Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 117

The reporting team from China lived in Sunderland for about a week.According to Anton's suggestion, the reporting team spent a lot of time with the children in the youth training camp, observing their daily life.One week, for England's mature and complex youth training system, is just a glimpse of the leopard.But it also gave the Chinese reporting team a lot of inspiration.

Fortunately, Jiang Yueming and the others rented a short-term rental house for "fans", and the landlord had a seven-year-old child who happened to be doing a trial training at the youth training camp.The reporting team is equivalent to eating and living with young players in youth training, and immediately accumulated a large amount of first-hand materials, which were sent back to China, and were affirmed by the leaders of the program team.

Jiang Yueming was secretly grateful to Anton.

But his biggest regret is that he couldn't take pictures of Anton playing football in person.He was shocked by the "barb" at the time. If he hadn't recorded the video at that time, he would have thought he was dreaming.

But Anton and the team were busy preparing for the game, Jiang Yueming was really embarrassed to "ask" Anton to leave the field in person to show off his skills.I can only keep this regret for the next time.

It’s just that Jiang Yueming is not worried. He has already asked the leaders what they mean. The leaders think that Anton, who has Chinese blood, will be a highlight of this season, so he instructed the reporting team to establish a good cooperative relationship with Sunderland: In the future, they will Will come again.

And the photographer Qiao Lu was simply moved - when the reporting team left Guangming Academy, Anton, on behalf of the club, gave Qiao Lu a No. 19 red and white arrow jersey of Messi in Sunderland.

This jersey has been out of stock, and every time it is new, it will be snapped up immediately.As a photographer, Qiao Lu has a duty to shoot all day long, so he has no chance to snap up photos.When he got the signed jersey, Qiao Lu immediately said that it was so sweet that he wanted to cry.

Before leaving, the reporting team left all the ingredients they bought from Chinatown to Anton, hoping that Anton could show everyone his Chinese cooking skills "from time to time".As a result, they left these ingredients in the cafeteria of Guangming College, which immediately attracted onlookers.

In desperation, Anton had no choice but to explain to the players what is the difference between fungus, Cantonese sausage and ordinary sausage, and why Ms. Tao Huabi is the undisputed national goddess in China... The players looked at Anton with great anticipation. Dong, I hope he can cook in person and perform those "legendary" Chinese dishes.

But the new season of the Premier League is about to start, and all the players' diets are under the "control" of the chief nutritionist.In the end, Anton only managed to get a meal of dumplings and a small amount of mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival from Qiao's mother.

But Joe's mother's diet control is indeed effective. Vardy, Royce, and "Tall Guy" Crouch, who were originally thin and thin, are now approaching very satisfactory weight and body fat percentage.Several other players with good physical fitness, their current physical test results have also improved significantly compared to before.

Even Messi, who likes pizza the most, no longer resists Joe's mother's "nutritious meal", and can consciously "bring home food" every day.But Anton will help him add some spices to taste.

In this way, Sunderland ushered in the first game of the new season, at home against Birmingham City.

In this game, Messi started and played the whole game.Sunderland took the lead with a Messi goal in the first half.In the second half, they laughed at the opponent's own goal and finally won the first game of the new season with a score of 2-0.

But Sunderland's easy victory did not cause a particularly big response. After all, everyone now thinks that with Messi, Sunderland's victory is a matter of course.

After this round, the most eye-catching is Sunderland's previous opponent Chelsea.

After experiencing the defeat in the Community Shield, Chelsea won a crazy 6-0 victory against another newly promoted West Bromwich Albion in their first match.Didier Drogba capped, Malouda scored twice and Lampard also scored a goal.The defending champion is trying to tell the entire football world with this score: Your uncle is still your uncle... Well, the defending champion is against the newly promoted, this result is just right!

After the game, Ancelotti also made bold words: "The loss of the Community Shield can't explain anything. This game is the level that Chelsea should be. ... Yes, our team is in very good condition, and Chelsea is very eager to play in the league. I am very confident that we will give Anton a taste of defeat!"

Anton knew this friend very well, and knew that Ancelotti was under a lot of pressure at the club. Otherwise, with Ancelotti's good-natured personality, he would never be able to say such aggressive words-as a head coach, everyone would not like him. Easy, Anton is very understanding of this.

Therefore, Anton did not take the initiative to respond to this, and dealt with it coldly, and waited for Ancelotti to get through the difficulties first.

In addition, four of the other BIG6 teams in the Premier League fell into civil wars and all drew. Liverpool and Arsenal shook hands 1-1, and Tottenham and Manchester City simply drew 0-0.

Only Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United beat Newcastle United 3-0.

Therefore, after the first round, Sunderland ranked behind Chelsea and Manchester United in terms of goal difference, and tied for third with Aston Villa.

Sunderland, who had a good start, seemed full of confidence. The fans were excited every day, discussing what new lyrics to write for the new season, and by the way, mocking Newcastle United, that "mortal enemy" is now at the bottom.

But no matter what the outside world is, Anton still leads his team to move forward at his own pace.They are very serious about preparing for the second round away game. In that game, they will face West Bromwich Albion who have just been beaten by Chelsea.

West Bromwich Albion was the runner-up of the British Championship last season. Like Sunderland, they are also newly promoted, and the road to promotion is much smoother than Sunderland.But being so abused as soon as they arrived in the Premier League, the team must not be able to swallow this breath.In the second round, West Bromwich Albion sits at home and definitely wants to give Sunderland a little color.

At the same time, the media is particularly good at comparing Anton's team with Ancelotti's team.Since Chelsea can beat people up 6-0, wouldn't it be too embarrassing if you don't come to Sunderland 4-0? ——Before the game, there were such voices from the outside world, which was actually quite annoying.

Anton's request to the entire coaching staff and players is: always think about the next game.

There is no need to miss the past achievements, and it is meaningless to be upset about the losses that have already occurred. The ranking at the end of the season is still too far away. The only thing they need to do is to win the next game.

Guangming Academy, after the lunch break, members of the first team waited in the rest area for the start of the afternoon tactical arrangement meeting.

At this time, Mother Qiao happened to pass by, took a look, and asked strangely: "Is no one delivering a letter? Anton is already waiting for you in the big conference room."

Hummels nodded politely to Joe's mother: "I already know, we will go after a 2-minute break."

There are still a few minutes left before the meeting, the training is tense, and the lunch break is lazy. The players would rather sit in the rest area for a while than immediately move to the meeting room to waste their brains.

Qiao's mother immediately looked at the group of young people with a disgusted face, and said, "Instead of spending all your time on applying hairspray, it's better to go to Anton's place and listen to him talk about tactics."

There is only one person applying hairspray in the rest area: the little Shaqiri, who is holding the hairspray that Royce lent him in his hand, and wants to try a new effect.Hearing what Joe's mother said, Shaqiri stopped his hands in embarrassment—he had only applied half of the hairspray, and now half of the hair on the top of his head was lying docilely, while the other half stood playfully.

Everyone wanted to laugh when they saw it, but because of Qiao's mother, they wanted to laugh but couldn't.

Royce was very embarrassed, he lent Shaqiri the hairspray - and the habit of applying hairspray... It seems, it seems to be him too...

Only this idiot, Pickford, laughed out loud at this time, clutching his belly and said, "Mother Qiao, you can't stop everyone from putting on hairspray, Sheridan is going to see Anton like this... Anton can't help it." Tell us about tactics!"

Haha——everyone laughed out loud in their stomachs, but they still dared not speak when they saw that Qiao's mother was still grimacing, and they didn't know how to respond.

The chief nutritionist, Joyce Romm, everyone's mother Jo, is a very assertive career woman.She has been working in Sunderland since she obtained her Ph.D. Now she is a grandmother and an absolute senior employee of the club. Everyone, including big-name players like Messi, respects her very much.

Qiao's mother has dedicated her life to the club, and she also has some authority in the club.But after all, she is a figure from the grandmother's generation. Seeing these children spend their best time on hair care, Mother Qiao really can't see it.

In order to "take care" of these players, Qiao's mother decided to show her face to the end, even if her face was stiff, she would not back down.

At this moment, Anton's clear and soft voice sounded: "What's the matter?"——The atmosphere in the lounge was so awkward.

Everyone immediately smelled a bitter coffee aroma, and they all lifted their spirits.I saw Anton coming from the cafeteria with a huge coffee pot in his hand.

"Xherdan, you...your hair needs to be tidied up again." Anton saw the scene in the lounge and immediately understood what was going on. He put his free arm on Mother Qiao's shoulder lightly, "here Everyone has 5 minutes, quickly tidy up their hair, and then come to the meeting room. At that time, I will let the last one and the worst hairstyle take the meeting minutes together."

The meeting minutes of the tactical layout meeting is a hard job. You have to be very attentive from the beginning to the end, and write down all the details. If you miss a little bit later, your teammates will complain, and you don’t have time to speak and express your opinions.So everyone doesn't like to take meeting minutes.

The players were all agitated, they turned around quickly, regardless of long hair or short hair, everyone stroked their hair in front of the mirror.Shaqiri hastened to apply hairspray on half of his hair and flattened it all in one go.

Anton softly comforted Qiao's mother: "Are they all young people! Give them a little time, and they are going to tidy up your hair properly."

Anton thinks: For such things as hairstyles, it is better to be sparse...it is better to "comb".