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Chapter 268 The Battle of Farewell (1)

This year, most leagues and cup competitions in European countries ended at the end of May, and the Champions League final will not start until June 1.

Bayern did not overturn in the last three league games, relying on the new style of play of the troika to successfully promote themselves to second place in the league. Unfortunately, after winning four consecutive Bundesliga championships, they still fell to the fifth consecutive championship.

Wu Jie also had some regrets after the league ended, because his league goals ended up at 59 goals, and he did not break the record of 60+ league goals in a single season.

But does he really feel sorry?

It depends on the surface or the heart.

Before Wu Jie's last game against Uerdingen, he had scored 57 goals in the league. He needed to complete a hat trick to create this unprecedented and terrifying record.

On that day, the "Munich Olympic Stadium" was full of slogans with the word "60". Tens of thousands of fans wrote the Arabic numerals for "60" with paint on their faces. Even the stores sold temporary stamps.

Jerseys with the number "60".

With the support of 100,000 Bayern fans, Wu Jie scored two goals in the first half to put himself just a stone's throw away from "60".

At this time, everyone thought that Wu Jie would be able to successfully complete the record, but no one expected that Wu Jie seemed to be cursed in the second half. No matter how he shot, he could not score again.

He made a total of 13 shots in the entire second half, but did not increase the number of goals to the 60th goal until the end of the game.

Wu Jie was naturally very regretful on the surface. When asked by reporters after the game, he expressed disappointment: "I hate regrets, but there will always be some regrets in life. After all, a life without regrets is itself a kind of regret. Maybe this is life."

"

But are these words really what he thinks?

Of course not!

What Wu Jie was thinking in his heart was: "I deliberately left you with a regret that will never be made up for by others, so that you will always remember me!"

He is not arrogant, but no one has ever done it in the Bundesliga, let alone scoring 60 goals in a single season, even scoring 50 goals in a single season.

Until 2025, the Bundesliga's single-season scoring record was still the 40 goals created by Gerd Muller in the 1970s.

So he deliberately placed a record of "59 goals" in the history of the Bundesliga, just to make the Germans always look up to his legend. If you have the ability, let the local players go up by +1!

Wu Jie was a bit of a fool for doing this, but he did have some regrets in the season before leaving, at least he didn't win the league or the German Cup.

However, in the Champions League, he still hopes to help Bayern win another championship.

This can be regarded as leaving some assets to Bayern. If they cannot win this Champions League championship, Bayern will not be able to even compete in the Champions League next season.

However, the second round match against Real Madrid in Madrid did not go as smoothly as expected. This year's Real Madrid is only higher than Bayern in terms of physical strength. Especially when Real Madrid returned to the Bernabeu, Bayern almost overturned.

Chen Haonan's pass and shot in the first half gave Real Madrid hope again, but it was a pity that they lost too much in the away game.

In the second half, Wu Jie used his personal ability to shoot a volley without stopping the ball outside the penalty area. The ball drew a scimitar-like arc and shot into the dead center of the goal. Such an exaggerated world wave would be powerless for any goalkeeper.

In the end, Real Madrid won a 3:1 victory at home, but in the end they fell to Bayern, the number one sufferer.

This victory also means that Bayern is almost certain to win its seventh Champions League trophy, because their final opponent is either Dundee United in Scotland or Dinamo Bucharest in Romania, but neither of these two teams will win.

A far cry from Real Madrid and Bayern.

Wu Jie received good news from PolyGram not long after the game. The United States Olympic Committee hopes to use Wu Jie's two songs as global promotional songs for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Of course, the Los Angeles Olympics will not only have two promotional songs. The last World Cup also used multiple promotional songs.

But Wu Jie knows that as long as his song is selected, it will definitely be the title song, which will at least be the most impressive and will have the highest popularity and evaluation.

The two songs chosen by the Americans were beyond his expectation. They actually chose "how do you do" and "wheand together".

Wu Jie's confusion lies in the song "wheand together", which is obviously an anti-war song.

But if you think about it carefully, you will know why the Americans chose this song, because the countries currently at war are the Soviet Union and China. Of course they want to choose this song to disgust the two red countries, especially to criticize them.

The evil Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

This made Wu Jie feel a bit fussy, but he didn't care about the Americans' little calculations, because when he came up with this song, he also wanted to disgust the Soviet Union. Who let these bastards set up troops in the north to disgust China.

He's a little unhappy now that he can't charge, but it's never possible to charge for this kind of thing.

The combined advertising and publicity effects of this world-wide sports event are much greater than the $100 million he spent on advertising around the world.

Therefore, major record companies will prepare suitable songs in advance and send them to the competition. However, in order to be selected, in addition to the high quality of the work itself and the appropriate lyrics for the occasion, the record company must also provide money to "lobby", and the last condition is

That's the key.

This is similar to how the Oscars spend money to capture the hearts of the 6,000 voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As far as Wu Jie knows this time, PolyGram spent a total of more than 10 million to help him select these two songs.

U.S. dollars are used for lobbying and purchasing gifts.

But if you compare the effort with the gain, it’s definitely a gain!

There are only three promotional songs for the Los Angeles Olympics this time. Among them, "reach out" is the opening theme song, "how do you do" and "wheand together" are global promotional songs. Basically, sports channels around the world can see and use them immediately.

Promotional videos for these two songs.

Wu Jie is equivalent to two months of free advertising on sports channels all over the world. This ten million US dollars is certainly worth it.

This is also one of the benefits of cooperating with PolyGram. Otherwise, no matter how high-quality his current works are, his influence will only be limited to Asia, and he will not be able to become a professional promotional music player for the World Cup and Olympic Games.

Now that he has won both the World Cup and the Olympics, these two events may really come to him in the future.

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On June 1, the 1983-1984 European Champions Cup final officially started. The two sides were Bayern Munich and Dundee United of Scotland. The match was held at Rome's home stadium, the Rome Olympic Stadium.

Wu Jie could feel the malice from the referee shortly after the game started. To be precise, it should be the malice from UEFA.

This is not difficult to understand. Bayern has won the Champions League trophy for three consecutive years. If they win it again, it will be their fourth consecutive championship.

This kind of dominance actually has a negative impact on the ratings of the Champions League, because neutral fans always get tired of watching one team win.

Therefore, today's penalty scale is obviously biased towards Dundee United. Most of the physical confrontations are penalties that are unfavorable to Bayern. This also makes Dundee United players become more and more unscrupulous in their actions.

Wu Jie was well prepared, because half of his honors were obtained under this kind of attack, and he was already familiar with how to deal with it.

As long as this referee is not like the Soviet referee in the Asian Cup that year, he can still handle it.

Wu Jie can be forgiven for considering this kind of thing, because in any confrontational team sport, there is no fairness at all, and it is extremely easy for the referee to control the field.

Some clever referees can even prevent you from feeling that they are controlling the field, and may even shout "unfair" to make you think that they will favor you, and then give you a back-flip at the critical moment.

So which sports can be absolutely fair? Which sports are easy to cheat?

Let’s talk about the sports that are easy to cheat first. Basically, in addition to confrontational team sports, classified sports are also prone to controversy and shady events. The fairest sports are single-player non-confrontation sports.

Of course, track and field, speed skating and other sports are relatively fair at this stage, but if you encounter a Korean knocking you to death in the future, there's nothing you can do about it, right?

Finally, the relatively fair sports include shooting, tennis, high jump, long jump, weightlifting and a few other sports.

But the most embarrassing thing in sports is that even though the referee is helping, you still can't win the game in the end.

This is the case in today's Champions League final, even if the referee is almost blatantly favoring Dundee United.

But I gave you a chance, but you didn’t use it!

In the 25th minute of the first half, a Dundee United player, who had been taking advantage of the referee's favor, made a passing error and passed the ball directly to Matthaus.

Matthaus immediately found Wu Jie. After the latter got the ball, he accelerated from the midfield and passed two Dundee United players who were making tackles. He actually accelerated again and got rid of all the defensive players parallel to him, using his absolute explosive power.

And speed got a one-on-one opportunity with the goalkeeper.

At this time, everyone knew that Dundee United had conceded the goal, but they didn’t know how Wu Jie would score the ball?

Wu Jie's choice is the "pendulum pass". He doesn't use this move very often anymore. He has only used it three or four times this season.

But today in the Champions League final, Wu Jie once again used this trick that is most familiar to Bayern fans. He swayed his body at high speed to pass the goalkeeper and score the ball.

Thirty thousand Bayern fans in the "Rome Olympic Stadium" shouted "Alien" in unison after Wu Jie scored. The Bayern fans in front of the TV stood up and shook their bodies excitedly. Unfortunately, no one knew that this game had already begun.

This is Wu Jie’s swan song at Bayern.

But since it is the final battle, Wu Jie will certainly not be stingy with his skills anymore. He has brought all the most fancy skills today to give Bayern fans a performance without regrets.

At the end of the first half, Wu Jie received the pass from the right side of the frontcourt this time.

At this time, the two Dundee United players were so nervous that they actually had a communication confusion and occupied the same defensive position together.

Wu Jie seized the fleeting opportunity and quickly turned his body towards the two defensive players who were standing together while stepping on the ball with his dominant foot. Then he stopped, turned and bumped, and his tank-like body was like running water.

He completed the escape naturally and passed the two defensive players at the same time.

But this was not the end of the performance. After Wu Jie used the "alien spin" to complete the pass, he immediately accelerated to break through to the middle.

At this moment, there were three or four Dundee United players who were parallel to him and even closer to the goal than him, but he quickly got rid of them with a gap visible to the naked eye.

When he dribbled the ball from the right and ran thirty meters into the penalty area, the only person in front of him could stop him.

At this time, Wu Jie suddenly slowed down and made a fake move of moving the ball with the outside of his foot. After deceiving the opponent's goalkeeper's center of gravity, he immediately moved to the inside, then accelerated to complete the escape, and once again hit the ball into the empty goal.

He often used this move "Ox Tail Change", but he had rarely seen him use it in the past two years after defeating two people at once with "Alien Spin".
Chapter completed!
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