i want to be king

Chapter 719 Our goal is still the Triple Crown!

When Butragueno, the representative of Real Madrid, where the Champions League final was held, opened the ball he had just drawn, took out the note with Manchester United's name inside, turned it over, and showed it to the live broadcast camera, Su Dong felt the atmosphere around him was a bit dignified.

Indeed, this is not a good sign!
This year's Champions League quarter-finals are actually quite unexpected, but if you think about it carefully, it is understandable.

First of all, many strong teams have fallen.

Strong teams such as Juventus, Atletico Madrid and Liverpool failed in the group stage, and teams such as Real Madrid, ACX Milan, Chelsea and Porto stopped in the top [-]. This made the Champions League quarterfinals have teams like Bordeaux and CSKA Moscow.

The reason for this situation is the loss of players from the summer transfer.

In the minds of Bayern players, whether it is Bordeaux, CSKA Moscow, or Lyon, which eliminated Real Madrid, are very good targets, but Bayern managed to avoid these three teams, avoiding the slightly inferior Arsenal and Inter Milan, and drew Manchester United. This luck is really bad.

Conversely, Lyon met Bordeaux, and CSKA Moscow met Inter Milan. Is this purely a coincidence?
Sure enough, as soon as the results of the draw came out, Bayern's players questioned, thinking that this was another "conspiracy" by UEFA.

Since Michel Platini came to power in [-], such controversies have been heard endlessly. Every year, there will be several teams with excellent luck in the draw, such as Bordeaux who met Olympiakos this year, and CSKA Moscow who met Sevilla.

It's not that teams like Bordeaux and Sevilla, or CSKA Moscow are not strong, but that they can always avoid the rich and powerful teams. This really has to be reported as a conspiracy theory.

It can be a coincidence that it happens every year, but is it a coincidence that it happens every year?
Bayern drew Manchester United, and the players complained all the time, thinking that there was something tricky in the draw.

But who knows?
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Su Dong is not a conspiracy theorist, but he increasingly felt the changes brought about by Platini.

Or rather, that sense of tearing.

Platini was born as a legendary superstar. After Beckenbauer and Cruyff, and before Maradona, Platini was the number one superstar in European football. Three consecutive Golden Globes is his greatest honor.

After retiring, he started to work for the [-] World Cup in France, and thus got in touch with FIFA President Sepp Blatter. After the great success of the World Cup in France, he successfully entered FIFA, and later used the French Football Association as a springboard to enter UEFA.

In the UEFA presidential election that attracted worldwide attention in [-], Platini fully demonstrated his qualities as Blatter's apprentice.

As we all know, Blatter's ability to sit firmly as the FIFA president is not because he has been recognized by a powerful football country. On the contrary, his relationship with UEFA is very, very bad, but he has the support of many backward football countries such as Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The same is true for Platini. Within UEFA, he has received the support of many middle and lower leagues and countries, so he defeated Johansson in the votes, but what followed was that, as a representative of the middle and lower classes, Platini must fulfill his promise and serve his votes.

As a result, the Champions League quota, tricky lottery, financial fairness... a series of policies came from this.

It can be said that Platini represented the middle and lower classes from the beginning, so he and G14 were in conflict, but this duel ended in the dissolution of G14, but the competition for interests continued.

Not long ago, a well-known British football reporter criticized Platini’s financial fairness policy, thinking that he was killing the possibility of a counterattack by the middle and lower classes of teams, which would only lead to the solidification of the strong and the weak.

He cited the examples of Chelsea and Manchester City. These two teams are considered to be the most affected by the financial fair play policy, because they rely purely on the investment of the boss. On the books of the club, the investment of the boss is calculated debts, not financing, which makes these teams unable to make ends meet.

This reporter believes that in the era of free market economy, capital is willing to invest, which proves that they are optimistic about this market, and they think they can profit from it, otherwise, who would want to invest?

And UEFA's Financial Fair Play policy prevents them from investing. Under this policy, a team like Manchester City will never be able to stand out, because they can't afford stars, and if they don't have stars, what can they use to fight against giants?

Top giants like Manchester United, Real Madrid and Barcelona don't need to do anything, they just need to continue to generate income in the global market, and then wave the money to buy the players they like all over the world, which can ensure that they will always stand on the top of football.

And a team like Manchester City, limited by financial revenue, will never be able to catch up with these giants in investment, and will always be inferior to them. Even if they occasionally play well, the stars they cultivate will be poached soon.

Therefore, this reporter criticized Platini, believing that his financial fairness policy is against the free market economy, and it is contrary to Platini's previous positions and policies. This seems more like a compromise for the giants.

What Su Dong felt was this sense of tearing.

On the one hand, Platini is on the side of the middle and lower reaches of the country and the team, suppressing the powerful giants; but on the other hand, Platini has introduced policies to limit the possibility of the middle and lower reaches of the team shaking the foundation of the giants.

For Platini, for UEFA, for the giants, for a local rich upstart like Manchester City, all the media, fans, and even players have contradictory reactions.

More just look at the position he occupies, where his ass sits, to decide whether they support, oppose or bombard.

Just like now, Bayern players complained about the Champions League quarter-finals draw, thinking that there was a conspiracy and tricks.

But in fact, what they are bombarding is a conspiracy, is it tricky?

no.

What they bombarded was that they failed to benefit from the conspiracy and tricks!

As for whether there is really a conspiracy, whether there is really a trick, this is actually not important.

For this sense of tearing, Su Dong always felt that there would be another big problem.

Professional football is a pyramid. Don’t listen to the fans. How many years have you been a fan?

This results in the strongest teams, the strongest players, attracting the most eyeballs in the world.

But Platini's policy is suppressing these strongest teams, will they be willing?
Will not!
G14 is disbanded, they can form G18, or even G20.

As long as it is profitable, these top teams will reorganize sooner or later, and they will start a revolution.

Su Dong can be regarded as a vested interest in the current system, but as a player, there are very few things he can change.

In Barcelona, ​​no matter how well he performed, his historical status will not be higher than that of Cruyff, and it is even impossible to be higher than Guardiola. It is estimated that he is similar to Ronaldinho, Rivaldo and others, at best slightly higher.

The same is true in Bayern, what can he use to surpass Beckenbauer, Rummenigge and Hoeness?Even Gerd Müller is firmly above him.

Su Dong clearly knew that no matter how well he played in these giant teams, it was just a page in their glorious history, at best it was a relatively shining page, and he could enter the Hall of Fame, but that was all.

To Manchester United?To Real Madrid?
That is to say, the past of Barcelona and Bayern is repeated.

He wants to go to a team that can become a unique existence in history!

Not rich?

It doesn't matter, if he goes, he will eventually become a wealthy family!

This is what Su Dong can think of. As a professional player, in the current situation of European football, he can do the best!
Virgo's perfectionism complex makes him unwilling to share with others, he wants to monopolize it.

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After the results of the quarter-final draw came out, Bayern met Manchester United, and the semi-finals will meet the winners of Inter Milan and CSKA Moscow, while Barcelona will meet Arsenal, and the semi-finals will be the winners of Lyon and Bordeaux.

This creates a possibility that the top favorite to win the championship and the second favorite team Barcelona will meet again in the Champions League final.

In the history of UEFA Champions League football, no two teams have ever met in the Champions League final for two consecutive years.

If it happens this year, it will be the first time in history.

Bayern is Su Dong, Ribery and Robben, Barcelona is Messi, Ibrahimovic and Eto'o.

Barcelona are better in midfield, while Bayern are more solid defensively.

However, in order to create this history, both teams have to go through difficulties and obstacles, especially Bayern, which has a bad draw.

First of all, we must cross the hurdle of Manchester United.

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On the afternoon of March 20th, in the seventh round of the No.[-] Bundesliga, Bayern challenged Frankfurt away.

Just 5 minutes into the game, Modric sent a diagonal pass from the right.

On the right side of the front of the penalty area, Robben missed the ball and let the ball pass directly into the penalty area.

Su Dong quickly jumped in against offside, stopped the ball to the right of the penalty spot, caught up and volleyed, breaking Frankfurt's goal.

One to zero!

But in the final stage of the game, taking advantage of Bayern's reserve for the German Cup semi-finals in the middle of the week, Frankfurt suddenly launched a fierce attack.

The teenager Alaba, who replaced Marcelo, made a mistake when passing back to the goalkeeper. After being intercepted by the opponent, he scored.

One to one!

In the end, Bayern drew with Frankfurt [-]-[-] away.

Alaba received a lot of doubts after the game, but the young player's debut was still recognized to a certain extent, especially the first team of Bayern, who had a good evaluation of him and believed that he had enough outstanding potential.

Of course, it is still very difficult for Alaba, who is only 17 years old, to play directly as the main player.

At least before him, Contento and Budstuber are very strong contenders for the position of left back.

Not to mention that Marcelo's performance in recent years has been getting better and better, and his progress has also been getting bigger and bigger. He has attracted the attention of many giant teams including Real Madrid.

In the next [-] days, Bayern will usher in six tough battles, including the German Cup and the quarter-finals of the Champions League. This is undoubtedly a huge challenge.

After playing Frankfurt, Su Dong was interviewed by the media according to the arrangement of the club. He publicly expressed his confidence in the strength of the team.

"Among my teammates, some want to win the league championship, some want the German Cup, some want the Champions League, and I hope to win all three championships!"

"Our goal is still the Triple Crown!"

(End of this chapter)