On the morning of the Milan derby, Inter Milan has been full of good news.

First, coach Jose Mourinho won third place in the 2009 World Coach Selection of the International League of Football History and Data (Iffhs). Only behind Barcelona coach Guardiola and Manchester United coach Ferguson.

Previously, Mourinho won the first place in this award in 2004 and 2005, and once again won the second place.

Mourinho ranked fifth in the rankings based on the performance and record of 130 club and national team-level head coaches in the world from 1996 to 2009.

Considering that the top four are Ferguson, Lippi, Wenger and Hiddink who have coached for many years, and Mourinho only started coaching since 2000, this ranking is a huge honor for Mourinho.

Later in UEFA's best team selection this year, Gao Xiaodong was selected for high votes. He is also the only player in Inter Milan to be selected for the best team. However, his selected position was not a midfielder, but a striker. It can be seen that this is mainly to commend Gao Xiaodong's great success in Porto, rather than his performance in Inter Milan.

Of course, Inter Milan's great unbeaten performance in the 20-round Serie A has also brought them great honors.

In the 13th Italian Football Annual Oscars hosted by the Italian Football League, mediaprojet and sportitalia, Inter Milan became the number one winner, sweeping the best team, best coach, best goalkeeper, best scorer and most popular player among fans.

Mourinho is the best coach, Cesar was elected the best goalkeeper, Milito is the best scorer, and Gao Xiaodong is the most popular player among fans.

As Inter Milan is preparing for the Milan derby, Chairman Massimo Morati won the grand prize on behalf of the team and the players.

After receiving the award, Morati praised his coach and players: "I am very satisfied with the personality shown by the team and such a high level of professionalism.

Jose Mourinho is the most professional coach I have ever met, not just in the football world. I wish him a continued victory. It was a pleasure to work with him.

I'm glad Milito won the grand prize and hope he will be re-elected next year. We all like him and respect him very much.

Gao Xiaodong is an amazing player. He surprises us every minute. I hope he can stay in Inter Milan for many years.

Cesar is our decisive needle. In my mind, he is even better than Buffon. Of course, I think our team is the best players in the world and they should all win awards."

Then Morati also talked about the Milan derby that will start in the evening. "It is very interesting to see the competition between these two coaches with extremely intelligent, rigorous and serious, but their personality and understanding of football are very different. Milan's most threatening player is Ronaldinho, a player who can create football. He is unpredictable. He is in good shape and is having a happy life, so he may be the player we should worry about the most. But I think coach Mourinho should have made sufficient arrangements. Tomorrow is Mourinho's birthday, and he will treat victory as his birthday gift. Of course, I will prepare a gift for him."

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While Morati received the prize for the players facing the country, Inter Milan players were in their last training session before the game.

Training is closed, with no journalists and no fans.

Sneider participated in the team's joint training. His position was the front midfielder, while Gao Xiaodong was the right winger, Pandev, the formation was still 4231, and the single arrow was Milito who scored 16 goals.

However, the training effect did not satisfy Mourinho, because no matter whether Gao Xiaodong was on the side or in the middle, the players were still willing to pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong. This trust was tempered by cooperation in half a season. Sneijder was a newcomer, and even if Mourinho gave him the position of the midfielder, the players did not recognize it.

Sneider felt that Pandev had just transferred to Inter Milan and should not have been integrated into the team. Pandev is also a European player. He wanted to play and cooperate with Pandev, but after Sneider passed the ball to Pandev, he didn't expect Pandev to pass it to Gao Xiaodong immediately, which shocked Sneider. Could it be that Gao Xiaodong had such a good relationship with Pandev in such a short time?

Although his teammates did not cooperate with Sneider, Sneider still showed his super passing ability and escape skills in the short time to get the ball, which is something that no other player in Inter Milan has. Even Gao Xiaodong is inferior, which made Mourinho very satisfied. He believed that giving Sneider time, with Sneider's strength, can completely gain the trust of his teammates. However, today's Milan derby will definitely not allow Sneider, that is, let him go up to feel the atmosphere and become familiar with the rhythm in the final stage.

After the training, Mourinho held a pre-match tactical meeting to analyze the current situation and the playing styles adopted in the game.

Mourinho actually said more than once about these, but he must repeat them, not only to make the players remember them, but also to attract their attention.

"You can't look at AC Milan with an old eye. After half a season, they are much stronger than before. AC Milan just beat Juventus 3-0 in the last round, and they are in very good shape. Don't have too many extravagant expectations for the score in this game, just win."

"The referee in this game is Rocky. I have seen him enforce our game. He is not friendly to us. In addition, we are currently leading too much. If we win, the suspense of the Serie A championship will disappear. This is something that everyone except us does not want to see, so we must prevent the referee from blowing the whistle and the wrong whistle, and controlling our emotions."

When talking about this, Mourinho did not look at Balotelli, but Inter Milan players looked at Balotelli intentionally or unintentionally. Obviously, they thought Mourinho's words were for Balotelli to hear.

Balotelli actually went to see Sneider, as if Mourinho talked about Sneider again, and his teammates seemed to see him wrong.

In order to appease Gao Xiaodong, Mourinho emphasized the importance of Gao Xiaodong in the team. "Xiaodong, your position is still the front midfielder, but you can run freely and don't have to stick to one position. Other teammates must support Xiaodong, fill him up, receive his pass, pull out the defense, instead of standing there watching.

Free activity is not a privilege, it is determined by Xiaodong's ability. He can play from a forward to a defender and can help the team at any position. We must try our best to tap his potential."

After explaining the tactical issues, Mourinho let the discussion freely and left the conference room himself.

Mourinho just left, and Matrazi said, "Brothers, there is something I want to tell you. Tomorrow is the coach's birthday. We must win the Milan derby today. We must use a refreshing victory as a birthday gift for the coach. The coach is not bad to us, so we can't make things difficult for him."

Sanetti said: "This is a must. No matter from any perspective, we have to win this game and we have to win beautiful things." After the Milan derby victory in the first round, the captain Sanetti was also a little fluttering.

The captain and vice captain have finished speaking. It should be Cordoba's turn to speak below, but Cordoba has a little conflict with Mourinho recently, and he sat there without saying a word.

Gao Xiaodong saw that Cordoba didn't say anything, so he stood up and said, "Refer to the coach's opinion. The game is probably not easy to play. Don't be careless. Win first and then say it's beautiful."

Quaresma said: "Xiao Dong is right, don't be careless."

Balotelli's IQ also nodded repeatedly, "Although I don't understand it very much, I'm so right."

Milito and Pandev also agreed with Gao Xiaodong's words.

Matrazi and Sanetid were respected. They both said they wanted to win beautiful ones, but Gao Xiaodong was different from them, and they also received the approval of several teammates, which made Sneid even more uneasy. For the first time, he was suspicious about whether he could compete with Gao Xiaodong...
Chapter completed!