Chapter 1211 What kind of person is the Pirates coach
Hu Lai got out of the car and invited Song Jiajia: "Why don't you go sit at home and have dinner before leaving?"
Song Jiajia, who was sitting in the driver's seat, waved her hand: "I'm not going. Your job is over, and the team still has a lot of work to do."
"How much time can a meal waste?"
"No, no, I have to be with my employees. I won't disturb your two-person world, hey!"
Song Jiajia raised the car window, waved goodbye to Hu Lai again, and drove away.
Hu Lai watched him leave, then turned around and opened the courtyard door with his fingerprint.
When he opened the door to the house and walked in, he found that Li Qingqing was already busy making dinner in the kitchen.
He was surprised: "Did the training of the King of Madrid end so early?"
"You're back?" Li Qingqing, who was busy in the open kitchen, heard Hu Lai's voice and explained without looking back, "I only trained for half a day today. I had lunch at the base and then went home. By the way, I What was it like watching your welcome ceremony live on TV, with more than 20,000 people chanting your name? ”
"It's okay, there are 30,000 fans at Flanders Stadium." Hu Lai was modest on the surface, but actually showed off.
"By the time of the official game, Pirates Park can be filled with 80,000 people. As a player of the Madrid Kings, I know that Pirates fans are very fanatical. Their home stadium is almost full. It is the home stadium of the team with the highest attendance rate in the entire La Liga." Li Qingqing said, turning around and bringing the mixed salad to the dining table.
Then she noticed a small national flag in Hu Lai's hand, and asked in surprise: "Where did this come from?"
"Oh..." Hu Lai turned the national flag in his hand, "I went for a physical examination this morning. After the physical examination, I met some Chinese students when I came out. When I signed autographs for them, one of the girls gave it to me..."
He told Li Qingqing everything about the situation at that time.
Li Qingqing laughed after hearing this: "So it was you who scared people, why did they give it to you..."
She stepped forward, took out the flag from Hu Lai's hand, and walked towards a glass vase.
First I took out the flowers in the vase and compared them with the national flag. I found that the vase was too high and the pole of the small flag was too short and it was uncoordinated to insert it.
So she put the flowers back again and looked for a glass that was only for drinking water.
Put the flag in, this time the height is just right.
Li Qingqing looked at it with satisfaction and put the cup on the dining table.
A touch of red stands out on the white tabletop.
"How is it?" She tilted her head and asked Hu Lai.
Hu Lai nodded: "It looks good."
After receiving the compliment, Li Qingqing smiled and walked back to the kitchen to continue making dinner.
Hu Lai followed in to help.
We had the experience of cooking together in Leeds, and the two of them worked together very well.
They started chatting while cooking.
"How do you feel? You met the Pirates' senior management and head coach today?" Li Qingqing asked.
“They are all very nice. They are very welcoming and friendly.”
"You are the most valuable player in the history of the Pirates. Of course I will be warm and friendly to you." Li Qingqing smiled and said, "Is this your first time meeting the Pirates head coach?"
"Well, yes. This is the first time. I have only heard of his name before, but I have never been in contact with him. After all, Leeds City has never played against the Pirates."
"How does he look?"
"Parotti seems to be an easy person to get along with and always has a smile on his face. To be honest, I'm quite surprised..."
"Is this surprising? Don't everyone say he is a good guy?" Li Qingqing asked strangely.
"That's why I'm surprised. Madrid Pirates is a team with a very radical team culture..." Hulay said with a frown.
Regarding this, he had a deeper understanding after participating in today's welcome ceremony.
In particular, the Spanish uncle holding a sign flashed past the camera, which had a particularly big impact on him.
He really didn't expect to see that word again outside his own country...
"It stands to reason that for such a team, shouldn't the head coach be a person with a very fighting spirit, who can fight against the world, the earth, and the air in the middle? Just like Leeds City, the head coach is a psycho, so Our whole team is also neurotic and attacks to death... I think there must be a temperament connection between a head coach and a team.”
After hearing Hu Lai's doubts, Li Qingqing explained with a smile: "Binding the head coach with the team's temperament is actually more common in mid- and lower-tier teams, because the head coach must imprint his own personal characteristics. Only the team can lead the team to achieve good results, but wealthy teams often have their own team culture. This kind of thing is accumulated and passed down over a long period of time, not one or two head coaches. It can be changed, just like us, the King of Madrid..."
She paused here because she had to put the fried salmon on a plate and take it out of the pan.
Hu Lai handed her the plate, then picked up the pan and tilted it slightly so that Li Qingqing could put the salmon on the plate with only one hand.
After doing all this, she put the plate on the dining table and went back to scoop up the almost-cooked pasta. Hu Lai took out two clean plates from the sterilizer and prepared them.
Li Qingqing continued the topic: "...for example, what is the tradition of the King of Madrid, do you know?"
"Champion." Hu Lai shrugged.
This is the confidence of the top wealthy families. For other teams, the championship is the highest honor to pursue, but for the Madrid Kings, the championship is their tradition.
Although he also won two championships when he was playing in Leeds City, what the club is actually pursuing is not the championship, but the ability to steadily qualify for the European competition every year. Winning the championship is a pure surprise. It's great if you win it, but it's not a big deal if you don't win it.
Leeds City is a small team after all.
Some wealthy teams are just satisfied if the team can qualify for the Champions League.
Only the Madrid Kings are a failure if they do not win the championship in a season. From players to coaches and even club presidents, they are all under tremendous pressure.
The title is a matter of course for them because Kings Madrid is the best club in the world. Only enough championship glory can be worthy of this status.
"Yes." Li Qingqing said. "With this as the tradition, even the women's football team, which was founded more than a hundred years later than the men's football team, has had a clear goal from the beginning, which is to win the championship. For this reason, they have not hesitated to spend a lot of money and invest a lot of resources in the women's football team. The Benavente training base with advanced facilities is even used by the women's football team - as I told you, we are even separated from the first team by a barbed wire fence when training."
Hu Lai nodded. Li Qingqing told him this as a very novel thing when he first arrived at the Madrid Kings Women's Football Team.
When the Paris Eger women's football team was training, let alone training with the men's football team, which was only separated by a wall. The training bases of the two teams were not in the same place, far apart.
No matter at home or abroad, Paris Eger's situation is normal in women's football.
The King of Madrid is an anomaly.
So when Li Qingqing came to Madrid Kings, he was shocked to find that they were training in the same training base as the men's football team.
"At the Madrid Kings, both the men's and women's teams are pursuing championships. Their players must be championship-level players, and the same goes for the head coach. If a coach cannot lead the team to a championship, he has to dismiss get out of class and leave. Players cannot It is the tradition of the Madrid Kings to help the team win the championship, no matter how big it is. Although they have been criticized as being impersonal, they are indeed the most successful team in the last century and have the most championship honors in Europe. ”
"But according to what you said, the Pirates have no reason to find Parotti as their head coach. He is inconsistent with the Pirates' tradition..." Hu Lai still didn't understand. He handed two plates to Li Qingqing as he spoke. .
Li Qingqing took the pasta out of the pot and put it on a plate, then scooped out the meat sauce that had been fried on the other side and poured it on. The minced meat rolls off the top of the noodles, and the juices flow across the noodles and seep into the gaps between the noodles.
After she poured a plate of noodles, Hu Lai took the plate over and stirred it thoroughly with chopsticks so that the sauce was in close contact with every noodle.
Along with his movements, the fragrance filled the air.
"Parotti's labels are 'good old guy', 'easy to get along with' and 'easy to talk to'." Over there, Li Qingqing continued to drizzle sauce on another plate of noodles, and said at the same time: "It doesn't sound good, but it actually means he has no personality. But if he doesn't have personality, It means that it will not conflict with or violate the tradition of pirates.”
She handed the noodles with the sauce to Hu Lai and asked him to continue mixing them.
And she herself picked up two empty glasses.
"Just like water, when you pour it into a cup, it becomes the shape of the cup, when you pour it into a bowl, it becomes the shape of the bowl, and when you pour it into a bottle, it becomes the shape of the bottle. Paroti is water, he has no characteristics of his own. On the contrary, it is compatible with more features.”
Hu Lai carried two plates, while Li Qingqing carried two glasses of water, and walked to the dining table together.
The two sat down and prepared to have dinner.
Noodles, fish, vegetable and fruit salads contain carbohydrates, protein, and vegetables and fruits to supplement vitamins. Although they are very simple, they are still full of necessary nutrients.
"Palotti has only been here for two seasons. Before him, the Pirates were a head coach with a special personality."
Hu Lai announced his name: "Hantcek, coach 'Madman'."
Li Qingqing nodded: "Yes, that's him."
Bjorn Hantcek, the famous "crazy coach" in football. He is the former coach of Madrid Pirates. He once coached this team for five years and led Madrid Pirates to win two league championships and a King's Cup championship. In the Champions League, they also took the Pirates to the semi-finals. However, the Madrid Pirates eventually lost to the Turin Bulls led by Caesar and missed the finals, and naturally missed the championship. That was the closest they came to the Champions League title since Pirates won the title fifteen years ago.
The coach's coaching ability is as controversial as his personality. People who like him like him very much, and people who hate him want him to die.
Hu Lai also worked with "Crazy" Clark, but to be honest, compared with Hantcek, Clark is much more normal... After all, Clark is just a little crazier in football tactics, and he is still a normal person.
And Hantcek is crazy both in football and as a person.
He once did something like rushing onto the court and dragging the opponent off because he thought the opponent's substituted player was too slow to leave the field.
As a result, not only did he fail to resume the game as soon as possible, but instead caused a fight between players from both sides.
He himself was shown a red card and suspended for five games - not only because he rushed onto the court and dragged the opponent's player, but also because he punched the opponent's player in the face during the fight...
A head coach with such an explosive personality and the Madrid Pirates are a perfect match.
Everyone thought he would be coaching this team for a long time.
Unexpectedly, after leading Madrid Pirates to win the Copa del Rey in the 2024-2025 season, he announced that he would not renew his contract with the club and took a year's rest at home without a new partner.
Now, this man with full personality has returned to his home country and is the head coach of the Bundesliga giants Blue and White Munich. He has led the team to win the Bundesliga championship for two consecutive seasons, and last season he also led the team to win the " "Treble" - the league title, domestic cup title and Champions League title all rolled into one in the same season.
He was only 48 years old when he accomplished all this, and was the youngest head coach to complete the "Triple Crown" achievement.
The future is even more promising.
Losing such an excellent head coach has to be said to be a great loss for the Madrid Pirates.
"There are many things in the current Pirates team that Hantcek left behind. After Parotti came, he did not make any changes without authorization. Instead, he continued to use the core framework and then modified it without damaging the core framework. Making his changes and winning the Europa League in the first season also illustrates Parotti's ability," Li Qingqing continued.
"Although some people say that the main contribution to this championship is Hantcek. After all, it was Hantcek who laid the foundation for Parotti to win the championship... Parotti has not argued with anyone about this issue. He coaches the team After that, the fighting spirit of the Madrid Pirates was not affected, and everything was the same as before. During the coaching change, the stability of the team was ensured. This is of course due to his lack of 'personality'..."
After listening to Li Qingqing's analysis, Hu Lai asked: "Qingqing, do you think Parotti will be a suitable head coach for the Pirates?"
"Why do you ask that?" Li Qingqing didn't quite understand.
"Listening to what you said, I always feel that Parotti is like a transitional coach. He was brought in because the Madrid Pirates Club couldn't find a suitable candidate in a short time after Hantcek left. After all, Parotti He is highly compatible and can be compatible with any team style..."
"You are overthinking this. I don't think it is. Everyone has won the Europa League. Even if it was a transitional period, it is now being corrected by the club."
Hu Lai scratched his head: "That's good, I'm afraid the head coach will be changed not long after I arrived..."
"Why do you have such worries?" Li Qingqing was curious.
"The main thing is that I always encounter this kind of thing. When I first went to Flash Star, the position of coach Zhao was in turmoil and he might be dismissed at any time. Later when I went to Leeds City, the boss Clark was also on the verge of dismissal... I was afraid that this would become an old joke. , repeating the cycle endlessly.”
"Don't be afraid of that, Hu Lai. With your current ability and status, even if the head coach is changed, you will definitely have a place in the Madrid Pirates team. You are Mr. 100 million euros!"
"Everyone is talking about 'Mr. 100 million euros', which makes me think that I really have 100 million euros. In fact... what does it have to do with me!" Hu Lai spread his hands out empty.
Li Qingqing covered her mouth and smiled: "Hurry up and eat the noodles, otherwise you will become a lump."
"Okay." Hu Lai picked up the chopsticks and picked the noodles, but...
Li Qingqing frowned and watched as Hu Lai awkwardly and awkwardly picked up a noodle for a long time. He held it tremblingly and slid back halfway. She couldn't help but said: "What are you doing?"
"As you can see, let's eat noodles."
"Your right hand is injured?"
"No."
"Then why do you eat noodles with your left hand?"
"Ah... you said this." Hu Lai looked down at the chopsticks held in his left hand, "After I met Parotti today, he told me that I should practice my left foot and strive to improve my shooting ability. , no shortcomings.”
Li Qingqing was stunned and raised her eyebrows: "Did you say this when we first met?"
"Well, straight to the point. He does seem to be a good coach."
Li Qingqing held his chin with his hand and said in deep thought: "It's really... you are very good at shooting with your header and right foot. If there is a problem, it is that your left foot is not good enough. So I am familiar with you. The opponent can specifically lock your right foot, forcing you to only use your left foot to control the ball and shoot..."
"Really? Parotti said the same." Hu Lai nodded.
"Did he ask you to practice like this?" Li Qingqing asked again, referring to eating with her left hand.
"That's not true..." Hu Lai shook his head.
Li Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief: "Let me just say, if he can come up with this idea, then his level is not very good. Is this Baidu's method again?"
She thought of the scene when she first met Hu Lai, when he transformed into the cathedral emperor of Dongchuan Middle School. Later, Hu Lai told her that it was to train and improve her body coordination. The method was found online...
She rolled her eyes wildly at that time.
"No, no, I just thought about it. I thought that if I want to improve my left foot, I have to make myself a left-hander. Not only my left foot, but my left hand also needs to be proficient. So it's like simply Use your left hand when eating..."
Li Qingqing interrupted his whims: "Okay, okay, stop messing around. If you want to practice your left foot, it's very simple. After dinner, my sister will take you to the backyard to practice!"
Upon hearing this, Hu Lai quickly changed his hand, picked up the plate and shoveled the noodles directly into his mouth.
Hurrah!
Li Qingqing quickly stretched out her hand to stop him: "There's no need to be so anxious..." (End of Chapter)