Just entering February, another heavyweight died. Luis Aragones, the former head coach of the Spanish national team, passed away in Madrid due to illness at the age of 75. The old coach led the Spanish national team to win the 2008 European Cup.

It was the instigator of this peak market in Spain.

Before the old coach took charge of the national team, he had coached eight different La Liga teams. He had many disciples, but there was no Real Madrid among them. When he was a young player, Aragones and Real Madrid only had them when they were just starting out.

In just two months, he spent most of his career at Atletico Madrid, where he played for 12 consecutive years until his retirement.

After retiring, Aragones directly took up the coaching staff of Atletico Madrid. He has coached Atletico Madrid four times for a total of 15 seasons. So from the perspective of football pedigree, Aragones is a pure Atletico Madrid man.

The mourning activities for the old coach are the most solemn for Atletico Madrid people, but it does not prevent Real Madrid from expressing respect and grief. Today, many banners and slogans thanking Aragones appeared in the Bernabeu stand. This scene also made the hot Madrid

The atmosphere in the derby became a little more peaceful.

Today is the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals. Real Madrid faces the gangster Atletico Madrid at home. Before the start of the game, both sides wore black veils and observed a moment of silence in accordance with the procedure.

Zhuo Yang originally invited Liu Guoliang and his wife and He Zhiwen to watch the game at the Bernabeu as part of the travel plan, but the three gods did not give him face. In fact, it is understandable if you think about it, they all often experience mountain roars and tsunamis.

Due to the turmoil on the sports field, naturally I am not interested in the atmosphere of watching sports that I don’t understand.

Zhuo Yang also hardly goes to the sites of other projects to join in the fun and has no interest at all. Except for the needs of commercial activities, he basically does not get involved.

Moreover, there is another difference between Master Liu and others and Zhuo Yang. Compared with football, table tennis has a negligible influence on a global scale. Zhuo Yang is the number one star of the world's number one sport. He is a big star wherever he goes.

He is a star, but when Liu Guoliang came to the Bernabeu, he was basically just an ordinary passerby in the audience. This is one of the reasons why he didn't want to flatter him. Big bosses don't like to be ignored.

When the People's Republic of China was first founded, the country was in poverty and its sports foundation was almost zero. Mr. He, the director of the Sports Bureau, together with people from all walks of life, after careful discussion, finally decided to use table tennis as the sports cause and mass sports of New China.

The breakthrough point of movement.

After all, the cost is low. You can play with a cement table and two wooden rackets, and two people can practice. As a result, table tennis has since become a national sport in China, completely grassroots this aristocratic sport originated from Europe. But after leaving

In China, and at most in the East Asian cultural circle, table tennis is a purely niche sport.

Table tennis has the best sports atmosphere in the world in China. Table tennis stars and champions are household names in the country, and businesses also highly respect them. For a long time, table tennis has been the most positive image representative in the domestic sports field.

Zhuo Yang heard Liu Guoliang say that before he returned to the national team, the Chinese Football Association, who was in a critical condition and sought medical treatment, even invited him to give lessons to the men's national team. Liu Guoliang said that he did not give the national football team a good look at that time.

"Compared with us, what kind of stars do you think you are? If you don't do as well as we do and don't make as much money as we do, isn't it a shame?"

The Chinese table tennis players all earn a lot of money, which is not comparable to the national football players who sounded like they could make a lot of money at that time. That is to say, after Zhuo Yang returned, the results of the national team gradually became decent, and the image became more and more positive. In addition,

Many of the world's top tycoons have regained their enthusiasm for football. The Chinese Super League has become "ranked sixth among the five major leagues" and is booming. The income of professional players has grown by leaps and bounds.

Nowadays, although football is still not as good as table tennis, it has surpassed it in terms of income.

But when we go abroad, especially when we come to Europe, table tennis is not as popular as it is in China, and Spain is considered a table tennis player in Europe, where young and old are poor, and hemp ropes are worn through tofu - they can't be mentioned.

Comparatively speaking, the development of table tennis in some countries in Northern and Eastern Europe is pretty good. From time to time, some figures who can threaten Chinese players emerge. But forget about Spain. Let alone the World Series, Spanish table tennis is the best in Europe.

Never won any medals, never finished in the top four.

Let's put it this way, table tennis in Spain is like darts in China. It's lively and lively in the circle, and the League Cup round-robin is almost invisible outside the circle. Who can tell me who is the champion of the China Darts Open?

Teacher He He Zhiwen also told Zhuo Yang an anecdote, which was the reason why he settled in Spain.

After He Zhiwen retired, he went to Germany to play ball. German table tennis is very good in Europe and relatively formal. He earned a good income from playing in the league there.

That year, the Chinese team was invited to participate in the German Table Tennis Grand Prix, and the male and female national players sent out collectively. Spain also participated, although their players were basically amateurs, but they also went.

I won’t go into details about the game, just say that one night, the game in the stadium was over and the stadium was basically empty. Jordi, the top Spanish men’s player, was walking on the field when he suddenly saw a man wearing the uniform of the Chinese team also walking around.

, two boring men.

Jordi became interested, because he usually had no chance to play against Chinese golfers, and the level was too far away. He couldn't understand the language, so he gestured to invite the Chinese golfers to have a discussion, which was also to ask for advice.

The Chinese golfer couldn't push it, maybe because his hands were itchy, so he found a pair of rackets and the two of them hit it.

As a result, Jordi won two out of three games, and narrowly defeated the Chinese players by a small margin. At this time, Jordi himself could not believe it: How could I defeat the Chinese? Did my ancestors consecrate me?

Jordi, who was extremely excited, returned to the team and told everyone that no one believed it: How many dishes are there?

The more he swears, the more his teammates think he is bragging. Forget about the Chinese men's team and the women's team, if you can win a partner as a sparring partner, you will be in the Spanish table tennis world from now on.

The extremely angry Jordi dragged his teammates to the training ground of the Chinese men's team the next day to look for someone. As a result, all the players faced him, but none of his men were defeated last night. The national players and the Western players all looked at him with contempt.

:As long as there is a peanut...

Jordi was about to cry, and he swore viciously that anyone who talks nonsense will die. If you don't believe it, I will die for you.

Oops, it looks like it’s true. Don’t turn around and cause a diplomatic incident. The national team coach frowned: Who did it? Come forward!

The national players looked at each other, confused. At this moment, the cook accompanying the national team shivered and stood up from behind with his hands raised.

"I, I did it. He had to pull me to fight, and he couldn't do it without fighting. Alas, I drank two more drinks yesterday, otherwise I wouldn't have lost to him, it would be embarrassing..."

When the truth came to light, this incident also shocked the Spanish table tennis community, who felt that their level was really not up to par. So, they contacted He Zhiwen, who was playing in Germany, and strongly invited him to go to Spain. Because at that time, He Zhiwen had just Not long after he retired, his level was 100,000 levels higher than that of a chef, which was enough for the Spanish table tennis community to enjoy for 30 years.

As a result, He Zhiwen became the big devil of Spanish table tennis. And his joining has indeed improved the level of table tennis in Spain. At least it entered the European semi-finals once and won a bronze medal.

Now He Zhiwen has a big villa in Granada and a small villa in Madrid, and his life is comfortable. Being invincible is a kind of loneliness.

To a certain extent, Liu Guoliang is also an invincible existence. Not to mention when he was a player, all the national players he has now are also invincible. Zhuoyang envies their invincibility, because he himself is far from invincible. of.

"Brother Liu, as you are the head coach of the National Table Tennis Team, you must be the best table tennis coach in the world, right?"

"If you want to ask something directly, don't hide it from me."

"Brother, I just want to know if you have... a quick, quick table tennis training method? You can train me to the level of a cook in two days... It can be lower than a cook." Zhuo Yang is looking forward to it.

Liu Guoliang rolled his eyes at him and did not answer directly: "Brother, is there any quick learning in football? Playing in the Chinese Super League in two days...Chinese Second Division is also fine. Is there any quick learning in piano?"

"No!"

"Look, I asked a stupid question, didn't I? Oh, by the way, what did you just say?"

"Brother, eat the vegetables, eat the vegetables. Brother, I'll fill them up for you."
Chapter completed!