"What?" Li Tiancheng turned to look at Jose with a look of disbelief on his face: "What's going on? He is not a person who likes racial discrimination."
"This is because England and Spain held a friendly match at the Bernabeu a few days ago..."
It turned out that during that game, a large part of the stands at the Bernabeu Stadium shouted "monkeys", mainly targeting the black players Ashley Cole and Wright Phillips in the England team.
This, of course, caused an uproar. All walks of life in England, including the media and the government, were fiercely firing at Spain. The Spanish side downplayed it at first, but then saw the uproar getting bigger and bigger, and the government began to apologize.
As a Spaniard working in England, Benitez certainly cannot escape the whirlpool, and many people want to know his views.
Benitez said: "We condemn any racist remarks, but it is not a big mistake to say such things in a small group. Of course, such remarks are not common in Spain. Maybe I am in the Spanish League
I have only heard this once in three years of coaching, and it depends on the measures taken by the Spanish government and FIFA."
After the incident, some people in the English football community suggested that the English players should leave the field collectively in protest. In response, Benitez said that this behavior would not help solve the problem: "We have many clubs and many different groups of fans.
It is very difficult to control, but I want to tell everyone that we will do our best to prevent similar incidents from happening again."
"His words caused widespread controversy..."
"Of course there will be disputes," Li Tiancheng interrupted Jose: "What does it mean to talk in a small group, and what does it mean to be in different groups!"
"In private, isn't racial discrimination called racial discrimination? Are hooligans also fans?" Li Tiancheng's voice became louder and louder: "You don't have to speak if you don't know how to speak. What does that have to do with him?"
"His football and coaching career both started in the Real Madrid youth training camp. Maybe he wanted to give Real Madrid fans some excuses."
"But he is the head coach of Liverpool now," Li Tiancheng leaned back in his chair and sighed: "Even if you don't talk about universal rights and wrongs, just think about it from the perspective of pros and cons, how will your peers and people in England think about saying this?
Liverpool?”
"It's not that serious. He still criticized these phenomena."
Li Tiancheng was afraid of hitting the co-pilot on the back a few times: "Thank God, he's not completely crazy yet!"
"The question now involves you?"
"Me? What does it have to do with me?"
"Fleet Street fired fiercely at Spain on the issue of racial discrimination, and the Spanish media will naturally fight back. Millwall football hooligans have become a powerful weapon for the Spanish media to attack England, and you will naturally be involved!"
Li Tiancheng:......
Does this count as someone sitting at home and having a pot come from the sky?
They fired map cannons at each other, the eldest brother and the second brother scolded each other, and the dog-biting-dog incident also involved me?
"Is this why you came to pick up the plane?"
"Don't think of me as so utilitarian. I came to pick you up when I had free time recently. This is actually not a big deal. As long as you don't have any special opinions, we will start to announce your opinions to the outside world."
"Have those contracts been negotiated?"
"It's all in the final stages. Only Nike hopes that you can transfer to a club they sponsor. They can give you a larger sponsorship contract, such as jersey sponsorship."
"What do you think?" Li Tiancheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Jose jokingly.
"I think you still have a lot of room for improvement in Liverpool, so there's no need to rush for a transfer." Jose leaned on the backrest, taking his time.
"I thought you would mobilize me to transfer," Li Tiancheng laughed: "You would make more money that way."
"There are many ways for agents to make money. It's too low to just rely on transfers to get commissions and commissions." Jose curled his lips: "If you are always in good condition, I can earn more, not to mention I haven't
Forget our agreement, we have only one goal, to become one of the best players in history!"
"The best in history? A great player." Li Tiancheng felt relaxed now: "Of course I will not forget this goal. I still remember your rhetoric when we first met, great player! I'm so grateful to you.
You can think of it.”
"You have to admit that my statement makes sense." Jose lay back and put his hands on his lower abdomen.
"Of course, of course it makes sense!" Li Tiancheng nodded frequently.
The first time I met Jose was in the turbulent year of 2002. Although the national football team returned home with a disastrous defeat, it was very heartbreaking.
But he has gained a lot. He entered the national team for the first time, led the national junior team to win the Asian Junior Championship, and even waited for a qualified agent...
In the 2002 Asian Junior Championship finals, after Li Tiancheng led China to a 2:1 victory over South Korea, he was urged by the country to return to the country to celebrate.
Although they are only the Asian Junior Championship champions, they are also Asian champions. This group of players represents the future of Chinese football.
Although this is not true at all, and some of these people may be able to play professional football later, it does not prevent many people from thinking so.
The national football team performed poorly in the World Cup, and the Chinese Football Association was in dire straits and urgently needed this fig leaf.
Li Tiancheng didn't want to give the Football Association this face at all, and planned to return to Barcelona directly at that time.
As soon as I walked out of the hotel door, I met Jose. This guy had come to the United Arab Emirates from Spain. His formal attire in the summer was impressive.
The two talked a lot at that time, and the most important thing was to set a goal for Li Tiancheng.
Generally speaking, it is successful enough to first become a qualified professional player, then strive to become a first-class player, and finally become a top player at the Ballon d'Or level.
But Jose doesn't think so. He thinks Li Tiancheng has the potential to achieve greatness.
"The greatest charm of football is that it contains some kind of eternal emotion. People often say that the result is the most important thing, and only the score will still be remembered ten years later, but this is not true. What people retain in their memory is the pursuit of greatness.
From this came emotion."
"Great players can gather emotional resonance from the audience. Pele, Maradona, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, etc. are all like this. You also have this potential!"
Jose said a lot of things to support this argument at the time, but that was not important. He made Li Tiancheng see a goal that was more ambitious and worth pursuing than the Golden Globe Award. That was enough.
From that day on, Jose Weber became Li Tiancheng's agent.
"As for what greatness is, I still think your explanation back then was wonderful."
"Thank you for the compliment." Jose accepted the compliment calmly. As long as you always remember your goal, even if you think my words are very clumsy, I will be happy with it.
Li Tiancheng:......
No matter how much I try to do this, I still feel uncomfortable with it. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I am like this?
But the news he brought was really unpleasant. Although it wasn't really a big deal, it was a toad lying on the feet, which made people feel sick!
Fortunately, Jose had told him this earlier, otherwise he would have fallen into a ditch if he had happily snarled at reporters.