Chapter 7: Hapless Hoddle
As one of the favorites to win the World Cup in France, and the owner is like Alain. Shearer, such a household name, the arrival of the England team has made the fans of Shanghai Tang boil. The self-styled English players also behaved appropriately at the press conference held at the hotel, but in the end, it was the manager Hoddle, who has always had low emotional intelligence, who made a moth.
Hoddle, who had just returned from the bathroom, was surprised at the press conference: "China is a country with a great history, but I find it the same as I thought. I didn't expect the bathroom in a five-star hotel to be so unsightly, I really can't understand why someone would put their feet on the toilet to go to the toilet, is this also a thousand-year-old tradition?"
Hong Kong Island was only returned to China last year, and as a British, saying such things would indeed make people think more. Hoddle, who provoked the anger of the public, did not expect the reaction of the local reporter to be so huge, and in a blink of an eye, the people of the press conference went to the empty building. Sitting on either side of Hoddle, Gascoigne and Beckham shrugged their shoulders at each other, apparently accustomed to their own manager's open-mouthed and low emotional intelligence.
The England team arrived in Shanghai four days ahead of schedule, and Hoddle's impolite remarks have just been known through Thursday's football night, but I didn't expect the dignified England coach to become the focus of the media again.On May 16, that is, the night before the game, the reporter filmed the England team's training at Hongkou Stadium, and it was found that Gascoigne, who had just joined the Guangzhou Sun God team, walked out of the stadium angrily wearing his jersey and shoes, and then 10 minutes later, the head coach Hoddle also left the training ground in a disheveled car. Only the England players in the stadium were left looking at each other.
The camera of the most critical reporter clearly captured Hodel's extremely obvious panda eyes, and it is not difficult for the Gaza reporters who left the field in anger to guess that there must be something wrong with these two, but what is the huge contradiction that can make Gascoigne, as a player, send an old punch to the head coach?
Soon, at England's pre-match press conference that night, Hoddle revealed the truth of the incident. The reason is that during the training break, Hoddle informed Gascoigne and another player that they would not be in England's 22-man squad for this World Cup, which made Gascoigne, who played well at the European Championship two years ago, unacceptable, so he grabbed Hoddle by the tie and punched him.
This is really low EQ, on the other hand, Gascoigne took the initiative to contact the official of the Suns after calming down, and found Rice's "Star" column through his new club to do an exclusive interview. The next morning, the half-hour interview was announced. In the program, Gascoigne first poured bitter water on the fans, expressing his grievances and incomprehension about being excluded from the World Cup 22-man list by the head coach for no reason, and expressed his strong willingness and pride to the camera to play for the country. In the camera, Gascoigne took the water handed by the reporter, held the cup in both hands and was silent for a while, and then poured out all the nonsensical speeches made by Hoddle since he took office. Three months before taking office, he asked former coach Venables to meet with the players in advance, and talked about his coaching philosophy in front of the players and the then manager, which embarrassed Venables and the other players. There is also an interview with reporters, publicly stating that the rising star Michael. Owen is not a naturally qualified goalscorer and Beckham's free-kicks are not of a good standard. What's even more outrageous is that when the team was training, Hoddle actually hired a so-called mind therapist to go to the locker room to provide the players with messy mind therapy, and even talked about idealistic spiritualism to the players, preaching that disability is karma in a previous life, and so on.
Gascoigne's revelations are nothing if they are just about the team, after all, Hoddle is the boss of the current team, but this shit idealistic inhuman remarks are too disgusting. As a result, under the serious protest of disabled organizations in the United Kingdom, four hours before the game, the FA held a press conference to announce the dismissal of the current manager Hoddle. This guy is really unlucky, what do you say you are going to provoke Gascoigne.
This surprised Li Byrne, in fact, these things also happened in the previous life, but they were also revealed after the World Cup. Unexpectedly, Gascoigne not only beat Hoddle this time, but even broke the news in advance, and the boy said that it was amazing my brother! Of course, the warm-up matches still have to be carried out normally, without Hoddle, the England team still has a coaching staff who can be responsible for the team's technical and tactical arrangements. Gascoigne has also been recalled by the FA and the final 22-man squad will be determined based on the performances of the players in the three warm-up games.
Since the England line-up for this game was decided after discussions with a number of coaches on the coaching staff, compared to the previous starting XI used by Hoddle, this line-up seems to be the strongest 11 players in England at the moment:
Goalkeeper: David. Seaman
Defender: Le. Sox, Saul. Campbell, Adams, Gary. Neville
Midfielder: Paul. Ince, McManaman (left), Beckham (right), Gascoigne
Forward: Alain. Shearer, Michael. irving
Subs Southgate, David. Barty, Sheringham, Nigel. Martin, Darren. Anderton, Paul. Mawson
Scholes, Robert. Lee, Keown, Leo. Ferdinand, Rice. Ferdinand, Robbie. Fowler
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England lined up in a typical 4-4-2 formation, and the Chinese coaching staff, led by Xie Zhiguang, studied the opponent's lineup and style of play together with Li Bourne. Although England also flies on both wings, it is obvious that the left side is dominated by breaking through the bottom, and the right side will have more 45-degree crosses. This is because McManaman's technique and breakthrough ability are significantly stronger than Beckham's, and England's attack on the left flank will be dominated by a short combination between McManaman and Gascoigne and Shearer. Sox's main task is to defend. On the right side, it was a completely different style of play, with Beckham acting as a passing point on the periphery of the box at a 45-degree angle, with Gascoigne and right-back Gary Bush playing the ball. Neville will break through a little bit more with the two, and Neville basically doesn't cut inside, so it's actually relatively easy to defend on the right side. In addition, if England concede a goal, Paul Ince will certainly do more to protect the right wing.
One of the big failures of the England coaching staff was to put Owen in the starting line-up, and the Chinese team, as the weak side, must be a steady counterattack style of play. Irving's speed is hard to take advantage of if Robbie. Fowler's threat to play a starter will increase exponentially.
The Chinese team unexpectedly did not put out a 4-2-3-1 defensive formation in this game, but an unexpected 3-2-2-2-1, three central defenders and two wingbacks. Obviously, the national football team is pinning its hopes on lifting the wings up, so as to start putting pressure on England's wide attack in the midfield position, pushing the opponent's offensive line outward, and at the same time, the three central defenders can also help prevent defensive mistakes on the wing.
As the saying goes, talk on paper is shallow, and the Chinese team, which is ready for everything, is about to usher in the strongest opponent in recent years. The outcome still depends on the players' performance on the field.