Soccer Card System

Chapter 265 The Competition Begins (119172) The First Subscribe
Chapter 259 The Game Begins

On April [-], the first round of the Europa League quarter-finals, the Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg vs. Luton at home!
The atmosphere in the stadium was warm, and the fans of Wolfsburg made a huge noise in the stands.

When the coaches of the two sides shook hands, Costner took a special look at Gao Bo, the Chinese coach who has recently become famous in Europe.

Really young.
Costner was a little envious. Gao Bo led Luton to such an achievement at a young age. Such a person must have a bright future.

And Costner has been in the position of low-level league team and the reserve team head coach of the Bundesliga for many years. This time he temporarily took charge of Wolfsburg. Although Wolfsburg has gradually left the relegation zone in terms of performance, Costner himself knows that it is unlikely that he will stay in the coaching position of Wolfsburg next season.

The Volkswagen Group has invested heavily in the team, and they are not satisfied with the middle reaches of the league.

As for Gao Bo on the opposite side, Costner is sure that after the end of this season, the Chinese will definitely receive job offers from many teams, and even some giants in the league may pay attention to this Chinese head coach.

Of course, this ultimately depends on what kind of results Gao Bo can finally achieve in the Europa League.

In the world of professional football, everything is based on results.

To a certain extent, football is the fairest, regardless of your nationality, your skin color, your height, fat or thinness, as long as you can make your team win, then he will make you successful!

This is really a fascinating arena.

Gao Bo was a little dazzled by the lights of the Volkswagen Arena, and he couldn't help squinting his eyes.

After the head coaches of the two sides shook hands, the players of the two teams also stepped into the field led by the referee team!

When Luton players were seen on the TV screen, the Luton fans who were gathered in Alexander's bar cheered collectively.

The team is far away, and the fans who can't appear in Germany with the players have no choice but to cheer for the team in this way.

When the stadium appeared on the TV screen at this moment, everyone held their breaths, waiting for the moment when the game started!
"Viewers in front of the TV! Ladies and gentlemen!! Now you are watching a high-profile game in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals in the 2009-2010 season! Luton from England will challenge Wolfsburg away!!!"

Letkinson's voice came clearly and unmistakably from the TV.

"Luton is currently the most concerned team in the quarter-finals. Of course, this is not because they are the strongest, but because they are the biggest dark horse team in the history of the Europa League. They reached the quarter-finals as a third-tier league team. They have also encountered strong teams like Roma, Ajax, and Juventus along the way!! And now they are facing Wolfsburg, who has not been in stable form in the Volkswagen Arena. What kind of performance can Luton show? We will wait and see!!!"

"We will knock out the Germans!!!"

"Gao Bo is Chinese! He is not English!!!"

"That's right!! Coach Gao Bo will definitely win!"

The Luton fans in the tavern talked a lot.

Speaking of playing against the German team, the English are always in tears, so much so that there is a famous saying in England: Football is a game in which 22 people run on the field for 10 minutes, and the Germans win in the end.

Luton has never met a German opponent before, so it doesn't matter what historical record it is.And considering the poor record of the England team when they met the German team, the Luton fans before the game were still very nervous-after all, Luton is also an English team.

Maybe the English watch German football just like the Chinese watch Korean football
But at any rate, the head coach is not from England, so Luton fans are quite self-consoling.

Although Luton has progressed all the way this season, the fans still have the mentality of fans of small teams. When facing strong teams, they don't have the confidence of those big teams.

This is not to say that they love the team less than the fans of the big teams, it's just that they are self-aware.The Luton team has been hanging out in the low-level leagues in history, without much experience in the top leagues, and it has fallen to the bottom in recent years.Today's Luton can be said to be the most glorious moment in Luton history.

The players from both sides quickly completed the handshake ceremony, and then stood on the court according to their respective positions. The referee was looking at his watch.

"The game is about to start!! Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides!"

The starting rosters of the two teams began to appear on the TV screens.

"First of all, in Wolfsburg, their starting goalkeeper is NO.12 Lenz. On the back line, the central defender is No. 43 Barzagli partnering with No. 23 Fisher. In the midfield, Wolfsburg's midfield position in this game looks like a diamond-shaped midfield position from the position played on the screen. The last midfielder is Josue, the right midfielder is Makoto Hasebe, the left midfielder Gentner, the front midfielder is Misimovic, and the forward line is No. [-] Dzeko and No. [-] Grafite. !"

Letkinson seized the time to broadcast the starting lineups of both sides before the game started.

"Then there is the visiting team Luton, we are already familiar with this set of starters, the goalkeeper is Schmeichel, the back line is Mitchell-Piran as the right-back, the teenager Carl Jenkinson is temporarily sitting on the bench, the center-back combination is Saul Campbell and Jeffrey's partner today, and the right-back is still the Brazilian Alex Sandro. In the midfield, Adam White, Drinkwater, Kante, Kevin Keane, the forward line is Vardy and Griezmann, on the screen. The formation played is 442. Of course, we all know that coach Gao Bo has often let his team play a 433 formation recently. He sometimes pushes Adam White forward and lets him form a trident with Vardy and Griezmann! How Luton will play in this game, we have to wait until the game starts to be sure."

At this time, high waves appeared on the TV screen.

The camera locked on him for a long time, and Gao Bo didn't seem to notice the picture on the screen. He was still talking and writing with John next to him, sitting on the coach's bench talking and laughing happily, looking very relaxed.

"Coach Gao Bo! He is popular in Europe now. I think all the fans know that there is such a number one coach in England as him. He led the second division team to win the FA Cup and the first division team to the quarterfinals of the Europa League. This is a magical coach who has been creating miracles since he entered the media's attention!"

Just after Letkinson finished speaking, Gao Bo, who was still talking and laughing on the TV screen, changed his face, and then he suddenly stood up from his seat and rushed to the sidelines.

There were also deafening cheers from the audience in front of the TV.

A bad premonition rose in Letkinson's heart, and the fans in the tavern also looked dignified for a moment.

Now that the game has just started, what happened on the field made Gao Bo's face change drastically!

The TV screen quickly switched back to the stadium.

(End of this chapter)