Chapter 2921

If we don't take into account the football league that prevailed in Chang'an City in Tang Dynasty for decades, the FA Cup of England is the longest tournament in the world. The 150 year old competition was celebrated in 2013, and it is the only one in the world.

The FA Cup is also the largest football event in the world. All clubs registered with the Football Association of England can sign up to participate. Professional, semi professional, amateur, even if you are a vegetable market team, you can sign up.

In 2004-05, a total of 660 teams signed up for the FA Cup, a record, but in other years, there are no fewer than 600.

Moreover, there is no seed team in the FA Cup. The draw is completely random, and then one-on-one competition is carried out. Therefore, it is not uncommon for amateur teams in the market to meet Charlton, the king of London, in the FA Cup.

It was a big draw in the early days, but later, because of the busy schedule of high-level competitions, the Premier League and championship teams were exempted from the first two rounds of the preliminary, qualification and regular matches, and let them start from the third round, that is, the top 64.

It is because of the large scale of the competition, the number of matches, the natural base, and the frequency of unexpected events is high. Therefore, the FA Cup has the football spirit.

There are similar Football Association Cup matches in all member countries, but the FA Cup is one of the most dazzling and the most famous "Football Association Cup". Even in the eyes of most English fans, the FA Cup is higher than the Premier League and also higher than the Champions League. As for the Carling Cup, who cares about it.

In the 2016-17 season, there were still a lot of unexpected results in the first few qualifying rounds and the first two rounds of main matches. Several amateur teams below the fourth level made it to the top 64. However, city's luck was not very good. Blue moon ran into the Premier League's "hammers" West Ham United in the draw.

In principle, the whole course of the FA Cup is a decisive match. The difference is that the tie before the semi-final needs to be replayed on another day. However, the semi-final and final match will be decided by extra time and penalty kick after drawing according to the rules of the competition system.

In order to take care of the development of low-level teams, when two teams of different levels meet, the game will be held at the home of the low-level team. If the same level is adopted, it will be decided by drawing lots.

City won not only West Ham, but also away.

At the end of August last year, city beat West Ham 3-1 at home in the third round of the Premier League, when Zhuoyang just joined city.

This year's FA Cup, Guardiola is going to hit hard, he is the kind of perfectionist man who wants to meet every champion, good at mental abuse himself.

In fact, if you think about it, you can only win six games from the top 64 to the championship. It seems that the cup is not far away. But if you calculate carefully, winning a world cup is no more than winning four games after the group is qualified.

Guardiola doesn't care about you, because he's a stubborn old man.

Four days ago, the 6:0 victory over Burnley made Guardiola, who had been criticized by the British media, a lot thicker. Therefore, Gua Shuai, who has been pretending to be gentle and elegant for more than half a year, fiercely met a reporter.

The questions and answers at the front were very normal and procedural. Unexpectedly, when the reporter asked "how do you think Fernando was sent off for a foul" according to the process, Guardiola suddenly burst into depression.

"Ask me what? Ah, why do you ask me His voice is high and sharp, and his body is refined. "I can't comment on the referee. I have to ask the referee, not me."

"This is the Premier League. You are all experts. I am just a pupil. I still need to study hard. You are the experts."

The more perverted you are, the more I like it. The reporters don't like it. The atmosphere becomes active.

"Why do you still look unhappy when you win?"

"I'm very happy, ha ha ~" east hall style dry smile. "You can't believe how happy I am. Ha ha ha ha ha! Happy New Year ~ ~ "

not only to journalists, Guardiola also to coach Fabio Capello.

Fabio Capello, who has been in charge of the England national team for four years, was dismissed in early 2012 and then went to the Russian national team. The results of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 European Championship qualifiers were very mediocre. He terminated his contract early the summer before last, and is currently idle at home.

The 71 year old Capello now occasionally guest stars as a live guest, but has not announced his retirement. He still has plans to re coach the team, but there is no suitable team for the time being.

During the live broadcast of Manchester City's game, Capello talked about Guardiola, slightly dependent on the old.

"I have coached Guardiola as a player and know him well. His ideal is to be president of Barcelona."

Do you mean Guardiola is not fit to be coach?

Barca captain Guardiola, 30, announced his departure in the summer of 2001 and was abducted by Roberto Baggio to Brescia, where he became the centre of Brescia's midfield for a year.

In August 2002, Guardiola felt that he could still dally, so he moved to Rome, where the coach was Capello.Capello has never made good use of technical attacking midfield, Guardiola has only made four substitute appearances in his half season, which is less than 45 minutes.

In winter, big brother Bajo affectionately called: come back, come back, where NIMA loess does not bury silver.

So, during the winter break, Guardiola returned to the warm embrace of Brescia Baggio. However, half a year later, Guardiola failed to pass the drug test of Serie A in the new season, and could only shed tears again. After that, he went back to the Qatar League pension.

In a word, what many people don't know is that before going to Qatar, Guardiola went to Manchester City to try training in the Premier League. However, city only offered him a short-term contract for half a season at that time. Melon felt humiliated and broke up unhappily.

Guardiola is unlikely to have a good opinion of Capello. In his opinion, Capello is obviously playing with garlic when he says so.

"Those who can play under Capello are lucky, and I am no exception. But I want to tell him that I will never be president of Barcelona in the future, because that is Gerald pique's business

"And after coaching Manchester City, I will retire, completely retire and enjoy life. City will be the last team I coach. I won't work until I'm 60 or 65

Capello: who are you talking about?

Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Lippi: who's in the face?

Back Zhuo Yang asked him: "guage, do you really retire after finishing Manchester City? A little rotten

"I think so. How about it? We'll have fun for a few years and retire together. "

"Hey, if I play for another ten or twenty years, I'll see how you hit yourself in the face."

Reporter asked Zhuo Yang: what kind of head coach do you think Guardiola is?

He said: 'Guardiola is a very bad manager because he can do nothing but win and win.