This season's Champions League final is scheduled to be held at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany.
The world's top stadium, which was extremely dazzling because of the World Cup, finally ushered in the world's top club competition.
As the representative of Bayern Munich, Breitner became the chief guest.
Moreover, in this year's awards ceremony, UEFA has also implemented a very big change, which is to cancel the previous position awards.
In other words, the previous best goalkeeper, best defender, best midfielder and best forward were all cancelled, leaving only one best player, and then cooperated with the European Sports Media Alliance to launch the best player in Europe
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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. Then, these 53 reporters voted on the top three candidates at the scene.
, ranking.
One very interesting thing is that before the draw, as a rule, the representative of the previous Champions League champion has to carry the cup, and this is usually done by the captain.
So, Puyol casually wore a set of casual clothes with a yellow T-shirt and gray plaid shorts, holding a solemn and sacred big ear cup, and walked on stage amid the laughter and even boos of the audience.
In fact, the people present were all people from the football industry, and many of them were familiar with each other. Puyol's behavior was more amusing and felt that this guy was too subversive.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people will feel that he has really lost his image. 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 thing to be done is the group stage draw.
Divide four levels according to the European War points, and then draw one team from each of the eight teams to form a group. Teams from the same country will avoid it. This is the draw rule for the Champions League group stage.
The first draw guest is Figo, and his task is to draw the eight teams in the first draw into different groups.
Interestingly, as the ambassador of Inter Milan, the first draw Figo drew was Inter Milan.
The second draw guest is Manchester United legend Bobby Charlton.
The fortune he drew for Manchester United was also good. He drew the weak Benfica, the strongest AC Milan was drawn to Barcelona, Valencia was drawn to Chelsea, Lyon was drawn to Real Madrid, and Villare
I was drawn to Inter Milan in Group A. I have to say that they take good care of their own business.
The guest of the draw for the third pot team is Gullit.
This is also the lucky draw 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. In other words, the only ones that can be drawn are the remaining five.
Barcelona, Bayern, Real Madrid, Porto and Inter Milan.
Judging from the current draw results, Porto has the best luck, because the second team in Porto is Shakhtar Donetsk. If Manchester City is drawn into this group, let alone, it will definitely be the top of the group.
Big hit.
More importantly, Manchester City has experience against Porto, having just played in the Europa League final last season.
The worst thing will definitely be the group drawn with Barcelona and AC Milan. This will definitely be a nightmare.
But there is no other way. Manchester City's previous background was too weak, and it could only be ranked in the third tier. And everyone knows that the purpose of drawing lots by tiers is actually to avoid strong dialogue. To put it bluntly, it is to protect the first tier players.
The interests of the team.
If you want to get out of the third tier quickly, there are only two ways, either to win the championship and enter the first tier as the defending champion, or to slowly accumulate European points and successfully join the top two tiers after five seasons.
To a certain extent, Manchester City's current accumulation in European football is not as good as Chelsea's back then.
Of course, Manchester City is unwilling to touch the wealthy teams, and those wealthy teams are also unwilling to touch Manchester City.
It has to be said that Gullit still takes good care of his old club, so he drew Leverkusen to Chelsea. The strength is not weak, but it is better than drawing Manchester City, while Barcelona and AC Milan drew Borisov.
, it can be considered that I drew a lottery ticket.
After drawing several teams one after another, Gullit finally drew Manchester City out and was directly drawn into Group A, the same group as Inter Milan and Villarreal.
In an instant, the whole place was in an uproar.
A complete team of death!
Although it is not as good as drawing Barcelona and AC Milan, it is still dark enough.
But in this way, there are not many restrictions on the draw of teams in the fourth pot.
The reason is very simple. The first three teams are from Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League. The two strongest teams in the fourth tier are Dortmund and Naples. The latter will definitely not be drawn into Group A.
In other words, except for Dortmund, any other six teams you choose will be weak.
"We won't be so unlucky, right?" Begiristan breathed a sigh of relief.
Drawing Dortmund is a small probability event.
Su Dong also nodded, feeling that it was impossible to be so unlucky.
But I never expected that Manchester City would be so unlucky.
Matthäus was the guest of the draw in the fourth round. The first team he drew after he came on stage was Dortmund, and he was directly drawn into Group A, which immediately set off the whole audience.
The four teams in the group stage are from the four major leagues, and what's more terrible 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 had not aimed to keep fourth in La Liga last season and compete with Porto in the Europa League,
I don’t know who will win and who loses, but it’s Porto’s level of strength.
As for Dortmund in the fourth tier, this is a strong team that competed equally with Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga last season, only to regrettably lose the Bundesliga championship at the last moment.
It can be said that purely from a strength perspective, these four teams are all properly seeded teams, or teams in the second tier of strength.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Damn, they are all divided into a group.
What about the lucky ones?
Look at Porto, they have drawn Shakhtar Donetsk, Zenit St. Petersburg and APOEL Cyprus. Does it have a sense of presence?
From a strength point of view, except for the fourth tier of Cyprus and APOEL, the other three teams in this group are relatively close in strength, and the competition will be very fierce. But if you put the four teams in Group A, any one
In this group, they are all popular.
But sometimes, drawing lots is so frustrating.
Su Dong turned his head and glanced at Begiristan, who also had a helpless expression on his face, with the words "crow's mouth" barely written on his face.
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After the drawing of lots, the final part of the competition officially began, which was the awarding of prizes.
This is also the biggest difference from before.
In the past, the awarding and drawing of lots were held staggered, but now the loting is done first and then the awards are given.
UEFA has long announced the top three candidates, Su Dong, Messi and Xavi.
Su Dong was shortlisted because of his outstanding performance in the Premier League and Europa League, while Messi and Xavi relied 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. This is why Platini, Messi and others have separated before.
The reason for calling Su Dong and inviting him to attend.
They were all afraid that Su Dong would not want to come, but Su Dong's answer was the same, he would definitely come!
"Watching Messi win an award is no different from me winning an award!" This is what Su Dong said in a previous interview with the media.
Before the second round of voting, all three candidates took the stage and accepted brief interviews with the host.
Su Dong still expressed his support for Messi. He believed that Messi should receive this award.
"He is one of the strongest players in world football, and he was also the superstar with the best results and outstanding performance 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 was far from able to catch up with.
"So far this season, in three rounds of the Premier League, he has scored nine goals and averaged a hat trick per game. I cannot help but admire him."
Su Dong jokingly said that Messi also scored two goals in the opening game of La Liga and performed very well.
Many people are concerned about Su Dong's views on the just-concluded group stage draw. Su Dong said it was a bit bad, but he could accept it.
"In fact, before we walked into the Grimaldi Forum, we were mentally prepared to accept the group of death because we were in third gear and we had no choice."
Regarding the prospects of the group stage, Su Dong said that he always believes in one sentence.
"Achievements are achieved by kicks on the football field, not by sitting here and drawing lots."
"I believe that as long as we have the belief that we must win, we will never lose."
Su Dong's words made many people present applaud.
When the host wanted Su Dong to shout a slogan to the other three teams in the group stage, Su Dong smiled and waved his hands, saying that he was deliberately digging a hole for himself, which caused a burst of laughter in the audience.
However, due to the insistence of the host and the heckles of many people at the scene, Su Dong was forced to accept this task.
"Well, I'm here, and I want to represent everyone at Manchester City and say to our three opponents in the Champions League group stage in the future, I am really sorry. I know that the competition for second place in the group is very fierce, but I can only wish you all the best."
good luck!"
The audience was obviously stunned for a moment, and then burst into warm applause.
Even representatives from Inter Milan, Villarreal and Borussia Dortmund couldn't help but laugh.
This is so powerful to say!
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The final second round of voting still ended with Messi being elected with a high vote.
Su Dong finished second and Harvey took third.
This is basically in line with outside speculation, because Messi's performance in the Champions League and La Liga last season was really outstanding.
Sudong suffered a loss because he could not 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 is he the best player in Europe, Messi is also bound to become the top favorite for the FIFA Ballon d'Or.
