You know, generally speaking, the career of football players will not exceed 20 years, that is, the evergreen trees such as Wiljoward and matthaeus can break through this period. Others, including the famous baresi and Bergomi, have only been in their careers for 17 years. Although it doesn’t seem to be long, it is enough for a player to miss his peak and the easiest time to win honor.
For all Real Madrid players who have experienced the Champions League era ruled by Florence, this Champions League final is simply an excellent opportunity for them to make up for their honor book and take this trophy into their pockets!
The course of the game needs to be described too much. Although Real Madrid is popular in terms of popularity and players’ personal ability, and Raul established a ball lead in the first minute of the halfgame, Leverkusen is not an easy generation. Only five minutes after Raul’s first record in Real Madrid, they took advantage of a goal in the frontcourt and Lucio headed the ball to equalize the score!
If Zida hadn’t had a sudden epiphany in the 45th minute of the game, the penalty area line would now fly directly. The players in Leverkusen watched in amazement and kicked a halfturn volley to rewrite the score 21!
Toppmoeller, the coach of Leverkusen, was completely stunned when he saw Zida’s fantastic goal. He had never coached a famous superstar. He never thought that a superstar could change the game situation in an instant!
If I had known, I would have let Lucio press the defense, then Zida would have been absolutely impossible. Toppmoeller thought ruefully in his mind. Unfortunately, the world has no regrets. He can swallow this bitter fruit and look for a chance for the team to equalize the score again.
Florentino applauded Zida’s goal happily in the box. The president of Real Madrid was very satisfied with the performance of the French midfielder who cost him more than 60 million US dollars last summer. He thought that this was the most suitable defensive counterattack tactics for Real Madrid’s unification of East and West, such as Ranieri and Heynckes. It was simply insulting the great name of Real Madrid!
In the end, Real Madrid won the seventh Champions League trophy in the club’s history by beating Leverkusen 21 at the final whistle with Raul’s clever shot after the game and Zida’s flying feet at the end of the half.
Leverkusen, who took team football to the extreme, lost the best chance to win the Champions League after losing to Zida, and also won an honor that embarrassed them very much.
Because before the final of the Champions League, the thirdline pharmaceutical factory suffered Waterloo in the league and the German Cup, which means that Leverkusen, who just won a silver medal in the Champions League, has become a Sanya king team in the eyes of the public!
King Sanya was born!
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After the awarding ceremony, Bayer Leverkusen players took the podium in turn and received the silver medal symbolizing the runnerup from UEFA President beckenbauer. Although the official position of UEFA President was in office, the football emperor made a little selfish effort and gave the motherland some special treatment. For example, when awarding medals to Bayer Leverkusen players, beckenbauer would attach a close hug and say a few words in everyone’s ear. It seems that he wanted to soothe the frustrated mood of Bayer Leverkusen players in this way.
Real Madrid, which won the championship, didn’t get special treatment from the football emperor. beckenbauer handed out the gold medal and championship trophy in his hand as a routine, not to mention a commendation. Even if he hugged, he simply came with Real Madrid captain and head coach Jerobosk. This different treatment made Real Madrid embarrassed. How do we feel like we won the silver medal team …
By the way, after the Champions League final, some people who deliberately find fault or have ulterior motives, such as Blatter and Platini, jumped up and said in an interview with reporters that beckenbauer’s trip was a very serious differential treatment and a great disrespect for Real Madrid, the champion team. If we don’t give it a severe warning immediately, the other side will definitely intensify it and destroy the credibility and prestige accumulated by UEFA for decades!
Obviously Platini and Blatter want to inspire Real Madrid and Spaniards to be dissatisfied with beckenbauer through this incident, so as to bring the Spanish Football Association into their camp and add a heavyweight to the UEFA presidential election after the World Cup in Korea and Japan!
However, the actions of Platini and Blatter did not win people’s recognition. In the eyes of the vast majority of fans and the media, beckenbauer’s move was not appropriate, but it also showed that Mr. Chairman’s love for his motherland’s team and his caring attitude towards his younger generation were acceptable. After all, Sir beckenbauer did not instruct the referee to blow the whistle or give the other side any preferential treatment just because Leverkusen was from his motherland’s team. Can guarantee the justice and fairness of the final? Since beckenbauer has achieved this level of fairness, it is not allowed for the football emperor to lose his temper after witnessing Leverkusen lose the game.
Or it can be said that beckenbauer’s little temper at the award ceremony made the fans feel that the president of UEFA, who has the title of football emperor, still has a very lovely side, which can make people feel that beckenbauer is a man of temperament rather than politicians like Platini and Blatter who do whatever it takes to achieve their goals …
Watching Bayer Leverkusen players take the medal from beckenbauer with a forced smile and then bow their heads gloomily and leave the stadium quickly, no one was surprised. After all, no one expected that this Bundesliga team didn’t even get a championship trophy when all three fronts were fighting at the last minute abroad.
The German Cup lost to Schalke 4 League, Dortmund came from behind to save the life, and the Champions League finally lost to the superstar Yunreal Madrid … In just one week, Leverkusen changed from a promising team to a jawdropping Sanya king, which made people feel sorry and sympathetic to the team’s experience and luck.
After Bayer Leverkusen players left the stadium, together with Real Madrid captain Jero and coach Bosco, the trophy symbolizing the Champions League was held high in Hampton Park Stadium, which became a sea of celebration for Real Madrid people!
Yero, who is 34 years old, can bring a Champions League title to Real Madrid in the twilight of his career with a big smile in his arms. This veteran is naturally more excited than Bosco, and it is also difficult to restrain his excitement. After all, almost every summer after he became the chairman of Real Madrid in florentino, he will be dismissed. Now he has led the team to take the big ear cup for more than 30 years. I am afraid that Lafayette will think twice before moving him …
Raul and Morientes, the attacking partners and friends, continued to show their good side in front of the fans, and they were in high spirits. They ran around the court wearing a Spanish flag together to celebrate their first Champions League title.
However, Raul and Morientes would never have thought that at this moment worthy of cheering and celebrating by all Real Madrid people, Mr. President is sitting in the VIP box wondering how to make the team more starstudded and Real Madrid’s ability to attract gold stronger, instead of keeping the current champion team as much as possible to maintain the stability of the team and the locker room.
Since the Champions League champion has become our real Madrid bag, maybe we can attract more stars this summer. Although the Champions League final has just ended, players and coaches are happily celebrating this hardwon championship trophy at the venue, but this does not prevent ambitious florentino from finding a suitable target to further develop his superstar strategy. After all, in the eyes of Lafayette, the image of Bosque team coach is really poor. Although the main striker Morientes is powerful but not wellknown, the captain of Yero team is not as powerful as Raul, a real Madrid flag.
It can be said that these people are not in line with the gorgeous and noble image of Real Madrid in florentino’s heart. By the way, Florence has four seasons, which means that they are bound to rebuild the team this summer. If they are lucky, they should be able to dig up some good things that meet the requirements.
Of course, florentino has no idea that he is far away in Florence. Now, in addition to studying how to change the blood of the team, there is another thing that needs his attention, that is, the upcoming World Cup and the training notices from various countries that match it!
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It’s another big competition year. I really hope that these national team coaches can be merciful this time and stop staring at the players from Florence. Looking at the national team callup list in front of them, Zhuang Ge sighed and agreed with these national team coaches to recruit players from Florence to prepare for the upcoming World Cup in Korea and Japan with a stroke of a pen.
Zhuang Ge, the president of Florence Club and the founder of G14, a consortium of European giants, certainly knows that the leaders of European giants, including himself, treat international competitions such as the World Cup and the European Cup with a lovehate attitude.
Love is like this, many talents and underrated stars often emerge in international competitions for various reasons. All clubs can take this opportunity to discover these dusty beads to enhance their competitiveness, and players can also complete the feat of carp yue longmen, such as skuhravy in the World Cup in 1992, laudrup in the European Cup in 1992, and the Czech Golden Generation in 1996. It can also help their own players to sell at a good price in the outstanding performance of the competition, so as to raise enough funds for the team’s upgrading or the normal operation of the club. For example, toldo was sold to Inter Milan by Florence two years ago, and last year he broke the world record and moved from Juventus to Real Madrid Zida.
Hate is that every time at this time, those head coaches will participate in the World Cup/European Cup/America’s Cup for the reason that they will transfer their players to participate in the national team competition, which will often have a very adverse impact on the team’s preparations for the season.
You know, for these football clubs in Europe, summer training is very important. Players need to recover from vacation during this period, readapt to the rhythm and intensity of professional competition, prepare for the new season and form enough tacit understanding with new teammates … Generally speaking, summer training is more important for a team.
However, those international players who represent the national team in the big games will usually return to the team one to two weeks later than others, which will inevitably lead to their absence from some summer training activities of the club and the fatigue caused by playing in the big games. These players are bound to be greatly affected in the new season
If a player is accidentally injured in the national team competition and has to be suspended due to injury, then the team that the player plays for can be said to be in bad blood, because in this way, let alone wait until the player returns to the team and slowly adjust to the array, so that his combat effectiveness will not be greatly weakened, which is enough for these clubs to shout God bless in their hearts.
Kaka is the most typical example in the past. The Brazilian superstar’s life was not satisfactory after moving to Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo’s technical characteristics were in conflict. Part of the reason was that he insisted on representing Brazil in the World Cup in South Africa despite the club’s obstruction. Kaka’s move not only made a deadlock with Real Madrid’s top management, but also caused his starting position to be replaced by newcomers such as Ozil, and at the same time led to his relapse of his left knee injury, which caused him to plummet and finally ended in a sad ending when he was in the Rossoneri.
All clubs will show such a reluctant attitude towards the national team’s callup order. After all, players are paid, but their national team has to pay the bill even if they are injured, which will affect their performance and income in the new season. No one will be responsible for this, and everyone will feel uncomfortable.
However, it seems that because Florence’s record this season is not brilliant, the eyes of the national team coaches are mostly attracted by those players and teams who have performed better, which directly leads to the fact that the Viola has been transferred from various national teams in this World Cup. There are many fewer players than before, which makes Heynckes feel luckythe more players are lost in the national team list, the more time they will have to prepare for this summer, and the team will naturally be more confident to achieve good results in the new season.
Buffon, Starr and Ljungberg, the absolute main players of various national teams, can’t escape the fate of being called up, but those players who play substitute and marginal roles in the national team have been treated in the opposite way. For example, Italian national team coach dino zoff left Gattuso and ZaTyralla out this time and handed these valuable training places to three players who performed better: Dibiagio, tommasi and Grandoni.
Vieri, filippo inzaghi, Pirlo, Stesta, Zambrotta and Buffon were selected for the Italian national team to compete in the 23man World Cup in Korea and Japan this time because Zoff paid more attention to the player’s state and the selection criteria of the team’s season results. (Note that panucci moved to Rome after winning the Champions League in Florence one year) The number of finalists was the lowest since Sacchi left the position of national team coach in 1996.
Although he has secured the main position in the season, Deco has not been favored by Brazilian coach Scolari. He is determined to make Ronaldo and rivaldo two famous superstars and Ronaldinho, a newcomer who he is quite optimistic about, to build an offensive combination. Phil will naturally not add another player who needs the ball and pay attention to defense. He prefers to make midfielders like Claiberson and Gilberto rather than deco. The style of play has been Europeanized and organized.
In addition, because the crown king said that the Netherlands was accidentally eliminated from the World Cup finals in the qualifiers, Stam, the main defender of the Orange Army, also did not have to work hard in the World Cup to concentrate on the club and plan to win some honors for the team in the new season.
Unlike Gattuso and Deco, who lost the World Cup squad, Makelele has always been ignored by the national team. This time, it was directly selected by lemerre into the French national team. However, the French media and fans commented on it. If Deschamps retired and Petit accidentally sank in Barcelona, he was 29 years old. Makelele may still be in the national team …
In this way, after the national teams of various countries announced the big names for the World Cup, people were surprised to find that ten players in Florence actually qualified for the World Cup in Korea and Japan!
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