Chapter 266 The Hammer Gang of the London Bowl
West Ham United is an example of England's football moves forward in the difficult choices of tradition and innovation.
It is difficult for you to define whether West Ham United is a big or a small team. Even many fans outside the UK don't know that it is also a London club. They have lived in the suburbs of London for a hundred years, let alone the thorns, before
Charlton and Crystal Palace have both identities that are more profound than West Ham United.
West Ham United has always been known as "star-making factory" and "player academy", but this thing depends on which angle you interpret it. It can be considered that West Ham United's youth training strength is very outstanding, or it can be understood that they cannot keep themselves.
Good seedlings.
Once you practice, you will climb another high branch, which means that West Ham United itself is a "low branch".
A small group has a small group of happiness in survival and a big group of strategies. A small club like West Ham United seems to be inconsistent in terms of club development positioning.
Learning from the pain, the club's senior management decided to step out of the comfort zone and rub the upper end to see if they could become an international club like Senchetta.
For the 2012 London Olympics, the London government built the London Olympic Stadium as its main venue for five years. Because it is big and round like a bowl, it is nicknamed "London Bowl".
After the Olympics, the London Bowl was idle. West Ham United pkled Tottenham in the competition and bid farewell to Upton Park Stadium, which had been with him for a hundred years this season. Since then, it has used the London Bowl as its new home court.
In fact, the two places are not far apart. It looks like four kilometers, mainly because the London Bowl has nearly 80,000 seats, Upton Park only has 35,000 seats, and does not meet the conditions for re-expanding.
But West Ham United's attendance rate this season is not ideal, and it is not as lively as when he was in his hometown. This is the pain that reform has to face.
In essence, West Ham United is a community team, and its mass base relies on the community population around Upton Park. Because the glory of the past has gone, the British are now the most nostalgic and conservative person in the world.
They call it sticking to tradition, so do 'hammers'.
The team relocation, even if it is only four kilometers away, is to the view of fans as a betrayal of tradition, abandonment and betrayal, so many fans of the ancestral generation no longer follow West Ham United, instead supporting other amateur teams, and some even become
Fans of Italian Class D teams have strange ideas.
Manchester United is an international club, so the Americans encountered such a big protest in the acquisition? The Red Devils can still live and become more and more prosperous? West Ham United is not good yet. Before the influence has fully radiated, they can only endure the pain.
Zhuo Yang and Manchester City came to the London Bowl? The huge stadium only saw 10,000 people, half of which were Manchester City's Blue Moon.
In the London Bowl, which is vast and sparsely populated? Zhuo Yang also met an old teammate, former Real Madrid full-back Alvaro Aveloa.
After returning to Real Madrid from Liverpool in 2009, Aveloa has dominated the team's full-back for many years? He has made great contributions and hard work, and he is recognized as the most "Real Madridist", and is purer than Shui Ye.
But after the big fool Carvajal, who successfully leveled up in 2013, returned to Real Madrid, Aveloa lost his main position? Later, Brazilian full-back Danino joined? He completely devoured Aveloa's chance.
In the last second of the transfer window last summer, 33-year-old Aveloa made a free transfer to West Ham United to see if she could make her second spring.
After returning to the Premier League, Aveloa went from the main start to the half-time substitute. This process was very fast? After a few games, he became the water dispenser administrator.
In the 13th round of the Premier League last December, West Ham United lost 1:5 to Arsenal in the London Bowl? Aveloa took the bench as a substitute Collins, but in the injury time, in order to defend Sanchez?
, and also received a yellow card.
Post-match diagnosis? Aveloa's calf muscle severe strain? He needs to rest for at least 6 to 8 weeks? He was also listed by the Spanish Daily Sports Daily as one of the top 10 stars with disappointing performance in 2016. Pro-Barcelona media
, not unusual.
Today, Aveloya is still on the injury list, but it does not prevent him from coming to the London Bowl to talk to his old teammates.
"Lao Zhuo, it's great that you can come back."
"Thank you. Alvaro, is it important to have a leg injury?"
"It's okay, the old injury recurs, just take care of it."
"That's good."
Such unnutritional greetings are actually the mainstream dialogue rhythm between people's interactions. It is not common to be heart-to-heart, and the prerequisites are very strict.
When he was in Real Madrid, Zhuo Yang and Aveloa had an ordinary relationship, not close but no hatred. During the years of the struggle with Mourinho, Aveloa was Mourinho's man, but he did not publicly share his relationship with Zhuo Yang.
Go against it.
Aveloa once said: Mourinho is the greatest head coach in football history.
So although he was the most loyal 'Real Madrid', Aveloa later had a bad relationship with local boss Casillas and Shui Ye.
In fact, before coming to West Ham United, Aveloa went to his old club Liverpool and Manchester United to recommend himself, but was rejected by Scrap and Mourinho, and dragged it to the last day before he met with West Ham United's rock coach, Law.
Master Bilic contacted.
The biggest dark horse in the 1998 World Cup was Croatia, and the Grid Army finally won the third place.
Croatia and host France's semi-finals, France scored 2-1 twice and advanced to the final with two counter-attacks from the frontcourt. In this game, there were also interesting and controversial ones left.
This scene is also a classic in the World Cup.
In the 74th minute, French central defender Laurent Blanc fought with Croatian defender Slaven Bilic. Blanc pushed Bilic on his neck with a palm, but Bilic turned over with a masked face.
, rolled in pain on the ground.
Blank was sent off with a red card and lost the opportunity to participate in the final, which also became his lifelong regret. Bilic became famous like Busquets later, but later he confessed that he was fake.
Bilic is three years younger than Blank, but he retired six years earlier than Blank. However, after both retired, they embarked on the road of coaching and served as head coaches of their respective national teams.
Blank succeeded Ancelotti as the head coach of Paris Saint-Germain in 2013, but the class was dismissed last year. Bilic stepped down as the national team in 2015 and took the coach of the Hammers to the West Ham United. He was a player in the
Upton Park Stadium has played for two years.
Last season, West Ham United finally ranked seventh in the Premier League, with a pretty good result. However, he moved to the London Bowl this season but performed poorly. After 20 rounds, he ranked 14th and was worried about relegation.
Perfectionist Guardiola is ambitious and doesn't want to let go of any front, so Manchester City, who came to the London Bowl, sent all the main players to play except for the goalkeeper who replaced the second goal Caballero and the suspended Febian.
However, the passionate coach Bilic, who loves rock, just lost to Manchester United a few days ago, was in a serious relegation situation. In addition, the team's wounded soldiers were all over the camp, and today they arranged a large number of mixed lineups with substitutes participating, and their perfunctory intentions were beyond words.
Chapter completed!