The strongest blade in football

Chapter 165 Preparing for the FA Cup (4000-word chapter)
[Even the nuclear warheads have been destroyed, Wang Nuo is awesome]

【I found out that the female guest of If You Are the One No. [-] is a lie】

[Illustration of Manchester City's offensive system, Wang Nuo has become an indispensable part of the frontcourt]

[The whole family went bankrupt and spent 40 yuan to cure his girlfriend's leukemia, and his girlfriend married someone else every other year]

[Vote: With 7 goals scored in the UEFA Europa League, what is Wang Nuo's final ranking in this UEFA Europa League? 】

[The ID card is about to expire. If I don’t have a household registration book, can I just use the old one to apply for a new one? 】

[Record every second of wasted time on the African construction site]

【It's funny, why can't Tevez be sold? 】

Dong Chao swiped the mouse, browsed the posts in Wang Nuo's post bar, and looked at the bustling post bar, full of pride rose in his heart.

Now, he is no longer the owner of Wang Nuo Bar.

Since last summer, with Wang Nuo joining Manchester City, Wang Nuo's posts and members have started to grow in a blowout manner.

He has limited energy, so he can only hand over the post bar to Wang Zhongshi's team for management.

Wang Nuo's post bar has already become popular, not limited to football itself.

Now the number of resident bar friends is more than 100 million, and it is still increasing rapidly. There is a tendency to compete with Li Yi bar.

In last month's post bar popularity list, Wang Nuo Bar ranked 9th!
In front of it are: Fight Break Sphere, World of Warcraft, One Piece, Counter-Strike ol, Dungeon and Warriors, Naruto, Li Yi, and Dota.

Now post a post on Wang Nuoba, and within half a minute, it will go to the second page.

As the former bar owner of Wang Nuo Bar, Dong Chao has watched Wang Nuo Bar grow from dozens of people, from deserted to what it is today.

Dong Chao had to sigh with emotion that he was really lucky.

During the Chinese New Year last year, he was still running orders every day to sell insurance, sweep buildings and streets and do street worship, thinking about making more money.

And just one year later, he had completely landed and resigned from the insurance company.

The current Dong Chao is one of the vice-presidents of the Lifetime Nuo Fan Club, and he can be regarded as a backbone of Wang Zhongshi's team.

He is mainly responsible for participating in the docking of some activities in Shandong and surrounding areas.

For example, half a month ago, they contacted several well-known companies to sponsor a cross-regional elementary school football cup.

More than 12 teams below U[-] were invited to participate in the competition. After more than ten days, they have already reached the semi-finals.

In the end, the top three winners will all be rewarded generously.

Moreover, they also reached an agreement with the Manchester City club. In addition to the bonus, the champion team will also have the opportunity to watch the Manchester City FA Cup match on the spot, and have the qualification to have close contact with Wang Nuo after the game.

Dong Chao also asked for a spot from it.

I am ashamed to say that, apart from the Asian Youth Championship, Dong Chao has never watched Wang Nuo's other games on the spot. He also failed to make the trip to the Asian Cup more than a month ago due to personal reasons.

As an old fan, it has always been Dong Chao’s dream to go to the Premier League to watch football in person. He just took this opportunity to go to Europe and open his eyes.

You know, there are a total of eight rounds in the FA Cup, and Manchester City have passed all the way, but they have already played to the sixth round!

Dong Chao thought in his heart, maybe he can go to Wembley Stadium to watch the semi-finals or finals by then!
Thinking about it, I was really a little excited!

After Manchester City played Kiefer Dynamo, they flew back to Manchester early the next morning.

The weekend night of March 3 is the sixth round of the FA Cup, and they have to rest and prepare in advance.

This year's Chelsea was eliminated, which is a big plus. Chelsea have been very good in the past few years, and they have won the FA Cup softly.

Eliminate Chelsea, and the hope of winning the championship will soar a lot.

In addition to Manchester City, the current FA Cup quarter-finals also include Manchester United, Arsenal, West Ham United, Stoke City, Bolton, Birmingham, and Reading.

Judging from the number of opponents alone, this championship is not that far away.

As long as they win three more games, Manchester City is expected to end the long championship drought since 1976!
However, the FA Cup, which determines the outcome of a game, has very low fault tolerance, and low-level teams often overthrow the top teams.

Manchester City's opponent in this round is Reading, who is currently ranked 8th in the British Championship.

They can't be careless.

After returning to Manchester, the whole team took a day off, but Wang Nuo was still very busy.

First of all, the club wanted Wang Nuo to shoot an advertisement, but Manchester City didn't make it clear at first, and only told Wang Nuo that it would take up an afternoon.

When Wang Nuo was about to leave, he realized that it was an advertisement for a well-known liquor in China.

Wang Nuo was not happy when he heard it, just kidding, isn't this slapping himself in the face?
I'm a player!Advertise for liquor?

The advertising effect is better than the combination of the idol Ronaldo and Golden Throat Lozenges!

Think about it, Wang Nuo was bouncing the ball for a while, and a line suddenly popped up after shooting——

"Do you know the secret of my success in Manchester City, because I drink XX wine, XX wine, the more I drink, the more goals I get!"

I'm afraid that the next day, he will be completely reduced to a laughing stock.

Obviously, this domestic wine company wants to contact Wang Nuo through Manchester City to increase the success rate.

It's a pity that Wang Nuo saw through it at a glance and rejected it without mercy.

This domestic wine company is one of Manchester City's sponsors in the Asia-Pacific region, but it can only be regarded as an insignificant role.

Top clubs have sponsors of multiple levels and industries, and in many cases are divided into regions.

For example, Heineken has always been the official beer of Manchester City in the UK, but Manchester City can still sign a beer sponsor limited to China when they go to China.

The main sponsor of a professional football club, the first is the chest advertisement, the second is the jersey sponsorship, and then each category is ranked in the back according to the value.

This well-known domestic wine company joined hands with Manchester City last year when Wang Nuo joined hands. Manchester City did not take it seriously, and it was just a routine procedure to come to Wang Nuo.

Manchester City has no shortage of sponsors.

In other words, after the Abu Dhabi Group took over Manchester City, Manchester City has no shortage of sponsors.

Most of Manchester City's dozens of sponsors are inextricably linked with the Abu Dhabi Group, or they are simply investment companies controlled by it.

Manchester City has continuously laundered Abu Dhabi oil banknotes into sports money by signing a large number of Abu Dhabi sponsors.

It is said that this summer, Etihad Airways will name the stadium, and the name of Manchester City's home stadium will also be changed to Etihad Stadium in the future!

This is the current basic situation of Manchester City.

Compared with club owners who are rich and powerful, Wang Nuo actually doesn't care much about economics.

He now has too much money in his bank card and wealth management account to spend, and there is a steady stream of pounds entering his account every week.

When Wang Nuo chooses endorsements and advertisements, money is not the first priority.

Before that, many advertisements came to him, but Wang Nuo almost said no, and only spent a small amount of time shooting two public service advertisements.

The image rights clause in the contract he signed with the team is not fully binding.

Wang Nuo chose to devote more energy and time to football itself as always.

As far as Wang Nuo knows, his father has now accumulated some capital in China, and has basically become acquainted with various big shots in the football field in the past two years.

With Wang Nuo's achievements and influence at his back, Wang Zhong is much more relaxed than before when dealing with many things, and his energy has increased sharply.

Wang Nuo also discovered that his father had gotten closer to Xu Genbao intentionally or unintentionally in the past six months, and he didn't know what he wanted to do.

He didn't pay much attention to what his father was doing, as he had done over the years.

Wang Nuo only focuses on playing football.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Manchester City's last training session before the sixth round of the FA Cup began.

After warming up, the soldiers of Manchester City dragged their tired bodies together and watched the members of the coaching staff walk down the stairs not far away one by one.

Mancini will hold an early meeting with the coaching staff every morning.

Before Mancini arrives at the training ground, the assistant coach will communicate with the team doctor and the medical team in advance.

They need to know which players can participate in training and how much training each player can bear.

The team's season training plan is broken down into small cycles of one week or [-] days, and each cycle sets different goals according to the stage of the team in the league.

At the beginning of the season, the coaching staff will let Wang Nuo and the others focus on endurance training, and as the frequency of games increases, the training focus will gradually shift to recovery of physical fitness or ball control training.

Or just like today, conduct technical and tactical drills for the next opponent Reading.

The theme of this morning's training is to break the dense defense and strengthen the tactical routines when attacking.

Facing Reading, which is weaker than their own, there is a high probability that Manchester City will bombard the opponent wildly, so corner kicks and set kick drills have also been added.

Mancini's formation for the next game is 433. Tevez and Mancini reconciled in private, and they will definitely occupy a striker position.

Balotelli's calf was uncomfortable, and Mancini once again let Wang Nuo's partner Dzeko start for the sake of caution.

In the tactical exercise, Mancini organized the starting lineup with players other than 4 defenders into a team, and the remaining 4 defenders and substitutes into a team.

Mancini also set a script: with 5 minutes left in the game, the team with 4 main defenders leads 1-0, the players on the field can only touch the ball at most twice and must pass the ball, and they cannot dribble, otherwise Return the ball!

After the 5-minute countdown ends, the game is suspended, and then the replay summary will be carried out.

The reason why Mancini did this is to simulate the real situation that may occur in the next game, and let the midfielders practice their play in advance.

The defense line composed of Kompany, Richards, Lescott, and Kolarov is obviously stronger than Reading.

Wang Nuo likes to play against Kompany and Vieira very much. The confrontation between them and Wang Nuo in training has benefited Wang Nuo a lot.

Their pressing forced Wang Nuo to do all his actions more quickly and accurately, and he developed a good habit of taking the ball quickly, and even became an instinct.

After entering the penalty area, Wang Nuo must control the ball within the range closest to his legs, otherwise he will lose the ball.

Obviously, Wang Nuo performed well in this tactical drill confrontation. Even if he can't dribble, he can cooperate well with his teammates.

After a while, after playing 4 "5 minutes", Mancini organized everyone to start practicing positioning kicks and corner kick tactics.

The difference is that Wang Nuo made several attempts as a set kick kicker in training for the first time.

Although he is not the team's free throw shooter, Manchester City players, including the coaching staff, know that Wang Nuo usually practice free kicks and corner kicks for a while after training.

Practice every day, practice every day...

So Mancini is very curious about what happened to Wang Nuo's footwork.

The result was unexpected. Wang Nuo's serve placement and ball speed were pretty good, not as good as David Silva's, and better than most of them.

"Are you going to take my job?" David Silva joked.

After nearly an hour of tactical drills, everyone looked very tired.

Wang Nuo found that some teammates had habitually stood in place with their hands on their hips, or bent over with their hands on their knees.

Their fatigue is not caused by muscle fatigue in the last one or two games, but the physical and mental exhaustion accumulated over the long season.

The Premier League schedule itself is very intense, and Manchester City is still fighting on the third line so far, with seven games to play every month.

Coupled with Mancini's high-intensity training methods, everyone really couldn't stand it.

Mancini saw it in his eyes, and there was some rare emotional loosening.

In March, the second half of the Premier League season is about to come to an end. It is true that we should not use too much force in training.

Therefore, Mancini decided for the first time to let the team end training early.

"You can go wherever you want in the afternoon, but remember to gather at the hotel at 7 o'clock in the evening!"

There was a burst of warm cheers and applause from the team.

After 10 minutes, the big guy disappeared completely.

Of course, there were still a few people who stayed, and Wang Nuo was one of them.

He asked for a bag of footballs and successfully "retained" Joe Hart.

"Why don't you go to Shay or the assistant coach?" Joe Hart's face collapsed.

"I asked my assistant to deliver Nando's fried chicken for a week, so you don't have to buy it yourself, how about it?"

Wang Nuo knew that Joe Hart loved fried chicken more than anyone else. After training, he would always go to that fried chicken chain store, but sometimes he could only ask the youth team players to buy for him. He sat in the car to avoid being photographed. .

"Deal." Joe Hart put on his gloves almost without thinking about it.

So, Wang Nuo started the boring free kick training again. He learned and tried a variety of footwork, and tried them one by one against Joe Hart.

For Wang Nuo, the training ground is his home.

The next game is against Reading, which is a Championship team. Wang Nuo really wants to seize the opportunity to start and continue to score goals.

He found that the English Championship team is actually not much worse than the Premier League team, and even more difficult in some respects.

Wang Nuo played against Leicester City in the British Championship.

It was the FA Cup match two months ago. Wang Nuo made his debut in that game. He still remembers the handshake before that game.

After each player enters the field, there will be a handshake session——

Sometimes I would shake hands and say, "Come on, good luck" or something like that.

Different from the Premier League teams, the British Championship pays more attention to strength and impact, and those guys in Leicester City will hold other people's hands tightly when shaking hands, which hurt Wang Nuo at that time.

Wang Nuo knew that they would compete from the beginning of the game.

From the point of view of ranking, Reading is very close to Leicester City, and their playing style this season is also very close.

This is the difference between the Championship and the Premier League.

Almost all defenders in the Championship are big, experienced men who want to make a mark on their attacking players.

But Wang Nuo wasn't afraid of them. When fighting these guys, he had to be fierce and hard-working, and he couldn't behave like a docile sheep.

Otherwise, they will go further and go on a rampage, turning a football game into a football game.

　It will be recommended by the editor-in-chief tomorrow, and it can be regarded as earning some coins for the brothers who invested in this book.

　　It's not easy, the number of words is just before 50.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)