What is Football?

Why are so many people in the world crazy about a ball?

For some people, football is a cultural art that they appreciate, and they will sit in the comfortable stands in their leisure time, enjoying the sensory stimulation and enjoyment of artistic football brought by the two teams in the stadium under the stands, for them, football is no different from those Hollywood special effects blockbusters eating popcorn and watching the bombardment!

For others, football is a kind of faith, they have been loyal to a certain team since their ancestors, they have been under the influence of the spirit and tradition of this team since they were young, and they have a sense of religious belonging to this team, they will revel in the victory of the team they support, and cry when they lose, which is a life experience that cannot be exchanged for anything!

There are also some people, they regard football as a kind of social activity, they use football, contact some partners who may not be able to contact on weekdays, sit in the VIP box of the football field, and negotiate a deal and deal that is difficult to negotiate on weekdays, how the ball is played, they don't care, what they care about is not the ball, but the progress of communication, for them, football is a medium, a tool, just like mobile phones, computers!

There are even some people who regard football as a war, a bloodless but very cruel war, a war without gunpowder between different colors, different races, and different races, and they will ask the players on the football field to fight like a dead soldier who is not afraid of death until he dies!

A lot of people will ask me, what exactly is football in my eyes?

I can be very simple or very complex, just like this seemingly simple, but in fact complex problem, the key is to see from which angle you look at the problem.

Football, in simple terms. He is a game, a fun, good-looking, interesting game, because it is fun, so there are many people involved. Because it is good-looking, there are many people who appreciate it, and because it is interesting, there are many people who are addicted to it.

But in terms of complexity, football, like all competitive fields, represents a kind of human nature!

Constantly challenge yourself and break through yourself!

Usain Bolt is a great athlete. Because he has proven time and time again on the runway that he can push the limits of humanity and improve, he has made everyone around the world realize that there are no limits to themselves.

Yes, maybe not everybody can be Usain Bolt, but what's interesting about people is that Usain Bolt has reached, and everybody will think, I can also be there, at that moment. They don't think about whether it's really possible for them to get there!

The same goes for football, where 22 players play on the pitch and they have control of the ball. They run at all costs, and their tacit cooperation with each other is bringing a kind of sensory stimulation to all the audience, telling them that people can reach this level and reach this state.

They can get satisfaction in this kind of stimulation, get emotional excitement and venting, and even get some insights in life.

It's an amazing thing to be a professional footballer, to be a top footballer, especially to be a footballer who plays for a great team like Real Madrid. This in itself is a great feat, a great event that will make any player glorious and proud for the rest of their lives.

Wearing this shirt means that you are one of the best footballers on the planet among the billions of people, and that's a recognition, but at the same time. It also represents a sustenance. …,

That is, on the planet we live in, billions of people have pinned their expectations and hopes of pushing the limits and breaking through the limits on you!

Everyone should have this pride and pressure and turn it into a motivation!

28 May 2011, London, Wembley Stadium

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Sitting in the airplane cabin, tilting your head sideways, looking out, and admiring the rare aerial view.

Sometimes Yang Cheng feels that he is a very insecure person, especially when encountering some uncertain situations, his sense of insecurity will become more obvious and clearer.

Jose Mourinho, who is definitely the toughest opponent of his life so far, what tactics will he use at Wembley to challenge Real Madrid?

I don't know!

That is, because he didn't know, Yang Cheng would feel worried, so this time, after playing the last round of La Liga, he arranged all the players and rushed to London in advance, because he had to give the players enough time to adapt to the climate and environment of London, as well as to avoid the Icelandic volcanic ash that was about to move.

This is arguably Real Madrid's longest away game, with a full five days to spend in London.

In order to continue training in these five days, Yang Cheng has previously agreed with Arsene Wenger that during this period of time in London, Real Madrid will enter Arsenal's Kearney training base near the north of London and east of Watford for training, and during this period, Real Madrid will temporarily lease this training base.

A.T. Kearney training base is known as the first five-star training base in the style of the European continent among all teams in the Premier League, and it is also known as the best training base in terms of comprehensive conditions among all teams in the Premier League.

According to the plan drawn up by Yang Cheng and the coaching staff, Real Madrid will have a closed training session at the Kearney training base in the first two days in London to adjust the condition of the players, return to central London on Thursday night, stay in a pre-booked hotel here, and go to Wembley Stadium on Friday for acclimatisation training.

It can be said that playing in London, Real Madrid can be regarded as playing away, Chelsea is at home, and there is still a great advantage, and relatively speaking, the players of Chelsea at Wembley Stadium will be more familiar.

However, because of the previous bombardment of Wembley Stadium's poor facilities, including Ferguson, Wenger and other managers, this time in order to better prepare for the Champions League final, Wembley Stadium introduced a new turf system, and at the same time poached the administrator of Anfield Stadium to Wembley Stadium to be responsible for turf management. I think it has the qualifications and level to host the Champions League final, which is a world-renowned competition.

This time the team came to London with all the players who have played in the first team this season, a number of second-team youngsters also accompanied the team, and the injured player Thiago? Silva, Pepe and Villa, but not the club's management, the players' families and the journalists accompanying the team. They will meet up on an Emirates flight to London once the team is back in the city centre.

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After getting off the plane and boarding the bus, the team avoided the reporters guarding the airport waiting hall and went straight out of the airport from the tarmac, boarded the Ring Road, and went straight to the northern suburbs of London.

Perhaps because there are still a few days to go before the Champions League final day, the atmosphere of the final in the city is not very obvious. But along the way, you can already see some billboards and some sponsors already warming up for the Champions League final, but this has gradually faded after leaving London. ..., Yang Cheng chose the town of St. Albans as his station, a very important reason is that it is relatively quiet, which can give him a relaxed enough environment to secretly adjust the team, and even prepare the team's decisive battle tactics.

Thiago? As the backbone of the team's defense, Silva's absence has a very big impact on Real Madrid, plus Pepe was also absent due to injury in the final round of the league. Real Madrid currently have only two centre-backs left in the backline, Ramos and Vincent Kompany, how to use them. How to arrange the troops is also a problem that Yang Cheng must seriously consider.

Also, right-back McCone has been in average form lately, could his right side be a breakthrough for Chelsea?

After all, Chelsea's left side is Ashley? The combination of Cole and Malouda, this pair has both offense and defense, is the most combative wing in the hands of Mourinho, relatively speaking, Eto'o on the right side is strong, but the right back Ivanovic is relatively hidden, and it is bound to be a breakthrough for Real Madrid.

Relatively speaking. There is not much suspense in Chelsea's squad, strong and full of personnel, Mourinho's squad will not change much, unless the Portuguese really wants to give it a go and face Real Madrid. It's too risky to suddenly change the squad that you have developed very well in the past season, but Mourinho is not stupid at all!

Goalkeeper Petr Cech, Ashley at the back? Cole, Carvalho, Terry, Ivanovic; a midfielder of Sneijder, Frank Lampard and Motta; The front trident Malouda, Diego? Milito and Eto'o.

If nothing else, Chelsea's squad will be like this, and they will certainly continue to use a high-intensity contraction and pressing defensive tactic, freezing and containing Real Madrid's attack, and then waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, and even Yang Cheng can be sure that Chelsea's counterattack must be in Diego? Milito made a fuss.

The Argentine striker is very optimistic about Yang Cheng, and he has said many times before, Diego? Milito is the kind of player who plays with his brain, a striker that any manager loves so much, and he is the point of support for Chelsea's forward movement.

Today's Chelsea team is more offensive and defensive than it was back then, but the tactical execution is very high, especially their defence, which can be said to be solid.

The key point in this matchup between the two teams will be whether Real Madrid can break through Chelsea's defense!

Yang Cheng never doubted the strength of his team, he believed that Mourinho would not press out after the opening, because he knew very well that it would be suicidal to press out and grab the ball with Real Madrid, so he would defend it to the death, defend it from the beginning, and let Real Madrid attack.

It's a spear and shield duel, if you break it, Real Madrid wins, if you can't break it, Chelsea wins.

The Sainte-Michaels Manor Hotel is located on a beautiful lake, surrounded by more like a beautiful garden, with a magnificent view, but the area is not large, and the rooms are not very large.

It is also a great honor for the hotel to be able to host a giant team like Real Madrid, and in addition to a big discount, it has given full cooperation and support in all aspects, and promised to arrange a stable, comfortable and peaceful residence for Real Madrid as much as possible.

The players brought as few things as possible, each of them was a suitcase provided by the sponsor, with training clothes and game supplies, and after arriving at the hotel, Yang Cheng asked them all to go back to the hotel room to pack up and rest for half an hour. Take the bus again and head straight to Arsenal's Kearney training base.

The training base is famous, but there is only one intersection, a path narrow enough for a bus to pass through.

But after turning a corner, I came to the gate of the training base. Enlightened. ..., big parking lot, big gate, in short, everything is big, people think, Wenger was built in the first place, is it to avoid harassment from the outside world? There must have been countless journalists who have been at a loss over the years!

The staff had already been notified and saw the arrival of the Real Madrid bus. Immediate release.

The players came to the training building, the staff led them into the locker room, Yang Cheng led the coaching staff directly to the training ground, which was the focus of their attention, and Raul arranged for the assistants to arrange the training ground for the first time.

"That bastard Mourinho asked me to help spy on the military, and I'm thinking about whether to sell him the information!" Wenger, who received the news, walked out of the office and stood beside Yang Cheng with a smile, looking at the coaches who were busy on the training ground.

That's all he could do. Otherwise, he has no chance of winning! Yang Cheng grinned.

Arsene Wenger chuckled, "I guess with your words." Don't even need intelligence to kill him! ”

These people have been fighting each other for so many years, fighting each other to understand each other's personalities, Mourinho is notoriously conceited and proud, how can he obtain information through this means?

"The environment here is really nice, there are trees and water, but it's a pity!" Yang Cheng sighed.

"What a pity?" Arsene Wenger turned his head sideways, always feeling that this guy had bad intentions.

"It's a pity that there is no taste of champions here!" Yang Cheng smiled.

Wenger's face froze, he really wanted to blast the bastard out, but he held back. didn't move, if you really want to be angry every time, dealing with Mourinho, Ferguson, Yang Cheng, and other people, you really have to be angry and vomit blood every day.

"Then congratulations, your dick has been decided!" He was also deliberately sarcastic.

'I did it on purpose, I chose the Kearney base to paralyze Mourinho. Convince him that I have chosen a cursed place that is destined not to win the championship, so that he will let his guard down! ”

"You...... If you want me to go, you can say it directly, as for using this kind of indiscriminate means? Wenger was so angry that he turned around angrily and left.

But this guy was just about to cross the corner, and he didn't forget to throw over, "Let's eat together at night, you have a treat!" ”

Yang Cheng shrugged his shoulders and watched Arsene Wenger leave amusefully, he had to prepare for the final, how could he let a potential competitor see how he trained his players?

"What's going on? How do I see Wenger go away in a rage? "Paul? Bair and Benitez walked around the corner, apparently bumping into Arsene Wenger on the way, "Have you offended our landlord?" ”

"Now it's the uncle who pays the money, we pay the rent, why give him face?" Yang Cheng looked confident.

Even the chubby Benitez can't help but laugh that Wenger is indeed at a loss when it comes to fighting with words.

"Are you really going to do it this time?" After Benitez smiled, he couldn't help but look at it and asked.

Yang Cheng didn't answer and asked, "Is there any problem?" ”

Benitez smiled and looked at the training ground, "I always feel ...... Isn't it too risky? ”

"Isn't it good to take risks?" Yang Cheng asked again.

Benitez really wants to be pissed off by this bastard, especially Yang Cheng's expression of indifferent to anything, he can bring the dead back to life from the coffin, it's just fatal!

"I remember once a professional gambler once told me that because life is too short, it is necessary to shoot bigger!" Yang Cheng replied with a smile, "Anyway, it's like this for the rest of your life, gamble, try, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, there are no regrets." ”

After joking, Yang Cheng turned serious, "Mourinho must be guessing how I will fight, usually, Thiago?" In the absence of Silva and Pepe, the most natural thing to do is to make up for them, directly to Kompany and Ramos, which will also have the least impact on the team. "Usually a manager doesn't adjust the team's tactics and ideas before the game, especially before the big game, but I'm not your average manager, and our team is not your average team, they have played together for five years, they have been working together for five years under the same tactical ideas, and they are very familiar with each other. ”

'In this situation, any adjustment, as long as it doesn't hurt their bones, it's not a difficult thing for them, they can adapt very well and I've always been convinced that with the quality of our game at the moment, it's not difficult to control this game, the real difficulty is how to break down the Chelsea goal, as long as we can do that, then we win!'

From the perspective of overall strength, Real Madrid is better than Chelsea, coupled with the style of play that Real Madrid has insisted on for many years, making this team more controllable than Chelsea, Mourinho cannot not be unaware of this, he must also understand very well that he has only one choice in the face of Real Madrid, keep!

If he can hold it, he will win, and if he can't hold it, he will definitely lose!

Real Madrid is the opposite, Yang Cheng's team can only choose to attack, if it is broken, it will win, and if it is not broken, it will lose!

In fact, sometimes it's that simple.

"Don't worry, I know Mourinho better than anyone else, so I know exactly what to do to beat him better, and I've got this fight!" Yang Cheng said confidently.

He knows Jose Mourinho, that's right, but Mourinho knows him too!

In the end, who wins and who loses, it still depends on the game to speak! (To be continued......)