The Ball at Your Feet

Updated: 2013-04-19

After the game against Paris, Monaco ushered in another good news. The Lyon team tied the game. Monaco ranked first in the Ligue 1 with a record of three wins and one loss with nine points.

After the game with Paris ended, Zhao Yaning was once again praised by the media because of his first brace this season.

"We have enough reasons to believe that Zhao Yaning can definitely become a good enough star. His level is definitely not just as simple as Pires in Asia. In time, he can definitely grow into a top player in Europe. He should not be simply returned. The class is a weakened version of someone, and it should be taken more seriously, face up to his abilities and talents, and make a sufficiently correct evaluation for him."

"Team Daily" gave a high evaluation of Zhao Yaning, which also greatly increased Zhao Yaning's reputation.

The thing about Alizee that worried Zhao Yaning was not published in any major newspaper. The Monaco club's relationship in Ligue 1 is still very wide. They are willing to come forward to clear the joints for Zhao Yaning, and Zhao Yaning's negative news will naturally be less. In addition, the news control in France is already relatively strong. In addition, French football does not like to hype such scandals like the British do. Therefore, this matter is only mentioned in some tabloid newspapers, but those things are counted. What's the matter.

French football is still very good in this respect. When a player shows enough ability, they are more willing to focus on the player's own ability instead of messy things. The evaluation of Zhao Yaning's strength by the media headed by the "Team Daily" just doesn't involve anything else.

"Don't think they are for your own good," Deschamps spoke to Zhao Yaning privately, but he was very disapproving of the attitude and practices of the "Team Daily". "The reason why they praise you is just because of their own interests. The "Torino Sport" organized the media from all over to organize a selection of the European Golden Boy Award. They have done enough preparations, and the selection is about to start, and the "Team Daily" can't stop them. Therefore, the "Team" The newspaper wanted to hold you up and let you stand up for French football."

"Team Daily" is the selection agency for the Golden Globe Awards, and they themselves have always regarded themselves as the most authoritative football media in the world. Now, if other media bypassed them for selection, they would naturally not be very happy.

"European Golden Boy Award? What kind of award is that?" Zhao Yaning asked rhetorically.

"It's the selection of the best newcomers in Europe." Deschamps simply replied, "There is still no fame, you don't know it is normal. But you have a high voice this year, although it is not the highest, but it is also It's pretty amazing."

"Who is the loudest voice? Is Milan's Kaka?" Zhao Yaning asked casually.

Kaka's performance this season is one of the most outstanding newcomers Zhao Yaning has ever seen. He felt that if he let himself compete with Kaka, it is normal for him to compete.

"Kaka's voice is not high." Deschamps shook his head. "He is at a disadvantage in the team. Milan is too strong. He was not even the main player last season, and of course he was not considered the best rookie. The most. The promising ones are the Dutch players Robben and Van der Vaart."

Zhao Yaning has also heard of these two names. Robben was mentioned by Coach Petit. Coach Petit believes that among players of the same age, only Robben is stronger than Zhao Yaning. Zhao Yaning was deeply impressed by this evaluation. And this season Eindhoven also won the Eredivisie championship, his reputation is naturally extremely valued.

The other candidate, Van der Vaart, is because Ajax has played really well in the past two years. Van der Vaart's technical ability is much worse than Robben, but his consciousness is very good. He was the core of the team at Ajax at a young age, and he was still playing against Eindhoven’s Dutch national Derby. He played an extremely good level in the game, coupled with his good performance in the Champions League, is also considered a big-scene player. Moreover, Ajax had the experience of winning the Champions League in 1995 by the youth army, so he is now touted no less than Kaka. If it hadn't been this season that Ajax missed the championship, maybe his voice would have been even higher.

Except for these few people, most of the others are uninteresting people. Although Bundesliga’s local striker Kevin Kuranyi and Premier League Newcastle’s main player Janas also played well, they did not have enough hard results to come up with, saying everything was in vain.

"But I don't recommend that you regard this election as very important, because your chances of being elected are not great." Deschamps simply said the question, "Anyway, your nationality is determined, and you can't compete. Those people. As long as it's a matter of selection, you can't get rid of subjective impressions. You and those people can't fight subjective impressions. If you can't achieve results that are several times better than others, don't expect anyone to choose you. ."

Deschamps said this question straightforwardly, Zhao Yaning heard it very clearly, but it sounded a little sad.

"And speaking of it, there is one more thing." Deschamps remembered something, "They flattered you, although not for you, but you can't ignore it. If you don't say anything, they will be very upset. Appropriate expressions are necessary. Of course, empty talk is not enough. You have to say something that makes the French media really happy to show that you are a talent trained by French football."

"What to do?" Zhao Yaning asked puzzledly.

"For the selection of World Footballer, don't you have a vote as the captain of the national team?" Deschamps reminded him without saying much.

This is what I said originally. Zhao Yaning smiled bitterly, how can I decide this? China’s ballots have always been filled out with the help of the Football Association...

"If I was the captain when I voted, I would definitely vote for Qi Zu, Henry, and Nedved." Zhao Yaning thought for a while and answered.

The three most popular players in the world in 2003 were Qi Zu, Henry and Ronaldo, but Zhao Yaning felt that Ronaldo was really not qualified to participate in the selection. Not to mention that he has won it many times, and even his World Player of Football in 2002 is a bit misleading. The top eight national team captain coaches in Europe did not vote for him, which is enough to explain some problems. Gao Guang can go to compete for honor with others for a year in two months. In Zhao Yaning's view, it is not worth promoting. Since he took it last year, this year will all be regarded as his debt repayment last year.

The vote is in Zhao Yaning's own hands. What else can he not choose?

And he wanted to choose Nedved, in addition to the tragic element of Nedved’s failure to qualify for the Champions League final that led to Milan’s victory, most importantly, it was also because he took Juventus to eliminate Real Madrid. In that game, he played It's really great, if it weren't for the meaningless foul on McManaman at the end, it would be almost perfect. This kind of thing is not done by everyone.

But can you win the right to vote for yourself? In Zhao Yaning's heart, there was nothing at all.

--------------------------------

Aside from Zhao Yaning's personal affairs, Monaco also ushered in another matter.

On August 28, the day of the draw for the Champions League main match is about to come.

Every year the UEFA Champions League draw is held in Monte Carlo, that is to say, almost all the managers of the best teams in Europe will gather here.

At this time last year, the Monaco players were indifferent to the Champions League. They ranked 14th in the 01-02 season. The team that was almost relegated, how can they be in the mood to consider this? But this year, their mood is very different.

"At this time of the year, many team owners, managers, and coaches come back to Monaco. You can see that outside the walls of the Ratubi training base, there will be a lot of strange people coming...Last year Of course no one came to see us. You are the coach of a UEFA Champions League team. Will you go to inspect the players of the relegation team? But this year, there will definitely be a lot of people coming to see us. The two days of training have more energy and When meeting others, be polite, maybe it will have a very important effect on you."

As the player who has stayed on the team for the longest time, Jiuli introduced his experience to everyone. "And during this time, you can see many famous old coaches or some well-known retired players outside. Don’t be surprised when you see them. , Don’t look stupid and make people suspect that we are idiots. When you meet your respected coach, just go ask for an autograph. Don’t be too silly!"

"I think we should be more concerned. Isn't it the Champions League grouping?" Zhao Yaning was beside him, softly asking the question, "It is more important to care about which group we are in, right?"

"What is there to care about? Anyway, which group is the group of death for us."

There is no reason to say this, because Monaco has only played in the Champions League once in the past few years and was eliminated in the group stage. Therefore, their division is a very sad four-level team. In fact, the 32 teams in the entire Champions League, only Bruges in Belgium, Besiktas in Turkey and Partizan Belgrade in Serbia and Montenegro have lower points...

Anyway, no matter how they are divided, they will meet a first-tier team and a second-tier team in the group. Then ~www.ltnovel.com~ Based on the principle of no bite if there are more lice, they don’t care about the problem of grouping. .

But when it came time for the group draw, they all gathered in the team and watched the draw together on the TV screen.

"In any case, no Real Madrid, no Manchester United, no Juventus, no Milan!"

When looking at the grouping details of the first file, several people were still chanting.

When seeing the second grouping, Lyon and Bayern Munich were drawn to a group, several people immediately scolded, lamenting Lyon’s good luck: Bayern Munich’s current virtues are not the first two years, and this kind of money-saving. No matter how good your team is drawn to a group.

In the third group, when Marseille was thrown into the group where Real Madrid and Porto belonged, everyone was relieved: Real Madrid is not a good bone to chew, let Marseille frown.

And when it finally came to the fourth group of teams, Monaco finally ushered in its own trial.

"Group C, Deportivo, Eindhoven, Athens, Monaco."