The Young Lion

With little time left in the game, Boca Juniors were hit hard again, Bianchi was reluctant to surrender on the sidelines, and he swept his troops. Millwall retreated because of the pressure, and he had two opportunities to fight back in the last five minutes. But he didn't grasp it, especially when Villa's hanging door after the goalkeeper attacked, actually hit the crossbar and flew out of the bottom line, making him hold his head in both hands.

At the end of the game, Millwall's coaching staff and the players on the bench all stood up and were not as excited as the other championships. Aldridge went to shake hands with Bianchi after the game.

The two did not communicate and separated after shaking hands.

Fans on the scene cheered Millwall, once in 1998, two years later, Millwall came here again and won the Toyota Cup.

In fact, the shape of the trophy of the Toyota Cup is very strange. It can't be seen as the shape of a cup at all. It is more like a designed artwork.

After winning the championship, the players began to take photos together. Henry took the best in the game and could drive a Toyota.

Cristiano Ronaldo has also become the focus of the reporters on the sidelines. He has become the youngest founder of the Millwall club's appearance record at a young age. His predecessor record is the core of the organization that is now indispensable in Millwall. , And he still scored today, fortunately, it is also the final, the opponent is not an unknown, that is the division of the South American Club Intercontinental Championship.

Ronaldo seemed to enjoy the spotlight. He walked on the sidelines while holding the Toyota Cup trophy. He came to the sidelines. His family, accompanied by Millwall staff, had come to the sidelines. With the permission of the stadium staff, C Luo and his family entered the stadium for a group photo.

After waiting for the photo, his siblings left him and turned to the Millwall star to ask for a photo and a signed jersey.

"Boss, take a picture with me."

Aldridge is talking to Boas about the game that has just ended. In his free time, Boas is the person who loves to discuss the game with him.

Aldrich turned his head and found that Ronaldo was still "occupying" the trophy. He smiled and said, "Come and stand in the middle."

Ronaldo walked to the middle station between him and Boas. After the camera was over, Ronaldo handed the trophy to Villa. Aldridge also pulled Villa over and took another picture.

"If I remember correctly, will it be your 19th birthday in a few days?"

Hearing Aldridge's question, Villa nodded and said, "Well, yes."

Aldridge chuckled lightly: "Go back, please come to dinner at home, I will cook in person."

Villa smiled heartily when he heard that, since he was an adult, he really seldom went to the boss’s house for dinner again. He was probably older. With his own space and expanded life circle, he and Aldrich’s The distance also gets farther, but the same thing is mutual trust.

The Toyota Cup won the championship. Aldrich has nothing to say about this kind of event that has neither a foreshadowing nor a continuation. He praises the team and is happy to return home.

Millwall once again took home the Toyota Cup. The response on Fleet Street was relatively flat, just writing the battle report as usual.

It's nothing strange.

The strongest in Europe vs the strongest in South America.

The strongest in South America is every year, but the strongest undefeated in 64 European leagues, but it may not be able to produce one in ten years.

During the Toyota Cup, the Premier League weekend just caught up with the cup match, so the league was suspended and Millwall returned to London to rest for a few days. Before the 17th round of the Premier League started on the weekend, they got good news.

Manchester United's visit to London resulted in a 3:3 draw by Charlton at the Valley Stadium.

Millwall sat at the Lion King Stadium and made the most of his efforts against the visiting Aston Villa. A hearty 5:2 victory expanded the undefeated games to 65 games. At the same time, the score gap with Manchester United was narrowed to 1 Points, as in the game it is rare to lose two goals in the weak, Aldridge seems to careless after the game, his main midfielder and main guard suspended.

FIFA announced during this period that Mr. World Football Award winner, Zidane was elected, Henry ranked second and Figo third.

And this year's Golden Globe Awards will also be announced. Millwall's momentum in the second half of the year is not obvious, because they are their biggest focus. 65 league games are unbeaten. The glory of the Triple Crown last season, should we still deliberately tout it?

Fleet Street predicts that Millwall is likely to achieve the club’s defending Golden Ball award this year. Of course, the probability of Nedved’s own defending is very low. He has been wounded since the beginning of the new season. When the eyeball offensive is most needed, he disappears. Public view.

However, there are still many strong players in the Golden Wall.

The biggest favorites are Henry, the Triple Crown, the UEFA Champions League and the league's double material Golden Boots, plus the summer with the French team to win the European Cup, who would be questioned if he was elected Mr. Golden Ball?

Larson, Ronaldinho, and Pirlo are all popular candidates.

In the eyes of mainstream European football, there are always some people who know the goods, especially professional ball critics. Pirlo has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for two consecutive years, helping Millwall to create the Triple Crown Weiye as an absolute main force. His importance and contribution to the team are seen by many professionals. Many people study Millwall, and the key to analyzing players is Pirlo.

Ten years after the original history, UEFA published an official evaluation listing 20 people who changed the world’s football, including 19 players or coaches and a referee.

This list has a European vision, only two South American players were selected, like Bailey missed.

Aldrich has always been asked about personal coaching tactics and thoughts to avoid this problem when he contributes to modern football. The big reason is that he actually just sums up and integrates the experience left by his predecessors and his understanding of football with the knowledge of later generations. Advantages only.

For example, Hidaiguti in this list, as a teammate of the Puskas generation gold team, his tactical role is far beyond Puskas, the change of the center's retreat has set off a storm in Hungary that sweeps the world. Looking back further, we must mention that Mabukovi, the club manager of Hidaiguti, everyone said that England is the originator of 442. In fact, the first to design theory and practice is Mabukovi. In the era of advocating offensive accumulation of forwards, his defense was mocked, but placed today, it is the core of Aldridge's tactical design and the key point of winning: hiding the offensive point.

Most of the players in this list are those who have improved the ability of role players in the same position. Simply put, they are the pinnacle of the players in the same position. For example, Martini, who can make the defender also elegant, Ke Ruif, Di Stefano, Matthews, a winger like art, and so on.

But there are also some superstars that combine influence and contribution beyond football. For example, Zidane, a descendant of Algeria, has brought about the positive influence of national integration in France. The angel and the devil, once made football ugly because of him, forcing UEFA , FIFA have to modify the defensive rules to increase the standard of Maradona fouling the defender, it is because the normal defense Maradona can not resist, so football is ugly, the opponent he faces has to use frequently Foul, beyond the scale foul, in addition to fouls, it is impossible to limit his play.

In this list, only a handful of players have contributed to the epoch-making change of position and function on the field. Beckenbauer, the originator of the free man, is the most influential full-back to assist Facheti.

More than a decade later, fans talked about German goalkeeper Neuer incarnate as a "door waist", but if you look at the history of world football, in this goalkeeper position, some people are more crazy than Neuer and have become the object of many goalkeepers to imitate: ·Denkovic, as a goalkeeper, he once dribbled from the backcourt and broke through the three defenders of the opponent. He was knocked down by his opponent. The foul place was 10 meters past the center line. The thing happened in Germany. He was Are you crazy? Maybe, in short, he was selected by UEFA to change the list of 20 players in the world football, redefining the goalkeeper standard.

There is another person who redefines the standard of position role. This person is from Italy and named Pirlo, also in this list.

Pirlo can be selected, and it has little to do with his own technical ability. If he is a front midfielder, there are many players who are better than his ball skills. However, he is a front waist type player who plays the back midfielder. The ability to function has changed dramatically in tactics.

Pay attention to their duties on the football field.

The striker doesn't score, what's the point?

If the defender does not defend, is he still called a defender?

In the past concept, the striker scored a goal, the forward waist organization behind the striker, conveyed the shells, so that the threat looks more intuitive, the distance is close, the connection is close, and the success rate should be higher in theory, just like the theory of long pass The basics are the same, hitting the ball directly to the area closest to the goal is the most threatening.

But the reality is that the offense is concentrated at the forefront, and the center of gravity of the opponent's defense is also concentrated there, but instead compresses the area.

Pirlo's role is not related to whether he has been transformed into a lower back through the front waist, but that he is a front waist player, but he is organized in the back waist area, and there has been: a step back, the sea and the sky, such a new situation.

Some people will say that Keane, Vieira, both offensive and defensive, Albertini, Redondo, and the four talents of the last era seem to be able to do such work.

But there are differences in essence.

Even if his career is counted in 500 games, how many games do these midfielders play on the field by organizing offense?

It’s not because Redondo has such a few terrifying rumors that he can be organized in the lower back. Keane and Vieira are easier to distinguish. Defensive is the top priority of their work. However, what makes them stand out from other midfielders is that they can perform defensive tasks well, and then devote their energy to help the team attack, whether it is Manchester United or Arsenal. , Or dominated by wing players.

But in Millwall, Pirlo's more than four seasons of appearances, he is dedicated to purely organized work, defense, is a secondary task!

This subverts the role that the player should play in the midfielder position. At the same time, when instigating the offense, he uses the pass to drive the overall forward attack.

In the development of modern football after the original history, the organization of the area retreat to ensure the success rate of the team's pass. Almost every giant has such a character, and it is Pirlo who pioneered.

In the first two seasons, Pirlo's appearance puzzled UEFA, so he began to observe him, study Millwall's game, find out the specific role of Pirlo on the field, every pass he passed, brought Changes in the sense of rhythm, changes in the threat value measured by the short pass and long pass to drive the offense, etc.

When Pirlo helped Millwall win countless championships as an absolute mainstay, no one would doubt him again, people realized: he created a new position role template under Audridge.

As a result, some ball critics have called for Pirlo to be awarded the Golden Globe Award. Although his goals and assists are far inferior to the Millwall forward trident, his contribution may be among the Millwall team. Highest.

reason?

Millwall has no shortage of strikers, but can someone replace Pirlo?