I just wanted to play football, but I became a Hollywood god

Manchester City's starting left back is Serbian international No. 13, Alexander Kolarov. He is 25 years old, 187cm tall and 81kg in weight. He is very strong and has good foot skills and steals ability. As a left back, he has a good explosive performance and has certain abilities. His assist ability and a very beautiful free kick.

When Kolarov was still a student, NATO was bombing Yugoslavia. Unable to go to school, he and his brother started playing football at home. The two brothers used the goal frame as a goal to compete with who could kick the ball more accurately. As a result, the two brothers always It was because the kick made a huge impact on the door frame that the neighbors misunderstood it as an incoming missile.

Kolarov is a star who grew up in a war environment.

In 2009, he helped Inter Milan win the Serie A championship and the Italian Cup. In 2010, Kolarov was moved by Manchester City's sincerity and transferred to Manchester City, becoming Manchester City's chief left back.

He possesses the unique ruggedness of Slavic football. He has good physical fitness and strong physical fitness. Although his skills are not exquisite, they are very practical. He runs actively without the ball and has a good long-range shot.

Manchester City's starting right back is the No. 2 player, the 22-year-old young player, Micah Richards.

Micah Richards was the best rookie in the Premier League in the 07 season. In 2000, Richards first trained at the Oldham Youth Camp. In 2001, he was noticed by Manchester City scouts.

Richards' explosive power and speed were definitely the ace among the aces among the young generation at that time, even more so than the boy chasing the wind.

Most of the current Manchester City team was recruited from other teams by local tycoons from the Middle East who spent huge sums of money. The only one who can stay in the first team as a youth training player and be the main force is Richards.

At the beginning, Richards was trained as a forward, but Richards was not good at crossing, passing, dribbling, stopping the ball, shooting, or long shots, and he was unable to grab points in front of the goal. No - he's so fast that even the ball can't catch up with him when he's running.

So, Richards switched to guard.

This change made Richards feel like a fish in water.

Richards is like a duck in water on the defensive line. He is not only qualified as a right back, but also a midfielder and defender.

He doesn't need any defensive skills. He just turns quickly, starts quickly, explodes quickly, and has super physical fitness. He can't run to death at all. Even if he runs close to the opponent's forward, the opponent's forward just can't outrun him.

Therefore, the current 22-year-old Richards's skills are very rough. So far, his passing skills and foot skills are terrible. He is not even up to the level of English League One, but he can rely on his super fast skills. His speed, endurance, and personal confrontation allow him to gain a foothold in a top-tier Premier League team like Manchester City.

Moreover, Richards gets better and better as he plays and is one of the few positive and inspirational black players in the Premier League.

The two central defenders Manchester City started today are No. 19 Jolyon Lescott and No. 4 Vincent Kompany.

Lescott is 28 years old, 188cm tall and 88kg in weight. He can play as a left back or a central defender.

Lescott is physically strong and fierce in defense. He started in the Wolves and became famous in Everton. He is the No. 1 player in Manchester City's 1 million defense plan.

After a tycoon from the Middle East took over Manchester City in 09, the team was almost torn down and rebuilt. Among them was a £1 million opportunity to build the Premier League's first defense, and the first thing Manchester City looked at was Lescott.

This is not to say that Lescott is already a world-class defender, but it is simply because money cannot buy a world-class defender like Ferdinand.

Lescott was initially reluctant to move to Manchester City. After all, Manchester City played poorly before 09 and was far inferior to Everton.

But in the end, Lescott was moved by Manchester City's transfer fee of 2400 pounds. This transfer also made Lescott the most valuable player in the defense besides Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand.

In addition to being tall and strong, fierce in defense, good in position, and with certain speed and aerial advantage, Lescott's biggest characteristic is-ugliness.

If you choose the most handsome guy in English football, there will be a lot of controversy. For example, Beckham, Santa Cruz, and Gu Ran. Each star has his own die-hard female fan.

However, when it comes to choosing the ugliest man in English football, there is almost no dispute that it must be Lescott.

There was once a joke. When England's golden boy Owen was at his peak, he was playing with Everton. With a beautiful move, he dribbled the ball straight into Everton's penalty area. When he was about to take a shot, Lex Te frowned and stood in front of Irving. Irving was so frightened that his legs weakened. The ball that could have been easily shot was intercepted by Lescott.

Lescott is also known as the No. 1 defender who relies on his face.

Although Lescott has lowered Manchester City's average appearance, fortunately, Manchester City still has the handsome boy Roque Santa Cruz who spent 1750 million pounds to buy from Blackburn.

Santa Cruz is 189cm tall. Among South American players who are generally short in stature and have poor average looks, Santa Cruz and Kaka are both outliers.

Santa Cruz is hailed as Paraguay's Batistuta by Paraguayan nationals, and as Paraguay's Beckham by Bayern fans where he once played.

Santa Cruz, like Kaká, has also suffered major injuries, and minor injuries continue to occur.

Many people thought that Santa Cruz would retire early, just like many people thought that the rich second-generation Buffon would retire early, but the result was that Santa Cruz grew from a glass man to an evergreen tree in football. Later, he played until 2023 and did not retire even at the age of 42. Santa Cruz has already made enough money, and playing football is just pure love.

It's just a pity that Mancini does not recognize the current ability of Santa Cruz. In other words, Santa Cruz is not a big name enough and his ability is indeed not world-class. Therefore, although he bought Santa Cruz, But as soon as Mancini changed hands, he sub-leased the 1750 million pound Paraguayan forward back to Blackburn.

Therefore, Santa Cruz was not present in this game, otherwise, he could have had a showdown with Gu Ran in terms of appearance.

Another central defender of Manchester City is Vincent Kompany, known as "Big Head" and "Team Kong".

Belgian international Kompany is only 24 years old. Unlike other ultra-luxury teammates who were bought at high prices, Kompany was transferred from Hamburg at a lower transfer price a few days before the Middle Eastern tycoon moved in. Manchester City's.

After Kompany came to Manchester City, Manchester City immediately announced that it was acquired by a Middle Eastern tycoon and launched a 1 million pound defense plan that shocked English football.

In other words, the 1 million pounds from the Middle Eastern tycoon did not hit Kompany.

Seeing that a super ugly guy like Lescott has a transfer value of 2400 million pounds and a super high weekly salary, an ordinary player would have been mentally unbalanced, but Kompany didn't care at all, he just took it seriously. Really playing football, step by step from a transfer player that no one cares about, to a true core leader of the defense.

As a defender, Kompany can definitely be called world-class.

Kompany is 190cm tall and weighs 91kg, but his body is slender and there is no visible fat.

This has a lot to do with the fact that he works hard in the gym every day to train his muscles. His body fat ratio is very low, and his body is full of muscles like fine steel.

Such a strong physical condition also makes him very powerful against opposing forwards.

His stealing ability, heading ability, and defensive positioning are all first-class. And more importantly, Kompany has very good on-the-spot defensive command ability. He knows exactly where he should stand when and where he should stand. It’s clear when and where the teammates next to you should be standing.

He is a physically strong player with a high IQ.

This also laid the foundation for him to become a coach in the future.

In short, Kompany's few seasons at Manchester City were the seasons when Manchester City truly rose, and Kompany's contribution to the defense was indispensable.

There is also a top central defender who is sitting on the bench talking and laughing at this time. He is the former Arsenal's main vice-captain, Kolo Toure, the brother of Yaya Toure.

Kolo Toure is an absolute grassroots player. Before he became a professional player, he never participated in a youth training camp or received formal professional training. He even put on sneakers for the first time after he was 17 years old. Before the age of 17, he played football in the slums of Cote d'Ivoire, following the path of football king Maradona.

It was not until 4, 2001 years later, that Kolo Toure entered the professional club Abidjan Mimosa in Côte d'Ivoire and officially became a professional player at the age of 21. Then in 2002, he was spotted by Wenger. , signed for Arsenal at an extreme price and stayed there for 8 years until Manchester City launched a 1 million defense plan.

Manchester City's starting goalkeeper is player No. 21, the world-famous background goalkeeper, Joe Hart.

Joe Hart is 23 years old, 191cm tall and 80kg in weight. He is the current number one goalkeeper in England.

As a goalkeeper, Joe Hart's body is a little thin, but this also makes him very flexible, his muscles react very quickly, and he can save consecutive fatal goals.

Although Joe Hart is often ridiculed as the backdrop for scoring goals, and there is even a saying that "if God is in love, God will grow old when he sees Hartmon's kick", but in fact, Joe Hart can become England's number one goalkeeper at such a young age. Hart's strength is still very strong.

Joe Hart maintained a record of 18 consecutive clean sheets in the Premier League and won the Premier League Golden Glove Award for two consecutive years.

Joe Hart may seem funny, but he is actually very stable. The reason why people have the impression that "if God is in love, God will be old when he sees Hart kicking" is because the shooters Hart faces are all The world's top player, if there is even the slightest problem with his positioning, the opponent's world-class forward with extremely keen sense of smell will seize the opportunity.

All in all, with the exception of Kompany, Joe Hart, and Micah Richards, Manchester City's other main players were basically imported by Middle Eastern tycoons who spent huge sums of money in 2010.

The worth of Tevez alone is already worth the worth of the entire Southampton team.

Therefore, in the eyes of most people, this is a game without suspense.

Even Southampton's own fans feel that if they only lose two goals in this game, it will be considered a win.

... (end of this chapter)