Chapter 294: "I want to go to the Olympics" mode
The moment the referee's whistle blew, Gao Yuan waved his fist excitedly.
He knew he had won his bet!
Gao Yuan walked to the home team's coach's seat and took the initiative to shake hands with Menezes, who was still in a daze.
Menezes is a gentleman, and although he lost, he still has a gentlemanly demeanor.
With a bitter face, Menezes and Takato shook hands heavily.
"Thank you, Mr. Meneses."
"Thank me for what?" Menezes wondered.
"Thank you for your contribution to the Tarzan team."
Menezes was embarrassed for a while, he led the Tarzan team but almost didn't get relegated.
"Don't get me wrong, I have been a fan of the Taishan team since I was a child, the Taishan team has been through ups and downs for decades, there have been glories, there have been lows, and more than a dozen coaches have experienced, no matter what the results are, you have brought new ideas to the Taishan team and contributed to the development of the team. As Tarzan fans, we will not forget everyone who has worked hard for the team. ”
Menezes was thoughtful, he had always been haunted by that experience, feeling that the Tarzan team owed him, and he took it for granted that the Tarzan fans hated him.
Under this subconscious effort, he pitted himself and the Taishan team and Chinese football against him.
Gao Yuan's thanks made him suddenly realize that maybe the fans of that distant country didn't hate him, and maybe in their hearts, he had also contributed to the Taishan team.
"By the way, Coach Li Xiaopeng also asked me to say hello to you on my behalf. He said, I hope that one day, you can go to China again, go to the Taishan team and go home to see. ”
Li Xiaopeng? Menezes frowned, to be honest, in his heart, he had always attributed his unsuccess in coaching in China to someone who was messing with him.
And that person, he thinks it is likely to be Li Xiaopeng.
Gao Yuan saw Menezes' unhappiness and smiled:
"There is a saying in China that is called a smile when you meet. I don't know what kind of story you have between you, but I can guarantee that Director Li is very sincere in telling me that you are a gentleman and expressing my sincere gratitude to you. The past grievances have been let go of Director Li, so why should you be persistent? ”
After speaking, Gao Yuan smiled slightly, turned his head and walked to the hall of the press conference.
Menezes froze in place, dumbfounded.
Just after walking a few steps, Gao Yuan's mobile phone rang, and when he opened it, it was a text message.
The sender was none other than the senior vice president of the Football Association.
The text message was brief, with only one sentence:
"You won your bet! Let's announce it to the public! ”
The corners of Gao Yuan's mouth turned up, this Vice Chairman Gao is really an old fox, if he hadn't known the results of the Football Association's game, maybe he would have been coaxed by him to cry grateful.
The outside world does not know that the trouble of the DB team has been solved, and in the eyes of everyone, although they have won, the DB team is still mired in the quagmire of the "refusal of the national brand call-up" incident.
So, reporters with various goals jumped to the test and prepared all kinds of questions to hear what the team's young head coach would give answers.
For some reason, CCTV and PP Sports also broadcast the post-match press conference live to domestic audiences.
"May I ask Mr. Coach, what do you think of your players refusing the call-up of the national team and publishing a video on the Internet, as a head coach?"
Sure enough, the first question came violently.
The question was asked by a blonde, blue-eyed Brazilian journalist who couldn't wait to ask the question, not even pretending to care about the match that had just ended.
"I don't think you know much about what's going on, because there are two mistakes in this one of your questions."
Gao Yuan replied unhurriedly.
"What?"
Brazilian journalists were stunned.
"First of all, my players are not selected for the national team, but for the training team of the national youth team. Therefore, strictly speaking, they did not refuse the call of the country, but just did not want to delay the state league game because of a training camp.
There is no doubt that a high level of competition is more important for the growth and improvement of young people than training. We came to Brazil to grow and improve faster so that we can better serve our country in the future! ”
Gao Yuan's words are neither humble nor arrogant, which not only explains the purpose and significance of his team's trip to the ocean, but also brings a high hat to Brazilian football and the state league, which makes the Brazilians who have just lost a lot more comfortable.
"Secondly, my players have not refused the call-up of the national youth team, and they have been playing for the national team for the past two months."
???
Not only the local Brazilian media, but also the Chinese media who came to interview them, as well as the audience watching the press conference online and in front of the television, were full of question marks.
What is this high and far nonsense? Are you too excited to win, happy and silly?
"Mr. Coach, I don't understand what you mean"
Sure enough, the reporter asked inexplicably.
Gao Yuan smiled slightly, "I mean, we are the selection team of the national youth team below U21!" The Chinese players of the DB team are all members of the national youth selection team! ”
As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar.
What's going on? Isn't DB a mixed team of Chinese and Pakistani teenagers sponsored by the Taishan Club? When did it become a national youth selection team?
The Brazilian reporter Zhang Er Monk was confused, but the Chinese reporter present seemed to realize something, and he didn't care about raising his hand, so he hurriedly stood up and asked:
"Director Gao, could you please tell us more about the situation of the national youth selection team and what model it was formed? Has this team been officially certified by the Football Association? What is the relationship between it and the national youth training team led by Shen Fu? ”
Gao Yuan was not in a hurry, and only said one sentence, which made the Chinese reporters present and the domestic audience thousands of miles away suddenly realize.
"This team is based on the model of going to the Olympics······"
I want to go to the Olympics is a new selection model carried out by the General Administration of Sports of China in various sports in order to prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
In 2017, the Chinese Football Association issued a notice requiring all professional clubs of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese League A and some amateur clubs to form an Olympic-age team to conduct qualifiers. After a fierce competition, the top three were finally determined: Ludong Taishan team, Modu Shanghai Port team, and Kyoto Renhe team, and they qualified to compete with the Olympic selection team formed by the Football Association.
The Football Association invested financial, technical and other support for these four teams, but these four teams remained independent and practiced their own until a year later, that is, in June 2018, when the finals were held, and finally the champion was determined, supplemented by individual outstanding players from other teams, to form a national Olympic team to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Asian Trials.
Although, in the final result, the Chinese Olympic team once again collapsed, and the "I want to go to the Olympics" model was nailed to the pillar of shame along with other football associations to make decisions, becoming a laughing stock in the history of Chinese football. But it didn't prevent Gao Yuan from sacrificing this mode at this moment and becoming the talisman of the DB team.
“······· Of course, we are the national youth selection team officially recognized by the Chinese Football Association, and the Football Association has learned the previous lesson, except for the national youth training team led by Shen Fu, only our national youth selection team has been formed. In fact, you can think of our two teams as the red team and the blue team of the Chinese men's basketball team, but one team adopts the mode of long-term training in China, and the other team adopts the mode of training in overseas high-level leagues. This can be regarded as a confrontation between two different models. ”
"So, will there be a match between the two teams and the final decision on which team will be used as the team to form the U21 national youth team?"
"Of course, half a year later, the Kite Cup will be the battlefield of the competition between our two teams, and the results of the Kite Cup will be the touchstone to measure our two teams!"
"Holy!"
Thousands of miles away in China, several industry bigwigs burst into foul language at the same time.
Vice Chairman Gao: "Why did this kid come with his mouth open, I just asked him to open his share of the DB team, when did you promise to compete openly in the Kite Cup?" ”
Shen Fu: "Damn! Why has no one ever told Lao Tzu that he is going to compete in half a year?! Also, didn't they say that they were a selection team for a club? How did you get on an equal footing with my team? Am I still the head coach of the national youth team? Damn, if my team loses in half a year, will I, the head coach, have to be replaced······"
Li Xiaopeng: "I'm a girl!" Gao Yuan, this kid will be uncomfortable if he doesn't make trouble! Just make things clear, why are you still openly engaged in war in front of the media all over the world? Doesn't this make the Football Association have a way out? Alas, a wave of unsettled waves has risen again! However, this trick is cut first and then played, it is really good, this part is considered to be solid, as for the follow-up troubles, let the Football Association and Shen Fu have a headache! ”
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