Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

In the second half, although Xavi and Ronaldinho were both absent, the stronger Barcelona team quickly secured the victory.

Barcelona extended the lead in the 49th minute. Deco broke into the right side of the penalty area and passed the ball horizontally. Eto'o followed up from the middle and shot from 12 yards away from the goal, but was saved by Armando...

(Actually, the shot was too straight... Ricardo's grandmother came on this ball, and he could have calmly pushed the ball into the far corner...)

However, Messi regained control of the ball near the right bottom line of the penalty area, and with a feint to get rid of De Quintana who came to defend, he passed the ball back to the middle again. This time Eto'o, who was closer to the goal, shot again from 8 yards on the right side of the penalty area... This time Armando failed to block the ball - there was no way, it was too close and too powerful!

This was Eto'o's 15th league goal this season.

Eto'o is awesome! Come on! Ricardo immediately became a little fan, and then actively warmed up, ready to go on the field at any time to replace the big brothers and fathers on the field to rest...

As expected, in the 60th and 65th minutes, Rijkaard replaced Giuly with Larsson and Iniesta with Li Qi respectively.

Li Qi was very excited to play in the midfield again in the league. He jumped up and down after entering the court. Oh no, he ran actively, defending in the midfield and attacking into the penalty area...

In the 71st minute, Messi passed several people on the right front court and made a straight pass from the middle to the left side of the penalty area. This time it was Eto'o's turn to receive the ball near the baseline and then made a triangle pass back to the middle of the penalty area... Li Qi rushed over and triggered the explosion point before Messi made a shovel shot. He adjusted his posture and angle and shot directly at the ball!

Unfortunately, this volley with excellent angle and speed was blocked by Armando's heroic dive...

Li Qi held his head with both hands, his face full of disbelief: "...Fuck! He can even catch this?! If I had known, I would have held back a little, not shot so hard, and changed the angle..."

In the 73rd minute, Estoyanov tripped Messi in the backcourt and was given a yellow card warning. Deco then took a direct free kick from 28 yards in the middle and hit the wall. The bouncing ball was controlled by Messi again. Messi and Li Qi made a short pass and then passed the ball diagonally to Deco who entered the penalty area... The Portuguese broke into the right side of the penalty area and shot at a small angle, but unfortunately it hit the side net.

In the 75th minute, Messi received a short pass from Li Qi and passed the ball directly to the right side of the penalty area. Larsson received the ball and shot from 13 yards, but it was once again saved by Armando who had already entered the game!

Li Qi's follow-up shot was also blocked by the opponent's defender...

In the 78th minute, Li Qi and Messi worked together in the middle again. After a wall-type cooperation, Li Qi passed the ball directly to the right side of the penalty area. Oleg, who came in from behind, made a shovel shot from 12 yards in front of the goal, but it was blocked by Armando again.

This time it was Larsson's turn to have a chance to make up the score from 10 yards in front of the goal, but unfortunately the shot hit the crossbar and went out of the goal...

In the 80th minute, Esquero replaced Messi.

In the 82nd minute, Barcelona finally opened the door of Cadiz again after a long period of attack: Eto'o dribbled the ball and forced his way into the penalty area on the left side with a triangle pass. Li Qi received the ball at the edge of the penalty area on the left side, faked a shot and passed the ball...

Li Qi, who triggered the "explosion point moment", originally really wanted to shoot, so the action was quite realistic, but in slow motion, he saw two big guys throwing their bodies out to block the shot. Li Qi changed his mind halfway, changed the shot to a pass, and sent the ball into the middle of the penalty area again...

This time, Esquillo, who had just come on the field, successfully made an offside move and rushed to the unattended middle of the penalty area before Larsson. He shot Li Qi's pass into the near corner of the goal from 8 yards in front of the goal. The goalkeeper had no way to deal with this close shot.

Although Cadiz scored a goal in injury time: Estoyanov took a quick free kick, Enrique made a cross from the right side of the penalty area, and Milosaljevic shot the ball into the net from 7 yards on the right side of the penalty area; but it did not affect the overall situation.

Barcelona finally won easily away with a score of 4-1, achieving 12 consecutive victories in all competitions!

Although the game lacked dazzling scenes, the victory in this game still allowed Rijkaard's team to achieve an unprecedented breakthrough in the new record - 12 consecutive wins - the longest winning streak in the history of Barcelona Club was born!

"Record-breaking Barcelona!" AS also sang praises to Real Madrid's arch-rivals after the game, "Surpassing the dream team in history, this Barcelona can rightfully be called the Dream Team 2!"

After the game, Rijkaard was happy about the team's new winning streak record, but he gave all the credit to the players: "I am happy for the players. In order to achieve this record, they have made a lot of hard work... It is very important to withstand the opponent's physical style and pressure. We know how to use the space left by the opponent. I am very happy to go home with a victory..."

The Dutch coach then highlighted Messi, who received warm applause from Cadiz fans when he left the field: "Messi has an unforgettable high level. He once again proved his strength..."

Barcelona vice president Begiristain first praised Giuly for breaking the deadlock on the field: "That attack was perfect, and the goal was even more beautiful..." Originally, Ronaldinho was absent, and the media generally speculated that Messi, Larsson and Eto'o would form a front trident, but Giuly unexpectedly got a chance to play, and the Frenchman did not disappoint the coaching staff's expectations: when the situation on the field was balanced, he scored the first goal to break the deadlock and helped Barcelona change the course of the game.

Marcos was awarded a penalty in the match, but the opponent and Real Madrid media accused him of diving. The Mexican defended himself after the game, saying: "I was dribbling forward and the opponent's defender fell to the ground in front of me. I had to fall down... Now we have to rest as soon as possible and prepare for the last game of the year."

Yes, before Christmas, Barcelona will have one last round of league to play in three days, on December 3th at home against newly promoted Celta!

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However, before the last game before Christmas, there is another big event coming. At 12:19 on December 20th, the FIFA 2005 Annual Awards Ceremony will be held at the Zurich Opera House, and the 2005th "World Footballer of the Year" award for 15 will be presented!

Without any surprise or controversy, Ronaldinho retained the title of FIFA World Player of the Year with a huge advantage, becoming the second player after Ronaldo to win the award consecutively!

Although he is still behind Ronaldo and Zidane who have performed hat tricks in terms of the number of awards...

Since last year, captains of national teams have also had the right to vote for the FIFA World Player of the Year; and last year Ronaldinho was elected FIFA World Player of the Year with 620 points, just less than 70 points ahead of Henry.

However, this year Ronaldinho scored an astonishing 956 points and received 159 first choice votes, winning by an overwhelming margin. Lampard, who ranked second, only received 306 points, Ronaldinho's Barcelona teammate Eto'o ranked third with 190 points, and Henry ranked only fourth with 4 points.

This year, Ronaldinho won three individual awards including FIFA's World Footballer of the Year, France Football's Ballon d'Or and the Players' World Player of the Year. He is the eighth player to win both the Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year in the same year since FIFA established the World Footballer of the Year award in 3.

However, to date, the eight double winners are Van Basten in 8, Baggio in 1992, Weah in 1993, Ronaldo in 1995, Zidane in 1997, Rivaldo in 1998, Ronaldo in 1999 and Ronaldinho this year (2002).

Ronaldinho's performance this year can be described as perfect. First of all, he won three championships: the 04/05 La Liga championship, the Spanish Super Cup championship and the Confederations Cup championship.

In terms of club, he played 32 La Liga matches for Barcelona, ​​scoring 15 goals, with a goal rate no lower than a pure No. 9. He is currently ranked second in the La Liga scorer list with 10 goals, only 5 less than his teammate Eto'o. He played 7 games in the Champions League and scored 7 goals; in the national team competitions, Ronaldinho played 12 games and scored 6 goals: In a total of 53 games, Ronaldinho scored a total of 29 goals.

No wonder Brazil national team coach Pereira said: "In Brazil's frontcourt offensive combination, the only one who cannot be missing is Ronaldinho."

In an online poll on "Who do you think is the most indispensable player for Barcelona", 97% of Barcelona fans directly chose Ronaldinho.

Xiao Luo’s dad is Diao!

However, Ricardo also knows that these two years are the peak of Ronaldinho's career and competitive state. Even from the next season, Ronaldinho's competitive state will begin to decline at a light speed...

And before long he will be forced to leave the Apennine Peninsula and give way to the new king...

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On the day when Ronaldinho's father won the award, Ricardo also learned that his Christmas vacation at the club had arrived early, although there is still the last round of the La Liga this year, the 17th round, in which Barcelona will face newly promoted Celta at the Camp Nou; but Ricardo's name was not included in the list of players announced by Rijkaard today. Motta will replace Ricardo on the bench after recovering from injury and serve as the team's mascot...

Well, it can be considered that Rijkaard understands that Ricardo is frantically catching up on the final exam schedule for the autumn semester at school this week.

Although Ricardo only has two courses this semester, his main task is to help the professor optimize and improve the demo version of the database analysis software that he had submitted to the professor and to write a paper that can be published in SCI or core journals again; but I didn't expect that Ricardo would have to participate in national team competitions this season and repeatedly enter the competition list due to injuries. More importantly, his good time and energy were wasted on Chiara's belly...

So near the end of the semester, Professor Almiron was rather dissatisfied with Ricardo's progress.

Fortunately, I have submitted the optimized and debugged version V2.0 of the database analysis software to the professor again during the day today; and we have also reached a consensus on the progress of the thesis: the third revision of the thesis must be completed before Christmas, and then the credits for courses taken during the Christmas holidays will be used to design and collect the experimental and research data required for the thesis.

Who made Ricardo plagiarize this paper? Oh no, this paper is from 10 years later? The data, parameters and market conditions in 10 years will be very different from the data, parameters and market conditions that we can grasp now...

Therefore, Ricardo's paper structure had to be greatly changed, and the data and market parameters that could be purchased in the future for a fee had to be redesigned to be obtained through experiments and research methods...

Fortunately, Mr. Li Qi still has his doctoral foundation, and if he works hard, he can still achieve results!

So these two days, when Rijkaard found Ricardo still studying on the computer before the training session, he decisively excluded him from the final round of the roster. Anyway, one less person on the bench is not a big deal, so let him take a holiday early to concentrate on studying. After all, he is still a child...

Oh, the training session still has to come. After all, everyone should have the same holiday to be fair.

Ricardo: o(╥﹏╥)o

"We can't afford to hurt children who are still studying!"

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At 12 p.m. on December 20, the earliest match of the 21th round of the Spanish Football League kicked off, with Barcelona playing at home against the newly promoted dark horse Celta.

As a newly promoted team, Celta has performed quite well this season, ranking 8th in the standings behind Valencia and Sevilla.

This game is also the last league game for the two teams before Christmas and the winter break.

In this game, Rijkaard almost copied the lineup of the previous round of the league, only replacing Van Bronckhorst with Sylvinho.

Ricardo also watched the game on TV at home. He saw Ronaldinho, Eto'o and young player Messi showing the FIFA World Player of the Year Ballon d'Or, Bronze Ball and European Footballer of the Year Ballon d'Or to the audience before the game: "Hey, Messi is Ronaldinho's father's follower. He is so cute to help hold the trophy. He looks a bit like Sanmao... so interesting..."

"Oh... No, I feel a little jealous. I'm so envious! I also want to win the Golden Globe... I can even help others win it..."

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Back to the game, at the beginning of the game, it was visibly noticeable that Eto'o was in very good shape. He made consecutive breakthroughs and powerful shots, but unfortunately they were all blocked by the goalkeeper.

Maybe after the last game, some media helped Eto'o to count the historical data and found that Eto'o was the player with the most goals in La Liga in 2005 and the entire 21st century: in mid-2005, Eto'o scored a total of 27 goals, 6 more than Forlan and Ronaldo; in the entire 21st century, Eto'o's total number of goals was 88, followed by Raul (79), Ronaldo (76), Tristan (73) and Tamudo (69).

It seems that the Cameroon Leopard wants to add icing on the cake in this game, lay a solid foundation, and consolidate his title of the top scorer in La Liga in the 21st century!

Eto'o, who was in great form, tried to score in the 6th, 7th and 9th minutes; it was not until around the 15th minute that the protagonist of the game was snatched back by another master in great form - Ronaldinho.

After Celta missed an opportunity to score an empty goal at the far post in the 12th minute of the game, Ronaldinho's father tried a long-range lob shot from a free kick in the 15th minute. His idea and skills were extremely amazing, but unfortunately he was still focused or the ball was shot by Eto'o. Oh, no, it was the goalkeeper Esteban who made the save.

After that, Esteban continued his brilliant performance, blocking high and low shots, constantly rejecting Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Messi and Deco's attempts to score... until the 38th minute of the game...

In the 38th minute of the game, Ronaldinho's father quickly took a free kick from the left and passed it into the left side of the penalty area. Cheetah Eto'o successfully grabbed the ball at the front point and shot a small-angle arc ball from 10 yards in front of the goal and hit the far corner!

Eto'o's father was in better form. After many attempts, he finally shot the ball into the net. This was his 16th league goal this season.

Then, before the end of the first half, there was a dramatic scene. Yes, it was just a drama, no sex…

In the 43rd minute, Angel Lopez suddenly fell to the ground with his face covered while defending Ronaldinho, and complained to the referee that Ronaldinho deliberately elbowed him while protecting the ball... But the slow-motion replay on TV showed that the Brazilian's left elbow did not hit Angel Lopez's face at all, but only slightly pushed Lopez's chest... and the latter's dramatic fake fall was too exaggerated, which immediately caused boos from the fans on the scene.

Really, fake a fall in front of a bunch of movie stars from the famous La Masia Film and Television Academy?!

Isn't this like showing off an axe in front of Lu Ban, showing off a sword in front of Guan Gong, discussing herbal medicine in front of Hua Tuo, selling "The Analects" in front of Confucius, and a beggar comparing treasures with the Dragon King...?

It's really ridiculous...