Birmingham is a city and a metropolitan municipality belonging to the United Kingdom. By its population, Birmingham is considered the second city of the country. The city's reputation was forged as the locomotive of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom, being known as "The workshop of the world" or the "City of a thousand trades."
The City of Birmingham has a population of 998,000 inhabitants. It is part of the great conurbation of West Midland, which has a population of 2,000,986 inhabitants and includes several neighboring cities and municipalities.
The natives of Birmingham are known as Brummies, a term that derives from the nickname of the city (Brum).
Birmingham has the second largest economy in the United Kingdom and the 72nd largest in the world. Today its economy is dominated by the service sector. Birmingham is the largest center for employment in public administration, education and health in Britain, and after Leeds and Glasgow is the third largest center in terms of banking, finance and insurance jobs outside London. It is classified as a beta-world city by globalization and the World Cities Research Network.
Birmingham has played an important role in the history of English sport. The Football League was the first oldest league championship in the world and was founded by the birminghense and Aston Villa director William McGregor.
The city has two professional football clubs: Aston Villa, which plays its home games at Villa Park and Birmingham City, which plays for St. Andrew's Stadium. Founded in 1874 and 1895 respectively, the clashes between both teams are called "Second City derby" —translation: Dérbi of the Second City— or less frequently "Dérbi de Birmingham".
Aston Villa's achievements include 7 league championships and a European Cup in 1982.
Aston Villa, is one of the oldest and most successful teams in the history of English football. Villa won the 1981-82 European Cup, making it one of the five clubs in their country to win the competition now known as the UEFA Champions League.
Being one of the most popular teams in England and considered one of the 5 biggest in England, in Birmingham 64 percent of the population is a fan of Aston Villa.
The current training camp is located in Bodymoor Heath, a small town near Kingsbury in northern Warwickshire. The enclosure was purchased by former club president Doug Ellis in the early 1970s from a local farmer.
Alexander was watching the training ground, while the players were exercising without a ball, until his gaze fell on a player.
Looking at this young player, Alexander showed a satisfied smile, this player was an upcoming superstar. He took the opportunity of Southampton to dig players, this player was - Gareth Bale
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Alexander had used his future knowledge to excavate future talents of English football. However, before becoming the head coach of Aston Villa or really controlling Aston Villa, he couldn't bring all the players he wanted. The special transfer supervisor can master the transfer power. The coach of a youth team does not have this power at all, and does not want to reveal too much information for others to know. He does not want to recognize other people.
Bale was a player capable of running 100 meters in 11.4 seconds at such a young age. The superiority he showed when practicing, was one of the aspects he liked most about Bale.
"Gareth has an impressive speed, it would be good to use it on the left side." A voice was heard behind Alexander, Alexander looked back, was a man of about 35 years, hairless, tall and that, in good physical condition, this man was Alexander's assistant coach, his name was Erik ten Hag, the future coach of Ajax.
Alexander had met Erik ten Hag, when he was studying to be a football coach and convinced him to follow him. Alexander graduated as the first in his promotion of coaches and studied the style of Ajax and Barcelona's farmhouse for a while.
"Although Gareth is not as good in one on one, Gareth has a strong determination to succeed and the character and qualities to reach the goals he sets. In addition, it is one of the least individualistic people I have seen. If he keeps practicing I have no doubt that he can become an excellent player in the one-on-one. " He said while showing a smile.
When Gareth played at Southampton, he was used as a left-back player, but when Alexander brought him, he had been training him as an offensive midfielder and midfielder, at the beginning Gareth didn't get used to it, but it had been 2 years since Alexander brought him to the Aston Villa and was considered one of the greatest talents of the Club.
"Gareth, you're working hard."
After speaking a few words with Erik ten Hag, Alexander entered the training camp and spoke to Gareth and the other young man next to him.
After seeing Alexander, Gareth's eyes showed some bright colors, while another young player smiled: "Hi, boss."
José nodded slightly to the other young man: "Gareth, Theo the next game will be headlines, maybe very soon you will be in the first team."
Gareth nodded hard, and Theo Walcott was smiling, he had more confidence in his future.
Theo Walcott, was another of the talents that Alexander brought to the club and considered the greatest club talent.
"This season I hope to perform better than last season. Last season we were in third place, this season I hope we can be the champions." Guys, do you understand? "Alexander said with a smile.
Alexander was referring to the youth soccer league, they could only play maximum players of 18 years, last season Arsenal was first, Manchester United second and Aston Villa third, something that had never happened in the history of the club, normal it was that they were at the bottom of the table, but since Alexander arrived, the team showed a beautiful game and climbed to third place.
The club fans were very happy with Alexander.
Fans had received the news that the club wanted Alexander as assistant coach of the first team, it was normal that many people did not care, but Alexander's case was special was the young genius coach of the club.
There was a lot of hope in the fans, but when they heard about Alexander's rejection, they felt sad.
The reasons why Alexander rejected the offer, was because his tactical style was very similar to Cruyff's.
Then, he had promoted the tactical style of the farmhouse to the tactical thinking of the youth team, which is one of the reasons why he rejected the offer.
The current style of the first team was the typical English style, lack of technique and more physical play.
When José started working hard on the youth team, Mallorca began his journey in the new season.
At the start of the season, everyone thought that David O'Leary could improve the team compared to last season that had been in tenth place.
However, nobody thought that this season for Aston Villa, it was so difficult!
In the first round of the league, they tied against Bolton Wanderers in the second round at home they lost to Manchester United, in the third round they lost to Portsmouth.
After the 23rd round of the league, Aston Villa only won six games in the league, drew six games and lost 11 games! Getting only 24 points in the classification, being at the bottom of the table in the relegation zone.
Aston Villa fans were angry, the club was one of the biggest clubs in England and was about to descend.
"If the next game can't win, David O'Leary will be fired!"
Doug Ellis club president made a decision at the club meeting. In fact, this is equivalent to David O'Leary's death sentence, because the next round, Aston Villa would face the powerful Chelsea.
There is no objection to this decision. In the last six months, the poor performance of David O'Leary has made everyone feel if David O'Leary continues to lead the club to descend.
Doug Ellis looked at the shareholders, if the club went down he could not sell the club at a good price.