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Chapter 191 The Arrival of the UEFA Champions League
On the international match day, this time Victor did not board the flight to Lisbon during the match day of the national team.Although the Portuguese national team will welcome the Albanian team, the opponent in Group I of the European Championship qualifiers, at home on September 9.

Although generally speaking, after the end of international competitions such as the World Cup, some national teams will often set off a climax of "changing coaches".For example, the Italian national team, Antonio Conte became the new head coach of the Italian national team.However, although the Portuguese national team, like the Italian national team, bid farewell to the World Cup in Brazil after the group stage.

However, Paul Bento still stayed on and continued to take on the "heavy burden" of the head coach of the Portuguese national team. It may be because the Portuguese Football Association has no way to get a head coach who can replace Paul Bento.After all, there are not many head coaches who can have a good relationship with a player like C-Ronaldo, who is notoriously rebellious, but also one of the best players in the world.

In addition, in this game against Albania, not only Victor did not participate in the game, but even C Ronaldo also missed this away game.Therefore, the captain's armband fell on the arm of Nani, who returned from Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium to Sporting Lisbon's Alvalade Stadium, named after the founder of Sporting Lisbon, this summer.

However, even though it was an away game, even though it was facing a very weak Albanian team.There may be only one who used to be in Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue [-], and then played for Marseille, and now he is playing for Lazio. Karna, nicknamed "The Machine", is relatively well known to some fans who know football very well.But he is no longer in the Albanian national team.Instead, it may be some football players that only Albanian fans know.

However, after such an Albanian national team fought fiercely with the Portuguese national team with Nani, Moutinho, Pepe and Coentrao for 10 minutes, the score of the two sides shocked all the fans and reporters present. They were all dumbfounded.Including those Albanian fans who really traveled thousands of miles from Albania to Portugal to cheer for their national team.

0 to 1!Yes, the international customary score is different from the NBA. The home team is in front instead of behind.The visiting team is at the back, not at the front.The Portuguese national team playing at home, not only was not able to be at home as their fans thought before the game, although the captain and their best player C-Ronaldo was not there, even though Victor was not there.But the Portuguese national team, which has Nani, Moutinho, Pepe and Coentrao and a large number of first-class stars in Europe and even the whole world, is not only not at home, such a place with the right time and place" Massacre" the weak Albanian national team.

Instead, the sweet and soft Albanian national team, which looks like a honey cake, broke through the Portuguese national team's gate at home. On the contrary, its own gate has not been captured by the frontcourt players of the Portuguese national team.

This is undoubtedly a world-class upset.If the Portuguese national team faces other opponents in this group I, such as Denmark and Serbia, these national teams that do not seem to be as strong as the Portuguese national team on paper, but have enough strength, it is not bad to lose the game is "extenuating circumstances."

However, such an Albanian national team is so small that even if you want to encounter this country on a standard world map, you have to use a magnifying glass to see it clearly.It is still at the home court of the Portuguese country, making the Portuguese national team the biggest joke after the first round of the European Cup group qualifiers.

Of course, Victor can imagine how much blow and serious mistrust and pressure Paul Bento suffered after the game, but now Victor can't share any little bit for Paul Bento.After all, a few days later, on August 8, Juventus will welcome the second opponent in Serie A in the new season, the Udinese club, at their home court.

But before this game, Victor still didn't play, sitting on the bench for a full 10 minutes.Like Victor, who also sat on the bench for the entire game this summer, the center that cost Juventus 2000 million euros from Real Madrid, Alvaro Morata.

Of course, since he can speak fluent Spanish, Victor was also in this game and had been chatting with Morata.But Victor did not like some commentators said:

"Victor is taking the initiative to help Morata integrate into the Juventus team."

Instead, Victor was chatting with Morata about Real Madrid, such as Ancelotti's resignation, Benitez's succession, and James, who spent 8000 million euros on Real Madrid's purchase. - Rodriguez.Although we know that the world football is in an inflationary stage, a Colombian who only plays in Ligue 8000 in Portugal is worth the [-] million euros paid by the chairman of Real Madrid, Perez Florentino. what?

Although James Rodriguez is the Golden Boot winner of this World Cup in Brazil, although he was born in 1991, he is only 23 years old this year.But look at Toni Kroos, who also participated in the World Cup and won the final World Cup championship on behalf of the German national team, only costing Real Madrid 3000 million euros.

Besides, James Rodriguez is a midfielder. Although he can play as a forward, he is best at attacking midfielders or full-backs.Therefore, after discussing for a long time, Victor and Morata felt that it might be that the chairman of Real Madrid, Perez Florentino, only saw his report in the World Cup and thought he was "the next Ronaldo," So I guess it was "wrong purchase."

However, when Victor and Morata, two guys with a two-year difference in age, were talking behind their backs, on the court, back at home, Juventus at the Alpi Stadium, cheered by the fans In the sound, 2 to 0, a score that is more reassuring than the away victory over Chievo, and won Udinese at home.

The one who contributed the most to Juventus' victory was the striker who started this game, and Carlos Tevez, who played a very important role in Juventus' winning the Serie A title last season.He broke through the gate of Udinese for Juventus in just 7 minutes of the game.When the second half entered the second half, Marchisio, who also assisted this game and also made his debut, once again captured the gate of Udinese.In addition, the Udinese player relied on a set kick to break through the Juventus gate guarded by Buffon, but the assistant referee thought that the offside was the first and the penalty was invalid.The slow-motion playback showed that the assistant referee's penalty was very accurate this time.

Two games, three goals, six points.Juventus have shown a very good form from the beginning of the new season.And Allegri also feels that he may be the most "lucky" head coach in the world right now.Don't worry about not having enough good players for him to line up.At the same time, there is no need to worry about too many excellent players making his "arrangement" full of problems.

After all, sometimes there are too many good players, and the head coach is also very headache. After all, it must be balanced.For example, when Perez Florentino became the chairman of Real Madrid for the first time, in order to build the lineup he thought the best team in the world should have, he bought world-class stars on a large scale.As a result, the team's front and back courts were out of touch, and the overlapping of personnel also made the position of Real Madrid's head coach at the time a "hot potato." The results of the Madrid team and the game were completely surpassed by the Barcelona "Dream Team II" under the leadership of Rijkaard at the time.

So, now Allegri sits comfortably on the bench after watching Tevez assist Marchisio to score the second goal against Udinese superior.Then he raised Erlang's legs, apparently looking at the players on the field.But in his heart, he was secretly thinking about the next game, facing the first opponent in the Champions League group stage, the champion team from Sweden, Malmö.

The UEFA Champions League has now become the most important event for the entire European team.All teams and players with some ambitions also dream of winning this tournament.Although this season happens every year.

If we say that in the era of Pele or Maradona, fans all over the world paid the most attention to the World Cup every four years. After all, the World Cup at that time had the best players in the world.But now, with money becoming more and more important in the football world, the big clubs in Europe are gradually waving their checkbooks to bring the best players from these countries from the Americas, from Africa, and even from Asia.

As for the world-renowned players like Bebeto, Pele, Garrincha, and even Zico in the previous era, their golden years were spent in their own leagues.In modern football, if one day qualify in the Brazilian league, one may only be 17 years old, not a genius who is not yet 18 years old and cannot go abroad to play football.The next day, his scouting reports will be on the desks of head scouts and managers and transfer managers at major clubs.On the third day, the big clubs will be waving checkbooks to grab people.It doesn’t matter if you are under 18 years old, you can wait until the players are 18 years old, training, eating, we will send a special person there, and we will come to train together every summer.

In addition, let alone those "black shops" in second-tier European leagues or small clubs that specialize in "reselling" young players from America or Africa.Coupled with the UEFA Champions League competition system, as well as the high bonuses and TV broadcast fees.In addition, there is uncertainty about the teams participating in the World Cup or European Cup.It can now be said that the UEFA Champions League has become the so-called "world's number one competition." As for Allegri, he is already ready for the upcoming first game of the UEFA Champions League.

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