The Young Lion

Just as Aldridge personally brought back Nesta from Italy four years ago, in the summer of 2006, Aldridge brought back the world's number one goalkeeper Buffon from Italy!

This transfer shocked Europe!

The contemporary king, Millwall, has finally strengthened the weak links that have been criticized by the outside world for a long time. It can be called the last piece of the puzzle of the perfect lineup!

Nesta, De Rossi, Barzagli and other Italian players in the team publicly expressed their welcome to Buffon, and Buffon quickly entered the role. Aldridge wanted to give him some holidays, but he refused. It seems that he wanted to make a good impression on the fans and the outside world. When the Friendship Cup was held at the Lion King Stadium, he made his debut and his performance was very eye-catching!

If the goalkeeper is eye-catching, there must be a problem with the defense.

Indeed, the three teams from Inter Milan, Bayern Munich and Lyon came to the Lion King Stadium to attach great importance to this friendly match, and the sponsors paid him a lot of appearance fees!

Millwall, on the other hand, is relatively restrained. After all, too many players in the team participated in the World Cup, and Nesta is still recovering from his injuries. The defense is not satisfactory, so Buffon is given a chance to perform.

When the new season is coming, Aldridge looks at the team lineup. In the new season, the players he needs to focus on are Messi and Ramos. The players in other positions can hardly be said to be three to five years old. There are hidden dangers of talent, and Millwall's prosperity will be stable in a major cycle in the future.

The European media is slightly pessimistic about the pre-season tour of the new season: no matter how many powerful giants and top teams there are. There is a sword of Damocles hanging above the heads of these teams, that is the super king team Millwall!

I don't know how long the wild lion's rule will last, but what is desperate is that they show no signs of decay!

A team only needs about 25 people. And Millwall forms a whole through players of different strength levels, so that they are in balance internally. That is to say, compared with the main players, their main players are the top talents in Europe. The substitute is much better. Compared to the future, the resources of young players they possess make the whole of Europe salivate.

A team cannot have 25 world-class players, even if it buys 25 world-class players. It will only form a chaotic team. Millwall's team building model is to clarify this point, reduce conflicts within the team, and provide a good competitive environment. This is also the conclusion drawn from the experience of constantly letting go of potential new stars over the years.

Before the start of the new Premier League season. Chelsea ushered in a new coach. Abramovich not only helped the Russian Football Association hire Hiddink, but also let Hiddink take a part-time job to coach Chelsea!

For external doubts,

It is believed that Hiddink's dual-purpose will have disadvantages and no advantages for the team, while Chelsea implicitly stated that there is a precedent for success in England!

This made the outside world dumbfounded.

Chelsea actually used their rival Millwall as a shield.

Of course, that most recent example, and successful. Of course it was Aldrich.

Aldridge didn't care about the news of Chelsea's coaching change, even though Fleet Street turned up the incident of Aldridge attacking the South Korean team led by Guus Hiddink in the World Cup four years ago. Trying to increase the focus of the new season's Premier League coach confrontation, Aldridge and Guus Hiddink were described as deadly rivals by the outside world before they played against each other.

This is in line with the relationship between Millwall and Chelsea.

With the start of the new season, Millwall did not launch a conquest against the heroes from all walks of life as expected by the outside world, and even showed a significant decline in vigor compared to last season.

Throughout August, the Community Shield and the league, they all won 1:0, and one of them was won by a penalty kick. In the European Super Cup, it was even more difficult to defeat Seville 2:1 in overtime. ya.

Ronaldinho's state declined as expected, but Henry also seemed to be in a state of depression, which caught Aldridge a little by surprise.

The No. 1 striker in Europe in the past five years may have also won six Champions League titles. His ambitions have been slumped. The heavy blow brought by the hatred in the World Cup finals has made the players most needed in the game. Go for mythical cloaks.

Aldridge had to let Villa start to replace Henry. At the same time, Ronaldo's difficulty in England exceeded Aldridge's expectations.

In the England arena, if Millwall is playing away, from the beginning to the end of the game, as long as Ronaldo touches the ball, the opponent fans will definitely boo him harshly. If he is violated by the opponent, the opponent fans will also applaud.

Aldrich has done enough to defend Ronaldo in front of the media, and he is unwilling to spread his wings to protect him all the time, so he began to remain silent, letting Ronaldo walk out of this predicament firmly.

In October, Millwall lost to Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League, 1:4!

Although there were unfavorable factors in that game because of the absence of the three main defenders due to injuries, the performance of Ronaldinho and Henry was like sleepwalking. Aldridge also criticized the team's performance after that game. Ronaldinho and Henry were placed on the bench.

The European media began to clamor that Ronaldinho and Henry would be purged by Aldridge, but Aldridge denied this.

In November, Nesta came back, and Messi completely established the main position.

Millwall's brand-new frontcourt attack group took shape.

The attack group with Kaka, Ronaldo, Villa, and Messi as the main force began to burst into power.

Although Ronaldo is still in adversity, Villa, Messi, and Kaka have passed the running-in period, and began to attack the city for Millwall, continuing the momentum of sweeping Europe.

The away defeat in the UEFA Champions League in October was accidental, and it happened suddenly against the background of Millwall's furious advances in the league. In the league, in the first half of the season, Millwall established a leading advantage, but they did not rely on offense. There will always be a feeling of instability. Buffon has only joined the team for three months before being concluded by the media: a value-for-money deal!

Millwall has an amazing record of 12 rounds without conceding a goal in the league. Since mid-November, the number of goals has begun to pick up, and the attack power has exploded again.

At the end of November, Buffon won the appreciation of the judges by virtue of his outstanding performance in the World Cup and his eye-catching performance after joining Millwall. , with a slight advantage over the national team teammate Cannavaro was elected the annual Golden Globe winner!

In December, Aldridge missed a game of the team's weekend league and was replaced by assistant coach Villas-Boas on the spot.

Because he took his family and Najib to Budapest, Hungary to attend the funeral of Puskas...

During this period of time, Aldridge was not in a good mood, and the departure of an old friend would always make the indelible sadness in his heart linger.

Going through 2006, in the first half of the new season, Millwall still led the Premier League with an unstoppable momentum. In the Champions League, despite a sudden defeat in the group stage, they still beat Bayern Munich to advance to the top of the group.

Aldrich is gratified by the momentum of Messi's rise, especially in the context of Fleet Street's condemnation of Ronaldo. Fleet Street cannot do without Millwall. They need to report on Millwall and follow Millwall for a long time, because This is the pride of English football, and the English club is based on the banner of the world, so in the report, there is an obvious tendency to suppress Ronaldo and praise Messi, trying to make Ronaldo lose his influence and suppress him as much as possible.

And there seems to be a king of heaven brewing between Ronaldo and Messi!

It is good to have fights, healthy competition will promote the aggressiveness of the team, but if it is a bad fight, it may cause the team to fall into internal friction.

In January 2007, the most concerned event in European football was the upcoming UEFA presidential election!

The 77-year-old Johansson and the 52-year-old Platini have launched a battle between tradition and cutting-edge, old and young!

Although g14 fully supports Johansson for another term!

But compared to UEFA's voting structure, g14's right to speak is actually too small.

For example, Millwall and Manchester United can only push England's representatives in UEFA to support Johansson behind the scenes!

Although there are Milan duo and Juventus in Italy, in fact, the only power that can be used is the representative of Italy.

g14 is an elite group, and an elite means a minority!

Minorities cannot hold power in a broad democracy.

In the end, Johansson lost to Platini by a narrow margin of 23 votes to 27 votes!

At the same time, FIFA passed a resolution to appoint Beckenbauer as the executive committee member.

Beckenbauer's wishful thinking completely fell through!

You know, just six months ago, when he changed his strategy, he even communicated with the German government and obtained the support of the German government, which led to German Chancellor Angela Merkel awarding Germany's highest honor medal to Chairman Blatter: the National Cross!

But Johansson failed to hold on to the territory of Europe. When Platini became the new UEFA president, Platini also automatically became the vice president of UEFA!

Originally, in Beckenbauer's plan, the vice-chairman would be Johansson. He became the FIFA executive committee. He and Johansson together put pressure on Blatter. The next chairman will be Beckenbauer. instead.

Now, it's all over!

This also caused Beckenbauer to be disheartened. After becoming an executive committee member, he announced his retirement for family reasons within a few years in the future.

Throughout January, UEFA was in flames of war.

g14 fell into unprecedented turmoil and division!

Externally, led by Millwall, Manchester United, Milan, and Bayern Munich, they solemnly warned Platini not to mess around!

Internally, g14 wants to suppress the traitors from France!

During Platini's campaign, the boss of Ligue 1 club Lyon publicly supported Platini, and Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain followed suit!

Obviously, Platini's French background makes the French team, which has long had no say in g14, ready to move and want to embrace a thick thigh! (To be continued..)

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