Almighty Coach

The second training camp for the US National Track and Field Team.

"Jimmy, have you heard that our new coach is Rivers." Alexander said with a grin.

"Which Rivers?" Jimmy Alvin looked confused.

"Don't you remember? He was also a 400-meter athlete, you should have played against it! I didn't expect to become a coach now, but also temporarily acting as the head coach of the US team." Alexander said.

"You're talking about him! In the last Olympics, he seemed to be the assistant coach of the national team and the last assistant coach." Alvin replied.

"I don't know very well about this. I was suspended in the last Olympics." Alexander made a helpless expression, and then asked: "How about this Rivers coaching level?"

"Not very good. When he was an athlete, he didn't even enter the national team. And after becoming a coach, he didn't train a top-level athlete. This kind of coach can catch a lot of casual catches in the United States. This These qualifications are not worthy of being the head coach of the national team. I think I am better than this head coach. "Alvin said disdainfully.

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Rivers used to be a 400-meter sprinter, but he has not achieved good results in his career. So after the peak age, he did not stick to it, but chose to retire and become a track and field coach.

Rivers ’coaching journey is much smoother than that of him as an athlete. Although he has not trained top track and field athletes, he has also brought out several excellent children in recent years. And four years ago, the Olympics, River Sri Lanka had the honor to join the United States National Track and Field team and became an assistant coach in the national team. Although it was only the last assistant coach in the ranking, it was a dream for his own national team.

This year Rivers is no longer satisfied with the position of an assistant coach. He hopes to become the deputy head coach of the national team. In this regard, he also participated in the interview of the national team coach, hoping to use this to build momentum for himself. However, Rivers' luck was not good, he was eliminated in the first level, not even the head coach interview.

After Sebastian was elected as the head coach of the US team, he did not consider allowing Rivers to join his team. This year's Rivers missed the US national track and field team and did not even get an assistant coach.

The outbreak of the doping scandal caused Rivers Peak to turn around. He was invited to temporarily replace the position of the head coach of the US National Athletics Team. This is a village for Rivers. If he couldn't do it, he continued to be an assistant coach, but he didn't expect to become a head coach in one step, so Rivers agreed without hesitation and came to the national team's training camp.

Immediately after arriving at the training camp, Rivers discovered the first problem, that is, the number of athletes of the national team was a little small.

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The officials of the Tian Association handed the list of participating athletes to Rivers. After Rivers took over, he roughly counted and found that there were only about 70 names on the list.

Rivers once participated in the Olympics with the American track and field team as an assistant coach, so he knew that under normal circumstances the US team should not have so few athletes.

There are more than 20 track and field events in the Olympic Games. If divided into men and women, it will be close to 50 small items. As the world ’s largest track and field country, the United States has countless athletes who can meet the Olympic A standard. Can send three athletes to participate. In addition, the relay race requires four people. Race walking and marathon can also have substitutes, so the number of athletes for each American team is about 150.

And there are only 70 people on the list, a full half less, Rivers will naturally have doubts about this list.

"Is this list of participating athletes missing a few pages?" Rivers pointed to the list in his hand, hoping that officials of the Tian Association could take a look at it in person.

"No less." The official of the Tian Xie Association hit it without looking at it.

"But there are only more than 70 people on it." Rivers said.

"Yes, there are 70 people." Tian Xie officials said with certainty.

"Under normal circumstances, even if the number is relatively small, there should be more than 140 people?" Rivers asked.

"That's all for this year. Everyone else has retired." The Tian Association official replied indifferently.

"More than 70 people have retired? How is this possible? Why?" Rivers asked subconsciously.

"Accurately speaking, more than ninety people retired. We again called for more than twenty people according to the results of the qualifiers." Tian Xie officials' tone was full of dissatisfaction, he continued: "Don't you yet Do you understand? It ’s all because of the doping scandal. Our situation is very bad now, and I do n’t even know how to express it. Hey ... you know when you get to the training ground. "

...

Rivers quickly learned what the last sentence of the Tian Association officials meant.

The situation of this American team is indeed very bad. Rivers can feel that the morale of the athletes is very low, and there is no fighting spirit at all. It feels like a soldier will drop without a fight on the battlefield.

The impact of the doping scandal is too great. Originally more than 150 people, nearly two-thirds of them retired because of the doping scandal. The remaining athletes are of course panicked. It's like a two-thirds deserter before a war starts. The rest of them don't have to wait for the enemy to appear, they will collapse first.

The situation of the more than twenty new athletes who joined the national team has not improved. They were not the strongest athletes, and even many of them ranked seventh or even lower in the qualifying. It is normal for them to go to the Olympic Games and feel nervous, or to show fear.

Rivers has never encountered such a situation, leading a lack of generals, morale-free American team to the Olympic Games, the results can be imagined.

Rivers felt regret for the first time at this time, and he realized that he really shouldn't be in this muddy water.

However, after the real training began, Rivers encountered a new problem, he could not control those athletes, and even some athletes directly ignored him, such as Jimmy Alvin.

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As a legendary athlete, Alvin is undoubtedly the trump card of this American team.

However, Alvin's attitude towards Rivers was not good. He was very indifferent to Rivers, and some even looked down upon Rivers.

After all, the identity gap between the two sides is too big. One is a legendary athlete who has been famous for many years, the "one brother" of American track and field, the absolute king of 400 meters; the other is an unknown coach, who has not proven his ability.

Like a coach who has been famous for many years like Sebastian, Alvin may still give the other face a few points, but how can Alvin, such as the unknown name of Rivers, be taken into account.

More importantly, Rivers was also a 400-meter athlete, and he was also a 400-meter athlete with no results. He and Alvin had played against him. There is no doubt that he has never won. In Alvin ’s opinion, he was On the court, Rivers was a scumbag. Now that this "five slags" is coming to coach himself, Alvin must be 10,000 unwilling in his mind.

The king of 400 meters is dignified, how can he let a man defeat that year to coach himself in the future! So Alvin ignored Rivers directly, and Rivers could not take Alvin anyway.

Alvin's performance obviously brought a bad head, and Alexander began to gradually ignore Rivers.

Although Alexander is not as good as Alvin, he was also "the second flying man in the world" anyway. He has won many world championships, and ordinary athletes are really not in his eyes. Reeves, a senior coach, will naturally not be looked upon by Alexander.

This is what the coaching profession is like. In high-level training, if you want to be respected by athletes, you must have the corresponding strength. If there is no strength, even if you sit in the position of head coach, you will not get athletes. Recognize that athletes will naturally not obey the coach's discipline. .

If it is placed in China, there are institutional constraints, and athletes do not obey discipline, coaches always have some ways to punish athletes. But in the United States, coaches can use very limited means, especially when the athletes are relatively big-named, but the coach becomes the weaker side instead. In the four major professional leagues in the United States, the star athletes of the team force the head coach to be even more often staged.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, Coach Rivers has no way.

Alvin, the king of 400 meters, was an unreachable presence in Rivers' eyes in the era of athletes. Even if he has retired as a coach, Alvin is still the kind of existence he needs to look up to. So for Alvin, Rivers can only let it go.

As for Alexander, Rivers also has no means, and still can only let it go. Who made Alexander the world champion!

As a coach, he has no ability and deserves to be bullied by athletes. The so-called poor people are short, and now Rivers is probably like this. Anyone who changes to a coach who has the ability and qualifications will not feel this kind of anger. Of course, there are coaches who have the ability and qualifications, and they will not encounter this situation with Rivers.

However, this is not the worst. As the training camp progressed, worse conditions began to visit Rivers, and more and more athletes in the training camp began to show Rivers an uncooperative and disobedient attitude. Rivers found that as the head coach, he has gradually lost control of the entire American track and field team.

In other words, Rivers never had such control.

And the root of all this is because Rivers can't get Alvin.

The power of role models is powerful. Alvin is the "one brother" of the American track and field team and an idol of many young athletes. His every move must be highly valued by other athletes, and his behavior will also attract Many people follow suit.

European and American cultures are not so respectful of collectivism, so the superhero's stalk to save the world will be popular from World War II to the present, and it will last forever. In this culture, obedience to the collective is far inferior to the worship of individual heroes.

It is also for this reason that Alvin's influence becomes even greater. In this American track and field team, if you want to get other athletes, you must first get Alvin. And if you can get Alvin's approval, then you will be honored by other athletes' obedience. After all, the "one brother" in the team listens to the coach, so other athletes have no reason not to obey.

But Rivers could not get Alvin's approval at all, which meant that Rivers would lose the trust of other athletes.

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In the small bar, Rivers sat alone in the corner, sulking with depression.

"Coach Rivers, I didn't expect to meet you here." A voice sounded, Rivers looked up and saw a familiar face.

This man's name is Carter and he is the team doctor of the US National Athletics Team. He and Rivers are also old acquaintances. When Rivers was an assistant coach of the US team four years ago, the two had known each other.

Carter sat next to Rivers and asked, "You look so depressed, did you encounter something unsatisfactory?"

Rivers already had some drunk at this time. He nodded and murmured, "I'm really a failed coach."

"Why do you say that?" Carter asked.

"The athletes on the team, no one listens to me, no one cares about my existence, I almost ignore them! A head coach, what the athletes say is the ear wind! In the eyes of those athletes, I am probably a Be transparent! Haha, is this not enough to fail? "Rivers said.

Carter sighed slightly: "Coach Rivers, in fact, you are a very good coach, but this time, you shouldn't be here. The national team's hot potato is not something you can take over."

"Why?" Rivers asked.

"Coach Rivers, haven't you thought about why the position of head coach of the national team will eventually fall on your head? Although it is only an agent, do you think you can take this position with your seniority? Or Do you think you were favored by the goddess of luck? "Carter asked solemnly.

"Do you know something?" Rivers' drunkenness sobered three points, and he said earnestly: "Dr. Carter, we have known each other for many years. If you really know something, please tell me I."

"The reason why Tian Xie chose you is because they have no one to use at all." Carter said softly.

"No one available? What do you mean?" Rivers asked.

Carter leaned forward and lowered his voice, saying: "The head coach of the national team has always been a sought-after position ~ www.readwn.com ~ But this time is different, you also saw that the doping scandal As a result, half of the team is still left, and many of the best athletes cannot participate. No matter who becomes the head coach of the national team, they must lead a team of defeated soldiers to the Olympic Games. The result is already doomed. In the Olympic Games, we will fail, and we will fail miserably. "

"We are the world's number one track and field power. Our citizens may be able to accept a less serious failure, but we will never allow a fiasco, so someone must take responsibility. You think the person who bears the responsibility will be Who? Will it be an athlete? Or the head coach? "

"I think you should understand now why the position of head coach of the national team will fall on your head. Because those coaches who are more famous than you, have more seniority than you, and are more capable than you all understand that there is only one left in the national team. It ’s a mess, and you have to bear the responsibility for failure when you take over this mess. The head coach of the most failed national team in the United States has never been a glorious title. This may become a stain that a coach ca n’t wash away for life! "

At this moment, Rivers was fully awake.

"Dr. Carter, thank you for your mention! Thank you so much!" Rivers has made up his mind. When he returns, the first thing is to immediately write a resignation letter and resign from the position of head coach. .