Chapter 024 The current situation of Sporting Gijon
This is not the first time that Li Ang has attended the European Cup draw ceremony. He and his assistant Banderas attended it last season, but that time he attended the UEFA Cup draw ceremony.
Of course, the influence and attention of the UEFA Cup is incomparable to that of the UEFA Champions League.
The last time I went to attend the UEFA Cup draw ceremony, although some reporters were curious about the appearance of a Chinese coach, that was all. He did not attract much attention that time.
Only the Chinese domestic media reported it vigorously. After all, the Chinese head coach appeared in the UEFA Cup. This is good news for the poor and weak Chinese football.
Li Ang was the first coach to win the Triple Crown in the history of La Liga last season. Especially in the league, he defeated Real Madrid and Barcelona to win the La Liga championship. This is an amazing achievement!
Moreover, he is now coaching Serie A giant Inter Milan, which is a veteran European giant!
In addition, Inter Milan has made quite a lot of moves this summer, especially bringing Ronaldo back from Real Madrid to Inter Milan, which has attracted worldwide attention.
Of course, Li Ang's iron-blooded purge at Inter Milan also made him famous. There has never been a head coach who just came to a team, especially a wealthy team, who has such crazy purges and replacements.
Therefore, Li Ang is now a man of the hour!
He is the first yellow coach, the first Asian coach, and the first Chinese coach in the history of the UEFA Champions League!
He is the head coach of Inter Milan!
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Li Ang, accompanied by Inter Milan President Facchetti, had just arrived at the Grimaldi Convention Center in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Reporters waiting outside the venue swarmed in and surrounded him.
This is the first time a head coach with an Eastern face has appeared in the Champions League. No wonder the media is paying so much attention to it.
It is not uncommon for players with oriental faces to appear in the Champions League. Japanese players Hidetoshi Nakata and Junichi Inamoto, as well as South Korean player Park Ji-sung, have all appeared in the Champions League. Park Ji-sung, in particular, even accompanied Ein in this past season.
Hoving reached the semi-finals of the Champions League together.
However, a head coach with an Eastern face appears on the Champions League stage. This is the first time in the history of the Champions League!
In European football, it is basically dominated by white head coaches.
It is rare to even see a black head coach, the more famous of whom is Rijkaard, the current head coach of Barcelona.
In fact, in the mainstream Western world where whites dominate, most popular sports are dominated by white head coaches. Not only football, basketball, rugby and volleyball coaches are basically white coaches, and there are very few black coaches.
There are almost no human coaches.
Take the football field as an example. Rijkaard became the head coach of Barcelona and appeared in the Champions League. This caused relatively little curiosity, mainly because Rijkaard is a famous star and one of the 'Three Musketeers of Milan'.
An athlete's career is extremely glorious, and becoming a head coach seems to be more acceptable.
However, Li Ang suddenly emerged from nowhere!
After three years of coaching, he became the first Oriental head coach in the history of Spanish football, led Sporting Gijon back to La Liga, became the first Oriental coach in the history of La Liga, and became the first Oriental coach in the history of the UEFA Cup.
, and then, what is even more amazing is that he led the dark horse Sporting Gijon to the end and actually won the La Liga Triple Crown last season. This is the first Triple Crown coach in the history of Spanish football. This title was awarded to this Chinese
People picked it off!
This caused a sensation in European football. They have always discriminated against Asians. In the field of coaching, which has always been dominated by Europeans and Americans, Li Ang is like the Monkey King who jumped out of the stone and suddenly made a big fuss in heaven!
Seeing Li Ang being surrounded by these famous European media for interviews, the Chinese reporters who came to Monaco for on-site interviews felt proud.
Take a look at the media surrounding Li Ang: "France Football", "L'Equipe", "Kicker", "Der Spiegel", "World Football", "Gazzetta dello Sport", "Torinospor"
"Newspaper", "Corriere dello Sport", "Bild"...these are the most famous sports media in European football.
It is usually not easy for these media to interview a certain person alone, let alone now that so many media surround Li Ang and jointly interview him.
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Li Ang met a 'strange acquaintance' at the venue.
This person is the current head coach of Sporting Gijon, Antici. After Li Ang and Sporting Gijon's 'breakup', Sporting Gijon chairman Manuel Arango chose the famous coach Antich after an 'audition'.
Coach Qi.
Sporting Gijon, as the defending champion of La Liga, is naturally qualified to participate in the UEFA Champions League in the new season.
Antic is a famous Spanish coach. He has coached many La Liga teams such as Zaragoza, Real Madrid, Oviedo, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Celta. He is the only two who have coached Real Madrid.
(1991/1992) and Barcelona (2003), he led Atletico Madrid to win the La Liga and Copa del Rey double in the 1995/1996 season.
As the defending champion of La Liga last season, Sporting Gijon has suffered serious blood loss this summer, but its foundation is still there and it can be considered a strong team in La Liga. Antici is very interested in the challenging job of coaching Sporting Gijon.
And he also met Manuel Arango's standards for a famous coach, and the two sides finally hit it off.
Just one day, the 2005 European Super Cup was played at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco. Liverpool, the European Cup champion last season, defeated Sporting Gijon, the UEFA Cup champion last season, 3-1.
The two sides were tied at 1-1 in the 90th minute. Italian striker Di Natale scored the first goal for Sporting Gijon. However, the Red Army relied on Cisse's two shots and one pass to first equalize the score in the 90th minute, and then relied on overtime to finally win.
Winning the European Super Cup, this is also the third European Super Cup in Liverpool's history.
Li Ang didn't watch that game. After leaving Sporting Gijon, he didn't watch another Sporting Gijon game. Watching that team, which had left a profound mark on him, would only make him sad.
Sporting Gijon had many players transfer away this summer, with Juan Carlos, Juan Mata and Luka Modric following Leon to Inter Milan.
Ivanovic went to Chelsea.
Grosso went to Juventus.
Pepe went to Real Madrid.
Veteran Hierro chose to retire.
Benzema was bought back by Lyon for a high price.
Eight key players have left!
However, Benita withstood the pressure and kept Ribery, Di Natale and Milito, the three most popular players in the transfer market, which barely saved Sporting Gijon's vitality.
The departure of these players brought a huge transfer income of more than 100 million euros to Sporting Gijon. Manuel Arango gave 40 million euros to Antic for signings. If it were an ordinary team
For mid- and lower-tier teams, the transfer funds of 40 million euros are quite good. However, for Sporting Gijon, which has lost too many main players, Spanish football is obviously not optimistic about the future despite the introduction of many players to supplement their strength.
Sporting Gijon in the Li Ang era directly excluded this team from being contenders for the league title. Obviously, the miracle of Sporting Gijon created by Li Ang can only happen once! If Li Ang is still the head coach of Sporting Gijon
If so, the Spanish media may still have certain expectations for Sporting Gijon, but now, they are not optimistic about this defending champion. There will be no dark horse miracles in the future!
The Sporting Gijon Youth Guard built by Li Ang can be said to have collapsed...
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