Born to be a coach [soccer]

Chapter 276

In Torres's career, this game when he returned to the left back for the first time was a crucial and extremely intense game.

This is the second time Chelsea have played against Barcelona in the Champions League knockout round since they were eliminated by Barcelona in the "Stanford Bridge tragedy" in 2008.

This is the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals in the 2011-12 season. In the first leg, Chelsea beat Barcelona 1-0 at the Blue Bridge.

Before Torres came on, the score was 2-1, 2-2 on aggregate, Chelsea had an away goal advantage.

But the advantage of this away goal is about to be lost - Chelsea's captain Terry was sent off as early as the 37th minute of the first half, and Chelsea played one less player.After the game entered the 70th minute, Barcelona has been attacking frantically.

In the 80th minute of the game, Chelsea center Didier Drogba was exhausted and had cramps.Torres, who has been warming up on the sidelines, was called by the head coach to get him ready to play.

The Chelsea coach told him that he would play at left back - after Drogba left the field, Chelsea's formation was changed to 630.Torres's position is the left back on the outside, the main goal is to curb the opponent's bottom line and cross.

Torres, who played forward all his life, was extremely awkward at left back.

Soon, Barcelona player Alves broke through Torres all the way, made a pass from the bottom, and Sanchez scored.Torres had an obvious defensive dislocation at the moment Alves broke through just now, and he was extremely nervous at this moment.

Fortunately, the linesman raised the flag at this time and judged that Alves was offside first.

It's too dangerous.Torres looked at his teammates, and many of them grinned at the Spanish golden boy, wiping his sweat.

They didn't have time to communicate, but went back to their positions to defend.Torres watched his teammates turn their backs to him, knowing that they gave him the area behind——

Be sure to hold on!If you can't hold it, you will be out.

Torres took a deep breath: In such a game, it doesn't matter who plays, who attacks, who assists, who substitutes... who plays left back.The most important thing is for the team to win.

But it is clear that Torres has become the weakest link in Chelsea's "barrel array".The Barcelona players took turns, trying to attack from the line he defended.And Torres's best counterattack style of stealing the ball did not come out. He only tried once in the 89th minute, and was quickly intercepted by his former teammate Mascherano...

Barcelona's attack in front of Chelsea has been intensive to the point of terror.In the 90th minute, Mascherano shot a strong shot in front of the penalty area on the right, which was saved by goalkeeper Petr Cech.Xavi then took a corner and Puyol headed it in close to the penalty spot, a few inches above the lintel.

In the 91st minute, Torres tried to counterattack again and was intercepted after passing the opponent alone.When Barcelona launched a decisive counterattack, Torres fell behind and did not come back in time.This time Barcelona's attack was kicked out by Chelsea defender Ashley Cole's disorienting kick.Torres has a natural sense of smell as a striker, and he immediately meets the ball when he sees it.Sure enough, Cole's clearance ball fell at his feet.

At this time, in front of Torres is the entire Barcelona half, the ball is at his feet, but there is only goalkeeper Valdes in the distance.

Before the Barcelona team reacted, Torres had already started-this is a pure single-handedly.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Scoring this goal can completely kill Barcelona's hope of advancing, and also save Chelsea from the dangerous siege in front of the goal.

So Torres started running.He ran with ease - this is the Iberian Peninsula, and even the cool night breeze made him feel familiar.Memories of the Atletico Madrid youth training camp when he was a teenager came to his mind, and he regained all his feelings at once.

Butzquez chased after Torres, and Torres even took a break to look back at Butzquez, who was no threat to Torres-too far away.

He took the ball steadily, came to the Barcelona goalkeeper, swayed past Valdez with ease, raised his foot and pushed the ball, keeping a constant speed, and rolled into the empty goal.

Who said he was a striker who didn't score?Who said he was the opponent's defender?

This is the fatal blow to Barcelona, ​​this lore ball completely killed the game.

The Chelsea boss ran wildly on the sidelines to celebrate.Guardiola was dumbfounded and couldn't react for a long time-Barcelona played 11 to 10 for most of the half, but couldn't find a way to score, but was completely crushed by Torres' easy and freehand blow?

The defending champion was single-handedly eliminated by a "left back"?

Torres took advantage of the trend and ran to the corner flag area, where his teammates rushed up, no matter whether they were on the field or had been replaced, the players hugged Torres tightly, and for this godlike goal—the wind Usually ran across halftime and then made a lore, and the goal from the "left back" was miraculous.

Soon after the final whistle of the game, Chelsea reached the Champions League final again after 2008.

After the game, several photographers rushed into the field and pointed their cameras at Torres. "Fernando, please say something!"

Torres rarely stopped in front of a camera, looked intently at the camera, wanted to say something but hesitated, finally smiled shyly, waved his hand and turned away.

At this moment, he really wanted to say something to Anton: what Anton said back then, he thought he was trying to do it.

But what's the point of saying this now?The Blues have only entered the final and are far from being qualified to "win".

Chelsea did enter the final, but it also paid a huge price-captain Terry was suspended with a red card, Ivan, Meirelles, Ramirez... These players who contributed excellent goals in the knockout round, All suspended.

Chelsea have only half of the remnant team, but they have to face the mighty Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.

In the whole game, Bayern took 42 shots, and the Chelsea players may be feeling that they were not sieved!

But for a strong team like Bayern, the number of shots cannot be piled up endlessly, and there will always be goals.In the 83rd minute, Kroos made a cross from the left, and Thomas Muller knocked the Blues goal guarded by Petr Cech with a bouncing header, pushing Chelsea to a desperate situation.

Chelsea coach Di Matteo had no other choice but to replace Torres.

In the 88th minute, Torres risked a broken leg and created Chelsea's only corner kick in the game.

Before the corner kick was taken, Torres still didn't know whether the corner kick he put his life into could bring Chelsea a goal.But it was all the same for him, and whether or not Chelsea equalized at this point, Torres knew what he had to do - create goals, both for himself and for his team-mates.

He will never give up until the last moment, this is his original intention.

……

When Chelsea was struggling for their lives at the Allianz Arena, the former Chelsea coach Villas-Boas was sitting in front of the TV watching the broadcast with a lonely face.

On the screen at this moment, the Italian man standing on the sidelines is tall, thin and elegant-but his hard football career has left him with very little hair, and the top of his head is radiant.The Chelsea "acting" coach was originally just a deputy, and it was Villas-Boas' assistant coach, Roberto Di Matteo.

"Roberto is an honest man!" Boas looked at the screen and sighed.

Di Matteo is not a successful coach.He had managed Premier League newly promoted West Bromwich Albion two years ago, but that spell proved to be completely unsuccessful.He handed over his seal after seven months, and the team was taken over by old coach Roy Hodgson.Hodgson failed to lead the giants, but led the team to relegation but was top-notch. This season, West Bromwich Albion succeeded in relegation at the last moment, which is a miracle. "Miracle" is nothing at all.

So Di Matteo returned to his home team, Chelsea, and followed Villas-Boas honestly, starting as an assistant coach.

But no one thought in advance that at a critical moment like the Champions League final, Di Matteo is Chelsea's real head coach, and it is he who brings all the players together and the never-say-die spirit of the Blues. Rekindled.

Villas-Boas was glued to the screen, and when he saw Torres create the corner, he knew it might be the turning point of the game.When the penalty kick was taken, Drogba shook his head in front of the goal-Boas shouted and stood up, but suddenly thought, originally... the person who was standing at the Allianz Arena could also be his.

On the night of the Champions League final, Anton was watching the game with his brother Bernard at his brother Bernard's house.

Bernard came up to Anton mysteriously and said, "Brother, do you know who is the 'biggest winner in life' on the court?"

Anton knew that this younger brother could get some news from another time and space from time to time, but he couldn't help but sullen his face and said, "You're here again!"

Now he is also convinced: there is such a parallel time and space, and what happened in that time and space is probably 99% similar to this time and space, with only a few differences.But Anton thought: so what?Does it mean that if you won the championship in another time and space, you don't have to work hard in this time and space and wait for "lying to win"?

Bernard knew what his brother was thinking, so he seldom deliberately revealed the information obtained from the parallel time and space in front of his brother—but sometimes he couldn't help it.

At this time Bernard said with a straight face, "There is such a player who quietly became the first player to win the World Cup, European Cup, Confederations Cup, Champions League, Europa League, Club World Cup, Super League There are Grand Slam players who have scored goals in the cups, and they have won the European Cup, World Cup, and Europa League... Now they are likely to win the Champions League again... They really work hard in silence. Why do I Can't you say it?"

Anton knew that his brother was talking about Torres.

After Torres left Liverpool, he did encounter many difficulties and fell into a downturn.But he has never forgotten his original intention—maybe such a person is worthy of God's favor.

After the UEFA Champions League final, Torres played as a substitute for the Spanish team in the next European Cup in 2012 and won the Golden Boot of this European Cup. Since then, the title of "life winner" has been completely lost. scream.Only Torres himself didn't feel it yet, and continued to run on the green field.

The author has something to say: Let me put a few short passages, Torres tells a series of stories to his daughter Nora:

1. Torres told his daughter Nora a story: "There was once a Spanish player who only scored a few goals in the club and could not play the main role in the national team. But he scored in the last moment of a certain European competition final. With one goal, he finally lifted the Big Ears Cup and the Delaunay Cup at the same time! He slapped the person who laughed at him hard!"

The daughter said: "Who has such good shit luck?"

Torres replied: "Of course....it's your Uncle Mata!

Torres added: "Do you know who helped Uncle Mata score the goal?"

The daughter was puzzled and said, "Who is it?"

Torres proudly replied: "He is the best and most handsome shooter in Spanish history!"

The daughter cried: "Oh, Dad, I see. It's Uncle Villa."

Torres: ...

2. Torres told his daughter Nora a story: "There was once a Spanish player who went to the Premier League to play football at a young age, and grew up to be a key player in a club wearing a red jersey. But in the end, he abandoned it for high salary and trophies. He has been with his old club without a championship for many years, and insisted on transferring to a giant that is very competitive in the Champions League. And in his first full season after the transfer, he won the European Cup, you know he is..."

"It's you!" The daughter replied without thinking.

Torres: "Of course not, I'm talking about your Uncle Cesc Fabregas!"

3. Torres tells a story to his daughter Nora: "Once upon a time, there was a player who left Iberia alone to enter the Premier League. He put on a red jersey but wandered in the middle all the year round, gaining nothing. However, he followed on the bench at the lowest point of his career. The Spanish national team has won championships all over the world, overcoming all doubts from the outside world, and perfectly unifying soy sauce with greatness."

Daughter: "Daddy is great."

Torres: "...What dad, I'm talking about your Uncle Reina!!"

4. Torres told a story to his daughter Nora: "There was once a golden boy who became famous at a young age and scored goals in the Liverpool team. But he voluntarily abandoned the team and went to a richer club. You think this person is not bad. ?”

The daughter asked puzzledly: "Father, why are you scolding yourself like this..."

Torres lovingly stroked his daughter's head and said, "Silly boy, I'm talking about your Uncle Owen!"

(Reposted from some, with deletions)

The story of the winner in life is almost the same here. I read a comment from Tommy before, saying that there are only two kinds of people in the world, one is Tommy, and the other is the maddened Tommy (I think I may be backward By).Time flies, T9 announced their retirement at the end of last season.I hope he will continue to be a "Koi Carp" and a "winner in life" in his future life.