This year, the Premier League's Christmas schedule is obviously more tragic than last year.

From December 26 to January 6, there are eleven days to play four Premier League rounds. More importantly, another FA Cup game will be played on the eighth day and five games in thirteen days. This is a test for any team.

Fortunately, the opponents Manchester City encountered in this schedule are not strong, which also made Gao Han determined to carry out the rotation to the end, because even the players who played the iron can't play so many games in a short period of time.

On December 26, in the 19th round of the Premier League, Manchester City beat Newcastle 3-1 away.

On December 28, Manchester City beat Aston Villa in a 4-0 home game.

On January 1, 2011, Manchester City ushered in a massacre at the city stadium, 7-0, and Cristiano Ronaldo staged a big four-time honor, not only outperforming the league scorer list, but also launched a final sprint for the upcoming FIFA Golden Ball Awards.

On January 6, in the 22nd round of the Premier League, Manchester City went south to London, defeating Arsenal 1-0 away, and the Portuguese scored the winning goal, which made Cristiano Ronaldo's call for FIFA Golden Ball Awards increasingly high.

Two days later, in the third round of the FA Cup, Manchester City played with a full substitute, defeating Ipswich seven to zero away. Young player Harry Kane won, scoring two goals, Gareth Bale also scored twice, Manchester City performed very well and won applause.

Also in this disaster Christmas schedule, Ferguson's team performed well. The Scottish coach had unparalleled experience in the Premier League winter break schedule, so he led Manchester United to bumps and bumps, but in the end, he maintained the winter break schedule with three wins and one draw in four rounds.

This also allowed Manchester United to quickly open a gap with Chelsea, chasing Manchester City as the second in the league.

Relatively speaking, Chelsea's situation is relatively bad. Scolari's coaching position is questioned. Coupled with the dense schedule during the winter break, the Blues first lost to Arsenal 1-3 away, then drew to Aston Villa 3-3 at home, and finally lost to Wolves 0-1 away.

Although he defeated Bolton 1-0 at home, his record of winning, drawing and losing in four games is not the same as Manchester City, even if he is competing with Manchester United, it is still a 6-point gap. His ranking immediately dropped from the original second in the league to the fourth in the league, and he only had four more points more than Tottenham Hotspur, which was fifth in the league, and the situation was not safe.

Arsenal's winter break schedule is four games, two wins, one draw and one loss, and the points caught up with Chelsea. The two teams have the same points, but the Gunners lead by relying on the advantage of goal difference, and Wenger's biggest gain during the winter break is Van Persie.

As soon as the Dutch striker recovered from injury, he immediately became the number one weapon on Arsenal's forward, showing an impressive goal-scoring state.

As for the Reds Liverpool, their situation is also worrying, with one win and three losses in four games, and their rankings also dropped to tenth in the league. Coach Hodgson was dismissed, and the legendary Darglish came on stage. After the 22nd round, Liverpool couldn't wait to announce the high price of the bid of 45 million euros, introducing local center Carroll from Newcastle.

Now everyone is watching to see if Di Daglish and Carroll can save Liverpool's fate.

According to the original plan, Gao Han did not intend to participate in the annual awards ceremony held by FIFA in Zurich, because after the FA Cup on January 8, the semi-finals of the League Cup were ushered in the 12th, with the opponent being the Hammers Gang West Ham United.

But FIFA sent an invitation letter and called the invitation at the end of December. It turned out that he was not only the shortlisted candidate for the best coach of the year, but also the guest of the first FIFA Golden Globe Award winner.

"Why me?" Gao Han asked in confusion on the phone.

"Because, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have both played under your command."

This explanation... is really hard to refuse.

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The annual FIFA Awards Conference can be regarded as Lawrence of international football, especially after the merger with the Golden Ball Awards of French Football Magazine this year, it has become the only award ceremony in the world football world.

As the first event, the organizer FIFA naturally made sufficient preparations. Not only did all the shortlists who entered the shortlist, they also organized various grand events. The most eye-catching thing was the head coach's symposium.

As the name suggests, this is a warm-up discussion before the awards ceremony, with the top six coaches shortlisted for the best coaches of the year, including World Cup champion Bosque, Champions League champion Guardiola, Real Madrid coach Mourinho, German national team coach Loeff, Manchester United coach Ferguson, and Manchester City coach Gao Han.

It is rare for six head coaches to gather together, and the topic discussed is naturally closely related to football. One of the most important links is the selection results of the best team of the year that have been announced in advance.

The goalkeepers are Casillas, the defenses are Puyol, Pique, Xavi Martinez and Mascherano, the midfielders are Iniesta, Sneider and Xavi, and the front tridents are Cristiano Ronaldo, Villa and Messi.

It is obvious that this list not only considers the player's performance on the court, but also depends on the player's report card.

Spain and Barcelona won the World Cup and Champions League championships respectively, which naturally made the international players of these two teams more favored, especially Spain, which won seven out of eleven seats, which is quite rare.

But there is also a doubt, that is, in the selection of the best team, right back and central defender Puyor were arranged in the left sideback, which is also a very surprising place.

The organizer's explanation for this is that there is a lack of the best candidate for the left back position in the past year, but Puyol, the right back, performed quite well, and Manchester City's right center back, Mascherano, is also very amazing, so it was a well-thought-out choice for both of them to be selected at the same time.

This interesting phenomenon naturally became the focus of the coaching symposium.

Guardiola said when answering a question that the full-backs are no longer just defensive players, but are playing an increasingly important role in offense. On the right, there are outstanding players like Macon, Alves and Ram, but they seem to be very scarce in the left back.

"In the past year, there has been no left-back's performance that has been convincing."

Chelsea's Ashley Cole's condition has declined a lot, and the divorce incident has discredited his reputation and seriously affected his condition, making it difficult for him to afford this role.

Inter Milan's Evra and Bayern Munich's Marcelo are both top left-backs in football today, but in the past season, they have not shown convincing form and results, so it is difficult for them to be selected into the best team.

The best match in terms of performance is the Spanish national team left-back Capdvilla, but the 33-year-old veteran is simply unsatisfactory in the club.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are both average in the configuration of left-back, and Manchester City does not have the role of left-back at all, which makes the candidate for left-back in the past year quite a headache.

As the head coach of the national team, Boske also admitted that the left-back is indeed short of staff, but he is not worried about it.

"Spain has a very strong talent reserve in this regard. For example, in Chinatown, right-back Carvajal and left-back Alba are currently the focus of the national team. Alba has also been selected for the national team. I think they have the strength and potential to gain a foothold in the national team in the future."

Gao Han also agreed with Boske's point of view. He believed that the shortage of full-backs was only temporary. At the same time, he also defended Evra and Marcelo, two favorites, who believed that their performance was only ups and downs and would soon regain their form.

Guardiola also agreed with Bosque's point of view, and he also jokingly told Gao Han intentionally or unintentionally that Barcelona is closely following two young players, Carvajal and Alba. The former is just nineteen years old and has always performed well in the competition with Danilo, while the latter is twenty-one, and has made rapid progress in Chinatown, which is impressive.

"He is also from our Barcelona youth training camp."

Guardiola's words made all the media reporters cheer. Is this the rhythm of poaching Chinatown?

Gao Han responded to this just to smile lightly, "They are all non-sale products!"

As soon as these words were said, the audience burst into laughter.

Everyone knows that the non-sale products in Chinatown are not really non-sale products, but they depend on whether your bid is not high enough.

After teasing the media reporters, the two old friends shook each other and laughed tacitly.

And at the last part of the symposium, when they evaluate each other who is most likely to win the award, it is surprising that Gao Han got five of the six votes present.

"If I'm not mistaken, the only one that has not been voted for Mr. Gao Han should be your own vote, right?"

When the reporter asked a question, Gao Han smiled awkwardly, saying that he had agreed, and he chose Boske.

"Aragones and Bosque are good friends. I know them very well. I know that it is very, very difficult for Aragonese to lead the team to win the European Cup, but I also know that it is not easy for Bosque to lead the team to win the World Cup and continue the glory of the Spanish national team."

However, Gao Han also reminded Boske to be careful of Löw in his final comment.

"Lof and I are also very good friends, so I know that he is a very, very vigilant person. The German team he coaches is still growing and improving rapidly. I think that in the European Cup a year later, the World Cup three years later, and even in the long run, Lof's German team will be the strongest team."

Lof expressed his gratitude for his appreciation from Gao Han, and also affirmed that Gao Han gave him great help and encouragement, saying that Gao Han was the number one head coach in his mind.

Mourinho, who has always been regarded as having a feud with Gao Han, rarely voted for Gao Han this time, and the Portuguese madman's answer was also very domineering.

"No doubt he is indeed the best head coach in the past year, but now it is 2011. I chose him as the coach of the year in order to completely defeat him in the next year with him as the goal!"

With such a provocation in person, Gao Han never knew how to deal with it except for responding to a bitter smile.

He could never say to Mourinho, please, don’t challenge me, can you?
Chapter completed!