Chapter 22 Purge

Degan's completely reckless lashing has caused an uproar in world football, where there have been conflicts between players and managers in the past, but this time, Deegan is clearly more intense than anyone before.

In particular, the sentence: "Wilmots will only completely destroy the foundation that Belgian football has built so hard!" ”

As soon as this sentence is said, basically Deegan and Wilmots are incompatible.

Wilmots also countered at the first time: "What he said is not the truth at all, I am very disappointed with Degan's remarks, he is the captain of the national team, what he should do is to assist me in my work, not to play the role of a black sheep, I can understand his thoughts, he wants to be the king of Belgian football, I hope that in the national team, everything is up to him, but I told him that it is impossible, because I am the head coach of the Belgian national team, here, only I can have the final say, I don't want to play anyone's puppet! ”

Wilmots's remarks made many Belgian fans can't help but lean towards his side, after all, Wilmots is the head coach of the team, even if he has no convincing coaching experience, but after all, he was once the banner figure of Belgian football, and his prestige among fans is still very high.

After complaining in front of the media, Wilmots immediately approached the president of the Belgian Football Federation, Koles Michael, hoping to get the support of the Football Association.

This time, Colesmike was not firmly on Degan's side, as Wilmotz said, it was time to teach Deegan a lesson.

Before, Degan gave Colesmike the feeling that he really didn't take the Belgian Football Association seriously, especially after winning the World Cup, the Belgian Football Association originally arranged a lot of celebrations, but Degan, the captain, left early and went to South Korea with his girlfriend, which made the bigwigs of the Football Association very dissatisfied.

What's more, this time, even if Degan has an opinion about Wilmots, it can be solved in other more correct ways, and as a result, Degan made unauthorized remarks and criticized the team's head coach without communicating with the Football Association, which is absolutely intolerable.

As a result, the day after Digan's outbreak, the Belgian Football Association quickly held a press conference, at which Wilmots, as the winner, proudly announced to all reporters that Digan would be expelled from the Belgian national team.

This decision came as a surprise to all the reporters present, who have been the most unshakable core and leader of Belgian football for more than five years.

Now it's right to expel Degan!

The news that Degan was expelled from the Belgian national team was thrown into international football like a bombshell, and it was a hundred times more explosive than Degan's previous remarks against Wilmots.

Who is Degan?

It is a symbol of Belgian football, and it can even be said that it can never be surpassed in the history of Belgian football, and if it were not for Digan, perhaps Belgian football would still be struggling in the trough.

Since joining the Belgian national team in 2005, Deegan has participated in three international competitions, including in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, played with an injury, led Belgium to win the runner-up, and then in the 2008 European Cup, Deegan led the team all the way through, defeated the invincible Spain and finally won the cup, in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, Deegan was the captain, won the Hercules Cup for Belgium, and was crowned the title of world football king in one fell swoop.

But now, Degan has been expelled from the national team!

Almost immediately, the former head coach of the Belgian national team, Antienes, criticized Wilmots's approach in an interview: "Although Rod's remarks are a bit radical, but I believe he is for the good of Belgian football, Wilmots's approach is too stupid, for the past five years, Digan has been a symbol of Belgian football, and now he wants to exclude the best players from the national team." ”

To this, Wilmots immediately responded: "I am not Antienes, in my team, I have to make some rules, here, I am the boss of the team, no one can be above me, I will not be like Antienes, as a puppet to survive, give the rights of the team, to an inexperienced player, that is ridiculous!" ”

Fans protested Wilmots's move and demanded that the Football Association retract the decision, but by this time, Digan had already left Brussels and returned to Barcelona.

At the airport, Dugan gave a brief interview to reporters: "I respect his decision, since he thinks that I am useless to the Belgian national team, I will leave immediately, but I still have to say that Wilmots's so-called tactical reform of Belgian football is a crime, he is destroying the foundation of the European Red Devils' pride, I don't want to make any comments about him now, in short, he is the most crappy coach I have ever met!" ”

Deegan is gone, another star in international football who was expelled from the national team because of a conflict with the head coach, in fact, like Degan, it was really uncommon in the past.

One of the most famous is that Manchester United superstar Eric Cantona used to captain the French national team, but this famous "bad boy" has paid a terrible price for his own personality and has become an outcast for the national team.

The reason why Cantona was expelled from the national team is hilarious, after a national team game, he threw his shirt in the face of the national team coach Michel and scolded: "You are the most incompetent coach in the world!" ”

Michelle was furious and expelled Cantona from the national team.

Of course, there is also the more romantic claim that no other team but Manchester United can control this mustang, including his national team.

After that, the French team opened a new era of attacking in front led by Zinedine Zidane and Djokaeff.

There is also a character man who is the "Tiger" Effenberg who has achieved outstanding achievements in his club career, but the excellent Tiger only had the experience of the 1994 World Cup, and it ended in embarrassment due to an accident.

In Germany's 3-2 win over South Korea in the final group game, Effenberg, after being replaced by Helmer, openly raised his middle finger to the fans who insulted him on the sidelines and got into a big fight in the dressing room with Vogtz, then head coach of the German national team.

The move was infinitely magnified in front of the TV cameras, and the German Football Association had to make the decision to permanently expel him from the national team, and finally the defending champion Germany team was eliminated by Bulgaria in the quarter-finals, and since then, Effenberg, who has performed well in the league and European competitions, has not been included in the German national team.

In fact, after Vogts was sacked in 1998, Germany's new coach Riebeck tried to recruit Eeffenberg into the national team, but he refused, this star who made great achievements for Bayern in the league and the Champions Cup, has always been considered the best midfielder in Germany at that time, but because of a ban, he was not connected with the national team.

Roy, who is also hot-tempered. Keane had the same experience, returning to the World Cup for the first time in eight years in the summer of 2002 when Roy Keane was at the peak of his life at Manchester United. Keane went on the expedition as captain.

However, during the team's preparations, the hot-tempered Keane broke out irreconcilable contradictions with coach McCarthy, and the open-mouthed Keane even bluntly said: "You play football is, being a coach is also, the only reason why I am wasting time with you here is because you are my national team coach, but you are not even an Irishman, you England 2B, I. Dry. You. Mother. Target. ”

As soon as such evil words came out, what awaited him was naturally the punishment of expulsion from the team, and the Irish team without Keane was united because of this, and dragged Spain to a penalty shootout after qualifying from the group.

In the same World Cup, Slovenian "ball tyrant" Zahovic was also expelled, Zahovic and the then coach Katanic have a long history of conflict, in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers, Zahovic was excluded from the game against the Czech Republic due to a verbal altercation with the coach.

In the South Korea-Japan World Cup finals, the relationship between the two was ignited like a powder keg, after losing 1:3 to Spain in the first game of the group, Zahovic, who was replaced early, pointed to Katanic is a scolding, and the media even reported that the latter as the coach was "scolded and cried", and the spokesman of the Slovenian team quickly responded, confirming that the number one star Zahovic went home early.

There is also the Dutch Surinamese star Davies, who also caused a storm of removal in the first major tournament of his career, and in the 1996 European Championship, the conflict between black and white players in the Dutch team was seriously intensified, and then coach Guus Hiddink did not mediate in time.

The humiliated Davies bombarded Hiddink on a subsequent radio program, and the two had a quarrel on the training ground the next day, and the 23-year-old Davies was also expelled from the team, and the Dutch team, which was constantly strife, was finally kicked out by the French team in the quarterfinals.

Now, the same thing is happening to Degan's head, and many people have responded to this in the first place.

"It's crazy, I know Rod, he's not a reckless person." Hamsik, who has been a teammate with Deegan for a long time, naturally wants to support his old captain, "I have worked with Rod for many years, he is definitely not as rude as most people think, I think Coach Prandley can testify, I think Wilmots must be crazy, how can he do this, but in this way, maybe the next game, we will be much easier!" ”

In the qualifiers for next year's European Championship, Belgium and Slovakia were divided into the same group, and in the first match between the two teams, Belgium swept Slovakia 5:0.

Immediately afterwards, the head coach of the Italian team, Prandelli, also stood up to speak for his beloved apprentice: "Rod is not a person who doesn't understand anything and has no experience, in fact, the tactics of Fiorentina were formulated by us together, he has a lot of ideas, maybe this time, Rod just wanted to express his opinion, but was rejected by Coach Wilmots, but even so, the expulsion of Rod from the national team is too crazy!" ”

Back in Spain, Zahavi rushed to Degan's house as soon as possible, and when they met, Zahavi's face was very unsightly, and he couldn't help complaining: "Rod! Now we're really in trouble! ”

Indeed, as Zahavi said, Degan offended Pep Guardiola at club and was removed from Wilmots for the national team, and the situation that was not bad suddenly became a desperate situation.

However, Deegan didn't seem to regret it at all: "Do you want me to make compromises?" Leave that idiot to reform indiscriminately, damn it! Is that also a reform? He just messed around and ruined Belgium completely! ”

Zahavi doesn't want to argue with Degan about these things, the most important thing now is what to do to get Degan back on the field, don't think about it on the national team, it is estimated that if Wilmots does not step down, Degan's national team career is likely to come to an end.

On the club's side, although Guardiola did not explicitly say that he wanted to abandon Digan, but looking at Guardiola's attitude, he was obviously very dissatisfied with Digan, especially the previous incident of leaving the team without permission and going to South Korea, which made Guardiola very annoyed.

"Rod! I don't want to blame you for anything, but this time, we're really in trouble, and it's big trouble! ”

Zahavi said, with a wry smile on his face, in this world, there are still people who would abandon a super player like Degan, no! It's the king of the ball.

But Barcelona has such a capital, because even if they throw Digan aside, there are still Messi, Xavi, and Iniesta, and without the competitor of Digan, Barcelona is also confident that it will achieve a leapfrog breakthrough in the Champions League.

What's next?

Do you continue to wait as we have agreed in South Korea?

Zahavi understands Digan's rock-like personality, and he will never leave until he succeeds, just like AC Milan at the beginning, and he only left calmly after winning the Champions League trophy.

But the biggest problem now is that in Guardiola's eyes, there is only Messi, there is no place for Degan at all, and what worries Zahavi even more is that it is currently in the winter break, and it seems that Barcelona is already looking for a new striker, which is clearly planning to completely abandon Degan's rhythm!

Just half a year ago, Deegan was just crowned the world football king, but after such a short time, Deegan actually stepped into the lowest point of his life.