Chapter 22 What kind of person is the pirate coach
Hu Lai got out of the car and invited Song Jiajia: "Why don't you go sit at home and have dinner before leaving?"
Song Jiajia, who was sitting in the driver's seat, waved her hand: "I'm not going. Your job is over. The team still has a lot of work to do."
"How much time will it take to eat a meal?"
"No, no, I have to be with my employees. I won't disturb your two-person world, hey!"
Song Jiajia raised the car window, waved goodbye to Hu Lai again, and drove away.
Hu Lai watched him leave, then turned around and opened the courtyard door with his fingerprint.
When he opened the door to the house and walked in, he found that Li Qingqing was already busy making dinner in the kitchen.
He was surprised: "Did the training of the King of Madrid end so early?"
"You're back?" Li Qingqing, who was busy in the open kitchen, heard Hu Lai's voice and explained without looking back, "I only trained for half a day today. I had lunch at the base and then went home. By the way, I
I watched the live broadcast of your welcome ceremony on TV, and what was it like when more than 20,000 people chanted your name together? Hehe!"
"It's okay, there are 30,000 fans at Flanders Stadium." Hu Lai was modest on the surface, but actually showed off.
"By the time of the official game, Pirates Park can be filled with 80,000 people. As a player of the Madrid Kings, I know that Pirates fans are very fanatical. Their home stadium is almost full. It is the home stadium of the team with the highest attendance rate in the entire La Liga."
Li Qingqing said, turning around and bringing the mixed salad to the dining table.
Then she noticed a small national flag in Hu Lai's hand, and asked in surprise: "Where did this come from?"
"Oh..." Hu Lai turned the national flag in his hand, "I went for a physical examination this morning. After the physical examination, I met some Chinese students when I came out. When I signed autographs for them, one of the girls gave it to me..."
He told Li Qingqing everything about the situation at that time.
Li Qingqing laughed when he heard this: "So you scared people, why did they give it to you..."
She stepped forward, took out the flag from Hu Lai's hand, and walked towards a glass vase.
First I took out the flowers in the vase and compared them with the national flag. I found that the vase was too high and the pole of the small flag was too short and it was uncoordinated to insert it.
So she put the flowers back again and looked for a glass that was only for drinking water.
I put the flag in and the height is just right this time.
Li Qingqing looked at it with satisfaction and put the cup on the dining table.
A touch of red stands out on the white tabletop.
"How is it?" She tilted her head and asked Hu Lai.
Hu Lai nodded: "It looks good."
After receiving the compliment, Li Qingqing smiled and walked back to the kitchen to continue cooking dinner.
Hu Lai followed in to help.
I had the experience of cooking together in Leeds, and the two of them worked together very well.
They chatted while cooking.
"How does it feel? You met the Pirates' top management and head coach today?" Li Qingqing asked.
“They are all very nice. They are very warm and friendly.”
"You are the most valuable player in the history of the Pirates, so of course I will be warm and friendly to you." Li Qingqing said with a smile, "Is this your first time meeting the Pirates head coach?"
"Well, yes. This is the first time. I have only heard of his name before, but I have never been in contact with him. After all, Leeds City has never played against the Pirates."
"How does he look?"
"Parotti seems to be an easy person to get along with and always has a smile on his face. To be honest, I'm quite surprised..."
"Is this surprising? Don't everyone say he is a good guy?" Li Qingqing asked strangely.
"That's why I'm surprised. Madrid Pirates is a team with a very radical team culture..." Hulay said with a frown.
Regarding this, he had a deeper understanding after participating in today's welcome ceremony.
In particular, the Spanish uncle holding a sign flashed past the camera, which had a particularly big impact on him.
He really didn't expect to see that word again outside his own country...
"It stands to reason that for such a team, shouldn't the head coach be a person with a very fighting spirit, someone who can fight against the world, the earth, and the air in the middle? Just like Leeds City, the head coach is a psycho, so
Our whole team is also neurotic and attacks to death... I think a head coach and a team always need to have a temperament connection."
After hearing Hu Lai's doubts, Li Qingqing explained with a smile: "Binding the head coach with the temperament of the team is actually more common in mid- and lower-tier teams, because the head coach must imprint his own personal characteristics.
Only with the team can you lead the team to achieve good results. But wealthy teams often do not need this. Rich teams have their own team culture. This kind of thing is accumulated and passed down over a long period of time. It is not just one or two head coaches.
Those who can change are like us, the King of Madrid..."
She paused here because she had to put the fried salmon on a plate and take it out of the pan.
Hu Lai handed her the plate, then picked up the pan and tilted it slightly so that Li Qingqing could put the salmon on the plate with only one hand.
After doing all this, she put the plate on the dining table and went back to scoop up the almost cooked pasta. Hu Lai took out two clean plates from the sterilizer and prepared them.
Li Qingqing continued the topic: "...for example, what is the tradition of the King of Madrid, do you know?"
"Champion." Hu Lai shrugged.
This is the self-confidence of the top giants. For other teams, the championship is the highest honor that needs to be pursued, but for the Madrid Kings, the championship is their tradition.
Although he also won two championships when he was playing in Leeds City, what the club is actually pursuing is not the championship, but the ability to steadily qualify for the European competition every year. Winning the championship is a pure surprise, and it is good to win it.
, it’s no big deal if you can’t get it.
Leeds City is a small team after all.
Some wealthy teams are just satisfied if their team can qualify for the Champions League.
Only the Madrid Kings will fail if they do not win the championship in a season. From the players to the coaches and even the club president, they will be under tremendous pressure.
The championship is a matter of course for them, because King Madrid is the best club in the world. Only enough championship glory can be worthy of this status.
"Yes." Li Qingqing said. "With this as a tradition, even the women's football team, which was established more than a hundred years later than the men's football team, has had a clear goal from the beginning, which is to win the championship. For this reason, they do not hesitate to defeat the women's football team.
They spent a lot of money and invested a lot of resources, and even gave the women's football team the use of the Benavente training base with advanced facilities. As I told you, when we train, there is only a barbed wire fence between us and the first team."
Hu Lai nodded. Li Qingqing had told him this as a very novel thing when he first arrived at the Madrid Kings Women's Football Team.
When I was training with the Paris Eger Women's Football Team, let alone training with the men's football team, which was only separated by a wall, the training bases of the two teams were not in the same place, they were far apart.
No matter at home or abroad, Paris Eger's situation is normal in women's football.
The King of Madrid is an anomaly.
So when Li Qingqing came to Madrid, he was shocked when he found out that they were training in the same training base as the men's football team.
"At the Madrid Kings, both the men's and women's teams are pursuing championships. Their players must be championship-level players, and the same goes for the head coach. If a coach cannot lead the team to a championship, he must be dismissed and leave. Players cannot
Help the team win the championship, no matter how big the name is, you have to leave. This is the tradition of the Madrid Kings. Although they have been criticized as impersonal, they are indeed the most successful team in the last century and have the most championship honors in Europe.
team."
"But according to what you said, the Pirates have no reason to find Parotti as the head coach. He is inconsistent with the Pirates' tradition..." Hu Lai still didn't understand, and he handed two plates to Li Qingqing as he spoke.
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Li Qingqing took the pasta out of the pot and put it on a plate, then scooped out the meat sauce that had been fried on the other side and poured it on. The minced meat rolled off the top of the noodles, and the juice flowed across the noodles and seeped into the gaps between the noodles.
After she poured a plate of noodles, Hu Lai took the plate over and stirred it thoroughly with chopsticks so that the sauce was in close contact with every noodle.
Along with his movements, the fragrance overflowed.
"Parotti's labels are 'good old guy', 'easy to get along with' and 'easy to talk to'." Over there, Li Qingqing continued to pour sauce on another plate of noodles and said at the same time: "It doesn't sound good, but it actually means he has no personality. But if he doesn't have personality,
It means that it will not conflict with or violate the tradition of pirates."
She handed the noodles with the sauce to Hu Lai and asked him to continue mixing them.
And she herself picked up two empty glasses.
"Just like water, when you pour it into a cup, it becomes the shape of the cup, when you pour it into a bowl, it becomes the shape of the bowl, and when you pour it into a bottle, it becomes the shape of the bottle. Paroti is water, it has no characteristics of its own.
On the contrary, it can be compatible with more features.”
Hu Lai carried two plates, while Li Qingqing picked up two glasses of water, and walked to the dining table together.
The two sat down and prepared to have dinner.
Noodles, fish, vegetable and fruit salads contain carbohydrates, proteins, and vegetables and fruits to supplement vitamins. Although it is very simple, it still has all the necessary nutrients.
"Palotti has only been here for two seasons. Before him, the Pirates were a head coach with a special personality."
Hu Lai announced his name: "Hantcek, coach 'Madman'."
Li Qingqing nodded: "Yes, that's him."
Bjorn Hantcek is a famous "crazy coach" in football. He is the former coach of Madrid Pirates. He coached this team for five years and led Madrid Pirates to win two league championships and a King's Cup championship.
In the Champions League, they also took the Pirates to the semi-finals. However, the Madrid Pirates eventually lost to the Turin Bulls led by Caesar and missed the finals. Naturally, they also missed the championship. That was the closest thing to the Champions League title since the Pirates won the championship fifteen years ago.
once.
This coach's coaching ability is as controversial as his personality. People who like him like him very much, and people who hate him want him to die.
Hu Lai also worked with "Crazy" Clark, but to be honest, compared to Hantcek, Clark is much more normal... After all, Clark is just a little crazier in football tactics, and he is still a normal person.
And Hantcek is crazy both in football and as a person.
He once did something like rush onto the court and drag the opponent off because he thought the opponent's substituted player was too slow to leave the field.
As a result, not only did he fail to resume the game as soon as possible, but instead caused a fight between players from both sides.
He himself was also shown a red card and suspended for five games not only because he rushed onto the court and dragged the opponent's player, but also because he punched the opponent's player in the face during the fight...
A head coach with such an explosive personality and the Madrid Pirates are a perfect match.
Everyone thought he would coach this team for a long time.
Unexpectedly, after leading Madrid Pirates to win the Copa del Rey in the 2024-2025 season, he announced that he would not renew his contract with the club, and took a year's rest at home without another club.
Now, this man with full personality has returned to his home country and is the head coach of the Bundesliga giants Blue and White Munich. He has led the team to win the Bundesliga championship for two consecutive seasons, and last season he also led the team to win the "
Triple Crown" combines the league championship, domestic cup championship and Champions League championship in the same season.
He was only 48 years old when he accomplished all this, and was the youngest head coach to complete the "Triple Crown" achievement.
The future is even more promising.
Losing such an excellent head coach has to be said to be a great loss for Madrid Pirates.
"A lot of the current Pirates team is still the stuff Hantcheck left behind, and after Parotti came, he didn't change it without authorization. Instead, he continued to use the core framework, and then added it without damaging the core framework.
He made his changes and won the Europa League in the first season, which also shows Parotti's ability." Li Qingqing continued.
"Although some people say that the main contribution to this championship is Hantcek. After all, it was Hantcek who laid the foundation for Parotti to win the championship... Parotti has not argued with anyone about this issue. He coaches the team
After that, the fighting spirit of the Madrid Pirates was not affected, and everything was no different from before. During the coaching change, the stability of the team was ensured. This is of course all due to his lack of 'personality'..."
After listening to Li Qingqing's analysis, Hu Lai asked: "Qingqing, do you think Parotti will be a suitable head coach for the Pirates?"
"Why do you ask that?" Li Qingqing didn't quite understand.
"Listening to what you said, I always feel that Parotti is like a transitional coach. He was brought in because the Madrid Pirates Club couldn't find a suitable candidate in a short time after Hantcek left. After all, Parotti
He is highly compatible and can be compatible with any team style..."
"You are overthinking this. I don't think it is the case. Everyone has won the Europa League. Even if it was a transitional period, it is now being corrected by the club."
Hu Lai scratched his head: "That's good, I'm afraid the head coach will be changed not long after I arrive..."
"Why do you have such worries?" Li Qingqing was curious.
"The main reason is that I always encounter this kind of thing. When I first went to Flash Star, Zhao's position as coach was in turmoil and he might be dismissed at any time. Then when I went to Leeds City, the boss Clark was also on the verge of dismissal... I was afraid that this would become an old joke.
, repeating the cycle endlessly.”
"Don't be afraid of that, Hu Lai. With your current ability and status, even if the head coach is changed, you will definitely have a place in the Madrid Pirates team. You are Mr. 100 million euros!"
"Everyone is talking about 'Mr. 100 million euros', which makes me think that I really have 100 million euros. In fact... what does it have to do with me!" Hu Lai spread his hands out empty.
Li Qingqing covered her mouth and smiled: "Hurry up and eat the noodles, otherwise you will become lumpy."
"Okay." Hu Lai picked up the chopsticks and picked the noodles, but...
Li Qingqing frowned and watched as Hu Lai awkwardly and awkwardly picked up a noodle for a long time. He held it tremblingly and slid back halfway. She couldn't help but said: "What are you doing?"
"As you can see, let's eat noodles."
"Your right hand is injured?"
"No."
"Then why do you eat noodles with your left hand?"
"Ah... you said this." Hu Lai looked down at the chopsticks held in his left hand, "After I met Parotti today, he told me that I should practice my left foot and strive to improve my shooting ability.
, no shortcomings.”
Li Qingqing was stunned and raised her eyebrows: "Did you say this when we first met?"
"Well, straight to the point. He does seem to be a good coach."
Li Qingqing pinched his chin with his hand and muttered: "It's really... you are very good at shooting with your header and right foot. If there is a problem, it is that your left foot is not good enough. So I am familiar with you."
The opponent can specifically lock your right foot, forcing you to only use your left foot to control the ball and shoot..."
"Really? That's what Parotti said too." Hu Lai nodded.
"Did he ask you to practice like this?" Li Qingqing asked again, referring to eating with her left hand.
"That's not true..." Hu Lai shook his head.
Li Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief: "Let me just say, if he can come up with this idea, then his level is not very good. Is this Baidu's method?"
She thought of the scene when she first met Hu Lai, when he transformed into the gymnastics emperor of Dongchuan Middle School. Later, Hu Lai told her that it was to train and improve his body coordination, and the method was found online...
She rolled her eyes wildly at that time.
"No, no, I just thought about it. I thought that if I want to improve my left foot, I have to train myself to be left-handed. Not only my left foot, but my left hand also needs to be proficient. So it's like simply
Use your left hand when eating..."
Li Qingqing interrupted his whims: "Okay, okay, stop messing around. If you want to practice your left foot, it's very simple. After dinner, my sister will take you to the backyard to practice!"
Upon hearing this, Hu Lai quickly changed his hand, picked up the plate and shoveled the noodles directly into his mouth.
Hurrr!
Li Qingqing quickly stretched out her hand to stop him: "There's no need to be so anxious..."
