Coaching career started as a college team coach

After Wolves scored the second goal, Brighton completely lost hope of winning, or rather, Hughton felt from the bottom of his heart that there was really no way to win this game.

In the 70th minute, Wolves got a corner kick opportunity. After Jack Pearce sent a corner kick, he was headed out of the penalty area by the defensive player. Wolves players and Brighton players headed each other, and the ball never landed.

And Rodri couldn't help it. The ball flew in his direction and bounced on the ground, and Rodri took a step and shot the ball! The ball was so powerful that from the perspective of the TV broadcast, the pattern on the football basically did not rotate.

And at the scene of the game, Rodri kicked a residual image directly.

Before people could react, the football had been caught in the net. At this time, Rodri had already rushed to the sidelines!

Cheers followed, which was the firm call of Wolves fans, while the home team fans in the American Express Stadium fell into silence.

Where is the victory promised?

Why is it different from what we thought?

Where are the goals? How did they score so many goals? ?

When Brighton scored the first goal, the home fans felt that this would probably be another unexpected victory. From the overall situation, Brighton was very fierce, showing a very strong aggressiveness, and also had the upper hand for a long time.

But why is it Wolves that are leading now?

Brighton fans are very worried. Now they can't even beat Wolves. If they face Newcastle United in the future and are promoted to the Premier League, if they want to compete with Premier League teams, will Brighton really have the strength to fight?

Last season, when Brighton unfortunately fell before dawn, the fans could actually see that the upper limit of the team's strength was indeed between promotion and relegation.

This season, can what we expect really happen?

Hughton sat in the chair with some regret.

He is not worried about his position as coach. The team still trusts him and still supports him. Although in the "grand plan" of the team chairman Tony Bloom, defeating Wolves was a set plan.

But even if Hughton did not achieve this goal, he believed that with the team's strength, it would not be a big problem to grab a promotion. Even if it dropped to third place, Hughton had his plan looking at the Championship.

He felt that it would not be a problem to strive for promotion in the play-offs.

Wei Le made several substitutions and used up three substitutions, replacing several players who were in urgent need of physical strength. Hughton also made several positional substitutions.

Hughton sighed and made positional substitutions, which was a weak substitution for a strong one. In fact, it was a performance of no longer making tactical adjustments. In the last ten minutes, Hughton had no choice.

In the last ten minutes, both sides made several good attacks, but neither of them changed the score in the end.

When the referee blew the final three long whistles, Wei Le came up with a smile and shook hands with Hughton.

"Wonderful game." Hughton smiled helplessly.

"As you said, a very exciting game." Wei Le was in a good mood and chatted with Hughton for a few more words.

Hughton patted Wei Le's shoulder, "Your lineup is still not deep enough, it's your turn to play in the winter window."

Wei Le nodded, "I think so too."

At this point, Hughton laughed, "Just tell me, where did you get these people? Those two Portuguese and that Spaniard have never played professionally before, how do you know they can do it?"

"Secret!" Wei Le laughed, waved his hand, and walked towards the players.

Hughton looked at Wei Le's high-spirited back, smiled and shook his head. "

Hughton retracted his smile, he watched Wei Le and his players hugging each other, not knowing what he was thinking. Beside him, assistant coach Paul Nevin patted his shoulder.

"What's wrong?"

"It's time to go." Nevin looked a little disappointed with the result of this game.

"Okay, let's go." Hughton turned around and walked towards the player's tunnel. He put his arm around Nevin's shoulders and comforted him, "It's just a game, cheer up. ”

Hughton and Wei Le walked in opposite directions, the winning side walked to the court, and the losing side walked back to the player tunnel.

For some reason, Hughton was very sure that Wei Le's future would be extremely bright. On the one hand, his on-the-spot command ability shown in the game and his ability to discover players outside the court shocked Hughton.

On the other hand, it may be difficult for others to see, but Hughton's ancestral home is not England.

Although it does not look obvious, he is actually a black head coach.

Sky Sports has calculated that more than 30% of the top four leagues in England, namely the Premier League, the Championship, League One and League Two, areBlack people, but less than 5% of coaches are black.

People of color are highly active in the field of players, but they are rare in the field of coaches. People of color seem to have always found it difficult to gain a foothold in England. In fact, Wei Le's appearance has an important significance that he himself did not expect.

He proved that a yellow head coach can also gain a foothold in the second-level league in England, and may even be able to gain a foothold in the first-level league in the future. His predecessors have proved that yellow players can also play good football.

But before him, there seemed to be a kind of prejudice hidden in the crowd. They believed that as long as they were people of color, they could not play football.

Even if some players of color played very well, it could not prove anything, it could only show that they were simple-minded and strong-limbed. Before Hughton, some black head coaches had already stood in front of this field full of arrogance and prejudice with difficulty.

Hughton was the same as them. When he stood in his area as an English head coach, he received more criticism than praise.

Therefore, he paid close attention to the experiences of other head coaches of color who were like him and did not occupy a dominant position in the entire system.

Wei Le's sudden rise made Hughton very happy. He was happy to see a person with similar characteristics as him, proving a group of arrogant people wrong.

When Wei Le first took office, his Chinese identity reminded some people of the so-called favor economy, and he was once suspected of having an improper relationship with the team owner who was also a Chinese consortium.

But what's the harm? Wei Le smiled and won respect with one victory after another.

He won the respect of those who once blindly opposed him or didn't understand him, and gained more hatred from those who already hated him. Of course, he also gained Hughton's respect.

"You have to fight for it! It's better to win a championship, so that I don't think it's unfair for me to lose."

Before entering the door, Hughton turned around and shouted to the young man's back in English, which he had spoken for most of his life, with a little African accent.

Wei Le didn't look back, but just waved his hand to show that he heard it.