Chapter 602: Volume 5, Red, An Old Friend Is Coming

After the Forest team decided to participate in this draft plan, they selected a coach from the youth department to go to China. He did not follow the older group. Nottingham Forest did not send a coach to the older group where the whole video was broadcast. This coach is mainly with the junior group. The younger group will not conduct TV broadcasts and commercial shows. It is purely for the purpose of selecting good enough seedlings to train in the UK. In the end, there will be four lucky ones who will go to three clubs for training. Two years of training. Everton have two, Bolton and Nottingham Forest have one each.

In China, advertising campaigns are in full swing, and auditions in the six major cities of Guangzhou, Shanghai, BJ, Wuhan, Changsha, and Chengdu have already begun, and 14 winners from the six competition areas will be selected in late September , went to Changsha to participate in the final general training camp and prepare for the finals. Then in January next year, during the Chinese New Year, the final will be broadcast live on TV, with two professional football coaches from the UK and one from China choosing the final two winners and lucky winners.

The difference between this draft and any previous contest held by Hunan TV is that there is no audience voting. This is also a request from the British side, because the professionalism and authority of this talent show must be guaranteed. If SMS voting is used like before, who knows if someone will buy SMS at a high price just to praise someone they like but has real strength? Not enough people come out. This contingency must be nipped in the bud. Apart from watching the show, the audience has no right to participate at all. The final selection of the champion and runner-up is absolutely based on the vision and evaluation of the football coach.

There is no behind-the-scenes transaction, because the contestants are ordinary teenagers who love football without any special background or identity. You must know that football is a "mass sport" and a "civilian sport". These teenagers aged 14 to 19 come to sign up Just to fulfill my own professional football dream.

This is different from the dream of acting stars. Being a professional football player pays more attention to professionalism. If you are an acting star, you can't sing well, dance badly, but you are beautiful, you can be a star. Singing out of tune can be solved by relying on various advanced equipment in the recording studio and selecting special types of songs. If the dance is bad, don’t dance, and if you don’t know how to act, you can perform as you are. Why are there two factions in the entertainment industry, the "idol faction" and the "strength faction"?

Professional players can't do it. Even with the appearance of Beckham, if he can't play football, it's useless. The football circle is indeed a vanity fair, but there is a prerequisite, you must have the ability to enter the professional football world, you must first become a qualified professional player, and then you are qualified to pursue or dream of those fancy worlds.

We can assume that Beckham's career, if he didn't have that precise free kick, long pass and cross ability, professionalism and tireless physical fitness, and that seventy-yard long-range sling No matter how handsome he is, can Victoria like him? Can those advertisers see him? Will there be a place for him in the England national team? Will he be captain of the Three Lions? Will he play for the world's top giants Manchester United and Real Madrid? Will a rebellious head coach like Capello change his mind and put him back in the main lineup from the bench? No, none of this is going to happen, he might be scouted out on the street by some entertainment agent after playing football in obscurity for a few years, and switch careers to show business. From then on, there may be another second-rate star named "David Beckham" in the entertainment industry, but there will be no change in the world football world-there are countless people who choose to enter and quit every day, the star of genius Premature falls are not uncommon.

Professional football, as Tang En said. This is a very practical and utilitarian place that only looks at strength. You cannot rely on anything but your own strength. Is there a big corporate sponsor behind it as a backer? If you don't have the strength, you'll just play a few kicks in the garbage time, and put it on the official website to show your face and fool the sponsors. Hidetoshi Nakata also had a Japanese company temporarily behind his landing in Serie A, but he was really capable, so he gained a foothold in Italy and won the Serie A championship. Or are you the son of a country leader, a princeling? If you have no strength, you just show your face in the newspaper when you join the team, and then sit alone in the stands during the game to cheer for your teammates. Think about the experience of Libyan leader Gaddafi's son Gaddafi Jr. playing football in Perugia...

So this world is very cruel and cruel, here you don't believe in anything except your strength. tears? Sensational? Call the group of parents, relatives and friends to tell stories about family poverty and dream of changing the status quo to gain sympathy? Kneel down and kowtow to thank God and thank others? Engage in audience SMS voting to determine the champion? stop talking. During the game, you cry to the enemy to see if they agree to let you break through and score a goal because of your crying mess. Or tell FIFA that the winner of any game in the future will be decided by fans text voting. You see whether FIFA agrees to do this.

Dunn is very clear about these things, so no matter whether this draft can select a truly eye-catching talent, at least there won't be Mr. Nan Guo who is shoddy and has a small success. Because even if they can pass the hurdle of the TV draft, they will be exposed immediately when they come to the UK. If they are not strong enough, they will go back where they want to go after a year. Sponsor's face? Sorry, we are a professional football club here, not a company called Sweet Dreams Day Tours.

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"Okay, let's throw the "Soccer Boy" draft to Java! It's not my turn to worry about that kind of thing. Business is business, football is football. I don't care whether the final selection is a genius or a waste Chai, I won't give him any special care just because he's a Chinese kid, and I'll send him to the youth team directly after he comes..."

Tang En chattered endlessly in front of Tang.

Don looked at him and said nothing.

Tang En could see what he was going to say in his eyes. "Don't worry, I won't treat you specially. I have a normal heart. I never think that this kind of draft can select real professional players. "Do I Care About You Playing Football" or "We Are Not the Runner-Up" are nothing but It's a boring and obscene novel on the Chinese Internet, and it is impossible to appear. The former best player in the Philips National University League, who went to the Netherlands to participate in a trial training...Who is that, where is it now? The Singapore League!" Tang En disdain road.

"You care so much about this matter, and you always talk about it, how can you say that you still have a normal heart?" Tang expressed different opinions. "The real common sense is not to talk about it at all."

Tang En was stunned for a moment. He felt that what Tang said made sense, so he made a gesture of throwing it away: "Okay, let's completely and completely forget about this matter. Let's discuss the next round of the league opponent—that Reading..."

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Nottingham Forest has won five consecutive victories at the start of the league. This is the best start in their history. Everyone is expecting Twain to continue to refresh this winning streak. Nottingham Forest, which has won the Champions League and the European Super Cup, is in excellent form recently, and it is also a good time to set new records.

But the Forest team was once again disappointing. In the away game, Forest and Reading drew 2:2.

With the passage of Paul Gerrard, and the transfer of Sidwell ... the main reason is that as time goes by, the feud between the two teams is obviously not as serious as last season.

Although Koppel and Twain still have personal grievances, the game itself is already close to normal.

Reading team had a fierce battle with Forest team at home. Koppel is indeed a bit level. Although he allowed Forest team to score two goals, Reading also scored two goals for Forest team.

In the end, the six-game winning streak that everyone was looking forward to came to an abrupt end. Nottingham Forest is still at the top of the list with six games, five wins and one draw, accumulating 16 points. The team ranked second in the league has quietly changed. Arsenal, who played one game less, ranked second with four wins, one draw and 13 points. The third place was Manchester City with four wins, two losses and 12 points. The next three teams were Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea. With eleven points.

The most unlucky thing is Chelsea. From the second place in the league to the current sixth place, the results have slipped too fast. Now rumors of a rift between Mourinho and Abramovich have been flying all over the sky, and it seems that the team's performance has also been affected by the discord between the generals.

Tang En didn't think it was a rumor, he believed it was a fact. Because with Mourinho's personality, it is strange to be able to work with Abramovich peacefully for the past few years without any conflicts. The basis of their previous cooperation was grades, and when grades were good, it was naturally the brothers who were the best. After the performance declines, any hidden contradictions may burst out. Isn't that what it is now? Abramovich ignored Mourinho's opposition a season ago and forcibly bought Shevchenko. This summer, he felt that Mourinho was empty-handed after last season. He did not win the league championship and the FA Cup. He didn't get it, and the Champions Cup promised to him stopped in the semi-finals, and there was only one League Cup champion that was as weak as it was.

Can such a result satisfy Abramovich?

cannot.

So Mourinho didn't even have a penny in the transfer fee this summer. According to rumors, Abramovich has already had a showdown with Mourinho-because you have not led the team well, so this season we have to tighten money and maintain a balance of payments.

Of course, to the outside world, Mourinho said this: "Some people think that Chelsea's league titles in the past few seasons were bought with money, which is not convincing. So before the start of this season, I am very happy to see Arsenal and Manchester United are scouring the transfer market."

Dunn didn't know when Mourinho would leave Chelsea, although it seemed that this personality coach's coaching position was as solid as Mount Tai, and he enjoyed uncompromising authority in the Chelsea team. But that's because everyone has ignored the real emperor of this team-Abramovich. Based on Tang En's understanding of this Russian rich man, he is a very stubborn person who advocates a "strongman" style. Once he decides something, even if ten horses can't pull it back, he will do it immediately and never give others a chance to come back. Consider Shevchenko. Before the Ukrainian nuclear warhead came to London, several people would believe that Chelsea really wanted to buy Shevchenko. Even if Mourinho objected, it would not be able to change Abramovich's determination. So Shevchenko announced to join Chelsea before the World Cup, and Abramovich got his dream striker.

It was also from this time that the rift between Mourinho and Abramovich became bigger and bigger...

One day it will be irreconcilable.

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The draw with Reading didn't make Tang En feel bad, and he didn't have the intention to compete with Reading all the time. To Nottingham Forest, Reading is nothing more than ants under their feet. Have you ever seen a long-term rivalry between people and ants? The reason why the game was tied was also because Tang Enxue hid some of his main players. His goal had long been set on the away game against Porto in the Champions League group stage.

Porto is where Mourinho got his start, a former European champion. Although it is not as good as it used to be now, but there is still some power left. Nottingham Forest has played against Portugal's Sporting Lisbon and Benfica, and this time it's Porto's turn.

Twain could not underestimate this opponent, and the facts also proved that his careful preparation was very useful.

Nottingham Forest, which sent their strongest squad to Portugal, met with very strong resistance at the Dragon Stadium in Porto. After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, neither side scored a goal, and the game was tied at 0:0. It stands to reason that scoring one point in the away game is a good result. But Tang En once again carried forward his annoying "excellent tradition". He said with a straight face at the press conference after the game: "We should have gone with three points. I am very dissatisfied with this result."

It was not the first time for Tang En to be so arrogant on other people's territory. The Portuguese media have also seen the shamelessness of the England coach for a long time, and they didn't make too much fuss. Now the media all know that the best way to deal with Tang En is not to quarrel with him, but to ignore him.

Nottingham Forest returned to Nottingham with a point, and Tang En had to start preparing for the league non-stop.

It was also carefully prepared, but this time it was to welcome his old friend.

On September 22, the seventh round of the Premier League, Nottingham Forest played against newly promoted Sunderland at home.