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Just ten days before the opening of the European qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Portuguese Football Association finally held a press conference to announce who the new coach of the Portuguese national team would be!

This man is of Portuguese nationality and is quite well-known in European football. He is also well-known in England. His name is Manuel Queiroz.

Yes, he is the assistant of Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson and the assistant coach of the Red Devils Queiroz.

The 50-year-old Manuel Queiroz was born in Mozambique and is known as the godfather of the "golden generation". His playing career was unremarkable and did not leave a deep impression on people. But when he started in 1978

After joining the Portuguese Football Association to engage in youth development, people gradually discovered his ability in this area.

The most commendable thing about Queiroz's coaching career is his achievements as the head coach of the Portuguese national youth team. In 1989 and 1991, he led the Portuguese youth team to win the World Youth Championship twice. Under his leadership, Luis Figo emerged.

Rui Costa, Paulo Sosa, Baia, Cotto and many other superstars. From then on, Queiroz's disciples were also called the "golden generation". In 1991, Queiroz naturally became the coach of the Portuguese national team. 1994

In 2006, he resigned sadly after leading the Portuguese team to be eliminated by Italy in the World Cup qualifiers.

After that, Queiroz began to coach club teams, but did not achieve particularly outstanding results. He successively coached Sporting Lisbon, New York Metro Stars in the United States, and Nagoya Grampus in Japan. He once led Sporting Lisbon to win an FA Cup championship and a league championship.

Runner-up, while coaching Japan's Nagoya Grampus in 1997, he led the team to win the Emperor's Cup championship and the J-League runner-up.

From 1998 to 1999, he coached the UAE national team, but failed to achieve success. In 2002, Queiroz led South Africa to the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, but was subsequently dismissed due to the team's poor performance in the African Cup. In 2002

In early July, Queiroz, who was idle at home, accepted the invitation of Manchester United coach Ferguson to serve as Manchester United's assistant coach. On June 25, 2003, Queiroz succeeded Del Bosque as the new coach of Real Madrid.

However, Queiroz also failed to achieve success at Real Madrid, and finally returned to Manchester United and continued to serve as Alex Ferguson's assistant.

In Alex Ferguson's view, Queiroz took the greatest credit for Manchester United's second place in the league, the UEFA Champions League, and the English FA Cup last season. When he learned that Portugal was looking for Queiroz, he asked Manchester United to

Management is doing everything possible to retain Queiroz.

And from an emotional point of view, Alex Ferguson is not willing to let Queiroz go. He and Queiroz have worked together for many years, and the two have a tacit understanding. Moreover, Alex Ferguson also regards Queiroz as his successor.

People came to see it.

Alex Ferguson originally planned to stay in this position for another two to three years, and then retire and hand over Manchester United to their assistant Queiroz. Because Queiroz has been with him for a long time, the two of them

The ideas and tactics are similar, and he believes Queiroz is his best successor.

Therefore, Alex Ferguson very much hoped that Queiroz could stay. And when trying to retain Queiroz, Alex Ferguson also told Queiroz his thoughts, but in the end, Queiroz still chose to leave.

Queiroz actually doesn't want to be anyone's assistant, he wants to be the team's head coach, which can be seen from Queiroz's resume.

The Portuguese national team is very attractive to Queiroz, and he can't refuse it. Also, the future is really uncertain. Who knows whether any talented coach will appear in the future. At that time, he Queiroz

Can he still stay at Manchester United?

Now that the opportunity to be a head coach is right in front of you, why should you consider taking over from Ferguson in the future? Moreover, the current Portuguese national team players are very capable and strong, and they have a high chance of success. I wonder if Queiroz will be there in a year or two.

Became a world champion coach.

Moreover, it was difficult for Queiroz to refuse the annual salary offered by the Portuguese Football Association. The Portuguese Football Association offered Queiroz an annual salary of 1.3 million euros.

After various considerations, Queiroz rejected Comrade Alex Ferguson's offer to stay and resolutely chose the Portuguese national team. In this way, Manuel Queiroz became the new head coach of the Portuguese national team.

The first task before Manuel Queiroz now is this World Cup European Qualifiers, or this is likely to be a touchstone. If Queiroz leads the team with good results, then Queiroz will

He will continue to stay in this position. If the Portuguese national team fails in the group stage, Queiroz will inevitably be dismissed.

Queiroz will face a big battle as soon as he takes over the team, which is indeed a test. There is no time for Queiroz to integrate the lineup and practice new styles of play. Now that the big game is coming, the Portuguese national team can only follow the rules of Scolari's era.

Implement the strategy first, get the spots first, and then integrate the lineup.

Therefore, the players recruited by the Portuguese national team this time are the same as the previous Portuguese national team. Of course, Qiu Ze is also on the list. Therefore, after the game with Manchester United, Qiu Ze returned to Portugal and went to Portugal.

The national team reported.

During this national competition period, the Portuguese national team will play a total of two games. The first is their away game against the Malta team, the weakest team in the group. Malta is the weakest team in this group. They almost play the role of accompanying the prince to study. Portugal

There should be no doubt that the national team can win them.

In this second game, the Portuguese national team will face the Danish team at their home court. The Danish team is not very strong, but of course they are not a weak team. Moreover, Denmark once created a Danish fairy tale. This is a team that creates miracles.

, the Portuguese national team cannot take it lightly.

This time, Queiroz was a full member of the Portuguese national team that won the European championship, and not a single personnel change was made.

The training base of the Portuguese national team is in Lisbon, and their home stadium is the home stadium of Sporting Lisbon, so Qiu Ze returned to Lisbon. However, he did not go home because there was no time and the team had regulations. At this time

, team players cannot go out at will and must stay with the team.

After two days of training in Lisbon, the Portuguese national team flew to Malta to participate in the first game of the European qualifiers for this World Cup. Of course, the Portuguese national team attaches great importance to this first game, and everyone wants to get a good start.

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In this first round of matches, the Portuguese national team played against Malta away from home, Sweden played against Albania away from home, and Hungary played against Denmark at home.

After arriving in Malta, the head coach of the Portuguese national team Queiroz made it clear that the players of the Portuguese national team should put away their contempt and treat their opponents as teams of the same level. They cannot afford to lose this game.

Yes, Queiroz cannot afford to lose in this game. If he loses even this opponent, then Queiroz will face tremendous pressure.

In this game, Queiroz played with all the main players, Qiu Ze and Cristiano Ronaldo appeared in the starting lineup at the same time. As soon as the game started, Cristiano Ronaldo was very excited and seemed to have a lot of energy in his heart.

Son, I have to compare with Qiu Zebi.

Just five minutes into the first half, the Portuguese national team scored, and it was Cristiano Ronaldo who scored the goal.

After Cristiano Ronaldo received the pass from Bosingwa at the back, he immediately dribbled the ball at high speed and hit the Malta defense. In terms of personal strength, Malta is far behind the players of the Portuguese national team, let alone Cristiano Ronaldo.

Arnold Ronaldo is a guy with great personal skills.

Cristiano Ronaldo almost single-handedly destroyed Malta's wing defense, then broke into the penalty area and directly volleyed the football into the Malta goal, one to zero.

Seeing that the team had taken the lead, Queiroz's nervousness was finally relieved. Only at this time did Queiroz calm down.

Malta's strength is really so bad that it cannot threaten the Portuguese national team at all. In the 19th minute of the first half, the Portuguese national team's midfielder Qiu Ze met Joao Mou at the edge of the Malta penalty area.

After consecutive one-twos, Tinho broke into the Malta penalty area and kicked the football into the Malta goal, 2-0.

In the 39th minute of the first half, the Portuguese national team's wide player Quaresma suddenly cut inside after receiving the ball, and then volleyed directly from the front of the penalty area. The football drew an arc and then flew in.

Hit the Malta goal, 3-0.

By this time, the game was actually over and Malta had lost the game. But the goal was not over yet.

In the tenth minute of the second half, the Portuguese national team got a direct free kick opportunity. Cristiano Ronaldo directly sent the football into the Malta goal with an elevator kick, making it 4-0.

Cristiano Ronaldo was not very excited after scoring the goal, but he turned his head and looked at Qiu Ze provocatively, as if I am always better than you.

However, just five minutes later, Qiu Ze also scored, this time from a corner kick of the Portuguese national team. Joao Moutinho drove the corner kick into the Maltese penalty area, but the ball was given by the Maltese central defender.

Pushed out.

However, the ball just flew to Qiu Ze at the front of the penalty area. Qiu Ze did not stop the ball and volleyed the ball directly from the front of the penalty area. He fired a volley and the football shot towards the Malta goal like lightning.

The Maltese goalkeeper had no reaction and the ball hit the goal.

Five to zero, this was the final score of the game. The Portuguese national team got off to a good start. This was also Queiroz's first victory after returning to the Portuguese national team. Queiroz had a good start with the Portuguese national team.

Of course, the most important thing is that the opponents of the Portuguese national team are too weak to pose a threat to Portugal. What can't be tested? No matter who is replaced as the head coach, the Portuguese national team will win this game.

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Now Queiroz has not been recognized by everyone, and everyone is still in the doubt stage. Queiroz also knows that this does not mean anything, and he has just started on the road.

At the end of the match between the Portuguese national team and the Malta national team, the other two games in this group also ended. Albania drew with the powerful Swedish team 0-0 at home. Albania performed well in this game. And Hungary and

Like Albania, their performance was also very good. They also drew 0-0 with Denmark at their home court.