Chapter 178: Too Capricious
The owners of Al Ain Club smiled crookedly when they learned that their quarter-final opponent was Springs. Quancheng are considered the weakest team in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League, and certainly the best team to bully......
The boss of Al Ain seems to have seen them easily reach the last four of the AFC Champions League, and in the face of a team like Springs that has reached the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League for the first time, the owner of Al Ain really can't arouse much interest.
He even made a suggestion to their club's head coach that all outside players in the squad be allowed to sit on the bench for the two rounds against Springs.
This suggestion fully reflects his contempt for the Quancheng team!
Of course, the reason for this suggestion is definitely not only because he despises the Spring City team, but he also has a deeper idea, that is, to save a little face in front of the Asian media.
In recent years, Al Ain has performed very well in the AFC Champions League, but the Asian media have not bought them.
Most of the Asian media are full of contempt for the Al Ain team, believing that Al Ain's repeated success in the AFC Champions League is entirely due to foreign aid, and the quality of their own players is really unflattering.
Although the Emirati doesn't care too much about the strength and glory of his country's football, he is still very unhappy to be despised by the media.
Therefore, he wants to put all the foreign players on the bench in this quarter-final against the Spring City team, so that all the eleven players on the field are players from their own country!
He wanted to slap the Asian media in the face. He wants to prove to the media who despise Al Ain that Al Ain is not only able to achieve this in the AFC Champions League because of foreign players, but also to reach the last four of the AFC Champions League even if they only rely on their own players!
The wealthy UAE man doesn't take the Springs team seriously in the slightest, and he feels that even if Al Ain is all played by local players, he can still eliminate the Springs team effortlessly.
Who called the Spring City team a soft persimmon in the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League...... If this were against other teams, the owner of the Al Ain team would never have such an idea, he just saw the good bullying of the Spring City team!
But is the Quancheng team really easy to bully? The head coach of Al Ain did not dare to think like that. Being able to eliminate Ittihad and successfully advance to the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League is enough to prove that the strength of the Spring City team is not bad.
At the very least, it won't be as bad as the owner of Al Ain thinks, although every game in the AFC Champions League looks like it's going to be tough. However, as one of the last eight teams to remain in the AFC Champions League. How bad can their strength be?
The head coach of Al Ain wants to tell his boss not to be underestimated, and the Springs team has quite a lot of quality, and they have a player who can change the whole game on his own - he refers to Lin Qi.
But the words came to the lips. He swallowed it again. He remembered his ex. The head coach who had the audacity to hit the boss in front of him. Now the head coach has long been at the bottom of UAE football, and he can only coach an amateur team for free.
In the UAE, those who have money are also some very powerful people. They like to invest in football, but they don't know anything about it. And these local tyrants are quite self-righteous, and they don't allow their teams to disobey them.
Not even a little bit!
The Al Ain boss seems to be just giving advice to their manager, but if the Al Ain manager refutes his boss, his fate could be extremely miserable.
For the sake of his own future, the head coach of the Al Ain team "humbly" accepted the advice of his boss, and he decided to send all his domestic players to play in the first game against the Spring City team!
In his opinion, this doesn't seem to be a big deal, at most, it is to send a few more defenders on the field, as long as the defenders of the Al Ain team can watch the No. 9 Lin Qi of the Spring City team on the field, that draw is still completely promising.
After accepting the advice of his boss, the head coach of Al Ain has no hope of winning the first round of the game, and he is only hoping to rely on more defensive strength to force the Spring City team.
And if Al Ain can't win the first round, their boss may not let the foreign players play anymore. After all, on the football field, the so-called face is far less important than the victory of the game.
The head coach of the Al Ain team regards the first round of the AFC Champions League with the Quancheng team as a training for his own players, and he knows his own domestic players very well.
However, regardless of the result of the first round, the head coach of the Al Ain team is full of absolute confidence in the elimination of Springs in the second round! He believes that those non-national players under his command, that is, those foreign players, will definitely be able to make the Spring City team helpless in the second round of the game!
It is precisely because of this absolute confidence that the head coach of Al Ain dared to boldly follow the advice of his boss in the first round of the game.
Of course, this is also why he doesn't listen. If he really dares not to listen, he will not wait until tomorrow, and maybe his coaching career will be over......
Despite the confidence to knock out the Spring City team, the head coach of the Al Ain team couldn't help but sigh. He is sighing for his fate and, more importantly, for the fate of UAE football.
At a time when the whole of Asia and even the whole world is actively developing football, their football in the UAE is completely occupied by a group of local tyrants who are "rich and uneducated".
The existence of these local tycoons has indeed made UAE football proud in the AFC Champions League, but if this development continues, the strength of their own football will eventually be further and further away from other Asian countries......
The head coach of Al Ain is not the kind of person who has no heart either, and as an Emirati, he certainly wants football in his country to really rise.
But when it comes to the current state of football in the UAE, there is nothing he can do. He could only sigh, then looked up at his boss's back as he walked to the office.
"It's too capricious, the world of rich people is too capricious, and they don't respect the development of football at all. I really hope that these tycoons can only contribute money and not contribute, their strength is simply helping......" The head coach of the Al Ain team muttered softly, his wish was realized in the near future, but it is a pity that at that time, the UAE tycoons threw all their money into Europe, the world's top arena...... (To be continued......)