Beast King Costa

Chapter 356 "African Tower" Kanute!

While Rui Costa was talking to his teammates about the situation in Sevilla that he knew, Fernando Santos' coaching staff basically released information about Sevilla players.

Compared with Liberec, an unpopular championship team in the Czech First Division, Sevilla, which won the Europa League last season and the European Super Cup in the new season, has very easy information to collect.

After the information about Sevilla was in the hands of the players, the first thing Diego looked at was the information about the later Chinese Super League giant BJ Guoan's meritorious foreign aid Kanoute.

Frederic Canoute, a technical high center forward with a height of 1 meters, was born in France of African descent. Therefore, Frederic Canoute said that he is from Mali. There is nothing wrong with him. After all, he is in the French national team His effectiveness has not been involved in international A-level events. During the golden period of his career, because he was not reused by the French national team, Kanoute chose to play for the Mali national team in international A-level events. Since then, he has a fate with the French national team It's a full stop.

As the core player of the Mali national team in the African Cup and World Cup, Frederick Canoute has also won the honor of African Footballer of the Year. He is also a very rare person who was not born in Africa but won the African Footballer of the Year award World-class players are coming.

Frederick Canoute made his debut in Lyon's youth training in Ligue [-], but the later African footballer did not play in Ligue [-] for too many years.

At the age of 22, Frederick Kanoute chose to land in the Premier League-he moved to the Premier League West Ham United for 375 million pounds.

In 2003, West Ham United was relegated from the Premier League and entered the British Championship. Canoute, who had a high scoring efficiency in England, moved to Tottenham Hotspur and scored 72 goals in 21 games played. .

However, Kanoute's time at Tottenham Hotspur was very unhappy.

On December 2004, 12, Tottenham Hotspur had just got rid of the embarrassing situation of losing 3 games in a row in the league. Therefore, coach Jol very much hoped that Tottenham Hotspur could emulate Middlesbrough last season , winning a championship in a competition such as the League Cup that strong teams do not pay attention to, in order to qualify for the Europa League next season.

In the League Cup final, Tottenham Hotspur drew with Liverpool within 90 minutes!

In the 108th minute of extra time, Defoe, who came off the bench, broke the deadlock for Tottenham. Seeing the time ticking away, Tottenham Hotspur was about to usher in victory.But an unfortunate thing happened in the 117th minute-Canoute fouled with a handball in the penalty area while defending the opponent's corner kick and gave the opponent a penalty kick. Liverpool's Pangle made it overnight.To make matters worse, Kanoute missed a penalty in the ensuing penalty shoot-out that ultimately led to Tottenham's defeat.

After the game, Tottenham Hotspur's head coach Joel was very angry at Kanoute's deliberate handball in front of the media and ruined the fruits of victory.

"I really can't understand why Kanoute did that, it's very unfortunate, he's unforgivable, but it happens in every club. Whenever something like this happens , you always ask 'why did he do that'? It's insane, no one understands it. I hope he doesn't do it anymore, I really hope the referee didn't see his handball, It cost us too much."

Also because of the poor performance in the League Cup final, Tottenham Hotspur missed the championship and the Europa League qualification. Kanoute was cleaned out of the team by Tottenham Hotspur after the end of the season.

Kanoute, who was very frustrated in the English Super League, officially signed with the La Liga Sevilla team on August 2005, 8 at the suggestion of Juande Ramos, with a transfer fee of 18 million euros.After moving to Sevilla, Kanoute began to compete with Argentina international "Rabbit" Saviola and Brazilian striker Fabiano for the starting position.

Unlike common tall center forwards, Kanoute's footwork can be said to be a must for tall center forwards-it is definitely a footwork that can play a classical midfielder, and even Kanoute's awareness of scoring the ball It can be called a midfield master level.

In the competition with "Rabbit" Saviola's striker position, Kanoute actually overwhelmed the Argentine international "Rabbit" and became the first choice for the striker in Juand Ramos' 4-4-2 lineup. His striker partner is naturally Luis Fabiano, who has a terrifying scoring efficiency in the Europa League.

After the end of last season, "Rabbit" Saviola was once again called by Barcelona, ​​the place where his European football dream began. He took the initiative to leave Sevilla, return to Barcelona, ​​and continue to compete in the UEFA Champions League.

After "Rabbit" Saviola left Sevilla, Kanoute can be said to have secured the starting position of the striker.

Even in the UEFA Super Cup in the new season, against the dreamy Barcelona, ​​Kanoute scored the first goal for Sevilla with a perfect curve ball, allowing Juand · Ramos' team can play more proactively in the later game time!
However, the African big man doesn't seem to have much interest in scoring goals. In Sevilla's striker collocation, Kanoute will always give more chances to score goals to his partner Luis Fa. Bianno, he is more about harvesting assist data.

Currently, Kanoute has received 4 assists in the Europa League - that is to say, Luis Fabiano scored 6 goals in the first round of the new season's Europa League against Liberec. , 4 of which came from assists sent by Kanut.

However, Diego’s deepest impression of Kanout was when Kanout was in the Chinese Super League and was teammates with “Golden Left Foot” Xu Liang in the BJ Guoan team.

When he joined BJ Guoan in 2012, Kanut was 35 years old. At that time, the "African tower" could no longer fight with the defenders for 90 minutes in each game at the center position. Therefore, Kanut, who played for BJ Guoan Special is more about playing the front midfielder position, using his strong ability to hold the ball with his back, to sort out the offense for the frontcourt teammates, and to support the ball.

At that time, Guangzhou Evergrande was playing in full swing in the Chinese Super League. However, with Kanoute in the frontcourt and former Guangzhou Medicine captain "Golden Left Foot" Xu Liang in the midfielder, the BJ Guoan team was able to make a direct confrontation between the two sides. Guangzhou Evergrande, which has many international players, has repeatedly suffered losses.

It's just a pity that the older Kanoute did not allow his classical attacking midfielder style, which is full of entertainment, to be maintained in the midfield for too long.

On December 2013, 12, the temperature on a winter night in BJ was close to 4℃, and nearly a thousand fans packed the international departure gate of the Capital International Airport.

Accompanied by the shout of "Kanoute! Canoute!", Kanoute, who officially announced his retirement after the end of the season, appeared in the eyes of the fans surrounded by many police and security personnel.

Facing the farewell fans, "African Tower" Kanoute clasped his hands together. While expressing his gratitude to the fans, he also officially marked a successful end to his career in China BJ.

(End of this chapter)