Lippi is already older, so he basically has no entertainment activities in the evening and is used to going to bed early.
Leading a national team is actually more difficult than leading a club.
Because you, the club, control the player's future. If he dares to disobey, punish him until he is afraid.
The national team is different. The people who come to the national team are all super big names, and they are difficult to obey. And when they come to the national team, they have no money at all, and they are all voluntary.
You can't punish such a player no matter what you want. The most you can do is to expel him from the national team, but he is still doing well in the club.
Then the national team is full of elites from the clubs. The conflicts in these clubs usually extend to the players of the clubs, and the tempers and personalities of the players are also different, which leads to the division of factions in the national team.
If you encounter a head coach who is not courageous enough, just coordinating the relationship between these players will be enough to consume all the energy. Why bother to care about results? This is usually the end of the Chinese national team head coach.
Fortunately, Lippi is different.
By winning the World Cup in 2006, he became an idol for all Italians, so two years after he left office, the national team invited him back due to poor results to prepare for the 2010 World Cup.
Half of the players here are the same group of players who won the championship four years ago. They can be said to be Lippi's direct descendants.
In addition, Lippi has coached Juventus all year round. Juventus has always been a major contributor to the national team. This time, 7 players came, setting a record for the club's most selected players.
The two reasons combined make Lippi stick to his word in the national team and do what he says.
But it still takes a lot of energy to train them and blend them together. Especially the members who won the championship that year are four years older and the younger generation has not grown up. So Lippi is in order to achieve results in next year's World Cup.
, it’s simply nerve-wracking.
Because of this, Lippi felt that he should rest early and recharge his batteries to prepare for tomorrow's training.
"Bang! Bang!"
There was a knock on the door, and Lippi frowned. The players all knew their habits. It wasn't them who knocked on the door.
So he still looked through the peephole, and then opened the door, "David, what are you doing here so late?...What is this?"
"Dad, let's go in and talk!"
Like a thief, David and his girlfriend Karina pushed two boxes into the room.
After closing the door, Lippi looked at his son, whose face was flushed with excitement, "You are such a big man and you are so frizzy. Why are you so mysterious?"
David did not answer, but said excitedly: "Dad, guess who I saw today?"
"Who has time to guess these things?" Lippi looked at his son angrily, "If you fart, let it go, or get out!"
"I met Xiao Qi! Xiao Qi, the richest man in the world!" David ignored his father's expression and said loudly: "Oh my God, I didn't expect to meet noble people here! You don't know, his magnanimity is
So good. Just like a noble! He has no airs at all, and his conversation is very simple and clear. But he is also very domineering, which is really admirable!"
"Stop! Stop!"
Lippi glared at him angrily, "So what if I meet the world's richest man? What does it have to do with you? Can you still do business with him? Why are you so excited?"
"Hahaha, dad, you didn't know it right now!" David said proudly, "He originally wanted to do business with us! We happened to meet him this time, so he talked to me first."
"You?" Lippi looked at his son and said funny: "Didn't you meet a liar? I never heard that Xiao Qi bought a football club!"
"He hasn't bought it now, but he will buy it soon." David waved his fist, "Then he wants to ask you, dad, to coach. He will go after the World Cup. A five-year contract with an annual salary of 12 million euros. You are the member of the coaching staff.
You specify it yourself, you set the salary, and Xiao Qi pays for it! Then you decide all the sports-related matters of the team, just like the coach of the Premier League. Whatever player you want, as long as the player is willing to come, he will buy it for you.
!How about it, this condition is very good?”
Lippi was stunned and asked: "Which club does he want to buy? Manchester United? Arsenal? Inter Milan? Or La Liga?"
"Uh..." David scratched his head and lowered his voice for the first time: "He bought a club in China..."
"Hua Guo Football Club?" Lippi frowned and smiled, "He's not talking in his sleep, is he? How can I go to Hua Guo? By the way, you won't encounter liars, right?"
"Not a liar!!" David said confidently, "I thought it was incredible just now, so I asked him to prove himself. What do you think he did?"
"I don't know, are you looking for a rich man to prove it?" Lippi pondered.
“How could the world’s richest man lose his price like this?”
David laughed and motioned to Karina to open the two boxes with him.
Then Lippi saw that the box was full of euros, all with the maximum denomination of 500 yuan.
"hiss!"
Lippi took a breath of air, "This is..."
"10 million euros!" David said with admiration, "Xiao Qi directly called Credit Suisse First Boston Bank, and 30 minutes later, 10 million euros were delivered to the coffee shop. If Dad agrees, this will be his
Signature fee for you!”
Now it was Lippi's turn to lose his composure.
It's not like he hasn't seen rich people before. Old Ranieri, Moratti, etc. are all rich people.
But I have never seen such a generous rich man, who casually took out 10 million euros, and it was just a signing fee.
There is no football star in the world whose signing fee can reach 10 million euros, right?
I didn’t expect that as a coach, I could get so much signing fee!
In a second thought, Lippi suddenly understood why his son did not doubt Xiao Qi's identity.
If he wasn't a super rich man like Xiao Qi, how could he get 1,000 euros with just a phone call? If Xiao Qi wasn't sincere, how could he give 10 million euros to a coach? And it took half an hour to call Credit Suisse No. 1
The Bank of Boston sent it directly. Doesn’t this also prove Xiao Qi’s identity?
10 million euros represents full sincerity.
Lippi fell silent, sat back on his chair, picked up a cigar, and started smoking.
His life in Italy was actually not that easy. First of all, the impact of the Telephone Scandal put a lot of pressure on him. If he hadn't won the World Cup at a critical moment, he might have been one of the people liquidated.
Although he is not one of the main ones.
Secondly, Lippi is getting older and is no longer suitable for such intense competition in European football. He feels that he is a little behind the trend.
This time the position of head coach of the national team was imposed on him by the Italian people, and he had no choice but to take the field.
Lippi's expectations for this national team are actually not high, because he knows these players very well and knows that their peak period has passed. To reach the semi-finals is already an outstanding achievement.
Among the new generation of players in Italy, there are no outstanding players. Therefore, after this World Cup, Lippi will resolutely leave the position of head coach of the Italian national team, either to retire directly or to find a less so.
Intense league, earn comfortably for a few years before retiring.
Lippi was originally interested in a French Ligue 1 team, a team in Qatar, or even an American team, but he never thought that a Chinese team would invite him.
Lippi knows very well how low the level of football in China is. It can only be regarded as second-rate in Asia. It can be said to be a desert of football.
For him to go to such a country to coach is completely devaluing himself.
But now Xiao Qi, the richest man in the world, came to invite him and directly offered him a sky-high annual salary, a sky-high signing bonus, and extremely generous conditions!
Lippi knew very well that no one other than Xiao Qi could offer him such conditions!
With such sincerity, even if he is unwilling to coach in China, he will still feel honored.
After all, the world’s richest man recognizes his own strength!
Seeing his father not speaking, David became a little anxious.
The biggest blow to the phone scandal was not Lippi, but the brokerage company he and Moji founded. Not only was it ordered to close, but he himself was almost sent to jail.
If Lippi hadn't won the championship and won the dazzling honor, how could David have escaped?
Even so, he couldn't survive in Italy, and he had basically done nothing in the past few years.
Now, suddenly, pie fell from the sky. Xiao Qi gave him such a good opportunity to make a fortune, how could he not seize it?
"Dad, I think he is quite sincere, please seriously consider it!" David looked at Lippi pleadingly.
"What good do you have?" Lippi asked amid the smoke of the cigar.
David quickly repeated Xiao Qi's promise, "Dad, if you calculate it this way, we, the two fathers and sons, can earn at least almost 100 million euros in five years! With this money, you can spend your old age comfortably.
, I can also have the capital to continue my career as an agent!"
Lippi fell silent again.
After a long time, he sighed and said, "Please return the money first... Don't be greedy. If I am willing to go, the money is still ours... But now I have to think about it. This is not an easy decision."
"All right……"
David pretended to be disappointed, but in fact he felt happy.
He knows his father best, and if Lippi doesn't want to, he will refuse directly.
Now that Lippi did not refuse immediately, it proves that Lippi is still impressed by the huge amount of money and benefits.
Anyway, there is still about a year left. I have roped in my mother and sister, and the whole family has tried hard to convince my father. Are we still afraid of failure? (To be continued)