Chapter 106: Uzbekistan is coming

"In China, football is becoming an aristocratic sport,"

At the beginning of the interview, Li Guo asked Li Zibing to add this sentence. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Coach Li, with all due respect, football is different from basketball, the basketball court can be used for a long time with a single investment, but the football field needs to invest a lot of money to maintain every year, not that the club's youth training black heart collects so much money, but football needs so much money."

"Yes, but do you think there is a future for increasingly aristocratic Chinese football?"

Li Zibing was silent, "Then does Li Gui have any good ideas for you?" ”

"Localization,"

This is the method given by Li Guo.

"For example, our football needs to be imported, from the small grass to the big coach, and if these are localized, we can save a lot, not to mention other things."

"Well, lawn localization might be easy, but coaches? It's hard, isn't it? ”

"Yes, it takes a lot of work, like the media appeal, it's important to get more people to want to be coaches, especially youth coaches."

"As far as I know, the youth coaches don't pay much and they work very hard."

Li Guo made a gesture, "Any industry is a pyramid, and all eyes can only be the spire, but without the pedestal below, how can there be the excitement of the spire." ”

"The World Cup is good-looking, but the World Cup players also start with the ball, which requires the dedication of the youth coaches."

"Well, I'll take on the responsibility of a media person, and I'll do a special show about youth coaches when I return to China."

"Director Li, apart from localization, what else do you have to say."

"There are also rules that are very important, for example, in Europe, a player will give a development fee to the original parent club every time he transfers, and I think this rule is very good."

Li Zibing said: "Then what do you think, how about calling for social donations? ”

Li Tai recounted the conversation between Manager Ma and himself, "Do you know, I don't like this Manager Ma, he speaks coldly, but I know that he is right, relying on social donations is indeed a drop in the bucket." ”

"And more importantly, people who have the ability are not willing to accept handouts from others."

talked a little about the future of Chinese football, and then Li Zibing began to talk to Li Guo about the present of Chinese football.

"Top 10 competition, it is said that you are now the public enemy of South Korea, Koreans will scold you after dinner, and there are even Korean merchants who have developed products that curse Li Guo, do you think South Korea should be careful in the future."

"Haha, probably not, I personally feel that the Asian people still love me very much."

"Damn," Li Zibing almost vomited, how could a person's skin be so thick?

"Okay, let's get down to business, I think Asian football is still developing very fast, in fact, there are several opponents in the top 10, playing away is what I am most worried about, one is Iran's devil's home stadium, the other is Uzbekistan, the climate of this landlocked country is very different from our home stadium Shanghai, and the other is the United Arab Emirates, hot, very hot."

"Is it really that hard?"

"Of course, football is different from all other games, it's easy to get a ghost on the pitch, a little softer turf, a little more watering, it changes a lot. When you get to the away stadium, you can only resign yourself to fate. ”

"But no matter what, the national football team's victory in the first game still makes the Chinese people very happy, and I hope the national football team will continue."

"The interview is over?"

"Hmm,"

"Get out of here."

"Damn, Li Guo, are you human, you will cross the river and tear down the bridge when you use it."

"Don't be so ambiguous, I'll tell you a few times."

Li Zibing pursed her lips, "Why don't you go back to China together tomorrow?" I buy a plane ticket. ”

"No, I'm not greedy,"

"Li Guo, you are very boring, no wonder you are still single!"

"Huh. Football manager, how can it be fun to come and go in the wind and rain? Sam Allardyce has said that football coaching is the job of licking blood. ”

"Allardyce? Do you still know him? ”

Li Guo sweated on his forehead and thought, "I missed my mouth." ”

"I don't know, I watched the video online."

"Well, you're really driving me away? Are you sure you don't roll a sheet or something? ”

"!"

*****

The second opponent of the Chinese team in the top 10 is Uzbekistan, which is a strong team in Central Asia, and has been stable in the second group in Asia for a long time.

Although the Chinese team successfully qualified for the World Cup in the 2001 World Cup qualifiers, the Chinese team played 8 games that time, and the only defeat was against Uzbekistan away.

Uzbekistan had a bye in the first round, so they played a warm-up match, winning 3-0 in Malaysia, and after the game, the Uzbek team flew straight to Shanghai.

After arriving in Shanghai, the entire Uzbek team was closed, except for the training open for 15 minutes (stipulated by the AFC), the rest of the time, Uzbekistan did not face the media, except for the pre-match press conference.

At the press conference, Uzbekistan's head coach Kasimov said that the goal was to get a point, "I am satisfied with one point in China," he said.

Because Uzbekistan has never entered the World Cup, when asked by a reporter from his country, the first question is, when will Uzbekistan enter the World Cup?

Kasimov almost smiled wryly, "I hope I can see Uzbekistan enter the World Cup in my lifetime." ”

When it was Li Guo's turn to accept the question, the first question was not exempt from vulgarity, and it was still the expectation of this game.

But Li Guo did not answer positively, "I don't want to talk about results at home, I want to make the fans happy, everyone is happy, that is success." ”

"Coach Li, which one do you think will be more difficult compared to the previous game?"

"Of course it's this one."

The reporter at the scene smiled, it seems that Li Guo is addicted to Koreans, but Li Guo is not joking.

"I'm not kidding, the game against South Korea is open, the ball will be more beautiful and the pace of the game will be faster, but at home, I think the opponent must be defensive, put the bus, I don't like this kind of game."

Later facts also proved Li Guo's foresight, after the press conference, the Chinese team officially entered Uzbek time, and the first match at home was about to start.