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. There is no game for the club, and it is good to have a national team to keep in shape.
And as long as he plays in the national team, Barcelona's rumors about his injury will not be broken.
After arriving in Brussels, Degan first contacted the current team's head coach Wilmots, who took over Antienis as the new head coach of the Belgian team after the 2010 World Cup. For Wilmots's appointment, Degan, as the captain and core of the national team, Shi also welcomed it at the first time.
In the next period of time, the two cooperated very well. Wilmots completely inherited the style of playing in the Antiennis era and continued to entrust heavy responsibilities to Degan, which made the outside world seem to have not changed.
Belg has maintained a complete victory in the previous European Cup qualifiers, and Wilmot's support among fans is also getting higher and higher. After all, compared with Antiennis, Wilmot's vocational and teaching resume is blank, but his career is more brilliant. He has made 70 appearances for the Belgian national team, and He has participated in the World Cup final four times and is recognized as the spiritual leader of Belgian football.
Wilmott was born in 1969, the son of a farmer. He signed his first professional contract with the Truden team at the age of 16.
In 1988, Wilmotz was elected Belgium's best young player. A year later, he moved to Magellan, where Wilmot won the league championship in his first season.
In 1990, Wilmot played for the national team for the first time and was selected to the Belgian national team for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, although he did not get a chance to play.
In the following year, Wilmot joined the Standard Liech team, where he played for a total of four years. Although he was selected again for the national team and qualified for the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Wilmot only got a chance to play against Saudi Arabia, and he was criticized at home. Proud Wilmot announced his withdrawal from the national team.
In 1996, he transferred to Schalke 04, which was considered a turning point in his career. In Schalke's first season, Wilmots helped the team win the UEFA Cup. The final of Inter Milan was Wilmock's masterpiece, in two rounds of home and away. Wilmot scored, and in the end, Schalke 04 defeated the invincible Inter Milan in the penalty shootout.
In the 2002 World Cup, Wilmotz led the Red Devils Belgium to the last 16 and achieved another miracle. After retiring, Wilmot did not continue his achievements in football, but became a member of the Belgian Parliament.
But after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Belgian Football Association suddenly announced that the former international, Mark. Wilmot will succeed Antiennis as the head coach of the national team until after the 2014 World Cup.
Although Degan felt a little sorry for Antiennis leaving the national team, he also had a tacit understanding with Wilmot, and he was safe for half a year.
However, this time, Degan obviously felt that it was a little wrong. When the previous two national teams gathered, Wilmotz would inform him to attend the meeting of the team's coaching staff as soon as he came, which is also a tradition left by the Antiennis era.
But this time, Degan came for two days and saw that the players had arrived, but Wilmots didn't seem to mean to "call him alone" at all.
And in the first training class after the team's assembly, Digan also felt that the atmosphere was a little abnormal.
At the beginning, the members of the coaching staff of Antienis' era have left with the departure of Antiennis. Now the coaching staff of the Belgian national team have been reorganized after Wilmot took office.
Like Wilmetz, these people are former Belgian internationals with little coaching experience, but they all have a lot of influence among fans.
After the search began, Digan found the problem. In the past Antienes era, Belgian football has gradually begun to change from power play to technical play, but from this day's training, it seems that Wilmots intends to bring the Belgian national team back to tradition.
The whole day of training is to practice strength, long passes and headers. Even Wilmot organized a team training match. As soon as he comes up, every player is required to simplify as possible when dealing with the ball, often directly from the backcourt to find a high point on the front line.
Although there is nothing wrong with Degan, the problem is that he has been paying attention to speed and ground cooperation for several years. What does this sudden change mean?
And now in the Belgian team, whether it is Azar, Dembélé, or Degan, they are all very skilled players, letting them give up their advantages and start playing this kind of simple and rough football. Isn't it?
Digan, full of doubts, found Wilmots after training: "Coach! Are you going to change the tactics of the Belgian national team?
Wilmates listened to Degan's tone and couldn't help frowning: "What's the problem? The previous style of play was really sissy. We need to change our thinking and regain the essence of Belgian football. Do you have different opinions?
Degan did not hide his attitude at all: "Yes! Coach, I don't think it's appropriate. Now there are many players with excellent small skills in the national team. I think we should give full play to the characteristics of this type of players, such as Azar. Is the value of his existence to pull to the sidelines and then pass the bottom? There are also Fellaini and England. His foot skills are also very good, and he has a strong ability to pass the ball vertically. But today, it seems that you are going to transform them into a butcher-shaped back. As long as the ball is simple defense and their big feet kicks forward, I think this is very inappropriate?
Listening to Degan's words, Wilmots frowned deeper and deeper: "You are questioning my decision, Mr. Degan, you are the captain of the national team. All you have to do is to assist my work and manage other players. What tactics should be used in the game? I will decide these things. What you have to do is It's obedience!"
To be from the bottom of my heart, although Wilmotz was very happy about the success of the Belgian national team in the European Cup, the Intercontinental Cup and the World Cup, and he also appreciated Degan very much, the only dissatisfaction was the team's tactics, the Antienees era, at the beginning. It can also maintain the traditional style of Belgian football, but later, it has become more and more technical, especially in the World Cup in South Africa, which is simply a strong version of Spain. In Wilmots' view, those short passes have no value at all.
Belgian football should be an inextricable battle in his heart, fearing his opponents with strength and iron blood, and using his strong body to break the opponent's defense line. That's what they did in that era. This is the tradition of Belgian football. It is purified, but it was the Belgian country in the Antienes era. The team completely abandoned.
This made Wilmot feel very unhappy. When he first took office, because he had not figured out how to transform the team's playing style, he fully accepted Antiennis' tactics. Now he has made up his mind to make a big change in the Belgian national team and return Belgian football to its original trajectory. Among them.
Wilmots is very confident in his reform, because on the front line, there are two fast and strong tall centers, Degan and Lukaku.
But now as the captain, Degan is openly questioning his decision, which makes Wilmotz a little dissatisfied and his tone seems a little stiff.
Wilmots's words made Degan a little dissatisfied, especially the sentence "All you have to do is obey", which made Degan angry: "Coach! This is the team, not the army. I can't obey you unconditionally. In addition, I think your change is meaningless. Belgian football has been fully completed in the past few years. What we need to do now is how to continue on this correct road and constantly improve, rather than Full overthrow and make a come back!"
"Rod! You must know that I am the head coach here! I'm the one who has the final say here!" Wilmot said angrily, and his voice suddenly became louder.
Degan didn't mean to be afraid at all, and then roared back: "I said, this is not an army, and there is no need for a dictator, let alone a dictator who wants to make mistakes!"
Wilmods's eyes flashed coldly: "Do you mean, am I hurting Belgian football by doing this?"
Digan said coldly, "At least for now, it's like this!"
The two conversations finally broke up unhappily. The next day during training, as soon as Wilmotz appeared, he announced a decision enough to detonate bombs among the players: "From now on, Degan will no longer be the captain of the Belgian national team and will be changed to Vincent. Compani takes over!"
When Digan heard this, he was furious, but looking at the reporters around him, he resisted and gave the captain's armband to Compani, but it was obvious that this matter would not be settled.
Konpani looked blankly at the captain's armband that was stuffed into his hand by Degan and suddenly felt a panic. He has always been the younger brother of Degan, in the national team and in Florence, but now ~~~~~
Wilmorz's tone is unquestionable: "Vincent, this is my trust in you to hold it, and you will be an excellent captain!"
In the following training, Wilmots seemed to stare at Degan and scolded loudly from time to time, as if Digan was not satisfied with what he did.
In the past, Degan was the core of the Belgian team, but now, Wilmotz asked to hand over more balls to two sides, and what Degan had to do was to stand in the penalty area and wait for his teammates to pass the ball, and then headed the ball to the goal. Every time Degan wanted to retreat to the midfield to get the ball, Wilmots would immediately roar on the side of the court. .
"I said, go to the front, go to the front! You don't understand, do you?"
Finally, Degan couldn't stand it. Although he wanted to control his emotions, it didn't mean that he could tolerate others riding on his neck to poop and pee and be indifferent.
"Shut up, you idiot who doesn't know anything!" Degan rushed to the sidelines in a few steps, glared at Wilmots and roared.
Finally, it broke out. I don't know why, when I saw this scene, everyone actually felt relieved. The atmosphere just now was really scary.
Wilmots seemed to have expected it for a long time, and even had some expectations. He also stared at Degan: "You have to figure out who you are talking to!"
"Of course, I know very well that I'm talking to an asshole whose brain is full of shit. Fuck you. Mom reform! You bastard, you will ruin Belgian football sooner or later!"
After roaring, Degan tore off his upper clothes and walked towards the gate of the training ground. A group of reporters suddenly gathered around. In addition to the shock, they were shocked.
Since Degan eliminated the conflict between Walloon and Flemish, the Belgian national team has always felt very harmonious, but today on the training ground, the head coach and captain of the team broke out, no! Degan's captain's armband has been stripped, but the conflict between the head coach and the core is also scary enough.
"Don't ask me boring questions. You have just seen that that damn bastard asked us to abandon the tactics that have always been successful and carry out that bullshit reform, okay! He can continue. Without my Belgian national team, he can do whatever he wants! Go to the TM game and be with that bastard who doesn't know anything. I can't get anything!"
After saying that, Degan pushed the reporter away and left the training ground angrily.
Only a group of uproar reporters, as well as at a loss, and Wilmotz with a proud face.
That's right!
All this was designed by him. Since taking the position of head coach of the Belgian national team, Wilmot has found that his position in the national team is very embarrassing, because Degan exists here, and Degan is the king here. What does he want to do? If Digan doesn't speak, he can't do it at all, which makes habits control. How can Wilmot stand everything?
So, the storm that had been brewing for a long time blew today.
I didn't expect it to go surprisingly well. Now that Degan has left, then the Belgian national team will be the place where he has the final say in the future.