Chapter 877

This year, the Premier League's Christmas schedule is obviously worse than last year's.

From December 26 to January 6, we have to play four rounds of the Premier League for 11 days. More importantly, we have to play another FA Cup game on the 8th, five games in 13 days. This is a test for any team.

Fortunately, the opponents Manchester City met in this period of competition are not strong, which also makes Gao Han determined to carry out the rotation in the end, because even the iron players can not play so many games in a short time.

On December 26, Manchester City beat Newcastle 3-1 in the 19th round of the Premier League.

Manchester City beat Aston Villa 4-0 at home on December 28.

On January 1, 2011, Manchester City ushered in a massacre at the city stadium, with a 7-0 defeat of Blackpool. Cristiano Ronaldo put on a big four. He not only won the league's top scorer list, but also launched the last sprint for the upcoming FIFA golden ball award.

On January 6, in the 22nd round of the Premier League, Manchester City went south to London and beat Arsenal 1-0 away. The Portuguese scored the winning goal, which made Cristiano Ronaldo's call for the FIFA golden ball award more and more high.

Two days later, in the third round of the FA Cup, Manchester City played as a full substitute, beating Ipswich 7-0 away from home. Young player Harry Kane got the first start and scored two goals. Gareth bell also scored two goals. Manchester City performed brilliantly and won full applause.

It is also in this period of disastrous Christmas schedule that Ferguson's team also performed well. The Scottish manager has unparalleled experience in the Premier League's winter break schedule, so he led Manchester United to bumps and bumps all the way, but in the end, he kept the winter break schedule unbeaten with three wins and one draw in four rounds.

This also allows Manchester United to quickly open the gap with Chelsea, in the League second identity to catch up with Manchester City.

Relatively speaking, the situation of Chelsea is worse. Scolari's position has been questioned. Coupled with the intensive schedule during the winter break, the blues first lost 3-1 away to Arsenal, then drew 3-3 at home to Aston Villa, and finally lost 1-0 away to wolves.

Although Bolton beat Bolton one-to-zero at home, the record of one win, one draw and two losses in four matches, not to mention with Manchester City, even compared with Manchester United, it is a full six points gap. The ranking immediately dropped from the original second place in the League to the fourth place in the league, only four points more than Tottenham Hotspur, which is the fifth place in the league. The situation is not safe.

Arsenal's winter break schedule is two wins, one draw and one loss in four games. The points of the two teams are the same, but the Gunners take the lead with the advantage of goal difference. And the biggest harvest of Arsene Wenger in the winter break is van Persie.

As soon as the Dutch striker came back from injury, he immediately became the number one weapon on Arsenal's attack line, showing a proud goal state.

As for the Red Army, the situation of Liverpool is also worrying. With one win and three losses in four games, the ranking has dropped to the 10th place in the league. The coach Hodgson is over and the famous player Dalglish is on the stage. After playing the 22nd round, Liverpool can't wait to announce that they will introduce local center Carroll from Newcastle with a bid price of 45 million euros.

Now everyone is waiting to see if didaglish and Carroll can save the fate of Liverpool.

According to the original plan, Gao did not plan to participate in the FIFA's Annual Awards Conference in Zurich, because after playing the FA Cup on January 8, the semi-final of the Carling Cup was held on January 12, with hammers helping West Ham.

However, at the end of December, FIFA specially sent an invitation letter and called to invite him. It turned out that he was not only the shortlisted candidate for the best coach of the year, but also the awarding guest of the first FIFA golden ball award winner.

"Why me?" Gao Han asked in bewilderment on the phone.

"Because both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have played under you

This explanation... Is really hard to refuse.

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The annual FIFA awards conference can be called Lawrence of international football, especially after this year's merger with the golden ball award of French football magazine, it has become the only awards event in the world football.

As the first event, FIFA, the organizer of the event, naturally made full preparations. It not only invited all the shortlisted candidates to attend, but also organized all kinds of events. The most interesting one was the coaches' Forum.

Just as the name suggests, this is a warm-up forum arranged before the award ceremony, attended by the top six coaches who are shortlisted in the best coach list of the year, including World Cup champion Bosque, Champions League champion Guardiola, Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, German national team coach LEV, Manchester United coach Ferguson and Manchester City coach Gao Han.

It's rare for the six coaches to get together. Naturally, the topic of discussion is closely related to football. One of the most important links is the result of the selection of the best team of the year which has been announced in advance.

The goalkeeper is Casillas, the back line is Puyol, pique, Harvey Martinez and Mascherano, the midfield players are Iniesta, Sneijder and Harvey, and the front Trident is Cristiano Ronaldo, villa and Messi.

Obviously, this list not only considers the performance of the players on the court, but also their transcripts.

Spain and Barcelona won the world cup and the Champions League respectively, which naturally made the international players of these two teams more popular. Spain, in particular, won seven of the 11 seats, which is quite rare.

But there is also a doubt, that is, in the selection of the best team, right back and centre half Puyol were arranged in the left back, which is also a very surprising place.

The organizer's explanation is that in the past year, there was a lack of the most convincing candidate for the position of left back, but Puyol of right back was quite brilliant, and Manchester City's right centre back Mascherano was also amazing, so it was a deliberate choice for them to be selected at the same time.

This interesting phenomenon naturally became the focus topic of the coach forum.

When asked, Guardiola said that today's full back is no longer just a defensive player, but plays a more and more important role in the attack. On the right, there are outstanding players like Maicon, Alves and ram, but they are very scarce in the left back.

"In the past year, it's clear that no left back's performance has been convincing

Chelsea's Ashley Cole's state has declined a lot. Coupled with the divorce scandal, his reputation has been discredited and his state has been seriously affected, making it difficult for him to take up this role.

Evra of Inter Milan and Marcello of Bayern Munich are the top left backs in football today, but in the past season, they have not come up with convincing form and results, so they are difficult to be selected into the best team.

In terms of results, the best match is Spain's left back Capdevila, but the 33 year old is far from satisfactory in terms of the club.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are more general in the configuration of left back, Manchester City has no left back role at all, which makes the selection of left back a headache in the past year.

As the head coach of the national team, Bosque also admitted that the left back is really short of manpower, but he is not worried about it.

"Spain has a very strong talent pool in this aspect. For example, in Chinatown, right back cavalhall and left back Alba are the focus of the national team at present. Alba has also been selected into the national team. I think they all have the strength and potential to establish themselves in the national team in the future."

Gao also agrees with Bosque that the shortage of full backs is only temporary. At the same time, he also defends Evra and Marcello, the two favorite players. He thinks that they just have some ups and downs in their performance and will get back to their form soon.

Guardiola also agrees with Bosque's point of view, and he joked with Gao Han intentionally or unintentionally that Barcelona are paying close attention to the young players of cavalhall and alba. The former is only 19 years old and has always performed well in the competition with Danilo, while the latter alba is 21 years old and has made great progress in Chinatown.

"He came from our youth training camp in Barcelona."

Guardiola's words made all the media reporters cheer. Is this the rhythm of China city?

Alpine's response to this is just a faint smile, "they are not for sale!"

As soon as the words came out, the audience burst into laughter.

As we all know, the non-sale products in Chinatown are not real ones. It depends on whether your bid is not high enough.

After teasing the reporters, the two old friends winked at each other and laughed tacitly.

At the last session of the forum, when they evaluated each other who was most likely to win the prize, it was surprising that Gao Han got five of the six votes present.

"If I'm not wrong, the only one who didn't vote for Mr. Gao Han is your own vote, right?"

When the reporter asked questions, Gao Han gave an embarrassed smile, which was regarded as acquiescence. He chose Bosque.

"I'm good friends with Aragones and Bosque. I know them very well. It's very difficult for Aragones to lead the team to win the European Cup. But I also know that Bosque can lead the team to win the world cup and continue the glory of the Spanish national team. It's also very difficult."

However, alpine also reminded boske to be careful of love in his final comments.

"Loew and I are also very close friends, so I know that he is a very, very vigilant person. The German team he teaches is still growing and improving rapidly. I think Loew's German team will be the strongest team in the European Cup one year later, the world cup three years later, and even longer

Loew expressed his gratitude for the praise from alpine, and also affirmed that alpine has given him great help and encouragement, saying that alpine is the number one coach in the world in his mind.

And has always been seen as a bitter grudge with the cold, this time is also rare to vote for the cold, the Portuguese Madman's answer is also very domineering.

"There is no doubt that he is the best coach in the past year, but now it's 2011. I choose him as the coach of the year in order to defeat him in the next year."

Such a face-to-face provocation, alpine in addition to a wry smile, always do not know how to deal with.

It's impossible for him to say, please, don't challenge me, OK?

What's more, it's just the vote of six coaches at the coach's forum. Whether they can be elected or not depends on the final number of votes counted by FIFA.