69novels Chapter 487
Chapter 487
FC Barcelona, nicknamed "Barça".
Founded in 1899, it is a traditional Spanish giant and one of the most famous football clubs in the world.
A look at several important periods since the founding of Barcelona.
In the 1950s, the Five Crowns Dynasty.
In the 1951-52 season, Barcelona successfully won the La Liga, Spanish Cup, Latin Cup, Martin Cup, and Rossi Cup, heralding the arrival of the Five Crowns Dynasty, and once became the strongest club in Spain.
From 1973 to 1978, Johan Cruyff's player period.
Legendary star Cruyff joined Barcelona on August 13, 1973. In the five years at Barcelona, the Dutch flying man helped Barcelona end the 14-year slump after the Five Crowns period. In the 1973-74 season, he won the La Liga championship and also contributed to the classic away game of 5:0 bloodbath of Real Madrid.
It was after the end of that season that the official Barcelona team song "Cant del Barça" was born to commemorate the club's return to the top and the 75th anniversary of its founding.
In the early 1990s, Cruyff was coaching.
Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994, and defeated Sampdoria in the 1992 Champions League final and successfully reached the top of Europe.
At that time, Barcelona had a number of world-class stars such as Romario, Sabonis, and Koeman, and it was also known as the "Dream Dynasty".
During the period from 1995 to 2003, Barcelona's performance was average. It is worth mentioning that it won two consecutive La Liga titles in 1998 and 1999.
And the summer of 2003 was destined to be the beginning of a new glorious period for Barcelona.
Dutchman Rijkaard took over Barcelona and successfully won Ronaldinho from Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1.
In the 2003-04 season, Barcelona unfortunately won the league runner-up, and then Deco, Eto'o, Giuly, Larsson and other stars joined, which completely marked the rise of the Barcelona dynasty again.
In the 04-05 and 05-06 seasons, they easily won two consecutive La Liga titles, and successfully reached the top of Europe again in 2006.
This is the current Barcelona, the well-deserved first in La Liga, the "Dream II Dynasty" Barcelona.
So far this season.
Barcelona has basically maintained its original core lineup.
In the league, in the 22 rounds of La Liga that have been completed, they have achieved a record of 15 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses, and are still ranked first in La Liga, suppressing Real Madrid.
In the Champions League, although they are second to Chelsea and only qualified as the second in the group, they staged an outrageous 5:0 bloodbath against the Bulgarian Super League giants Sofia Levski.
You know.
This is the Champions League. Being able to come here means you have something.
As a result, in front of the explosive Barcelona, Sofia Livski, who was killing in Bulgaria, seemed like a weak team.
There is no doubt.
Although the overall strength of Barcelona this season has fluctuated due to Rijkaard's adjustments and experiments in the rotation of new and old players.
But the upper limit of this world-class powerhouse is still enough to defend the Champions League again this year!
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Days after day, the Champions League round of 16 is approaching, and the media and fans have also turned their attention to the Champions League.
Su Fei and his Manchester City teammates are engaged in intensive preparations. Stuart pulls the players into the conference room every day to explain the tactical class.
"Their passing and control..."
"You must be very clear about your running range in the game. Only in this way can you coordinate most effectively and directly when defending..."
"Defense! I think defense will be their weakness..."
"We must master the rhythm, because once the rhythm falls on their side, our goal will become very dangerous..."
How to target and defeat Barcelona, Stewart did not find a truly effective and clear method.
Because this kind of team is full of stars and players with excellent personal abilities, you can never limit it 100%.
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Under the same sky, Barcelona training base.
Rijkaard is also leading the players to conduct internal training matches and tactical drills.
The Dutchman's coaching style is full of the shadow of his teacher Van Gaal. In the few years since he came to Barcelona,In 2016, his coaching philosophy was to emphasize passing and controlling in offensive football.
Under his coaching, you can see Barcelona lose, but you can hardly see Barcelona shrinking back and forth in the backcourt, and they will die standing up.
But this time facing Manchester City with Su Fei.
Rijkaard, contrary to his usual practice, made a defensive design specifically for Su Fei.
And in the training of the past few days, he kept playing the highlights of Su Fei's goals since last season, including the World Cup, to the players.
"You must understand!"
"You will face a super striker who just won the Golden Ball at the age of 18."
"Chelsea, which gave us a headache, was torn apart by his destructive power again and again in the match with Manchester City."
The Dutchman has tried to make the players feel the strength of Su Fei by giving examples.
But what disappointed him was.
He still saw relaxed and contemptuous expressions on the faces of many players.
"Boss, that Su is indeed very famous."
"But Manchester City's overall performance in the Champions League group stage is not very outstanding, and Su's number of goals is not even among the top five scorers in the Champions League."
"I think you are a little too nervous."
Rijkaard looked over and didn't expect that the person who said this was the usually honest and simple main striker Eto'o.
This made the Dutch realize a fact.
Eto'o was not deliberately refuting himself, he was just stating the facts he saw.
The fact is.
Su Fei's performance in the Champions League group stage was indeed average, completely unlike the terrifying dominance he showed in the league and the World Cup.
Moreover.
The overall strength of Manchester City's group is very average, which makes Su Fei's current group stage performance less convincing.
Rijkaard was silent for a short time.
Let the Barcelona players stand up to support Eto'o.
"Samuel is right, boss!"
"Yes, boss, we are the defending champions, how can we be afraid before we even start playing?"
"It's true that Su won the Ballon d'Or, we also have a Ballon d'Or winner!"
"Haha, that's right!"
"If we really compare, is Ronaldo not as good as that kid who just became famous?"
"Long live Ronaldo!"
"Hahaha!"
Rijkaard's tactical class suddenly turned into a meeting for the players to praise Ronaldinho.
It is obvious.
Ronaldinho is a good player in this Barcelona team and is quite popular with his teammates.
This is also very normal.
Who would not like a boss who can lead them to win on the field and take them to nightclubs to have fun off the field?
However.
There are exceptions in the meeting room.
The long-haired melancholy Argentine boy was in the corner, holding his chin with his hand, his face full of sorrow.
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