Nine Hundred and Six Su Dong Is Too Sturdy!
This season's Champions League final is scheduled to be held at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.
This world-class stadium, which is extremely dazzling because of the World Cup, has finally ushered in the world's top club events.
As the representative of Bayern Munich, Breitner became the main guest.
And this year's awards ceremony, UEFA has also implemented a very big change, that is, canceled the previous position awards.
In other words, the previous best goalkeeper, best defender, best midfielder and best striker were all eliminated, leaving a best player, and then working with the European Sports Media Union to introduce the best player in Europe .
The selection rules are actually the same as before. Football reporters from 53 countries and regions voted. The top three candidates were selected in the first round, and then the fifty-three reporters voted on the top three candidates on the spot. , ranked.
There is a very interesting point, that is, before the draw, according to convention, the representatives of the previous Champions League champions have to win the cup, and usually the captain will perform.
As a result, Puyol casually wore a yellow t-shirt and gray plaid shorts casual clothes, holding a solemn and sacred big ear cup, and came to the stage in the roar of laughter and even the roar of the audience.
In fact, all the people present were from the football world, and many of them were familiar with each other. For Puyol's behavior, it was more fun. I thought this guy was too subversive.
Of course, it is not excluded that some people will feel that he is really out of shape, after all, he represents Barcelona at this time.
But no matter what, the atmosphere at the scene was very warm.
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The first is the group stage draw.
According to the European war points, four grades are divided, and one team is drawn from each of the eight teams in each grade to form a group, and the teams from the same country can avoid it.
The first draw guest is Figo, and his task is to draw the eight teams from the first draw in different groups.
Interestingly, as the image ambassador of Inter Milan, Figo's first draw was Inter Milan.
The second draw is the Manchester United legend, Bobby Charlton.
The signing he drew for Manchester United was also good,
The weaker Benfica was drawn, the strongest AC Milan was drawn to Barcelona, Valencia was drawn to Chelsea, Lyon was drawn to Real Madrid, and Villarreal was drawn to Inter Milan in Group A. It has to be said that they all take great care of their own business.
The draw for the third pot is Gullit.
This is also the lottery that Su Dong and Begiristan are most concerned about.
Judging from the current situation, Manchester City will definitely avoid the three strong teams in the Premier League, that is to say, the remaining five teams can be drawn.
Barcelona, Bayern, Real Madrid, Porto and Inter Milan.
Judging from the current draw results, the luck of drawing Porto is the best, because Porto's second-tier team is Shakhtar Donetsk. If Manchester City is drawn into this group, let alone, it must be the top of the group. Big hit.
More importantly, Manchester City have experience with Porto, having just played in the Europa League final last season.
The worst is definitely to draw the group of Barcelona and AC Milan, which will definitely be a nightmare.
However, there is no way. Manchester City's previous background is too thin and can only be ranked in the third position. Everyone knows that the purpose of drawing lots is actually to avoid strong dialogue. To put it bluntly, it is to protect the first ball. interests of the team.
If you want to quickly get out of the third gear, there are only two ways, either to win the championship and enter the first gear as the defending champion, or to slowly accumulate European points, and after five seasons, successfully enter the top two gears.
To a certain extent, the accumulation of Manchester City in European football is not as good as that of Chelsea in those days.
Of course, Manchester City is reluctant to touch the giants, and those giant teams are also reluctant to touch Manchester City.
I have to say that Gullit still takes great care of his old club, so he drew Bayer Leverkusen for Chelsea. He is not weak, but it is better than Manchester City, while Barcelona and AC Milan drew Borisov. , be regarded as a draw on the sign.
After drawing out several teams one after another, Gullit finally drew out Manchester City and was directly drawn to Group A, the same group as Inter Milan and Villarreal.
In an instant, there was an uproar in the audience.
A proper group of death!
Although it is not as good as drawing Barcelona and AC Milan, it is already black enough.
But in this way, there are not many restrictions on the lottery of the fourth-round team.
The reason is very simple. The top three teams are from Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League. The two strongest teams in the fourth pot are Dortmund and Naples. The latter will definitely not be drawn to Group A.
In other words, except for Dortmund, the other six are randomly selected, and they are all fish belly.
"We're not going to be so unlucky, are we?" Begiristan breathed a sigh of relief.
The draw to Dortmund is a small probability event.
Su Dong also nodded, feeling that it was impossible to be so unlucky.
Unexpectedly, Manchester City is so unlucky.
Matthaus was the draw guest of the fourth pot. After he came to power, the first team to draw was Dortmund, and he was directly drawn to Group A, which immediately detonated the audience.
The four teams in the group stage are from the four major leagues, and what is even worse is that each team is very strong.
Needless to say, Inter Milan was second in Serie A last season; Villarreal was fourth in La Liga, but the problem is, if this team was not aiming to keep fourth in La Liga last season, the Europa League battle with Porto, I don't know who wins and who loses, but it's Porto's level of strength.
As for Dortmund in the fourth pot, this is a strong team that fought evenly with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga last season, and unfortunately lost the Bundesliga championship until the last moment.
It can be said that purely from the perspective of strength, these four teams are all properly seeded teams, or teams with second-tier strength.
Nima, they were all assigned to a group.
What about luck?
Look at Porto, they have drawn Shakhtar Donetsk, Zenit St. Petersburg and Cypriot Greeks. Do you have a sense of existence?
In terms of strength, except for Cyprus and Greek Athletics in the fourth tier, the strength of the other three teams is relatively close, and the competition will be very fierce, but if the four teams in Group A are placed, any one In this group, they are all very popular.
But sometimes, the lottery is just so frustrating.
Su Dong turned his head and glanced at Begiristan, who also had a helpless expression on his face, and almost didn't write the word crow's mouth on his face.
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After the lottery is over, the final finale, which is the award ceremony, officially begins.
This is also the biggest difference from before.
In the past, the awards and the lottery were staggered, but now the lottery is drawn first, and then the awards are awarded.
UEFA has already announced the top three candidates, Su Dong, Messi and Xavi.
Sudong was able to be shortlisted because of his outstanding performance in the Premier League and Europa League, while Messi and Xavi rely on La Liga and the Champions League.
In fact, everyone knows that in terms of results, the Europa League is far inferior to the Champions League, so Su Dong is destined to accompany him tonight, which is why Platini and Messi and others were separated before. The reason for calling Su Dong and inviting him to attend.
They were all afraid that Su Dong would not come, but Su Dong's answer was the same, he would definitely come!
"Looking at Messi winning the award, it's no different to me!" This is what Su Dong said in a previous interview with the media.
All three candidates took to the stage for brief interviews with moderators before the second round of voting.
Su Dong still expressed his support for Messi, and he believes that Messi deserves this award.
"He's one of the strongest players in world football, and he was the best and best star last season."
Messi, on the other hand, believes that Su Dong should win the award, because Su Dong still scored more than 50 goals in the Premier League last season, which he is far from catching up.
"So far this season, in the three rounds of the Premier League, he has scored nine goals and averaged a hat-trick per game. I won't admire him."
Su Dong jokingly said that Messi also scored two goals in the opening game of La Liga and performed very well.
And many people are concerned about Su Dong's views on the just-concluded group stage draw. Su Dong said that it was a little bad, but it was acceptable.
"In fact, before we walked into the Grimaldi Convention Center, we were mentally prepared to accept the death group because we were in the third position and we had no choice."
Regarding the prospect of the group stage, Su Dong said that he always believed in one sentence.
"Results are achieved by kicking one foot at a time on the football field, not sitting here and drawing lots."
"I believe that as long as we have the belief that we will win, we will never lose."
Su Dong's remarks caused many people present to applaud.
When the host hoped that Su Dong could shout a slogan to the other three teams in the group stage, Su Dong first smiled and waved his hand, saying that he was deliberately digging a hole for himself, which caused a burst of laughter at the scene.
But under the insistence of the host and the booing of many people on the scene, Su Dong could only be forced to accept this task.
"Well, I'm here and I want to represent everyone at Manchester City and say to our future three opponents in the Champions League group stage, I'm really sorry, I know, the competition for second place in the group is very fierce, but I can only wish you all good luck!"
The scene was obviously stunned for a moment, and then there was a burst of warm applause.
Even the representatives of Inter Milan, Villarreal and Dortmund couldn't help but laugh.
This is really too bold!
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The final second round of voting still ended with Messi's high vote.
Su Dong was second and Harvey was third.
This is basically in line with the outside world's speculation, because Messi's performance in the Champions League and La Liga last season was really brilliant.
Su Dong suffered a loss because he was unable to participate in the Champions League. Although he won a Europa League and a triple crown, it was still not as valuable as Barcelona's championship.
Not only the best player in Europe, Messi is also bound to become the number one favorite for the next FIFA Ballon d'Or.