January 9, 2011.

The FIFA 2010 annual award ceremony was held in Zurich.

In the 20th year of the FIFA 'Mr. World Football' Awards and the 55th year of the 'Golden Ball' Awards of France Football', the two major awards were merged into the FIFA Golden Ball. In the new Golden Ball selection, the judges of the previous two major awards were qualified. The national team head coach, captain and designated media reporters of France Football each accounted for 1/3 of the weight.

This is the first time the FIFA Golden Ball Awards, but it is almost the most suspenseful.

As everyone guessed before the award ceremony, Zhang Yang won the FIFA Golden Ball Award, and Manchester City's Chinese captain also became the first FIFA male player of the year after Brazilian star Ronaldinho in 2005, Barcelona's Argentine star Messi ranked second, and Inter Milan's Dutch star Sneider ranked third.

In the summer of 2010, the European champion Manchester City continued to make waves in the transfer market. Yaya Toure joined from Barcelona for 28 million pounds, while Valencia's Spanish international David Silva also joined from 24 million pounds. In addition, Kolarov joined from Lazio for 17 million pounds, and England international Milner joined Manchester City for 24 million pounds from Aston Villa.

The most eye-catching transfer is Inter Milan talented scorer Balotelli joins Manchester City for £26 million. Before the transfer was officially announced, Balotelli couldn't wait to say on his Twitter: My friends, I'm so happy, I'm going to play football with Zhang!

Manchester City, which is recruiting troops, obviously wants to do a big fight and continue its championship.

In the 2010/2011 season, Manchester City first won two consecutive championships in the Charity Shield and the European Super Cup at the beginning of the season. Then, in the Club World Cup in December, Manchester City topped the Club World Cup and became the king of the world.

Until the end of 2010, Manchester City's performance was quite perfect.

However, after the second half of the season began, Manchester City's performance began to fluctuate. The team was still too young and they were unable to continue their crazy state and good luck in the last season. In addition, it has to be said that as the defending Premier League champion and the defending UEFA Champions League champion, Manchester City is now the most powerful enemy in the eyes of all teams, and every team is extremely desperate when facing them. This also invisibly makes them have to put in more effort to win any game than last season.

This is also a "pseudo-wealthy family". If you want to become a real wealthy family, you must go through. They must get used to the days when they are a wealthy team. They not only enjoy glory, but also face various difficulties.

In the end, in the 2010/2011 season, Manchester City ranked second in the Premier League and was eliminated by its old rival Inter Milan in the semi-finals. Mourinho postponed his plan to go to Real Madrid after losing to Manchester City in the Champions League final last summer, stayed at Inter Milan and vowed to lead Inter Milan to win a Champions League title. Finally, in this season, under Mourinho's leadership, Inter Milan reached the top of Europe as he wished and became the king of Europe in the 2010/2011 season.

Manchester City won the Charity Shield Cup, European Super Cup, Club World Cup championship, the league was runner-up, and the Champions League was the semi-finals. In theory, this is an acceptable result for any giant. However, considering Manchester City's crazy last season and the team's crazy spending of money in the transfer market, some media still say that this is a failed season for Manchester City.

In response, Zhang Yang spoke on behalf of Manchester City: We were criticized before we won the championship. This is a good thing, which means that in everyone's eyes, we are the champion team. We cannot tolerate any failure, otherwise others will gossip.

In the 2011/2012 season, under the leadership of Zhang Yang, Manchester City re-dominated the Premier League and won the Premier League championship. Zhang Yang also won the Premier League Golden Boot for the fourth consecutive season.

However, in the Champions League, although Manchester City reached the final, they lost the penalty to their old rival Chelsea in the final and finished second.

In addition, the 2011 FIFA Golden Ball Award was won by Argentine player Messi, who ranked second. Later, news of Zhang Yang and Messi clashing in a bar was revealed in the media. However, the media subsequently deleted the news, which attracted a lot of speculation.

In the 2012/2013 season, Manchester City ranked second in the Premier League, but they avenged their previous shame in the Champions League and reached the final, and defeated Bayern Munich 2-0 in the final, winning the second Champions League trophy in club history.

After the end of the season, Ronaldo, who won his second Champions League championship in his career, announced his retirement. This year, Ronaldo is already 37 years old.

When saying goodbye to the fans and teammates, Ronnie shed tears on the stadium. He said that the years at Manchester City are his most unforgettable years, and he will always remember the days of fighting side by side with Zhang Yang and everyone in Manchester City.

On this day, news that Manchester City once again topped Europe and Ronaldo's retirement occupied the front page of sports media almost all over the world.

Although Ronaldo announced his retirement, and Robinho transferred to AC Milan a season ago, Manchester City still has an attack group that scares all teams.

Zhang Yang, Tevez, Balotelli, Aguero, Dzeko. Manchester City's five super scorers are the most luxurious forward configuration in the world.

In the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Awards, Zhang Yang was re-elected as the Ballon d'Or, the second place was Brazilian star Neymar, the third place was Argentine star Messi, and the last two were Barcelona stars.

In 2013, a small incident happened. The Chinese men's football team lost 1-5 to the feet of Thailand's "youth team" in a warm-up match. This defeat also made the anger of Chinese fans and the media reach its peak.

Subsequently, the Chinese Football Association fired the national team head coach Camacho, and Espanyol once again became the scapegoat of the Chinese Football Association.

The matter was at the end. After Zhang Yang learned about the Chinese men's football team's defeat, he fired a fire at the Chinese Football Association in an interview with the "Mass Daily", accusing the Chinese Football Association of being the one who should be fired and the most responsible for the current situation of Chinese football. After the fire, when asked by reporters about the "national team", Zhang Yang made a rare statement and was willing to play for the country at any time. However, he also said that the current situation of the national team is very bad and is not suitable for being selected for the national team at this time.

In December 2013, Zhang Yang led Manchester City to win the Club World Cup championship again in Japan. Just when he led Manchester City to the top, a major event happened in Chinese football. Many senior leaders of the Chinese Football Association were held accountable. According to the media later, President Xi was extremely dissatisfied with the current situation of Chinese football. A sport that was loved by the people was actually turned into the current situation of "everyone shouted to beat". How can this be done?! President Xi also used Zhang Yang as an example, "We in China have Zhang Yang, the world's number one star. With such an example, can't we still do football well?"

Half a month later, Zhang Yang won the award again in the 2013 FIFA Golden Ball Awards. This is the fourth time he has been elected as the FIFA Best Male Athlete of the Year in his career, and it is also the first person in FIFA in history.

When he delivered his award speech, Zhang Yang suddenly announced that he would represent the Chinese team for the first time in the warm-up match between the Chinese national team and the Uzbekistan national team a month later.

This very ordinary warm-up match immediately attracted global attention.

In this warm-up match, the Chinese team drew with Uzbekistan three-to-three, and Zhang Yang scored a hat trick. However, after the game, Zhang Yang ran away in the locker room and roared. Then, a week later, the Chinese Football Association announced that the three old internationals would be fired from the national team. The media speculated that it was because the attitude of these three qualified internationals in the game that Zhang Yang was angry that the Chinese Football Association made the killer. According to the media, the "adjusted" Chinese Football Association was given a "task" to fully cooperate with Zhang Yang and strive to bring the Chinese national team out. Moreover, the senior management of the General Administration of Sports did not put forward any so-called hard task requirements for the Chinese national team for the first time. It is said that General Xi is very concerned about this national team and also gave a special instruction, which was: The best score is to be satisfied with the fans.

In this season, that is, the 2013/2014 season, Manchester City won the Premier League championship again after a year. This is the three times that Manchester City won the Premier League title in six years. In addition, they reached the finals in the Champions League, defeated Real Madrid three-to-one in the final, successfully defending their title, and Manchester City became the first team to successfully defend their title after the Champions League reform.

In January 2015, Zhang Yang won the FIFA Golden Ball Award for the rest of the year.

However, the 2014/2015 season was a season that made Manchester City fans depressed and surprised. Zhang Yang was injured during the devil schedule on Christmas. He was expected to be seriously injured. However, just a week later, the club announced that Zhang Yang was magically healed; however, in half a month later, in the Manchester derby with Manchester United, Zhang Yang suffered a rough foul and left the court. After the game, fans of both sides also had conflicts. This time, the Manchester City captain was absent from the court for half a year.

In the end, this season, Manchester City ranked only third in the Premier League and stopped in the quarterfinals in the Champions League.

After the end of the season, Van Basten resigned and resigned from the position of Manchester City's head coach. When Zhang Yang played for AC Milan, the famous Italian coach Ancelotti, who had worked with, announced that he would take over as Manchester City head coach.
Chapter completed!