Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 416 Champions League Group Match Draw and Awards

Monaco, this place has a very special meaning for Li Shou, because it is from here that he embarked on a professional path, and it is from here that he really became a player and became famous.

I don't know if it's fate or a coincidence, but this season's UEFA Champions League group stage draw actually left Switzerland and came to Monaco. Although Li Shou has left Monaco, this is still Li Shou's half home.

So before the awards ceremony, the media has been advocating that this is a signal for Li Shou to break the monopoly of Ronaldo and Messi.

This is indeed the case. On the morning of the 28th, Wenger, Li Shou and Arteta arrived in Monaco. Li Shou used to be a Monaco player, and the head coach Wenger also coached Monaco, so when they arrived, there were still Monaco fans approaching.

Wenger and Li Shou came to Monaco to receive the award. There will be no surprises. Wenger was the best head coach last season, while Li Shouze entered the best team and competed with Ronaldo and Messi for the best player. As for Arteta, as the captain of the team, he came to return the Champions League trophy.

Although Arteta was injured for most of last season, he is the captain of the team after all, and the task of returning the trophy has always been done by the captain.

After a few games, the three were immediately picked up by UEFA's already arranged staff. The draw and awards ceremony will be held at [-] pm. Before that, Li Shou needs to attend the activities arranged by UEFA.

Then Li Shou was stunned. Even Li Shou didn't know if UEFA had specially arranged this. At the event, Li Shou saw Manchester United's legendary goalkeeper Schmeichel and Barcelona's legendary goalkeeper Zubizarreta.

One of these two is tonight's home game, and the other is the guest of the lottery draw. If Li Shou is added, there are actually three legendary goalkeepers.

Is Li Shou a legend?Li Shou has just started his career, but his achievements are already legendary, especially his performance in front of the goal, which broke the world football's perception of goalkeepers.

After the event was over, the three of them continued to chat until the staff came and called the three of them away, and then Li Shou returned to the hotel to prepare for the upcoming lottery and award presentation.

In the afternoon, everyone began to enter the venue one after another. Messi and Ronaldo had already arrived, plus Li Shou, these three were contenders for the best player, and they were also contenders for this year's Ballon d'Or.

In fact, the awards ceremony is a relatively boring process, because people who have nothing to do with the awards can only sit down and watch and applaud.

Without any surprises, Wenger won the best head coach last season. With Arsenal winning the Triple Crown, there is no suspense about the best coach at all.

The best team comes after the best coach. Unlike in the past, the championship team will basically occupy multiple positions in the best team, but this year only Li Shou entered the best team.

The best player is naturally the finale before the draw. Before the start, the big screen began to show the performance of the three players in the past season. First, Ronaldo. The Real Madrid star won the Golden Boot last season. He scored a terrifying 35 goals in 48 league games. Including the Champions League and the Cup, the scoring rate is terrifying.

In fact, Messi's scoring rate is also terrible. Messi's goals in the league are 43 points. The Champions League goals and Ronaldo's goals are 9 at a glance. These two people can say that they have all kinds of statistics in La Liga, so they are also dubbed by the media as "two big brushes."

Compared with Messi and Ronaldo's various goal highlights, Li Shou's highlights are somewhat unique, because most of Li Shou's pictures are wonderful saves, and even various anti-human saves.

Of course, Li Shou also has a scoring screen, but Li Shou's scoring screen is very simple, just one free kick after another.

However, this monotonous free kick goal was to sprinkle salt on Ronaldo and Messi, because Li Shou's two monotonous free kick goals not only eliminated Real Madrid, but also helped Arsenal win the final championship against Barcelona.

So the answer to the best player in Europe is self-evident, and even this can be seen from the guest of honor, the legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Seaman.

Even if the legendary players invited this time include Seaman, there are already three goalkeepers, but Seaman has something to delay and did not participate in the activities arranged by UEFA.

At the same time, Seaman is also the guest of tonight's UEFA Champions League group stage draw. In addition, there are other legends from Arsenal, Henry, the former King of Highbury.

I have to say that UEFA's trophy design for the best player is really ugly, but regardless of ugliness or beauty, it is an honor, and it is also a personal honor.

"I am not alone in this honor. Without the dedication and help of my teammates, Arsenal could not have created the miracle of the Treble last season, so this belongs to every player in Arsenal," Li Shou said modestly.

Li Shou's award acceptance speech was very brief. After all, the real big event today was the draw of the group stage. Besides, the best player in Europe could not be compared with the next Golden Globe Award, so there was no need to express how excited he was at length.

With the introduction of the best player, the award presentation has come to an end. Now that the award presentation has come to an end, the next step is naturally the group draw for this season.

The first appearance in today's group draw was Subizarreta, followed by UEFA officials, bald secretary-general Ivantino and UEFA professional football director Marchetti.

In fact, there are quite a lot of legends present today. In addition to the goalkeeper legends, the legendary captains of AC Milan and Inter Milan Maldini and Zanetti are here. They are also guests of the group stage draw.

After the first team was drawn, another guest was changed in the second team draw, that is, the Arsenal legend Seaman was awarded to Li Shou before, and the guest of the third draw was Henry.

Soon the results of the Champions League draw for this season will be fully announced:

Group A: Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, Malmo

The highlights of Group A are Real Madrid and Paris, and now Paris is chasing top superstars all over the world, but in fact there are only a few people who can really be called top.

And there are rumors this summer that Real Madrid tried to send Ronaldo away in order to pursue Li Shou, and the best potential buyer of Ronaldo is Paris, who is not short of money.

Group B: PSV PSV, Manchester United, CSKA Moscow, Wolfsburg

Because of the new draw model, Eindhoven is the first team in Group B, but in everyone's eyes, Eindhoven is also the weakest team.

Manchester United is a traditional giant in the Premier League, CSKA Moscow is a Russian giant, and although Wolfsburg is not a giant, its strength is not bad.

Group C: Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray, Astana

This group of Atletico Madrid seems to be a bit of a leader. Benfica and Galatasaray should compete for the second spot. As for Astana, it is estimated that not many people know about it.

(End of this chapter)