Football's No. 1 Prodigal Son

The next day, Yang Luo ran to the coach training base excitedly to sign up.

Since this is the lowest level of coach training in the country, the threshold is not high, and many college students are taking classes with him.

With his intelligence, it is not difficult to handle these.

After a few days of study, Yang Luo successfully obtained the C-level coaching certificate.

This is the most basic certificate, and if you want to continue to upgrade, you must have a lot of practical experience.

So he came to the club again with a thick face, saying that he wanted to train the club's young players with the youth training coaches.

The youth training coaches were all dumbfounded. Why are you, a boss, joining us here?

Yang Luo was a little embarrassed, but he still explained the reason to them.

Old Haaland came over and said with an expression that he understood him very well: "This B-level coaching certificate is quite difficult. I failed the last exam."

Yang Luo couldn't help but look at him, speechless.

In the following days, Yang Luo followed the youth training team to the training ground every day, one to reach the class hours required for practical teaching, and the other to really learn something.

However, he found another treasure in the youth training camp.

Daniel Sturridge!

This kid was dug up by Manchester City for 30,000 pounds this summer and officially became a member of Manchester City's youth training camp.

Yang Luo gave the youth training director certain authority, so he didn't know about the deal at all.

This was also a pleasant surprise. Sturridge was also a player who had made a name for himself in the Premier League. If he wasn't too fragile, he might have become a first-line star.

While Yang Luo was soaking in the training ground every day, Manchester City continued their journey in the Premier League.

After the baptism of the international match day, Manchester City's players' condition was greatly affected. They barely tied Fulham 2-2 away.

And they also fell to seventh place in the standings.

However, a week later, after a break, they beat Aston Villa 4-1 at home and returned to fourth place in the standings.

It was thought that Manchester City would be able to make great progress next, but they performed poorly in the next two games.

First, they were tied 0-0 by Tottenham at home, and then they were defeated 1-0 by the newly promoted Wolves away.

As soon as these two games were played, doubts about Van Gaal were overwhelming.

David Jones even wrote in his column: "This Dutch coach seems to have lost his magic. Will the failure in Barcelona happen again? If he continues like this, I don't believe that everyone in the team will tolerate him."

Yang Luo is naturally very dissatisfied with Manchester City's recent performance, but he also knows that it is normal for a young team to have ups and downs after a major change, and it is far from the end of the road, so he does not plan to change coaches.

And he watched all the games. In fact, he just had bad luck. The content of the game was very good.

So he immediately found Van Gaal.

Van Gaal's face was full of clouds at this time. How could he not know the rumors from the outside world?

The club spent so much money, and he had such results one after another, which was indeed a bit ugly.

But Yang Luo said: "Mr. Van Gaal, don't listen to rumors and criticisms from the outside world. The club's management and I have always trusted you. I believe you will adjust in time."

Van Gaal didn't expect that the young man would choose to support him at this time. He looked up at Yang Luo carefully: "Mr. Yang, please rest assured that I will get the team out of the trough as soon as possible!"

At the same time, Bernstein also expressed his support for Van Gaal in an interview: "Our goal at Manchester City is to build a top team. This is a long-term plan. So short-term performance fluctuations will not affect our trust in Mr. Van Gaal."

After losing to Wolves, the team ushered in another international match day.

The last international match day, Manchester City's players were greatly affected. Will they repeat the same mistake this time?

No one knows.

The time came to October 18, 2003.

Today, Manchester City will face Bolton at home.

Bolton is a relegation team, and their real strength is far less than Manchester City.

But Manchester City is in a bad state now, and most of their players have played for the national team, so there are many people who are pessimistic about them before the game.

David Jones, a black man, wrote in the Guardian: "Manchester City's game

Facing a great test, if they can't beat Bolton, the next game against Chelsea will be even more dangerous. If they fail to win in a row, Manchester City may fall into a slump. At that time, let alone competing for the Champions League, the more realistic goal may be relegation! "

At the beginning of the game, Van Gaal's brows were tightly locked.

He also knew the importance of this game. Manchester City must stop the decline in this game, otherwise they may really say goodbye to the competition for the Champions League seat in advance!

Therefore, even if the main players are a little tired, he still sent most of the main players.

But in the first half of the game, Manchester City still played poorly.

Less than five minutes after the start, Bolton scored the first goal.

This made Manchester City's home fans very dissatisfied, and even sparse boos were heard. .

The players on the field also knew the importance of this game, so they started a tide of attack.

However, the opponent's goalkeeper was very brave in this game and saved several sure goals in succession.

It was not until the end of the first half that Manchester City scored a goal by Ronaldinho to tie the score.

The two teams came to the halftime break with a score of 1:1.

Yang Luo in the VIP area also frowned, it seems that things are not going well recently...

But at the beginning of the second half, the game suddenly took a turn.

The fourth In the 17th minute, Luca Toni received a cross from Robben and scored with a header.

In the 53rd minute, C Ronaldo scored in the penalty area.

In the 61st minute, Uifalusi scored with a header from a corner kick.

Only about 15 minutes into the second half, Manchester City scored three goals in a row!

The score was 4-1, and the result was almost out of suspense!

This made all the spectators present completely crazy. What happened?

In fact, Van Gaal himself didn't know, maybe it was just that the goddess of luck suddenly came back!

Sometimes it's like this, when you are in trouble, suddenly there will be a turnaround at some point, and the situation will be bright.

After securing the victory, he replaced Kaka and Wright-Phillips to let the main players rest.

But even with them on the court, Manchester City's goal luck continued!

In the 71st minute, Kaka extended the score to 5-1 with a long shot.

In the 83rd minute, Wright-Phillips scored another goal with a shot in the penalty area!

6-1!

No one expected this result!