Chapter 21 Attack

Chapter 21 Attack

After receiving the notice from the Belgian Football Association, Degan did not delay. After saying goodbye to Park Ji-yeon, he returned to Belgium alone. The club had no games to play, and it would be nice to have a national team game to keep in shape.

And as long as he plays in the national team game, the rumors about his injury from Barcelona will be self-defeating.

After arriving in Brussels, Degan first got in touch with the current head coach of the team, Wilmots. Wilmots took over Antiiennes as the new head coach of the Belgian team after the end of the 2010 World Cup. Wilmots took office, and Degan, as the captain and core of the national team, also expressed his welcome at the first time.

In the next period of time, the two cooperated very well. Wilmots completely inherited the style of play of the Antiiennis era, and continued to entrust Digan with important responsibilities. This made the outside world look like everything was going well. No change.

In the previous European Cup qualifiers, Belgium maintained a complete victory, and Wilmots' support among fans is getting higher and higher. After all, compared with Antiiennis, Wilmots' vocational education resume is blank , but his career is even more brilliant. He has played 70 times on behalf of the Belgian national team and participated in the World Cup finals four times. He is recognized as the spiritual leader of Belgian football.

Born in 1969, the son of a farmer, Wilmots signed his first professional contract with the Trudens when he was 16.

In 1988, Wilmots was elected the best young player in Belgium. A year later, he moved to the Magellan team, where Wilmots won the league championship in his first season.

In 1990, Wilmots represented the national team for the first time, and was therefore selected for the Belgian national team squad for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, although he did not get the chance to play.

In the following year, Wilmots joined Standard Liege, where he played for four years. Although he was selected for the national team again and qualified for the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Wilmots only played against Saudi Arabia. He got a chance to play in the game, and he was criticized at home. The proud Wilmots announced his withdrawal from the national team.

In 1996, he moved to the German Schalke 04 team, which is considered to be a turning point in his career. In Schalke's first season, Wilmots helped the team win the UEFA Cup. The final against Inter Milan was a masterpiece of Wilmots. Wilmots scored goals in both home and away rounds. In the end, Schalke 04 defeated the mighty Inter Milan in a penalty shootout.

In the 2002 World Cup, Wilmots led the Red Devils Belgian team to the round of 16 and achieved another miracle. After retiring, Wilmots did not continue his accomplishments in the field of football, but became a member of the Belgian Parliament .

But after the end of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Belgian Football Association suddenly announced that the former international player, Mark Wilmots, would succeed Antiiennis as the national team coach until after the 2014 World Cup.

Although Degan felt a little sorry for Antiiennis leaving the national team, he had a tacit understanding with Wilmots, and they lived in peace for half a year.

But this time, Degan obviously felt that something was wrong. During the previous two national team rallies, Wilmots would notify him as soon as Degan arrived to participate in the team's coaching staff meeting. It is also a tradition left over from the Antiiennes era.

But this time, Degan came for two days, seeing that the players had arrived, but Wilmots didn't seem to have any intention of "summoning" him alone.

And in the first training session after the team assembled, Degan also felt that the atmosphere was a bit abnormal.

The members of the coaching staff in the Antiiennis era all left with Antiiennis' resignation. Now the coaching staff of the Belgian national team are all reorganized after Wilmots took office.

Like Wilmots, these people are former Belgian internationals with little coaching experience, but they all have considerable influence among the fans.

After the search began, Degan discovered the problem. In the past Antiiennis era, Belgian football has gradually begun to change from a power-based style of play to a technical style of play. However, judging from this day's training, it seems that the threat Ermozi intends to let the Belgian national team regain its tradition.

The whole day's training is all about strength, long passing and heading. Wilmots even organized an in-team training match. He asked every player to simplify as much as possible when handling the ball. , They often go straight forward from the backcourt to find the high point on the front line.

Although Digan didn't feel uncomfortable, the problem was that he had been paying attention to speed and ground coordination for several years. What does this sudden change mean?

And now in the Belgian team, whether it is Hazard, Dembele, or Digan, they are all players with excellent skills. It is not the head of the house to let them give up their advantages and start playing this simple and rude football. Take it short?

Digan, who was full of doubts, found Wilmots after the training: "Coach! Are you planning to change the tactics of the Belgian national team?"

Wilmots couldn't help frowning when he heard Degan's tone: "Is there any problem? The previous style of play was too effeminate. We need to change our thinking and regain the essence of Belgian football. Do you have a different opinion? "

Digan didn't hide his attitude at all: "Yes! Coach, I don't think this is appropriate. There are many players with excellent skills in the national team. I think we should give full play to the characteristics of this type of players. For example, A Zall, is his value to be pulled to the wing and pass from the bottom? There are also Fellaini and Naenglan, his foot skills are also very good, and his ability to pass the ball is very strong, but today Look, you seem to be going to transform them into a butcher-type midfielder, as long as the ball is purely defensive, and the ball is kicked forward with big feet, I think this is very inappropriate?"

Listening to Degan's words, Wilmots frowned more and more deeply: "You are questioning my decision, Mr. Degan, you are the captain of the national team, what you have to do is to assist me in my work, the management also For other players, what kind of tactics should be used during the game, these things are up to me, all you have to do is obey!"

To be honest, although Wilmots was very happy with the success of the Belgian national team in the European Cup, the Intercontinental Cup, and the World Cup, and admired Degan very much, the only thing he was dissatisfied with was the team's tactics. In the Tiennis era, at the beginning, the traditional style of Belgian football could still be maintained, but later on, it became more and more technical, especially in the World Cup in South Africa, it was simply a strong version of Spain, those short passes, In Wilmots' view, there is no value in existence at all.

Belgian football, in his heart, should be an indomitable battle, using strength and iron blood to scare opponents, and using a strong body to break through opponents' defenses. This is what they did in their era. This is the tradition of Belgian football. It is purification, but it was completely abandoned by the Belgian national team in the Antiiennis era.

This made Wilmots feel very uncomfortable. When he first took office, he hadn't figured out how to reform the team's style of play, so he completely accepted Antiiennis' tactics. Now he has made up his mind to play in Belgium. The national team, a big change will bring Belgian football back to its original track.

For his reform, Wilmots is very confident, because on the front line, there are two fast and strong center forwards, Degan and Lukaku.

But now, as the captain, Degan was openly questioning his decision, which made Wilmots a little dissatisfied, and his tone seemed a little blunt.

What Wilmots said made Degan feel dissatisfied, especially the sentence "All you have to do is obey", which made Degan feel angry: "Coach! This is the team, not the army. I can't do it." Unconditional obedience to you, also, I think your changes are meaningless, Belgian football has been played in the past few years, what we have to do now is how to go on the right path Go on, and continue to improve, rather than completely overthrow and start over!"

"Rod! You must know that I am the head coach here! I am the one who has the final say here!" Wilmots said angrily, and his voice suddenly became louder.

Digan didn't show the slightest sign of fear, and immediately yelled back: "I said, this is not an army, and there is no need for a dictator, let alone a dictator who is about to make mistakes!"

A cold light flashed in Wilmots' eyes: "Are you saying again, am I hurting Belgian football by doing this?"

Digan said coldly: "At least for now, it looks like this!"

The conversation between the two eventually broke up badly. When Wilmots appeared in the training the next day, he announced a decision that was enough to detonate a bomb among the players: "From now on, Degan will no longer serve as the Belgian national team." Captain of the team, Vincent Kompany will take over!"

Degan was furious when he heard the words, but seeing the reporters around him, he held back and handed the captain's armband to Kompany, but obviously, this matter will not be left alone.

Kompany looked blankly at the captain's armband that Degan stuffed into his hand, and suddenly felt panic. He has always been Degan's younger brother, this is the case in the national team, and it is the same in Florence, but now~ ~~~~

Wilmots' tone was undeniable: "Vincent, this is my trust in you. Take it, you will be an excellent captain!"

In the following training, Wilmots seemed to be staring at Degan, yelling loudly from time to time, as if he was not satisfied with what Degan did.

In the past, Degan was the core of the Belgian team, but now, Wilmots wants to send the ball more to the two sides, and what Degan has to do is to stand in the penalty area and wait for his teammates to pass the ball. Then headed the goal, and every time Degan wanted to retreat to the midfield to get the ball, Wilmots' roar would immediately sound from the sidelines.

"I said it, go to the front, go to the front! You don't understand what the fuck is talking about, do you?"

Finally, Degan couldn't take it anymore. Although he really wanted to control his emotions, it didn't mean that he could tolerate others riding on his neck to shit and pee without doing anything.

"You fucking shut up, you idiot who doesn't understand anything!" Degan rushed to the sidelines, glared at Wilmots and shouted.

It finally broke out. I don't know why, but when they saw this scene, everyone felt a sense of relief. The atmosphere just now was really scary.

Wilmots seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and even looked forward to it. He also stared at Digan: "You have to figure out who you are talking to!"

"Of course, I know very well that I'm talking to a bastard whose brain is full of shit, fuck you. Damn reform! You bastard, sooner or later you will ruin Belgian football!"

After Digan shouted, he tore off the clothes on his upper body and walked towards the gate of the training ground. A group of reporters immediately surrounded him. They all saw what happened just now, and they were shocked besides shock.

Since Degan eliminated the conflict between the Walloons and the Flemish people, the Belgian national team has always been very harmonious, but today on the training ground, the team's head coach and team captain broke out. wrong! Degan's captain's armband has been stripped, but the conflict between the head coach and the core is scary enough.

"Don't ask me stupid questions, you all saw it just now, that bloody bastard told us to abandon the tactics that have been successful so far and carry out that bullshit reform, okay! He can continue, without me in the Belgian national team , he can do whatever he wants! Go to the tm game, and be with that bastard who doesn't understand anything, I can't get anything!"

After Digan finished speaking, he pushed the reporter away and left the training ground angrily.

Only a bunch of uproarious reporters, players who were at a loss, and Wilmots with a smug face were left behind.

That's right!

All of this was designed by him. Ever since he took the position of head coach of the Belgian national team, Wilmots found that his position in the national team is very embarrassing, because there is Degan here, and Degan is here. Wang, what is he going to do, if Digan doesn't speak, he can't do it at all. How can Wilmots, who is used to controlling everything, bear it.

Therefore, the storm that had been brewing for a long time broke out today.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be surprisingly smooth. Now that Digan is gone, he will have the final say on the Belgian national team in the future.