Pirated Ronaldo

Chapter 502 Let's Sing the National Anthem!
Saturday 12 December, Villa Park, Birmingham.

It is located not far from the center of Birmingham. The stadium is a rare combination of four single square buildings. This stadium is north-south, which is different from the east-west orientation of most stadiums. Moreover, Villa Park Stadium has The largest stand behind the goal in Europe, the stand behind the goal on the south side has 13472 seats, accounting for 31% of the seats in the entire stadium. This has become a famous scenic spot of Villa Park Stadium. Tourists who visit here will take pictures in the South Stand.

Today, a special group of fans came to the stands of the Villa Park Stadium. They turned out to be all oriental faces. They were Chinese students from several nearby universities!

"The pride of Asia! The pride of China!"

The large slogans in Chinese characters fluttered in the stands, which made Ronando feel extremely cordial!At the same time, there are bright five-star red flags flying on the stands...

After coming to England, Ronando once heard Yang Xiaotong talk about the Chinese students living in the UK, who were very excited and encouraged by the emergence of a great professional player with Chinese descent in the Premier League. I want to create a unique "home atmosphere" for Ronaldo in the stadium stands, but!That's too hard!

In England, it is very difficult to get a large number of league tickets. For example, in those stadiums in Manchester and London, a large number of tickets have been booked by the club's member fans. Ordinary fans want to get sporadic tickets. Book online, or go to the ticket window of the stadium to buy. If you are unlucky, it is difficult to get even a ticket. As for getting a few tickets and drowning in the army of 10 fans, it is not fun at all. If there is even the slightest wave, not only the players on the field will not notice it, but also the TV camera will not give it to the last one.

This time, the Chinese students were well-prepared. They chose Birmingham, where the game market is not very prosperous, and managed to get nearly a thousand tickets, forming a large red in the stands.

When the Manchester United players entered the stadium to warm up before the game, everyone was immediately attracted by the large red in the stands.

According to the habit of the Premier League teams, they will enter the stadium for the last time one hour before the start of the game to warm up. At this time, many England fans did not enter the stadium, and they were still hanging around the stadium, especially those veteran fans. Enter the stadium and wait. With this time, they might as well drink beer and chat with friends outside, or walk around the surrounding shops to see if they can come across any novelty things occasionally. For these fans, watching Competition is tantamount to entertainment.

Today's fans of Chinese students studying abroad are different. They came here just to let Ronando see them and know that they are coming!

Seeing the enthusiastic Chinese fans holding up the red flags in their hands and waving desperately in the direction of Manchester United players, not only Ronaldo, but also other Manchester United fans waved in a friendly manner.

Darren Fletcher envied: "Oh! Monster! You are so lucky!... We Scottish fans have never treated me so hard!"

Ronando spread his hands and said, "That's different! Darren, you can't possibly know how much the Chinese need a good player from their own country!... Even if it's just that they have the same blood and appearance as them, that's not enough. Enough! You don't understand the pain at all."

At this time, Ryan Giggs came over and patted Ronando on the shoulder and said, "Go! They must want to hear your voice. Go talk to them!"

Of course Ronando thought the same way. He was very excited to see so many compatriots in a foreign country. There is a Chinese saying "returning to one's hometown". All normal people must have vanity, and of course Ronando can't Excuse me, these young people who can come to the UK to study are the children of rich families in China. They are either rich or expensive. If Ronando did not come to Europe to play football, but stayed in that small county in the mainland, these People are unattainable figures for him, but now they are all cheering for him.

Ronando trotted all the way, came to the stand where the Chinese fans were, smiled and waved to the fans in the stands.

"Cristiano! Well done! You are our pride!"

"Hi! We are Chinese! Chinese from your ancestral land!"

"Great job! Cristiano! We love watching you on the pitch!"

When the Chinese students saw Ronando coming, they applauded and cheered vigorously. Their expressions were so happy, which made Ronando's heart warm. Anyway, it was he who brought joy to the Chinese fans. In the past year, he has often learned from Yang Xiaotong that as long as he gets a little honor, the domestic fans will be as excited as a festival.

However, Ronando is too busy, half the world away, he can't go back to his motherland to see and feel the glory of becoming a real big star, which is a pity.

Ronando cupped his hands to his mouth and shouted loudly: "Hello! Friends from the motherland! My name is Ronando! We are all... Chinese!"

At this moment, Ronando had a lot to say, but the noisy environment did not allow him to say more, so he could only yell out "We are all Chinese". This sentence is too simple, but at this time It is exactly in line with the needs of the on-site environment. The hundreds of Chinese students who came here came here to support Ronando because he has the same skin color and appearance as them?

"Long live! He said he is Chinese! His name is Ronando!"

The international students in the stands were enthusiastic and applauded even harder. At this time, a staff member of the Villa Park stadium came up, handed Ronando a loudspeaker, and said with a thumbs up: "Hi !Monster, this one for you! Well done to you at Upton Park!"

Ronando turned his head and saw that it was a black guy, and he immediately understood what the other person meant. It was praising him for eating bananas at Upton Park.

Ronando couldn't help being amused. It seems that the story of him eating a banana and scoring a goal after being provoked by the white West Ham fans not only won the favor of the black fans in East London, but also the black people in Birmingham. He was very friendly, and it was a joy to think of him as a friend, since he had no shortage of friends anywhere in England since then?

"Hey! My friend! I'll keep doing fine, like I did at Upton! Thank you, man!"

Ronando took the loudspeaker, thanked him, and then turned to face the stands. This time it was much easier for him to speak, but Ronando didn't want to make a long speech. He shouted: "My friend My compatriots! To celebrate this encounter, let’s sing the national anthem! Let our national anthem fly in this stadium! You know, this game will be watched by tens of millions, even hundreds of millions of spectators all over the world. Come, we will hear our singing! . . . ”

Ronando led hundreds of Chinese students to sing the national anthem at Villa Park in the Premier League. This will definitely become a hot topic in tomorrow's newspapers.

Some England fans will notice Ronando's Chinese ancestry, which will cause some resistance, but Ronando has no regrets at all.

He knows that when this scene is reported back to China, there will be ten times, a hundred times more Chinese people will rejoice, because Chinese football at this time is inevitably going downhill, and Chinese fans at this time are passionate about football. It's not cold, but there are no players or teams to support. The appearance of Ronando just filled the void in the hearts of fans.

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Goalkeeper: No. 19 Edwin van der Sar

Forwards: Ryan Giggs No. 11, Luis Saha No. 9, Cristiano Ronaldo No. 22

Midfielders: No. 25 Quinton Fortune, No. 24 Darren Fletcher, No. 15 Jose Kleberson-Pereira

Defenders: No. 4 Gabriel Heinze, No. 27 Miguel Silvestre, No. 5 Rio Ferdinand, No. 2 Gary Neville,
Today, the Manchester United team going to Birmingham is generally well-equipped. The starting lineup is the most complete in the last three games, and basically the most suitable players have appeared in the starting lineup.

It is also due to Aston Villa's bad luck. After this game and before the Christmas game, Manchester United still had to deal with the last 8 of the League Cup, but in the last 11 of the League Cup at the end of November, Manchester United In the league and the Champions League, the morale was like a rainbow. At that time, Ferguson followed the general trend and voluntarily gave up the tasteless League Cup. Therefore, the current Manchester United got a short rest period before Christmas.

According to Manchester United's recent schedule, after today's league match with Villa, Manchester United had a full 9-day rest period until the second day of Christmas, when the Christmas game officially started.

The Christmas game plan formulated by the FA does not start on Christmas Eve or the 24th and 25th of Christmas, but from the 26th, which is the traditional British festival "Boxing Day", until January 1 after New Year's Day. Day (some games will be postponed to 2~3 days), within these 4 days, all Premier League teams will play 8 league games!
8 days and 4 league matches!Spanning Boxing Day and New Year's Day, the second day after Christmas, this is the Christmas game of the Premier League!

Although the Christmas battle was brutal, there was still a 9-day rest period before that round of bloody battle. Naturally, Ferguson didn't need to hold back. Instead of holding back, he still needed to finalize a main lineup.

The main lineup of Ferguson's team is only the main lineup during the Christmas game. At that time, it is only necessary to use this lineup as the team and rotate each game on this basis. This will not only maintain enough combat effectiveness, but also allow the team Maintaining basic stability is the best of both worlds.

That is to say, the players who got the starting lineup today are, without accident, the main players during this year's Christmas game. Each of them will get more than two starting opportunities!

From this point of view, David O'Reilly's Villa team is really unlucky. Their luck is much worse than Manchester United's first two opponents, Everton and Wigan Athletic...

In contrast, Everton only faced black for 10 minutes because their goalkeeper was kicked by Ronaldo and broke his shoulder blade. The previous 80 minutes were not at a clear disadvantage. Wigan Athletic has the ability to play a game with Manchester United In the confrontational battle, they finally got a draw. However, the Villa team did not have the good luck of those two teams. If they thought that Manchester United lost a few generals, it would be a big loss in strength, then it was a miscalculation.

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In the first round against Manchester United in August, David O'Reilly put on a nondescript 4-2-3-1 formation, which was really a strange formation of defensive counterattacks, but was tragically defeated 0:4. In the end, this time, David O'Reilly didn't do that anymore. He played a well-regulated 4-4-2, and the teenager Abanglaho was also excluded.

Goalkeeper: No. 1 Thomas Sorensen

Forwards: No. 10 Milan Baros, No. 9 Juan Angel

Midfielders: No. 11 James Milner, No. 7 Lee Hendry, No. 6 Gareth Barry, No. 8 Gavin McCann

Guards: No. 18 Aaron Hughes, No. 2 Mark Delaney, No. 4 Olof Meerberg, No. 19 Liam Mitchwell,

Villa's starting lineup today has changed a lot from the team in August, except for forward Baros, midfielder Gareth Barry, and David O'Reilly. Over and over, two players were replaced at the back line, leaving only the captain of the Northern Ireland national team Aaron Hughes and the Swedish national team captain Olof Meerberg.

Why such a big adjustment happened is closely related to Villa's performance this season!
In the first eight rounds of this season, Villa only won one game. Before the game against Manchester United, Villa had a total score of 4 wins, 5 draws and 7 losses, ranking 20th among the 14 teams in the Premier League. This ranking does not look very bad, but it is actually only 18 points more than the 3th Birmingham in the relegation zone. In other words, as long as Villa lose one more game, they will be the same as Birmingham !

Although the Villa team has been unstable since the establishment of the Premier League, they finished 10th last season and 2004th in 6. They have shown signs of recovery. Now that their results have dropped sharply, David O’Reilly is of course very anxious .

David O'Reilly, who was in a hurry, was afraid of being fired, and gradually cleaned up one month after the start of the season, which resulted in the current appearance. Peter Whittingham, Ma Hugh Belson, Cameroon defender Djemba from Manchester United and others were all swept out of the main lineup, completely becoming a group of new faces.

No. 11 James Milner, left midfielder, this is a player worthy of attention, and also a key figure in whether Villa can regain confidence this season. His role in this team is second only to the core midfielder Gareth Barry.

Just from the change of Villa's jersey number, we can see how awesome James Milner is.

In that game in August, Villa's new season champion Milan Baros wore the No. 20 jersey, but now he wears the No. 10 jersey, which symbolizes the status of the team's top star, and No. 11, which symbolizes the status of the main striker. The jersey is worn by James Milner. Although the order of jerseys seems nondescript, in any case, James Milner can wear the No. 11 jersey, which means that he is very popular with coach David O. Riley's trust, because, he is completely different from Barosh.

James Milner's status in the Villa team is only on loan. His ownership does not belong to Villa, but to Newcastle United. That is to say, he is only a temporary player!
James Milner was born in January 1986 and is not yet 1 years old. He once held two Premier League records with a dazzling halo.

2002年11月，詹姆斯-米尔纳代表利兹联在联赛中出场，以16岁零309天的年龄成为当时英超历史上场第一年轻的上场球员，知道当时排名第一的球员是谁吗？那是出生于1985年10月的鲁尼，他在2002年8月完成英超首秀，当时的鲁尼年龄是16岁零299天。

On December 2002, 12, James Milner scored his first goal in the league at the age of 26 years and 16 days. This data once again overwhelmed Rooney and became the youngest scorer in the Premier League at that time. The holder is Rooney. He scored his first goal at the age of 357 and 16 days. This date is only 360 days more than James Milner, which is a pity.

However, the above two Premier League records have been broken by Everton player James Wogan in April this year. He completed the two records on the same day: 4 years and 16 days.

Although the Premier League record has been broken, it does not prevent James Milner from becoming a celebrity in England. He is often compared with Rooney. In the summer of 2004, Rooney moved to Manchester United for 2700 million pounds, and James Milner also paid 350 million pounds. He transferred to Newcastle United at a high price, and then played 25 times for Newcastle United that season. Such a worth and number of appearances are very remarkable for a player who is only 18 years old.

The experience of James Milner coming to Villa is a bit tragic, because he left Newcastle not because of his ability, but became a victim of the club's infighting!

At Newcastle United, James Milner admired the team captain Alan Shearer very much. For this reason, he was disgusted by the head coach Graeme Souness. -Milner was replaced, which resulted in the young teenager barely playing a complete game last season. At the end of August this year, Newcastle United bought Villa's veteran Colombian winger Alberto Solano, head coach Sone Si took advantage of the opportunity to loan James Milner to Villa.

It is a pity that a young man who is often compared to England's famous talents such as Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen should be used as a bargaining chip.

However, Villa coach David O'Reilly doesn't care whether he is on loan or a full-time player. He is like a treasure and immediately began to reuse James Milner.

That's how 19-year-old James Milner wears Villa's number 11 jersey.

The support of England marksman Alan Shearer, a talented young winger?

When Ronando read James Milner's personal information, he had a feeling that the English young man who played against him in today's game must not have the slightest affection for him, not only because Ronando and Alan Shearer are enemies, also because James Milner and him are both talented wingers in the eyes of the people. The age difference between the two is only one and a half years. -Milner, it would be strange to be convinced by Ronando!

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