Godfather Of Champions

Dunn's deliberate "public apology" and the last sentence of "who is that" made him once again a figure in the major media. No one had ever played a club in front of so many reporters before, but Dunn did it.

Next, just as he said to Shania. He no longer pays attention to the protests of the Chelsea club and the voices of the external media. He concentrates on his work and never responds. Are Chelsea and Abramovich himself upset? What's up with me...

His affair has added to many people's after-dinner talks, and the sales of major newspapers and tabloids in England are booming.

The hype about Mourinho's dismissal will eventually have its head. After all, Mourinho is just a Portuguese no matter how he has a personality. Dunn's vulgar door will gradually lose the public's interest in continuing to pay attention because of his shut up.

In fact, during this period and for a period of time in the future, the focus of the English media was on the England team.

Because the battle of life and death is imminent.

There are two rounds left in the 2008 European Championship qualifiers between Switzerland and Austria. Because there are seven teams in Group E, there must be a bye at some point in the schedule. By the time of the penultimate round, it is England's turn-they have one round left. The current standings is that England, which has played 11 games, temporarily ranks second with 23 points.

According to the rules of the European Championship qualifiers, there are 14 qualifying places for the European Championship qualifiers, which are the first and second places of the seven groups, plus the host two teams, exactly 16 teams .

The top ranked Croatia and third ranked Russia are now one game less than England. Croatia has 26 points and Russia 21 points. If England want to qualify, they need to expect Russia to lose to Israel in the group stage on November 17, and then in the 21st match, England beat Croatia at home.

Only in this way can the team participate in next year's European Championship.

This condition may seem harsh, but it is not impossible.

The English media are considered beautiful, and Israel is not weak, not to mention that they are playing at home. In the last round, Croatia, currently the first in the group, may have already advanced or won the right to qualify, so they do not need to use all their main players and all their energy to fight England...

So, everything is possible.

Before the match day on the 17th, the England team was training intensively, and the English media were all cheering for Israel, hoping that they could beat Russia at home and retain the hope of qualifying for England.

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Counting from the end of the league match with Chelsea, there will be no matches in the Premier League until November 24. This is mostly the case in other European leagues. The two weeks in between are the A-level game days for the national team. In Europe, it is the 2008 European Cup qualifier day, and in South America, it is the South Africa World Cup South American qualifier with the longest schedule in the world. Although the official match time is 2010, due to the special environment of South American football, here The qualifiers and qualifiers have been in full swing in October. It can be regarded as the longest dragged World Cup qualifier.

As for Asia, the Asian World Cup qualifiers will not start until February next year. Because the Olympics are the host, the football team does not need to play any qualifiers. After the loss of the Asian Cup, the Chinese Football Association basically disbanded the national team, focusing on what Olympic strategies, and pulling the Olympic team around the world for public travel to play warm-up matches. Travel expenses, accommodation expenses, venue rental fees, appearance fees for opponents, plus messy subsidies... This is a lot of money. As for the effect... Don only sneered and wished Chinese football good luck.

Fortunately for him, Sun Jihai, the only Chinese player in the forest team, is not included in this "Olympic Raiders" plan, because he is over 23 years old, and according to the news that Tang Jing once disclosed, he is also sure Will not appear in the list of three overage players. So this national team game day has nothing to do with Sun Jihai. He doesn't have to fly to the United States to waste time playing warm-up matches with several major league teams. Moreover, over-age players generally will not participate in such a warm-up match for the Olympic Games.

Nottingham Forest is already a Premier League team, and it is also a force that cannot be ignored in Europe. There will inevitably be a large number of international players in the team lineup, and they will be recruited at this time. It's no surprise that Dunn has seen such things a long time ago. Apart from complaining that this will cause his team to play hard for the country and then heal while playing for the club, he has no other way to prevent this from happening. After all, he is just a football coach, not President of FIFA.

David Beckham helped Nottingham Forest equalize with a goal at the last minute of the game against Chelsea. Recently, his reputation in the English media is quite high, and many media are publicly calling for the veteran to be resigned. Take the heavy responsibility-although it is not for him to put on the captain's armband again, don't let him go on the court and run for two steps during the garbage time. Although they can't control whether England will qualify, but as long as there is a theoretical possibility of qualifying, they always have to give it a go, right?

McLaren refused to discuss whether Beckham would appear in the roster against Croatia, and he also refused to answer the "boring question" of whether he would bet on Beckham. His reason is full-"for secrecy."

So the media began to speculate on the number of appearances of Beckham's national team-although there is nothing to show off, but the last eight minutes of the away game against Moscow was indeed his 98th appearance on behalf of England... The field is two games short. If England can finally defeat their opponents in the game against Croatia on November 21, then they still have a glimmer of hope to enter the finals. In that case, there is still hope for Beckham's 100 games. Otherwise...what will happen is really hard to say.

Watching British media happily discussing Beckham's appearance record, looking forward to a hundred games, as if they have already qualified for the European Cup qualifiers.

This country is really strange. They used to call you "God" when you succeed. Once you fail, they scramble to send you to the gallows by hand. Utilitarianism to this level is rare. If Beckham hadn't scored a crucial goal in the final moments of the game against Greece in 2001, making him a **** in an instant, he might not be able to turn over in England now.

Somehow, Dunn suddenly thought of Chinese gymnast Li Ning. They were once the darlings of the entire country, and later they were all castaways cast aside by hundreds of millions of people. Fortunately for Beckham than Li Ning, he was able to save himself in his career and re-prove himself; and Li Ning was already at the age of retirement when he failed—he would never have to rely on his own efforts to prove that those who scolded him were wrong. Opportunity.

Sports are so cruel... The Olympics and the World Cup are actually not fundamentally different. The slogans are beautiful. In fact, the loser is the loser. Only the winner can enjoy the cheer and glory-this is not determined by a certain sport, this is It is determined by people, those who watch the game, those who participate in the game, those who manipulate the game... all human beings.

Pulled away.

At the very least, Beckham has the entire British media to build momentum for him and ask for orders for him, hoping to appear on the starting list against Croatia and become a hero who saves the country.

However, in the ambivalence of the English media and the fans, where excitement and worry coexist, one person became a victim of Beckham's star halo, or not so serious, he was just a forgotten person.

In the final list announced by McLaren, George Wood was not named.

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Tang hadn't returned yet, and Dunn wasn't particularly busy. During this time, the team's training was only one day a day, not much time, but high intensity. The continuous Christmas schedule is coming, and the team needs to reserve enough physical energy to cope with the subsequent multi-line combat and the double and three games in a week.

The training time was scheduled in the afternoon. Dunn had lunch, and there was still a lunch break. When he wakes up again, he will go to Vilford and start a day of training.

Every time he came to the training base, George Wood was already warming up.

McLaren yesterday announced the full list of the final game against Croatia. Of the 25 people, Nottingham Forest occupied two seats-David Beckham and Alan Lennon.

There is no George Wood's name.

Although George Wood is not a regular member of the national team, but if his name is removed before this important game, all fools know what it means. Whether it is Erickson or the England team in the McLaren era, George Wood has not been reused at all except for the starter and the garbage time substitute in some insignificant warm-up matches.

He sat on the bench for five full games at the World Cup in Germany and didn't get a second of playing time.

England played twelve games in the European Championship qualifiers, and George Wood had a total of 180 minutes of playing time, an average of 15 minutes per game. He has never been reused like that in Nottingham Forest. The coach does not trust him and there is no place for him in the tactical system.

But George Wood did not publicly express any dissatisfaction in front of the media. Maybe he hasn't learned how to fight for more benefits for himself in the national team?

However, some Nottingham media have seen it and publicly questioned whether the McLaren coach is biased against players coming out of Nottingham Forest. McLaren’s answer is: “England has concentrated and England’s best players, each of them may be a core player in their own club, but you can’t ask these cores to continue to be core players after they come to England.”

At first it sounds reasonable, but after careful consideration, you know that McLaren is playing these reporters perfunctorily. No one asked George Wood to have a core position in the England team, but he didn’t have the minimum playing time. Every time he played, he would either win and set the time for the promiscuity, or lose the time for the promiscuity... Anyway. It's scumbag time. If the game is very fierce and cruel, and there is no victory or defeat until the last second, George Wood will definitely sit on the bench. The Nottingham media, which has good news, collected information about those games, and then came to this conclusion-McLaren must have hatred with George Wood!

In fact, it's hard to talk about grudges, and it's affirmation to distrust and reuse.

McLaren didn't trust the players trained by Dunn. For players trained by Dunn, McLaren can not reuse them.

"George." Dunn saw Wood warming up alone on the training ground. He actually didn't approve of this kind of warm-up action in advance, because it was unnecessary to consume physical energy and would affect the effect of subsequent training. But for the biorobot George Wood... it's not a big problem.

He stepped forward and stood beside Wood, watching him finish a warm-up.

"On the national team match day, I saw you warming up here. In fact, it's quite rare..." Dunn laughed.

It's really rare. Although there is very little playing time in England, he will basically enter the most important list. After all, he is the captain of the European championship team and a defensive midfielder favored by countless people. If it is placed in other national teams, it may have long been the main force that cannot be beaten, that is, it is a little helpless in England. The "double virtue problem" is enough for every coach to have a headache. If you add another Wood, "double virtue" Change "Three Virtues"...

Wood muffled: "That's not bad, anyway, I won't be able to play the game." He put on a pullover and stood in front of Dunn.

He is not in a high mood, and it seems that he is also affected by this big list. You know, this is the key game, and it is the game that countless professional players like most-because they can prove their ability, turn the tide, and become the hero of the entire country. This is especially true for people like Wood who like to constantly challenge the limit. The stronger the opponent, the harder the game to play, the more energy he has. But McLaren deprived him of the right to dream of playing more than ten days before the game.

Dunn was happy when he heard him say this: "I thought you didn't care about this kind of thing at all."

Wood glanced at him.

Dunn was still laughing: "Because you have never expressed your dissatisfaction anywhere. Everyone thinks you are an honest person and bully. Sitting on the bench will become a habit, George. If I were you, I would jump out and accuse Mike. Laren will not use people, and since then announced that there is him without me, with me without him, if he does not leave class, I will not enter the England team..."

"I'm not you." Wood glanced at him. "But I'm really not happy. I'm having a bad time in... England, and I also thought about not going anymore."

Unexpectedly, Wood would say such a thing, Dunn was still a little surprised. It seems that his life in the national team is really difficult.

"I hate to be a substitute. If McLaren directly said that it was just for me to be a substitute, I would simply reject him. But he didn't say... the first Jamaican Football Association also came to me and wanted me to play for Jamaica. , At that time I refused... Now that I think about it, maybe it's better to go to Jamaica."

Dunn was silent.

He has heard countless similar stories: because the domestic competitiveness of a certain star is too strong, he has no choice but to change his nationality and play for a weaker country, just to be able to participate in the World Cup or other Intercontinental Cup games. The most frequent occurrence of this situation is Brazil.

In fact, George Wood also has Brazilian nationality, but when he became famous, the Brazilian Football Association didn't even look at him because there are so many talents in Brazil. Don't care about George Wood who is far away in England.

Dunn was silent for a while, then comforted: "Your choice is right. It is impossible to go to a place like Jamaica to win what you want, so it is better not to go. Don't worry, in England... if England can't get out this time. Line, McLaren’s days in that position won’t be long. Maybe it’s just a change of head coach."

"What if it doesn't get better?" Wood raised his head and asked.

Dunn didn't know how to answer. This is not impossible-some players have to announce their withdrawal from the national team early because they are always not reusable in the national team, and have since lost the opportunity to express themselves on the larger world stage.

He can’t say to Wood: “It’s not bad to concentrate on playing for the club, and it will keep you in your condition longer.” Because he also wants to see Wood play his abilities on a broader stage and let the whole world do it. Amazed.

"Things will always get better." Dunn didn't know what the future would be like, he could only comfort him.

The outside gradually became lively, and the players and coaches who came to train rushed to the base one after another.

Dunn planned to go back to his office to handle some trivial matters. He just turned around and heard Wood say: "If... McLaren is gone, would you go?"

Dunn understood what Wood meant, and he looked at Wood with some doubts: "Then I will give up my current job, do you like it?"

Wood thought for a while and shook his head: "Forget it. If you don't go to England, I won't go at best. If you're not here...I won't have a job."

Dunn laughed loudly. "When did you learn to joke, George?"

Wood said nothing, he turned and walked to the locker room.

Dunn also felt boring. He stood there watching Wood's back leave before turning around and walking back to his office.

His predictive ability has long expired, so he can't know whether England will be able to pass Croatia this time. He also doesn't know whether McLaren will dismiss class, who will succeed him if he dismisses, and whether that person will be Love Wood's football style... There are too many questions.

But now he particularly hopes that England will lose key matches and lose tickets to the European Championship finals.

At that time, according to the habits of this country, there must be a person responsible for this "tragedy". That person will not be an official of the England Football Association, nor will it be a star player, that is, McLaren coach. (To be continued, if you want to know what's going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, authors are supported, and genuine reading is supported!)

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