Chapter 366: Public Opinion (Added to Redwood 255)

Just when Wan Sheng was busy with the affairs of University College London, he did not know that he had caused a lot of turmoil in China's domestic public opinion.

The root cause of the domestic public opinion turmoil lies in the contradiction between Wansheng and the officials of the Chinese Football Association.

In the summer, Wansheng coached Hong Kong, China, and led the team to create a miracle to win the Asian Cup, which was originally a thing to be proud of, and the Chinese media and fans also rejoiced and were amazed by Wansheng's coaching ability, but some officials of the Chinese Football Association were not happy, because of the results of the Chinese team, coupled with the comparison with the results of Hong Kong, China, they were very passive in public opinion.

Xie Zhulong, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, is the most affected person, Xie Zhulong is the vice chairman of the Football Association, but in fact, all the big and small things within the Chinese Football Association are in his hands.

Xie is 53 years old, a CQ native, who grew up with his brother in BJ City, SX Province.

Since 2005, Xie has served as the vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, responsible for the daily work of the Football Association.

The reason why Xie Jinlong has the greatest pressure is also the issue of his rights, it can be said that he is the number one in Chinese football, but it is very embarrassing that from his tenure as vice chairman of the Football Association to the present, in less than three years, the performance of Chinese football has suffered the biggest decline.

China's football performance is getting worse and worse, who will carry the black pot?

The blame for the Asian Cup is on the head coach Zhu Guanghu, but anyone can see that it was pushed out by the Football Association, Zhu Guanghu's coaching ability may not be strong, but the decline of Chinese football is not all due to the head coach.

China's formal media coverage is better, and the reports and comments on the Internet are not limited to regulations.

As a result, the Chinese Football Association suffered great pressure from public opinion, and the Football Association kept holding meetings to try to calm down the pressure of public opinion.

After the Asian Cup, the Chinese Football Association first did one thing. That was to remove Zhu Guanghu as head coach and announce in August that the head coach of the Chinese Olympic team, Latomir Dujkovic, would also be the 'head coach' of the Chinese national team.

After that, Ratomir Dujkovic recommended his friend Forado Petrović as the executive coach of the national team, and then there was an unheard of and very dramatic scene in Chinese football - the head coach of the national team obeyed the head coach of the youth team!

It is undeniable that both Latomir Dujkovic and Forado Petrovic have a certain fame in world football. Ratomir Dujkovic once led the Ghana team to the World Cup finals for the first time in just nine months; Forado Petrović is one of the most capped players in the history of the Red Star team, twice named the best player in Yugoslavia, and after retiring as a coach, Forado has also been quite successful in coaching, and he has made a name for himself among coaches in Eastern Europe.

Although the two came to power dramatically, the FA's tough approach still calmed down some of the domestic public opinion pressure.

After that, Xie Zhulong began to announce rectification.

The slogan of rectification is 'we must strive for the Chinese team to reach the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa'. The slogan is good, the Football Association's targeted plan is also very direct, Xie Zhulong's proposal is 'continuous training', "football should be like other sports in China, continue to train, always think about the goal and work hard, every player must continue to fight the spirit, we will be able to succeed ......"

These are speeches within the Football Association. If someone who knows how to hear it, it will definitely laugh at it. After all, football is a team sport, and with the development of modern football, it is too difficult for non-professional teams to achieve anything in the world arena, not to mention, every outstanding player must be very professional. They don't just have to play for the national team, they have to play for various clubs, and they can't stay with the national team all the time.

However, the Football Association is very 'firm' in the implementation of its work, and Xie Zhulong also proposed to 'seize the power' and not give it to the head coach. Like Zhu Guanghu's big rights before, everything in the team is under the direct jurisdiction of the Football Association.

As a result, Forado Petrovic, as the head coach, can't even decide on the squad for the players to call up on his own, he is not at all like other coaches, flying around to watch the game, so as to decide to call up those players, just wait at the training base, and the players will come one by one.

Forado Petrovic was very dissatisfied with this, especially when he saw the names of players who played in the European League such as Wang Xiaolei, Dong Fangzhuo, and Sun Jihai in the team, he couldn't understand it even more, "They won't be in shape at all when they run back and forth, these people just need to train before regular games." ”

However, Forado Petrovic's advice was completely ignored, and the Football Association believes that the players naturally need to cooperate more to be more familiar and make the team play better.

It was at this time that the domestic media reported the news of the interview with Wansheng.

Although Wan Sheng did not publicly talk about 'dissatisfaction with Wang Xiaolei and Sun Jihai recruited by the Chinese national team because of the warm-up match', his meaning has been interpreted by the domestic media, not only the media, as long as Wan Sheng's original words, time, place, and reason are reported on the report, fiery netizens will naturally analyze the meaning of the words clearly.

This is not good news.

Some netizens pointed out that 'Wansheng is not satisfied with the Football Association's recruitment of its own players, which is a 'unpatriotic' performance'.

This kind of thinking is very strange, but it is undeniable that there are not many people with similar ideas in China.

But there are also many voices in support of Wansheng, analyzing the situation of European players returning to China and then returning to Europe, people in their right thinking will know what kind of impact it will have on the state of the players, and it will also affect their performance in the club, and in turn, affect the club's performance.

From the perspective of the Manchester City manager, it is not an exaggeration to say this.

Only, he is a Chinese.

If Wan Sheng is not Chinese, as a foreign coach, he would not be an exaggeration to say so.

For example, Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson has publicly disagreed with the England team not once or twice, but he is still the England manager, and England fans are still happy to see Ferguson and the England manager have a war of words.

In March last year, when Ferguson also hoped that Dong Fangzhuo would strengthen his forward ability, Dong Fangzhuo was called up by the national team, and Ferguson also expressed his dissatisfaction, he asked, "Is it that the Chinese national team recruits players, does not consider the player's situation in the club, I don't understand why a European club player should be called up for an Asian Cup warm-up match." ”

The Chinese Football Association did not reply to this, and no one said anything on the Internet.

But when it comes to Wansheng, it seems to be a double standard, some media or netizens don't consider Wansheng's identity as the coach of Manchester City Club, and just put various 'big hats' on his head.

Of course, there are also many voices of support for Wansheng, after all, he has cultivated players for Chinese football and invested in large football schools in China.

The Chinese Football Association heard these voices.

Since they don't have any good impression of Wansheng, they naturally directly block the voices that support Wansheng, and they agree with the statements of those who don't support it.

Xie Zhulong didn't have any good impression of Wansheng, and he felt very happy when he saw the public opinion on these media and the Internet, as if he saw that the enemy was unlucky.

He didn't mind adding a fire to it at all.

As the vice chairman of the Football Association, Xie Zhulong still has a certain connection, especially in domestic politics, he has a lot of friends and relationships, and he uses these relationships to let the media in those countries publish some unfavorable remarks about Wansheng, and openly turn those netizen comments that are not conducive to Wansheng into media reports.

There is no problem with saying this, and it has nothing to do with the media that released it, because it is a comment from netizens, a domestic public opinion, and the only thing is that it has been screened.

After that, many media published similar reports, and for a while, Wansheng was 'unpatriotic' and unwilling to make sacrifices for the development of national football, and other topics filled the entire domestic public opinion, and many people were discussing this topic.

Then the big discussion began.

On the issue of Wan Sheng, the country is divided into two camps, one is the opposition party.

They have a lot of arguments, such as 'Wan Sheng does not want his players to enter the national team', 'Wan Sheng has the ability but would rather lead the team to Hong Kong, China', 'Wan Sheng does not know any compromise on the issue of the national team', and even 'Wan Sheng is not willing to invest in China, his first investment choice is the United Kingdom', which can be used as words.

Wansheng has never lacked support in China.

Wan Sheng's success in coaching has already made him a representative figure in Chinese football, and many people have expressed their support for Wan Sheng, believing that the 'opposition party' remarks are nonsense.

In the past few days, a war of words between the two sides has erupted on the Internet almost every moment, and for a time domestic public opinion has been vigorous.

Wan Sheng was in the UK, and he didn't notice the public opinion in the country, or rather, he saw some reports and didn't care.

There are too many reports on him in China, and there will always be good feelings among them, and it is normal to have some critical remarks.

Wan Sheng returned to Manchester from London, and Manchester City FC also resumed normal training.

Some of the players who have made it to the national team have not yet returned, and there are only a handful of people on the training ground, so Wan Sheng asked Malwood to train with the youth team and the first team, and then play a daily training match to keep the players in shape and get used to the tactics and games.

After three days, one player after another gradually returned.

Sun Jihai and Wang Xiaolei also returned to the training ground in the evening.

The two looked very tired, and Wan Sheng smiled bitterly and simply gave the two of them a day off to let them rest well, and then returned to the team for normal recovery training. (To be continued.) )