Forlan suddenly remembered what the Brazilian had said to him in his first season in La Liga, on the eve of the showdown with Barcelona, when he had returned home with Ronaldo. He said, 'I don't like defending, I always don't like it, but looking at the way you're excited, I think it's a little bit fun to defend, even though I still don't like to defend myself.' At that time, I was very clear that I was puzzled, what did the Brazilians say at that time?

[There are probably no free men in football since Summer, and there is no difference between a scavenger and a lagging central defender. At that time, I didn't fully understand the meaning of this sentence, but after several years of experience and Capello's detailed discussion, Ronaldo probably saw this possibility at that time, but Fran was still far from it at that time, so the Brazilians did not explain it.

Therefore, Ronaldo deserves to be a superstar player, both in terms of emotional intelligence and ball quotient.

'So whether it's a refinement or a complete blur, I want to give you a chance to play at the back as you like. Capello's words not only lit up a magical path for Fran, who had been just moving forward in the dark to continue to strengthen his abilities, but also made Fran suddenly have a rare urge to try it as soon as possible. Different from Fang Cai's apprehension and perfunctory, at this moment Fran began to expect him to say more, more, what step he could do in his eyes, and how he could cooperate to get there.

But Capello suddenly seemed to stop talking about it, "You go back and digest it thoroughly today, I mean, don't miscalculate something when your brain is hot, I'll tell you something else next time." After all, it's still a long way before the start of the season. ”

This basin of cold water is still very useful, at least Fran is a little sober, but this Cheng Dù's calmness can't stop his mouth from complaining, although it is a self-deceptive complaint, "Why do you think you seem to dislike my IQ?" Maybe it's because after talking about business, Capello is not as difficult to get along with as rumored, and he even sneered at this iron-fisted coach, "Raul told me to cherish every silly white sweet who plays for Real Madrid." ”

Isn't it great to have a good relationship with the captain?" "No, no, no, the stupidest and sweetest person in the club is obviously Sergio," Forlan forcibly threw the pot at Ramos, although he estimated that this genius was actually a guy who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, but the next second he hesitated more and more when he remembered Guti, "Probably?"

Talking to the players about the IQ of the players under him seems to be a novelty for Capello, can it be novel, how many guys can be the head coach who can carry the pressure and love to listen to people's nonsense? Capello seemed to think of something and asked Fran, "In that case, who do you think has the highest emotional intelligence in the team?"

"Ball quotient?" Fran immediately understood the question, but because he left the name that came to mind at the first moment, he extended his time to think desperately, "Oh oh EQ, you're talking about EQ. That's probably Ronnie, right?" This is a plausible answer, after all, no one can really count this kind of number, and Fran thinks that Ronaldo's emotional intelligence must be considered a boss level in a group of elite monsters, and he is not lying in the case of covering for the bamboo horse.

Capello smiled and naturally changed the topic, "I've seen the number of times you have successfully defended in a game or even an entire league, and the statistics in La Liga have always been one of the highest, basically as long as you have a clear goal, you can succeed." But at the same time, the corresponding number of fouls was very small. The more successes, the more mistakes there will be, how do you do that?"

"Isn't it a good idea to ask you that way of saving your life, and even then they won't think I'm playing clean," Fran said in a flat tone, "Well, it's probably a matter of the rules of football." I never see the rules as synonymous or synonymous with correctness, and just because something outside the rules is wrong doesn't mean it's wrong, but that's not allowed, at least in terms of football alone. ”

"So you don't really pay attention to the rules?" Capello was stunned by this theory, after all, there is basically only one way to get cards if you don't pay attention to it, and it is clear that Fran is not. Sure enough, Fran shook his head, "On the contrary, because of this, it is necessary to master the rules, be familiar with the rules, and use the rules. As soon as I was based on the rules, I knew that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing, so this could be the so-called 'decisive action'? ”

After all, Capello was also a player before becoming the manager, but he still didn't keep up with the idea of this said 'Real Madrid rare silly white sweet' for a while, "You don't think you're wrong, so you have a higher success rate?

"You may ask, how is it possible for Ronaldo to run so fast, how is it possible for Zidane to move so smoothly but magically, how is it possible for David Beckham's free-kick to be so exaggerated, how is it possible for Ibrahimovic to be so tall and his footwork is so dazzling? What is impossible, these people are geniuses. Fran shrugged, not embarrassed, "Well, I don't say it, but I'm actually a genius." ”

Capello suddenly felt that he was running out of words.

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It's rare for Fran not to snuggle up on the couch and read comic books happily at home, but to take a notebook and analyze last season's game footage. Unlike his usual opponents, this time he targeted his teammates.

When Guti called for dinner, Fran happened to have a page about his team, and the statistics were just halfway completed, so he packed up his things and discussed waiting for Guti to get in touch with him at his door. Fran, as a bystander, couldn't say anything about the complications of the vice-team's recent separation from Alancha, but once he thought about Casillas's emotional history, Fran deeply felt the benefits of celibacy. You don't have to worry about one more person, and you can have the freedom to use your own time at will, and how happy you are.

Once again, Fran felt that she had made the right choice.

In recent years, there has been no emotional gossip about Francisco Álvarez, after all, although he doesn't have girlfriends very often, and he is even more trivial than his friend Casillas, but he basically maintains the rhythm of having an affair with a woman every year. It looks like it's a perfunctory task, after all, there are too many lessons from the past that don't seem to be very good.

After he got dressed neatly, he picked out a pair of sunglasses and put them on his face and grimaced at the dressing mirror, when there was a crisp car horn at the door. Fran locked the door and walked out, thinking that this guy really would never learn to keep a low profile, and sure enough, as soon as he showed his face, he found the paparazzi who had been stationed at his door for a long time. Wait for him to quickly get into the car and fasten his seatbelt, "What are you going to treat me to eat?"

Guti was arranging his hair in the rearview mirror, and when he heard him say this, he showed his little tiger teeth at him, full of confidence, "You still don't feel at ease with me, leave it to me." Fran shrugged his shoulders in agreement, saying that it had been a conclusion for many years to follow José Gutierrez to have something good to eat. What's more, as long as you eat out, you don't have to do it yourself, saving trouble, effort and money, why not?

During the meal, Guti has been sparing no effort to complain, Fran blocked his mouth with rice but couldn't block his ears, and then looked at the plate in front of Guti that didn't move much, and privately thought that Mr. Golden Wolf just paid for a trash can that could be obedient and not speak. From Zidane's retirement and annoyance with the new coach, to Raul's annoyance when he is too busy to play with me, and the paparazzi trying to capture their ugliness all the time, all in all, everything has been going wrong recently, and it is annoying to have no one to say in my heart.

"So let's go to the bar in a moment. Guti blinked his expectant blue eyes at Fran, a scene that would make thousands of women's hearts move, but in Fran's opinion, he could only think that 'Jose has been addicted to alcohol lately, and it doesn't look very good'. "If you want to drink and you don't want to go home, then go to my house, I have a lot of alcohol at home, you can drink as you like," looked at Guti, who seemed to want to object, "and go out to play? ”

Guti felt that his self-esteem as the vice captain of Real Madrid and the senior of the team was ruthlessly trampled by this kid, but he has always been sensitive to the kindness of others and it is even more difficult to refuse.

But when he actually arrived at Fran's house, after being stuffed with a can of cold beer by Fran, looking at the video of the ball game and the number of information tiled on the table, Guti knew that it was too sweet for her to believe that Fran was bringing her son home to have fun.

Fran is hiding in the kitchen and sending a message to Raul, saying that he can supervise the life of the cannonball, and let Raul worry about his own affairs. After reporting the news to the leader, when he returned to the living room, he saw Guti flipping through Fran's notebook page by page. Fran didn't think it was hypocritical for Guti to see what the fruit of his knowledge was without his permission, but sat by and waited for Guti's reaction. Half a day later, Guti put the notebook back in its place, "Do you want to be a coach in the future?"

"What's not to do?" Forlan didn't refute but didn't answer exactly, Guti's expression was a little strange, as if he was imagining which team would let a manager with this personality command, and really wanted to throw him directly to Barcelona.

On paper, it is obvious that if Fran has a 'perpetual motion machine' accolades, Guti, who has always been not good at physical lì, has absolutely nothing to do with this word, and even the problem that Guti has a small range of runs even if he participates in defense is based on the body lì problem. Of course, it is undeniable that Guti has an aura in football, and many of his styles of play are unpredictable to even his teammates but are just right, which was certainly good when Zidane was inside, but now there are some problems.

Zinedine Zidane has been Real Madrid's midfield metronome for so many years, and Guti has been able to play as freely as he can with the Frenchman in control. But this is not the case with today's teams, and in terms of midfield, whether it is Guti or Beckham, if anything, they are not particularly good at playmaking midfielders, but are more attacking. What the midfield masters need is a big heart to keep calm all the time, and once Guti enters the high-speed stage of the game, he will unconsciously follow the speed instead of controlling the speed, and the stability of the high-speed game will be greatly reduced, and the error rate will continue to increase, and the opponent will be caught in the bloody throat.

Whether Real Madrid can give Guti full confidence is one thing, and now that the midfield is leaderless, it is even more important whether Guti can make up his mind to make a change.

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If you were to say that one of my most memorable seasons at Real Madrid had nothing to do with those four Champions League seasons. I'll just say '0607, it's the best blockbuster we've ever performed, and even those of us who probably didn't know the outcome at the beginning.

Maybe people think that the most successful signing that season was Ruud, and I admit that Ruud was a good player, but my answer would be Fabio, Fabio Capello. But it wasn't me who made the most of the transition that season.

It's José Gutiérrez.

-- Francisco Álvarez, "The 'Art' of Defense"