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Chapter 614 What everyone expects

In the early morning, a rich area in Madrid.

Florentino Perez finished his breakfast, and with the help of his wife, he put on his suit jacket, adjusted his tie, and walked out of the gate of the villa.

The assistant, driver and car have been waiting at the door for a long time.

"Go back to the company." Florentino rubbed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, and sat in the back seat after the assistant opened the door.

At this time, the freshly baked newspapers this morning had already been neatly placed within his reach.

Florentino is a die-hard Real Madrid fan, and he has been since he was very young.

Like all Real Madrid fans, he loves to read AS, so it's always on top.

Looking sideways, the headline on the front page is the cover of Yang Yang holding up the World Player of the Year trophy. The headline on the front page is about the news about him winning the World Player of the Year trophy, which makes Florentino smile.

He still remembers that in December [-], that was the first time he saw Yang Yang in Zurich.

That should be the first time Yang Yang appeared at the Zurich Opera House. He told Yang Yang a lot, but unexpectedly, two years later, Yang Yang took away the supreme honor here.

Aspen reported on Yang Yang in a long space, which shows that Yang Yang has quite a lot of fans and influence in Real Madrid and Spain, because the newspaper is the most sensitive, which is closely related to their sales.

One of the reports caught Florentino's attention, that is, the top four of the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or overlapped. This is relatively rare, because in the past, everyone thought that the European Ballon d'Or focused on professionalism and the World Footballer's reputation.

Yang Yang, Kaka, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, these are the top four for the European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year.

There is basically no problem with the first two. The difference lies in the ranking between Messi and Ronaldinho. In the European Ballon d'Or, the Portuguese is ranked third and Messi is ranked fourth, but in the ranking of the World Footballer, it is the other way around.

But in any case, the two lists represent the four strongest players in the world today, and there is basically no suspense.

This is not the focus of Florentino's attention, what he noticed is the age of these four players.

Yang Yang is 21 years old, Kaka is 25 years old, Ronaldinho is 22 years old, and Messi is 20 years old.

This is the lowest average age among the top four players in the history of the European Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year.

The overlapping of the two lists proves that the strength and performance of these four players have been recognized by everyone, and their age represents a trend in today's football, that is, younger.

Florentino is a successful businessman who likes to look at professional football from a commercial point of view.

In the two years since he left the chairmanship of Real Madrid, he has been thinking about a question, why did he lose in the first place?
There's nothing wrong with Galacticos' strategy, and as a decades-long fan, he knows it all too well.

It is achievable to poach the best stars from other European teams and form a strong and unmatched team.

So why did it fail?
Makelele?

No, Florentino never saw it as a problem, although many fans thought it was deadly.

Where is the problem?
After thinking for a long time, he still has no answer.

But just now, when he saw this report, he suddenly thought of it.

age!

Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham, Michael Owen...

One superstar a year is certainly eye-catching. Every summer, the eyes of the world will be focused on Real Madrid, making the Galacticos the most profitable football club in the world in the shortest possible time.

But the ensuing problem is that by the time the team is almost polished, many players are already old.

It reached its peak in [-], and then Figo and Zidane grew old.

Modern European football is not what it used to be.

In recent years, professional football has been gradually industrialized, attracting and spreading faster and faster, and the influence of European football has also spread rapidly all over the world. The four major leagues, especially leagues like the Premier League, are constantly harvesting the huge global market.

This can be seen from the fact that every time the Premier League re-signs a contract, overseas copyrights become more expensive.

The age of young players becoming famous is getting younger and younger. Yang Yang started to be the home of Ajax. He was the core player of Liverpool at the age of 20. He won the World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or at the age of 21.

There are also Messi, Ronaldinho and Kaka, and among the players who are comparable to them in European football, Cesc Fabregas, Robinho and Ibrahimovic are all only about 25 years old.

Rejuvenation is a trend, but Florentino also sees an opportunity from it.

Just like Yang Yang, who is only 21 years old now, with his character and ability, he will have no problem playing for another ten years.

If Real Madrid buys him now, there is no need to worry about the team's offensive power in ten years, but as long as he is equipped with a complete team lineup, this is a team that can hit the championship.

Thinking of this, Florentino shook his head and sighed.

He didn't realize this back then, and there was no Yang Yang in European football back then.

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The same thing, in the eyes of different people, is actually two completely different situations.

In Alkmaar, the Netherlands, Van Gaal watched the live broadcast of the FIFA Awards Ceremony last night, and immediately called Yang Yang to congratulate him. In the morning, he also woke up early to read the Dutch newspaper.

The headlines of almost all newspapers are reporting that Yang Yang won the World Footballer of the Year. Because he debuted in the Netherlands, the Dutch media also seemed to be honored.

Over the years, Dutch football has declined a lot, and there are no top players in the world.

Van Gaal also noticed the phenomenon reported by the media, the top four of the European Ballon d'Or overlapped with the top four of the World Footballer of the Year.

But instead of age, he sees tactical value.

These four players seem to play different positions. For example, Messi is a left-footed right-winger. Cristiano Ronaldo is a right-footed left-winger and occasionally a right-winger. Kaka is a midfielder.

At first glance, it seems that there is no necessary connection, but in fact it is not.

Van Gaal has coached Alkmaar for many years, and the work is not hard, but more thinking and accumulation.

Charging time, this is an essential stage for the head coach.

And Van Gaal also realized that this represents a trend in European football.

In fact, in the past few years, the defense of European football has become more and more integrated. It is hard to say when it started, but this trend reached its peak after Greece won the European Cup in [-].

The defense is getting more and more meticulous, and the trend of integrated football is becoming more and more obvious, so a problem that follows arises.

Facing a team with a tight overall defense, how to play?
This is the case with Mourinho's Chelsea, and so is Benitez's Liverpool. Even in the game when Liverpool played Manchester United not long ago, Ferguson arranged for nine players to retreat.

Breaking the iron barrel formation is a problem for all teams, but now that the defense is getting more and more meticulous, breaking the dense defense has become the most important issue.

Everyone knows that the personal performance of players is a very important means.

Therefore, in this case, players who can rely on their personal abilities to tear apart the opponent's defense and create threats with the ball are playing an increasingly important tactical role.

To a certain extent, Liverpool's Crouch and Kevin Dirk, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez, AC Milan's Inzaghi and Gilardino, and Barcelona's Eto'o, none of these famous European forwards have such strength, and in their teams, these forwards all bear a very important responsibility, that is, to support the teammate behind them who has this strength.

European football is full of stars and a hundred flowers are blooming, but this year, the European Ballon d'Or and the top four players in the World Footballer's list overlap at the same time. This is definitely not accidental, but a symptom of this trend.

Van Gaal saw this very clearly, and he also firmly believed that Yang Yang should continue to move in this direction.

So, he quickly took out his mobile phone and sent a long message to Yang Yang.

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Yang Yang was elected as the World Footballer!
This piece of news quickly aroused heated discussions all over the world, and it can be said to have attracted worldwide attention.

As in previous years, after Yang Yang was elected as the World Footballer with an overwhelming advantage, major media around the world have been digging inside.

Soon, the answers to the votes of the head coaches and captains of the top [-] national teams in the world were dug up by the media.

This is also a consistent tradition, representing some kind of authority.

Surprisingly, the first choice of the top [-] national team coaches and players this year was surprisingly consistent. Almost all of them chose Yang Yang. Only Brazil national team coach Dunga chose Pirlo, Didier Drogba and Ronaldinho.

According to the rules, the Brazilian head coach cannot choose Kaka to avoid the same country, but Dunga is obviously unwilling to choose Yang Yang and Messi, so he chose Pirlo, a big upset, obviously to support Kaka.

But except for Dunga, the first choice of the head coaches of the other [-] national teams is Yang Yang.

Chinese national team coach Ali Han and captain Li Weifeng all chose Kaka, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for the top three, and before they voted, they each called Yang Yang to ask him about the vote.

It doesn't matter to Yang Yang, anyway, he can't be chosen, it's the same to choose anyone, so it's better to be fair.

When the results came out, the media and fans all over the world were once again surprised, because they were finally sure that Yang Yang was unanimously favored by all professionals.

Such a unanimous choice, apart from proving that Yang Yang is popular, what else can I say?
Therefore, when the news spread, Yang Yang's reputation hit a new high.

(End of this chapter)