Chapter 408 There Is Still Room for Both Sides
It has been three years since Zhuoyang became famous in German football, but he has not received any call from Jurgen Klinsmann, and Klinsmann has not even had any communication with him. This makes Zhuoyang can't live without ideas, and he still has dissatisfaction in his heart.
It has been two years since Zhuoyang had the external conditions to play for the German national team, but Zhuoyang has not shown any action or attitude in this regard. Klinsmann has gradually become dissatisfied with this. He has developed feelings for Zhuoyang. Got the view.
In discussions with Patrick Steele, Klinsmann said that he personally welcomed Zhuo Yang's entry into the German national team, but he made three requirements for Zhuo Yang:
1. Change nationality in the shortest possible time;
2. Publicly thank German football for their training in the media;
Third, openly express the desire to enter the German national team in the media.
If he can achieve these three points, Klinsmann said that he will call Zhuoyang into the team, and if there are no major injuries or other accidents, he can determine a World Cup quota.
The German national team does not reject ethnic minorities and people of color. African-Americans Asamoah and Odonke have become regulars in the national team, but let alone these 'outsiders', even many outstanding German football players mobilized Whenever there is a possibility of being selected, they will publicly build momentum for themselves in the media and express their desire to admire the national team, and those 'outsiders' are eager to lick it, such as Iranian Zandi. So it's not surprising that Klinsmann has this attitude.
It's a pity that Zhuo Yang's ideas are completely different from his.
Unlike the Europeans around him, Zhuo Yang believes that changing nationality is a big event, a huge event, just like birth, old age, illness, death, weddings and funerals, it is a major event that completely changes one's life. But it is common for Europeans, including the "proud" Germans, to have dual nationality or even multiple nationality. And because of the Greater European Union and the Schengen Convention, nationality in Europe is actually similar to the Chinese's hukou in different provinces. You said How big a deal will it be to move the household registration from Fujian to Guangdong?
But in Zhuoyang's view, for such a big thing as changing nationality, there must be a sufficient reason. He believes that this reason is-the German national team solemnly invites me to join. In addition, it doesn't matter whether he changes his nationality or not, so why change it?
Zhuoyang does not have as many conditions as Klinsmann. His main theme is that the German national team openly invited and welcomed him to join in the media.
Only when the German national team sends an invitation first can he convince himself to take this step. Only in this way can Zhuo Yang, who has received traditional Chinese education since childhood and grew up in a military compound, completely give up his identity as a Chinese. This is Zhuoyang's bottom line. The German national team must first make a statement and show its eagerness for talent.
Zhuo Yang did not have narrow national concepts. He went abroad after graduating from high school at the age of seventeen, which meant that he had not had time to make the motherland a belief. He was not a person who abided by rigid rules. But the pride in his heart and his pride would never allow him to pray to anyone. The other party had no attitude and rushed to change his nationality. Zhuoyang couldn't do such a thing that would lower his status.
——Yes, my football and piano skills were honed and refined in Germany, but when it comes to the fundamentals and foundations, piano was started with my mother’s loving teachings from an early age, and football was also developed with my father’s acquiescence, turning a blind eye. Next, the growth and accumulation that began on those bumpy fields in Xi’an.
——I respect and thank my teachers and coaches, but you Germans should not attribute all the credit and all my success to Germany. Don’t expect me to kneel down with tears of gratitude for your charity. You Germans are not Lei Feng.
Neither Klinsmann nor Zhuo Yang was wrong, they were just starting from different standpoints. But when it comes to inner pride, compared with Zhuo Yang, Klinsmann is an uneducated bumpkin.
As the newly minted European Ballon d'Or winner and World Player of the Year runner-up, as the image representative of the Bundesliga, Zhuo Yang is qualified to make some points, even if the person making the point is the German national team.
In fact, opinions within the German national team are not unified. Klinsmann's attitude is very firm, and his status as head coach also forces others to rely on his opinions. Klinsmann's assistant Joachim Loew is not as stubborn as him, and Loew even understands Zhuo Yang a little.
When Loew was a player, he was not as famous as Klinsmann. He was just a good, mediocre forward who bounced between the A and B. His mediocre player experience also left him without the capital to be arrogant. Of course, Loew himself is a learner. A wise man who loves to ponder problems. Based on the interests of the national team, the wise Loew believes that it is not a bad idea to give Zhuoyang a decent face, which will not damage the reputation of German football at all. It is not a matter of principle to issue a welcome and invitation first. Wise men are good at adapting. Loew believes that Zhuo Yang deserves the love of German football.
But as a tactical assistant coach, he was soft-spoken, and his own experience and reputation were too far behind Klinsmann. He couldn't persuade him or force him to persuade him, so he could only sigh and worry. Klinsmann is the emperor who is not in a hurry, he is just an accompanying eunuch.
Zhuoyang's Loew has no reason to persuade him, and he can't even talk to him. He once asked piggy Schwein and Grandpa Mo, two well-known good brothers of Zhuo Yang, during the national team training to see if they could send a message to Zhuo Yang, but the caliber of their answers was Surprisingly consistent.
"Zhuoyang is my brother, and he is also a very independent person. I will support him no matter what decision he makes, but I don't want to kidnap him with brotherly feelings. This is the bottom line and principle of why we become brothers. "
Xiaozhu and Grandpa know Zhuo Yang very well. If they persuade Zhuo Yang to give in, it will be very difficult for Zhuo Yang. No matter what happens in the end, it will definitely affect the friendship between them, and the gain will not be worth the loss. So, this matter was put on hold strangely.
Steele and Klinsmann failed to negotiate, and Zhuoyang knew that there was no hope of entering the World Cup in the summer, so he took it calmly when the German team's roster came out. He could not see any dissatisfaction or disappointment, and he could not detect it. There was no resentment or jealousy, but Zhuoyang's phone call to Mark West two days later might indicate that he was not as heartbroken as he seemed.
"Mark, I have decided to change the original plan, and you can make arrangements..."
"...Okay then, I will contact the eldest sister to discuss it. Zhuoyang, have you decided?"
"Okay, you go make arrangements."
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The outside world didn't know that neither Zhuoyang nor Klinsmann was willing to make the slightest concession, but it was clear that Zhuoyang was not selected for the squad. The German media began to raise questions, and there were speculations. With Zhuoyang's current status, Not being selected for the national team is really an unbelievable thing.
Zhuoyang refused to answer all questions about the national team, just like how he dealt with the Chinese national team before, forcibly blocking questions. Klinsmann also said in response to reporters' questions: "I hope everyone will focus on the players who have been selected. It is disrespectful to the existing national team members to put all the attention on those outside the list."
Neither Zhuoyang nor Klinsmann elaborated on the disputes and differences to the media, which also showed that they did not want to break up and left room for things to happen.