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Chapter 24 Moyes
December 2009, 8.

Bringing the team to Manchester in the morning, Moyes found time to go to the Manchester Stadium to familiarize himself with the venue. In fact, they come here once or twice a year, and they are no strangers to this stadium.

Back at the hotel, let the coaching staff and players go back to the room. Moyes sat alone in the lounge area of ​​the hotel lobby and ordered a cup of coffee.Occasionally, one or two fans will come up to take a photo with him, but generally speaking, it is not too many.

Moyes' coaching career started very early, and he became the head coach as soon as he retired.Of course, he wasn't very successful as a player, as are two of England's most famous managers right now.

Manchester United coach Ferguson and Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger also had average player careers.

But their coaching career was very successful.

Moyes has always regarded them as his goal, eager to become the head coach of a wealthy team one day.

There is also a very good opportunity now. Ferguson is very old, and his heart has been bad all the time. It is obvious that the energy of coaching is not enough. A few years ago, Ferguson said that he would be a good successor to Manchester United.

If he can really take over the coach of Manchester United from Ferguson Ferguson, he will definitely take his coaching career to a higher level.

Everton is good, but compared with Manchester United, it is far behind.

In 1998, Moyes became the head coach of the team directly after Preston retired. At that time, everyone felt that Preston was short-sighted and chose an inexperienced head coach to save money.

In terms of the ability to coach the team, Moyes, who is only 34 years old, has shown his super coaching ability since he came up.

As soon as he took office, he brought a brand-new atmosphere and achievements to the Preston team. Since he took over the team, he has averaged two points per game. This is on the premise that Moyes did not introduce a new player obtained.

Because Moyes injected a tougher confidence into the players.

According to Taylor, a Preston player at the time, recalled, "This is what he promised us, that is, if you can't find someone who is better than the existing players, you would rather not introduce new players. This is the same as Many coaches have different styles, and Moyer’s approach gave all the players confidence, and everyone was united like never before, the players played for the coach, and the coach worked for the players.”

As a result, Moyes made Preston, who was originally hovering in the relegation zone, almost reach the first division at the end of the season.

In the second year, Moyes lived up to expectations and led Preston to the First Division. At this time, Moyes' reputation began to become popular in England's coaching circle, and many big teams noticed him. Manchester United Also wanted him to join Ferguson's coaching staff, but he chose to stay at Preston.

Moyes' approach is undoubtedly correct. Since he became Ferguson's assistant and his light is covered by Ferguson, it is better to fight monsters and level up in Preston.

In the first season of League One, Preston played very well. In the end, Moyes led his team to lose to Bolton in the Premier League play-offs.

But Moyes, who takes one step a year, ushered in his own opportunity.

In March 2002, the Premier League team Everton announced that Moyes became the team's new head coach and eventually led the team to relegation.

At this time, Everton was not a team that could wrestle with strong teams such as Manchester United and Liverpool in the 80s. After entering the 90s, Everton fell into a slump and became a mid-lower team. Stay in the relegation zone.

If the combination of Moyes and Everton can always be like this, maybe Moyes may not be without the possibility of becoming the godfather of Everton, just like Ferguson is to Manchester United and Wenger is to Arsenal.

The 02-03 season was the first full season of Moyes coaching Everton, but it was a pity that he was defeated. Although he was ranked in the top four of the Premier League for a long time, he finally ranked seventh, but this is already Everton The club's best result in a decade.

Moyes also beat Ferguson and Wenger to become the best coach of the year award issued by the English football coach that year.

It has been seven years!

I have been in Everton for seven years, and Moyes is also a little impatient. He can't wait to play for Manchester, but every time he brings the team to the game.

It has been several years since Sir Alex Ferguson promised him the position of coach. Moyes couldn't help feeling that he had given up invitations from many teams just to wait for Sir Alex Ferguson's call.

Last season, Everton did not start very well in the league. They only won 9 Peso victories in the first 2 rounds of the league. Fortunately, the team stabilized the situation in time and got back on track. The team also renewed his contract with him until 2013 Year.

At the end of the season, Everton finally won the fifth place in the league and once again qualified for the European war. At the same time, Everton also reached the final of the FA Cup, but lost to Chelsea.

Last season, he won the England head coach of the year award for the third time. To be honest, Moyes now feels that he already has Sir Alex Ferguson teaching them the same level.

In today's game, Moyes also came prepared. In order to wash away the humiliation of being defeated by Arsenal in the last game, he decided to give this young coach a good gift to celebrate that he finally became the head coach of the first team. coached.

Moyes and Su Bai once had a conflict, which can be regarded as a fight, and neither side won or lost.

Wayne Rooney, who is now Manchester United's top card, was also born in Manchester City's youth training camp. When he was 16 years old, Moyes came to Manchester and took Rooney away with the position of the main striker of the first team and an attractive salary.

Su Bai strongly opposed it at the time, but unfortunately he couldn't stop Rooney from leaving. Of course, it didn't work for Moyes for a few years. Rooney returned to Manchester, but only went to Manchester United.

Years later, Rooney has become one of the most popular strikers in England, but he is still one of the most hated players by Manchester City fans.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Manchester Stadium was full of voices and banners.

Although today is not a weekend, there are many fans. How can you miss the first home game of the new season? Even Manchester City's owner Mansour and Mubarak and other team executives have been dispatched.

When Su Bai came out of the dressing room, the scene was even more lively.

"Sue!" "Sue!" "Sue!"——
"It seems that our new coach is very popular with the fans!"

Mansur is also very young, but he is not as pushy as the other boss, Abu. Seeing that Su Bai's prestige is far above his own, he does not think there is a problem.

He was just the one who paid the money, and he didn't appear often, it would be hell if he could compare to Su Bai, and he didn't need such prestige.

"Yes!" Mubarak felt very lucky. It was a gamble for him to use Su Bai to coach the first team. The future is unknown, but at least it seems right now.

Moyes also came over to shake hands with Su Bai, "Su, congratulations, you have finally become the head coach of Manchester City's first team."

"Thank you!"

Originally, the two of them didn't like each other, and Su Bai didn't want to be perfunctory with each other, so he let go with a light tap of his hand.

In this round, Everton is the main force, and the goalkeeper is Howard;

Baines, Heitinga, Distin and Jakilka at the back;
In the midfield direction, Arte partnered with Pienaar, Tim Cahill and Osman, P-Neville;
Single striker Saha.

(End of this chapter)