Xu Zhu's Successor's Football Journey

Chapter 434 Awards Draw
Before the draw ceremony, the UEFA Champions League brackets for the 32 teams have been released.

The classification of the UEFA Champions League teams is based on the European War points in the past five seasons, including the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup. The 32 teams are ranked from high to low according to the European War points. Eight teams form a group Divided into four grades.In the last season, although Real Madrid was directly eliminated just after qualifying from the group stage, in the previous European competitions, Real Madrid's record was still good, so this time UEFA still put Real Madrid in the first tier. in the team.

On the other hand, Chelsea was a grand slam last season, directly winning all the championships, and of course the Champions League champion was one of them. This directly leapfrogged the Blues to a level and was also classified as a first-tier team.

Among the other teams participating in the UEFA Champions League, last season's La Liga champion Barcelona, ​​the Red Devils Manchester United, the always strong AC Milan, Arsenal Arsenal, the Nerazzurri Inter Milan and the Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich are divided into the first tier. Team.

The Eredivisie leaders Ajax, 'Old Lady' Juventus, Panathinaikos, Villarreal, Eindhoven, Porto, Ligue [-] champion Lyon, these teams are all divided into A second-tier team.

The others are Club Brugge, Rapid Vienna, Prague, Badaturn, Middlesbrough, Werder Bremen, Udinese, Lille, Benfica, Schalke 04, Fenerbahce, Alympiacos, Rosenborg, Anderlech, Tebetis, Rangers, Bratislava, these teams that are eligible to participate in the Champions League in each league belong to the third and fourth tiers Team.

"Alan, which team do you think we will be in a group with?" At this time, Florentino squinted his eyes, looked at the high-level people of various clubs around him, and asked casually.

Wang Li looked up at the team classification table on the big screen on the side of the conference room, thought for a while, and said, "It should be a Serie A or Premier League team."

He was just guessing randomly. Among the second-tier teams in the matchup table, there were two Serie A teams and one Premier League team. Of course, the probability of saying this was higher.

"I hope so." After hearing this, Florentino smiled lightly and said.

In fact, Wang Li didn't care too much about the grouping situation, he just waited to go on stage to receive the award.

No matter how the group is divided, it is impossible for him to participate in the Champions League group stage anyway. He is just watching the results and hopes that Real Madrid can be assigned to a weak group and qualify smoothly. Then when he comes back, he can still participate in the Champions League The knockout rounds, that's all.

This is not to say that he is too selfish. In fact, he has been living in England, and it is only the first time he has come to Real Madrid. The first reason for coming here is salary, and the second is honor.

As for the love for Real Madrid?
He really didn't have much of that thing, and he had no reason to own it.

But when Real Madrid's honor is linked to himself, he has this "love". Probably every professional player has this idea.

At this time, the beautiful hostess at the scene began to announce the list of winners. The first one announced was the best coach of last season. This honor belongs to Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho as a matter of course.

The best coach of last season was Mourinho, which already belongs to the reelection of this honor.

The Portuguese who came to the stage to accept the award smiled brightly. He had reason to smile because he has won this honor consecutively. The honor of the best coach is indeed the best affirmation for a professional coach.

At this time, the hostess introduced from the side: "Chelsea was the most brilliant last season. They got all the honors that an English team can get. They are the champions of the European Champions Cup. Congratulations to Mr. Mourinho for being re-elected." The honor of the best coach, and what will Chelsea do this year? This makes us look forward to it."

Hearing these compliments, Wang Li felt a little satisfied. After all, he was the most important contributor to Chelsea winning various championships last season. Praising Chelsea last season is the same as praising him.

After Mourinho finished POSS, the host began to announce the winners of the awards one by one.

"The one who won the best striker last season is Real Madrid's." The host paused for a while before continuing to shout: "Front Alan Wang!!!"

Following this shout, everyone in the audience applauded unanimously.

Unlike when Mourinho took the stage to accept the award just now, the applause this time will be much louder.

Mourinho won the best coach, everyone just thought he was lucky, and Wang Li was the most important contributor to Chelsea's winning so many honors. Everyone in the audience was convinced that Wang Li won this award.

Florentino patted Wang Li on the shoulder, signaling him to come to the stage to receive the award.

While everyone was watching, Wang Li walked steadily onto the stage, took an exquisite trophy from an unknown presenter, and gave him a polite hug.

Like Mourinho, after Wang Li received the award, he also wanted to put a POSS on the stage for everyone to enjoy and for reporters to take pictures. He stood there with joy in his heart. Speaking of it, this was his first time Participating in this high-end award ceremony, compared with the team's award ceremony when they won the championship, this form of award ceremony has higher standards and a higher level.

Although there are not many people in the audience, and there are only dozens of reporters, it is undeniable that each of these people is a person who has great influence in world football. So many people watched him receive the award, and Wang Li felt very sad. Some excitement.

However, there was an indifferent demeanor on his face, which made everyone nod inwardly.

Thinking about it, this black-haired kid is only 18 and a half years old. It is not easy for him to win the 'Best Forward' award at this age and still maintain such a calm demeanor.

The host began to introduce Wang Li's experience in detail: "Alan Wang, only 18 years and seven months old, in the UEFA Champions League last season, he scored 31 goals for Chelsea! He directly helped Chelsea win the European Championship The league champion, and in the Premier League, he also scored 49 goals for the team, which is absolutely unprecedented." "With his scoring data, other strikers are really not competitive. I don't think anyone will disagree with Allen's winning this award. Below, please see a collection of his goals from last season. However, he scored too many goals, and we only cut a few of them. Just the best."

As soon as the words fell, the big screen at the scene began to play the video of Wang Li's goal. At this moment, he was undoubtedly the most watched person in the audience.

The video is not long, only 2 minutes, but being able to obtain such a privilege before the UEFA Champions League group draw ceremony also shows that UEFA attaches great importance to Wang Li.

After Wang Li received the award, the host began to announce other awards.

At this time, Lampard was a little excited, because the following is the best midfielder. Although he is already a famous star in England, he has never won such a meaningful award.

The host announced the winners: "Last season's best midfielder was Liverpool's Steven Gerrard!!!"

Hearing this, Wang Li also sent a comforting look to Lampard.

However, no one has much objection to Gerrard being able to receive this honor, even Lampard, who is a little lost.

In the last season, Liverpool reached the Champions League final almost entirely by Gerrard alone. Although they lost to Chelsea by a large margin in the final, Gerrard's performance is well known. Both are better than Lampard.

It is a pity that Gerrard still chose to stay in Liverpool during the summer transfer, and since Liverpool only achieved No. No qualifications for the Champions League.

On the stage, Gerrard, an English man, even shed tears at the moment when he received the trophy. Everyone can understand the bitterness in these tears.

As a Liverpool player, he is a complete Red Army, a loyal Red Army. When Liverpool did not perform well, he still did not choose to leave. Such a player can really be described as great.

Next, the host announced the winners of the Best Defender and Best Goalkeeper. They were Chelsea's captain John Terry and AC Milan's goalkeeper Dida.

For these two awards, everyone has the most dissent.

The best defender John Terry is okay. Although his skills are not the best among the defenders, as the captain of the championship team, his fighting spirit on the field is worthy of recognition. In the European Champions Cup last season, Te Li used his body to block the ball many times and saved Chelsea's defense from danger. This performance is definitely worthy of recognition.

However, there are many objections to the best goalkeeper.

Originally, in the hearts of everyone, this award should belong to Chelsea goalkeeper Thomas Clark. In the knockout rounds of the Champions League, Thomas has always been Chelsea's main goalkeeper, and his performance in many games is obvious to all. His reaction speed and ability , is absolutely world-class, and he is also a member of the championship team, and the honor of the best goalkeeper is a matter of course.

However, UEFA probably gave this honor to AC Milan's Brazilian goalkeeper Dida for the sake of balance.

Before AC Milan was eliminated by Chelsea, Dida didn't concede a goal in the gate guarded by him. This kind of performance is not bad.

The reason why I only say yes is because most people think that AC Milan's clean sheet is more due to their good defense line, not how good Dida is. After all, Dida's age is there, he is already 32 I'm getting older, and both my state and my ability are declining.

"It's okay, there is still a chance next time." At this time, Wang Li walked to Thomas and comforted him.

Thomas looked up and smiled, and made a Schwarzenegger gesture, saying: "Haha, I'm fine. I'm very happy to be able to participate in this draw ceremony. And I'm only 20 years old this year. I believe I will definitely You can get this honor, but if Real Madrid meets Chelsea, you will lose your best striker."

Hearing this, Wang Li's face turned dark. He really felt that it was a mistake for him to come to comfort him.

"Wait, I'll kick you into a funnel!" Putting down his harsh words, Wang Li returned to Florentino's side.

In fact, he didn't have time to chat with Thomas, because the Kung Fu Player of the Year was coming up.

"Last season's best player was Alan Wang!!!!!!!"

As most people think, there is no doubt about the result. Wang Li won the best player award directly with his horrific scoring numbers.

In fact, in general, very few pure shooters can win this award. The best players generally belong to the core of the team, that is, the team commander, such as Ronaldinho, Kaka, This type of player.

Although Wang Li is also the core of Chelsea's offense, his performance as a striker is obviously more than that of a core. His role in the team is more of a shooter than a midfield commander.

However, his appalling number of goals made up for this. Whether it was Kaka or Ronaldinho, although they led the team, AC Milan and Barcelona did not win the championship after all.

Chelsea is the champion, and Wang Li is the most important contributor to Chelsea. He deserves to be the best player.

After the award ceremony, everyone began to care about the situation of the Champions League grouping.

At this time, the staff lifted out four transparent boxes and placed them on the table in front of the stage. These four boxes represented the teams of the four grades.

The invited guests will step onto the stage one after another, draw out the numbers representing the teams from the box, and divide each team into groups.

As the guests took to the stage one by one, the first seeded teams were drawn out one by one and placed in each group. Real Madrid was placed in Group F, while rival Barcelona was in Group C. Chelsea are in Group G next to Real Madrid.

Afterwards, the drawing of the second-tier teams began. The guests in this draw were very interesting. The host would arrange some people related to the seed teams of each group to draw numbers.

When it was the turn of Real Madrid's Group F draw, the host clicked on Wang Li's name, which meant that Wang Li was going to draw a second-tier team for Real Madrid's Group F.

At this time, five second-tier teams have been settled, and only the Ligue [-] champion Lyon, the Premier League rookie Middlesbrough and the Portuguese Porto team are left.

"Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough"

When Wang Li took the stage, the club chairman Florentino kept chanting the name. Obviously, among the three teams, Middlesbrough was the most fishy. Last season, under the leadership of McLaren, they jumped to No.4 in the Premier League and participated in the play-offs before entering the main match of the Champions League. This season, McLaren also left. They participated in the Champions League just for a while. It's just a cutscene.

Wang Li ignored Florentino's nagging, walked directly to the front desk, and randomly drew a number from the second box.

At this time, the host looked at the number above and read out the name of the team very clearly: "Lyon!!!!"

"Hey~~~~~~"

Hearing the name, except for Florentino who let out a sigh, everyone else burst into laughter, and they were all gloating at Real Madrid's 'luck'.

Among the remaining three teams, the Ligue [-] giants Lyon are undoubtedly the most difficult to crack. It can be said that this team can sometimes explode to the strength of teams like AC Milan and Barcelona. Not at all.

Among all the second-tier teams, Lyon's strength is definitely the strongest.

Real Madrid's luck is really not very good. It should be said that Wang Li's luck is really not very good.

The draw is still going on.

However, Wang Li didn't have anything to do next, and he was happy to be at leisure, so he went directly to Thomas and chatted.

Speaking of which, the two haven't seen each other for a long time. Thomas is undoubtedly Wang Li's best friend, but now one of them is in London and the other is in Madrid. Usually, it is really not easy to meet each other.

Under such circumstances, the group draw will soon be over.

Finally, the four teams in Group F where Real Madrid are located are Real Madrid, Lyon, Olympiacos and Rosenborg.

Rosenborg Football Club is a team in the Norwegian League. This team is equivalent to Manchester United in the Premier League in Norway. They have won the Norwegian League Championship for 11 consecutive years.

Olympiacos Football Club is a club in the Greek First Division. Its full name is "Piraeus Olympiacos Lovers Club". It is the largest and most popular football club in Greece.

For teams of the level of Real Madrid and Lyon, these two teams are pure fish sac teams, and it is really not easy to pose a threat to the two teams.

Although he was a bit depressed when he was drawn to Lyon, Florentino felt much better after seeing the other two opponents. At least Real Madrid is guaranteed to qualify.

After the group draw, the Real Madrid team returned to Madrid that night. Although Wang Li was free, the other two obviously had no time to waste in this romantic France.

Originally, Wang Li planned to take this opportunity to visit the casino city of Monaco, but in this case, the plan could only be shelved.

After all, even if he is suspended, he is still a Real Madrid footballer first and foremost. Regardless of whether he can play or not, he must participate in the team's training. Nor would I believe it.

Taking the highest salary in the world and not participating in the team's training is obviously unreasonable.

Grouped as follows:

Group A: Bayern Munich, Juventus, Club Brugge, Rapid Vienna

Group B: Arsenal, Ajax, Sparta Prague, Thun

Group C: Barcelona, ​​Panathinaikos, Werder Bremen, Udinese

Group D: Manchester United, Villarreal, Lille, Benfica
Group E: AC Milan, PSV, Schalke 04, Fenerbahce

Group F: Real Madrid, Lyon, Olympiacos, Rosenborg

Group G: Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Anderlecht, Betis
Group H: Inter Milan, Porto, Rangers, Bratislava

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