Golden Greenery

Just entering February, another heavyweight died. Luis Aragones, the former head coach of the Spanish national team, passed away in Madrid due to illness at the age of 75. The old coach led the Spanish national team to win the 2008 European Cup and was the initiator of Spain's peak market.

Before the coach took charge of the national team, he had coached eight different La Liga teams. He had students all over the place, but there was no Real Madrid among them. When he was a young player, Aragones and Real Madrid only met for a short two months when he was just starting out. He spent most of his career at Atletico Madrid and played for the Los Blancos for 12 consecutive years until his retirement.

After retiring, Aragones directly took up the coaching staff of Atletico Madrid. He has coached Atletico Madrid four times for a total of 15 seasons. So from the perspective of football pedigree, Aragones is a pure Atletico Madrid man.

The mourning activities for the old coach are the most solemn among Atletico Madrid people, but it does not prevent Real Madrid from expressing respect and grief. Today, many banners and slogans thanking Aragones appeared in the Bernabeu stands. This scene also made the atmosphere of the hot Madrid derby a little more peaceful.

Today is the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals. Real Madrid faces the gangster Atletico Madrid at home. Before the start of the game, both sides wore black veils and observed a moment of silence in accordance with the procedure.

Zhuo Yang originally invited Liu Guoliang, his wife and He Zhiwen to watch the game at the Bernabeu as part of his travel plan, but the three gods didn't give him face. In fact, it is understandable if you think about it. They have often experienced the ups and downs of the stadium, and naturally they are not interested in the atmosphere of watching sports in sports they do not understand.

Zhuo Yang also rarely goes to the sites of other projects to join in the fun and has no interest at all. Except for the needs of commercial activities, he basically does not get involved.

Moreover, there is another difference between Master Liu and others and Zhuo Yang. Compared with football, table tennis has a very low influence on a global scale. Zhuo Yang is the number one star in the world's No. 1 sport. He is a big star wherever he goes. But when Liu Guoliang comes to the Bernabeu, he is basically just an ordinary passerby. This is one of the reasons why he doesn't want to make a fuss about him. The big guys don't Likes to be ignored.

When New China was first founded, faced with a situation where the country was extremely poor and the sports foundation was almost zero, the Director of the Sports Bureau, Mr. He, together with people from all walks of life, after careful discussions, finally decided to use table tennis as the sports cause and mass sport of New China. A breakthrough in sports.

After all, the cost is low. You can play with a cement table and two wooden paddles, and two people can practice. As a result, table tennis has since become a national sport in China, completely grassroots this aristocratic sport originated from Europe. But outside of China, and at most in the East Asian cultural circle, table tennis is a purely niche sport.

Table tennis has the best sports atmosphere in the world in the world. Table tennis stars and champions are well-known in the country, and businesses also highly respect them. For a long time, table tennis has been the most positive image representative of domestic sports.

Zhuo Yang heard from Liu Guoliang that before he returned to the national team, the Chinese Football Association, who was in urgent need of medical attention, invited him to give lessons to the men's national team. Liu Guoliang said that he did not give the national football team a good face at that time.

"Compared with us, what kind of celebrities are you? If you don't have good grades and make as much money as we do, isn't it a shame?"

All Chinese table tennis players earn a lot of money, which is not comparable to the national football players who sounded like they could make a lot of money at that time. That is to say, after Zhuoyang's return, the national team's performance gradually became decent, and its image became more and more positive. In addition, many top tycoons regained their enthusiasm for football, and the Chinese Super League became prosperous as "ranked sixth among the five major leagues" ,

The income of professional players has grown by leaps and bounds.

Nowadays, although football is still not as good as table tennis, it has surpassed it in terms of income.

But when we go abroad, especially when we come to Europe, table tennis is not as popular as it is in China, and in Spain, table tennis in Europe is considered to be poor for both young and old, and hemp rope is worn through tofu - it is impossible to mention it.

Comparatively speaking, the development of table tennis in some countries in Northern and Eastern Europe is pretty good. From time to time, some figures who can threaten Chinese players emerge. But forget about Spain. Let alone the World Series, Spanish table tennis is the best in Europe. Never won any medals, never finished in the top four.

Let's put it this way, table tennis in Spain is like darts in China. It's lively and lively in the circle, and it's almost invisible outside the circle in the League Cup round-robin. Who can tell me who is the winner of the China Darts Open?

Teacher He He Zhiwen also told Zhuo Yang an anecdote, which was the reason why he settled in Spain.

After He Zhiwen retired, he went to Germany to play. German table tennis is very good in Europe and relatively formal. He earned a good income from playing in the league there.

That year, the Chinese team was invited to participate in the German Table Tennis Grand Prix, and the male and female national players participated collectively. Spain also participated. Although their golfers were basically amateurs, they also went.

I won’t go into details about the game, but I will just say that on a certain night, the game in the stadium was over and the stadium was basically empty. Jordi, Spain's number one men's player, was walking around the field when he suddenly saw a man wearing a Chinese team uniform walking around, two bored men.

Jordi became interested because he usually had no chance to play against Chinese golfers and the level was too far behind. Because he didn't understand the language, he gestured to invite the Chinese golfers to have a discussion, which also meant asking for advice.

The Chinese golfer couldn't push it, maybe because his hands were itchy, so he found a racket and the two of them hit it.

As a result, Jordi won two out of three games and narrowly defeated the Chinese players by a small margin. At this time, Jordi himself couldn't believe it: How could I defeat the Chinese? Has the ancestor consecrated it?

The extremely excited Jordi returned to the team and told everyone that no one believed it: How many dishes are there?

The more confident he was, the more his teammates thought he was bragging. Not to mention the Chinese men's team, if you can win a sparring partner for the women's team, you will be sideways in the Spanish table tennis world from now on.

Jordi was so angry that he dragged his teammates to the training ground of the Chinese men's team the next day to look for someone. As a result, all the players faced each other, but none of his players were defeated last night. The Chinese and Western players all looked at him with disdain: As long as there is a peanut...

Jordi was about to cry, and he swore viciously that anyone who talks nonsense will die. If you don't believe it, I will die for you.

Oops, it looks like it's true. Don't turn around and cause a diplomatic incident. The national team coach frowned: Who did it? Stand up!

National players, you look at me and I look at you, my head is confused. At this moment, the cook accompanying the national team stood up from behind, trembling and raising his hands.

"I, I did it. He had to pull me to fight, and he couldn't do it without fighting. Alas, I drank two more drinks yesterday, otherwise I wouldn't have lost to him. It's embarrassing..."

When the truth came to light, this incident also shocked the Spanish table tennis community, and they felt that their level was really not up to par. So, they contacted He Zhiwen, who was playing in Germany, and urged him to go to Spain. Because He Zhiwen had just retired at that time, and his level was a hundred thousand levels higher than that of the chef, which was enough for the Spanish table tennis community to enjoy for thirty years.

As a result, He Zhiwen became the devil of Spanish table tennis. And his joining has indeed improved Spain's table tennis level. At least it entered the European semi-finals once and won a bronze medal.

Now He Zhiwen has a big villa in Granada and a small villa in Madrid, and his life is comfortable. Invincibility is a kind of loneliness.

To a certain extent, Liu Guoliang is also an invincible existence. Not to mention when he was a player, the national players he has now are also invincible. Zhuoyang envied their invincibility, because he himself was far from invincible.

"Brother Liu, as you are the head coach of the National Table Tennis Team, you must be the best table tennis coach in the world, right?"

"If you want to ask something directly, don't hide it from me."

"Brother, I just want to know if you have... a crash course, a crash training method for table tennis? You can train me to the level of a cook in two days... or even lower than a cook." Zhuo Yang is looking forward to it.

Liu Guoliang rolled his eyes at him and did not answer directly: "Brother, is there any quick way to learn football? Playing in the Chinese Super League in two days...Chinese Second Division is also fine. Is there any quick way to learn piano?"

"No!"

"Look, I asked a stupid question, didn't I? Oh, by the way, what did you just say?"

"Brother, eat the vegetables and eat the vegetables. Brother, I'll fill it up for you."

Atletico Madrid is not an easy opponent to deal with without inviting a great god to cheer him on the spot. However, Zhuoyang did not expect that the game would go so smoothly and weirdly.

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