Godfather Of Champions

The European Super Cup is a traditional event that has been held since 1972.

It was said before that Nottingham Forest is the European champion because they are the winner of the European Cup. But in Liverpool, Liverpool fans also think they are European champions because their team has just won the UEFA Cup.

In this case, there are two more European champions, but there must be only one, and there can only be one. How to do it? Then there is a match between the champions of these two events and the final winner is decided. This method is a bit "king of kings". Everyone is king, but which king is stronger? I believe many fans will be very interested in the answer to this question.

Initially there were three major cups in Europe, the European Champions Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup, and the UEFA Cup.

The European Champions Cup, as the name suggests, is a cup that only the champions of various countries can participate in. This is the champion with the highest gold content and the coveted honor of countless giants.

The European Cup Winners' Cup is attended by the cup champions of all countries, second to the Champions League.

The UEFA Cup has the shortest history. Its predecessor is the "Expo Cup". The participating team is neither a league championship nor a cup championship, but a few teams other than the cup championship and the league championship. Each national league is finally divided into The quotas are different.

The European Super Cup was originally a competition between the champions of the Champions League and the winners of the Cup Winners’ Cup. Later, when entering the 21st century, UEFA believed that as weak teams from various leagues squeeze into the Cup Winners’ Cup, leading to The level of the Winners’ Cup has declined and the attractiveness has declined. It has been unable to attract more wealthy sponsors. So a cup reform was carried out. The Winners’ Cup and the UEFA Cup were merged, and the Winner’s Cup was cancelled. The eight-year-old cup competition was replaced by the UEFA Cup.

Today the two participating teams in the European Super Cup have become Champions Cup champions and UEFA Cup champions. The Super Cup’s competition system has also changed from home and away in the previous two rounds to a single game. The venue of the game has been fixed in the tourist attraction Monaco since 1998.

Monaco is indeed a beautiful country, where the blue sea and blue sky, and all kinds of luxury yachts are always parked in the port, only the real rich are qualified to enjoy it. For people like Dunn, he doesn't have the money to raise a yacht, even Shania is not enough. Among the people he knows, perhaps only Wood's agent Billy Woods is most likely to own a private yacht.

Monaco is most famous for motorsports, Monte Carlo is a famous F1 circuit. Before becoming the head coach, Dunn's understanding of Monaco came from two aspects, one is racing and the other is football.

Monaco also has its own professional football club and participates in the French Football League. It is not a force that can be ignored in French football. Dunn impressed them the most when the former Real Madrid striker Morientes was loaned to the Monaco team, and then in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage, he used goals to complete the revenge against Real Madrid who abandoned him-his advance The ball helped Monaco eliminated Real Madrid.

The shot of Morientes comforting his good friend Raul after the game made Dunn unforgettable.

It was a legendary Champions Cup. The two teams that finally entered the final were not the most famous and powerful teams in Europe at the time. That cup made two young coaches-Monaco's head coach France Deschamps, head coach Mourinho of Portugal's Porto team. In the end, Mourinho had the last laugh and won the Champions League. He himself completed the triple jump from the league championship to the UEFA Cup championship to the European Champions Cup, and became the hottest coach in Europe. The story afterwards Everyone knows it.

The same thing just happened to Dunn last season. Dunn, who led his team to complete from the First Division to the Super League, and then to the Champions League, also completed a triple jump that is no less than Mourinho, considering that he is in the more competitive and stronger Premier League. , Maybe the difficulty is even greater than Mourinho was then. Today's Tony Dunn has also become the hottest young coach in Europe. It’s nothing unusual for a high-achieving head coach. This career relies on experience and wisdom, and wisdom and experience are exchanged by time—age. The older coaches have more experience and wisdom. Think of Ferguson, Wenger, Capello, Scolari, Bosque, Aragones... which ones are not 50 and older, and their gray hair makes them more wise.

In the coaching circle, people in their forties are considered young coaches, and if they are players, they are probably called "old". Mourinho was already over forty when he won the Champions League, while Dunn was under forty. At this age, he has achieved such a high level of achievement, it is hard not to attract attention. The success of young coaches shows that they have more glorious years to look forward to than the old man. The old man will always get old. By then, this football will be the world of young people. Dunn doesn’t mind taking advantage of his age to dominate the world. Thirty or forty years or something...

After Nottingham Forest won the Champions League, there were once Forest fans worried that a rich man like Abramovich would rob them of their "head" with high salaries. Mourinho also relied on Porto to win the Champions League before jumping to the more advanced Premier League.

In this regard, Dunn once promised that he would not leave the forest in front of more than 30,000 live fans and countless TV viewers during the celebration that night. He did not say "Will not leave during the contract period", nor did he say "Will not leave in the next few years", what he said was "I will never leave".

He did receive coaching invitations from some clubs, hoping to invite him to coach in those teams.

The most famous of these is Real Madrid.

Chairman Calderon and Real Madrid fans thought that Capello's Real Madrid was too rigid and lacked the style of artistic football and beautiful football, so after winning the league championship, they swept Capello out. So when Dunn received this invitation, he felt like a smile. Could his football be better than Capello? Nottingham Forest has been criticized by the European media all day as a representative of ugly football and negative football. Letting a team like Nottingham Forest win the Champions League is simply a retrogression of modern football... Wait, how can Calderon look at him?

So Dunn treated the invitation as a joke, and did not reply to the other party at all. Soon afterwards, he heard that Real Madrid finally won Schuster, they paid Getafe a liquidated damages, Getafe agreed to release.

That's right. Schuster played pretty well when he was coaching a small team. He used to be a Real Madrid player, and he is currently the most suitable coach for Real Madrid. Don En, don’t be okay to join in the fun...

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Monaco is a beautiful coastal city, but the forest team is not here on holiday. They came to Monaco two days in advance to do training to adapt to the venue. The two-day life is the hotel and the stadium.

The hotel where the Liverpool team stayed is not far from the hotel where the Forest team stayed. It only takes 20 minutes to walk-Monaco was originally a pocket country, with the narrowest part of the north and south only two hundred meters.

If you live so close, you might run into it even if you go for a walk. After the media's hype, the teams on both sides are now at war. So it's better not to meet, especially the "culprit" who provoked this war of words.

At this time, this man who has been scolded by countless Liverpool people hundreds of millions of times is sitting in the hotel lobby, drinking coffee and accepting interviews from the Chinese media group, looking very leisurely.

Why is it a "media group"? Because there is more than one media reporter, there are ten people around Dun En, all of whom are from China. Since the World Cup in Germany, Dunn and Tang Jing’s newspapers have been involved in writing articles, so he has known many Chinese media. At this year’s Asian Cup, as a foreigner, he criticized the Chinese team from the Football Association. The players caused a great uproar in China. But after all, there was only a response in China, and Dunn didn't care about it, and went with the media and fans.

This interview was agreed upon during the Asian Cup, but he just kept his promise.

The questions asked by the reporters were very broad. The Super Cup, which will start tomorrow, asked about the previous Asian Cup, and also about Dun En's personal hobbies...for example, why he likes Chinese culture so much.

Dunn answered their questions in Chinese very freely, and had a good time with the addiction of speaking "mother tongue".

A Chinese reporter kindly reminded him: "The big game is coming soon, coach Dunn, don't you worry about tomorrow's game?"

Dunn was a little dumbfounded: "I am worried that it has nothing to do with my interview with you here, right?"

"As far as I know, coach Benitez is busy studying his opponent's profile at this time."

"That's just because you didn't know when we were studying our opponents." Dun En's face became hardened, and he somewhat suspected that this blind reporter came to deliberately hit the scene.

Still Tang Jing hurriedly came out and made a round of mud.

"Coach Dunn, can you have a vision for tomorrow's game?"

Dunn stood up. This was the last question. He didn't have that much time spent playing word games with reporters. "Zhang? What is there to look forward to? Of course we will win." After speaking, he grinned and made a victory gesture, and the photojournalists very cooperatively pressed the camera shutter in their hands.

At the end of the interview, Dunn shook hands with the reporters and said goodbye. He was going back to his room to prepare for the evening tactical meeting.

"Say some good things to me in front of Chinese readers. I know that my reputation in China doesn't seem to be very good now." He said jokingly, causing the reporters to laugh. "Maybe I will still have a chance to go to China in the future, so please take care of me!"

He arched his fists with both hands, making a very Chinese-style movement.

Then he turned and left.

Is he talking a joke? Some people think it is, some people think it is not, such as Tang Jing.

There is a Chinese player in the Nottingham Forest team, a Chinese assistant, and a head coach who loves Chinese culture and has chosen to go to China for vacation twice... How can such a team with close ties to China be against China" "Virgin land" if you ignore it?

Real Madrid have been to China, Barcelona have also been, Manchester United, Chelsea...The Premier League is very loyal to the development of the Asian market. These teams are here, so will the new European Championship be far away?

She was looking forward to it.

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Dunn didn't go back to his room, he walked straight into Tang's room, where the coaches were all there, discussing related issues in the evening tactical meeting. Seeing Dun En coming in, everyone just looked up and went on busying them again, no one cared.

Tang got up to meet him.

"How about the interview?"

"It's much easier to deal with than the British media." Dunn scanned the room, "Still discussing?"

"Basically it's gone, just some divergent discussions," Tang introduced.

Divergent discussion refers to the discussion that is not aimed at this game, but the questions derived from it. In fact, to put it plainly, it is "off-topic", but this off-topic is more professional...

The coaching staff believes that Benitez will choose a more moderate tactic in this game, that is, not focusing on defense, and not overly emphasizing offense, but patiently dealing with the Forest team, even if it is dragged to a penalty shoot-out. Then started from this topic and went to Benitez, what he likes, what habits he has, and what influence does the Spanish identity have on his choice of football tactics. After all, the concept of Spanish football is completely different from the concept of English football.

Then, continue to run, ran to the tradition of the Liverpool team, the topic quickly changed again. This time, Dunn became the protagonist. Everyone was discussing the previous verbal battle between Dunn and half of Liverpool City's population (meaning Liverpool fans).

This time I saw Dun En sitting next to him, and everyone was discussing and watching Dun En chuckle.

Chris Lak is still joking with Dunn, telling him not to travel to Liverpool for the rest of his life, otherwise he may be in personal danger.

Dunn sat aside and didn't join their off-topic meeting. His thinking followed the discussion of these people upstream, and then stopped on the topic of Benitez.

As the head coach, studying a team will naturally start from peers. He knows Benitez, very well. Thanks to the advanced information dissemination technology, he can easily know a lot of things he wants to know.

Like him, Benitez is a master tactician and a coach who is good at directing on the spot. Remember the 2004-2005 UEFA Champions League final? Benitez took over Liverpool's first season, creating a miracle night in Istanbul.

Dunn knew that he had been promoted directly from a rookie to the head coach. He didn't get an orthodox education. In addition to relying on his own talent, he kept learning from others' experience and knowledge. So he read a lot of tactical notes, studied the methods of other coaches, studied many classic battles in football history, from the middle of the battle to the shining points left by the seniors.

Ordinary fans watch the game and only look at the performance of the stars. Dunn is a fan who likes to study tactics before crossing. So he only plays CM and FM while playing live football. He is a complete rookie playing live football. Don't win, let alone fight against others. Playing football manager games is different. He always wins against people online. He has benefited greatly from these habits. There are always things worth learning and drawing lessons from in those classic battle cases.

In the Champions League final against AC Milan, George Wood kept following Kaka, and it cannot be said that he was not affected by Benitez. Remember the Champions League final? Liverpool defender Finnan was injured, Benitez replaced Finnan with Haman and Liverpool changed to 352. Harman's debut gave the Red Army a special man to mark Kaka, and as a result, the Brazilian who was extremely active in the first half disappeared without a trace.

Sometimes, a head coach's substitution adjustments don't need to be earth-shattering, and seemingly humble ones are more threatening. Benitez is such a restrained coach. Most of his tactical masterpieces seem inconspicuous. Still that season, Liverpool took a home score of 2:1 to visit Turin to challenge Juventus. At that time, the Italians were overwhelmingly optimistic with public opinion, but Liverpool just killed the old woman with 0:0 in the away game. The other fans in that game cried out dull and let people look sleepy at 2:45 in the morning, but Dunn watched the whole game full of energy from start to finish. He saw Benitez's tactical wisdom from it, and the three central defenders' changes received a miraculous effect. Juventus, who was best at defensive and sullen fighting, was suffocated by the sudden change of Liverpool, and Capello could only return with hatred again.

Dunn still remembers his first season in the Premier League. At that time, he drew Arsenal 1:1 at home and defeated Chelsea 2:1 at home. This meant "spring breeze and horseshoes". The result was 1:1 away at home: 4 defeated Liverpool to Benitez. Even if more than two seasons have passed, that game is still his biggest loss since coaching Nottingham Forest.

Up to now, he still remembers every detail of that game, because the score of 1:4 was too dazzling. All his tactical arrangements in the game were insightful by the opponent, and the proud on-the-spot command was also suppressed by Benitez. No matter how he changed players, he couldn't call out the circle that Benitez had drawn for him. . At that time, he felt a sense of powerlessness that Monkey King couldn't jump out of the palm of the Buddha.

Dunn is not a person who will be blinded by the anger of failure, he is willing to gamble and accept defeat. Since you have lost, the only thing you can do is to study this game carefully, find your own shortcomings, and then improve it in future games. It's **** success when you fail. Although this sentence is very vulgar, it is indeed a famous saying. What he learned from this game far exceeded the number of consecutive wins.

After that, Dunn is no longer the former Wuxia Amon, and Nottingham Forest often wins against Liverpool. The two sides are no longer the relationship between the strong and the newly promoted.

The best thing about Dunn is that he has never been contaminated with the "phobia" in the bad habits of Chinese football, so he will not have any boring psychological shadow because he once lost to an opponent, and then always trip over the same stone. He is a person who believes in the struggle philosophy of "If someone slaps me, I will slap me back a hundred slaps." He said that the better thing is, "Those who violate my heavenly power will be killed even if they are far away." Jacques must be reported"...

Benitez is a steady head coach, so Dunn did everything possible to provoke his war of words against Liverpool before the game and drag the Spaniard into the water. But will Benitez really be affected by this?

He did not reply to Dunn's provocations and insults to him in the media, and during the interview he only talked about the game and nothing else.

It seems that Dunn's psychological tactics did not work for him?

No, whether it really doesn't work, I won't know until the game.

Dunn recovered from his meditation, and his coaches have moved the topic from Earth to Mars. A group of people are enthusiastically discussing a fat civilian star who has recently become popular in the UK, who relied on the singer Paul Potts (Paul_Potts) in the elective show of "British Genius".

"Okay, guys. If there is nothing wrong, you should go back, don't you think it is too crowded here?" Dunn stood up and clapped his hands to interrupt their discussion. "After dinner is over, notify the players of the meeting." He said to Chris Lak.

Chris Lak nodded, he didn't leave immediately: "What else?"

"Remind them to rest early today."

After explaining this, Chris Lak and other coaches went out.

Then Tang stood in front of the sofa and looked at Dun En, who sat down, "You won't go back to your room?"

Dunn was questioned for a moment, then he raised his head and looked around, oh. "So this is your room..."

Tang couldn't laugh or cry, and pushed him out. "I will call you at dinner, you better take a break now, I think you are tired and confused."

Dunn mumbled "I am used to living with you" and walked back to his room.

Before lying on the bed in his room, closing his eyes and falling asleep, he was still thinking, "What is Benitez doing at this time..." (To be continued, if you want to know what happened, please visit www.qidian.com , More chapters, support authors, support genuine reading!)

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