Volume 1: When a Hero Appears, People Pay Attention. Chapter 329: Obsession

ps, I'm very sorry... When I uploaded this second update last night, I don't know why I couldn't publish the update. When I clicked on the release page for scheduled updates, nothing happened. I restarted my computer and tried another computer, but it still didn't work. I had no choice but to wait until today to update. As a result, today I planned to focus on coding, and I haven't gone online since I woke up. So I forgot about it...

Just now I think about it, I posted an update with my shit on the ground...

Please forgive me!

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It's not necessarily that Guardiola has not realized that state, but that he has thought of it but is unwilling to do it. After all, some people can regard false fame as dirt and only want real money. Most of these people are ordinary people. For them, nothing is as useful or lovely as real money.

If you want a false reputation but don’t have that much money, what can you do with your false reputation? Instead, I am burdened by my false reputation and my life becomes uncomfortable.

Because many ordinary people are grassroots, they are well aware of the hardships of life, and know that if fame cannot be exchanged for money, it means nothing. For them, living better is the highest goal.

But for those more advanced elites, living a better life is just the lowest goal, and they can achieve it without doing anything. What they need is a huge reputation to distinguish them from ordinary people.

The more famous the person, the more so. They have been relentlessly pursuing fame all their lives.

This is true in all walks of life and in any era.

This has even become an obsession for those people. Let them not let go until they die.

This was even sublimated by them into the phrase "glory is my life".

What if it was truly grassroots? Is glory nothing? Can it be eaten as food? How much does it cost per pound? Good people don’t suffer immediate losses, and kneel down to admit their mistakes and beg for their lives... They really don’t have any psychological burden at all when doing this kind of thing.

The same is true in the football world.

Guardiola is an elite in the football world. He comes from a famous family. He has been the top player in world football since his playing days and plays for one of the best teams in the world. This is simply a member of a large family with a century-old heritage.

For such a person, just becoming a qualified head coach is no longer his goal. His goal from the beginning was to create his own legend. His first coaching spell at Barcelona was very successful and amazing. This virtually raised his expectations and threshold.

He could no longer accept anything less than this result.

He cherishes the fame he gained when he first coached Barcelona as much as he cherishes his own feathers.

So he doesn't like to hear others say that his coaching achievements are all due to Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and others.

This is actually a false reputation and a heavy shackles attached to Guardiola.

There are many people who work hard all their lives for a false reputation, but in the end they are ruined by their false reputation. So this thing is a double-edged sword. You can not only enjoy the glory that others cannot enjoy, but also make yourself exhausted and work many times harder than others throughout your life. After all, you have to protect your reputation. It is impossible to lie down at home and sleep comfortably. If you want to take a nap, just wait until your fame is slowly used up.

Another example is Boas.

Why is Villas-Boas still moving from one team to another, desperately trying to show his abilities, even if he directly conflicts with the top star in the team?

Aren’t you just tired of your false reputation?

He used to be the assistant of the famous coach Mourinho, and he can barely be regarded as the "Queen of the famous family". His coaching results in Porto were also good, leading Porto to win the Portuguese Super League championship, the Portuguese Cup championship, and the Europa League championship. , it can be regarded as a small triple crown. Such a high starting point allowed him to gain a lot of fame in a short period of time. This helped him. It is much easier for him to jump into a wealthy club than other managers, but it has also become a drag on him. Everyone knows that he has such brilliant achievements, and they will naturally expect him to continue his glory.

For this reason, he needs to constantly prove himself with his achievements.

In this way, he has been working hard, but has not yet succeeded, and the fame brought to him by his previous Triple Crown is also disappearing little by little. This can be seen from the change in the grade of the team he coached. He started with giants like Chelsea and Inter Milan, but after neither of these two teams achieved success, he is now coaching the upstart Manchester City. In terms of background, And the reputation is not as good as the first two.

If he still fails to succeed at Manchester City. I'm afraid that in the end he will have to coach a mid-level team like Tottenham and Newcastle United... and then maybe he will have to go far away to coach in distant Russia or even the Middle East.

Reputation can bring many benefits to its owner. But it also makes the owner suffer.

How different is Martin O'Neill, a grassroots person. Although they came from Nottingham Forest, the forest team was never considered a wealthy family, only rough heroes. Coaching also started with the amateur team Wycombe. The starting point could not be any lower. Among the coaching sisters, it is simply the grassroots among grassroots.

Because he is a grassroots person, he can afford to put it down. Because the grassroots have nothing, they don’t have to worry about losing it.

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Guardiola ultimately did not replace Messi. The game has only started for ten minutes. If you make a substitution after conceding a goal, it would appear that you are too panicked, right?

How can there be such a substandard head coach?

So Guardiola did nothing in the end. He just stood on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets and frowned at the court.

He can only hope that his young players can adapt to the game as soon as possible and then perform to the level they had in the La Masia training camp. He believes that as long as these players can perform normally, defeating PSV should not be a big problem.

But he didn't wait until the end of the first half for his players to behave normally. Not only that, but on the contrary they were also under PSV's aggressive offensive. He looked very embarrassed.

You must know that Eindhoven is not as good as Barcelona in terms of strength. But they are a team that has experienced hundreds of battles. The fighting power and momentum they erupt in a life-and-death battle are completely irresistible to the players of Barcelona's youth team.

They were like a group of new recruits, the kind whose bodies would tremble when they heard the sound of cannon.

Maybe give them a relaxed environment and they can gradually adapt to the rhythm of the game. But Eindhoven did not give them the opportunity to do so. They kept putting pressure on Barcelona's young players, leaving them with no time to think or calm down, and could only run exhausted.

It's amazing to be able to perform well like this.

Guardiola did not see any signs of improvement in his team, but continued to hear bad news from Vilanova.

"Twenty-second minute. Liverpool took the lead again, and it was Gerrard who scored..."

"In the 37th minute, the hero scored twice..."

Seeing that the first half was over, Vilanova stood up from the coaching bench again. Then he walked over to Guardiola and was about to speak when he was interrupted by Guardiola.

"Tito, you don't have to worry about the game over there now."

"But this time it was Dortmund who scored, they scored an away goal!" Vilanova was quite excited. Now Liverpool's lead has changed from three goals to two goals. If it continues, maybe Dortmund can score another one? With two away goals, even if they lose the game in the end, Dortmund will still be able to return to home court. There is a chance to fight.

"It's meaningless. Dortmund can't change the situation. It doesn't matter whether you listen to it or not." Guardiola shook his head pessimistically.

In fact, Guardiola just doesn't want to hear about Liverpool goals and Chen Yingxiong's goals all the time. This made him feel very uncomfortable.

His team was struggling in the quagmire, but his rival was making great progress there. This comparison made him very unhappy.

Vilanova didn't know what the head coach was thinking, and he still had some doubts about Guardiola's statement. He is now constantly encouraging Dortmund in his heart, hoping that they can be more energetic and score another goal in the second half.

He didn't really listen to Guardiola's words and continued to wear his headphones. Guardiola saw him like this and didn't say anything.

Some people, no matter how much you tell them, they won’t believe it. Always see it with your own eyes and hear it with your own ears.

He never thought about it. If Dortmund could cause trouble to Liverpool, how could Liverpool make Barcelona so vulnerable?

So there is no need to watch the game between Liverpool and Dortmund. Definitely Liverpool beating Dortmund. Maybe the suspense of the second round will be gone.

He stood on the sidelines and waited until the end of the first half. There was no improvement in the team's performance.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, Guardiola took the lead in walking towards the tunnel without looking back.

Regardless of whether they were on the court or on the bench, when the Barcelona players saw their head coach like this, they all knew that Guardiola was angry...

"Ah, the first half of the game is over! This first half really surprised us! The powerful Barcelona actually trailed PSV Eindhoven 0:1 in the away game! Although Barcelona has replaced many young players, these players are not the same. They are all talents produced by La Masia, and they have already become famous in the transfer market!"

The first half ended with a result that even the commentators were surprised.

They always thought that Eindhoven would score an early goal, but it also left enough time for Barcelona to equalize and take the lead. If things failed before the end of the first half, Barcelona could equalize the score and then take the lead in the second half.

Unexpectedly, until the end of the first half, Barcelona did not equalize the score. However, PSV almost continued to expand the score several times...

More commentators looked at Guardiola's back disappearing from the entrance and didn't know what to say.

Barcelona, ​​which was highly favored, actually encountered such a difficult game.

In another game, Liverpool was slaughtering Dortmund.

These two teams haven't even played against each other yet, and I'm afraid they've already decided... (To be continued)