Obviously, the UEFA Cup is far less popular than the Champions League.
Similarly, when he first went to the UEFA Cup draw ceremony, no one paid attention to him, and the reaction of European journalists to him was dull.
But this time it was different. From the moment they appeared at the venue, reporters swarmed around him outside the venue.
This is the first time that an oriental face coach has appeared in the Champions League. It is no wonder that the media will pay so much attention to it.
It’s not unusual for players with oriental faces, but it’s quite different for an oriental and a China to lead the team to the Champions League as a head coach.
Players can let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. You can see white people, black people, yellow people and brown people in your football field. Each race has its own advantages.
But surely you rarely see a coach with his skin color in mainstream European football?
European football is dominated by white coaches.
Black coaches rarely see other kinds of coaches completely extinct.
In fact, white people dominate the popular sports in the mainstream western world, and most of them are white coaches, not only football, basketball and rugby.
He can be a physical coach, a tactical coach, a technical coach … all kinds of coaches, but he just can’t be a head coach.
This is a very invisible discrimination.
Usually, no one will be satisfied and finished. No one will consider that much.
But if you go and see how many nonwhite coaches are there in the five major leagues in Europe? Before that, there was a Chelsea coach in gullit and a Lyon and Monaco coach in Tigana.
Moreover, at that time, gullit was still a head coach without formal coaching qualifications. He was a parttime head coach of players.
Chelsea in gullit played a rare beautiful football. At that time, the media called Chelsea in gullit sexy football, and Chelsea’s performance was much better than before.
Tigana once coached Lyon and led the team to the second place in the league, which was the best record in the history of Lyon club at that time.
Monaco Tigana led the team to the league championship.
Later, he went to England to develop and helped Fulham win the League One championship and promote to the Premier League.
But then he began to go uphill, and the league became lower and lower. The Turkish league was once brilliant for a short time and then it was completely silent.
Later, the dream team was directly built in Barcelona, and Rijkaard was the most successful coach among colored people.
But now the limelight that should belong to Rijkaard has been robbed by the constant victory.
In fact, whether it is gullit or Tigana, the achievements of their head coaches still make sense to the media and the public. After all, they all come from football powers and have a good reputation in football. After coaching directly, the accumulation of great hope in the player era can help them get started. This is one of the reasons why gullit and Tigana have good results in their early coaching.
Even Rijkaard was the same later. The brilliant experience of the Dutch Three Musketeers as a player helped him greatly. At least, when he coached Barcelona, he would not be unable to stop the dressing room of the giants because of lack of fame and prestige.
Isn’t it a matter of minutes before other players arrive and become football superstars to clean up your juniors?
Can you always win?
How can this sudden emergence always win?
He is a typical outlier.
A season ago, no one in mainstream European sports media had heard of his name.
At that time, Chang Sheng returned to Hertha, and his influence was limited to Madrid, which was still very limited.
Last season, his Valencia coach participated in the UEFA Cup, but no one knew whether it was a good thing or a bad thing for such a famous pawn to come out to coach Valencia. The media paid little attention to him.
Maybe the head coach will start class in a month? Really don’t put too much bets on losers.
I didn’t expect that this coach not only didn’t have a class a month later, but led Valencia to win the La Liga championship and became the champion coach! He is also the second nonwhite coach to win the league title in the mainstream European league.
The first is that Tigana led Monaco to the second place in the 19961997 season and won the French League title this season with a huge advantage of 12 points.
Moreover, the young yellow coach in Europe also performed very well.
He led Valencia to the UEFA Cup and was eliminated by superstar Yun Inter Milan.
One season is enough to make the former despise others and look at him with new eyes.
Then everyone found out that he was not a professional player before, but a young newcomer to European football, with no connections, fame and experience.
So a threeperson has become the champion coach of Valencia!
It is even more difficult for a nonwhite person to achieve such results in this situation.
The media began to bet on winning.
This time, you will enjoy the star treatment if you always win.
However, these European media obviously don’t know what kind of person Chang Sheng is.
Chang Sheng can still remember how the media snubbed him last season …
At the beginning, he was very happy that he could attend such an important occasion, and his heart was full of longing.
As a result, I was disillusioned when I came to the scene.
Although he has won a seconddivision championship and a king’s cup in Spain.
But he is a complete pawn in European football.
But no one here knows him and no one cares about him. His roots here are not important.
Even with the stunt of the first China coach in the European War, people are not interested in him.
Football China has never been a strong country, and so is the socalled weak country diplomatic football.
Coming from a weak football country, he naturally has no interest.
But after a season, he managed to turn this situation around by himself. When he reappeared in Monaco, he was surrounded by reporters.
Chang Sheng didn’t mean to meet the reporters’ interview requirements.
I won’t give an interview, Chang Sheng said with a straight face. I won’t give an interview until the result of the lottery comes out.
Say that finish, he pushed open the block in front of a few people and pitarch walked into the meeting.
A group of reporters looked at each other. I didn’t expect this China coach to have some temper and dare to refuse their interview request so fearfully.
Does he know what kind of media he just refused?
French Football, L ‘Equipe, 442, Mirror Weekly, World Football, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Tuttosport, La Gazzetta dello Sport … these are the most popular media in European football.