super storm

Chapter 956 Barcelona, ​​are you ready?

Due to the existence of Yang Yang, Real Madrid's third trip to China has attracted the attention of everyone in the country.

Compared with the previous two times, this time Real Madrid came to China with the strongest lineup, and promised to do their best to dedicate the two most exciting games for Chinese fans, and lowered their stance in all aspects.

For example, the previous two times, Real Madrid lived in the presidential suite, but this time everyone in Real Madrid chose a room with a mid-range price, including Yang Yang and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who were exactly the same as everyone else.

The domestic media also greatly appreciated this, because when Barcelona visited China last year, the club rented a luxurious courtyard for Messi and Guardiola, which cost close to 2 yuan a night. In comparison, Real Madrid is undoubtedly much more friendly to the people.

This time, when Real Madrid comes to China, in addition to playing two warm-up matches, they will also participate in a number of charity activities. In addition, the whole team will also participate in the ribbon-cutting and unveiling ceremony of the Guangzhou Hengda team's training base.

Chinese fans are also full of enthusiasm for the arrival of Real Madrid. More than 500 fans went to the airport to pick them up. Later, in the Real Madrid training session, more than 4000 fans came to watch the training. Yang Yang is undoubtedly the most popular among all Real Madrid fans. The fans at the scene spared no effort to cheer for him.

In conjunction with Real Madrid's trip to China, major newspapers such as Marca, AS, Le Monde and ABC followed up and reported. Almost all newspapers were reporting on the crazy enthusiasm of Chinese fans for Real Madrid. Marca even used the Chinese title "Hala Madrid!" on the front page for the first time.

Aspen reported that in order to witness their idol with their own eyes, more than 4000 fans bought tickets to enter the stadium to watch a training session of Real Madrid. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Arjen Robben and Iker Casillas all caused Chinese fans to scream, but Yang Yang's appearance caused the craziest shouts on the scene.

Spanish newspapers followed up and reported on the activities of the Real Madrid players, as well as a free activity on the morning of the second day after arriving in Guangzhou. Yang Yang, as the host, invited all the team members to go to Guangzhou’s Shangxiajiu and other places to play and shop. The scene attracted many fans to gather, and finally the police were dispatched to maintain order.

In addition to the players shopping by themselves, Yang Yang also presented a precious gift with Chinese characteristics to everyone on the team.

In the public training session the day before the match between Real Madrid and Guangzhou Hengda, Adidas arranged for [-] Chinese teenagers to "match" Real Madrid.

In the end, the two sides played [-]-[-], and Real Madrid "nearly" won, but the atmosphere at the scene was very active, and even because of the large number of people on the scene, some young players collided and then fought. Fortunately, Yang Yang on the side saw it and immediately ran over to "persuade the fight".

Different from the crowd tactics of young players, Real Madrid's match against Hengda was a real team.

Before the team came to China, Real Madrid publicly stated that it would take the warm-up match seriously and let Chinese fans see the strongest Real Madrid.

Facts have proved that Real Madrid has indeed done so.

In the game, Real Madrid played head-to-head without any effort, and scored an 60-[-] unceremoniously. This was the result of Yang Yang and other main players being substituted in No. [-] minutes. If not, they could score double-digit goals at any time.

The Chinese media and fans are also very generous. Although the game lost badly, everyone from Hengda to domestic media and fans agreed with this game, thinking that there is still a huge gap in strength between Hengda and Real Madrid.

"Today's Real Madrid is of course here to make money, but it's different from the previous two times, and it's also different from last year's Barcelona. They played a game worthy of the audience. Real Madrid showed their best form and the most beautiful football to all fans who like them."

"The [-]-[-] score was cruel, but it also made us all see clearly the essential gap between Chinese football and the most advanced European football. Real Madrid let us see the gap clearly, and also let us see the direction clearly. They beat us on the court, but they also gave us respect."

Ancelotti was also blunt when he was interviewed by the Chinese media afterwards, saying that the skills of Chinese players have made great progress, but the gap with the advanced European level is still obvious.

"I know that there are more and more Chinese players playing in European leagues. This is a very good phenomenon. Yang Yang is an incredible player and is the core competitiveness of our Real Madrid. I believe that in the future, there will be a second, third, and more Yang Yang in China."

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After playing Guangzhou Hengda, Real Madrid flew north to Tianjin that night, and defeated the Tianjin team [-]-[-], ending all their warm-up matches before the season with seven consecutive victories.

After finishing the Tianjin team match, Real Madrid had a daytime rest in Beijing the next day. Yang Yang once again invited all his teammates to visit his villa next to the Summer Palace, and asked Winston Bogard, an old acquaintance of Real Madrid, to come and accompany him. They went to the Summer Palace to visit the beautiful scenery, and prepared a sumptuous and delicious meal at noon.

During the period, Real Madrid players also specially visited the fitness club of Yang Yang and Winston Bogard, and they were full of praise for the software and hardware facilities of the club, after all, these were run by Winston Bogard himself.

Until the evening, the Real Madrid team boarded the plane back to Madrid, Spain.

But at this time, the whole of Spain has already been fried.

Seven consecutive warm-up matches, Real Madrid can be said to be full of firepower, not to mention seven consecutive victories, the offensive strength has also been greatly improved. After a month of adjustment and preparation under the coach of Ancelotti, Real Madrid has obviously adjusted.

But as Real Madrid's deadly rival, Barcelona's performance this summer is not ideal.

Although Guardiola's team defeated Bayern Munich at home [-]-[-] in the Audi Cup Invitational Tournament, in the previous two warm-up matches, they first drew [-]-[-] with a little-known Croatian Hakiduk, and then drew [-]-[-] with Brazil International in the first match of the Audi Cup.

After winning the Audi Cup, Barcelona went directly to the United States, which happened to be a staggered time with Real Madrid. However, in Washington, Barcelona lost [-]-[-] to Manchester United in the Premier League in their first game. Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice.

Then, in Miami, Barcelona lost [-]-[-] to Guadalajara.

Yes, that's right, the Mexican powerhouse that was beaten [-]-[-] by an out-of-form Real Madrid.

It was mid-July, and Real Madrid had just started their summer training camp. Ancelotti directly played a large number of players, which caused the Real Madrid team to be in poor condition. Even so, the team still defeated the Mexican team [-]-[-].

But in early August, when the Spanish Super Cup was very close, Barcelona lost [-]-[-] to Guadalajara in Miami, while Real Madrid beat Guangzhou Hengda [-]-[-] in China.

When the news of the war between China and the United States was reported back to Spain, the whole of Spain was fried.

The Spanish domestic media was full of worries about Real Madrid's summer preparations at first, because the seven warm-up matches almost ran half a circle around the earth, which consumes a lot of physical energy for the players, and too many commercial activities will distract the players.

But when the summer training started, everyone found that Ancelotti and his team had developed a high-intensity pre-season training program for Real Madrid, and Real Madrid officials were very cooperative. During the trip to the Americas and China, try not to arrange players to attend commercial activities. Even if there are individual players, they will ensure that the whole team can concentrate on preparing for the new season.

During the period between Guangzhou and Tianjin, Ancelotti even arranged for the players to practice more, and the training intensity exceeded the daily training. The two holidays were for adjustments after arriving in Guangzhou, and the other was for waiting for the flight back to Madrid.

In contrast to Barcelona, ​​whether it was in Eastern Europe and Germany, or the subsequent training in the United States, the training effect of Barcelona was not satisfactory. According to reports from the Catalan media, this time the trip to the United States was arranged in a hurry, and Barcelona officials were obviously not prepared enough. This is a disaster for the team's pre-season preparations.

After the [-]-[-] loss to Guadalajara, Guardiola publicly stated in an interview with the Spanish media that such a training camp could be called a disaster. "We are here for tourism. This is not the real training camp I need. Even the hot weather here makes the players uncomfortable. This is not a good sign."

The [-]-[-] loss to Mexico's Guadalajara undoubtedly made Guardiola extremely annoyed, because this team had just lost [-]-[-] to rival Real Madrid not long ago, but it gave Barcelona such a disastrous defeat in a blink of an eye, which put heavy pressure on everyone in Barcelona.

Even the media in Catalonia issued questions one after another, facing Real Madrid in such a state, how can Barcelona break the curse of Real Madrid in the past two years?

Fortunately, in the last warm-up match in the United States, goals from Villa and Seydu Keita helped Barcelona beat the American team of Mexico [-]-[-], avoiding an embarrassing defeat to end the Americas training session.

The summer training camp and warm-up match have no practical significance, but the situation reflected from the training camp and warm-up match is undoubtedly very informative, so that when Real Madrid and Barcelona both returned to Spain, the attitudes of the Spanish domestic media towards the two teams were also completely different.

Many people believe that Ancelotti has learned the experience and lessons of Benitez, adjusted his state during the summer preparations, and is currently gearing up to wait for the arrival of the new season. They will start from the first official game of the new season, from the Super Cup against Barcelona, ​​​​to attack the championship.

The Catalan media is worried about the state of Barcelona. The World Sports Daily even published a question mark on the front page the morning after Barcelona returned to Spain.

Barcelona, ​​are you ready?

(End of this chapter)