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Ferdinand rose to fame after being bought by Leeds United for a record fee after coming through to West Ham United, becoming England's most expensive defender in the summer of 2002 when he moved to Manchester United. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 At Manchester United, Rio Ferdinand was an absolute mainstay at the back and was once considered the best centre-back in the world.

Rio Ferdinand first signed with West Ham United when he was just 14 years old, when he signed an apprenticeship with West Ham United. After leaving school at the age of 16, Ferdinand ignored offers from other clubs and decided to stay at West Ham, where he went on to extend his contract as an apprentice.

On 25 January 1997, Rio Ferdinand made his first selection for West Ham United, the same year Ferdinand was named to the England squad, and the following year, at the age of 20, Ferdinand was part of England's World Cup squad.

Ferdinand can achieve such an achievement at the age of 20, his strength should not be underestimated, his strong body allows him to not fear any opponent at the back, and the strong style makes it difficult for opponents to get past Ferdinand, in addition, Ferdinand's attacking ability is also good, his header ability is very good, and he is good at using his body advantage to steal and intercept.

In world football, there may be a lot of 20-year-old strikers, but the backline, especially the central defenders, is extremely lacking in any team, and such Ferdinand will of course become the object of competition for many teams.

Until now, Ferdinand has joined Leeds United and Manchester United for a very high transfer fee.

During his time at West Ham United, Ferdinand played a total of 158 games and scored twice. On 26 November 2000, he moved to Leeds United for £18 million. It is worth mentioning that Rio Ferdinand's last game for West Ham was a 1-0 win away to Leeds United on 18 November.

At the time, £18 million was the most expensive transfer figure in all of English football, and five months later, Rio Ferdinand led Leeds to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. He also scored three goals in his first season, which is a magnificent statistic for a centre-back.

In his second season at Leeds United, the team's results were not very satisfactory, however, this did not affect Ferdinand's fame at all, because his personal performance has been improving, in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea, Ferdinand's performance was even better, after the end of the game, he once became the hottest transfer figure, at that time Ferdinand's transfer popularity even exceeded Barcelona captain Figo!

In the end, Manchester United, who won the Treble in '99, won the money contest for £30 million, which made Rio Ferdinand surpass the £22 million Dulim to become the world's most expensive defender.

After joining Manchester United, Rio Ferdinand used his excellent footwork and ability to cope with aerial attacks to stabilize the United defence, and the Reds conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League that season.

Unfortunately, in the 2003/04 season, Rio Ferdinand was heavily suspended by the English FA for missing a drug test for eight months, which made him miss all the team's games in the second half of the season, and even missed the European Championship.

This may be a small pity.

For Rio Ferdinand, who is playing in his prime, he has many opportunities, such as the World Cup in Germany.

However, at the end of the group stage of the World Cup, where England performed the strongest performance, Ferdinand was injured, and the reason for the injury was because he sprained his ankle while climbing.

After the England team returned to the hotel, the expressions of each of the players were not very good. Cole and Rooney kept their heads down and kept their faces composed, because the suggestion to climb the mountain was initiated by these two people.

As a result, a group of people hula hula went, but Ferdinand was injured.

The injury of such a strong main central defender has at least lowered the overall ability of the England team's backline!!

Head coach McClaren certainly heard the news, and he rushed straight from Nuremberg to the Munich hospital. A sprained ankle, which may only be a minor injury, could have left Rio Ferdinand out for at least half a month, and the more important player in the backfield than John Terry may not be able to play in the next World Cup games.

This is a very serious blow for Rio Ferdinand himself and for England as a whole.

"It's okay, Leo will be fine." See Rooney and Joe. Cole had a look of loss and chagrin on his face, and Wang Li kept persuading.

Wang Li and Ferdinand are not familiar with each other, they are just opponents in the Premier League, and Ferdinand was directly suspended when Wang Li was in the England team before.

And now, the two are together in the England team, and Ferdinand is injured again.

The two really can't always play together.

Wang Li admires Ferdinand very much, the two can be said to have been friends for a long time, at least Wang Li seems to be like this, because among the defensive players Wang Li has seen, there are two opponents that he clearly remembers, one is Chelsea's teammate Ricardo. Carvalho, the Portuguese player, once made a steal at the European Championships, and his defense caused him a lot of problems.

The other is Rio Ferdinand, although the game between Manchester United and Chelsea always ends with a Chelsea victory, Wang Li feels that Ferdinand's defense is at least as strong as the average two players.

It's a shame that such a player gets injured.

pity

It's just a pity.

Wang Li is not as worrying as McLaren, and he feels that although Rio Ferdinand's injury has affected the overall strength of the team, if he plays to his full extent, there is still no team that can challenge England in the World Cup.

He is very confident in his own strength.

What if the backline is a little weaker? As long as you score more goals than your opponent, then you can win, this is Wang Li's opinion.

Of course, he won't say that, after all, Rio Ferdinand is indeed England's biggest defender.

And McLaren has plenty of reason to be angry and worried!!

At the beginning of the World Cup, everything in the England team was very good, the players were very neat, and because of the arrival of several young players, the whole team had a sense of vitality, and the strength of the team was really strong.

After two rounds of the group stage, England proved to be very strong, with a terrifying attacking ability of 14 goals in two games, they achieved absolute dominance, and they became the first team to qualify for the round of 16 after two games.

But Frank Lampard is injured, which is nothing, in an official World Cup match, it is normal for one or two players to be injured, but Rio Ferdinand is injured again.

If it was a normal injury, McLaren was just worried, after all, there was no way to do it, but it was an injury caused by climbing a mountain during the World Cup, which made his anger rise directly - "From today until the World Cup is over, all players are not allowed to leave the team without permission, no matter what time it is!! ”

After returning to the hotel, McLaren still made such a strict rule, and took the assistant coach and translator to the press conference together.

He had to announce it to the media, because a lot of 'gossip' had already gotten out, and it was already spreading to the outside world.

At nine o'clock that night, in the lobby of the hotel where the England team was staying, head coach McClaren held an impromptu press conference and told reporters that the team's main central defender was injured and was likely to be unable to participate in the next World Cup matches.

However, McClaren only said that he was injured in the team's internal training, and he did not let the reporters know what was going on inside the England team, which really damaged the image of the England team.

This kind of news has led to heated discussions in various media, the most important of which is that Ferdinand is too important to England's defence.

If there is Ferdinand's England backline, which can be ranked in the top five of the 32 teams in the World Cup, then the England backline without Ferdinand is estimated to be only ranked outside the eighth, after all, Ferdinand is too important, and his position is by no means the veteran Campbell, Carragher, Phil. Neville and other players can replace it.

If McLaren was upset about it, the other was even more anxious! That's Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of Manchester United.

It was only after McClaren's press conference that night that the old knight received the news of Rio Ferdinand's injury, when he smashed the porcelain cup on the table and shouted: "That nasty Englishman, I knew he was going to hurt Manchester United!" I shouldn't have agreed to Leo and Rooney in the national team! ”

Then, the old jazz called Ferdinand for the first time, and half an hour later, Ferguson appeared in front of reporters with a smile on his face.

Why?

Because Ferdinand's injury is not serious, he will definitely get better after a month of rest, and this month is just a World Cup game, which will not affect the game of Manchester United Club at all, the most important thing is to listen to the doctor that this injury will not cause internal injuries, and it will not affect Ferdinand's state after that.

News like this is what makes Ferguson happy again!

'I've always felt like England couldn't play well and I've always supported their opponents.

In a follow-up interview, Ferguson gloated: "The Englishman [McClaren] was lucky, after he took over from the Swede [Eriksen], England had a lot of great talent coming in, and those talents even I wanted to get. But now he's got bad luck, England every time, but I'm happy every time. ”

"Now it's just Leo who is injured, I don't think the situation of the England team is very good, and the England team will be much worse defensively without Leo. Of course, that's what I'd like to see. ”

'I'd rather see England go home after the round of 16.' At the end of the interview, Ferguson said.

This statement made McLaren angry and powerless.

The whole of England knows that Ferguson hates the England team the most, and now that Manchester United's players are injured in the England team, the old jazz will definitely be sympathized with by the media and fans when he says this, and the responsibility for everything seems to be on him.

If England are to be significantly affected by Rio Ferdinand's injury, it will all be his manager's problem, but does it really have anything to do with McLaren?

There must be a relationship, "Do I want Leo to get hurt?" ”

After returning to his hotel room, McClaren shouted that he had finally discovered that being the head coach of the national team was indeed honorable, but it was not an easy task.

Fortunately, when he walked out of the door, he saw Wang Li's figure.

Seeing the brunette and Beckham walk through the door while talking made McLaren feel a lot better.

Rio Ferdinand is injured when he is injured, anyway, the team still has players to make up for it, as long as this brunette is there, England is guaranteed to score, why should the team not get a good result?

This thought made McLaren feel much better

Team Sweden.

This team is an outstanding representative of the Nordic teams, who come from Scandinavia. Sweden has always been an important force in European football.

In the 1958 World Cup held on home soil, the Swedish team made it all the way to the final, but unfortunately lost to the Brazilian team that was in the middle of the game at that time, and was the runner-up, which is the most proud record in the history of Swedish football. In addition, Sweden also finished third in the 1950 and 1994 World Cups.

In the last decade or so, the Swedes have integrated advanced technical play into the traditional Nordic power football style, creating a precedent for a "new Nordic style".

At present, the Swedish team is full of technical players: the tall Ibrahimvic is said to be able to juggle the ball with table tennis, and his excellent ball sense can only be described as "terrifying"; Larsen, who participated in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, will form an invincible combination with Ibrahimovic in the forward line; Ljungberg's individual skills have been proven in the Premier League, and his ability to break down the flanks is also a sharp weapon for the Swedes.

In the last World Cup, Sweden finished 13th, and this World Cup, judging from the format of Group B, Sweden still has a good hope of advancing to the group - as long as they beat England!!

But will England lose so easily?

Nobody knows, but everyone thinks that England will send a substitute team on the field, and McClaren is likely to train in the World Cup, so everyone will be optimistic about Sweden, and for the other game, the fans will not care much.

Perhaps two days ago, McClaren was really thinking about drilling, hoping to get all of the team's substitutes to get used to the atmosphere of the tournament and rest the main players.

However, after the Rio Ferdinand incident, McClaren changed his mind slightly, and he let all the players follow the team to Cologne, and then only a few 'obedient' players did not make it to the squad, including Wang Li.

McLaren couldn't be more reassured by Wang.

And Rooney and others are all in the squad, and it seems that McClaren wants these boys to settle down and not always cause trouble, which invisibly adds a lot of trouble to the team.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Wang Li, because on this day he left Cologne and went to Munich International Airport - because Angela came to Germany!!

Angela didn't hide her identity this time, she came to Germany in the name of the little princess of the British royal family, and this practice was obviously to prepare for the marriage of the two in advance.

And Wang Li also had to leave the team to pick him up at the airport, of course, more importantly, because England no longer needed him at least in the group stage.

As the little princess of the British royal family, her influence in Europe is still very large, at least on the day of the pick-up, many, many people from all over the world with status and status came to the airport, after Angela and Wang Li met, the two received a lot of invitations, most of them are from some of Germany's wealthy and influential families.

This made Wang Li very irritated, so in order to reduce the trouble, he and Angela went directly to Cologne in a special car prepared for him by the German political axe - he was participating in the competition.

England became a refuge for Royal.

As a member of the England team, Wang Li could not stay with Angela all the time, and after arranging the hotel and so on, he returned to the England team's hotel a day later, because the next day was the match between England and Sweden.

Wang Li didn't make the squad, so he was very idle the next day.

So, he and Angela came to the Rheinland Energy Stadium together, as a member of the England team, and the little princess of the British royal family, the two of them are obviously privileged, and before the fans enter the stadium, the two have been guided by the staff to a VIP box, ready to enjoy the game.

In the case of not entering the team list, Wang Li watched the game completely in the mood of a spectator.

It is worth mentioning that during the waiting time, there were only two people in the VIP box, Wang Li and Angela, although the two only met yesterday, but under the style of the British princess, and the light bulb of Cole, the two obviously did not have time to relieve the sorrow of missing together.

So, after waiting for an hour, the two couldn't help but complete a primitive human movement on the sofa, and it was really pleasant to perform such a sport before watching the game on the spot.

When the two teams entered the field, the two put on their tops, and Angela looked out of the box.

At this time, the stadium was already surrounded by fans, this stadium can accommodate more than 60,000 fans, the scene has been filled with crazy fans, and outside Wang Li's box, some fans saw the faces of Angela and Wang Li, and they immediately shouted in that direction.

The news spread quickly, and in the blink of an eye, all the fans in the stadium knew the location of the English princess and Wang Leigh's box, and they desperately shouted towards it. For Europeans, the influence of the British royal family is still huge, at least on the spot, there are even more fans chanting Angela's name than Wang Leigh.

So, in desperation, Angela could only tidy up her clothes, put on her little hat and stick her head out of the window, smiled cheerfully, and waved at everyone.

But at this time, Wang Li, who was standing behind Angela, had a slight evil smile on the corner of his mouth, so he controlled 'Little Wang Li' and stabbed it into the hole again

(To be continued)