Football: Rebirth 04, I Create a Black Shop in Football

The loss of this round of games put Leeds United at the center of public attention. Li Shiguang's almost surrender-like deployment of troops was criticized by various media. Even the Yorkshire Post, the mouthpiece of Leeds United, could not find a good angle to help Li Shiguang clean up the mess. On the contrary, Mourinho spoke for Li Shiguang in an interview after the game. Of course, the main purpose of the madman was to criticize the English Football Association: "In fact, from the perspective of the head coach, I can understand Li's deployment today. They will play in the quarterfinals of the League Cup in 4 days. They are still competitive there. If they want to win the League Cup, they must make some choices. So I must appeal to the English Football Association again here, can they adjust the schedule properly? Look at the whole of Europe, only the English league does not have a winter break! Is this reasonable?!"

But Li Shiguang and his players who returned to Leeds overnight after the game were not affected by public opinion, because the next day was New Year's Day, so even if they had to play the League Cup on Wednesday, Li Shiguang still gave the club's employees and players a holiday, so that they could spend time with their families during the New Year's Day.

The arrival of the New Year's Day holiday also means that the Premier League's winter transfer window has officially opened.

Since the transfer funds paid by Liverpool have not yet arrived, and Rivaldo and Camoranesi are both on vacation and have not yet reported to Leeds, there was no movement on the official website of Leeds United on New Year's Day, which disappointed the fans who were expecting Leeds United to make a move on the first day of the winter transfer window.

But on the 2nd, the official website of Leeds United was updated, and two personnel changes attracted the attention of fans.

"Welcome Diego Simeone to join Leeds United and officially serve as the assistant coach of the first team on January 1, 2006."

"Welcome Thomas Tuchel to join Leeds United and officially serve as the director of youth training and head coach of the U19 youth team on July 1, 2006."

After the last interview with Tuchel in Germany, Li Shiguang has been in touch with him. He would call him to ask about the recent situation and discuss tactics whenever he had something to do. As the two became more and more familiar with each other, after the last match between Leeds United and Arsenal, Tuchel finally made up his mind and agreed to Li Shiguang's invitation. However, due to contract reasons, he will not be able to report to Leeds United until the end of this season.

As for Simeone, the appearance of Li Shiguang completely changed his original life trajectory.

Originally, Simeone was supposed to retire this year, and then return to Europe in 2011 to take up the coaching baton of the Bed Sheet Army.

However, Li Shiguang's strong invitation gave him a new idea when he was about to retire. After careful consideration, Simeone chose to announce his retirement after the end of the Argentine Autumn League, and then accepted Li Shiguang's invitation.

Interestingly, Li Shiguang's initial plan was to choose one of the two, but he didn't expect that both of them agreed to his invitation. So after some consideration, he decided to let Simeone come to the first team as his assistant coach, and let Tuchel take full charge of the youth team.

For Leeds United fans, Tuchel may not be familiar with them, but Simeone's name is a household name in England.

Argentina and England originally had irreconcilable contradictions due to some reasons outside the stadium, and when this contradiction was transferred to the football field, it would naturally make the confrontation between the two teams full of gunpowder.

As early as 1986, Maradona's "Hand of God" and dribbling past 5 people destroyed England once. In the 1998 World Cup, the two teams met again in the knockout round. Simeone's foul caused the young Beckham to be red-carded. After an irrational retaliatory foul, he was directly sent off by the referee. Then he lost to Argentina in the penalty shootout and was eliminated again. This game not only made Beckham the public enemy of the whole of England, but Simeone, who caused Beckham's red card, also became one of the most hated Argentine players by English fans.

So less than an hour after the announcement was issued, Leeds United's official website fell. First, some local fans criticized Li Shiguang's operation on the website. The content was still the same old thing, saying that he was still an oriental man in English skin, and he couldn't understand the English people's hatred for Simeone, and dared to hire him to Leeds United as an assistant coach. As this news spread

As the news spread, more and more fans from other clubs flocked to Leeds United's official website and began to leave messages to curse Li Shiguang.

In addition to these cynical English fans, the media who have been paying attention to the official websites of major clubs in the past two days also heard the news and gathered at the door of Thorp Arch Base to interview Li Shiguang in person. More reporters sat in front of their computers and refreshed the webpage every minute to see how Leeds United would respond to this wave of public opinion.

But Li Shiguang was not as panicked as everyone imagined. He didn't even know that his personnel appointment would cause such a big discussion and criticism.

Because early this morning, he took Lina to the airport to pick up Simeone.

Regarding the boss personally picking him up at the airport, Simeone said that he had never seen it before, and even when they first met, Li Shiguang's enthusiasm made this iron-blooded tough guy a little at a loss.

After getting in the car, the two sat in the back seat together. Seeing that Simeone was still a little restrained, Li Shiguang took the initiative to open the conversation: "Diego, have you been to England before?"

Since meeting Li Shiguang, Simeone has been secretly looking at his new boss. He really can't figure it out. Although becoming a football coach is indeed in his future life plan, after all, when he received the call from Leeds United, he was still a player who was about to retire. Why did Li Shiguang think so highly of him?

"Diego?" Seeing that Simeone didn't respond for a long time, Li Shiguang turned his head and looked at him puzzledly.

Li Shiguang's voice sounded in his ears again, and Simeone realized that his boss was asking him a question, so he quickly answered: "I've been here before, Mr. Li, and I've played several away games before, but basically I left after the game. I've never stayed in England for a long time."

"Diego, don't be so polite, you can call me "Li" or boss, we should be the people who spend the most time together at work in the future, I don't want to hear your unfamiliar name every day."

After the two chatted for a while, feeling Li Shiguang's enthusiasm, Simeone gradually relaxed. When he was about to reach the Thorp Arch Base, he finally asked the question that had been bothering him.

"Boss, I remember that our first call was half a year ago, and I rejected your invitation at first. I want to ask, with so many outstanding assistant coaches in Europe, why did you choose me who has returned to South America?"