Chapter 83: Life Without Football

After the training, Van Nistrui did not go to the parking lot after the shower and changing clothes in the locker room, where there might be some infatuated fans waiting for his signature. He walked straight outside the head coach's office and knocked on the door.

After training, players can take a shower and change their clothes and go home, but the coaches often have to come together and give Tang En the report on today's training so that the head coach can grasp the team's situation as soon as possible.

Now Tang En was looking at these reports. He heard the knock on the door and thought it was Tang. He didn't raise his head, but just said, "The door is not closed, you just come in."

Van Nystruey pushed the door and shouted, "Boss."

Don Eun looked up and found it was Fanny, and he was a little surprised: "Is there anything wrong, Luther?"

Van Nistrui nodded: "Well. I have thought about something for a long time, and I think it's better to tell you, boss."

Tang En put down the training report in his hand and looked at it with a scrupulous look.

"My contract with the club will not expire until June 30, 2012, right?"

Tang En nodded: "Yes. If you perform stably, I plan to renew your contract for another year..."

Van Nystruey shook his head: "No, boss. I decided to retire after playing this season."

Tang En could feel his body jumping while sitting in the chair. He thought he had heard it wrong: "What did you say?"

"I mean I retired after playing this season, boss." Van Nistroy had to repeat it again.

Tang En really wanted to ask again loudly. This time it was definitely not because he thought he had heard it wrong, but because of the impulse caused by three emotions of disappointment, anger, and surprise.

But he stood up and abandoned the idea.

"Today is not April Fool's Day, Luther." He smiled, smiling a little reluctantly.

"I'm not kidding. Boss."

"Your body has recovered well, and I can't think of any reason to announce your retirement in advance."

"It just looks good on the surface, boss. And retiring at the age of 35 is not considered early."

"If your injury has not healed yet, I can continue to let you recover. I am not in a hurry, you don't have to worry..."

Van Nistrui laughed: "I'm worried about this, boss. I'm a professional player. I'm not the kind of person who sits on the bench, on the stands, and is on the injury list, and can't play in a game and get a salary. I've missed a whole season and a half. If I'm still absent, I might as well announce my retirement now."

"Hey, Luther." Don't speak a little bit more severely, "I'll leave you for more than a season before, just hope you can play longer in the future."

"Boss. Why does a 34-year-old striker want to play longer?"

Van Nystruey's rhetoric question stopped Donn.

Yes, thirty-four years old, basically one season is counted as one season, and you may suffer injuries or retire at any time. Why do he still want to ask Fanny to play until he is thirty-six or thirty-seven?

"Hey. Luther. If I say I don't want you to retire, I want you to keep playing, do you believe it?"

Van Nistruy smiled and didn't answer. Obviously he didn't believe it. This is not like something a head coach can say.

Tang En also laughed and regarded this as a joke.

"I think your experience can help the team."

Van Nistruy believed this explanation, but he shook his head: "It's not just me who has experience. The Gypsy is very good. Before transferring to the Forests, I just wanted to prove to Ferguson how big a mistake he asked me to leave, but I never thought that there would be those championships in the future... Now I don't want to prove to anyone anything. I've taken everything I should take, and my career is perfect. To be honest, boss... I have no motivation to continue playing. And you hate people who have no motivation to play the most. Right?"

Van Nystruey stood in front of Tony Donn, smiling a little lazy in the afternoon sun.

Tang En opened his mouth and wanted to say something.

"I no longer need to use honor to spur myself. If I lack the sense of honor, I will continue to stay in the Forest team, I think it is unwise to retire and give the opportunity and position to younger people."

"Did you decide this because I bought Ibissevich?"

"No. I thought so seriously when I was still lying in a hospital bed in an American hospital. Don't you think this is a way to help clubs reduce their financial burden?" he smiled.

Don't laughed, he looked at Van Nistroy with a stern face and seriousness.

"Anyway. I have decided. Boss. I won't play another season. I want to spend more time with my family in the future. Boss, you are also a married person. Can you understand my mood? Playing football or doing anything, it's all for making money. No matter how much money you make, it's just to have time to be with your family. I think I'm now at this last stage."

Van Nistruy always had a smile on her face.

Tang En knew that he could not speak the Dutchman. Retirement is one of the most important decisions in a professional player's life. He was able to say this, which means he had been thinking about it for a long time. This kind of consideration will not be easily affected by others.

He sighed, a little depressed.

"I think I'm very failed, Luther. Whether it's you, Demi, or David... I have advised you to change your mind, but I have never succeeded. You never let me do it..."

Van Nystruey smiled and didn't take Tang En's words. He knew that Tang En had actually agreed in his heart, but this strong man was unwilling to accept it happily.

"Can I ask what you plan to do after you retire?"

"Go home, go home in the Netherlands, and accompany your wife and children."

When Tang En heard him say this, he suddenly felt like a "landlord". He smiled and said, "The weather is good, just lie in the yard and bask in the sun?"

"Maybe it's going to plant flowers, teach your children to play football, accompany your wife to go shopping, travel around..." Van Nistrui also laughed. Life in retirement is very attractive to him. He finally doesn't have to think about training every day anymore. Thinking about the game, thinking about how to stay in shape, thinking about fighting with others in ninety minutes... The record of the most goals scored by active Premier League players, and the second most goals scored in the history of the Champions League, these halos will be far away from him, but he doesn't care.

"What a life that is enviable..."

Tang En sighed, put away the report on the table, and walked towards Fanny: "Let's go, go home."

Watching Van Nistruy drive the car out of Wilford's gate. Donn is leaning against the front of the Mercedes-Benz jeep that Shania gave him. The weather is good today, and the Nottingham area is shining with sunshine. Although it is a bit hot, it is better than raining all day long.

He suddenly wanted to bask in the sun in this fierce sunshine.

He never thought about how to live his life after leaving football. The first thing he did when he opened his eyes every day was not to consider the training content and the next round of matches. He just sat in the sun and sunbathed in most of the day, and had sex with his children, and then it was night.

He felt that he would have to be very old before he would come here.

The cell phone in my pocket rang.

"Hey, Uncle Tony!" Shania's voice jumped out impatiently when Tang En just answered the phone.

"Ha.  Shaniya."

"Are you practicing two days a day today?"

"Uh, no. What's wrong?"

"I'll wait for you until lunch is going to cool!" Xianya was very angry.

Tang En then raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and found that it was already over one o'clock...

"Ahhh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Xianya! I'm dealing with something here, I'm forgot, I'll come out right away..." Tang En hurriedly opened the car door and drilled in.

Fanny is right. He is also a family member, and he can feel this feeling of wanting to be with his family.

"I'm dead, Shania. I promise..."

Shania interrupted him: "Drive slowly, don't be careful of something happening in a hurry. I'm just a little worried, seeing that you haven't come back yet. Now, it's okay, you can drive slowly."

Tang En opened his mouth but said nothing.

"See you later, Uncle Tony." Shania's mood improved significantly. She kissed the other side of the phone and hung up the phone.

Tang En was still holding his cell phone and maintaining the posture of getting on the car just now.

——Why is playing football?

——For the sake of making money.

——Why is making money?

——In order to have time to be with your family.

——But in order to make money, I don’t have time to be with my family.

--this……

Players can play until they are thirty-four and choose to retire at the age of five. They still have most of their lives to accompany their beloved. Where is the head coach? Ferguson is still in the position of Manchester United manager at the age of seventy...

Former Liverpool coach Hollier was the busiest time, and he only went home twice a year, one on his wife's birthday and one on Christmas. He stayed in the hotel and was with the team all the other time.

The English team land coach is the highest annually paid coach position in the world. It is also a "hot commodity" in the eyes of many people. But in fact, many English head coaches stay away from this position. In addition to the pressure beyond ordinary people's imagination, it is the fact that being an English head coach is more busy than a club head coach - an English national team head coach can be comparable to the busyness of the head of state. As a club head coach, you will have some time of your own every day. As long as this person is good at making reasonable use and allocating. However, as an English head coach, you must stick to your post twenty-four hours a day.

Tang En thought he was lucky, with helpers like Don and Chris Lak, who could help him solve specific problems, so he could share the world of two with Shania. If he was the head coach who was always in charge of things, he wouldn't even have time to talk about love with Shania. But despite this, when he was busy, Shania would retreat to an inconspicuous little corner in his life. He knew that he had neglected Shania sometimes. Especially when leading the team to play away games or double games a week, in order to facilitate management of the team, to facilitate research on tactics and work with colleagues, he lived in a hotel. Even if he was in Nottingham.

It would be great if Shania was busy outside the city. If Shania returned to Nottingham, there would be only a dark and deserted house waiting for her.

At these times, he would be filled with guilt, but he was just guilty. He could not leave his job and accompany his wife, and he could not even make more calls. The players only had to consider the training ground and the field of the game. The head coach needed to consider ten times more things than this place. As long as he was free, Tang En's mind was always thinking about things like this, like a perpetual motion machine that would not stop running.

Sometimes even if he is with Shania, he will show an absent-minded side. Shania is very angry with him for this.

There is no blushing in the life of a couple. Shania and Tony were both very strong-witted people. But every time they quarrel, Tang En almost gave in to Shania. As long as Shania was angry, he would immediately feel soft. Anyway, he could be hard on the bed... Just like the phone call just now.

Because he knew. Shania was actually a very sensible girl. She was unhappy because she didn't care enough about her - her mind was always on football, and it has been like this since they first met. Shania was jealous and ate very secretly when her relationship was unclear. Now she ate openly.

Of course, he couldn't give up this job, so he could only take the initiative to admit his mistakes and surrender every time Xianya was unhappy. A man can bend and stretch. What's the big deal!

The reason why Van Nistruy wants to retire was touched by him today, and he also wanted to live such a life. He didn't have to think about anything or worry about it, just be with his family. Even if he basked in the sun in the summer, he felt quite satisfied.

He began to think seriously - when would he choose to retire?

Shania waited for Tang En to come back at home. She was about to turn around and take the cold food into the microwave to heat it up. But Tang En hugged her from behind.

"Hey, Uncle Tony?" Shania could feel Tang En's nose rubbing against the back of her neck. She was a little surprised by Tang En's sudden intimate behavior.

"Do you have any arrangements in the afternoon?" Tang En asked, burying his face on Xianya's shoulder.

"I don't. "
To be continued...