Chapter 41: The 'Rise of Fame'

"This young Chinese coach has no Chinese modesty at all."

"He's arrogant, arrogant, he's only become the manager of Derby County, it's like he's conquered the world, and he even claimed before the season that his team would win the league!"

"He ignored the media reporters, ignored the fans' reactions, and only sent the players he liked in the game...and the players he didn't like, such as Michael Johnson, have been sent to the youth team by him, and several other powerful players, He was also sold directly by him in the summer. Those players who are not close to him can only get a few playing opportunities, and players who are close to him, such as Franck Ribery from France, even if the performance is not good. get a first chance.”

"In Derbyshire, there was no one who dared to contradict him, that was where he spoke."

"He is the great dictator of the new century!"

"China has a long history of feudal culture, and this young Chinese coach has inherited this culture and brought it to an open Europe, an open Britain."

"He is not only a dictator, he can't face up to the strength of the team. He fantasizes that his team is the best in the world... Yes, that's what he thinks, so he dares to ignore any reporters after the victory. He The thought was probably, 'My team is the best, so you guys have to come and interview me'."

"'I don't want to hear any criticism, I just want to hear compliments and praise', this is the inner thought of this young Chinese coach, he is such a person, can't accept failure, can't face mistakes, only knows to follow Act on your own mind.”

"He's a real dictator, an arrogant dictator!"

"..."

The next day, the front page of the sports page of the Daily Mirror was a big picture of Wansheng. The huge photo covers the entire page, and various comments and analyses are written in the gaps. Anyone who sees such a front page will be interested in reading it.

Then they read about a young Chinese coach in League One who is arrogant, arrogant, arrogant and bad character.

The "Daily Mirror" has finally come up with a killer this time, perhaps it can be said that the "Daily Mirror"'s football news department has come up with a killer. They only have four reporters in total. All three of them were rejected by Wan Sheng, so they became angry and decided to teach Wan Sheng a lesson.

A department has made up its mind and can already do a lot of things.

For example, this time, the report about Derby County appeared directly on the front page of the sports page, instead of only publishing commentary articles on the official website as before, the influence of the two naturally cannot be calculated. "Propaganda. Wansheng's reputation is really rising. There are at least several times more people in the UK who know the name Wansheng.

However, this reputation is not necessarily good or bad.

But obviously Wansheng has received more attention. In the past, only the Derby County regional media headed by "Derby County Sports News" talked about the title of 'dictator', and now the "Daily Mirror" directly added this title to On Wansheng's head, it is estimated that everyone will think of the title of 'dictator' when they hear Wansheng's name in the future.

Like Mourinho's 'Magic Bird'?

Wan Sheng looked at the report of the "Daily Mirror" and laughed at himself, "I guess he should be more like a 'madman'."

The "magic bird" refers to the magic of Mourinho's team, and he can always defeat one opponent to win. That's an honorific title..."Dictator" is obviously not an honorary title, so it can only be said to be similar to "madman". It sounds domineering, but in fact, it is a kind of irony for the English media to describe this person's character.

But is it also an achievement to be able to mix a title in media reports?

It's a pity that the football training master system does not recognize this achievement, otherwise it may be possible to gain a lot of experience.

...

The influence of the "Daily Mirror" is very wide, and the influence of this report is naturally very wide. After the report, many people know that the head coach of Derby County is a Chinese young man named Wan Sheng. He has a very bad personality. , and has the title of 'dictator'.

Many people are paying attention to Wansheng. Of course, it is hard to say whether this attention is benign or malicious.

Among these people, there are also compatriots from China.

A well-paid sports reporter.

Xinlang is an emerging online media company serving China and the global Chinese community with the development of the Internet age. In recent years, it has developed rapidly and has become one of the largest comprehensive online media companies in China. Trends in leading online media.

The sports news department is one of the core departments of the salary wave.

After the Chinese national team was humiliated and eliminated by zero goals in the World Cup in Korea and Japan last year, domestic fans have paid more and more attention to foreign football. Xinlang has also sent a lot of sports reporters to interview European football. Their main focus is still on on Italian football.

Italian football has always been known as a small World Cup. In recent years, with the rise of the Premier League, their status as the world's largest league has been challenged, but they are still the most watched league in the world.

The same is true in China.

Even ordinary fans can name 'Seven Heroes of Serie A', 'Milan Heroes', etc. Some of the reasons are that CCTV owns the broadcasting rights of Serie A, and as long as you turn on the TV, you can watch it. The live broadcast of Serie A, so there are many domestic fans who pay attention to Italian football. The focus of Xinlang Sports Department's interviews on European football will naturally be more inclined to Italian football.

But they also take English football very seriously.

Among them are the reasons why the Premier League has been developing violently in recent years, and there is another important reason, that is, the Chinese player Sun Jihai plays for the Premier League Manchester City Club, so it is natural for Xinlang to send reporters in Manchester for a long time to conduct interviews.

These reporters in Manchester, their job is mainly to interview Sun Jihai's performance, and also pay attention to the big news of English football.

Gao Jixian is Xinlang's resident reporter in Manchester.

Unlike many colleagues who occasionally come to the UK for interviews, Gao Jixian has stayed in the UK for nearly a year and has only returned to China twice. His job is to pay attention to Sun Jihai's training and performance, and to follow the football news in England.

For domestic fans, the big news about football in England naturally refers to the top teams in the Premier League. As for the lower leagues, few fans care about it, so Gao Jixian's work is also inclined to this part. In addition to his own interviews, he usually looks at the football reports of the big British media, about the English lower leagues. He didn't pay attention at all. That doesn't help his job at all, domestic fans won't care about which team is doing well in League One, and the coverage of the lower leagues is at the beginning of the season, mentioning the 'teams that have been promoted this season'.

Gao Jixian doesn't care about the League One, and naturally he won't know that Derby County has replaced a Chinese head coach called "Wan Sheng".

But today he knew.

In the morning, Gao Jixian habitually opened the big media newspapers he sent. The Daily Mirror and The Sun are his must-read newspapers. These two tabloids are very influential in the UK and even Europe. Sports football coverage above. It will be very helpful for him to write news articles.

Open the "Daily Mirror", open the sports page, the front page is a big photo, the character on it seems to be an East Asian?

Not Japanese, not Korean...

Many Europeans cannot tell the difference between Japanese, Koreans, Koreans, and Chinese. For them, the difficulty of distinguishing these people is the same as distinguishing which African country a black person belongs to. It is estimated that thirteen people in China are. billions can do it. One in ten million is not bad, the probability is even smaller. In short, ordinary people can't do it, but as a Chinese, I have watched a lot of TV since I was a child. Many times I can distinguish the differences between Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Gao Jixian can do it. He glanced at it. , you can be sure that this is not Japanese, not Korean, so...is it Chinese?

Like other people's reactions when they saw this front page, Gao Jixian became interested and read it carefully.

A young coach called 'wansheng'?

Why is this name so strange, doesn't he have a last name? Gao Jixian immediately reacted... This is pure Chinese Pinyin!

His interest increased.

So he continued to read the content. The report was about a young Chinese coach with a bad personality. He was coaching the Derby County club in the League One. His personality was arrogant and extremely bad. It also bears the title of 'dictator'.

What kind of hatred this is to be reported like this!

But...the Chinese coach?

is this real! ?

Gao Jixian immediately became excited, regardless of whether the description was true or not, but this is a Chinese coach!

It's a big news that a Chinese player can land in the Europa League, coach? Are there any good coaches in China? Most people can't imagine it.

This is great news!

Gao Jixian was immediately excited. You must know that he is in the UK. In fact, it is not easy to interview big news. When he first came here, he was looking forward to interviewing various big stars and getting all kinds of exclusive interview materials to do. All kinds of reports that attract fans, but this dream is long overdue.

For a year here, the biggest star he interviewed was Sun Jihai... The other stars were simply out of reach, so he could only collect some report materials from the big media in England to write articles to remove them and repeat them. Once again, it's the most work he's ever done.

But such a report article is really difficult to attract people, because he has no particularly exclusive content.

Now this opportunity is in front of you.

A young Chinese coach who is unknown in China but landed in the English second league? Is there anything more appealing than this?

Gao Jixian seemed to see that after he finished the report and sent it back to China, it immediately caused a sensation in the whole of China, and he would also become a famous reporter with this, and promotion and salary increase were just around the corner.

What are you waiting for?

He immediately decided to leave for Derbyshire!

...

Wansheng did not know that a Chinese reporter noticed him, and now he is still studying tactics, improving the team's tactical play, and making this offensive tactic appear more mature.

Now his improvement efforts are on defense.

In the previous team attack, the running-in between others and Ribery has not been fully completed, but generally everyone knows how to play. The rest is a question of proficiency and habit, which will take time to improve. , it is impossible to do the best in a short time, so he focuses on new adjustments.

Actually. Just getting used to one tactical adjustment and then proceeding to the next tactical adjustment is not very good.

But Wansheng had no choice.

More importantly, he believes that the new adjustment is much more important than the previous team adapting to Ribery to improve the offense.

while playing against Walsall. Wansheng noticed the problem of the team's defense. In the case of formation pressure, just relying on two midfielders to reduce the pressure on the back line to increase the defensive ability, the effect is not as obvious as imagined.

One is that many times, one of the two midfielders needs to plug in an assist.

Second, it is impossible for the two midfielders to take into account the entire midfield defense line. If the opponent chooses to rush in from the wing, then the defensive role of the two midfielders. It's really diminished.

He has to improve this problem.

This offensive tactic was originally based on defense. It's impossible to talk about defense and offense well, so after he figured out a way, he began to let the team do drills the next day.

He wasn't worried.

Because the method he thought of to improve tactics was not as complicated as adjusting the attack before, 'simple' and 'rough' were the most suitable words to describe this adjustment.

The method of adjustment is to let all players on the field compress the defense line immediately after losing the ball. This compression is not a full line retreat. Instead, let the team's front and back lines compress towards the center line.

Thus. The formations that were originally scattered when attacking were immediately crowded together.

This is the inspiration for 'Sandwich' to Wansheng.

He originally wanted to make the team retreat aggressively, but then the tactics completely changed the taste, so he thought of sandwiches, two slices of bread with a pile of meat and vegetables, holding it up and down and squeezing it hard, it will become much thinner. At the same time, the density in the middle, or the content, will definitely increase a lot.

What Wansheng thinks of is to let the team defend based on the midfield line anytime, anywhere. No matter when the opponent can suddenly get the ball, the team's midfield line will remain stationary, and both the striker and the back line will approach the midfield. In this way, the team can form a solid defense in the midfield line, and it is not easy for the opponent to penetrate this solid defense.

Of course, there are downsides to this defense.

Obviously, the back line is pressed forward to stabilize the midfield defense. At the same time, it can also use offside to defend, but the opponent can also use anti-offside to directly penetrate all defenses.

Between offside and anti-offside, it depends on the performance of the players on the field.

Even if there are obvious shortcomings, Wansheng is very satisfied. At least it can stop those skilled teams in the first time, and use short pass coordination or personal skills to penetrate the team's defense line. As long as it can stabilize, the team will have time. Do adjust the overall retreat, do not give the opponent a chance to attack suddenly.

That's the adjustment Wansheng made.

This kind of adjustment is quite simple and rude. Those midfielders don’t need to do anything at all, and they can defend normally on the spot. Therefore, after only one day of training, the players know what to do in the game.

The next few days will be targeted tactical training, so that the team is familiar with new tactical adjustments, and the players are familiar with cooperation and offense.

Soon the next round of the league will come.

The seventh round is crucial for Derby County as their opponent is West Bromwich Albion.

West Bromwich Albion have just been knocked out of the top spot by Norwich City, and they are one point behind Derby County, and as a result they can only fall back to third place in League One.

Gary Magson is the head coach of West Bromwich Albion. As an athlete, he has a career of nearly 20 years, playing for Plymouth, Everton, Sheffield Wednesday, Manchester City, Norwich and many other clubs .

After retiring, Gary McGerson worked as a football coach.

He has coached Norwich, Blackpool and other low-level league teams, but what really made him famous was in 2000, after McGerson took over as West Bromwich's manager in March of that year, West Brom Vic finally made a qualitative leap and was successfully promoted to the Premier League in 2002, but it was a pity that they were relegated to League One the following year, last season.

West Bromwich Albion's goal this season is to upgrade.

However, the situation this season is a bit difficult. Now there are three teams with the best performance in the league, namely West Bromwich Albion, Norwich and Derby County. They have just experienced the battle with Norwich and were also defeated by Norwich Qi kicked off the championship and fell directly to the third place in the league. Magneson was naturally very unhappy. Now they have encountered Derby County, which is temporarily second in the league.

Before the game, Magson carefully studied Derby County's recent game video, and watched a lot of media reports. He also has a certain understanding of Derby County. He believes that Derby County is just a team that relies on surprising tactics to get results. Not the kind of team that relies purely on strength, like them and Norwich, to get results.

So Magson treats the game with a very relaxed mood.

"Norwich and Derby are unbeaten so far and we lost one, but now against Derby I think it's us who win."

"I have prepared a lot for this game. I know their tactics and their formation configuration. We are stronger than them. I think the victory will also belong to us."

At the pre-match press conference, Magson said confidently.

Hearing McGerson's words, and thinking about the strength of West Bromwich Albion, the reporters were immediately excited!

If an ordinary team coach said that, the reporters would not be so excited. Even if they hate Derby County and the young Chinese coach, they also know that Derby County can play the current results, not only rely on luck. , that is completely deceiving yourself.

Journalists now admit that it will be difficult to beat Derby without strength.

West Bromwich Albion is definitely a strong team!

They were the relegated team last season. Unlike West Ham, they have always been the league leaders before. With such a team under the leadership of a famous coach like McGerson, Derby County will definitely lose this time. !

The reporters thought with schadenfreude.

They were gearing up to do their job after Derby County's loss.

---The third one is more, and I have the cheek to ask for a few monthly passes---(To be continued ~^~)