: Chapter 45-The Immortal Island of Ice and Fire

() Manchester City returned to Europe from the United States and did not return to Manchester directly, but went to Iceland first. The team met in Reykjavik and conducted training camps.
Iceland in August is the season of fairies. When you come to Iceland, you have to mention the magical rise of Icelandic football, how this small country of ice and fire with a population of 300,000 eliminated England in the European Championship last year and broke into the quarter-finals, and how it played in the 2018 Russia World Cup European preliminaries , To beat Croatia, Ukraine and Turkey in the same group. How can it be?
Icelandic football was stronger than Liechtenstein, Andorra, the Faroe Islands, and San Marino in those years, but it was also limited in strength. It is still self-entertaining and indisputable. Icelanders are rich. At that time they were one of the richest countries in the world. Football was just a pastime after a lot of thoughts.
But such a paradise-like football was broken by a game 13 years ago.
In 2004, the Icelandic league champion Hafnarfjordur participated in the UEFA Cup. In the first round, he met the new Bundesliga team Mady Fort.
Fortunately, in the first round, 0:3 at home was a decent loss, but the second round was a guest at the Victor Stadium in Hannover. The score of 15:0 directly beat the Icelanders back to ancient times.
15:0 set a single-game point difference record for the three major European Cups, and Zhuo Yang's nine goals in the single-game score are also the three-cup individual single-game scoring record. Both records are still standing today. Fort Madi was the UEFA Cup champion that year, and he won again.
You can lose, but you can't lose so shamelessly. Iceland football didn't cry. They remembered this day with red eyes.
That year was the wealthiest era in Iceland, where the country and the people had countless spare money. Football is a flower, and it's all on the ground, so Iceland began to build a lot of civil engineering, and dozens of indoor football stadiums were built across the country, making this sport that only existed in summer a full-time sport.
Don't be fooled by the 300,000 population of Iceland, you should regard them as a part of Europe, especially Northern Europe. With excellent physical fitness, money investment regardless of cost, and striving to recruit players with Icelandic origins, Icelandic football soon moved from semi-amateur to full-professional.
Rich Icelanders only did one thing in those years-playing football. Ten years later, 6.8% of the country's population were registered players. 300,000 people, excluding half of the women, and then the elderly and children, which means that almost all adult men of the right age and suitable for sports are playing football.
With such enthusiasm, it is difficult to play football well.
Today, almost all the players of the Icelandic national team play in the professional leagues of England, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Don't take the main goalkeeper as the director and the head coach as the dentist. It is nothing more than versatile. Zhuo Yang is still a piano professor, can you say that he is an amateur player?
Nowadays, the Viking war roar resounds over Europe. The happy Icelanders have forgotten the frustration of the past, and Zhuo Yang has no idea that he has done such a big thing.
There is a deeper reason for the rise of Icelandic football-from the private sector to the government, it is necessary to use an image method to fight hard against the debts of European powers.
To put it bluntly, it means to show your own righteous and confident spirit.
Iceland is playing finance for the whole people. In fact, speculation in finance is their first movement. But in 2008, when the global financial crisis hit, it was these speculators who played, and Iceland went bankrupt from the state to the private sector.
After becoming the only country in the world that went bankrupt, each Icelander owed the bank the equivalent of seven or eight years of total household income.
It's amazing. Icelanders held a referendum and 99.9% of them agreed not to repay the bank. You bite me?
The most angry creditor, Britain, almost sent a warship to destroy them, and the magnificent old lady in Buckingham Palace lifted the dinner table.
Let me tell you, the spirit of contract and the demeanor of a gentleman have been invented for the purpose of speaking to others.
The Big Island of Ice and Fire was first discovered by Viking pirates, and the pirates first settled here. Their offspring were robbed without knowing it, but they could know that it was a lineage.
Legend has it that the famous female pirate ‘Black Anne’ who wandered the North Sea 900 years ago set up her fleet’s nest in Iceland, and her rich treasures were buried somewhere in Iceland, but people have not found it for 900 years.
Legend has it that Black Anne’s husband is an unknown duke in Europe.
Zhuo Yang didn't know Hei Anni and had never heard of it.
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Manchester City came to Reykjavik, not only for training, but also for a warm-up match against West Ham United.
Gundogan and Bernardo Silva, who did not follow the team to train in North America, also came here to join the team. There was also new aid. Left back Benjaman Mendy also met with his new teammates. .
Monaco will definitely become the largest player supermarket this summer. The transfer window is only half open and the Ligue 1 champions have sold half of their main lineup. Monaco's four major transfer King Kong sold a total of 340 million, Mbappe went to Paris, Bakayoko went to Chelsea, B seats and Mendy were harvested by Manchester City.
52 million pounds, equivalent to 57.5 million euros, made the 23-year-old Mendy the most valuable defender in football. A year ago, Monaco bought him from Marseille and only spent 12 million euros, which is a fortune. good business.
Mendy was the best left back in Ligue 1 last season, and his performance is indeed worthy of such an increase. Mbappe, who did not make the best team of the season, sold 108 million, not to mention Mendy.
But what Manchester City wants is not the best left-back, but the best left-back that meets Guardiola's tactical requirements, so whether Mendy can be worth so much in Manchester City, we have to look again.
But today it can’t be seen. Mendy came together with minor injuries. He can only watch from a distance and he can’t play. He can’t kick it.
Zhuo Yang can't play either, not because he can't play, but because five days later, there will be a two-man competition in the European Super Cup. Manchester City will rehearse the lineup and tactics for that game. But Zhuo Yang was banned for two games because of Ronaldo's ankle in the Champions League final, and he couldn't make it to the Super Cup, so today's preview is nothing to him.
When returning from the United States, Guardiola was always worried that Zhuo Yang would use this excuse to ask to leave the organization and return to Manchester City.
Therefore, Laogua has been thinking about the reasons for rejection, not soft or hard, and moral kidnapping is even worse. Asking Mendy, whose legs and feet are not so good, must come to meet up, which is a reason to prepare for "Everyone is neat and tidy," and the purpose is to block Zhuo Yang's mouth.
Unexpectedly, Zhuo Yang refused to mention leaving the group, but came to Iceland happily. Something went wrong, either there was fraud or evildoing. At first, the old guy thought Koko was also here, and the princess came to Reykjavik, but not.
There are indeed evildoers, and Zhuo Yang has seen Fa Xiaohaiyang here. With the ocean, there is an Icelandic girl.