Awards are given after the game.
After the English Football Association officials put gold medals on each team member, captain Vidić took the Football Association Cup trophy from the English Football Association officials.
After everyone was fully prepared, with a chorus of "We are the champions", the trophy was lifted above their heads.
Golden ribbons sprayed out from both sides of the stands and fell on the players. Zhang Kuang stood in the team with a championship medal hanging around his neck.
After receiving the award, each team member took photos holding the trophy, then went around the stadium to thank the fans, and finally returned to the locker room to celebrate.
Rooney took the champagne and sprayed it at Zhang Kuang: "You scored two goals and one assist today. That Pendulum behind you is so damn handsome. You are not the illegitimate son of Ronaldo, are you?"
Zhang Kuang "Fuck, I wish he was his illegitimate son. Then I would still be kicking the butt. You just have to enjoy it if you have a father to help you fight."
Rooney: "Holy shit, that makes sense."
"Haha..."
The locker room burst into laughter.
In the mixed interview area after the game, Zhang Kuang was surrounded by reporters.
Reporter: "Zhang Kuang, 2 goals and 1 assist, Football Association Cup final MVP! What do you want to say?"
Zhang Kuang thought for a while and said, "Thank you to your teammates, thank you to the coach, and thank you to the fans. Wembley Many of my fans came here today. I hope my performance can satisfy them, satisfy the fans, help the team win the championship, and benefit the club. That is my greatest happiness."
Reporter: "This season Manchester United is only one League Cup away from completing all the championships of Premier League. Do you feel regretful?"
Zhang Kuang: "It's a pity, so I have to make up for this League Cup next year."
Reporter: "You mean you won't leave this summer? I heard that many clubs will pay more than the price to sign you. Are you not tempted?"
Zhang Kuang: "Haha, why aren't you excited? I must be excited, but I have to accomplish my set goals. I promised Jazz before that as long as he is in office, I will not leave the team if there are no major problems. Therefore, I can only suppress these emotions for the time being and talk about it later."
Reporter: "What if the Jazz retires? Will you leave Manchester United?"
Zhang Kuang shrugged. "We'll talk about that later, at least now the Jazz will not retire for a while."
Reporter: "Are you confident about the UEFA Champions League finals on the 28th?"
Zhang Kuang: "Full of confidence, Manchester United will win the championship, no one can stop it, I said so."
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After the game, Ferguson said at the press conference, "Everyone performed very well today. Zhang Kuang's running and finishing ability exceeded my expectations. Today is his night.
Rooney and Berbatov also performed stably. The midfielder controlled the rhythm very well, and the defense held the fence very tightly. Everyone performed very well, so the championship is well deserved.
After getting Football Association Cup, we will concentrate on preparing for the UEFA Champions League finals and strive to have a successful ending to this season."
Pulis looked ugly at the release meeting, but maintained his demeanor. "Today we had no problem with our overall performance. The back line was under a lot of pressure, mainly because the opponent had too strong players. This is like La Liga, no matter how good the team is, but encounters Barcelona, who is in invincible form, what should we do?
Finally, congratulations to Manchester United for winning the championship. When we go back, we will continue to polish the lineup and strive to make the team sharper next season."
"The Times" post-match title. "Zhang Kuang shines Wembley! Manchester United 4 beat 0 and won the Football Association Cup championship without any blood".
"The Guardian" comments. "Manchester United's overall strength comprehensively crushed the opponent, Zhang Kuang's 2 goals and 1 assist became the biggest surprise in this game, Red Devils is getting closer and closer to the triple crown. Stoke City tried his best, but the strength gap is huge, even though he lost, he has no regrets."
In the post-game highlights on the BBC Sport channel, the scene of Mr. China giving a thumbs up to the camera was placed at the end: 'Zhang Kuang, good job!'
CCTV-5 showed a mixed clip of an interview outside Wembley Stadium with a fan of Zhang Kuang who won a hundred tickets.
One hundred people come from all over the world. Although they have different skin colors, different languages, and different ages, their love for Zhang Kuang is sincere, and they express their love in their own way.
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The day after Football Association Cup won the championship, Zhang Kuang slept until three o'clock in the morning and woke up as usual.
The women are most afraid of him waking up, because he has to do morning exercises after he wakes up. The women have just slept and recovered a little, and they have to toss again, which is really tiring.
But who doesn't like it?
Two days later, CCTV-5's camera crew came to the conference room of the hotel where Zhang Kuang was staying, which they rented specifically for interviews.
He Wei brought a cameraman, a sound engineer, and two choreographers to set up the conference room as a temporary studio.
Zhang Kuang was sitting on the sofa wearing a simple white T-shirt, with the afternoon sunlight filtering through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind her.
He Wei: "Zhang Kuang, do you want something to drink? Let's just chat like we usually do."
Zhang Kuang: "How about you wait a moment and I go to my room to get a set of tea-making tools? Let's drink tea."
He Wei:"Ah? Do you like tea?"
Zhang Kuang: "There is no way. In the West, you either drink ice water, coffee, soft drinks, or beer, but these are not suitable for us China people to maintain health.
So, I made my own tea-drinking device, and I usually bring a big teapot with me, and I put the brewed tea in it and drink it myself."
Zhang Kuang said, showing off his big teapot, the one that can hold two liters, it's really big.
The first topic starts from the Football Association Cup final.
He Wei handed the tablet to Zhang Kuang. Above was the animation of when he kicked the Pendulum ball on the final day.
"Your Pendulum-style goal has hit the screens all over the world. Fans are saying 'Zhang Kuang finally played artistic football'. What do you think?"
Zhang Kuang tilted his head. "Isn't it artistic football that I played before? In fact, in my opinion, there is nothing artistic about football. All the actions that football players do on the field are only for two purposes, one is to create scoring opportunities, and the other is to prevent the opponent from scoring.
As an offensive player, all the actions I make are to create scoring opportunities, and the truly effective scoring actions are as concise and efficient as possible.
If someone regards complex and fancy movements as art, it may be that this fancy movement is just to dodge the opponent, find the shooting route, and create scoring opportunities.
No matter it is a difficult move like Stepovers, Marseille Turn, Elastico, Shoulder-Drop Dribble, or Pendulum, there is only one purpose, which is to shake off the opponent, find the shooting route, and create scoring opportunities.
In my past, these movements were too fancy, and they were just tricks to me. Because real masters do not need these movements in the face of absolute accuracy, speed and power.
As long as I hold the ball and reach the shooting range, I can score. No matter whether it is ten meters away from the goal, twenty meters, thirty meters or forty meters away.
If I can't get into the opponent's penalty area, I can shoot from 20 meters away. If I can't even get into the opponent's penalty area, I can shoot from 30 or 40 meters away.
What blocked my shot was not the distance, but the line. There was no goal line, so I had to use this fancy and impractical Pendulum Dribble to get through the line.
This is for me, but for some players whose shooting accuracy is worse than mine, whose shooting power is smaller than mine, and whose shooting speed is slower than mine, they need some fancy moves to get themselves into an area where they can be 90% sure of scoring a goal.
This is why some people like to play tricks. They have to get to an area where they can shoot, so they can only break through through tricks.
Most of the time, I don't need it, because I can shoot from 20 meters away, 30 meters away, or 40 meters away.
So you rarely see me playing with flowers because I don't need it, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to do it. I will also use it on special occasions."
He Wei was stunned, with a very surprised expression. He had thought of many answers, but the one Zhang Kuang gave him was the most unexpected one.
He Wei: "So that's it. No wonder we often see your goals being super long shots and powerful volleys.
You mean that tricking is an action often used by people with poor long-distance shooting ability to break through to their shooting area? Are there any tricks that are done just to look good?"
Zhang Kuang: "Of course there is. For example, Cristiano Ronaldo from 2004 to 2005. When he first joined Manchester United, he liked to do tricks very much, but those actions were useless and instead delayed the team's chances.
Because of this, he was scolded many times by Sir Ferguson. Finally, after he slowly changed his flowery behavior, he won the Golden Boot and also Ballon d'Or.
In the future development of football technology, professional players will have less and less busy work. In the future, professional football will pursue high efficiency and score goals as quickly as possible."
He Wei:"Which one do you think is better?"
Zhang Kuang grinned. "If I were a fan, I would definitely like to watch sex, it's cool and handsome. But if I were a player, I would prefer an efficient way to score goals. I scored 64 goals in a season, isn't it delicious?
I know what everyone said about me before, 'Zhang Kuang Playing football relies entirely on the body, it is unreasonable, and there is no sense of beauty at all'. I was too lazy to refute at that time, because winning was enough. But that day in the Football Association Cup final, there was no other way, I could only Pendulum Dribble score."
He Wei: "I saw you occasionally using Stepovers before. Is it also for practicality?"
Zhang Kuang: "Of course, when I play on the wing, I sometimes have to face more than three consecutive lines of defense from midfielders, fullbacks and central defenders. There are very few times when I hold the ball and the front is flat.
Therefore, when these defensive players rushed up, they were too close, and I had only three options. One was to use speed to break through them, the other was to use my body to knock them away, and the third was to use confusing movements to shake them away.
For example, outside the restricted area, I usually use my speed to eat them alive or use my body to knock them away. But when I get near the restricted area, I have to use my tricks to get rid of them.
It's difficult to have a shooting line at this time. You have to either open a line or pass the ball to a teammate. If I still don't have a shooting line after Stepovers, I will pass it to my teammate."
He Wei nodded. "I see, then how did you develop these basic skills? I heard that your skills were good when you were in China, but they were far from this level. How did you develop them later?"
For example, we often see that your passing is very accurate. Whether it is a short or medium or long pass, you can often cross the court from the left to the right.
And your stopping skills, I see many domestic players stop the ball several meters away, but when you stop the ball it's like the ball is stuck to your feet. And your sprinting with the ball, it seems that football can't slow you down at all. I see many domestic players running very fast without the ball, and when they take the ball, they trip under their feet, what's going on?"
Zhang Kuang: "Haha, Teacher He, are you here to learn skills secretly?"
He Wei:"Does this technology need to be kept secret?"
Zhang Kuang shook his head. "That's not true. In fact, this is not a secret. Every player can practice, it's just that their method is wrong.
First of all, one thing I want to say is that many of the basic skills of ball training in China are useless, such as bumping the ball, circling the pile, etc.
Is bumping the ball useful in the game? Is staking around the ball practical in the game? Including stopping the ball, domestic players are taught to stop the ball. Before stopping the ball, the players have to make a lot of preparations to stop the ball. Before shooting, they have to adjust several times to adjust to a comfortable shooting action.
Putting these things into Europe can't even beat the youth team. Why is this? Because domestic training is to break down football skills, and then let the players train individually for a split action every day.
The skills developed in this way are too rigid. On the field, the opponent is very mobile and presses very hard and quickly. There is no time for you to adjust your movements and let you catch the ball or shoot the ball in a standard way.
Players must move and catch the ball well while engaging in physical confrontation. Domestic players rarely have such high-intensity confrontations, so they cannot catch the ball and cannot pass the ball well.
So, Mr. He, after I came to Europe, I discovered that all technical movements must adapt to a high-confrontation, forced grabbing, and super simple environment, so I began to adapt to this method.
As for the methods? Of course there are. In fact, no one needs to teach these methods. As long as you play football in such an environment all year round, you will know it after playing for a long time.
Take the ball stop you just mentioned. I used to make a big preparation before stopping the ball. But now I don't know how to do it, because when I see the ball coming towards me, I have already thought about it. Should I stop the ball at my feet? Or should I stop and pass people? Or should I volley? Or which foot should I stop to facilitate my subsequent holding of the ball or breakthrough?
This is something to think about before stopping the ball. Of course, I know that what you care about is how to stop the ball. It looks like a powerful ball is coming, but I can make this force disappear in one second and make the ball obey.
This thing is very, very simple. To put it bluntly, there are two points. First, you need to wrap your feet around the ball to prevent it from bouncing around. Second, your force to meet the ball must be like the four or two moves of a thousand pounds in Tai Chi. The force coming towards the ball can remove the power of the football in a very short period of time, and then the ball will be obedient.
Of course, the principle of this thing is very simple, but it still requires a lot of practice to be proficient in it. As an old saying goes, 'you only have to do it with familiarity'."
He Wei nodded after hearing this. "So that's it. All China players have to thank me. I'm here to help you get the football skills from Zhang Kuang."
According to what you said, our domestic football training methods are wrong. Is it true that the more we practice like China, the worse it will be on the field?"
Zhang Kuang nodded. "Definitely, football technology is developing. The training techniques we use now are still the Western training methods of the 1980s and 1990s, and the current training methods in the West generally use competition as a substitute for training.
There are some things that you can only learn through constant high-intensity competition. Basic skills are usually taught to players when they enter youth training. If a player cannot integrate the skills into the game after several years of youth training, then sorry, you will be eliminated.
If we don't improve now, in a few years, our players' skills will become worse and worse than those of Western players. At that time, we won't even be able to grab the ball from the feet of Western players on the field. By then, our players will just run around blindly on the field, and then they will be walked around like monkeys. Finally, in order to cover up the ugliness of domestic football, some people will use ethnography to explain things.
For example, they would say, 'There is no way, our East Asia race is really no match for whites and blacks.' You know how much our ancestors resented it because their descendants did not do it right, but they said it was the race and blood of their ancestors that were not good. That would be really shameful."
Zhang Kuang He Wei's face turned red when he said this, because he also said this in the program, and he was really looking for reasons for the lack of strength of domestic players.
They searched around and found that there might really be differences in strength due to different races. But according to Zhang Kuang, it has nothing to do with race. Is the method wrong?
He Wei: "So that's the case, so what do you think we can do to remedy it now?"
Zhang Kuang: "Of course it is to innovate teaching methods, change all the methods that mislead students, and use new methods to teach. Our domestic football theoretical research and practice are still too backward.
Western football technology is advanced because many universities are conducting research on it, ranging from basic technology, player selection, training methods, nutrition, data analysis, tactical application, logistics support, fair play, transfer value evaluation, business development, legal disputes, awards and scoring, etc. They have universities researching on it.
And what about us? Who has heard of any sports university publishing several high-quality football papers in a year? In theory, we do not study, our methods are old-school, our management is messy, the selection and transfer of players are irregular, and there are various unspoken rules in the competition.
From this point of view, the gap between us and others is all-round, not just a few small issues in the training of the players."
He Wei was completely shocked after hearing Zhang Kuang's analysis. The fog that had been shrouding his head and the China football player's head seemed to be lifted at once, and he suddenly became enlightened.
It turns out to be like this, it turns out to be like this.
He Wei: "Zhang Kuang, what you said is very helpful. Why don't you write down and publish what you saw and heard? This will be very helpful to China football."
Zhang Kuang laughed a little, "Teacher He, do you think it is useful? Do you think there are no people who ask these questions?"
He Wei:"Why not..."
Speaking of this, He Wei's lips trembled and he swallowed the words.
He understood Zhang Kuang's smiling expression.