Coaching legend

"What's wrong with his head? I've seen him smiling for several days."

Kaka has been smiling a lot lately. Especially this season, Kaka's playing time is almost the same as Miku, even more than a hundred minutes more than him. And Kaka's performance was outstanding.

Maybe it's because Kaka appears in the Premier League as a main player for the first time this season, so many teams are unfamiliar with Kaka. Many midfielders in the Premier League are even stranger to Kaka, so there are often scenes of Kaka running long distances with the ball from the midfield.

Because of this, Kaka is in a good mood.

Kaka asked Sagnol sitting next to him.

Only Sagnol is able to get both sides of the team and has a very good relationship with all the players.

This was on the plane as George led Blackburn to fly to Japan for the Toyota Cup.

"I'll tell you one."

Sagnol looked at Kaka mysteriously.

Kaka saw that Sagnol was so mysterious, so he got closer. "You know? Boss, his wife is pregnant."

"Wow, this is true." Kaka's eyes widened.

Sagnol nodded.

"I only told you one person." Kaka heard Sagnol's words, and a smile appeared on his face. I think Sagnol is quite a buddy.

Of course, if Kaka knew that Sagnol said this to almost every player, I don't know what his expression would be.

Anyway, the entire Blackburn team knows that George has been in a good mood recently.

"Laurent, what do you think of the strength of the Olympia team?"

George had no time to chat with them. After all, the Toyota Cup is coming soon. And the opponent is very unfamiliar, a team from Paraguay. Paraguay, if you talk about Paraguayan football, George can only think of one person. That's Bayern Munich's Santa Cruz.

Apart from him, George is completely new to Paraguayan football.

So not to mention the clubs from Paraguay. Moreover, Olimpia Paraguay is not a European team, so there is limited information about them. In addition, the time is limited, so I usually don’t pay attention at all. Therefore, in the past two days, I could only temporarily find videos of them in the Copa Libertadores.

In the past two days, George and Blanco have been analyzing this opponent.

"The strength is average. The category is the same as other American clubs. The playing style is more like a European club, but it is not a European team after all. There are still many flaws in the tactical execution ability, and there are no particularly outstanding talents. As long as we play steadily, there should be no problems. big."

Blanco analyzed it calmly.

Blanco gets into character quickly. He has played in a few games this season, but more of his energy is focused on assisting George. Of course, this process is also a learning process for Blanco.

George is quite satisfied with Blanco. Although it is still not as good as the tacit understanding between Evan and himself, Blanco's ability to analyze data is still very strong.

George nodded and agreed with Blanco's analysis.

Olympia, a small team worthy of the name. Don't look at it as the champion of the Copa Libertadores, but it is a truly poor club. Even in English League One, there are many clubs whose financial strength is much greater than that of Olympia.

To give the simplest example, Benitez, the highest-paid player in Olympia, has an annual salary of only 200,000 euros. What is the concept of 200,000 euros? Even Blackburn's substitute's salary is much higher than his.

Only players like Ribery, who were thrown into the youth team by George, have less salary than him. Others include Parker, Essien, and even Sun Jihai's salary is ridiculously higher than his.

This also shows from the side what kind of club Olympia is.

They were able to win the Copa Libertadores from strong Brazilian and Argentinian clubs, relying on their execution and tactical capabilities that are different from those of South American clubs. But their little tactical ability is completely different from that of European teams.

That's why Blanc feels that Blackburn has a greater chance of winning.

This year's Toyota Cup will be held at Yokohama Stadium in Japan. Yokohama, Japan's second largest city. The temperature is much warmer than Blackburn.

When Blackburn arrived at Yokohama Airport in Japan and just got off the plane, suddenly George heard screaming. George was confused and looked forward, only to find that many Japanese fans were already there to greet the team.

They held up pictures of themselves supporting the stars, looked at familiar faces one after another, and started screaming.

George didn't expect that Blackburn's popularity in Japan was quite good.

In fact, what George doesn't know is that Blackburn's two consecutive Premier League titles and last season's Champions League final victory over Real Madrid have allowed Blackburn to accumulate high popularity in Asia. If Blackburn were once a strong team, they are even more popular now.

Every player who passes by can hear a lot of cheers.

Until Kaká passed by, the Japanese female fans burst into amazing screams. Blackburn has attracted a lot of attention at the airport. The screams of these girls attracted the attention of everyone at the airport.

Damn, George couldn't help but cursed behind him.

Damn, handsome guy is so fucking good. No matter where you are, there are advantages.

In recent seasons, Kaká has never been Blackburn’s most dazzling star. Miku, Pires, Klose and Duff are the most dazzling stars. In British football and European football, they also receive the highest praise.

Kaka is just a rising star in Blackburn for now.

But he is handsome, and that's it. Look, there are so many big-name players in Blackburn. It was Kaka who received the loudest cheers.

Sagnol looked at Kaka's many fans and poked Klose next to him. "Miro, you are not doing well. You are the top scorer in the World Cup, but your popularity is not as good as Ricardo. Tsk tsk tsk, you really should reflect on yourself."

Klose shook his head.

"Ricardo is more handsome than me." Klose's low profile is not only reflected in the fact that there is no news about him outside the court. It is also that he doesn't care much about these things.

Sagnol spoke sourly, and he was indeed a little jealous. If it was any one of Miku, Pires, or Klose, he would not have such an idea. But Kaka is just a little kid.

Blackburn's world was conquered by them.

Kaka is just a junior. Of course, Sagnol was just feeling a little sour, and a little unfair for Miku and Klose.

When George and Blanco went over, someone actually called George's name. George was surprised. He looked up and found that someone had held up a big photo of himself. George was still very happy in his heart. It turned out that he had fans overseas. Although they were Japanese fans, they were also his fans.

George and the players were all in the fans' enthusiasm and got on the bus happily.

But Paul, who followed behind, was very happy. "John, look at our Blackburn fans. There are still many fans. When you come here to play football in the future, you won't be afraid of having no fans."

Williams nodded.

Not only that, both of them saw the cheers Kaka received. Kaka, but it was only this season that he gradually got a stable chance to play. It was unexpected that he had such popularity, even the two of them were very surprised.

The two looked at each other and had the same idea. That is, Kaka must not be let go. This is a treasure, a huge treasure.

Paul and Williams are the top executives of the club. Their perspective on things is different from that of George, the head coach.

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On December 4, 2002, a Toyota Cup match was held at Yokohama Stadium in Japan.

The full name of the Toyota Cup is "European and South American Club Toyota Cup Football Tournament", also known as the "Intercontinental Cup Football Tournament". It is a match between the European Champions Cup champion and the South American Libertadores Cup champion every year. Its predecessor was the Intercontinental Cup.

Approved by FIFA, the Japan Football Association is responsible for the specific organization work and it is held in Japan every December. The two major schools of world football, the European power type and the South American technical type, are in confrontation. They each have their own characteristics and a complete set of training and competition theories. It is difficult to distinguish between the two schools. The annual Intercontinental Cup (i.e. the "Toyota Cup" after 1980) has become a duel between the two schools for the crown of the world football club hegemony, which is particularly eye-catching.

The gold content of the Toyota Cup is still acceptable.

Even compared with the European Super Cup, it is only higher.

Japanese fans are also very respectful. The fans of the two teams combined will not be more than 100 people. It is really too far from East Asia. Blackburn didn't even have a few fans following this time, only some reporters followed.

But if you were here, you would definitely feel very good.

As a Chinese in his previous life, George had a very average impression of Japan. Or as a northerner, he still hated the Japanese. But now he is in Yokohama Stadium, and he feels very happy.

Why?

Because more than 90% of all Japanese fans are Blackburn fans.

Tens of thousands of fans are all supporting Blackburn.

George thought about this before he came. After all, the influence of the Premier League is definitely greater than that of South American teams, but he didn't expect it to be so popular. Not only George was surprised, but the players, including Paul and Williams, were also quite surprised.

Influence, this is influence.

"Hello everyone, this is the 23rd Toyota Cup. The two teams in the game are Blackburn, the Champions League champions of the 2001-02 season, and Olimpia of Uruguay, the champions of the Copa Libertadores. This is also the first time that the Toyota Cup is held in a stadium outside of Tokyo."

"Speaking of which, neither of these two teams is a traditional strong team. Blackburn entered the Champions League final as a dark horse last season and defeated Real Madrid in the final to win the Champions League. Olimpia also broke through among many strong teams and finally won the Copa Libertadores."

"The game is about to start. Let us look forward to a wonderful game."