Lao Shen, who was already moved but was blocked by Wang Ai, held his breath and arrived in A Coruña, Spain three days later!
Compared with Hao Haidong's "start again at the age of thirty-four", Lao Shen's "start again at the age of forty-seven" is obviously more heroic. No matter how good the relationship between Wang Ai, Deportivo and Irueta is, Lao Shen is the coach.
The marginal person in the group, the last "student".
From a meritorious coach to a student, the psychological twists and turns are not that easy. Fortunately, Lao Shen is qualified after all, and with Wang Ai as a guarantee, his salary is only 20,000 euros a month, so the club is not bad at all.
, so Lao Shen’s entry into the job went quite smoothly. And he was able to handle some simple tasks very quickly.
In the past three days in China, he was not idle. He specially found a Spanish translator and studied spoken Spanish for several days. Although he was limited to the simplest football terminology, it was not too unfamiliar. Moreover, Old Shen
The level of relationship-building is by no means comparable to that of Wang, Hao, and Li. On the first day they came, they brought many small gifts with Chinese characteristics, and none of them were left behind by the coaching staff.
Although originally the club would not neglect Wang Ai because of his face, his low-key and enthusiastic attitude quickly opened up his work situation.
It's just that in the eyes of onlookers, people know whether they are warm or cold, and all kinds of feelings are in their hearts. Those who don't like it will say that he will do this! But those who like it, such as Wang Ai, inadvertently remembered
Those officials, businessmen and scholars during the "Westernization Movement" were beaten up, and they had to shout "Learn from the foreigners to control the foreigners" and learn the tricks of the foreigners, thinking that one day they would kill the red-haired ghost.
Like the Boxers who "killed them all" indiscriminately and irrationally, the feeling in my heart is really similar.
In the past, it was said that weak countries have no diplomacy, but how can a country with a weak football level stand up to its international peers?
But Lao Shen is very open-minded. He came to La Liga and got into the coaching staff. What happened to looking at people's faces? He also advised Wang Ai: Who doesn't look at people's faces in life? When you are the emperor, you won't look at the ministers' faces.
?Don’t look at the queen’s face anymore? Don’t look at the elders’ face anymore? When I’m in China, don’t I have to look at the leader’s face too? Foreigners have straight tempers, and their faces are more valuable.
But in private, Lao Shen worked very hard and asked Wang Ai to introduce Spanish courses to him on the first day he came. However, A Coruna is a small city with a small immigrant population, and there are really no Spanish teachers who understand Mandarin.
As a language teacher, in the end I had to hire a Chinese from a Chinese restaurant who could speak Mandarin with difficulty to act as a teacher. Fortunately, Lao Shen didn’t need to learn theory and could just learn conversation all day long.
His Spanish progress was even faster than that of Lao Hao and Datou! Moreover, he also joined Wang, Hao and Li in their morning exercises.
As Lao Shen quickly integrated into the club, he even soon started talking and laughing with players such as Belleron, Forlan, Victor, Mauro, Andrade, Naibet, Romero, Hao Haidong, and Li Weifeng.
The situation began to improve significantly. Hao even scored a goal in a training match and received applause from his teammates.
This also shows that they are beginning to gradually integrate into the team.
With the arrival of Wang Ai and Shen Xiangfu, especially the return of the former, the frustrated atmosphere in the team gradually began to dissipate, and in the seventh round of the 2004-05 La Liga season, they won with a score of 4:1. A big win over the visiting Getafe team.
Wang Ai did not score in this game. He only played 15 minutes and received an assist. Because before this game, Wang Ai and Lao Hao went to Kuwait together to participate in the national team's World Cup qualifying match against Kuwait. The result Wang Ai did not get a chance to play, but Lao Hao showed off his prowess, kicked with his head and kicked, and scored two goals in a row. The final score was that the Chinese team defeated Kuwait 2:1, thus qualifying for the group one round ahead of schedule. This also made Wang Ai worry for a long time. The danger of tripping over Kuwait disappeared.
After the game, the national team held a small celebration, but neither Lao Hao nor Wang Ai participated. They hurried back to Spain, but on the plane, Lao Hao couldn't help but babble.
"How's it going? Are you, Brother Hao, okay?"
On the plane returning to Spain from Kuwait, Lao Hao proudly showed off to Wang Ai. Logically speaking, he shouldn't, but Wang Ai put too much pressure on him! So far, Wang Ai has participated in 10 national team games and won. Scored 15 goals, participated in 10 National Olympic games, and scored 25 goals! Taken together, he has only been in the national first-line team for two years, and his number of goals is already the same as Hao Hao’s total goals in his national team career of more than ten years. That's it. Fortunately, after scoring these two goals, Lao Hao's data has been refreshed to 42, but there is not much room for growth.
Even if the National Olympics data is a bit watery, it is still 40 goals! When he thinks of this data, the back of Hao's head feels a little numb. This is the rhythm of a strong master who wants to beat his ancestors and become a god! No wonder he is so troublesome and the Football Association still praises him. Look at him. Old Hao also enjoyed this kind of treatment back then, but for Wang Ai, this kind of treatment can only be strengthened several times!
Therefore, Lao Hao said something like this without thinking.
Wang Ai chuckled: "If you have the ability, you can go to La Liga."
"Then I have to have a chance."
"Almost! Hey, if you don't believe me, you have to believe in Director Shen's ability."
As expected, Lao Shen lived up to expectations and actually got Lao Hao into the squad in the eighth round of La Liga, an away match against Malaga.
In this game, Wang Ai took the initiative to request to start. After all, he missed too many games. Irueta and the club never said anything. With the green light given to Hao Haidong, Li Weifeng and Lao Shen, Wang Ai had to do something. "Representation". Moreover, as the number of Chinese in this small town increases, local traditional xenophobic factors are also secretly surging. For example, some tabloids in Madrid shouted: La Coruna has been invaded by the Chinese!
If we don't give some "show", the "kingdom" that Wang Ai finally won may be lost.
As the de facto "boss" of these Chinese footballers, of course Wang Ai has to step forward!
Malaga's defense was very tight, but Wang Ai, who was one year older, quickly scored with the cooperation of Belleron, and he received a wonderful overhead kick from Belleron's pass with his back! He took the lead in changing the dull situation of the game. Then, at the end of the first half, he created a direct free kick at the edge of the penalty area and made a hit.
Wang Ai's outstanding form made the club breathe a sigh of relief, and in the 35th minute of the second half, under the eager eyes of Wang Ai and Lao Shen, Irueta successively sent two newly promoted Chinese substitutes, Hao Haidong,
Li Weifeng also stepped into La Liga for the first time.
This chapter has been completed!