Chapter 526: 4-Line Lead

The 2009 Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year were also announced.

With controversy, Ricardo was elected Mr. Double for the fourth time.

The reason for the controversy is that this year is not a major competition year. These two awards should mainly depend on the performance of the players in the Champions League. Although Ricardo is the top scorer in the Champions League, he is not the best player in the Champions League, and he did not lead the team to win the Champions League. Champion, from this perspective, Messi is more worthy of the award than him.

But a frenzied run of 53 league goals in one season certainly added points, and he ended up narrowly beating Messi for both awards. Ronaldo changed from second to third last season.

At the headquarters of "French Football", at the press conference after the Ballon d'Or, Ricardo said: "Thank you to the judges for giving me this award. It must have been a difficult choice, because Messi and Ronaldo are in The progress in the past year is obvious to all, and my team-mate Kaka is also a very outstanding star."

In Zurich, at the World Player of the Year awards ceremony, he smiled and said: "I didn't expect that I would be here for the fourth time in a short period of time. This is an affirmation of the football I have played in the past few years. pride."

Starting from next year, the Golden Globe Award and the World Footballer will be merged into the "Fifa Ballon d'Or", so in a short time, this is his last chance to win Mr. Double. In the next few years, there will be only one Ballon d'Or.

There is no winter break in the Premier League. Although the players are exhausted, they can only continue to fight.

But Christmas still comes.

This is the first time for Ricardo to celebrate Christmas in the UK, and the atmosphere is different from Spain and Brazil.

Instead of bothering Ronaldo, he called Rico, Olivia and several young teammates who had not yet married, such as Pogba, to his mansion for a small party.

Rico is a year older than Kaka, but he is not married yet, and continues to roam around. After Figo retired, he quickly became the main force of Inter Milan. He performed well this season and played a few times in the world preliminaries. He still has a tacit cooperation with Ricardo, and he is likely to be taken to South Africa by Dunga.

Pogba has not played for the first team in the league this season, and has only played tasteless games like the League Cup. Except for Ricardo, no one knew about his talent.

Ricardo often coached him in private, and Pogba was so grateful for this that he spontaneously became a member of the Ricardo faction in the dressing room.

Unlike before at Inter Milan and Real Madrid, Ricardo at Manchester United did not have a high status in the dressing room.

The local faction is too powerful.

Of course, Ricardo didn't want to compete with them for power. He just needs to protect the interests of several Brazilian players.

Ricardo's comeback brought positive changes to Manchester United. Starting from the away win over Hull City, they won a wave of 7 consecutive league victories, and almost all of them won by a big score.

Including defeating Wigan Athletic 7-0 at home in the New Year, slinging Hull City 6-0 at home, defeating Arsenal 4-0 away, and sweeping Portsmouth 6-0 at home.

The British media exclaimed: The Red Devils kicked crazy again!

Until the away game against Aston Villa on February 10, 2010, in order to reserve strength for the Champions League, Ferguson hid Ricardo and other main players in the snow, only to draw with the opponent 1:1, ending the winning streak.

Chelsea's record during this period is also quite good, with 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in 8 games, but it is still not as crazy as Manchester United. The gap in the standings has been opened by 5 points, and now the difference between the two sides is 6 points.

With 12 rounds left in the league, it is not surprising what happens. Manchester United does not dare to take it lightly just because it leads by 6 points.

In the FA Cup, Manchester United also continued to advance, beating Tottenham 3:1, kicking Derby County 6:1, and advancing all the way. Defeated Tottenham 0, beat Manchester City 8:2 in two rounds, and advanced to the final. It is also surprising that Manchester United is strong this season.

On February 16th, Manchester United, who qualified first in Group B of the Champions League, defeated AC Milan 4:2 away and won the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals.

All fronts are progressing so smoothly, which made the British media exclaim: Manchester United is going to make a quadruple crown this season!

In fact, during the winter transfer period, Manchester United did not make a big move, but only spent 13 million euros to buy Smalling from Fulham. Smalling has never been considered a top defender, but he is indeed a strong supplement to Vidic and Ferdinand, so that Manchester United's defense will no longer be stretched by injuries.

After winning AC Milan in the away game, Manchester United was a little tired. In the 27th round of the league, they drew 1:1 away with the tenacious Everton. The state of Toffee is good. They defeated Chelsea in the last round of the league. At that time, the Red Devils fans were still very happy. They felt that Toffee helped them block their opponents, but now they are also blocked.

But soon Manchester United regained the feeling of winning,

On the last day of February, after conceding a goal in the League Cup final, they undisputedly reversed and defeated Aston Villa 3:1, winning the first championship of the new season.

In this game, Manchester United only had half of the main players and half of the substitutes, and there were two players who were temporarily promoted from the youth team, but Ricardo's hat-trick left Aston Villa with no way to think about it.

"We made a lot of preparations," Aston Villa's coach Paul Grant said helplessly, "but we couldn't resist the flash of inspiration from a superstar."

After returning home, Manchester United defeated West Ham 4:0, and then defeated Wolves 2:0 away.

Competitor Chelsea won 3 consecutive victories, narrowed the point gap to 4 points, and continued to press against the Red Devils.

On March 7, Manchester United defeated Fulham 6-0 away and entered the top four in the FA Cup.

On March 10, when Manchester United returned to Old Trafford, Ricardo kicked his head and kicked 2 shots and 1 pass, helping the team beat AC Milan 4-0. The two rounds were 8:2, and the former European champion was in pain.

The media lamented both the strength of Manchester United and the overall decline of Serie A.

Thinking back to the time of AC Milan, there was the era of the Three Musketeers before, the era of Weah and Baggio in the middle, and the era of Shevchenko, Pirlo, and Kaka later. They swept Europe invincibly, but now they are so humiliated by Manchester United!

For Ricardo, there is also good news: he successfully obtained UEFA's B-level coaching certificate.

After coming to England, he successfully obtained the Level 1 certificate in only 3 weeks, and then the Level 2 certificate was also very smooth, and he passed it in one go.

There were some twists and turns in the exam for the B-level coaching certificate, mainly because the competition delayed the exam twice, but now I finally got it smoothly.

In his previous life, he had obtained the A-level certificate, but in this life he will definitely get the UEFA Pro-level certificate. After retiring, he will definitely coach a top league team, not a youth team or a low-level league team. Start coaching.