Super Coach

In Madrid, when it comes to the Ritz Hotel, almost no one will say that they don’t know it, because it is known as the best hotel in Madrid. It is a place that no diners can ignore, and it is also a gathering place for countless dignitaries.

Yang Cheng is different from others. He doesn't like to dine at the Ritz Hotel because it is most famous for Spanish food, and Spanish food is often accompanied by a lot of garlic. He is really not used to the taste, so Except for necessary gatherings or invitations, he rarely comes here to dine.

Marca, on the other hand, likes to hold last season's awards night at the Ritz Hotel every year. Since Marca is the largest sports daily in Spain, coupled with the fairness and authority of this selection, Everyone calls Marca's Season of the Season selection the Spanish Oscars.

As a media close to Real Madrid, Marca's award settings are very much in the style of Real Madrid. For example, the Zamora Award for the best goalkeeper of the season is named after Real Madrid's legendary goalkeeper Zamora. The league mvp is called Di Stefano. Award, no need to say more, Real Madrid fans all know who Di Stefano is.

In addition, like the best coach of the season, the name of the award is Muñoz. He is the greatest coach in the history of Real Madrid.

The name of the Pizzi Award for the league's top scorer comes from the legendary striker Rafael Moreno of Athletic Bilbao. His nickname is Pizzi, while the best local scorer of the season is called Sala. Award, Sala is currently the top scorer in La Liga history.

It is not difficult to see from this series of naming that Marca’s selection is more about authority. Among them, the Pizzi Award for the best scorer has been more than half a year since its inception. Century, it has been issued since 1953 and has a long history.

It can be said that in Spain, there is currently no award that can compete with Marca's Best of the Year.

Although it is known as the Oscars of La Liga, in fact Marca's awards ceremony was very pure. Except for some media and reporters, the attendees were basically representatives of each team, and Real Madrid, as a special guest, was Florentino and Yang Cheng led the team, and all the major stars gathered in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel.

Although everyone fights to the death on the football field and wants to hack each other to death, on this occasion, everyone is polite, and Florentino is sitting next to Laporta in the chairman's seat. The first one in the row, and next to Laporta is Atletico Madrid president Cerezo.

The president of Atletico Madrid looked a little embarrassed. After all, his team had just lost 1:6 at Camp Nou. This made him more or less a little nervous when he met Laporta and Florentino. Feeling ashamed, who made his team lose so miserably?

Wait until all the guests have arrived,

The award ceremony also began.

First of all, some small awards were given out, such as the best in the Spanish League. So it has nothing to do with Real Madrid.

The Pizzi Award for the best scorer and the Sala Award for the local shooter are also the least suspenseful. Villa Adam won these two awards without hesitation. At the same time, he also won the Marca because the Spanish national team won the European Cup. The top scorer in the additional special award, Real Madrid's leading forward won three awards at once.

Casillas cannot escape the Zamora Award for the best goalkeeper. Real Madrid was the team that conceded the fewest goals in La Liga last season. Casillas performed well and won the Zamora Award without any doubt. At the same time, he Also scooped up the best goalkeeper in the special award to thank the captain of the Spanish national team for his outstanding performance in the European Cup.

The Gurucheta Award for the best referee was awarded to Meglia=Davila.

If the only suspenseful aspect of this award night is the season's best mvp Di Stefano Award and the best coach Munoz Award, these two awards are selected taking into account the performance of the entire season. .

Yang Cheng did not win the prize in his first season in La Liga, because Pellegrini of Villarreal won the award with a slight advantage. Everyone felt that this small club in Valencia was the best player in Chile. Under the leadership of Engineer, the performance was amazing, especially in the 06407 season, so Pellegrini won the best coach of the season.

Yang Cheng, who no longer needs to rely on awards to prove himself, gave Pellegrini heartfelt congratulations at that time, winning the respect and admiration of the Chilean engineer, and the relationship between the two has always remained good.

This season is undoubtedly another competition between the two, because last season Villarreal scooped second place in the league, even surpassing Barcelona. This honor alone is enough to make Pellegrini become Yang Cheng's biggest rival.

Frankly speaking, I don't think you have much hope! Benitez said with a smile beside Yang Cheng.

Paul Bayer also nodded, Usually this kind of award is given more to the head coach who leads the weak team to achieve results. When you lead Real Madrid, there are too many stars, which covers up your talent and performance.

Yang Cheng was dumbfounded, Are you praising me? Or are you hurting me?

Both! they both replied, followed by a burst of laughter.

Eduardo Inda, the editor-in-chief of Marca, served as the guest of honor for the Munoz Award. He walked up to the front desk and stood in front of everyone. For a while, the group of reporters at the end of the conference hall suddenly shone. Spotlight.

This year's Munoz Award is the least controversial! Yingda approached the microphone and said with a smile, but it is also the most contradictory, because we found that there was a lot of controversy during the selection, almost All La Liga captains and coaches voted for Real Madrid’s head coach, Mr. Yang Cheng, when selecting the best coach!”

Wow!!!

Suddenly, there was a burst of surprise in the entire conference hall, followed by a thunderous applause, which seemed louder and deafening in the sealed conference hall.

After finally calming down the applause, Yingda smiled and said, Only one vote was for someone else. We should all be able to guess who this vote came from!

As soon as these words came out, the audience burst into applause again. Everyone could guess that this vote must come from Yang Cheng, because Rijkaard, who had the deepest grievance with Yang Cheng and had already left Barcelona, ​​was interviewed by the media before. He also said that he voted for Yang Cheng.

The latter smiled, acquiescing, and voted for Legrini.

Our contradiction is that Real Madrid's advantage is too obvious. Mr. Yang Cheng's transformation of Real Madrid and his tactical innovations have brought us great inspiration. The football he promoted at Real Madrid has been a great inspiration, Zeng Fo told One thing we have learned is that football is not just about possession of the ball. Don’t you believe it? Look at Real Madrid!!”

Yingda's words once again received a burst of warm applause, and Florentino also received congratulations and congratulations from the people around him.

But Villarreal's performance was indeed very good. Pellegrini brought the Yellow Submarine to where it is today. We should definitely give him a thumbs up and recognize him, but it is a pity that Pellegrini Mr. Greene, you are unlucky to have met Mr. Yang Cheng!

Everyone burst into laughter, and Pellegrini himself smiled and shook his head, saying that he didn't mind at all.

Finally, I announce that the winner of the 2007 Munoz Award is Yang Cheng!

Following Yingda's finger, a burst of warm applause erupted in the venue. Yang Cheng stood up, without celebrating, with a calm smile, walked up to the front desk, and took the chair from Yingda's hand. The most conspicuous thing on the trophy is the row of red Marca’s English letters.

I have always complained to Eduardo, especially last season, that they have a bias against top team coaches in selecting the best coach of the season... Yang Cheng joked, But now I know they are very fair and fair!”

There was a burst of laughter as he held up the trophy.

Immediately after Yang Cheng came down, the season MVP Di Stefano Award was presented. The award was presented by Real Madrid star Di Stefano himself. The winner of this award was Real Madrid's core midfielder Kaká.

Coming to the Bernabeu with the aura of a superstar, Kaka had a good start in Real Madrid, but it was not impressive enough. However, in the second half of the season, Kaka showed the strength of a top star again and again. He used his passes and assists , proved his strength and proved that the huge transfer fee paid by Real Madrid for him was worth it.

At the same time, Thiago Silva won the best foreign player of the season. Although he is a defensive player, it is generally believed that it was Thiago Silva's steady performance that helped Real Madrid become La Liga. The team with the least number is the backbone of Real Madrid's defense and the core of the team's defense.

The best local player was given to David Silva. This Real Madrid midfielder showed amazing football skills. He is not only good at dribbling and breakthrough, but also good at passing and assisting. He is The most amazing player and the biggest discovery of the Spanish national team.

Mata won the best rookie award. Last season was his explosive year, which also represented his progress. It is undisputed that he won the best rookie award. In the selection of the best veteran player, Real Madrid's Raul Lost to Sevilla's goalkeeper Palop, whose performance was indeed more stable and also had a UEFA Cup championship.

After the entire award ceremony, everyone was surprised to find that Real Madrid won almost all the heavyweight awards, including top scorer, mvp best goalkeeper, best head coach and best local scorer. This is the most important award. This is an extremely rare thing for Real Madrid to monopolize the Marca awards.

Judging from the reaction of everyone at the scene and the reaction of the outside media after the announcement, everyone took Real Madrid's award for granted. After all, Real Madrid's performance last season was so eye-catching and amazing that the best lineup in the league was awarded. With so many seats, it is not surprising to pick up a few more season bests.

Even the media in the Barcelona area generally feel that the awards are fair, but they are calling for Barcelona to continue their efforts and strive to defeat Real Madrid in the best next year and complete their revenge against Real Madrid.

And a very interesting thing is that although Real Madrid has many international players, and although the Spanish national team coach is Real Madrid star and Yang Cheng's good friend Vicente del Bosque, Spain's tactics are biased towards Barcelona and the ball possession style.

This made many media in Catalonia generally proud, thinking that this was evidence of Barcelona's more advanced tactics.

But Del Bosque denied this statement when interviewed by reporters after attending the award ceremony.

Mainly it has a lot to do with the environment we are in now! Bosque attributed the reason to Spain's football style.

Since the introduction of youth training, Spain has been pursuing a small and quick playing style, focusing on ball control, a four-two-two-pound style of play, because this can minimize the weaknesses of Spanish players who are small and not good at physical confrontation. Real Madrid's tactics focus on effective ball possession. What Yang Cheng pays more attention to is not my time with the ball, but my number of threatening attacks and the speed of offensive advancement. If the former can be very patient in controlling the ball for 30 minutes, he can finally take advantage of his opponent. If I score a goal through an oversight, then the latter means I launch attacks continuously within 30 minutes. If you have no loopholes, I will create loopholes for you and score goals.

It's hard to say who is better or worse between the two styles, but what is certain is that Real Madrid's tactics are more proactive but also riskier, while the ball possession flow is more in line with the current Spain, because David = Silva Almost all players of this generation have been nurtured and trained under the youth training mentality of ball control flow, and they have better adaptability.

So Bosque also said, From a personal standpoint, I admire Real Madrid's tactics more, which are more proactive and offensive. But unfortunately, I am the head coach of Spain. I must proceed from the national conditions. I think Spain is currently the most The good way is to play with the ball, that’s what we do best.”

This almost means one thing, that is, the players sent by Real Madrid must either adapt to Spain's ball control flow, or they will no longer be selected for the national team. Although it is a bit cruel, there is no way.

Facts have proved that Del Bosque's choice was right. At least in the World Cup group qualifying matches, Spain defeated Estonia and Belgium cleanly with 30 and 20 points respectively. It successfully won 4 consecutive victories in the group and occupied a huge position in promotion. The advantages.

But it is a good thing for Spain, but not necessarily for Real Madrid.

Spain's game against Belgium is on the 16th, and Real Madrid's away game against Atletico Madrid is on the evening of the 18th. If you include the round trip, Real Madrid players have to go to the Calderon Stadium to play the game almost as soon as they return to the club. This is very difficult for the players. His physical fitness and condition are a big test.

After careful consideration, Yang Cheng finally chose another approach. He told foreign players such as Kaká, Thiago Silva, Maicon, Marcelo and Mascherano who returned to South America to participate in the game not to worry. When he comes back, he hopes that this group of foreign players can recharge their batteries to prepare for the game against Juventus.

Although Aguero is in Madrid, it is still unknown that he may not be able to make it to the game because his wife Giannina is already 7 months pregnant and was feeling unwell before. For this reason, Aguero also asked for leave from the national team and stayed in Madrid. Accompanying his wife, even football champion Maradona often appears in Madrid to welcome the birth of their first child.

Real Madrid Club even gave blessings on its official website, saying that once their child is born, the child will be registered with Real Madrid from the first day he comes to the world and become the smallest Real Madrid member in the world.

Aguero was also very happy for this. He thanked the club for its support on Weibo. He expressed his hope for a son because his father-in-law hopes that this child can inherit the tradition and glory of the football family.

In this case, if Giannina's body has not recovered, Yang Cheng cannot forcefully ask Aguero to return to the team to participate in the game. This is inconsistent with his usual management methods.

In addition, for Atletico Madrid, Yang Cheng has always believed that after experiencing the 1:6 defeat to Barcelona, ​​Aguirre would not be able to continue to risk his own strength to play against Real Madrid in the derby, even though Atletico Madrid is currently full of stars. There is no shortage of first-class stars such as Forlan, Simao, Luis Garcia, but compared with the strength of Real Madrid's players, they are still inferior.

If Aguirre does not want his team to be blown away by Real Madrid's offense like he did at Camp Nou, then his best choice is to defend and counterattack. The key lies in what tactics he will use.

Atletico Madrid aside, Yang Cheng already has an idea of ​​the starting lineup for this game.

The goalkeeper is Casillas, the defense is Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos and Miguel Torres, the double midfielders are Beckham and De La Red, and the forwards are Ronaldinho, Raul and Mata, the lone forward is Negredo.

Real Madrid's lineup is basically composed of players who have not been selected for the national team, or have not played in the national team. As for the physical fitness of Pepe, Ramos and Ronaldinho, Yang Cheng is still relatively confident. Especially Xiao Luo. This guy's physical fitness is very abnormal. Yang Cheng doesn't even need to worry about his physical fitness.

He knows very well that Atletico Madrid's main lineup is limited and there are many international players. In order to ensure the competitiveness of the team, Aguirre will not easily make up for it. In this case, Real Madrid's physical fitness will be more advantageous, and If this advantage can be used to defeat Atletico Madrid, then Real Madrid will have a greater chance of winning this game.

In the last round, Aguirre played the two-winger combination of Luis Garcia and Maxi Rodriguez, but was defeated by Barcelona at the Camp Nou. In this case, Aguirre was very disappointed. It is difficult to continue to adhere to this two-winger tactic, especially Aguirre, who has always been conservative in employment. Yang Cheng does not believe that he has the courage.

This also proves that Real Madrid's breaking point lies in Atletico Madrid's wing, so in this game, he arranged two wing attackers, Ronaldinho and Mata, and put a strong attacker in front. Negredo.

It can be said that Yang Cheng racked his brains and thought in order to defeat Atletico Madrid and continue to maintain the lead over Barcelona. But what he did not expect was that the development of the situation was far beyond his expectation. outside!