Chapter 1020: The Revelations of the Confidential Newspaper

After the 2010-2011 season of Barcelona, there was a meeting at the top management to consider whether the manager should be replaced by Pep Guardiola, but surprisingly, 80% of the top management supported Guardiola's stay.

So Pep Guardiola surprisingly continued to lead Barcelona to the 2011-2012 season, and he also made a military order with the club.

If he can't lead Barcelona to the Champions League this season, then he will resign.

In this regard, many Barcelona fans who support Guardiola are very happy, and the La Masia lineage who has worked with him for three seasons is also very happy.

However, most of the mainstream European media have concluded that it is only a matter of time before Guardiola leaves Barcelona, because as long as Valencia has a healthy Airo, he will never turn around......

In fact, the media's speculation is very accurate, no matter how Barcelona and Real Madri increase their investment and increase heavy reinforcements, there is still no way to effectively compete with Valencia.

In the first leg of the 2011 Spanish Super Cup at the Mestalla Stadium, Barcelona fielded the strongest line-up, goalkeeper Valdés, four defenders are Baynes, Pique, Mertesacker and Alves, midfielders Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets, and the forward line is Cesc Fabregas, Messi and Pedro.

Valencia's strongest squad is goalkeeper Wang Xiaolei, the back four are Cesar Azpilicueta, Godin, Raphael Varane and Donny van der Wiel, the midfield is Andrea Pirlo, Luka Modric and James Rodriguez, and the forward line is Elloh, Cavani and David Silva.

Compared with last season's lineup, Valencia's midfield interception ability has dropped a lot, but after the game started, fans saw Valencia's strong midfield control in the new season, and Barcelona had no way to occupy any advantage at the Mestalla Stadium, and was suppressed by Valencia for almost the entire game, which was in stark contrast to last season's Champions League final.

So it was no surprise that Valencia thrashed Barcelona 4-1 at home to the Copa del Rey in the first leg......

It is worth mentioning that the youngster Raphael Varane, who played for Valencia for the first time, scored twice with a header, which became a highlight of the game.

For this score, the Catalan media believes that there is a lot of water, this game is just the first game of Barcelona before the start of the new season, the form has not yet been played, they believe that the second leg back at Camp Nou, Barcelona will definitely find the best form, so as to achieve a big home victory over Valencia and win the Spanish Super Cup!

But it turned out that Barcelona's form was not bad, but that Valencia as a whole was extremely strong.

A week later at Camp Nou in the second leg of the Spanish Copa del Rey, Valencia, led by captain Elo, defeated Barcelona 3-1 away to win the first trophy of the 2011-2012 season with an aggregate score of 7-2.

Four days later, the UEFA Super Cup was played at the Stade Louis II in Monaco, where Valencia continued to show their formidancy, beating 2010-2011 Europa League winners Porto 4-0.

The team swept Barcelona and Porto to win the Spanish Super Cup and UEFA Super Cup at the end of August, giving Valencia fans a glimpse of the club's six-legged cross-season title.

Although the Club World Cup is still three months away, the vast majority of fans believe that it is only a matter of time before Valencia win the title, as Santos, the 2011 Copa Libertadores winners, has nothing to do to threaten Valencia......

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In fact, no team posed a threat to Valencia before the Club World Cup in December.

Valencia recorded a staggering fifteen wins and one draw in the 16 league games leading up to the Club World Cup, extending their unbeaten run to 57 games.

The Champions League also won four consecutive wins in six group games early and qualified for early qualification.

Become a team feared by all of Europe.

It is worth mentioning that after Barcelona lost 2:4 at home to Valencia in the fourth round of La Liga, Barcelona's top management announced that they had reached an agreement with Pep Guardiola to remove Barcelona as head coach and be led by his assistant Vilanova until a suitable manager was found.

However, only half a month later, the Spanish "Confidential" suddenly broke the news that Guardiola and the Chinese XX Football Association reached an agreement that the two sides signed a three-year contract with an annual salary of 5 million euros.

At the beginning, everyone thought it was a joke, because Guardiola announced that he was going to take a year off when he stepped down as Barcelona manager, but it was only half a month later, how could he sign a contract with the Chinese XX Football Association and become the head coach of the Chinese national team?

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if Guardiola has the idea of returning to the helm and coaching the team, he may not choose the national team, knowing that being a national team manager is not the same as a club manager......

In addition, the fundamental reason for Guardiola's termination of his contract with FC Barcelona is that Valencia, which has Ello, has lost seven consecutive games, so it stands to reason that Guardiola will not cooperate with Ailo in the Chinese national team.

But...... Two days later, the Chinese XX Football Association announced on its official website that Pep Guardiola will be the head coach of the Chinese national team for the next three years.

The official issued a statement, and everyone woke up like a dream.

Interestingly, Guardiola questioned the media in an interview with the Spanish newspaper "País": "It is a challenge to be able to coach the Chinese national team, because this team has risen very fast under the leadership of Ai, fifth place in the World Cup in South Africa, and the champion of the Asian Cup in Qatar!" I believe that the 2014 World Cup in Brazil will achieve a greater breakthrough! ”

It can be seen that Guardiola did not have any unhappiness with Iro, but had great expectations.

At the same time, "Confidential" once again broke the news that the 55-year-old Spanish coach Manzano signed a contract with the Chinese XX Football Association to lead the Chinese Olympic team to participate in the 2012 London Olympics.

If it is surprising that Pep Guardiola became the head coach of the Chinese team, then Manzano becoming the head coach of the National Olympic team is a little confusing.

According to Manzano's coaching resume and coaching achievements, he was not worried about not having a good home, but he did not expect to choose to coach the Chinese Olympic team.

Soon, some media said that the current strength of school-age players suitable for the London Olympics is very considerable: Wang Xiaolei, Wu Xi, Zhang Linpeng, Zhang Xizhe, Wu Lei......

Most importantly, the Olympic team can have three overage players.

Therefore, the reporter has a big brain, in the case of allowing over-age players to participate, the Chinese XX Football Association will definitely recruit Ai Luo as the team's over-age players, plus Wang Xiaolei, Wu Xi and Zhang Linpeng, who have gained a foothold in the European giants, the Chinese Olympic team can have great competitiveness in next year's Olympic Games!