Chapter 447 Three-minute face
From the airport, we arrived at the Yanjing InterContinental Hotel where we were staying. The players had lunch accompanied by staff from the Yanjing Football Association Hehesheng Sports Company.
After dinner, under Gao Xiaodong's leadership, Inter Milan players went to Xiushui Street together.
There are many counterfeit products in Xiushui Street, which looks no different from the genuine ones, but the low price is scary. In addition, the boss is eloquent and the big players of Inter Milan are almost all equipped with two counterfeit phones. Balotelli bought two counterfeit Apple phones and two counterfeit BlackBerry phones one by one.
Gao Xiaodong did not stop him. None of these teammates were short of money. If you were willing to spend money, let them spend it well, which was equivalent to contributing to socialist construction.
Of course, while shopping, fans are constantly coming to ask for autographs, and shopping obviously has the effect of improving mood. At this time, as long as fans come forward, the stars of Inter Milan did not refuse, and were quite friendly.
After shopping, Mourinho believed that he had already communicated with fans a lot today, so he gave up the activity of interacting with fans at Inter Milan store, and directly asked the players to go back to their rooms to rest.
The next afternoon, Inter Milan held its first training session at the Yanjing Olympic Sports Center.
The training session was public. About 3,000 fans and more than 100 reporters came to the stadium to watch Inter Milan's training. The number of fans was about 6 times that of Lazio's first day training.
In addition to the Inter Milan star training, the most eye-catching thing is the Chinese coach Gao Bo who sat in the stands to watch Inter Milan train.
Gao Bo is a very good local coach. He will go to conduct business exchanges with "high-level peers" whenever he has the opportunity. When Manchester United came to China last month, Gao Bo communicated with Sir Ferguson in Jiangnan Province for more than an hour.
This time Gao Bo hopes to communicate with the madman Mourinho.
When the training was about to end, Gao Bo took the interpreter out of the stands and stopped Mourinho when he walked to the parking lot, "Hello Coach Jose, I am Gao Bo, I want to talk to you?"
Mourinho didn't know Gao Bo and thought he was an ordinary fan, so he ignored him and continued to walk towards the parking lot.
Inter Milan officials who were with Mourinho whispered to Mourinho: "This is the head coach of the Chinese team, Gao Bo, and I want to communicate with you."
Mourinho paused, looked at Gao Bo, and said, "Let's talk about it after training tomorrow."
After saying that, Mourinho did not leave any face for Gao Bo and turned around and left.
Gao Bo never expected Mourinho to be so arrogant. He didn't even take him as the head coach of the Chinese team to heart. He was as shocked as ordinary fans. He didn't even notice Gao Xiaodong passed by.
Seeing that Gao Xiaodong didn't say hello to him, nor did he take the initiative to talk to Gao Bo, he walked over quickly.
The next day, because Mourinho and Morati were going to attend a charity banquet, Inter Milan arrived at the Olympic Sports Center two hours earlier than the prescribed training time. Since the tourists in the stadium were not dispersed at that time, the staff prohibited Inter Milan and his party from entering the stadium. After negotiating with the stadium managers, Inter Milan was able to enter the stadium for training.
After the training, Mourinho completely forgot what he told Gao Bo yesterday about communicating after training today, and directly led the team to leave the Olympic Sports Center.
Gao Bo came to the Olympic Sports Center at normal time and waited for Inter Milan to come for training, but he and the interpreter waited for almost an hour in the office to find out that Inter Milan had finished training.
Gao Bo's face turned pale. He had only communicated with Manchester United Ferguson last month. In terms of capital and status, Ferguson is not inferior to Mourinho, but Ferguson is very approachable and has no sense of being arrogant at all. He never expected Mourinho to be so arrogant and turned him away twice.
Gao Bo is difficult to deal with below. If he stops, he will throw this person home. If he continues to look for Mourinho, once Mourinho refuses again, Gao Bo's face will be thrown into the Atlantic Ocean.
After thinking about it, Gao Bo decided to put the breakthrough on Gao Xiaodong.
Although Gao Bo knew Gao Xiaodong, he had no strong relationship. Gao Bo called Gao Xiaodong's agent Chen Qiang and said his meaning, hoping that Gao Xiaodong could speak a few good words in front of Mourinho and let Mourinho communicate with him. No matter how long Mourinho communicates with him, Gao Bo's face will be recovered.
Chen Qiang called in person and asked Gao Xiaodong to persuade Mourinho to give him a chance to step down.
Gao Xiaodong can't pretend to be ignorant now, so he had to go to Mourinho and tell Mourinho what Gao Bo wanted to ask him for advice.
Mourinho said in surprise when he heard this: "You actually spoke for him. He became the head coach of the national team but he didn't call you."
This matter is very complicated. Gao Xiaodong didn't know how to tell Mourinho, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "You can't blame him for this matter?"
Mourinho sneered: "No matter whether he is blamed or not, even a player like you is not recruited into the national team. What else can he learn when he asks me for advice?"
Gao Xiaodong sighed, "It's just a face."
Mourinho finally nodded in a vague way and said, "Okay, after training tomorrow, I will give him a face."
During the training the next day, Gao Bo waited in the stands to watch Inter Milan training. Before the training ended, Gao Bo got off the stands and waited on the sidelines. He greeted Gao Xiaodong in Chinese, "Thank you, Xiaodong."
Gao Xiaodong waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, Director Gao, you can talk to Mourinho, I'll go take a shower first."
Gao Xiaodong went to take a shower with his teammates. Gao Bo walked towards Mourinho excitedly and said, "Hello, Coach Jose."
Mourinho nodded with a serious expression: "Hello."
"I am so happy to see you. Thank you for taking the time to give me some advice." Gao Bo said.
Mourinho still didn't smile and said, "You're welcome."
Gao Bo said again: "I have communicated with Professors Loeff, Wenger, and Ferguson, and I feel that I have benefited a lot. I wonder what advice you can give me on how to select players?"
Mourinho said sarcastically: "Even players like Gao Xiaodong don't look down on them, so it's hard for me to give you any advice."
Gao Bo was a little embarrassed and said, "I think the Chinese players generally lack confidence. Can you tell me how to build confidence for the players?"
Mourinho said: "Confidence can only be obtained through victory. I can't explain the other things in detail. Okay, I'll attend a press conference and I'll talk about it next time."
After saying that, Mourinho turned and left.
From meeting and saying hello to answering questions, Mourinho only gave Gao Bo less than three minutes in total. Such communication seemed to give Gao Bo face, but in fact it was no different from slapping him in the face.
Chapter completed!