Chapter 250: Venables the Odd Man
The stuffy man thought that the national team would only play a dozen games a year, so he would be a little more relaxed, but after actually becoming the coach of the Three Lions, Li Tongfan found that he was very wrong - from the first second after participating in the press conference, he had to be like a spinning top with full horsepower to stop for a moment!
The first thing you have to do is to solve your own personal problems - find a suitable place to live in the UK as soon as possible!
Because the stingy FA will not spend a lot of money to rent a luxury villa for Lao Li like Real Madrid. And if nothing else, Lao Li's more than 100 catties of pork belly will not have the opportunity to leave the British Isles within a year, so he can't stay in a hotel all the time, right?
Moreover, a very traditional Chinese sullen man like Li Tongfan can only have a sense of home and a sense of security when he buys his own property! Now that you've made up your mind to stay in England, it's imperative to buy a property!
This matter is left to [Shining Red Star] and the real estate agent in the UK...... Next!
In addition to personal issues, in his position, Li Tongfan has to think carefully about the affairs of the England national team!
Judging from the problems at hand, what needs to be done to lead the national team is much more troublesome than in Real Madrid, because in Real Madrid, assistant coaches and other members of the coaching staff are ready-made, as long as they are familiar with each other, they can ensure the orderly operation of the team, and Li Tongfan only needs to be a hands-off shopkeeper!
But in the Three Lions, Lao Li had to do it himself, and the stretcher belonged to his own leadership team, because after Uncle McLaren rolled up the bedding and got out, the original national team coaching staff was disbanded!
In fact, even if it is not disbanded, Lao Li is not willing to continue to use the "second-hand goods" used by McLaren, the Three Lions are performing poorly, and these guys who are vegetarian in the corpse position also have an unshirkable responsibility!
The idiom of a son of heaven and a courtier applies not only to the players, but also to the coaching team!
The most important thing in the coaching team is naturally the assistant coach, especially for the coach who has grown up almost by cheating, and the assistant coach who has no use is simply cutting off his hands and feet, and it is difficult to move an inch!
But the most fatal problem now is that Lao Li has no acquaintances in England at all, who to find as an assistant coach?
Greid?
Alas, Lao Ge's loyalty to Real Madrid is comparable to Yue Wumu's treatment of Zhao Gou, even if he doesn't need twelve gold medals, he is eaten to death, Li Tongfan thinks that although the relationship with Lao Ge is iron, it has not reached the point where Lao Ge abandons his "old lover" Real Madrid and rushes to vote!
As for the others, it is even worse, Li Tong Fan thought about it, and suddenly whimsically thought of an "earth-shattering" big man - Venables!
In the world of English football, Venables is definitely a strange man!
First of all, he is famous!
Venables has coached Tottenham, Barcelona and Crystal Palace, as an English football coach, Venables has also achieved glory in Barcelona, which is very rare in the world of English football, and the reason why Chinese fans are familiar with him is because Venables personally facilitated the transfer of Chinese players Fan Zhiyi and Sun Jihai to Crystal Palace.
Similarly, in the national team, Venables has also achieved brilliant achievements - succeeding Taylor as England manager in 1994, leading the team to the semi-finals of the European Championship in 1996, only to lose on penalties to champions Germany in the semi-finals, and then resigned due to off-field factors...... Secondly, Venables is an Englishman of the [***] type!
Dressed unkemptly, easy to talk to, and able to approach any stranger with sophistication and familiarity; He never signed any papers, and he hated formal meetings on any occasion. His talks with others are always in the lobby of various hotels, and after the talks, he shakes hands with you, just like the underworld, and everyone is considered to have reached an agreement...... Again, Venables was a great reformer!
It is no exaggeration to say that he was the one who changed the style of English football!
Once upon a time, due to the blind and arrogant isolation of the English football world, when the Three Lions came to China to play many years ago, the Chinese commentators smiled and said: "England's long pass rush is outdated, the Chinese team is now a technical force, and there is still hope for playing against England at home...... What is this concept?
Even China, which has little status in football, began to look down on the England team...... Of course, this also shows that English football was indeed rotten to the extreme at that time!
And then it turned out that the Chinese commentator's words were not wrong, the Three Lions performed extremely badly in the 94 World Cup qualifiers, objectively speaking, even worse than the Chinese team...... So, it was in such a mess that Venables was ordered to rebuild England into a world powerhouse through a series of reforms, shining in Euro 96, with a quick transfer and concise cooperation...... It's a combination of Brazilian football and European football!
The Three Lions of Venables are the most classic national team of all time, and the most difficult to surpass the England national team so far! Some critics have even raised him to the level of influencing the development of world football history, believing that he has created a new genre on the football field - a combination of European football and Brazilian football!
It's a pity that such a highly decorated coach with a surname Ge was rumored to receive kickbacks when buying and selling players during Euro 94, which led to the resignation of Venables after the European Championship in a rage...... Of course, these are not the main reasons why Li Tongfan put the flowers and intestines on Venables, the reason why he chose Venables was the decisive factor for his surname - Venables is a businessman!
A clever tongue is able to speak eloquently, even ...... Even a businessman who does not distinguish between "right and wrong"!
As a young man, Venables was more interested in business than coaching, buying and selling players, taking kickbacks, and embezzling club money, all of which were almost open secrets at the time...... And this is officially the reason why Lee Tong-beom thinks he is a strange person - because Venables has done so many things that are enough to go to prison, but he can always get out, and even fans and reporters will be on his side, and during Venerbules' tenure at Tottenham, fans even staged huge demonstrations to protect this "criminal".
You must know that the coach of the England national team is not everyone can sit, because sitting in this position is equivalent to sitting in the most dangerous position in the world, especially those journalists, once you can't get along with them happily, then even if you Li Tongfan is called "God on the side of the football field", you can't sit comfortably in this position, because soon countless saliva will drown you...... But dealing with this kind of thing is a piece of cake for Venables, and that's what he does best. Why can Venables and Eriksen sit in this position, but Hoddle and Keegan can't, the reason is actually here, the first two people are the kind of people who are good at dealing with the media!
Li Tongfan's current purpose is to invite this old man with a mixed reputation and underestimated by the world and his own motherland to return to the national team and let him be his assistant coach, and with such a "good hall and kitchen" with huge energy in the town, the work of the stuffy man in the Three Lions will be much easier in the future!
However, it will be difficult to invite Venables back to the mountain!
Belch...... To be precise, it's not small, it's very, very, very big!
Because the old man had just rejected the FA's invitation to be the coach of the national team before this, since it is not uncommon for people to even be a manager, they will come to help you do chores?
However, how do you know without giving it a try?
After Li Tongfan locked himself in the hotel for three days and three nights and made a detailed plan, he went out with confidence!
As the manager of the rookie Three Lions, the media will focus on the stuffy man more closely than the wanted criminal, when the Sun, every Express, every Post, London Post...... Almost all of England's most prestigious media reporters followed all the way, and when they finally found out that the madman Lee had entered Venables' mansion outside London, everyone looked at each other...... Two or three hours later!
"The humble madman Lee visits Venables to ask for coaching experience......" - The London Post!
"Whimsical Maniac Lee Invites Embarrassed Bulls to Join His Coaching Team ......" - Every Flash!
"Stupid, does Crazy Lee think he's still in Spain? β¦β¦ Will the [villain] Venables, who has just rejected the FA's invitation, deign to accept the command of the madman Lee? "βThe Times!
"I'm disappointed in the first move of the madman Lee, who is like a reckless young man who doesn't seem to have figured out ......the situation when he first arrives" - Liverpool Post!
"Crazy Lee's plan is understandable, on the one hand, he has not been the head coach for a long time, only a year, and the lack of connections of Crazy Lee can not find an assistant coach suitable for him in the first place...... However, I am also not optimistic that he will be able to attract Venables, and everyone knows what kind of man that guy is, and the gentlemanly demeanor that the English pride himself on is bullshit in the eyes of Venables...... "- The Weekly Express!
ββ¦β¦ Smart decision, if Venablesken comes out to assist the madman Lee, then the Three Lions' European Championship victory will no longer be a dream, and the two of them are a natural couple, an old madman and a little madman...... However, such hope seems a bit slim......" - [***]!
β¦β¦ The England national team manager is indeed a highly transparent profession, and within three or four hours of Lee Tong-beom's arrival at the Venables mansion, all sorts of comments have already appeared on major websites, and fast-moving newspapers have even published small special editions that are on par with criticism and praise...... At this moment, the whole of England knew that the little madman had gone to find the old madman, and everyone gloated and waited to see the embarrassing appearance of the madman Li returning from the wall...... However, to the madness of the reporters, the madman Lee never came out again after entering the mansion in Venables, and if it weren't for the front and back doors blocked by peers, the reporters would have begun to wonder if the stuffy man had sneaked out the back door!
What's even more exaggerated is that the madman Li didn't show up until nightfall!
Early the next morning!
When the morning sun paints the green trees of the lawns on the outskirts of London, and mischievous chickadees begin to chirp and sing good morning songs, the doors of the Venables are finally opened...... When the energetic 64-year-old owner appeared in front of everyone in pajamas with the smiling madman Lee, all the sleepy-eyed and red-eyed reporters flew around...... And then!
A mischievous smile appeared on the old face of Venables: "Yes, I decided to join Lee's team as an assistant coach......"
Boom~~~ The world is in chaos again!
The reporters looked at each other, the madman Lee once again created a "miracle", what even the FA couldn't do, how did he do it?
(To be continued)