Chapter 12: Guidolin's Interpersonal Relationships
It is said that after Chen Fei and Perkasi discussed the news that Guidolin was preparing to leave, they decided to temporarily let Guidolin take the last game, and in the 10th round away against "Little Pepper" Lecce. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis is also proposed by Chen Fei to Perkasi, in order to fully understand the situation of the players and the team when they are playing on the field through watching the game: tactical design, player mentality, player ability, on-the-spot command, etc. Although Chen Fei knows very well the outcome of the 1-5 defeat to Lecce, what is more worrying than this result is the current mess of the first team. What's going on? What happened at the race in Lecce gave everyone the answer.
On October 31, 1993, at the Estadio del Marais in Lecce, the boys of the first team made an expedition to Lecce (the city of Lecce is located in the southeast of Italy, right in the heel of the heel of the Italian territory). There were also several people in the stands: Chairman Antonio Percasi, commercial head Laura Percasi, head of athletics and first-team leader Carmine Gentille, and of course the new head coach Chen Fei, but all this, the "bald donkey" Guidolin sitting on the sidelines does not know for the time being.
Atalanta's line-up was not unexpected: goalkeeper Ferron; Backline Curtisporte, Valentini, Poggi, Montero; Midfielders Alemao, Minaudo, Sozer, Magni; Forwards Lamberti, Gantz. Guidolin still used the 4-4-2 formation, which was the most popular and popular formation of the era, and did not set up a high school forward in the traditional sense, but made Lamberti a 9.5-like role, which was actually a bit like a 4-4-1-1. Gantz is also not tall, but his footwork and impact are quite good, so Guidolin's Atalanta team is very important to cooperate with the ground flow. Chinese fans give Guidorin the nickname "Xiao Zhuge ", which means that he has the same analytical ability as Zhuge Liang, can do "watch people put dishes on the plate", targeted according to the existing configuration design tactics, in fact, in the discovery of talent is also quite a set, the 2006 World Cup made Huang someone crazy roar for the "great left-back" Fabio Grosso, Guidolin found and reused from an amateur club.
It's just that Guidolin has a very hard point, which is dealing with interpersonal relationships. You know, no matter how good the set-up is, it needs to be executed correctly, and it is essential for the players and coaches to be on the same page. As for Guidolin, his stubbornness made many players complain about him, so when he got on the field, the performance of the players was shocking. Facing "Little Pepper" Lecce, who is not very combative, the glory of the son of the sea god was smashed at the Del Marais stadium.
The Son of Poseidon's defense only lasted 15 minutes before it was lost: central defender Valentini played with fire 10 meters in front of his penalty area, and was cut off by the opponent's top scorer Valdieri and took a long shot straight forward, goalkeeper Ferron couldn't reach it, 1-0! Guidolin shook his head and shouted, "It's still early, cheer up!" Then he sat back down, but it didn't seem that the players paid much attention to it, and even turned their heads to look at the bench, only a few people such as Ferron and Alemao.
After another 10 minutes, Ferron's ten fingers were pierced again, this time it was Baldieri who scored, and this time it was the central defender Valentini who played with fire just now! Lecce crossed from the left, Valentini jumped up and prepared to clear the ball with a header, but he didn't think that his clearance was not far away, but coincidentally, he flew towards Valdieri! The latter, of course, will not miss this "gift package" sent to the door, directly stretching out his right leg, a volley, sweeping the ball into the absolute dead corner. 2-0!
After conceding the second goal, Guidolin couldn't hold back any longer. He stood up and yelled at Valentini, "Didn't you eat? Can you make this kind of mistake? And Valentini's reaction surprised everyone except Chen Fei: I saw him walk to the sideline to drink water, and halfway through it, he suddenly splashed the rest of the water in the bottle at Guidolin! In fact, Chen Fei was also a little surprised, he knew that Guidolin was not good at having a good relationship with players, but he didn't expect that the season was only in the 10th round, and the relationship between Guidolin and the players had deteriorated to the point of being like this.
Seeing this scene, the captain Ferron, hurriedly rushed out of the penalty area to grab Valentini, and whispered a few words to him before Valentini walked back to the field angrily. It's just that all this is just a microcosm of the current discord between the sea gods, and the nightmare of the Bergamo people is far from over.
In the 41st minute, Lecce's third goal arrived: Valdieri retreated into midfield to win the ball and slotted a through ball to a black striker in front of him, who slotted home the far corner. After the goal, the big screen at the scene gave a close-up of the player, Chen Fei always felt that the face seemed to be three points familiar, and then looked at the player's name on the big screen: Kwame Ayew! (KwameAyew), you must know that this surname is special enough, in the impression of Chen Fei's later generations, there are two brothers who are also surnamed Ayew, and they are both international players of Ghana, is it possible, what does this Ayew have to do with those two?
In fact, Chen Fei happened to be right, because this Ayu is none other than the uncle of the later Ghana Brothers international Andre and Jordan! And his brother, the father of Andre and Jordan, is the African Pele who has just won the Champions League! Of course, Andre was only 4 years old at this time, and the younger Jordan was only 2 years old, Chen Fei obviously couldn't fight the idea of the two brothers at this time, but after noticing this surname, Chen Fei secretly decided to investigate their family, and it was Chen Fei's decision that later made the legendary story of Ayou's three generals all working for Chen Fei.
And, in fact, this Kwame Ayew also has a lot of connections with China, because he joined Shenyang Jinde in China 10 years later, and became the top scorer in the last League A (14 goals). He then played for Shanghai International, where he won his first top scorer in the Chinese Super League (17 goals) until he returned to Portugal in 2006 to end his career. It's just that Chen Fei in later generations didn't pay much attention to the domestic football circle when he arrived at the last generation of A-A, so he was not very impressed by this Ayou.
Of course, the game was still going on, and the remaining six minutes, including stoppage time, were quickly exhausted, and Lecce led the visiting Atalanta 3-0 at home. At half-time, the players all went back to the dressing room. Of course, Chen Fei didn't know what was going on in the locker room, but when he walked out of the locker room, Chen Fei noticed a detail: Lecce's players would still high-five or have a simple exchange with Sonetti when the head coach Sonetti came out, while the Atalanta players regarded Guidolin as air and walked straight over, even lacking physical communication.
The second half started and it was true that the situation was not much different from the first, Lecce still threatened Atalanta's already demoralized defence with waves of attacks, and the fourth goal conceded came naturally in the 59th minute. Lecce defender Padalino made a long pass, accurately found the successful anti-offside Ayew, Ayew poked the ball with his toes, but unexpectedly, the ball was actually shoveled into his own goal by Atalanta defender Poggi who returned to the defense, 4-0!
Guidolin on the sidelines could no longer be described as angry, he had almost lost his mind. In fact, although Poggi scored an own goal, without him, Ayew would have had a chance to face the goalkeeper alone. It can be said that for Poggy, he is almost at fault, only a little less lucky, but Poggi's efforts have been exchanged for a scolding from Guidolin. Captain Ferron showed the value of Big Brother and stepped forward to touch Poggi's head and comfort him. Of course, in fact, Ferron himself was not comfortable, and it was quite a shame for an Italian goalkeeper to score 4 goals.
At this time, the substitution card on the sidelines was raised, and Guidolin replaced Valentini, who had made two mistakes before, with Pavan, and replaced Sozer with Mofeo. The two players who were substituted reacted completely differently: Sozer saw that he was being substituted, looked puzzled, and looked at Guidolin, as if to verify: You are not mistaken, right? Guidolin nodded at him, and Sozer walked off the field slowly, but was clearly puzzled by the coach's need to replace him; Valentini smiled with relief when he saw his number being raised, trotted off the field, and after a brief high-five to Pavan, he walked straight back to the players' tunnel, completely ignoring Guidolin, who tried to come forward.
And at this time, the sharp-eyed Mo Feio actually saw Chen Fei in the stands! He immediately called Pavan, who had also just been brought on the field, to his side and told him, "Chen is watching the game from above!" We're going to do it! Pawan followed Mo Feio's finger and found Chen Fei and his party, and he nodded emphatically. It was Morfeo and Pavan who helped the team rewrite the original history a little.
In the 64th minute, just five minutes after the fourth goal was conceded, Atalanta finally won a rare direct free kick from the 30-meter area on the right side of the penalty area. Alemao set the ball up and prepared to kick it himself, but Mofeo didn't expect to run over at this time. "I'll do it, I'd like to try it." Mofeo said. Alemao didn't stop it, nodding, anyway, it was already lost like this, it was nothing to give this kid a try, so he ran forward, ready to go to the penalty area to grab a point in case Mofeo passed. Mofeo shifted the ball slightly, re-swung it a bit, then stepped back, ran and hit the ball to the bottom of the middle with the inside of his left foot. As soon as Mofeo came out, he felt that the ball was very comfortable to play, and it was probably going to be there. Sure enough, the ball crossed the wall and drilled into the dead corner on the right side of the goal, 4-1!
Atalanta avoided a clean sheet thanks to a goal from Mofeo. But Mo Feio's next behavior surprised everyone: he actually made a flying kiss in the direction of Chen Fei and his party in the stands! And Chen Fei saw this action, and also gave Mo Fei a long thumbs up, Mo Fei's free kick trick helped Chen Fei get out of the predicament more than once at a critical moment, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Mo Fei is his Chen Fei's lucky general. At this time, several big brothers of the first team also gathered around to high-five Mofeo to celebrate the first team goal of the little devil. Of course, there is still nearly half an hour left before the game ends, and the situation in Atlanta is passive, and it seems too difficult to change your life against the sky...
And at this time, Guidolin, who was on the sidelines, was not happy because of the goal. In fact, when he found out that Alemao gave up the right to take the penalty, he was already very angry: the player actually changed the coach's decision on the field without permission, and it happened that the goal was scored again! Guidolin is stubborn, but he is not stupid. The team regained some dignity, and it was obvious that he couldn't spoil their happiness at this time, so he suppressed his dissatisfaction and applauded twice.
Seeing that Mofeo scored, Pawan was both happy for Mofeo and unwilling, although I am a defender, I can also help the attack! Thinking of this, Pavan called Mofeo to his side and muttered a few words, and Mofeo understood and gave a thumbs up. So, what exactly did they just say?
What happened next gave everyone the answer. After Mofeo's goal, Lecce kicked off in the centre circle and advanced 25 yards in front of the Atalanta penalty area. At this time, I saw Pawan suddenly accelerate, get out of the Poggy next to him, grab at high speed, and cut off the ball at the opponent's feet! After the break, Pavan didn't mean to pass the ball out at the first time, even if the big brother Magny was next to him and shouted for me the ball, Pawan turned a deaf ear, kept carrying the ball by himself, and even passed Baldieri who tried to fight back. After completing the pass, Pawan looked up, kicked the ball high, and shouted: Domenic, here!
In fact, after Pawan completed the steal, Mofeo had already begun to sprint at full speed. Mofeo, who was originally a midfielder, has actually overtaken Lamberti and ran to the parallel line of Gantz. Pavan's pass, which seemed to be out of bounds, was actually aimed at Mofeo's running route, and Mofeo also understood it, received Pavan's pass and completed an extremely beautiful anti-offside position, and now he has left all the opposing defenders behind him and rushed forward. After all, Jiang is still old and spicy, and the first person to react to this strange trick was Gantz, who understood everything at the moment when Mofeo inserted at high speed and touched the ball, and immediately increased his speed and completed the anti-offside position at the same time as Mofeo. And Mofeo saw the insertion of the big brother Gantz, there was no greed, a horizontal push in front of the penalty area, and it was given to the Gantz inserted in the back, and Gantz shot directly without stopping the ball, and the ball drilled into the top left corner of the goal. 4-2!
Guidolin's mentality became very complicated at this time. The player made his own decisions, completely ignoring the plans he had made in advance, and this kind of private decision-making actually had a miraculous effect. Guidolin didn't know that this was actually the blitzkrieg play that Chen Fei used when he was in the youth team, but he also knew that the goal was the most convincing, that is, they succeeded. At this time, Guidolin had mixed feelings, anger, powerlessness, loss and other emotions welled up in his heart, and he knew that these players were not under his control one by one. "Little Zhuge " had a bloodless face and sat back on the bench.
With the current relationship between generals and coaches, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to continue to take charge of the whip of Poseidon: on the one hand, the team's results are poor, only 2 wins and 2 draws in the first 9 rounds, and the draws are all not strong Crimonese and Foggia, and this round was also scored by teams like Lecce 4 in a row; On the other hand, the player no longer has the desire to carry out his plan correctly on the pitch and starts to go his own way, and it is already difficult for him to get his due voice in the dressing room.
And Pavan, the hero who instigated this goal, was actually very nervous before passing the ball, he didn't know if his long pass could be successful, and Pawan was relieved to see Gantz shoot on goal, his efforts were finally not in vain, and Gantz also gave Pavan a thumbs up. Although the team is still behind, there is a faint feeling that after the second goal, everyone seems to have ignited some fighting spirit.
In the ensuing race, Pavan was quite positive: he ran back and forth, left and right, causing headaches for Ayew, Valdieri and others, and his efforts were duly rewarded. Although "Little Pepper" still won 4-2 at home to two points (this season is the last season of the two-point system, and it will be changed to three points from next season), Poseidon's players have a rare little bit of energy. As for Guidolin, this defeat also became the last straw that broke him. The day after the team returned to Bergamo, he was told by Percasi to go to the office. Guidolin seemed to have been prepared for a long time and was very calmly ready to accept his fate after class, while Chen Fei officially came to the front of the stage and became the new coach of the son of the sea god.