Golden Greenery

If you do not include the football league that was popular in Chang'an City for decades during the Tang Dynasty, the English FA Cup is the oldest tournament in the football world. The competition celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013 and is the only one in the world.

The FA Cup is also the largest football tournament in the world. All clubs registered with the English Football Association can sign up to participate. Professional, semi-professional, amateur, even if you are just a market team, as long as you sign up, you will be welcome. .

In the 2004-05 season, there were a total of cups, setting a record, but in other years there are usually no less than 600.

Moreover, the FA Cup does not have seeded teams. It is completely randomly drawn and then played one-on-one. Therefore, it is similar to the incident where a teenage amateur team in the vegetable market met the 'King of London' Charlton in the English League. In the FA Cup Not surprising at all.

It was really a big draw at first, but later, in order to take care of the busy schedule of high-level teams, the Premier League and English Championship teams were exempted from the preliminary round, qualifying round and the first two rounds of the main game, allowing them to start from the third round, which is the top 64.

Precisely because the scale of participation is large, there are many games, and the base is enough, the frequency of upsets will naturally be high. Therefore, scenes of little guys cutting down giants are staged in the FA Cup from time to time. This also makes the FA Cup more football-inspired.

Each football member country has similar FA Cups, but the FA Cup is the most dazzling one and the most prestigious 'FA Cup'. Even in the eyes of most English fans, the FA Cup is higher than the Premier League and the Champions League. As for the League Cup, no serious person cares about it.

In the 201 FA Cup, there were still many upsets in the first few qualifying rounds and the first two rounds of the main match. Several amateur teams below the fourth level were not very good at entering. Blue Moon met the Premier League in the draw. Team 'Hammers' West Ham United.

In principle, the entire FA Cup schedule is determined by one game. The difference is that a tie before the semi-finals requires a rematch on another day, while the semi-finals and finals will be decided by overtime or even penalty kicks after a tie in accordance with the rules of the tournament system.

In order to take care of the development of lower-level teams, when two teams of different levels meet, the game will be held at the home court of the lower-level team. If they are of the same level, the decision will be made by drawing lots.

Manchester City not only drew West Ham, but also drew away.

In the third round of the Premier League at the end of August last year, Manchester City defeated West Ham 3:1 at home. At that time, Zhuo Yang had just joined Manchester City.

In this year's FA Cup, Guardiola is going to hit hard. He is the kind of perfectionist man who wants every championship he encounters and is good at mentally abusing himself.

In fact, if you think about it, winning consecutive cups is not that far away. But if you calculate it carefully, winning a World Cup is no more than winning 4 games after qualifying for the group stage.

Guardiola doesn't care about you because he is a stubborn old guy.

Four days ago, Guardiola, who had been criticized by the British media during this period, had a much thicker waist. Therefore, Guardiola, who had been pretending to be gentle and elegant for more than half a year, fiercely criticized a reporter.

The previous questions and answers were all normal and procedural. Unexpectedly, when the reporter asked according to the procedure, "What do you think of Fernandinho being sent off for a foul?", the depressed Guardiola suddenly burst out.

"Why are you asking me? Ah~, what are you asking me for?" His voice rose to a high pitch and he transformed into the father-in-law of Dongchang Gua. "I can't comment on the referee. I have to ask the referee this question.

Instead of asking me. "

"This is the Premier League, you are all experts, I am just a primary school student, I still need to study hard, you are the experts."

The more perverted you are, the more I like it. The reporters didn't think it was a big deal, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.

"Why do you still look unhappy after winning?"

"I'm very happy, hahaha~" Dongchang laughed dryly. "I'm so happy that you can't imagine. You can't believe how happy I am. Hahaha~yeah! Happy New Year~~~"

Not only did he criticize reporters, Guardiola also criticized Capello, a senior in the coaching world.

After Fabio Capello coached the England national team for four years, he resigned in early 2012, and then went to the Russian national team. His results in the 2014 World Cup and 2011 were very average. His contract was terminated early the summer before last, and he is currently idle at home.

The 71-year-old Capello now occasionally makes guest appearances on live broadcasts, but has not announced his retirement. He still has plans to coach the team again, but there is no suitable team for the time being.

During the live broadcast of Manchester City's game, Capello talked about Guardiola and seemed to rely on his old age.

"I have coached Guardiola as a player and know him reasonably well. His ideal is to become the president of Barcelona Club."

What do you mean, Guardiola is not suitable to be the head coach of the team?

In the summer of 2001, the 30-year-old Barcelona captain Guardiola announced his departure from the team, and was then abducted by Roberto Baggio to Brescia in Serie A. Over the next year, he became the core of Brescia's midfield.

In August 2002, Guardiola felt that he could still play, so he moved to Roma. At the time, Roma's head coach was Capello.

Capello has never been good at using technical attacking midfielders. Guardiola only made four substitute appearances under him in half a season, which added up to less than 45 minutes.

When winter comes, the eldest brother Baggio calls out affectionately: Come back, come back, there is no silver buried in the loess.

Therefore, Guardiola returned to Brescia Baggio's warm embrace during the winter break. However, half a year later, Guardiola failed to pass the drug test in Serie A for the new season. He could only break up with Baggio in tears again, and returned to the Qatar League to retire.

By the way, what many people don’t know is that before going to Qatar, Guardiola first came to the Premier League Manchester City for a trial training, but at that time Manchester City only provided him with a short-term contract for half a season. Lao Guadiola felt humiliated. No, we parted on bad terms.

It is impossible for Guardiola to have a good impression of Capello. In his opinion, Capello is obviously pretending to be a big clove of garlic when he says this to him now.

"Everyone who plays under Capello is lucky, and I am no exception. But what I want to tell him is that I will never be president of Barcelona in the future because that is Gerard Pique's business."

"And after coaching Manchester City, I will retire, completely retire and enjoy life. Manchester City will be the last team I coach, and I will not work until I am exhausted."

Capello: Who are you talking about?

Ferguson, Wenger, Lippi: Who should I slap in the face?

Zhuoyang turned around and asked him: "Brother Gua, are you really going to retire after finishing Manchester City? You're a bit decadent!"

"I really thought about it. How about we, brothers, have a good time for a few years, and then we can retire together."

"Hehe, if I keep playing for another ten or twenty years, I'll see how you slap yourself in the face."

The reporter asked Zhuo Yang: What kind of head coach do you think Guardiola is?

He said: Guardiola is a very bad coach because he can do nothing but win games and championships.

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