13- Patriot

Liu Bo has heard a lot that football agents encourage their players to do things that they shouldn't do for their own interests. From training strikes, match-fixing, to injury fraud, nonsense, it's all on the list. It's just that he didn't expect that Lao Niu had not yet become his agent, and he was already making this kind of calculation, and he was a little surprised by this.

"What do you think is bad for the national team?"

"It's hard to get honours when you play for the national team." Lao Niu said simply and directly, "The national team is different from the club, and there are economic factors in club football, so everyone will be very restrained because it is work." But the national team is different, playing in the national team, there are many unknown factors, so ......"

"So it's hard to win."

"You don't know what the national football team looks like. Becoming an international player has its advantages - playing for a local club, at most you can be loved by fans in a region, and being an international player can be loved by the whole country, which is very helpful for the economy and good for fame. Also, the level of quality of the players in the national team is very helpful for young people – I'm an agent, I only think about the players, so I think about that. In the same way, I also have to consider whether playing for the national team will increase the chance of injury and not winning the championship, and at the same time, because of the impact of some national team affairs, will it cause reputational damage. ”

"How can a national team match cause reputational damage?"

"There's infighting in the Dutch dressing room again, you know? Robben's iron rod is now a joke, isn't that damaging his reputation? If you look at Ribery again, he usually doesn't get a lot of attention in the national team, but when it comes to the most critical game, he is injured, which becomes evidence that he usually doesn't play well. They're on a strong team and they can still win. How much impact do you want this kind of thing to have on the average young player? ”

In this regard, Liu Bo was silent. It is true that the national team competition is different from the club. In club competitions, there will definitely be no such messy infighting, injury and retirement problems. In the national team, the players go for honor, not money, and it is easy to have this kind of problem of no one obeying anyone. The Netherlands and France are all national teams that claim to have a tradition of infighting, and after each infighting, isn't the reputation of those players greatly damaged? The so-called Netherlands, France, Belgium, and the triumvirate of infighting are definitely not good words.

Of course, the Chinese national team is not like them, there is a battle between black and white, and even this East and West Africa dispute. However, how is the regional competition of the Chinese national team better than them? Although the infighting of the national football team is not traditional, there are also a lot of rumors. Even if there is no infighting, thinking about what happened to Ribery is indeed pitiful. In this regard, although Liu Bo thinks that he will not be so unlucky, what if he really encounters it?

"It's too difficult to attract attention in the national team competition, and if you want to get results in the national team, you not only need ability, but also luck, timing, and your teammates are good enough and united enough to make people famous with the national team. For so many years, the national team has played better than the club, isn't it just a limited number of Zidane, Da Luo, and Klose? Actually, I would prefer the players to play like Kevin Boateng: when you encounter a big game, come and kick twice, if you don't meet a big game, you can't come, and as soon as the World Cup is over, you will leave the team immediately, and I will ......come back to the next World Cup."

"Uncle Niu, what if I don't want to kick like this?" Liu Bo interrupted him, but he didn't know why Lu Dao was talking like this.

Niu Xinyuan turned his head and looked at Liu Bo, and after a while, he nodded, "Then, I can only say that you are really patriotic, and you are good!" ”