From the man behind the football king to the football king

Chapter 70: Bombarding Paul Bento
Bruno rushed back to Udine the morning after the match against Luxembourg, and appeared at Udinese's training base in the afternoon.

The other international players in the Udinese team came back one after another the next day.

Guidolin also chatted with the players separately and communicated about their performance and position on the field during their time in the national team. This is also homework that a head coach must do, and then Guidolin became angry.

The biggest player in the Udinese team and the core of the team's offense, Bruno Fernandez, was transferred to the Portuguese national team. The Portuguese national team played 4 games in the past two national team match days, and Bruno only got about ten minutes. playing time, and all of them appeared in garbage time!
Bruno is the absolute core and thigh of Udinese. He has played 11 games for Udinese this season, scoring 7 goals and 6 assists, averaging more than 1 goal per game. Such performance, in The entire Serie A is one of the best.

Guidolin was originally dissatisfied with players being transferred to the national team. Now he sees Bruno trekking back to the national team from Udinese Island. After going back and forth for a month, he only got ten minutes of rubbish playing time. This Jean Guidolin went berserk.

Since you don’t like my Bruno, then don’t recruit Bruno!

He has been called up but not used. It is better to let Bruno stay in Udinese and recharge his energy for the club competition after the international break.

In Guidolin's view, this approach of the Portuguese national team is completely tormenting Bruno and consuming his physical and energy for nothing!

Guidolin became increasingly angry as he thought about it, and felt that he needed to do something.

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On October 10, the famous Italian sports newspaper "Gazzetta dello Sport" published a report.Portuguese international Bruno Fernandez, who just celebrated his 18th birthday last month, and his Udinese club coach Guidolin angrily complained to Portugal national team coach Paulo in an interview with a reporter from Gazzetta dello Sport. Bento fired.

He told reporters: "A talented player like Bruno definitely deserves core and All-Star treatment."

"In the past two international matches, Bruno almost flew around the world with the Portuguese national team. He suffered from the fatigue of traveling and traveling, but he still returned to the national team without hesitation. He is willing to contribute to Portuguese football, not He sat on the bench for 350 minutes and only played for about ten minutes in irrelevant garbage time."

"If you don't trust Bruno, you don't have to call him. Now that he has been recruited, please respect such a talented player."

In the end, Guidolin did not forget to give Paulo Bento eye drops. He said: "Now I finally understand why Portugal can't go to Brazil. It is a crime to treat a super genius like Bruno so stupidly. !”

Guidolin's words caused quite a stir in Portuguese football.

When Portugal failed to finish first in the group and thereby lock in a direct ticket to Brazil, Portuguese fans had doubts about coach Paulo Bento's coaching ability.

Now, reminded by outsiders, they suddenly discovered that Paulo Bento did not reuse a super talent like Bruno Fernandez, which made many Portuguese fans feel uncomfortable.

Portuguese fans who support Bruno believe that Guidolin is right. Talented players like Bruno should be reused and cannot be called up, but only play in garbage time.

Of course, some fans don't think so.

In the eyes of these people, Bruno is a newcomer to the Portuguese national team and has never played for the Portuguese national team before.In Portugal's key issue of competing for first place in the group, Paulo Bento was right to not let him play as the main player out of caution. This would affect the tacit understanding between the Portuguese players and may be even worse.

However, these people’s views are not accepted by most Portuguese fans, because such a thing did not happen. Instead, Paul Bento did not use Bruno, and Portugal was tied by Israel, thus missing the first place in the group. , it is a fact that it is painful to lose a direct ticket to the World Cup in Brazil.

For a time, public opinion in Portugal was turbulent, and the target was pointed at Paulo Bento.

…………Guidolin, who was far away in Udinese, moved his mouth and caused an earthquake in Portuguese football.

Paul Bento was naturally not willing to be humiliated. Of course, he would not take the initiative to go shirtless to fight with Guidolin. He believed that quarreling with an unknown person was a loss of self-worth. This would be too treating this little character in the corner. It's the same thing, it will only give a small character the pleasure of taking advantage of the big shot's popularity.

Paul Bento first denied that he had any conflicts with Bruno. He said that letting Bruno sit on the bench was only for technical reasons. This did not mean that he did not value Bruno.

Then, Paulo Bento did not mention Guidolin at all, as if the man did not exist.

Here, Guidolin responded immediately: After talking for a long time, it was all nonsense. I dare to regard Bruno as the absolute core. Then Udinese ranked fourth in Serie A and tied for first in the Europa League. Both lines went hand in hand. ; And if you don't use Bruno, the powerful Portugal will be suppressed by Russia, unable to pass directly to Brazil, and can only fight for the play-offs.Technical factors?hehe……

Paul Bento was almost furious. Where did this mad dog come from, and he refused to let go?

What kind of rubbish team is your Udinese? Don’t you have any clue in your own mind?Even compared to my Portuguese team!
Paulo Bento decided to fight back, and later said in an interview with the media: "The job of the Portuguese national team coach is very, very important, and the pressure and importance involved are unimaginable by the coaching staff of small teams. "

Guidolin immediately responded: "Udinese, which has been in the top five of Serie A in recent seasons, is a small team? You are insulting Serie A!"

Both sides quarreled endlessly through the mouths of the media.

Paul Bento was proud of his status and spoke tactfully, but Guidolin was unceremonious and heart-wrenching with every word.

Guidolin is called "Little Zhuge" by Chinese fans, not only because he is resourceful and good at tapping the team's potential, but his poisonous tongue is also one of the factors.

The Portuguese media was agitated, and many Italian media also followed suit. Some were just hyping up the reports, while others were cheering for Guidolin from behind. Anyway, they were just watching the excitement, so as not to worry about the world being in chaos.

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In such chaos, time passed quickly, and Udinese even played two more games.One of them is the 8th round of Serie A with AC Milan, and the other is the 3rd round of the Europa League group stage with Sevilla.

At the San Siro Stadium, Bruno vented all his frustrations with the national team on AC Milan. He scored twice and almost single-handedly defeated the Rossoneri.

After the victory, Udinese's record was improved to 6 wins and 2 losses, and the league ranking also surpassed Inter Milan and rose to No. 4.

In the Serie A standings at this time, Roma, which has won eight consecutive games at the beginning of the season, has become the leader. Behind it are Naples and Juventus, who have 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

It is also very unexpected that Udinese can be ranked No. 8 after 4 league rounds.Although Udinese spent 2500 million euros to introduce Bruno in the summer, the net investment of 1300 million euros was not eye-catching.

Coupled with their two-front battle, many people believe that Udinese will definitely collapse.

But the fact is that not only has Udinese not collapsed, it has also beaten Inter Milan, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and other traditional Serie A teams to rank fourth!
Among them, Bruno's role is very obvious.He scored 8 goals and provided 4 assists in 4 Serie A games. Udinese had a total of 15 goals, and he was directly involved in 8 of them, more than half of the total goals!
In the home dialogue with Sevilla, Bruno also scored a goal to help Udinese and Sevilla draw 1:1, scoring a very valuable point and continuing to compete with Sevilla. Head to head in the standings.

Scoring 3 goals in two games, this is like Bruno vindicating himself and announcing to the world: Paul Bento, you are wrong!
(End of this chapter)