纽约宇宙队和两个Johan的故事
重温第一段笑成猪叫(=^ω^=)
来自于Gavin Newsham的《Cosmos: Once in a Lifetime》。
有一段是写宇宙队高层怎么追克圣的。内有当年人士的血泪吐槽——
“他开了一个养猪场，养了五千头猪。转会合同里有个条款是我们得把那养猪场买下来，我不得不带上一个会计去那里一头一头数猪。他还有个养兔子的农场，于是我们还得去看兔子是怎么繁殖的。”
There had been talk of the Dutchman joining the Cosmos even when Pele was still playing for the team, but now, as Cruyff contemplated his future after a successful spell with Barcelona, he agreed to visit New York to discuss the idea of a move. This time, however, the American press was calling it 'a negotiating breakthrough'.
That Cruyff was prepared to negotiate at all was largely down to Rafael de la Sierra's persistence. The Warner vice president had flown to Spain to meet with Cruyff and moot the idea of a move Stateside. With Pele's legacy and the presence of one of his old adversaries, Franz Beckenbauer, on the team, de la Sierra was now in a position where no real sales pitch was needed. But like Pele before him, de la Sierra found a player immersed in all manner of commercial ventures. 'He owned like five different businesses in Barcelona. He had an art gallery, he had a transport business, an export—import business,' recalls de la Sierra. 'He had 5,000 pigs in a farm and part of the deal that we had was to buy that for him to be able to go with us so I had to go to the pig farm with an accountant to count the 5,000 pigs they had there. He also had a rabbit farm and we had to go to see how those rabbits reproduce.'然后呢追追追眼看就要追到了之后就……功亏一篑了。作者的说法是宇宙队被狂批说你们这花钱如流水真要成宇宙队了栓狗冠有什么意思克鲁伊夫再来了真没法玩了。 于是宇宙队怂了，而克圣到洛杉矶找米爹去了。
After the series ended, it was widely assumed that the thirty-one-year -old would sign full time for the Cosmos, but the deal never happened. Wary of criticism that the Cosmos was not only spending its way to success but in danger of making the NASL a pointless procession, the club backtracked on the move to sign Cruyff and the Dutchman eventually opted to join his former coach, Rinus Michels, at the Los Angeles Aztecs. Rafael de la Sierra, bhowever, remembers it differently. 'We brought him [Cruyff] to new York and then we gave him to Los Angeles to create more competition in the league,' he admits.
不过说实话，我对这位作者的考古严谨性……存疑。因为他给的这个理由我在别的地方都没看过（虽然我承认我对宇宙队的考古并不多），而我在某个严肃来源看到过分析说是宇宙队在亲身体会到克圣是个唯我独尊的深井冰之后担心他在队里撕X（当然不是说和贝皇，是说和队长基纳利亚），所以大腿一拍说这个Johan太高调了不好，我们从巴萨挖另一个Johan吧那个Johan低调得很还年轻好几岁合算呐……于是就有了内斯肯斯在宇宙队的故事。也是内斯肯斯，去年在接受采访的时候被问“听说你们宇宙队当年很会玩啊！听说你们在飞机上也打炮啊！”（就是同一本书里面爆出来的料）对此内斯肯斯=0=了表示没有没有这个真没有，这作者乱写呢……
……虽然我看到之后的第一反应是“也许是人家打了炮不告诉你这个小透明呢！也许正好就是你迟到没赶上飞机那次呢！”所谓粉不如黑……
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