Although Gao Shen has won three Champions Leagues, in fact, he has never participated in any UEFA awards ceremony.
He even missed out on major FIFA awards.
Yes, although he has been on the official websites of FIFA and UEFA countless times and accepted interviews and recognition from the two authoritative associations, he has never received an award from them.
Because FIFA's Men's Football Coach of the Year award started in 2010.
It was only officially established after Gao Shen won the second Champions League in 2009.
This also became a very embarrassing thing.
When the FIFA Men's Football Coach of the Year Award was established, many people believed that although Gao Shen failed to win the Champions League and was not the head coach of the World Cup team, he should receive this honor.
But in the end, the award went to Del Bosque, who led Spain to the World Cup, rather than to Guardiola, who won the Champions League.
Gao Shen, who led Manchester City to win the first league championship in history, was not even nominated.
Now, Gao Shen has led Manchester City to win the Champions League, becoming the only active head coach in football who has won three Champions Leagues. Almost everyone believes that he should win the FIFA Men's Football Coach of the Year Award.
There is no suspense anymore.
But at this moment, UEFA suddenly intervened.
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As we all know, starting last year, FIFA's World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or awarded by French Football magazine merged to form the FIFA Ballon d'Or, which created a vacuum for an award that was originally a European award.
UEFA's annual best awards in the past were subdivided awards, such as the best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and forward, as well as the best player in the finale. These awards are actually subdivided awards, the most important best player.
It is known as the benchmark for the Golden Globe Award and World Footballer, which shows its authority.
However, after the merger of the Ballon d'Or and World Player of the Year, UEFA also saw opportunities, so it cooperated with the European Sports Media Alliance to formally reform UEFA's awards conference and cancel the original subdivided position awards.
Instead, a new European best player was created.
As the name suggests, this award selects the players who performed best in Europe and European leagues last season.
The rules are voted by football reporters from 53 European countries and regions. The top three will be selected in the first round of voting, and another vote will be held on site to rank the top three into one seat.
This alone was not enough, so UEFA also set up a special best coach award.
And everyone knows that in the past season, Gao Shen, who led Manchester City to win the Triple Crown and equaled the great Manchester United dynasty, is definitely the number one favorite, or even the only candidate.
Because his opponent was Guardiola, who lost to the sophisticated Manchester City in the Champions League final.
As a result, Gao Shen has almost no opponents.
This has also been jokingly referred to by countless media as an award specially created by UEFA for senior players.
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The outside media can hype it up like this, but Gao Shen can't think like this.
Although he received a phone invitation from Platini and was very sure that he would win this award, so he attended the award ceremony with his fiancée Su Qing, he still remained humble.
When the team arrived in Monaco, Manchester City's players all brought a set of formal suits distributed by the team.
Gao Shen's sponsor Qi Dun came from Italy to Monaco and sent a suit of dress specially tailored for Gao Shen.
This brand from Naples, Italy has benefited from its cooperation with Gao Shen. The current development momentum is quite good, and it specializes in high-end customization.
Manchester City arrived in Monaco at noon and checked into a hotel prepared by UEFA in advance.
Throughout the afternoon, Gao Shen was trying on dresses in the hotel, and Su Qing was also trying on dresses sponsored by Chinese designers.
The two will attend tonight's awards ceremony together.
The entire Manchester City team will also participate, and Kompany will appear as a representative of the defending Champions League champion, holding the Big Ears Cup.
Everyone is looking forward to this.
In addition to Gao Shen being a sure winner for Coach of the Year, Suarez was also shortlisted for Player of the Year.
Among the top three in the first round of voting, Suarez, Messi and Ronaldo all have good popularity, but Suarez and Messi have the highest voices.
Suarez is characterized by scoring a lot of goals, Manchester City won the treble, and at the same time defeated Barcelona led by Messi in the Champions League final.
But the most amazing thing about Messi is that he scored a total of 53 goals for Barcelona last season.
Because of Suarez's advanced rotation mechanism, there is a clear gap between Suarez's goals and Messi's.
Therefore, it is difficult to say who of the two will win the award in the end.
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The award ceremony and drawing ceremony will begin at 17:45 in the evening.
By 17 o'clock, the staff had already come to invite you.
Gao Shen and Su Qing are also ready.
Today she is wearing a simple and elegant light champagne dress. The mesh and tulle design perfectly fits her graceful figure. The exposed shoulders and pink neck add a bit of sexiness. Paired with
The small diamond necklace customized by a jewelry company specifically brought out her refined temperament.
Even these image designers who were used to seeing all kinds of models and female celebrities were all full of praise when they saw it.
"You are so beautiful tonight!" Gao Shen also praised sincerely.
Su Qing's face was slightly red, which made her look even more delicate, but her heart was filled with sweetness, and her eyes were full of depth.
"Let's go." Gao Shen felt quite proud as he walked over and bent his left arm.
Su Qing hummed and gently held Gao Shen's left arm.
The two of them went out side by side.
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Night falls.
At the entrance of the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, media reporters and fans from all over the world have already gathered.
The conference center faces the sea to the north and east, and a triangular Japanese-style park to the south. Only the west is separated from the National Museum of Monaco by a road, and there is a bicycle track on the roadside.
At this moment, the red carpet extended from the entrance of the Grimaldi Conference Center to the roadside.
Both sides of the bicycle track were full of media reporters.
The fans were across the road, facing the red carpet and the entrance of the conference center.
When the limousine in which Gao Shen was riding slowly stopped in front of the red carpet, the commentator of the live broadcast had already called out Gao Shen's name.
All the media reporters suddenly became nervous, and the fans across the street were also agitated, shouting "Gao Shen".
A concierge had already come forward and opened the car door for Gao Shen.
As soon as Gao Shen, who was wearing a black Chiton dress, got out of the car, the scene was filled with the sound of intensive photography.
Gao Shen greeted the media reporters and fans politely, quickly walked around to the other side of the car, opened the door, and invited his fiancée out.
The scene immediately erupted with bursts of amazing shouts.
Su Qing also tenderly stretched out her right hand and took Gao Shen's left arm, and the two walked side by side on the red carpet.
"We see that this year's most powerful contender for Coach of the Year, Gao Shen, has arrived in front of us."
"Walking beside him is his beautiful fiancée."
"By the way, his fiancée is now the chairman of Leeds United in the English Championship and can be considered a part of the professional football world."
"The two of them are really talented and handsome."
Gao Shen and Su Qing didn't need to be deliberate, their steps were naturally consistent.
After slowly walking to the entrance of the conference center, the two of them entered the conference center under the guidance of the staff.
"Did you hear their shouts of surprise?" Gao Shen secretly asked jokingly as he entered.
Su Qing had already guessed Gao Shen's thoughts and didn't reply to him immediately.
"They are all envious of me." Gao Shen said proudly.
This made Su Qing hold his hand a little tighter.
"I can tell that more people are envious of me."
"Really?" Gao Shen smiled even more proudly.
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This is actually the first time Gao Shen has participated in such a high-profile party.
He has attended many similar gatherings, but this is the first time for such a high-level gathering as tonight.
This made him somewhat excited.
As soon as he entered the venue, he immediately became the center of attention.
The entire European football world knows that Gao Shen is the only remaining head coach in world football who has won three Champions League titles.
More importantly, he led three Champions League championship teams.
This achievement is unique.
For many ambitious teams, Gao Shen will be a name they cannot avoid when choosing their head coach for many years to come, especially since Gao Shen is not yet 31 years old.
Yes, he won't be thirty-one in a few days.
If we look at Ferguson's age, he can dominate football for at least another forty years.
God, what a despair this would be!
Although it was my first time to attend such a gathering, there were really many advanced friends.
For example, Naples' general manager Marino was the first to step up to the plate because they had worked together in Naples for three years and were very familiar with each other.
There are also some people in the football industry who have not cooperated with each other but have deep contact with them, such as Hoeness from Bayern's Big Three, Rosell from Barcelona, Andre Agnelli from Juventus, AC Milan's
Galliani and more.
These are all the hottest big names in European football.
Gao Shen deliberately wanted to make Amelia Su familiar in this high-end circle, so he accepted everyone who came and chatted with anyone for a while.
Everyone in the industry also knows that Su Qing is the chairman of Leeds United and Gao Shen's fiancée.
From the day Gao Shen acquired Leeds United, everyone basically concluded that this was a quasi-Premier League team.
It could be as short as a year or as long as a few years. Anyway, this team will be promoted to the Premier League sooner or later.
Who asked Gao Shen to support him?
Many people even say that Gao Shen even dismantled his own core team for the sake of Leeds United.
Lucas, Borrell and Sarri, all members of the senior coaching staff, have all gone to Leeds United.
Sarri led Leeds United to five consecutive victories.
In addition to the four-game winning streak in the league, there was also a first-round match of the League Cup between the first and second rounds of the English Championship on August 9. Leeds United defeated the fourth-tier team next door 3-0 at home.
Bradford, League Two.
Many teams interested in changing coaches are also paying attention to Sarri.
Gao Shen is not only good at training players, but he is also good at training coaches.
From Guardiola to Zidane, and now Sarri, not to mention a number of European young coaches like Klopp, Tuchel, Pochettino who were deeply influenced by his tactical concepts and have achieved great results in coaching.
