这篇英文短文为复习unit 3book3的重点词汇。
“I was well paid and I take the full responsibility. I am now announcing my resignation and I will be no longer the coach of Team China,” Marcello Lippi said to the reporters at the post-match press conference.
The Chinese Football Association accepted Marcello Lippi’s resignation as China coach after his team lost to Syria 2-1 in a 2022 World Cup qualifier.
No one expected that Lippi would announce his resignation in such a manner as no sign of it could be seen before the match. The scene where Lippi dragged his suitcase to the airport at dusk impressed all the football fans. Lippi was spotted by some fans and they took some photos of the legendary Italian coach and posted them on the Internet.
It seems that he was out of patience with the Team China as well as the fans. His shock decision showed that. The 71-year-old said:”I don’t want to comment on the match. A team should try its best to execute their coach’s directions.” His disappointment was obvious.
Fans online greeted China’s latest 90-minute nightmare with a mixture of anger and despair, with topics related to Lippi’s resignation alone viewed over 690 million times on Weibo Friday morning. The amount of posts are hard to count.
“Team China is not dead yet, but what is the value of the squad now? What’s the value of the coach that we hired by paying 23 million euros?,” Han wrote on Weibo.
“Maybe Lippi himself cannot answer the question, so the only thing he can do is to resign.”
There is no doubt that football team seeks for goals and Team China is no exception. it’s easy to find fault with the team, but what accounts for the failure to reach its World Cup finals has not yet been known.
“The CFA will reflect seriously to rebuild the team , and try our best in the following World Cup qualifiers,” said CFA.
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