The annual Serie A Oscars is a grand event in Italian football.
Just like the annual Ballon d'Or and World Footballer selections, it is a time to reward based on merit.
This means a kind of affirmation and recognition.
Because of Lazio's strength in recent years, they have made good gains in the Serie A Oscars.
Jose Passarella and David Silva both won the Serie A Best Foreign Player award.
Jose Passarella also won the best defender and Handanovic won the best goalkeeper.
Lazio also won the honor of best team in the audience voting option.
This time at the Serie A Oscars, it is said that Falcao, who has been transferred and left, will win the best foreign aid and best player awards.
So this time Falcao will also return to Italy.
It has been half a season since he moved to Barcelona, but his performance in Barcelona was not as good as that in Lazio.
This is not surprising, Chang Sheng has known this for a long time.
At Lazio, the whole team fed him the ball alone, and he became the top scorer in Serie A and the top scorer in the Champions League. He also won the 2008 World Footballer and the European Ballon d'Or.
He became the first Ballon d'Or trained by Lazio, although he was already in Barcelona when he won the award...
After going to Barcelona, he is no longer the team's offensive core.
The core of the offense is Messi.
Although Barcelona's tactics and Lazio's tactics are of the same origin, there are some differences.
For Falcao, he was asked to play more for Messi and cover Messi.
This is completely different from what Falcao played at Lazio. Falcao was somewhat unable to adapt.
The most difficult thing to adapt to is not the decrease in goals, but the change in status.
From being the core of the offense where he was responsible for finishing all offenses, he became a supporting role providing ball support and movement coverage.
This psychological gap is somewhat large.
So he was a little depressed in Barcelona.
This time I returned to Italy. It can be said that I came to relax.
Being able to meet many of his former teammates at the Oscars may make him feel happier.
Being able to have Mr. Ballon d'Or cover him, it must be said that Messi is indeed the number one player in world football in the future.
In fact, at this time, Messi does not look like a future ball champion. The main reason is that Guardiola is very clear about Falcao's strengths and weaknesses.
His performance last season was a bit exaggerated. As a member of the winning coaching staff, Guardiola knows very well how Falcao became the Ballon d'Or.
That is the result of sacrificing the scoring ability of other players on the team to highlight Falcao alone.
Lazio wants to do this, but I won't do it.
He believes that Messi is obviously more suitable to be the team's offensive core than Falcao.
Because Messi has the ability to break through with the ball, this completely surpasses "Tiger" Falcao.
tikitaka needs a way to break the balance, otherwise it will be easily restricted by the opponent's iron barrel formation.
Lazio, who has always won, chose to increase the overall speed, while Guardiola chose to use Messi's personal breakthrough ability.
As a result, Falcao's tactical status in the team is naturally less important than Messi's.
Being reduced to a supporting role for others is inevitable.
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Falcao met his former teammates at the Oscar venue, and they chatted for a while before going in.
It's nothing more than asking questions like "How are you doing lately?"
Lazio has been very good recently, Falcao has not been very good recently...
When he first joined Barcelona, Falcao was also prosperous for a while, scoring six goals in five games.
But an injury later caused him to miss the team for a month, and Messi used his absence to explode. When he returned, he was completely reduced to Messi's supporting role.
His scoring rate still dropped, and the number of goals stagnated for a long time.
Especially recently, he has not scored in three consecutive rounds.
However, Falcao did not show such depression in front of his former teammates.
Even though the whole world may know that he didn't do as well in Barcelona as he did in Lazio.
After all, you still have to save face.
If his former teammates knew that he was not doing well, would they laugh at his original decision?
Although he didn't want to leave Lazio at first, he later felt proud that he could join a giant like Barcelona.
Therefore, when asked by his former teammates, Falcao told them how happy he was in Barcelona. How enthusiastic the fans were, how sexy the women were, and how exciting the enthusiasm for Barcelona was.
It's surprising, everything there feels high-end and foreign...
While they were chatting, several former teammates suddenly moved their eyes from his face to behind him and shouted in unison: "Boss!"
Falcao was startled, then turned to look over.
If it’s not his boss, who is the winning coach of Lazio?
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Chang Sheng nodded to them, said hello, and then looked at Falcao.
"Congratulations, Mr. Golden Ball." Chang Sheng stretched out his hand.
Falcao became increasingly embarrassed.
He also reached out and shook Chang Sheng's hand, but didn't know what to say.
If you do well, you may have some psychological advantages at this time.
But now...
He really couldn't hold his head up in front of his boss.
Of course Chang Sheng is well aware of Falcao's recent situation, but he has nothing to say on this matter.
He can't offer Falcao a plan to let him and Messi play a palace battle at the Nou Camp. He can't even ask Falcao to come back. Even if Lazio raises the upper limit of the salary cap, they still can't afford Fal.
Examination period.
So he could only pat Falcao on the shoulder and then walked away.
The other Lazio players also said goodbye to Falcao and walked away with their boss. The Lazio players sat together.
Falcao did not sit with them, he looked at their backs from behind.
Suddenly something felt bad.
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After the awards ceremony began, the awards were awarded quickly.
As a team that won the Champions League last season and just won the Club World Cup this season, Lazio once again became the big winner.
Jose Passarella was once again elected the best defender. The best goalkeeper was Handanovic.
Among the best teams voted by fans, Lazio won the Best Team Award.
In addition, the best foreign aid, best player, and top scorer awards all belong to former Lazio player Falcao.
Although he is no longer a Lazio player, he received this honor because of his performance at Lazio.
So it can also be seen as Lazio's performance.
Falcao, who was holding three trophies, said to the microphone: "I want to thank Lazio. Thank you Boss. I will always remember the good times playing in Lazio. Without Boss, without Lazio, I would not be where I am now. Thank you!"
After hearing what he said, Chang Sheng smiled and clapped.
You have trained your own players and won glory. This is also your own achievement.
Just like a teacher, who doesn’t want their boos to be successful?
Because that will prove that you are qualified as a teacher, otherwise it will only mean that you are not suitable to be a teacher, so don’t mislead others.
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However, these awards are not very attractive.
Even if it's a big prize like the best player, no one cares much about it.
Today, the Best Coach Award, which was supposed to be a supporting role award, has become the protagonist.
Everyone wants to see if Chang Sheng can win the prize this time.
As the head coach of a Champions League champion team, if you still can't win the award, something must have gone wrong...
But there are still some people who hope that Chang Sheng will continue to be unable to win awards, so that they can continue to gloat about his misfortune.
Look, look, even though he has won the Champions League and Club World Cup, he cannot be recognized by his peers. How unpopular this person is!
So when the host was about to announce the winner of the Best Coach Award, the atmosphere suddenly became solemn and tense.
The venue was extremely quiet. Quieter than ever before.
Some people even took a full breath.
The host was a little surprised by the sudden silence.
He raised his head while holding the envelope and glanced at the venue.
He saw countless pairs of burning eyes.
He knew what these people were waiting for.
Are you waiting for Chang Sheng’s judgment?
He opened the envelope and took out the note inside.
Then read: "2008 Best Coach of the Year..."
Here he paused.
He raised his head to look at the audience again, focusing his gaze on Chang Sheng's face.
He wanted to see the change in Chang Sheng's expression at this time.
What expression will he have?
Nervous or looking forward to it?
But he was disappointed. Chang Sheng had a calm look on his face, leaning on his chair with his legs crossed, as if he were watching a show.
All right……
The host felt a little frustrated.
Then let’s see what expression you will have in the next second!
He did not lower his head, but looked at Chang Sheng and read out the name: "It's... Chang!"
There was a burst of exclamation at the scene that reminded him of it!
Although the media had previously revealed that this time it might be a permanent win, but they may have been there for many years and not even once.
So in the end, everyone was quite surprised when I was given the award for Chang Sheng.
The Lazio players were surprised and delighted. They clapped their hands vigorously and congratulated their coach.
Everyone set their sights on Chang Sheng, no matter where they were sitting.
The host kept staring at Chang Sheng.
He thought there might be some surprise expression on Chang Sheng's face.
After all, he has been waiting for so many years and finally got such an admission. He should be very happy.
But he was disappointed again...
When Chang Sheng heard the news, his face still had the same expression but no expression!
He was neither surprised nor happy.
Then he stood up and walked onto the stage to receive the award.
After receiving the trophy from the host, as usual, he asked Fabio to give a speech when he won the award.
Chang Sheng held the trophy in one hand and the microphone in the other, and said: "It really surprised me. It turns out that this award really depends on the coach's performance!" (To be continued...)
