When Butragueno, the representative from Real Madrid, the venue of the Champions League final, opened the ball that had just been drawn, took out the note with Manchester United's name inside, turned it over and showed it to the live broadcast camera, Su Dong felt around him
The atmosphere was a bit solemn.
Indeed, this is not a good lottery!
This year's Champions League quarter-finals are actually quite unexpected, but if you think about it carefully, it's understandable.
First of all, many strong teams fell down one after another.
Strong teams such as Juventus, Atletico Madrid and Liverpool failed in the group stage, and teams such as Real Madrid, ACX Milan, Chelsea and Porto stopped in the top 16. This resulted in the emergence of teams such as Bordeaux and CSKA Moscow in the top eight of the Champions League.
Team.
The reason for this situation is the loss of players from summer transfers.
In the minds of Bayern players, whether it is Bordeaux, CSKA Moscow, or Lyon, who eliminated Real Madrid, they are all very good targets. However, Bayern successfully avoided these three teams and avoided the slightly inferior team.
Arsenal and Inter Milan were drawn against Manchester United, which was really bad luck.
In turn, Lyon met Bordeaux and CSKA Moscow met Inter Milan. Is this purely a coincidence?
Sure enough, as soon as the draw results came out, Bayern players began to question it, thinking it was another "conspiracy" by UEFA.
Since Platini came to power in 2007, such controversies have been endless. Every year there are several teams with excellent luck in the draw, such as Bordeaux who met Olympiacos this year, and Sevilla who met
CSKA Moscow.
It’s not that teams such as Bordeaux, Sevilla, or CSKA Moscow are not strong, but they can always avoid the rich and powerful teams. This really has to make people think of conspiracy theories.
It can be a coincidence that it is like this one year, but is it still a coincidence that it is like this every year?
Bayern was drawn against Manchester United, and the players all complained, thinking there was something fishy in the draw.
But who knows?
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Su Dong is not a conspiracy theorist, but he is increasingly feeling the changes brought about by Platini.
In other words, that feeling of tearing.
Platini is a legendary superstar. After Beckenbauer and Cruyff, and before Maradona, Platini was the number one superstar in European football. His three consecutive Ballon d'Or awards were his greatest achievement.
of honor.
After retiring, he began to work for the 1998 World Cup in France, and thus got in touch with FIFA President Sepp Blatter. After the success of the World Cup in France, he successfully entered FIFA and later used the French Football Association as a springboard.
, entered UEFA, and defeated Johansson to be elected president of UEFA in 2007.
In the world-famous UEFA presidential election in 2007, Platini fully demonstrated his characteristics as Blatter's apprentice.
As we all know, Blatter's ability to sit firmly as FIFA president is not due to the recognition of football powers. On the contrary, his relationship with UEFA is very, very bad, but he has been recognized by the majority of backward football countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Support, in the voting game of one person, one vote, Blatter is as stable as a rock.
The same is true for Platini. He received support from many middle and lower leagues and countries within UEFA, so he defeated Johansson in the vote, but what followed was that he was elected as a member of the middle and lower classes.
Representative, Platini must fulfill his promise and serve his votes.
Therefore, Champions League quota, lottery tricks, financial fairness... a series of policies all come from this.
It can be said that Platini has represented the middle and lower classes from the beginning, so he and G14 were at loggerheads. However, this confrontation eventually ended with the dissolution of G14, but the struggle for interests continues.
Not long ago, a well-known British football reporter criticized Platini's Financial Fair Play policy, believing that he was stifling the possibility of counterattacks by middle and lower-class teams, which would only lead to the situation where the strong will always be strong and the weak will always be weak.
Hierarchy solidified.
He cited the examples of Chelsea and Manchester City. Both teams are regarded as the teams most affected by the Financial Fair Play policy, because they rely purely on investment from the owner, and on the club's books, the owner's investment is all
Accounting for liabilities, rather than financing, has left these teams unable to make ends meet.
This reporter believes that in the era of free market economy, capital is willing to invest, which proves that they are optimistic about the market and they believe that they can profit from it. Otherwise, who would be willing to invest?
And UEFA's Financial Fair Play policy prevents them from investing. Under this policy, teams like Manchester City will never be able to get ahead because they can't afford stars. Without stars, how can they compete with the giants?
Top giants like Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona do not need to do anything. As long as they continue to generate revenue in the global market, and then wave their money around the world to buy the players they like, this can ensure that they will always be at the top of football.
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Teams like Manchester City, however, are limited by their financial income and their investment can never keep up with these giants, so they will always have to succumb to them. Even if they occasionally perform well, the stars they have trained will be quickly poached.
Therefore, this reporter criticized Platini, believing that his Financial Fair Play policy is anti-free market economy and is contrary to Platini’s previous positions and policies. It seems more like an attack on wealthy teams.
A compromise.
What Su Dong felt was this sense of tearing.
On the one hand, Platini is on the side of mid- and lower-tier countries and teams, suppressing powerful wealthy teams; but on the other hand, Platini has introduced policies to restrict mid- and lower-tier teams from shaking the foundation of wealthy teams.
possibility.
For Platini, for UEFA, for wealthy clubs, and for wealthy upstarts like Manchester City, all media, fans, and even players have very contradictory reactions.
It depends more on the stance he takes and where his butt sits to decide whether they support, oppose or criticize him.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just like now, Bayern players are complaining about the draw of the Champions League quarter-finals, believing that there is a conspiracy and something fishy.
But in fact, what they are bombarding is a conspiracy, is it a trick?
no.
What they criticize is that they have failed to profit from the conspiracy and tricks!
As for whether there is really a conspiracy and whether there is something fishy, it actually doesn't matter anymore.
Regarding this sense of tearing, Su Dong always felt that big problems would happen again.
Professional football is a pyramid. Don't listen to the fans who tell you how many years they have been fans and how die-hard they are. It's not that there are none, but very few. The vast majority of fans admire the strongest.
This results in the strongest teams and the strongest players attracting the most attention in the world.
But Platini's policy is suppressing these strongest teams, will they be willing to do so?
Will not!
G14 is disbanded, they can form G18 or even G20.
As long as it is profitable, these leading teams will organize themselves again sooner or later, and they will launch a revolution.
Su Dong is a vested interest in the current system, but as a player, there are very few things he can change.
No matter how well he performs in Barcelona, his historical status will not be higher than Cruyff, or even higher than Guardiola. It is estimated that he will be similar to Ronaldinho, Rivaldo and others, or at best slightly
Higher.
The same is true at Bayern. What can he do to surpass Beckenbauer, Rummenigge and Hoeness? Even Gerd Muller is firmly above him.
Su Dong clearly knows that in these wealthy teams, no matter how well he plays, it is just a page in their glorious history. At best, it is a relatively shining page and can be included in the Hall of Fame, but that's it.
To Manchester United? To Real Madrid?
In other words, the past of Barcelona and Bayern is repeatedly cycled.
He wants to go to a team that can become unique in history!
Not a wealthy family?
It doesn't matter, he goes and will eventually become a wealthy man!
This is what Su Dong can think of. As a professional player, in the current situation of European football, what he can achieve is the ultimate!
Virgo's perfectionism complex makes him unwilling to share with others, and he wants to be exclusive.
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After the results of the quarter-final draw came out, Bayern met Manchester United, and the winner of Inter Milan and CSKA Moscow in the semi-finals. Barcelona met Arsenal, and the winner of Lyon and Bordeaux in the semi-finals.
This creates a possibility, that is, the number one favorite to win the championship and the second favorite team to win the championship, Barcelona, will meet again in the Champions League final.
In the history of Champions League football, no two teams have ever met in the Champions League final two consecutive years.
If it happens this year, it will be the first time in history.
Bayern is Sudong, Ribery and Robben, Barcelona is Messi, Ibrahimovic and Eto'o.
Barcelona is better in midfield, while Bayern's defense is more stable.
However, in order to create this history, both teams still have to go through difficulties and obstacles, especially Bayern, which had bad luck in the draw.
First of all, we have to get over the hurdle of Manchester United.
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On the afternoon of March 20, in the 27th round of the Bundesliga, Bayern challenged Frankfurt away from home.
Only five minutes into the game, Modric sent a diagonal pass from the right.
On the right side of the penalty area, Robben missed the ball and passed it diagonally into the penalty area.
Su Dong quickly countered the offside, stopped the ball to the right of the penalty spot, caught up and volleyed, breaking Frankfurt's goal.
One to zero!
But in the final stage of the game, while Bayern was preparing for the German Cup semi-finals in midweek, Frankfurt suddenly launched a fierce attack.
Alaba, the young player who replaced Marcelo, made a mistake when passing the ball back to the goalkeeper. After the ball was intercepted by the opponent, he scored.
One to one!
In the end, Bayern drew 1-1 with Frankfurt away from home.
Alaba received many doubts after the game, but the young player's debut still received a certain degree of recognition, especially from Bayern's first team, who spoke highly of him and believed that he has enough outstanding potential.
Of course, it is still very difficult for Alaba, who is only seventeen years old, to directly play the main team.
At least before him, Contento and Badstuber were very strong contenders for the position of left back.
Not to mention that Marcelo's performance in recent years has been getting better and better, and his progress has been greater and greater, attracting the attention of many wealthy teams, including Real Madrid.
In the next nineteen days, Bayern will face six tough matches, including the German Cup and the Champions League quarter-finals, which are undoubtedly huge challenges.
After playing Frankfurt, Su Dong accepted interviews with the media as arranged by the club, and he publicly expressed his confidence in the team's strength.
"Among my teammates, some hope to win the league championship, some hope to win the German Cup, some hope to win the Champions League, and I hope to win all three championships!"
