Chapter 9: Asia Tour (6)
Liverpool's big victory over the so-called Korean star team also made Liverpool a little embarrassed, after all, this is just an unusually performative commercial game, not to mention that people also paid a rich appearance fee, and they have to give people a little face.
But if you look at the final result, is that score something that Korean fans can bear, and even Lao Bei himself feels that the players are really unkind, too bad for the opponent to face, and can't even get the most basic show.
The top four teams of the 02 South Korea-Japan World Cup, although they were only a temporary star team, were beaten into a sieve by Liverpool, which also made the South Korean organizers somewhat unhappy, and said a few complaints in front of Liverpool officials in private.
In the face of the South Korean complaint, Liverpool officials also felt a little embarrassed, except to say sorry and didn't know what to do, no way, the game was over, the score was in the newspaper, and it was too late to say anything.
When the Liverpool official in charge of the Asian tour returned to the hotel, found Lao Bei, and complained that Lao Bei was too bad to give face to his opponent. Although Lao Bei also felt that the players were indeed a bit excessive, Lao Bei couldn't blame the players for being too serious and hardworking, so although he was a little embarrassed, Lao Bei replied very unceremoniously: "I am a head coach, I don't care about other things, my only task is to lead the team to win every game, no matter who the opponent is, no matter what the purpose is." Isn't that what you Liverpool are doing to bring me from Spain to England, and if you don't think this is going to work, that's not going to work, then you can just dismiss me as manager. ”
In the face of Lao Bei's tough attitude, the person in charge has no choice, he led Liverpool to win the long-awaited league championship in the first season, and now the entire Liverpool, whether it is the staff, players and fans, are looking forward to Lao Bei continuing to lead Liverpool to a higher podium. If the opinion of dismissing Lao Bei is proposed because of this problem, I am afraid that the Liverpool management will be the first to dismiss him.
There was no way, the person in charge could only comfort Lao Bei, shook his head and walked out of Lao Bei's room.
"Damn, this group of little rabbits is too polite, when you go to Japan and China in the next two stops, you must explain them well, don't be so embarrassed as this time, after all, people are contributing money and effort."
Seeing the person in charge walking out, Lao Bei couldn't help but sigh and think. In fact, Lao Bei's tough attitude just now is entirely because Lao Bei knows very well that it is impossible for the Liverpool management to complain about himself for this reason, and even dismiss himself, so Lao Bei's attitude is so tough.
"Forget it, what do you want to do with this, I'm nothing, I'm just a head coach, and now there is a big problem waiting for me to solve within the team, it's really a headache, let those officials be responsible for these things!" Shaking his head in thought, he began to walk out of the room, towards the room where Alonso was.
Lao Bei knew that it was time to have a good talk with Alonso, otherwise, the eight million pounds he strongly demanded would be too worthless.
The Korean station can be said to have come to an end. The Liverpool men had a good night's rest in the hotel. The next day. I boarded a flight to Japan. The second leg of this Asian tour began.
When Liverpool arrives in Tokyo, Japan. Shanda fans greet the airport. Once again, the Liverpool generals were shocked. Although this Japanese is not good. But compared to the arrogant Koreans. There are still some advantages. That is to worship strongly. So let the Liverpool soldiers just get out of the plane. Japanese fans are like grandchildren. Crazy welcome to the Liverpool soldiers.
See this scene. The Liverpool players were also very happy. After all, Japanese fans look at their eyes one by one. It's like seeing God's eyes. It made the Liverpool players feel very happy.
After all, it's all human. No one will be in a group that thinks of themselves as grandpa. When the ancestral land crowd faces. Feel unpleasant. Watch the crazy shouts. Japanese fans who kept calling the names of Liverpool's players. The Liverpool player suddenly felt. This is paradise. At least better than the last stop in South Korea. Countless times stronger.
Due to the close proximity of Korea and Japan. The voyage time is also not very far away. There is no need to adjust for jet lag. So when the Liverpool players came to Japan. It's not like the first stop in South Korea, where I went to the hotel to challenge the jet lag break. Instead, they began to busily advertise.
Compared to South Korea. Japan is a big country. So under the command of Liverpool. The Liverpool players were suddenly split into several parts. Some of them went to meet with Japanese fans. Part of it went for interviews. Some of them went to participate in the soccer promotion activities that Japan had been preparing for a long time. That's it. George et al. Just got off the plane. With Owen and Hyypia and Gerard. I was taken to a giant shopping mall in Tokyo to attend a meeting with Japanese fans.
No way, after all, the entire Liverpool team is the most popular of the George Four, and participating in the event of meeting with the fans is naturally the most popular and popular player in the team.
At this time, the busy Liverpool generals felt that compared with the arrogant South Korea, South Korea still has its own advantages, at least the country is small, and it only needs to participate in an interview and variety show on the TV station. Like now, the whole team is divided into several squads and starts to work non-stop in Tokyo
In fact, there is no way, after all, Japan's situation is related to Japan's national conditions, South Korea is a small country, and since Liverpool has a way to travel to Asia, it is natural to deal with TV stations. In South Korea, only two or three television stations dominate more than 90 percent of the programs and hours in South Korean television, so even if you participate in interviews and variety shows on one TV station, you can achieve good publicity.
But Japan can't do it, compared with South Korea, Japan has a larger land area, and the places that need to be taken care of naturally feel that Liverpool is divided into several parts to constantly promote the Liverpool club.
At the end of the day's work, the Liverpool players were given a half-day off, and under the guidance of the guides sent by Japan, they calmed down and enjoyed the scenery of Japan.
The next day, the Liverpool soldiers set off again, flying from Tokyo to Nagoya to continue the promotion. There is no way, Japan is a little more than South Korea, and it is not possible to achieve a good publicity effect by staying in one city. Not to mention Tokyo and Nagoya, Liverpool will have to continue to Osaka after the end of their trip to Nagoya.
However, Osaka is also Liverpool's last stop in Japan, and after arriving in Osaka, there is no publicity and work, in the final analysis, since it is a football team, it is inevitable to play a game with a football team formed by Japan, and the biggest reason for Liverpool to go to Osaka is to play a game in the football team formed by Yamato Japan.
After the race, Liverpool will finish their voyage to Japan and then start the last and most important stop of their Asian tour, China. Liverpool's current itinerary starts with the last stop in Osaka, Japan, from Osaka to Guangzhou, China, then to Shanghai, and then to Beijing, after which Liverpool's Asian tour ends.
This is also because of time and other problems, which makes Liverpool's Asian trip very short, and in a hurry, there is no time to take a good rest.
Liverpool's management also seems to have taken this issue into account, promising to give the players a two-day holiday to enjoy Beijing after the final Beijing leg in China.
In the end, this is still the rest time of the players, and calling the players back from all over the world to hold an Asian tour has already made the players a little dissatisfied, if George and others are not given a holiday, I am afraid that the Liverpool players will rebel.
You must know that the thinking of Westerners is different from that of China, in the thinking of Chinese, the club tells itself to do what it does, this is the club to look at itself, to give themselves face, and to play in the club work, also need to do some anger, obey the club's arrangement, so that you can make yourself better mixed in the club.
But Westerners are different, in the thinking of Westerners, work is work, this is not ambiguous, but not when it is work, it is when it is your turn to rest, then sorry, please don't ask me to work overtime, even if I give several times the overtime pay, if this is placed in China, several times the overtime pay, I am afraid that many people will rush to do it.
Westerners attach great importance to their rest and vacation, and under normal circumstances, as long as they are on vacation, they will generally turn off their mobile phones and telephones, and even any contact facilities, and start to spend rest time with their families in peace.
It is precisely because of this problem that the club has to take into account the thoughts of the players, and if the players are disgusted with the club, they may suddenly switch to other clubs and leave Liverpool at any time. This kind of thing seems almost exaggerated and impossible in the eyes of Chinese, but in the eyes of Westerners, it is really the most normal thing, after all, it is to fight for their own best interests, which is certainly understandable.
There is no way, who told Western countries to pay attention to democracy and human rights. In Western countries, even if the president's car and the people's car meet together, if the president's car does not follow the traffic rules, it needs to obediently give way. This situation is almost impossible in China, which shows that the logic of thinking in the West is really different from that in the East.
It is for this reason that Liverpool decided to give the players a large sum of money as the price of their rest time for this trip to Asia. This is already very good in George's eyes, and it is very humane, but in the eyes of Owen and Gerald and others, it is simply disdainful.
Later, Liverpool played a friendly match against Japan at a stadium in Osaka, although Japan took this game very seriously and brought together the best players in Japan to train early, but in the face of absolute strength, everything became useless.
Considering Alonso's problem in South Korea, this time Lao Bei did not send Alonso on the field, but only sent a substitute youngster. However, even so, Liverpool finally won against the temporary team formed by Japan by virtue of the semi-main lineup score. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to 6*, more chapters, support work, support genuine reading!) )