After being scored a goal, the Chelsea team was completely inspired. They attacked like crazy on the court, without considering the consequences or their own defense, and focused on attacking.
In this case, Scaloni wisely chose to retreat across the board, requiring the entire team to retract into their own half to participate in defense.
When the three defensive midfielders were once again established in front of York City's defense, although Chelsea attacked fiercely and controlled the situation on the field, they still failed to find a way to break through York City's defense.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the whole audience was excited!
The York City players rushed to the coaching bench excitedly and threw head coach Scaloni high into the air.
The fans in the stands also sang the York City team anthem, singing it over and over again, as if they would never get tired.
"York City are the champions! They have also become the first team in the history of English football to win the FA Cup as a third-tier league!"
"This is really a team full of magic! It's hard for you to believe that they are only a League One team now, and last year they were in League Two! But such a team won the Football League today. Championship champion! At the same time, they will also appear in the British Championship next year!"
"This team has a very high level of tactical execution, and they will execute the coach's tactics without any doubt. At the same time, they also have flashes of genius, such as Baker who scored today, and Amon who assisted... But before Pan Yi discovered them, they were unknown!"
"But now, fans all over the world should remember their names, because they are now the FA Cup champions! And they won the championship after defeating last season's seven-time champion Chelsea, which is bound to be even more unforgettable!"
Lineker also seemed particularly excited.
As he said before, he witnessed the rise of a magical team and was fortunate to witness its glorious moments.
"York City's performance in this game was really outstanding. Every player worked diligently to implement the coach's tactics. They were able to defeat Arsenal, Tottenham, and Manchester United to enter the final as a League One team. After defeating Chelsea in the final, you have to admit that this team has great potential. I even look forward to what they will do in the Europa League next year!"
When Lineker heard what Lippi said, he had a bad smile on his face: "I think the FA is having a headache now. I bet they won't believe it even to the death, who will represent England in the Europa League next season." There is actually a League One team...well, it's a Championship team, but they really should think about how to arrange York City's schedule next season."
In the history of English football in recent years, Wigan Athletic should have been the only one to participate in the European war as a low-level league.
And even that one time was enough to give the FA a headache.
After all, the English Championship is not the Premier League. Their schedule is tighter. With 46 rounds of the league itself, plus the FA Cup and League Cup, they are already busy enough even without the European war;
Now coupled with the European war, it is really difficult.
In fact, in the season when Wigan Athletic played in the Europa League, they often played two games in three days.
It is precisely because of such a tight schedule that it ultimately affected Wigan Athletic's performance. They failed to return to the Premier League and even fell into English League One...
"It's not just the FA that has a headache, it's York City itself."
"They only made one substitution today. In other words, they relied on the strength of 12 people to withstand Chelsea's attack and win."
"But if they fight on the fourth line next season and they still have such a thick lineup, you can imagine what a bad situation they will be in."
"Don't forget, Xavi Alonso is retiring soon, and so are many of the senior players in the team."
At this point, Lineker changed the subject:
"Of course, given that York City has a boss as capable as Pan Yi, this is not a big problem."
"Based on what I know about him, I feel that as long as he travels around the world in the summer, York City's lineup will immediately become fuller."
"And York City will be a Championship team next season, so their appeal to players will become even greater."
"Even many national team-level players are willing to play for the Championship team, not to mention that this Championship team belongs to the world's best football coach named Pan Yi..."
Lippi also laughed: "Then I hope he can help me defeat Syria first, so that he can be his transfer director with peace of mind!"
Lineker laughed loudly: "Don't worry! York City and Dragon Country are his two favorites now, and they will definitely be taken care of. As far as today's game is concerned, I can guarantee that this final The decisive kill must have Pan Yi’s participation!”
Lippi smiled and said: "Everyone can guess this. I want to know now if he is already celebrating this championship with his players in the locker room!"
——
The answer is yes.
Shortly after the game ended, Pan Yi brought Jason McGill, Victor Horta and other club executives to the team's locker room to celebrate the victory with everyone.
And as soon as he came in, Pan Yi announced on the spot that all game bonuses would be awarded to the players, whether they were from the FA Cup or League One.
Amid the cheers of the players, Pan Yi said:
"You deserve it, guys! Well done to you! You know, we were just a League Two team last year, but now we've achieved two consecutive promotions and entered the Championship! Now, we've got …FA Cup Champion!!!”
Pan Yi's face was full of pride, which was a great recognition of his team's performance.
"I can't ask for more from you, but I hope you can work harder, because the task next season will be even more difficult!"
"As you all know, the English Championship is definitely not our end. What I want is to reach the Premier League!"
"We can defeat Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea in the FA Cup, so are we still afraid of those teams in the Championship?"
"Also, we are going to the European competition! I will not give up the Europa League, because then the whole of England will laugh at us and say that we have wasted a place in the competition!"
"We want everyone to know that even if we participate in the European competition as a low-level league, we can still achieve good results!"
At the end of the day, York City's players and coaches shouted even more excitedly, almost tearing open the Wembley Stadium dressing room.
Then, the surrounding players came over one after another, surrounded Pan Yi tightly, and hugged him in the middle. The group of people hugged each other tightly, even Scaloni, De Zerbi and others on the outside They all hugged each other.
No one said anything, they just held her quietly, so hard that no one could pull her away!
When Pan Yi decided to become the owner of York City, no one thought that just two years later, this team would be able to win the FA Cup, and no one thought that they would be able to participate in European competitions. But now, they have done it.
Some people may say that this is the credit of Scaloni and the players, but only people within the club, only Scaloni himself, and the players themselves will understand that this is all the credit of Pan Yi!
It was he who reshaped this team, and it was he who brought players to England one by one from the corners of the world. It was he who encouraged and supported the players when they were frustrated and frustrated. Loni gave him unwavering support when faced with doubts.
This is a business society, and players are a profession. They are all eager to get higher salaries and prove themselves on a wider and broader stage, so no one can guarantee that with their outstanding performance this season, they will be successful in the future. Will you stay in York City again?
But the only thing that is certain is that at this moment, their hearts are closely connected with Pan Yi and York City.
When the FA official who came to remind York City to attend the awards ceremony saw this scene outside the dressing room, he was stunned.
What kind of team is this?
The team owners, senior management, coaches, and players were as close as a family, embracing each other without any barriers.
At the same time, he also understood why this seemingly weak team was able to defeat a seemingly invincible opponent for the first time, and why it was able to win the FA Cup! ——
Even though it was the end of May, the city of York still seemed very cold.
Although this is a famous historical and cultural city, it is not a big city after all. In terms of liveliness, it is definitely not as lively as a place like London.
But when it comes to the enthusiasm of the residents here, it is no less than that of people anywhere.
Although it has been a few days since the FA Cup final, York City fans still talk about that day with relish.
After York City won the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium, a large number of fans drove all the way from outside the stadium and followed the team bus back to York City!
The scene even attracted many TV stations to report on the scene.
A long queue of cars sang the York City team anthem along the way, and all the fans followed the team bus one after another, slowly driving on the highway back to Yorkshire.
Especially when approaching North Yorkshire, more and more fans gathered in the convoy, which even alerted the traffic police passing by, forcing them to send people to prepare to maintain order.
Of course, York City fans are very well-behaved. Everyone just walks together, celebrates and sings together. No one wants to cause trouble at this time. They all come here just out of love for the team. Together.
After entering York City, many fans even set off fireworks to celebrate. In this way, they announced York City's victory.
When the convoy of club members and fans entered the West Siberia Stadium, where celebration programs had already been prepared, the atmosphere immediately reached its climax!
This is the first national championship the team has won in history. How can they not be excited? And it’s a double-championship season!
At the scene, Pan Yi, the club owner and the most beloved hot man in York City, also gave a speech.
He didn't say much, but he gave the fans a guarantee that York City will never be satisfied with its current results and will definitely give a satisfactory performance in the English Championship and Europa League next season!
Then, everyone will celebrate to their heart’s content, and you won’t get home until you get drunk!
Then comes the vacation.
Almost all players and coaches can go on vacation, except those with national team duties.
That's because there is a national team match day in mid-June, and after that, all the players can relax.
Pan Yi is no exception.
In fact, on the third day after the FA Cup final, he and Lippi returned to China with Lin Liangming.
As for Huang Zichang, since he did not play many games in York City, including the FA Cup final, he was still not selected for the national team this time.
Next, Pan Yi's focus shifted from York City to the Dragon Kingdom national team.
They will have an important away match against Syria! ——
Of course, except for international players like Lin Liangming who haven't rested yet, the hard-working Chinese Super League players haven't rested either.
At this time, their season was just less than halfway through.
A total of 30 rounds of the Chinese Super League have only been played for 12 rounds now.
In the standings, Changzhou Hengtai still ranks first, followed by SIPG, China Fortune Land Development, Shandong Taishan, etc.
This is also to be expected.
In Changzhou Hengtai, the main players of the Dragon Kingdom national team include Zheng Zhi, Huang Bowen, Zhang Linpeng, Li Xuepeng, Zeng Cheng, Feng Xiaoting, and Mei Fang. It can be said that the entire national team's midfielder and backfield are composed of Hengtai. Made up of players.
Not to mention there are a bunch of substitute international players such as Gao Lin, Zou Zheng, Wang Shangyuan, Xu Xin, Yu Hanchao... etc.
Coupled with several powerful foreign players in the frontcourt, it is easy to understand that they have been invincible for a long time in the domestic arena.
And this situation is actually beneficial to the national team's preparations.
The main framework is the Hengtai system, so there will be fewer communication and cooperation problems between players, and it will be easier to promote some new tactical systems.
In fact, this is not a rare thing even in world football. It is as strong as Germany. They are often formed with Bayern Munich players as their team.
The invincible Spain around 2010 was dominated by Barcelona players.
Weak teams will rely on strong domestic club teams, such as Dynamo Kyiv in Ukraine and Riyadh Crescent in Saudi Arabia.
For example, in his previous life, one thing that Pan Yi, a fan at that time, didn't understand was why he sometimes had to break up the Hengtai players and let some players who were not that outstanding in strength be the main players.
After all, this group of players has proven their strength in the Asian arena and won two AFC Champions League championships.
When it comes to the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, there are even more things we don’t understand.
At that time, many powerful players had been naturalized, but they were either not allowed to play or could only play in the first half. It made me mad to see it.
It was only after Brother Tiezi and the others entered that they found out that there were some unspoken rules for whether they could be selected for the national team and whether they could play in games.
Fortunately, now that Lippi is the head coach, these messy things have not happened.
More importantly, with Pan Yi's full help, the national football team's performance is unprecedentedly good. The whole country is staring at the national football team, and it is even less likely that at this juncture there will be any dirty things like inserting people into the national football team or paying money to play. things.
In order to prepare for the war with Syria on June 13, the 12th round of the Chinese Super League was completed as early as June 2, leaving the national team with sufficient time to train and prepare for the war.
Everyone believes that with the joint efforts of the whole country, defeating Syria will definitely not be a problem!
However, when such optimism reached Pan Yi's ears through traditional media and the Internet, he felt that it was inappropriate.
Confidence does not mean arrogance, but for the current national team, it feels like it is a bit much.
Therefore, Pan Yi raised this issue at the first plenary meeting after the national team was assembled.
"The public opinion outside is too optimistic now, and they simply lack the minimum attention to our opponents. The three consecutive victories over Qatar, South Korea and Iran have changed the mentality of many of us, which is good, but This is no reason for us to be complacent, and we have no basis for complacency."
Pan Yi led everyone to recall the "real national football team."
A few months ago, the national team was the bottom team in Group A, with a record of one draw and three losses worse than any team participating in the top 12 tournament.
And earlier, it was worse.
At that time, this team was still struggling for the last ticket in the top 12, and they almost tried their best. In the last round, they barely squeezed out the underdog Hong Kong team, and finally won this place. With a ticket, I entered the top 12 games.
Is this what a “strong team” can do?
Which team from Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Saudi Arabia did not easily break through the top 40?
So, I am afraid many people have forgotten the level of Longguo football.
"We must remember that we can win against South Korea and Iran, but in a specific game, but this does not mean that our strength can compete with Iran and South Korea. By the same token, winning against South Korea and Iran Iran does not mean that our strength exceeds that of Syria and Uzbekistan."
"Why do you think we are guaranteed to win? Why are you guessing how many goals we can win against Syria? Has everyone forgotten that South Korea was careless before the game and was defeated by us in history? Are we going to make the same mistake as the Korean team?"
Everyone present was silent.
In fact, the public opinion environment outside is indeed a bit too optimistic.
To put it bluntly, with the current strength of the Dragon Kingdom, whether it is fighting Iran or South Korea, it will still be at a disadvantage under normal circumstances.
It can be said that whether it was defeating Iran or South Korea before, it was an "upset" act.
After all, if you compare the players of these teams one by one, the Dragon Country team is undoubtedly the worst.
It is because of the coaching of Lippi and Pan Yi that they have been able to forcibly improve their tactics to a level that can compete with South Korea and Iran.
But many people now confuse the concept, and compare defeating South Korea and South Korea in a single game with being ahead of these strong Asian teams in terms of overall strength. This leads many people to mistakenly believe that since even South Korea can be defeated, let alone Syria, which is in a civil war. ?
But as everyone knows, these are two games, two different things.
Lippi also deeply agreed with what Pan Yi said.
He used to lead the Italian team, and he knew that even that star-studded team would capsize when facing some weak teams in Europe, let alone Syria, which was no worse than the Dragons in terms of strength.
As long as you don't have a correct mentality and play football with a contemptuous attitude, losing will soon come to you!
What's more, how can the current Dragon Country team be qualified to have such an attitude of contempt for its opponents?
"This atmosphere must be severely punished on the first day. I will never allow anyone to destroy the preparation atmosphere of the national team, no matter who he is." Lippi said seriously.
Although after being spoken through a translator, the words in everyone's ears no longer contained the "murderous spirit" in Lippi's original words, but everyone could still feel Lippi's determination.
Whether it is Lippi or Pan Yi, they are the world's top coaches. The prestige established by their outstanding records over the years is still very impressive when it breaks out at this time.
Therefore, the national players all shrank their heads back, and their hearts were shocked.
Everyone knows that if anyone shows an attitude of underestimating the enemy at this time, he will definitely be "killed to scare the monkeys". It is not uncommon to be kicked out of the national team immediately.
After all, in this national team, the biggest player is not the player, but the two famous coaches sitting on the stage now!
"I often say that you should be happy when playing football, but happiness does not mean excessive optimism."
Pan Yi added sincerely:
"We are in good shape now, but that doesn't mean we can beat all our opponents."
"After all, excessive optimism will bring pressure to win. Everyone thinks, we have defeated South Korea and Iran, but we can't win Syria? This invisibly adds pressure to ourselves."
"Do you still remember the first cycle? At that time, we drew with Iran and lost to South Korea. At that time, everyone felt that we were very strong. Although we could not win against the two strongest teams, we were not playing Uzbekistan or Syria. That’s it.”
"What's the result? Two consecutive defeats! If it's still like this this time, I believe everyone knows what the result will be."
When Pan Yi said this, everyone present suddenly realized.
is not that right?
Everyone knows how fragile the national football team is mentally.
Even though the team has slowly built up its confidence through victory after victory over the past six months or so, there is no guarantee that it will not collapse again due to pressure.
Such cases are not uncommon in the national football team in the past few decades.
Many people always say that the Long Guo team always falls behind at critical moments. Why?
In the top 40, the Dragons had a hard time playing against the Maldives, and even failed to win against Hong Kong in two games. Why is this?
Is it because the players in the Dragon Country team are not as good as those in the Maldives and Hong Kong? Certainly not.
In the final analysis, it is all because I have been under too much pressure both physically and mentally. I feel that I will definitely qualify in the top 40 group stage and I will definitely be able to defeat most of my opponents...
It's like a person goes into battle with shackles, how can he use all his abilities?
In today's meeting, what Pan Yi said at the meeting is to nip this pressure in its bud in its early stages, so that everyone can deal with the next game with a true sense of normalcy.
In this way, in the following training, the national football players can be more focused and devoted!
(End of chapter)
