Football Modifier

Before the official announcement of the squad for England's game against Germany on August 22, Li Tongfan and the old madman Venables watched the England Charity Shield final at Wembley Stadium on August 5, when the Blues Chelsea faced the Red Devils Manchester United!

The game was broadcast live via satellite to more than 60 countries around the world, and 87,754 fans came to watch it at Wembley Stadium. Li Tongfan and Venables were undoubtedly among them. The two most eye-catching people, before the game even started, the on-site commentator noticed the presence of Lao Li:

"...Oh, it's Crazy Li. This game attracted the new national team coach to watch the game. There are many Three Lions internationals in Manchester United and Chelsea, including Rooney, Carrick, Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Lampard, Terry, etc. were all the main players during the McLaren era. I don’t know how important they are in Crazy Li’s heart..."

Less than 19 seconds into the game, convulsions of exclamation rang out from the stands. Blues Chelsea's forward partners Shevchenko and Drogba jointly created a murderous opportunity. Unfortunately, Drogba's single-handed ball was missed by the Red Devils goalkeeper Fan. Desa struggled to resolve...

In the following game, the two sides exchanged offense and defense. Wembley Stadium was filled with a tense atmosphere. The players were fighting hard on the court, while the fans were watching him fight. The on-site commentator would use Li Tongfan's arrival to talk about things from time to time - —

"...Carrick's pass, oh, it was a mistake. Did the arrival of Crazy Li make Carrick feel nervous?"

"...Ashley Cole successfully intercepted the ball from Ryan Giggs. The Chelsea defender roared at the fans. Was he expressing his fighting spirit to Crazy Lee?"

"...Rooney took the ball, broke through, and was intercepted by Terry. In order to perform in front of the new coach of the national team, Xiaopang performed very hard today, but he was too sticky to the ball, which was counterproductive..."

Every time the commentator mentions Crazy Lee, the broadcast camera will give a close-up of Lee Tong-beom in the stands. In the camera, Lee Tong-beom is writing and drawing with a notebook, and is discussing something with the assistant coach Venables next to him from time to time. In broadcast rooms around the world, commentators from various countries who saw this scene said in unison: "It seems that Crazy Li has completely integrated into the role he played..."

In the 28th minute of the first half, Rooney, who had always relied on his own personal ability, finally changed his playing strategy. After attracting many Chelsea defenders with the ball, he suddenly made a wonderful through ball, which made the team just start from this season. Carlos Tevez, the Argentine beast who switched to Manchester United from West Ham United, went to the meeting alone and shot into the upper right corner of the goal to break the deadlock...

The Red Devils took a one-goal lead, and Wembley Stadium fell into a commotion. Like an icy hurricane, it crossed the ocean and came to London. The boos of Chelsea fans and the cheers of Manchester United fans played a messy chorus...

And just 6 minutes later, Rooney assisted Scholes to score a long-range shot. This time, even the on-site commentator exclaimed loudly, but at this time, the man still did not forget to talk about Li Tongfan "...GOOOOOOOOOOOAL ...Wayne Rooney, a genius assist, a genius shot! ! This is a genius performance from beginning to end! Such a player is destined to be the soul of the national team. I was moved by their genius performance..."

Before the commentator finished speaking, the broadcast camera quickly focused on Li Tongfan in the stands. Li Tongfan stood up and applauded Rooney's wonderful performance with an orgasmic expression on his face, while Venables on the side was sitting in his seat minding his own business. Smoking a cigar freely, it seems that everything that happens on the court is just a cloud...

At the end of the first half, the Tunisian game commentator Ninis whimsically made an interesting classification of the first-half broadcast footage, and then exclaimed: "This is really an interesting phenomenon. Crazy Li scored 15 goals." Close-up, and Ferguson and Mourinho only have 10 together. It seems that the English people are really paying a lot of attention to their most expensive head coach in history..."

Easy side to fight again!

Although Manchester United took a 2:0 lead in the first half, the second half of the Charity Shield was simply a nightmare for them. Didier Drogba, the monster from Ivory Coast, defeated the Red Devils on his own. The dream of winning the title - a long shot in the 46th minute and a grab in the penalty area in the 87th minute tied the total score at 2:2!

This is not the weirdest thing, because in the subsequent penalty shootout (there is no overtime in the Charity Shield), after seven rounds of penalty kicks, only one person sent the penalty kick into the opponent's goal - the Blues captain. John Terry became the only one among the 14 people to seize the opportunity, helping Chelsea defeat Manchester United with a total score of 3:2 and win the Charity Shield championship!

Ferguson's roar could be heard clearly inside Wembley Stadium. What caused 13 top players to miss penalty kicks?

Extremely weird!

After the game, the score no longer mattered. The Charity Shield was just a small exhibition match, and people's attention was always focused on the penalty shootout. This was an outrageous and surprising duel... Why did Lampard, Will Ashley Cole, Rooney, Scholes, Carrick and other penalty kick masters fail? In the end, the media and fans came to the unanimous view that because Crazy Lee appeared at Wembley Stadium, these players who were hopeful of being selected for the England national team were all trembling...

In the end, everyone came to an agreement that wherever Crazy Li goes, good or bad, strange things happen!

Less than an hour after the game, Li Tongfan announced his first national team roster since joining the Three Lions, which was also the player roster for the German national team on August 22:

3 goalkeepers——

Joe Hart (20 years old, Manchester City, on loan at Rochdale in the Championship); Paul Robinson (27 years old, Tottenham Hotspur); David James (37 years old, Portsmouth);

7 defenders——

Michel Mancini (19 years old, Chelsea, loaned to Queens Park Rangers), Philips Neville (30 years old, Everton), Lescott (24 years old, Everton); John- Terry (27 years old, Chelsea); Anton Ferdinand (21 years old, West Ham United); Rio Ferdinand (29 years old, Manchester United), Ashley Cole (27 years old, Chelsea);

11 midfielders——

David Beckham (32 years old, Real Madrid), Gareth Barry (25 years old, Aston Villa); Michael Carrick (25 years old, Manchester United), Nat Phillips (25 years old, Manchester United) 25 years old, Chelsea), Joe Cole (25 years old, Chelsea), Gerrard (26 years old, Liverpool), Walcott (17 years old, Arsenal), Ashley Young (22 years old, Aspen Don Villa), Alan Smith (27 years old, Newcastle), Downing (22 years old, Middlesbrough), Frank Lampard (28 years old, Chelsea);

5 forwards——

Peter Crouch (25 years old, Liverpool), Wayne Rooney (21 years old, Manchester United), Daniel Sturridge (17 years old, Manchester City U18 youth team), Darren Bent (22 years old, Tottenham) Naham Hotspur), Agbonlahor (20 years old, Aston Villa)

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After the much-anticipated 26-man roster came out, it was quickly reproduced by major European media, and the controversy began!

The 17-year-old Walcott has great talent, participated in the 2006 World Cup, and is guaranteed to play in the wealthy Arsenal, so it is understandable that he was selected. However, people are concerned about Manchester City U18 member Daniel Sturridge and the 20-year-old The selection of forward Agbonlahor, English Championship goalkeeper Joe Hart and Michel Manzianni, who is also loaned to the English Championship team by Chelsea, raises the biggest doubts!

20-year-old goalkeeper Joe Hart and 19-year-old center back Manzianni have not even made a single appearance in the Premier League before this, while 17-year-old Daniel Sturridge has not even made a name for himself in Manchester City's youth team. , except for the most die-hard fans of Manchester City, basically few fans in England know Sturridge...

The last one, 20-year-old Agbonlahor, has played in the Premier League, but the Aston Villa forward who only scored 9 goals in 39 league games basically has no other advantages besides being fast. Even the most loyal Villa fans all admit that Agbonlahor's shooting skills have always stayed at the level of England's second division...

And in addition, people feel about the spiral of Red Devils captain Gary Neville, Hargreaves, Wes Brown, Glen Johnson, Jermaine Jenas, Defoe and Manchester City rookie Richards. Unexpectedly, these main players of the McLaren era were excluded from the Lee national team!

Everyone agrees that this is crazy Li’s attempt to establish his authority in the national team and cultivate direct descendants... This is essentially the same as the shocking purge that Italian Fabio Capello is doing in Real Madrid!

"Lee's England is hot and young players are getting attention"

"Crazy Lee makes 17-year-old Sturridge famous overnight"

"Joe Hart: I must be dreaming!" 》

"Martin O'Neill: Agbonlahor is the right choice!" 》

"The Red Devils will lose the top three, Ferguson: Crazy Lee is biased against Manchester United"

"Eriksson: As Manchester City coach, I don't know Sturridge as well as Crazy Li!" 》

Amid the mixed public opinion, someone soon jumped out to confront Crazy Li. Former national team coach McLaren sneered in an interview with a reporter from the Sun: "Judging from the 26-man list he announced, Crazy Li's work is Not outstanding, you actually want to use such young 26 people to deal with the German team? Ha..."

The last word "ha" shows Uncle McLaren's disdain and contempt!

Although McLaren performed very stupidly in the national team, the uncle's remarks still won the support of a small number of English fans. You must know that the England-Germany battle at Wembley Stadium on August 22 was not A simple friendly match, for every Englishman and every German, this game is about the honor of the entire country!

World football used only one word to describe the war between England and Germany - a century!

Yes, a century-old war between Britain and Germany!

There has been a history of fighting between these enemies for nearly a hundred years!

It is worth mentioning that the first football PK between Britain and Germany in the century-old war was very dramatic - on the German Western Front battlefield during the First Time War, after the Christmas truce, a British soldier made a simple football. Then the British and German soldiers played a daring football match in the no-man's land between the trenches. In the end, the British soldiers defeated the German soldiers 3:2! This unique game even created a world-famous proverb in later generations - football makes war go away!

In the nearly one hundred years since then, due to political factors, the Anglo-German war has been given a higher meaning than a football match!

England and Germany, the old rivals in European football, began to fight for glory for their country in every confrontation. Starting from April 20, 1908, when England defeated the German team 5:1 in an away game, the century-old Anglo-German war began. begin!

Over the past century, the passionate collision of these old enemies has given birth to countless classic games on the field - the 9:0 home victory of the Three Lions against the German tanks in 1909, the ever-lasting goal line mystery in England in 1966, and the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. The England-Germany battle with Paul Gascoigne moved the world to tears, Owen's hat trick to humiliate Lion Kahn in 2001...

Everything is telling people the historical origins and special meaning of the Anglo-German war. The significance even goes beyond the world-famous derby games such as Spanish El Clasico, Milan Derby, and North London Derby...

Therefore, for any England or Germany national team coach, the best and most direct way to please the fans is to trample the opponent's corpse under his feet with never too many goals in the England-Germany war. Ravaged over and over again!

And on the upcoming fiery August 22, 2007, the 23-year-old madman Li has obviously become the best executor of this "historic mission" in the eyes of English fans. This young Chinese made a legend in Real Madrid last season. The record gives Three Lions fans reason to believe that a victory awaits them, and they can't wait to see the national team beat their old rivals at Wembley on August 22!

The fans are so superstitious that they don't care even if their opponent Germany is 7 places higher than England in the latest FIFA world rankings! The decline in the European Cup qualifiers has made the entire British Isles look forward to a big victory that can save face!

In such a general environment, Li Tongbeom only needs to win a big victory in the game on the 22nd to easily win the support of the fans and create a dream start for his national team journey!

At the same time, in the face of the "militant" atmosphere in England, German national team coach Loew issued a formatted diplomatic rhetoric in an interview with a reporter from "Kicker": "England is a strong team. And Germany also has many excellent players, and we will give the fans a wonderful game..."

This is Loew, a gentle and gentle German handsome guy. He will not use passionate words to inspire the confidence and morale of the players like Klinsmann, nor can he like to use psychological tactics to defeat opponents like Hitzfeld. Self-disruption...

However, this handsome German marshal has his own scary thing - Loew is a genius tactician!

The German national team was able to achieve third place in the 2006 World Cup. In addition to Klinsmann's passion, the assistant coach at the time took the most credit, so much so that his "old boss" Klinsmann was impressed by his talent. After leaving his post, he strongly recommended Loew to the German Football Association as his successor... and the national team's record in the following year also proved that Loew did a good job after becoming the national team coach...

The atmosphere in front of the station is getting more and more tense...

However, before the war between England and Germany officially started, the Premier League kicked off first!

In the hot August, Chelsea, Everton, West Ham and Tottenham Hotspur all had 6 points after the first two rounds of games, and even the goal difference was the same 4, while Everton won by total goals. The number of balls advantage is at the top of the list!

It is also worth mentioning that before the start of the Premier League, the rich man Mick Ashley finally completed the acquisition of the Magpies Newcastle. He bought 100% of the Magpies from Freddie Sheffield for 100 million pounds. Eighty shares, appearing at St. James Stadium as Newcastle's savior!

But the wealthy man who vowed to do so soon disappointed the fans - Ashley did not invest more transfer funds for the club as he said, but instead bought the Nigerian Eagle Martin for 24 million pounds. Sent to Serie A! In contrast, Newcastle's entire investment was defender Kakapa, who came on a free transfer from Lyon, and Australian striker Viduka, who also did not spend a penny...

Coupled with the injury absence of the team's top stars Michael Owen and Irish fast horse Duff, after two rounds of the Premier League, Newcastle ranked second from the bottom in the standings with a miserable record of scoring one goal and conceding four goals in 2 games. It seems that last season The bad luck seems to be still plaguing this former Premier League giant and has never gone away!

For Li Tongfan, the good news is that Tolosi Tang finally completed the acquisition of Newcastle's minority shareholders. After spending 20 million pounds, Lao Li holds 18.3% of the shares of the Magpies! Of course, everything is secret, and it's not even Tolosi Tang who actually comes forward to contact him. Everyone knows that Newcastle has a mysterious minority shareholder, but they don't know who this guy is!

It's not a big deal, because even the Magpies fans themselves don't seem to have any hope that this mysterious guy can save the team! Ashley, the newly appointed wealthy boss, has begun to pretend to be poor. What can a small shareholder do?

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August 20th, the weather is nice!

The gloomy clouds that have been hanging over London have dispersed, and the bright sunshine rarely shines directly on St. Paul's Cathedral, the iconic building in the foggy capital of London!

With the second round of the Premier League over, the attention of the entire British Isles has completely shifted from the league to the national team. Crazy Li's national team's first game is about to begin. The players who were lucky enough to be selected into the 26-man squad gathered in the world-famous Brown Hotel in London. Assemble and prepare for the battle between Britain and Germany on August 22!

This is also the first time that Li Tongfan has met with England stars, which is quite interesting!

Daniel Sturridge, Joe Hart and Manzianni, the three young players who were the youngest and most controversial for being selected, were the first to report to the hotel. The three junior players in the national team obviously arrived in a hurry before dawn. Got it!

Sturridge and Manzianni are obviously two rookies, and although Joe Hart looks a little more mature due to his position, when he stands in front of Li Tongfan, he is no different from the first two rookies, with nervous calves. They are all spinning, fearing that if they do something bad, they will offend this superior and miraculous coach and be expelled from the national team...

Li Tongfan patted the shoulders of the three of them one by one, with the most pure smile on his face: "Some people say that you are not qualified to be selected for the national team. I think that is bullshit. Look, what a great young man..." Lao Li said Then he said to the old madman Venables beside him: "What I lack is just experience..."

The old madman understood immediately, and a smile purer than Li Tongfan appeared on his face, like a devil with pointed ears, a pointed tail, and three pointed forks in his hands. His tone was full of temptation: "If Madman Li thinks you are qualified to serve When Great Britain plays football, it will be useless even if God stands up to oppose it...Perform well, boys, maybe you will play a game and become a national hero. Think about the scene where Wembley Stadium cheers because of you... …”

The cheers and screams of Wembley Stadium?

Poor Joe Hart and the other three were trying hard to picture the dream image in their minds, but were instantly "fooled" by the double act of two lunatics, one old and one young, and dragged their luggage back to the room. Then prepare for the first national team training in the afternoon!

"Hey, Daniel, I found Crazy Li is very handsome..." Manzienni, a 19-year-old black boy, had nothing to say: "He said we are all great guys!"

Sturridge, who is also black but only 17 years old, curled his lips disdainfully: "That's cool, the coolness of a successful man! Only pretty boys can be called handsome..." At this point, Sturridge raised his hands in the air. He pretended to be pious and sighed loudly, shouting loudly: "God, Crazy Li is my idol!!!"

When the two of them spoke, their voices were trembling with excitement. They were obviously immersed in the "style" of a certain sultry man and couldn't extricate themselves!

Joe Hart, who was a few years older than the two of them, was walking at the front and couldn't help but turn around and add: "Actually, you two don't need to be nervous. In my opinion, you won't have a chance to play in the game the day after tomorrow... As for being a I will be the greatest goalkeeper of the Three Lions in the future... I have great hope! Just cheer for me when the time comes..."

Sturridge and Manzianni: "..."

In the corridor of the Brown Hotel, three young people full of hope are dreaming of their beautiful tomorrow while feeling grateful!

In the hotel lobby, the old madman Venables looked at the backs of the three teenagers, and his expression finally became serious: "Hey, little guy, although you promised me to rejuvenate the national team, these three rookies are too young. Right? For me, just talk about the promise. After all, the record is more important. You must know that the opponent is the German team..."

"Old guy, didn't you say that youth is wealth? As long as there are enough opportunities, they will soar into the sky..." Li Tongfan was leaning on the sofa in the lobby, his eyes looking back and forth at the tall blonde hotel girl. The waiters said to the old madman nonchalantly: "And this is just the beginning. I will let the world see a unique Three Lions Army..."

At this moment, Li Tongfan's confidence gradually grew. It turned out that after the system was upgraded to FM2008, so many high-potential little monsters would qualify for the English League. Great era, here I come...

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I stayed up until three or four o'clock last night and finally coded out more than 6,000 words. Now I am updating in one breath. In the afternoon, Xiaodao will take the train to Tianjin to apply for personal files. He will not be back until Saturday, so this chapter will be 6,400 words today. Friday The minimum limit is 6,000 words per day on Saturdays, and the explosion comes back on Sundays!

I’m very depressed. I didn’t expect to find it so hard to buy a ticket right now. I have to go to Tianjin again. What a sin. It took me six or seven hours to arrive in the middle of the night!