費玉清 十年

Ronaldinho

Everyone should agree that on team level, Rinus Michels and Johan Cryuff made an huge influence on modern European Football. Their philosophies are widespread and you cannot avoid but seeing many top coaches were from Ajax and Barcelona, including Jose Mourinho (despite his playing are just the opposite).


Ronaldinho is perhaps the key difference of the modern world football, on the individual level.

After a successful World Cup in 2002, the Brazilian still played in PSG, when it was not a really great team like today. Transferring to a bigger club was the only way out. He had two choices. One was to replace David Beckham and become the new no.7 in Red Devils. The other one was to rebuild Barcelona, who was unable to achieve anything at all those years.

When he almost signed for the ticket towards English Football, he turned to the Spanish, and helped the team climb towards to summit of the Europe. More importantly, a boy from Argentina called Leo Messi inherited his magic and establish the truly amazing talent-driven style.

That's why Manchester United, after being ditched by the Brazilian no.10, turned to Cristiano Ronaldo.

While it is likely that The Portuguese would land to other European clubs like Arsenal, it was very unlikely for the Manchester club to get both Ronaldinho and Ronaldo at the same time. Ronaldo would have never lighted up the red devils like he did.

Though Ronaldo left for Real Madrid later, it is not really a bad thing for Manchester United to miss Ronaldinho, really.

To me, I could make the same analogy for the incidents of my life. I was never meant to work in a place very eastern, 2 years ago.

But if I was not there, I could have never encounter the life events, however good or bad they meant to me.

I taste the sweet, swallow the bitterness and treasure these moments, for the rest of my life.

Keyplayer

Last week I watched the defeat of Manchester United in Stamford Bridge, despite showing a commanding display from all the players.

Eden Hazard, the blue's no.10, was the difference. He did not need to get a lot of balls. But when he did, he ran and made David de gea grabbed the ball from the net.

His pace and his attitude made me recall a Manchester United hero, Cristiano Ronaldo. They actually did not play in the same style, but they made the same difference to their teams: winning the matches.

I cannot help revisiting the debut match of Cristiano Ronaldo in 2003 at Old Trafford. The opponent was Bolton. The Red Devil scored four goals from three players, but the TV report (which I saw that time) only mentioned one name that you would remember for long time: The new no.7.

And the rest is history.

I am never the same kind of player in the pitch. He has a much better speed and dribbling skills, later on powerful and precise shooting. But I have to say, it is his attitude on the match that influenced me not just on the matches but also towards lives: How to improve yourself everyday from a street football player to THE best player in the world.

We have three different No.7 in the team after his departure. While Angel Di Maria showed some promises in the early matches, fans were overall very disappointed. It was not they were really bad, but we could hardly avoid comparing their performance with the Portuguese

It is like someone you can never forget for the rest of your life. Someone deep down inside is not going to be replaced, no matter how you try. 

君頤上海小廚

I wonder why we met. I wonder, why I still remember the weather (a breezy rainy autumn night), how you dressed and what we talked about.

Nothing inflames the present like the past.

Democracy

I hope the legCo can represent the opinions of people.

If the people decide that they should not represent themselves, if they decide that they should be slaves, let them be.

喜喜

I was planned to have breakfast in 喜喜 yesterday, for the old day sake.

I might even see her.

But then I changed my mind.

I was afraid of meeting her.