Vol 5 Chapter 178: Join hands

Due to the impact of International Competition Day, the Premier League was suspended for more than a week. Manchester City also gave players two days off. After that, players who did not enter the national team have to return to the team to continue training. Other players follow the national team to play. [Latest chapter reading ..]
In these two days, the players can rest, but as the head coach Wan Sheng can not rest, the next day, he went to Monaco with the club ’s general manager Bill Knicks to participate in the new season of the superstar Champions League there Group stage lottery ceremony.
Wan Sheng was not the first time to participate in the European lottery. Last time last summer, he represented Derbyshire in the UEFA Cup draw, but the UEFA Cup was far less concerned than the Champions League. At that time, he was just a young boy in a small ball club. Coach, there is no reputation at all, and naturally no one will care about him.
It is different now.
He represented Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League draw. Manchester City was the Premier League champion last season. What performance will be in the UEFA Champions League this season. It is also exciting to expect. Especially last time he led Derby County to win the UEFA Cup. The coach, in addition, his reputation is not the same as at that time, so there are still many media who are willing to interview him to lead Manchester City to the Champions League.
When Wan Sheng and Bi-Knicks walked into the venue together, a lot of reporters swarmed in, and he was directly surrounded. Bi-Knicks stood and watched cheerfully.
This is the first time a Chinese coach has appeared in the Champions League. Perhaps the Chinese media will cover this 'historical moment', but for European media, it is normal to interview Wansheng, even in the World Cup, this is completely 'out of the box.' The young Chinese can become the protagonist, not to mention, Manchester City, which he led in the European War this season, is also one of the participating teams.
However, the domestic and foreign media's ideas are obviously different. There are still domestic journalists on the scene constantly taking pictures to remember this moment. They intend to use this as the central material for today's reporting. After all, this is indeed a moment that can represent the history of Chinese football.
This season, for the Chinese football media, it is an event worthy of a special book. No Chinese player has participated in the Champions League before. It will be there soon. Sun Jihai and Wang of Manchester City, they are sure to represent Manchester City in the Champions League. At the same time, Dong Fangzhuo is about to obtain a labor certificate. This means that he is likely to represent Manchester United in the Champions League.
However, it is not uncommon for players to participate in the Champions League. After all, there are many players compared to coaches. There are 32 teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage. What are the odds for one or two Chinese players? Although it didn't exist before, it's really nothing to think about.
But the coach is strange!
There are thirty-two teams in the UEFA Champions League group stage, but there are only 32 head coaches, one of them is a Chinese coach, which is a great honor.
European football is basically dominated by white head coaches, black head coaches are rarely seen, and other kinds of head coaches are basically completely extinct. In fact, this is a very invisible discrepancy. Most sports in Europe are dominated by white coaches. Other ethnic coaches are assistant coaches and tactical coaches. In short, they all do auxiliary work. Related to some discriminatory "habits", white coaches are more likely to be trusted, they will get more opportunities, a little achievement will be booked, and other kinds of coaches will achieve achievements. Will be questioned by all kinds.
Like Wan Sheng, after some successes, doubts persist.
If he is a white man, he has long been touted by the media as the 'most talented coach'. But there is no such voice at all, even in the English media, there are constantly voices of doubt. They do not deny the success of Wan Sheng, but they want to tap the ‘real’ reasons for success to explain some ‘do n’t want to accept’ problems.
This is what Wansheng received.
the reason? He is a Chinese and a yellow race.
Because of this. Now that Wansheng can stand on the stage of the Champions League, it seems to be particularly precious, so the Chinese media thought it would be completely understandable to use ‘the first head coach of Chinese football history to appear in the Champions League’ as the core material for reporting.
This is not a trivial matter, but a real success and honor.
Wan Sheng understands the ideas of domestic media very well. He is also happy to be interviewed by domestic media. So surrounded by reporters, he directly ordered a domestic media reporter and wanted to be the first to be interviewed by his compatriots.
"What do you think of being able to lead the team to stand on the stage of the Champions League?" The reporter's question is very concise, but it is a topic that many domestic media and fans care about.
Wan Sheng smiled and said, "My idea is very simple, I hope the team can be divided into a good group, lead the team to the top 16 and then continue to move forward, in the forward, try our best to fight Better results! "
After he finished speaking, he glanced provocatively at the surrounding reporters and switched to English. "Of course, if you can win the championship, it would be really good!"
"Hula ..." There was a lot of talk.
All the reporters understood the last sentence, and suddenly they got upset.
What did they hear?
This young Chinese actually said he would win the championship? Is he crazy? Participating in the Champions League for the first time ... No, Manchester City, who participated in the European War for the first time in five years, actually said to win the Champions League. This is a huge joke!
Many media reporters unfamiliar with Wansheng felt that the rumors were really right. This young Chinese is more than just arrogant. He was simply stunned by his
a little bit of
achievement!
Champions League? Haha ... If Manchester City can qualify for the group, thank God!
...
The media reporter will believe that it is difficult for Manchester City to cross the threshold of the group stage. It is not that Manchester City is weak and has no European experience. Manchester City was the Premier League champion last season. It defeated Chelsea and Arsenal in the first three rounds of this season. There must be some strength. Everyone must admit this, but they still think so. In fact, there are some reasons, that is Manchester City's UEFA points.
The UEFA points of a team is the sum of the UEFA statistics (the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup are both UEFA) over the past five years and the points of the European league in the national league, according to the existing UEFA points Rules, a team can enjoy 33% of the European League points in the national league, that is to say, a team that has not participated in any European games within five years, will also have a certain number of European points.
This is the case for Manchester City. In the past five years, Manchester City have not participated in the UEFA Cup or the UEFA Champions League. They do not have any European War Points. So Manchester City's UEFA points are only 33% of the European Premier League points in the past five years, which is 39.133 points.
This score is higher than some small league teams, but much lower than the big leagues.
According to the UEFA grouping rules, all participating teams will be divided into four grades according to UEFA points. Each team will be divided into four teams in four grades, and Manchester City's points are only higher than Anderlecht, at the end of the third grade team, this is because Manchester City are the Premier League team For the sake of a change of league. Or if the Premier League team scored even worse last season, Manchester City may be directly placed in the fourth grade.
Of course, there is no difference between the third and fourth grades. The common point is that the team they belong to will definitely have a strong team in the second and third grades.
Coupled with Manchester City itself, that is to say, Manchester City will almost certainly be divided into a 'death group'.
This is why European media are not optimistic about Manchester City's ability to qualify for the group.
Of course, everything is still grouped.
The lottery ceremony of the Champions League is actually the best awards ceremony of the Champions League last season. The Champions League last season was Barcelona. So they took away the best s players, best midfielders and best coaches and other honors. The head coaches and players of other teams can only watch them go to receive awards.
Barcelona did well in the Champions League last season. After qualifying in the group stage, they defeated Chelsea, Benfica and AC Milan in the knockout and defeated Arsenal in the final to win the Champions League.
Chelsea and AC Milan are definitely the strong teams in the Champions League. These two teams even had the lowest odds of winning the championship last season. They are also the most optimistic teams to win the Champions League. As a result, they have been defeated by Barcelona. It can be said that Barcelona's championship is full of gold.
Wan Sheng looked at each player to receive the award, his face a little dignified, he knew that this moment is the brilliant start of Barcelona. In memory, Barcelona ’s performance has always been very good, so that the Spanish national team, which is basically composed of Barcelona and Real Madrid players, is very strong, and won the European Cup and the World Cup in 2008 and 2010, respectively. The next few years. He wants to lead the team to achieve good results in European competitions, Barcelona must be one of the most important opponents.
It is not easy to defeat the powerful Barcelona, ​​it is much more difficult than defeating Chelsea in the league.
Wan Sheng could feel that there was a blood flowing in his heart.
That was the excitement and excitement of facing the challenge.
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After the awards ceremony, the group drawing ceremony came.
At this time, each invited player representative and UEFA officials and guests will step forward one by one for each player.
According to the order of the draw, the seed team first, then the second and third grades, when Manchester City's name was drawn, Wan Sheng and Bi-Knicks both smiled bitterly.
All eyes looked over with sympathy.
Manchester City were divided into Group G, with Spanish giants Real Madrid, Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich and Sofia Levski from Bulgaria in the same group.
This is the undoubted "Death Group"!
Seeing this grouping, what else can Wan Sheng do besides a wry smile?
In this group, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are strong opponents. Many people see that they think that the two teams will compete for the first place in the group. Manchester City is only a little threat to the two teams. As for Sofia Levsky, it is purely a team addition, a little hope of qualifying nothing.
Of course, Wan Sheng's view is different. What he wants is how to appear.
Only two teams in a group can qualify. Sofia Levski Needless to say, there must be no chance. Manchester City must squeeze out the places of Bayern Munich or Real Madrid in order to qualify. The two opponents are better than the Bundesliga overlords. In the first place, Real Madrid, whose performance is getting worse recently, is still strong in the European War. However, each season is actually only the result of the group. They have many superstars, but various internal problems have caused Real Madrid to Spain could not compete with Barcelona at all, and the results in the Champions League were also affected.
Therefore, Manchester City's hopes are still great.
What's more, even facing Bayern Munich. Wan Sheng is not afraid of anything. Manchester City is also the Premier League champion of last season. Even if there is no European experience, it will not necessarily lose to the Bundesliga overlord.
of course. In the group stage, the most important thing is to grab enough points. The wins and losses of one or two games are not important. Which one is important is important and which one is not to be scheduled. In order to avoid problems such as team injuries, more consideration should be given to the upcoming game.
In any case, Wan Sheng also has great confidence to lead the team qualify.
However, this is not the case for the media. Almost seeing the grouping of this group of media, they felt that Manchester City had no hope at the first time. They even felt that there was no need to pay attention to Manchester City, because Manchester City certainly cannot appear in the group. What are the things to watch out for in the top 16 elimination rounds?
But there are still media in England willing to interview Wan Sheng. After all, Wansheng is the focal point in England, and the grouping is not good now. The English media still hopes that Manchester City can qualify, because Manchester City is an English club, and the appearance of the group means that it can bring more UEFA points to England.
So after the draw, some English journalists surrounded Wan Sheng.
Wan Sheng didn't care about the attitude of foreign media towards him. Now they don't interview themselves. When the lead team appears, they will definitely beg to interview themselves. Everything still needs to be done. It is not necessary to care too much about these.
In the face of the English media, he seemed very relaxed.
There are many faces in front of him, and many of them are familiar, so Wan Sheng also smiled. But this does not mean that Wan Sheng is in a good mood. He is in such a bad mood now that no one's team will be happy in such a group.
So why Manchester City will be divided into the ‘death group’, this is actually not accidental, but inevitable, even if you change the group. But just replace Real Madrid with AC Milan or Bayern Munich with Lyon. In short, Manchester City ’s team must be the death group.
All this is due to the fact that Byman City has been classified as a "third-team team" by UEFA.
UEFA calculates the "UEFA points" based on the team's European War scores to determine the team's grade. For this, Wansheng feels very unfair, because Manchester City have not played in the European War in the past few years, but Manchester City It was the league champion last season.
So facing the media, Wan Sheng said, "I believe the performance of the previous league is the real judging standard. Two years ago, Liverpool won the European Championship, but they were 36 points behind Derbyshire in the Premier League. In the top four, Arsenal reached the Champions League final last year, but only won fifth in the league, not even qualified to participate in the Champions League. "
Then Wan Sheng pointed his finger at Inter Milan, "Inter Milan is only the third place in Serie A last season, and their championship is only printed on the jersey." He refers to the 'telephone scandal' in the summer, because Ac Milan and Juventus were punished and Inter Milan won a league title.
Afterwards, Wan Shengcai talked about Manchester City, "We were the Premier League champion last season, I can't think of why the Premier League champion is the third-tier team, and the runner-up Chelsea is the second-tier team. The four Liverpool are the first-class teams? "Then he made his own suggestion," I think UEFA should consider this, the championship teams in major leagues should have extra points, otherwise it will be too confusing! " "
Despite knowing what kind of temper the Chinese are in front of them, the media reporters around are still quite surprised. It's just a lie in the domestic league. This guy actually made a rant in the Champions League?
For the first time to lead the team to the Champions League, dare to slap the UEFA grouping rules?
Although many people think that Wan Sheng's statement makes some sense, more people feel that this young Chinese is too arrogant!
This is the Champions League, not the Premier League!
For the first time leading a team to the Champions League, why should you be low-key? Even if you are assigned to the death group, you will just be dissatisfied. Speaking of having a good result in your heart, let's talk about it now. Now that the group stage hasn't started, let's talk about it, are you afraid of offending UEFA or attracting more attention?
Isn't the hope of Manchester City coming out like that again?
Or ... Is it that this Chinese feels hopeless in qualifying, and then ... afraid! ? This is big news!
However, in fact, there is not only Wan Sheng alone who is dissatisfied with the group situation. It is not only the people who dare to criticize the UEFA group work, because in addition to a Wan Sheng in the Premier League, there is also Mourinho.
Chelsea ’s team is definitely not good, because they met Barcelona again, and met Barcelona in the Champions League for three consecutive years, this time they met Barcelona in the group stage, plus Bundesliga new Werder Bremen, this is also the same Is the group of death.
For Chelsea, this is definitely not a good sign.
And all of this ~ EbookFREE.me ~ is also due to Chelsea being awarded by UEFA as a "second team", so after the group ended, in an interview, Mourinho said, "Chelsea should not In the second grade, we scored in the UEFA Champions League for the third consecutive year, and last year we finished fourth. I think UEFA should consider the league results to increase or decrease points. "He even said a few words for Manchester City. "Manchester City is the third grade? This is really ridiculous. We just lost to them at Stamford Bridge. If this time the Champions League, the English team is not as good as other leagues, it must be the problem of this grouping!"
Then he expressed his dissatisfaction with the Barcelona team. "This seems to be an inevitable thing. Encountering Barcelona for three consecutive years is not an easy thing to happen, but it happened."
In fact, Chelsea's UEFA points are not up, and it is related to their elimination by Barcelona in the process of 16 into 8 last season, but this time, they were drawn to the same group as Barcelona again in the draw.
This is Chelsea and the defending champion in the same group for two consecutive years. ‘
After finishing the interview work, some media laughed and said, "In the English League, Wan Sheng and Mourinho are fighting nonstop, and they are absolute enemies. But in the Champions League, the two actually joined forces ... "(To be continued.)
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