Chapter 176: Make an endorsement and go to Milan
Thanks to the brief nature of each of the Torino coach's answers, the press conference proceeded very quickly, at least half an hour earlier than expected. The reporter who finally got the opportunity to ask questions still wanted to make a fuss about the two clubs and the two head coaches: "According to the news from the Tianchao media and Lazio officials the day before yesterday, the Football Association of Coach Li's country of birth and the Lazio club are cooperating on a plan for the development of youth football in the Tianchao, and they invited you to attend the launching ceremony of this event, why didn't you go?" Is it because Coach Lee's relationship with Lazio FC is in a period of freezing, or is it because you don't pay much attention to youth football in your country? Also, what do you think of the new coach of the men's football team, Mr. Lippi? It was previously reported that you were once one of the most popular candidates for the head coach of the national team, did Coach Li give up on his own initiative, or did he fail in the competition with the former Italian national team coach? ”
For the media who want to maliciously slander him, Li Mudi has always been hesitant to go back, only to see him stand up and respond with a smile on his face: "How many questions do you have?" How does it feel like you're making up the word count! But since there's still a little time left, I'll be kind enough to help you answer your confusion. First of all, the Celestial Empire youth football development program, because there is also a midweek game this week, so I can't be there in person, if the Italian Football Federation allows the game to be postponed, maybe I will be on the plane back from the Celestial Empire. However, I have appointed an agent in China to keep an eye on the development of the situation, and if this event does have a positive effect on the promotion of football among young people in China, I am still willing to participate in some things that I can. As for whether I pay attention to youth football in the Celestial Empire, everyone will know in two days, if your information network is really powerful in the Celestial Empire. ”
After telling the above paragraph, the Turin coach's face suddenly tightened, and he looked at the reporter who asked the question and sharply accused: "Finally, there is a question about the men's football team of the Celestial Empire, I want to know, where did you know that I am a candidate for the head coach of the national team?" On Mars? That's not true, no one from the Celestial Football Association has ever mentioned this to me, maybe you listened to some people and heard them mention my name, but that has nothing to do with the new manager of the men's team. I was invited to join the Executive Committee of the Celestial Football Association, and they once asked me on the phone what I thought about Mr. Lippi taking over the national team, and the answer was naturally that he would be the best choice, and that was the answer to your last question. However, your guy in charge of monitoring is not very good, and his translation ability needs to be strengthened. ”
How did this turn to surveillance, so frightened that the reporter of the "24-hour sun" hurriedly shouted below: "What surveillance? We didn't have ......."
"I'm not interested in whose phone calls you are listening to, it's the job of the police and the prosecutor's office, my job is to lead the team in training, competitions, and then be provoked and attacked by Western journalists like you. Today's mission is done, so, goodbye! After that, he put down the microphone and turned around and left, leaving dozens of reporters with constipated faces.
After Li Mudi, who returned to the apartment, had dinner with Gines and others, he hurriedly held a meeting with Lin Zixu in China through the Internet, and set all kinds of endorsements and advertisements. At present, it has negotiated cooperation intentions with a number of powerful enterprises, such as Yili Dairy, 362 Degree Sports, Huawei Mobile and Yi. Auto-Volkswagen became the first brand endorsed by the Turin coach, and Li Mudi was able to get 22 million after-tax soft girls from their four companies every year, with a two-year contract, requiring him to shoot one advertisement for each company every year, attend events twice, and take a number of photos. After deducting the share to two brokers at home and abroad (10% for Gines and 16% for Lin Zixu), there is still more than 16 million per year, and Li Mudi did not take any money, and directly invested in a project he set up, and those four companies also participated. The project, called "Making Children Love Football", will select 100 impoverished primary schools in the western part of the Celestial Empire, and provide each child there with a free milk per day to improve their physical fitness. At the same time, for 1,000 primary schools with slightly worse conditions across the country, three free soccer balls are given to each grade for active children's spare time. Yili Dairy and 362 Degrees Sports joined the project by providing some of the items, while Warwick Mobile and One. Auto-Volkswagen each donated 3 million to support the Torino coach's good deeds. This is the project on the development of youth football in the Celestial Empire mentioned by Li Mudi at the press conference, although it seems that it is only a small part of it, but in the eyes of the Torino coach, the event he set up is more meaningful for his homeland, not comparable to those showmanship.
However, the top priority now is the shooting of the advertisement, and there is one national team match day left this year, from the 10th to the 16th of November, according to common sense, Li Mudi can get three days off. However, the round trip would take more than a whole day, and it would have been impossible for the Torino manager, who had only a little experience in filming, to create four elaborate advertisements in a row in a matter of days. And he couldn't take a leave of absence while the league was in full swing, which would be too unprofessional, so the shooting plan was ruled out before it could be officially proposed. From the point of view of time, the most reliable is the winter break holiday, and it is not impossible to rush out if you hurry up the shooting during the more than a week holiday, but it will take two months later, and these four companies will not be able to wait for that time anyway.
In the end, it was the experienced Genes who made the decision, and asked Yili and 362 Degrees to do all the preliminary planning as soon as possible, and then the four hired the same director and film crew to come to Italy and use the Turin coach's daily free time to shoot. Although the cost of this will be higher, because it is packaged together, the film crew should be able to give a "group purchase price", and the time to complete the shooting should be the fastest, so it has been unanimously approved by everyone. According to the previous plan, the design of the four ads will be formalized in about a week, and Li Mudi will turn on Hell mode after 10 days, and there will be no private time every night and the day off after the game. So taking advantage of the fact that he still has some time in the past few days, he hurriedly seized the time to study the opponents of the next five rounds of the league thoroughly, and could not interfere with the team's official affairs because of his own personal affairs, so that his daily sleep time was compressed to about four hours, and he was tired of dark circles in two days, and there was a tendency to transform into a national treasure panda.
Since this week's match is a double match a week, Li Mudi's focus in the past two days is the midweek opponent Inter Milan. Frank de Boer can be said to be the second rival of the Torino coach after Mihajlovic, and he clearly stated in the press conference that he was not optimistic about the former Dutch international's Inter trip in order to pretend to be B, which completely offended the other party. Although Li Mudi said the facts of his previous life, but later he did go a little too far in retrospect, although the two sides because of the competition between the club (of course, it is unilateral on the side of Turin or Li Mudi, and Inter never thinks that the two teams are on the same level), the two head coaches do not have to be on good terms, but at that time, they questioned others at will as soon as they were hot-headed, and anyone would be unhappy if they changed. From another point of view, Li Mudi's behavior is essentially no different from Miha's actions against himself, he inadvertently did the kind of person he hated the most, and every time he thought about it, he felt extremely guilty.
After figuring out the cause and effect, the Torino coach no longer cared about Frank de Boer's repeated verbal provocations, and even said a few good words for the other party when he took over the media interview, trying to ease the relationship between the two people, but unfortunately people didn't appreciate it at all. However, the outside world has had a very interesting turn in the evaluation of the two managers, at the beginning of the league, Inter Milan had a bad record of one draw and one loss, while Torino was not much better with one win and two losses, so the media criticized two people together, and the Celestial Empire people got a stronger firepower attack because they had mocked each other; Then the two teams ushered in a wave of three consecutive wins, at that time the outside world was naturally full of praise for Frank de Boer, and for Li Mudi was picky in the egg, saying that the opponent facing Torino was weak, and the winning streak did not mean anything, not to mention that Inter's opponents at that time were in addition to Juventus, and the remaining two happened to be Pescara and Empoli; However, the situation after that was completely different, the Red Bulls maintained a strong performance and did not end the winning streak until the last round, while Inter Milan only won one draw and three losses in the following games, and after nine rounds with three wins, two draws and four losses and 11 points, they were in 14th place in the standings, which is definitely a humiliating record for all Nerazzuri. If it weren't for Moratti's old age and complete reins of power, I believe the Dutch would never have waited for the opportunity to face Li Mudi.
However, after the defeat to Atalanta in the last round, almost all the local Italian media reported an unofficial news: if they could not win at home to Torino, Inter would immediately start the process of changing the manager; And if they can't get at least seven points in the next three league games, the Dutchman won't stay in the office; In the end, if he can't get at least one draw in the Milan derby, De Boer will have to take the liquidated damages paid by the club to find a new job. The reason why this news can make such a big fuss is because Zhang Jindong, the new **OSS of Inter Milan and the chairman of the Tianchao Suning Group, flew to Milan City over the weekend, and when he was blocked by the media at the exit of the airport, he did not answer the reporter's inquiry in accordance with the usual practice, but prevaricated on the grounds of "not knowing and not participating", which immediately caused an uproar. Two days later, the situation became even more complicated.
Torino arrived in Milan the afternoon before the day of the match, and as AC Milan were travelling to Genoa for the next round of the league, the Red Bulls were able to use the training ground of their rivals the next day, which was exactly the opposite of what happened in the first round of the league. However, while the players were resting and relaxing in the hotel, Li Mudi was invited to a well-known local Celestial Dynasty restaurant, and his eldest brother Zhang wanted to invite him to dinner. As the top large enterprise in China, Su Ning Group naturally had no contact with ordinary people like Li Mudi before, but through the bond of football, the two sides still had a lot of bonds. Two people, one is the head of a large company that has made efforts to develop the football industry in recent years and has two first-class clubs at home and abroad, and the other is the only representative of the football world in the world.
In just one and a half hours, the two sides did not put their minds on eating, but had a positive exchange on the development of the club, the relationship between performance and commercial interests, and the development situation of domestic football. Although the things he talked to about had already been analysed to him, he was glad to be able to get some different perspectives from one of the hottest compatriots of the moment, after all, the other party was a young coach in charge of a European team, and although his views were a little radical, the energy was really hard for others to have. During the whole meal, the two of them could be said to be the guest of honor, and Su Ning **oss did not rashly propose to Li Mudi to jump ship, after all, the Torino team is now very good, and he himself has said with the Inter senior management that he will not easily interfere with their work. However, maybe in the future, if there is a chance, Inter Milan will be completely built into the first home team of the people of the Celestial Empire, which is definitely a good idea that is extremely exciting, and Zhang Jindong will inevitably secretly anticipate it in his heart.
Although the dinner had nothing to do with the Nerazzurri's presidency, the media did not think so, and the next morning, news spread across European football that the Torino boss was about to replace Frank de Boer. Even many newspapers and websites in the Celestial Empire have sent out all kinds of gossip, and some even swear to prove that the two sides have signed a draft agreement, and they will officially announce the signing after the Dutch have left with their baggage. Although Inter Milan, Torino and Li Mudi himself were quick to make statements that there was no such thing, before the start of the game, everyone's attention was on the change of manager, and not many people paid attention to the tournament itself.