The Glory of the Godfather

A big, middle-aged man with a fierce appearance named Alf Inge Harland, a former Norwegian international footballer, played for Leeds United and Manchester City before retiring.

Yes, this old Harland is the same Harland that Keane admitted in his autobiography that he wanted to abolish on purpose.

These two people can be said to have deep grievances.

In 1997, Harland Sr. played for Leeds United.

In the Rose Derby match between Manchester United and Leeds United, Keane tore his cruciate ligament and was lying on the ground in pain, but Haaland ran over and yelled at him, thinking that he was pretending to be injured.

Four years after the incident, Harland Sr. has moved to Manchester City.

In the Manchester Derby that year, the two enemies met again, and Keane kicked fiercely at the right time.

When the old Harland fell to the ground and screamed in pain, Keane walked out of the field without looking back.

Later in Keane's autobiography, he admitted that he did it on purpose, and he waited for this day for four years!

Now, the old Harland is a new employee of the Aston Villa Club, and his position is the assistant coach of the U16 echelon.

The reason why the old Harland chose to leave his hometown of Norway and come to work in Birmingham is very simple.

Fang Jue went to Haaland's home in person and said that Aston Villa had noticed that Alf Inge Haaland's son Erling Haaland was very talented and hoped to sign him.

The old Haaland is very happy that his son can be favored by Fang Jue, who is known as good at discovering young players.

However, Old Harland was also a little hesitant. He didn't really want his thirteen-year-old son to go abroad alone.

Knowing the concerns of the old Harland, Fang Jue directly invited the old Harland to work at the Aston Villa club.

In this way, the Harland family came to Birmingham from Norway. The old Harland became the youth echelon coach of the Aston Villa Club, and the young Harland also entered the youth training camp of Aston Villa.

Not bad. Old Harland's voice was rough and loud, The most important thing is that Erling likes this place very much.

Boy, I look forward to the day when you will be able to defeat Villa in the Champions League final, and all the fans are cheering for you. Fang Jue smiled and patted Harland on the head.

The little guy was a little shy, but he nodded vigorously excitedly.

Fang Jue greeted the father and son and left.

Now, Villa's youth echelon has 16-year-old Kylian Mbappe and 13-year-old Erling Harland. A very talented little guy, when they grow up, Aston Villa's striker will have no worries in the next ten years.

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A few days later, in the twenty-fourth round of the Premier League, with Lewandowski's goal, Aston Villa beat Swansea 1-0 at home and continued to lead the Premier League standings.

Three days later, in the twenty-fifth round of the league, Aston Villa beat Hull City 2-0 away. In this game, the young Korean player Sun Xingmin passed and shot, and Aston Villa won the game. The biggest hero.

Another three days later, in the fifth round of the FA Cup, Aston Villa beat Leicester City four-to-one at home and advanced to the quarter-finals of the FA Cup this season.

Their opponent in the quarter-finals was West Bromwich Albion who had just eliminated West Ham United with a disparity of four to zero.

In this game against Leicester City, Belgium's Little Monster Lukaku scored twice in the game, and Sanchez also scored a goal.

What made the Chinese fans happiest was that Zhang Yang, who came off the bench in the second half of the game, received a pass from Glarish and scored a successful shovel in front of the goal, scoring the first goal of a Chinese player in the FA Cup.

After the game, the domestic sports media also cheered.

In addition, in La Liga, this round is La Liga. Ibiza beat Huelva 2-1 at home. Aston Villa, who played for Ibiza on loan, also scored a goal in the game. ball.

Sports Weekly used photos of Zhang Yang and Wen Lei scoring goals in England and Spain respectively on the front page. back.

Two days after playing this FA Cup game, the Aston Villa team set off for Germany.

They are away to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Leverkusen was drawn in the round of 16, which also made many media and fans think that Aston Villa got a super gift package.

However, Fang Jue didn't see it that way.

Leverkusen are a strong and respectable team and anyone who underestimates them will pay the price.

Facing such a strong team with such a long history, we have to give 1120 percent.

I know Mr. Schmidt is a very good coach. His team is not easy to deal with. We have to be extremely careful.

Fang Jue's remarks won the praise of the German media, who praised him as a humble gentleman.

February 17th.

Germany, Bayer Arena.

Before the game, Fang Jue shook hands with Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt.

The two chatted for a while, and it seemed that Fang Jue said that he admired Roger Schmidt before the game, and it seemed that it was not all polite words.

Leverkusen invited Schmidt to coach last summer. The 48-year-old Schmidt has been coaching the Salzburg Red Bull since the summer of 2012. Last season, Schmidt led the team to win the Austrian League ahead of schedule. 110 goals, his two forwards, Soriano scored 31 goals in 28 appearances, Alan scored 26 goals in 29 appearances, you must know that the team ranked second in the Austrian league scored less than Seventy balls.

Howe, who commented on the game, said, This is why Leverkusen club executives are looking for Schmidt. He is very good at leading the offense, and he is also good at cultivating young people.

This Schmidt is very interesting. Zhang Lu said with a smile, He played for a period of time in the German Bundesliga Paderborn team, but he didn't make any achievements. Later, he gave up professional football and played in Paderborn. He studied mechanical engineering at university. After graduation, Schmidt found a job as an electrical engineer at a local auto parts manufacturing company in Paderborn, and at the same time coached a local low-level club as both head coach and player.

In 2010, Schmidt obtained the UEFA professional coaching certificate and the German professional coaching certificate. In 2011, Schmidt coached the Paderborn team and magically led the second division team to the promotion. Qualification play-offs. At this time, Schmidt won the favor of the Austrian giants Red Bull Salzburg, and his coaching career has been on the rise since then.

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