Champion’s Heart

After the league, everyone's eyes are naturally fixed on the Champions League.

The current situation is that the Bundesliga has ended, but there is still the last round of La Liga, and Real Madrid has missed the league championship. So in fact, they can devote all their energy to preparing for the Champions League final.

The protagonists of the last round of La Liga are Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

These two teams are currently ranked among the top two in the league, and the final round of the league is another direct dialogue between these two teams.

Barcelona will face Atletico Madrid at home.

As long as Atletico Madrid doesn't lose to Barcelona, ​​they will win the league title.

For those teams that do not participate in the Champions League finals, they can have a holiday after playing the last round of the league.

But since there is a World Cup this summer, those players who are going to participate in the World Cup cannot rest yet. They have to go directly from the club to the national team to report and participate in the final training camp.

This year's World Cup started on June 12, and the major European leagues basically ended in mid-May, leaving less than a month for each national team to prepare for the World Cup.

The Bundesliga and the Premier League ended the earliest, with the last round of league games ending on May 10th and 11th.

For the Chinese team, Yang Muge, who played for Schalke 04, has left Germany, returned to China, and reported to the national team.

However, Zhou Yi and Yan Min will not be able to return to the national team until May 25 at the earliest because Dortmund reached the Champions League final.

For the Chinese team, this is not good news.

When the absolute core of the team returns, there are only twenty days before the start of the World Cup, which will have a very negative impact on the entire Chinese team's preparations.

Yang Muge is the first overseas international to return to the team.

Next to return to China is goalkeeper Sun Pan, who plays for Chelsea.

The Premier League ended one day later than the Bundesliga. Chelsea defeated Cardiff City 2:0 away from home. Chelsea failed to win the league championship this season, but they eventually ranked third in the league and qualified for next season's Champions League.

A week later, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A were all over.

In La Liga, Atletico Madrid drew 1:1 away from Atletico Madrid and won the league championship.

In the Serie A, Guo Nu's Inter Milan lost to Chievo 1:2. In the end, they only finished fifth in the league and qualified for the Europa League, but still missed the Champions League.

Unless Guo Nu transfers to a team that can compete in the Champions League, Guo Nu will be the only Chinese overseas player who does not participate in the Champions League next season.

Paris Saint-Germain defeated Montpellier 4-0 at home in the final round of Ligue 1. This season, Paris Saint-Germain won the league title ahead of schedule. They ended up leading second-placed Monaco by as many as nine points.

He Ying has also won the Ligue 1 championship for two consecutive seasons, but this season is his first full season with Paris Saint-Germain.

He has scored fifteen goals in Ligue 1 this season and ranks seventh among the top scorers in Ligue 1. The Ligue 1 golden boot belongs to He Ying's teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He scored 26 goals, far ahead of others.

There are as many as five people in second place, and they are tied for second place, all scoring sixteen goals. They are Kalou of Lille, Yedder of Toulouse, Aboubakar of Lorient, Cavani of Paris Saint-Germain, and Zignac of Marseille.

He Ying and Lyon Lacazette scored 15 goals together, tied for third.

Although he did not win the Golden Boot, with the two scoring tools of Ibrahimovic and Cavani in the team, He Ying still scored 15 goals and his performance was already very good. It was his most goal-scoring season in the top flight.

And he also has four goals in the Champions League. He is Paris Saint-Germain's second scorer in the Champions League, second only to Ibrahimovic.

This performance will help improve his status in the team, and I believe he will play a more important role in Paris Saint-Germain next season.

After He Ying and Guo Nu returned to the team, the Chinese national team was basically assembled, with only Zhou Yi and Yan Min missing.

Most of the attention of Chinese fans has also shifted to the national team.

The Champions League final is certainly important, but Zhou Yi has already won it, and defending the Champions League is too difficult, so no one has high hopes.

But the World Cup is more important than the Champions League.

The last time the Chinese team participated in the World Cup was twelve years ago.

As a global football event, the World Cup is certainly more worthy of attention than the Champions League.

According to the announced preparation plan, the Chinese team’s training camp is divided into three parts. The first is the domestic training part, which is mainly participated by players who play domestically, and has already started before the European League is over. In order to make way for the national team to prepare for the game, the domestic league has been temporarily suspended. Zheng Zhi, who had been highly vocal about returning to the national team before, got his wish and was included in the training list this time. Of course, it is not certain whether he will be taken to Brazil in the end. It depends on his performance during the training period, but he finally has a chance. .

Next, on May 15th, the domestic national team players will leave for Europe for training.

Why they choose to train in Europe is, on the one hand, to take care of overseas players who are participating in European leagues in Europe, and on the other hand, it is also to facilitate the arrangement of warm-up matches. They have two warm-up matches to play in Europe. Another reason is considering the distance. Anyway, you have to transit in Europe from China to Brazil, so training in Europe and flying to Brazil can save you some distance, save time and reduce the number of Chinese players. The energy and physical exertion of travelling.

The third part, of course, is to go to Brazil for training, where they have a warm-up match waiting for them, and then continue training until the start of the World Cup.

Zhou Yi and Yan Min will go directly to Spain to join the national team after the Champions League final and participate in the national team training.

This summer will be very busy for Zhou Yi.

There is a break only after the World Cup matches.

If the Chinese team reaches the knockout stage, Zhou Yi and Yan Min will almost certainly miss Dortmund's training camp in the new season.

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Dortmund has been preparing for the Champions League final since May 12th.

For Zhou Yi, in addition to preparing for the Champions League final, he has one more thing to be involved in.

That is to shoot a documentary with him as the protagonist.

This project was actually proposed a year ago, when he led Dortmund to win the Champions League. After that, a company in China contacted Zhouyi's agent Schulze through various channels and proposed to him The intention of filming a documentary related to Zhouyi.

Schulze was quite interested in this proposal. After all, it would be very helpful for Zhou Yi to appear on the big screen to improve his personal image.

However, it was just an intention at that time. When it came to Zhou Yi's company, there was nothing but intention. They hoped to get Zhou Yi's authorization and consent before they could proceed with the follow-up work.

Zhou Yi did not object to the filming of the documentary, but he had his own affairs to be busy with, so he left the matter entirely to Schulze.

Later, Zhou Yi met the other party several times one after another, and each time the other party would bring different people.

Some are said to be from investors, while others are said to be from directors.

I came to Germany and met several times. The two sides negotiated countless times, had disagreements and arguments, and went back and forth several times. When Zhou Yi almost forgot about it, one day Schulze told him that this The matter was finally settled.

It is said that this is an international team, not only from China, but also from the UK and Germany.

This is what Schulze asked for. At first, domestic companies in China just wanted to shoot a documentary and then broadcast it in China. But Schulze felt that it would be a pity if it was only broadcast in China. He hopes to show it globally, of course, mainly in China, but the internationalization of the team is inevitable.

At the same time, this documentary also needs to record Zhou Yi's performance in the World Cup, which requires approval from the Chinese Football Association to be able to follow the Chinese team in the World Cup as a team photography team, starting from the training camp and filming the World Cup games.

At the same time, they will also be allowed to enter the Chinese team's locker room and film unknown scenes and stories inside the team.

Negotiations with the Chinese Football Association are very difficult. After all, there has never been such a thing in the history of Chinese football.

Even in the history of Chinese sports, it is a precedent.

The producer used various public and private relationships and produced outstanding sports documentaries in European and American sports history to persuade the Chinese Football Association.

For example, the documentary A Summer's Fairytale about the German national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

In the end, the producer promised to film a documentary during the World Cup for the Chinese national team for free, and only then was it qualified to film.

At that time, they will participate in various stages of training with the team, and the team's coaching staff, locker room, dormitory, and hotel will all give them the green light. At the same time, the filming team must also promise not to leak the filming content privately. All filming activities must be carried out without disturbing or affecting the team's preparations. If the coaching staff does not allow filming, then it cannot be filmed.

Originally, I just wanted to shoot a documentary about Zhouyi, but now it has turned from one documentary to two documentaries. The manpower needs to be increased, and the investment of time and money is far beyond the original expectation, and more companies have to be brought in to participate.

For these reasons, preparations took a lot longer than previously expected.

Fortunately, the final documentary can start filming before the World Cup.

Now the film crew responsible for the national team has entered the Chinese national team's domestic training base and started filming.

The film crew responsible for Zhou Yi rushed to Germany. On the one hand, they filmed Zhou Yi preparing for the Champions League final. On the other hand, they also had a task - they would reveal to the world the secrets of Zhou Yi's various magical performances on the court in the documentary. .

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