonderful combination has been changed because of Zidane's sudden incursion, because at the resignation press conference, he revealed that he would not coach other clubs at least for a short time, and in addition to becoming an otaku who "squatted at home", the only new job he could choose was to take over the national team coach.
And in the comparison of these two French coaches, it is obvious that the ideal is more in line with modern football, and Zizou has more supporters from the player era, and it is more popular with the French Football Association's officials who do not pay much attention to authority and seniority to hire young coaches such as Blanco and Deschamps in succession, and it is difficult for the professor to win in the competition with Zidane. This means that he has to consider offers from other clubs or national teams.
Since the football powerhouses in Europe and South America are not in the habit of hiring foreign coaches (the Three Meows Army in previous years is a strange exception), and the weak teams in Asia and Africa are unlikely to impress the always competitive professors, then it seems that taking charge of a big club has become the only option now. Therefore, in the face of Real Madrid's invitation, he did not rush to refuse, but wanted to first understand how deep the water was through Li Mudi, who was more familiar with the team's internal situation.
Ten minutes later, when the long-distance call was over, the Torino coach knew that Galeries Lafayette had to hire another master. However, because Real Madrid's previous contact with Arsene Wenger was in an extremely confidential state, few people knew that in less than an hour, the Champions League three consecutive champions had lost a potential new manager.
However, Li Mudi didn't have the heart to be distracted by the selection of the coach of the parent team, and after resting in the capital for the night, he took a flight away from the motherland and went to the capital of Kimchi Country at dawn the next day. The reason for choosing this time point is mainly because there are fewer people traveling at this time, so try to be low-key. It is not only to avoid being found out by the fans and media of the two countries to cause siege, but also to not want to make this engagement known to the world, after all, the relationship between the two countries is still in the cold war, and black fans are ready to turn out the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Turin coach and drench them with dog blood.
On June 1, Children's Day of the Celestial Empire, Li Mudi met with his girlfriend and his parents who arrived here first, and after a short rest, he began to practice various etiquette of traditional weddings under the guidance of professionals. Here I have to complain about the so-called "tradition" of the kimchi country, the whole marriage process is completely based on the ancient form of marriage in the Celestial Empire, starting from the marriage book, adoption and other six ceremonies, and then to the various etiquette in the chapel, and finally there are the rules for the new couple to return to the door for three days, which are almost exactly the same, at most they have made some changes, and they dare to call it their ancient cultural heritage, and they are also thick-skinned to a certain extent.
It's just that these traditions that originally belonged to the Celestial Empire are difficult for anyone to follow in today's country, and more than 95% of the newlyweds in big cities choose Western-style wedding ceremonies, and the previous adoption and other steps have been simplified into a "meeting family" banquet, which is efficient enough, but it also makes marriage, which should be extremely important and prudent, become too simple and hasty.
The Chinese people always scold the kimchi country or the Japanese for taking away the cultural ingenuity that originally belonged to their ancestors, but they will not reflect on themselves, how many of those customs and activities full of the civilization of the Celestial Empire have been abandoned by those who have been completely Westernized, and it makes people feel endless sadness when they think about it.
Let's not mention these unpleasant things, back to the engagement of Lin and Li. Except for rural areas and some individual areas, engagement ceremonies are rarely seen in the first- and second-tier cities of the Celestial Empire, and everyone basically holds wedding ceremonies in one step. In Kimchi Country, the proportion of newlyweds who will get engaged is also gradually decreasing, but it is not uncommon.
There is no separate marriage law in this country, but it is needless to say that the importance attached to the important matter of two people or even two families uniting is not to be said. Compared with the relevant laws and regulations of the Celestial Empire that everyone is familiar with, the Kimchi Country is basically the same, but there are still a few points that need to be mentioned.
First of all, due to the pressure from the north for many years, the country is very open to encouraging population growth, and basically follows the regulations of developed countries in the West. According to the previous law, the age of marriage was 18 for the man and 16 for the woman, who could be engaged or married with the consent of their parents. In 2007, the new regulations only raised the age limit for women to the same level as men, which is still at a relatively low level worldwide. (PS: Interested book friends can go to the Internet to search, there are many countries with a crazier legal age of marriage, the low is simply outrageous)
In addition, the civil law of Kimchi Country also specifically stipulates the legal effect of betrothal, although the engagement does not force two people to get married, but when the marriage contract is dissolved, if it is caused by the fault of one party, then he/she will be liable for damages to the other party, and the punishment is quite heavy. This changes the importance of the betrothal, unlike some other countries where it is treated as a mere formality.
Finally, unlike the requirements of most countries, it is not mandatory for both parties to attend the registration authority in person when an engagement or marriage is registered, and relatives and friends can submit written application documents on their behalf. Moreover, there is no marriage certificate in the Kimchi Country, which may make the people of the Celestial Empire who go through the marriage registration there very uncomfortable.
The engagement registration of Li Mudi and Lin Yuna was handled by Lin's father, because the current popularity of the two in the country is too high, especially after the former led the Torino team to win the European League championship, he has simply become the idol of all the people in the kimchi country, and his status has surpassed Son Heung-min, who played for Tottenham, and is comparable to Park Ji-sung back then. In the reports of the major media, all put the title of the son-in-law of the Kimchi country on the head coach of Turin, if it were not for the fact that the historians have not yet found or fabricated evidence that Li Mudi is their descendant, this wave of touting should have become even more bottomless.
And this also caused him to appear in public, immediately caused a major congestion incident, and the trouble is really not small. So after arriving, the Torino coach has been staying in the famous Oakwood World Trade Center Hotel in Seoul, in addition to being familiar with the etiquette that needs to be paid attention to during the ceremony, he only accepted several interviews with the country's most influential media for the sake of paving the way for his girlfriend's future development, and the rest of the time he hid himself well, not giving the paparazzi any chance.
The ceremony on the 3rd was fully enclosed, and except for the guests invited by both sides, the rest of the idle people could not break through the blockade of many professional security personnel by any means. However, Lin Yuner's identity as an artist led to a very spectacular scale of participants, and it was inevitable that some people would use private mobile phones to shoot the live event, and some of the photos that were revealed later successfully made the headlines of many gossip media, so that the melon-eating people who were very concerned about the CP but couldn't find out about the engagement ceremony got some comfort.
Aside from the two newcomers who were so red that they turned purple, just with the many celebrities who came to watch the ceremony, the sensational effect caused by this ceremony was enough to become the focus of the East Asian countries that were deeply affected by the Korean wave in the next few days.
The two national MCs of Kimchi Country, Liu Jae-seok and Jiang Hudong, jointly served as the host of the ceremony, and the remaining eight members of Girls' Generation except Zheng Xiuyan joined together in public for the first time since the "disbandment" last year, Zhang Dongjian, Xue Jingqiu, Lee Hyo-ri and other no less than 50 big names in the country's entertainment industry attended, and the bosses of several major entertainment companies were also one of the guests, and even the Minister of Sports of Kimchi Country came to say hello in person, which simply turned the ceremony of the day into a cultural and sports event.
After this day, Li Mudi finally reluctantly squeezed into the ranks of the "married family", which is naturally a lifelong event worth remembering for him who has been single for 37 years in two lifetimes.
On June 6, on this auspicious day, the Turin coach boarded a flight to Europe with her fiancée. Although his trip to Asia was relatively short, the process was very smooth, not only did he contribute to his personal affairs, but also the work of the team was very fruitful, which made the "groom's official" feel very good.