On May 7, 2004, the city of Gijon dressed up to welcome the return of its city hero.
In this port city in northern Spain, the streets were empty, and almost everyone came out to welcome the Sporting Gijon team that returned from the championship.
At El Molinon Stadium, the club held a grand ceremony. The players appeared one after another and were greeted by huge cheers and applause.
At the last moment, when the team's head coach Li Ang and the team captain Miguel Cobas came out carrying the championship trophy, the entire stadium was boiling like an erupting active volcano.
And almost at the same time, loud whistles sounded one after another from the direction of the port.
At that time, 65 ships of various types anchored in the Port of Gijon blew their horns three times.
Congratulations.
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In the evening, Leon met Jesus Fernandro Tomirez in a relatively remote small bar.
Li Ang briefly asked about the French player he favored.
Keeping these circumstances in mind, Li Ang made a decision. After playing the next league game, it seemed that he needed to go to France.
"I watched this player play, and he was pretty good." Tomires showed a surprised expression, "Where did you know there was such a player? I asked some friends in France, and they had never heard of this player.
players.”
Li Ang casually joked and confused the matter.
Finally, after confirming once again that a certain French player was indeed in a state of desolation, Li Ang smiled happily.
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Before saying goodbye, Leon suddenly asked Tomires, "Jesus, have you ever thought about having sex with me?"
"Working with you? What do you mean?" Mr. Independent Scout looked at Li Ang deliberately in surprise.
Li Ang winked, meaning you are a smart person, how could you not understand what I meant.
Tomires smiled and said, "Forget it, I still like to be alone."
Li Ang shrugged, "That's a pity. Hey, man, you may have missed a very exciting and fulfilling job."
The two were already familiar with each other. Listening to Li Ang's "joking", Tomires smiled and ignored him. Although Li Ang led Sporting Gijon to win the Copa del Rey, in Tomires's eyes, Li Ang still
There is no strength that can 'contain' him, and he is used to being free.
Leon waved goodbye to Tomires. He knew that he would probably have less contact with Tomires in the future. Even if he needed to find this person, he would need to pay special attention.
Although Tomires asked that question accidentally today, Li Ang was already wary.
He is a reborn person. He is very familiar with the future and can judge people very accurately. If this happens once or twice, it can be said that he is accurate. But if it happens too many times, it will arouse suspicion. Others may not think that he is a reborn person.
However, at the very least, he would suspect that he has a problem, and this problem refers to having super powers and the like... He does not want to be treated as a guinea pig.
Of course, if Tomires is willing to be 'acquired' by him and sign some confidentiality agreements, the two parties will become a community of common interests. Although Li Ang cannot say that he is assured of Tomires, at least some things can be continued.
It was done for Tomires... It's a pity that Mr. Independent Scout doesn't like the small temple of Li Ang.
After getting into the taxi, Li Ang took out a piece of paper from his pocket. Seven or eight names were written on the paper. If Tomires was willing to be 'collected', Li Ang would consider giving this paper to Tomires.
, asked him to help find the seven or eight players above, but now, there is no need for this for the time being.
Li Ang thought for a while, tore the paper into pieces, then opened the car window and threw it out, scattering a small piece of paper...
Should you consider forming a scouting team? Li Ang suddenly had an idea.
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The subsequent influence of Sporting Gijon's Copa del Rey championship is still fermenting. In Spanish football, some people have begun to pay attention to this former powerhouse that is still struggling in the Spanish second division.
The general manager of Sporting Gijon, Benita Arango, is indeed relatively capable. She took the opportunity to carry out publicity and public relations for Sporting Gijon. With this shareholder style, Sporting Gijon's image has been further improved.
I don’t know what Benita is thinking, but one of the hype topics she chose is quite interesting: the mysterious and young Chinese head coach, and the young and beautiful club general manager. This young combination of Sporting Gijon is very interesting.
It can attract attention.
Of course, not all Li Ang heard from Sporting de Gijon was good.
For example, Mr. Verga Stralén, who has his own column for football commentary in Spain's La Repubblica, criticized Leon and Sporting Gijon the day after the game.
The commentator complained about Real Madrid in his comments after the game, believing that Sporting Gijon won the championship through despicable means. Mr. Strallen believed that Real Madrid could win the final.
There are two nodes, one is before Zidane was sent off, and the other is after Zidane was sent off. Before Zidane was sent off, Real Madrid led 2-1, and the subsequent goal also came from
Zidane created a free kick, and after Zidane was sent off, the defensive pressure faced by Sporting Gijon was greatly reduced, and they had the opportunity to attack, and finally scored three goals in a row, reversing the championship!
Strallan criticized Leon's despicable tactics and criticized him for using despicable means to anger Zidane in order to win, causing the Frenchman to be sent off. Mr. Strallan even labeled Leon as an insult to football.
At the end, Strallen also laughed at Sporting Gijon’s current situation of being deep in the Spanish Second Division and almost on the verge of being relegated. “Who can imagine such a second-tier league team, or even a second-division team?”
A team that is almost relegated, but represents a country in the UEFA Cup? Let Sporting Gijon participate in the UEFA Cup. What will people from other countries think? This team will only embarrass Spanish football. What will Italians think?
What will the French think? What will the English think? What will the Germans think? They will only laugh and say that Spanish football is in decline, and they actually want a Spanish second league team to come out to play in the UEFA Cup!!! This is a shame, this is
A disgrace to Spanish football!"
Finally, Mr. Strallan also issued a call to expel the despicable Chinese who insulted artistic football from Spanish football!
It's obvious that this person is going for Li Ang!
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Leon doesn't read La Repubblica, so he didn't know about Mr. Verga-Strellan's criticism of him and Sporting Gijon at first. However, other media reporters would "kindly" inform him
This matter.
This 'good Samaritan' is Mitra, a reporter from "Voice of Gijon" who has a good working relationship with Li Ang.
Li Ang took a deep look at Mitra. The reporter who diligently sent the "Republic" smiled, not at all embarrassed because his "instigation" and "watching the show" mentality were seen through.
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Li Ang took a rough look at the report in "Republic". Although he knew that Mitra wanted him to come out and have a verbal spat with this guy, he was unwilling to be used as a gun by the media, even though it was a well-connected media. But, look
Despite Mr. Strallan's criticism of him, Leon was still quite unhappy.
The most important thing is that he has never heard of the name Verga Stralen. Leon has been in Spain for nearly two years. He also knows the names of those famous football critics. He has them in his mind.
After thinking about it, it turns out that there is indeed no such name as Verga-Strellan.
So, there is only one conclusion: the guy who scolded himself in La Repubblica is an unknown person!
This made Li Ang unhappy.
He felt that as a "champion coach", he was actually pointed at and scolded by an unknown person. This was quite unpleasant.
He doesn't mind being scolded, but if a nobody wants to scold him and step on him to get the upper hand, then, I'm sorry, sir, I will be angry. (To be continued.)
