Football is a lively sport, but UEFA's headquarters are located on the shores of Lake Geneva.

The silence is broken today.

Lin Sen was not late, but he didn't arrive too early, when he got out of the car, there were already reporters waiting at the door of the car, several cameras less than a meter away from Lin Sen were aimed at his face, so that Lin Sen, who was too serious, was a little uncomfortable, but he still piled up his smile, trying to make himself look relaxed and comfortable, at this occasion, there is no place to ask "how to pretend to come often" such a question.

Maybe it was because he knew that the interview time was limited, and the questions asked by the reporter who put the microphone in front of him were nothing new, basically all of them were questions such as how he felt when he came for the first time, and Lin Sen's answer was even less innovative, and the most he said was honor.

Just when Lin Sen finished a brief interview and was about to walk into the headquarters building, he heard a sudden commotion from the reporters behind him, Lin Sen turned his head to take a look, and found that there was a black SUV again, the door opened, and the person who walked down was the current Inter Milan coach Mourinho. Compared with Lin Sen, Mourinho, who is obviously familiar with the road, is much more relaxed, as soon as he got out of the car, he stood in place and paused, waiting for the reporter to come up, and then faced the camera, Mourinho began to talk and laugh.

Lin Sen hesitated slightly, then stopped in place.

The purpose, naturally, is to wait for Mourinho.

Of course, this is not that he wants to make friends, although he and Mourinho have only met once, but text messages and phone calls are also considered familiar, coming here today, Lin Sen expects to meet three acquaintances, but in fact, they are not so familiar, Mourinho is one of them, the other two are Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola and Pellegrini who is already the head coach of Real Madrid.

Other famous marshals are basically people you know who others don't know you.

The Tao is different, and it is not conspiratory. Linson felt that his Tao was at least similar to Mourinho's. What's more, the two are still the same agent. If it is Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger who is coming now, Linson will definitely not stop, not because he has an opinion on Wenger, but because the football philosophy of the two is fundamentally incompatible, not to mention, the next round of the Premier League two people will stage a Mars collision with the earth, what do you ask Linsen to talk to Wenger? Talk about how I'm going to beat you, how are you going to beat me?

Therefore, it is difficult for two people who do not have a common topic to become friends. Football was originally the best common topic, but the two people saw football as different at all.

Mourinho was quick to notice Linsen standing in front. He ended the reporters' interview with a smile and walked over quickly.

"The suit is good." Mourinho's first sentence made Lin Sen smile bitterly.

Before Lin Sen subconsciously thought that the elite coaching forum held by UEFA should be a very formal gathering, but he didn't expect that a party is a party, and no one will stipulate what clothes need to be worn, in fact, personality is the most needed factor in this forum. Look at Mourinho at the moment, although he is also wearing a suit, but inside the open suit, he is wearing a gray T-shirt very casually. How can he be as serious as Lin Sen.

"It was a mistake." Lin Sen shook his head and said.

"Haha. It's really good. Mourinho laughed, "It's not like you, though." ”

"I thought it should have been more formal."

"It looks formal, but it's just a bunch of people who can't be persuaded trying to convince others."

"Looks like I'm on the wrong side?"

"Nope. How could it be. Every word they say is useful, understand them. It's the best opportunity, and, here. You're always going to meet some old friends. ”

……

Lin Sen and Mourinho walked side by side, chatting without a word, and Lin Sen's previous discomfort seemed to disappear.

When the two walked into the conference room, Lin Sen's eyes suddenly lit up.

In the center of the conference room, there are four rows of seats arranged around the square, and some people are already sitting on the seats, such as Bordeaux coach Blank and Atletico Madrid's coach Recino, because the meeting has not officially started, there are also people standing and talking in twos and threes, most of these people are old acquaintances, such as Juventus coach Ferrara and Marseille coach Didier Deschamps.

Interestingly, the head coach of the Premier League this year, including Linsen, came to five people, and all the managers of the traditional four giants arrived, and at this time, Ferguson was chatting with Wenger, the pair of sworn enemies who had just "finished fighting" on the field, but at this time they were like two old friends, maybe they were both friends and enemies, and standing next to the two of them at this time was Ancelotti.

When Lin Sen and Mourinho walked in together, many people in the conference room looked up, and some people nodded at this side, which was regarded as a greeting, of course, most of them were to greet Mourinho, but Lin Sen was not nothing.

Linsen and Mourinho looked at each other, and the two walked away to find their friends, Mourinho walked towards Ferguson, and Linsen walked towards Pellegrini.

I haven't seen him for a few months, Pellegrini is getting more and more energetic, and now he is the head coach of Real Madrid, which is much more advanced than Linson when he enters Manchester City, after all, Linsen is just a local tyrant, and Pellegrini can be said to have married into a giant. It's just that once he enters the giants, is Pellegrini ready?

Linsen and Pellegrini had been chatting for less than five minutes before they saw three people walk into the conference room together, namely UEFA's head of technical department, Lupescu, head of competition, Marchetti, and the head of the refereeing department, the famous bald referee Collina, who knew that the meeting was about to begin.

It was Lupescu who presided over the meeting, and Lin Sen found his place and sat down, because in front of each position, there was a sign with everyone's name and his identity, that is, which team he coached, there were not many things on the table, a headset to provide translation, a microphone, and a text jiàn, which was the main topic of today's meeting.

Sitting on the left of Linsen is Bordeaux coach Blanke, and on the right is AC Milan coach Leonardo, for Linsen, these two are just a few years later the new European tycoon Paris Saint-Germain "partner", but at that time, Blanc was still the head coach. Leonardo, on the other hand, became director of football. After nodding and greeting the two, Lin Sen sat down quietly and began to wait for all kinds of high-level theories that almost represented the highest level of coaches on the planet.

True, today he only brought ears and did not intend to speak. Although he has a memory ahead of his time, it doesn't mean that he is the best manager in the world, he just has some advantages that others don't have, and he doesn't think that he has the capital to talk about it here, so let's make a fortune quietly. In a coaching session like this, every minute counts as an asset.

After the start of the meeting, Lupescu first elaborated on some of UEFA's reform plans for the Champions League and Europa League, and then Corina went on to explain some things about refereeing, such as the introduction of goal-line referees, in fact, last year's U19 European Youth Championship, UEFA tried out goal-line referees, and the effect was very good. Collina, who has just made the switch from the Italian refereeing committee to UEFA, is also a supporter of goal-line refereeing, but changes similar to this system are easy to say but generally difficult to implement. Obviously, UEFA is talking about this at this time, and it also hopes to get the support of the coaches here. For this, Lin Sen actually wanted to say that he didn't have to wait too long at all. It will be implemented next year, and it will be an all-ticket pass. Because in next year's World Cup in South Africa, the England team will be "sacrificed" by themselves. In exchange for the world's support for the addition of goal-line referees.

After the speeches of two UEFA officials, the meeting was quickly handed over to the head coaches present.

Arsene Wenger has something to say about the role of the modern coach, and Ancelotti has something to say about how the coach can cope with the demands of the current high-intensity competition...... The meeting did not require everyone to speak, but almost everyone had an opinion on a certain aspect, except for Lin Sen, who remained silent and then wrote something in his notebook from time to time.

The climax of the meeting inevitably came over the battle of styles of football, at which Pep Guardiola and Mourinho both blushed and thickened.

The controversy stemmed from Pep Guardio's decision to increase the penalties for physical contact in matches, but his statement was quickly opposed by Mourinho. Because it is clear that Pep Guardiola's mention is to make his Barcelona control the ball more thoroughly.

"Can I mention that UEFA should learn from the NBA in the United States and set time for each offense?"

Not to be outdone, Pep Guardiola was not to be outdone by Mourinho's ridicule: "I think Mr. Mourinho is stealing the concept and not advocating physical contact to make football games more fluid and beautiful, and too much physical contact will only make football uglier." ”

"What is physical contact? The rules of football have been set for a long time, and if every team can try to change the rules to suit their own style of football, then what's the point of such football? Every team has its own way of playing, and every style should be respected. Football is supposed to be a variety of styles to look good. ”

'The style of football depends on the manager and I think Mr Mourinho puts the result before the best.

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The two most popular managers in Europe today are fighting with each other, and the other managers are all silent with interest, Lin Sen has long known that these two people are destined to be pinched when they meet, and then as Mourinho said before, no one can convince anyone, and the result of the argument is destined to be fruitless, so Lin Sen turned his attention to other managers.

Ferguson's eyes were lowered and he had a strange smile on his face, Wenger was calm, and Benitez had a look of distraction......

What an old fox!

Lin Sen said secretly in his heart, but he could only remain silent, it was pointless to support Mourinho, and Mourinho did not need his support, because this was destined to be an unsolvable topic.

Putting the final word on the Mourinho and Pep Guardiola controversy? At least no one has the ability to do that yet. (To be continued......)