From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 198 FIFA Best Team

Salah initially had no idea of ​​going to Italy and preferred to stay at Chelsea, but his wife Maggie changed his mind.

Subsequently, Salah quickly agreed to the transfer and even accepted a significant salary cut.

But it turns out that this trip to Italy was the right choice.The head coach valued him very much. He came to the team for three days and asked him to come on as a substitute at critical moments.And he did not disappoint the coach, scoring a goal in his first game.

Mourinho, have you seen it?I, Mohamed Salah, am not a parallel import!

Then his equally excited teammates rushed up and threw him to the ground.

In the stands, Udinese fans shouted: "Salah! Salah! Salah!"

In the commentary box, the commentator of the local Udinese TV station shouted: "Salah! In the first game he played for Udinese, he scored his first goal for Udinese! He Showed us his speed weapon!”

"Now, please allow me to formally introduce to you, this is Mohamed Salah! No. 20 who just joined the team, a very, very fast shooter! He responded to doubts about him with goals, Congratulations to Coach Guidolin, he once again proved his ability to judge people!"

Salah's goal helped Udinese rewrite the score to 3:1.

Roma, who were trailing by two goals, were unwilling to lose. Their head coach Rudy Garcia deployed his troops one after another. In the last 20 minutes of the game, he once arranged a four-forward lineup and launched a frantic attack on Udinese's goal. Attack, hoping to save the defeat.

Guidolin replaced the exhausted Di Natale and replaced him with Pingchi.

This is not a conservative defensive substitution, but replacing an attacking midfielder with a depleted veteran forward.

Guidolin did not be conservative, but continued to put pressure on Rome, which also made Rome have to be cautious when pressing out to attack.

As time went by, Rome could not be conquered for a long time and became more and more impatient.

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In the end, at the Friuli Stadium, Udinese defeated the veteran team Roma 3:1 with the outstanding performance of Salah as a substitute, and scored a precious three points.

The match between Udinese and Roma was the second match of this round. In the last match of the round in the evening, Juventus was tied 1:1 by Inter Milan at the Allianz Stadium in Turin.

After this game, the 17th round of Serie A ended, and the latest standings rankings came out.

Udinese has 14 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, ranking first in the standings with 44 points.

Juventus has 11 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, ranking second with 38 points.

Roma has 11 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, ranking third with 36 points.

Lazio has 9 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses, ranking fourth with 30 points.

Naples has 8 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses, ranking fifth with 30 points.

The schedule is about to be halfway through. Juventus, who scored 102 points last season and won three consecutive Serie A championships with a record of points in the history of the five major leagues, is not ranked first in the standings, and they are still 6 points behind Udinese, the leader in the standings. This is surprising. My glasses fell all over the floor.

Anyone who pays attention to Udinese knows that Udinese's results are not very impressive.

After 17 rounds of the league, Udinese has played 17 opponents.Only Sassuolo, who is in the middle of the standings, and Cagliari, the relegation team, have yet to play against Udinese.

In other words, all the teams in the top half of the standings have played against Udinese.

Among them, only Genoa, sixth in the standings, narrowly defeated Udinese 4:3. In addition, Juventus and Fiorentina drew with Udinese, and all other teams lost to Udinese.

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They scored 17 points in 44 games, averaging 2.59 points per game. During the same period, looking at the five major leagues, only Bayern Munich scored more points more efficiently than Udinese.

Currently, there have been 20 rounds of the Premier League. Chelsea and Manchester City have both scored 46 points, averaging 2.3 points per game.

In La Liga, Real Madrid ranks first in the standings. The Galacticos scored 16 points in 39 rounds. With one game less, they are 1 point ahead of Barcelona and ranked first in La Liga, averaging 2.44 points per game.

In the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich, the southern king, scored 17 points in 45 rounds, averaging 2.65 points per game.

In Ligue 19, Paris Saint-Germain scored 41 points in 2.16 rounds, averaging only [-] points per game.

Udinese's outstanding performance finally began to attract the attention of world football and the media.The major gambling companies around the world have finally listed Udinese as the number one favorite to win Serie A this season. ………………

Four days later, the 18th round of Serie A began.In the first game, Udinese visited the Mapei Tricolor Stadium and defeated Sassuolo with a score of 2:1.

In the second season after being promoted to Serie A, Barcelona performed well, with 17 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses in the first 4 rounds, ranking tenth in Serie A with 23 points.

In the match against Udinese, Sassuolo entered the state very quickly. In the 15th minute, Vrsaljko made a pass from the right, and Zaza scored with a powerful header. Green Barcelona led 1:0 at home.

But Udinese, who was in good form, equalized the score in just 11 minutes.In the 26th minute, Bruno made a direct pass, and French forward Taylor, who got the start because Di Natale was absent due to the flu, turned around and volleyed to equalize.

The two sides entered the intermission with a score of 1:1.

After the start of the second half, Udinese stepped up their offense and took the lead in the 67th minute of the game.Kanter completed the steal in the midfield, Bruno broke through the left rib and passed the ball. Salah volleyed into the net with his left foot 7 meters in front of the goal.

The 22-year-old new signing scored in 2 consecutive Serie A games after joining Udinese.

Although Juventus beat Napoli 3-1 at the Maradona Stadium a day later, Udinese still leads the Serie A standings with a six-point advantage.

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On the evening of January 1, Central European Time, at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, the 12 FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards Ceremony was held on Christmas Day.

In the end, Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo successfully retained this honor. This was also the first time for him to win the Ballon d'Or twice in a row.However, the performance of German goalkeeper Neuer, who also had a high reputation for winning the award, was not satisfactory. He finally ranked third with a very small advantage.Messi, who is not optimistic, beats Neuer to rank second with a slight advantage of 0.04%.

2014年的C罗个人表现堪称疯狂，C罗2014年出场60次打进61球助攻22次，是当今世界足坛毫无争议的2014年头号射手。

In addition, Ronaldo also performed well in terms of team honors. In 2014, he helped Real Madrid win the Copa del Rey, the Champions League and the Club World Cup.

As the team's top star, Ronaldo performed well and had the upper hand in direct conversations with Messi's Barcelona and Neuer's Bayern.

According to the distribution of vote rates, Ronaldo's vote rate was 37.66%, Messi's 15.76%, and Neuer's 15.72%. Cristiano Ronaldo alone received more votes than Messi and Neuer combined. Compared with the 41 Golden Globe Award, which is known as the "most intense Golden Globe Award in 2013 years", the 2014 Golden Globe Award seems to be less There is no suspense.You must know that in the 2013 Ballon d'Or Award, Ronaldo received 27.99% of the votes, Messi 24.72%, and Franck Ribery 23.36%. The votes of the three were extremely similar.Now, Ronaldo has the absolute advantage.

After winning the 2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or, Ronaldo has won the Ballon d'Or for the third time, which also makes him surpass Di Stee on the historical list of Ballon d'Or winners. The five superstars of Fano, Beckenbauer, Keegan, Rummenigge and Ronaldo are equal to Cruyff, Platini and Van Basten who have won three golden goals.Now in front of Ronaldo, only Messi, who has won the Ballon d'Or four times, is left.

With Ronaldo's crazy performance this season, as long as he continues this state in 2015, he will have a chance to continue to pursue.

In the final voting results announced, Bruno ranked 11th, receiving 1.11% of the votes.

This also made him selected for the best team of the year selected by FIFA, and his position is the right midfielder in the 433 formation.The other two midfield positions are Di Maria and Kroos.

Bruno went to the scene to receive the award, which also made him one of the protagonists of the scene.

Although he did not enter the top ten in the final selection, at only 20 years old, he is full of potential.

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On the evening of January 1th, Udinese ushered in the first Coppa Italia match of the season, visiting Naples at the Maradona Stadium.

Due to his 6-point lead in Serie A, Guidolin saw the possibility of winning the Serie A championship, so he simply chose to give up the Italian Cup, placing Bruno and other main players in Udine, and only brought a substitute lineup. Heading to the away game.

In a game that neither side wanted to win, the two teams tied at 90:1 in 1 minutes. Both sides scored a goal in overtime, and the game entered a penalty shootout.

In the 5 rounds of penalty kicks, Naples scored 3 penalty kicks and Udinese only scored 2, so the home team finally eliminated Udinese with a score of 5:4 and broke into the Italian championship this season. Cup quarterfinals.

However, Udinese was not dissatisfied with this result. On the contrary, Naples, who won and advanced, looked bitter.

Naples has also made it to the Europa League knockout rounds this season, and their opponent in the round of 32 is Turkey's Trabzonspor. The prospects for promotion are very good.

In Serie A, Napoli is currently only ranked fifth, and is 17 points behind Udinese at the top of the list. It is almost out of the league championship early.

Originally, among the season goals set by the Naples management, they were to strive for the Europa League championship, and in Serie A, they were to strive for the top three, so that they could qualify for the Champions League next season.

The Italian Cup is a tournament they plan to strategically abandon.As a result, they met an even more stubborn Udinese in the quarter-finals, which forced them to move on in the Italian Cup.

(End of this chapter)