i want to be king

Chapter 315
Regarding the performance of Su Dong in the last warm-up match of his Asian tour, facing the Shanghai City team, it caused an uproar in the country.

If in the past, fans only learned about Sudong through live broadcasts and video highlights, then this time, nearly [-] fans watched the game on the spot, and the Shanghai City United team, which has a large number of international footballers, experienced Sudong's terrifying lethality firsthand.

After the game, many participating players, including General Fan, were amazed at Su Dong's strength.

General Fan even changed his remarks before the game, saying that Su Dong's strength has far exceeded the scope of Asian players.

"He is a top player in the world, whether it is strength or awareness, it is amazing!"

For Su Dong's big four in half an hour, and another assist, helping Barcelona lead [-]-[-], the domestic media and fans generally gave praise, thinking that Su Dong handed in a perfect score in his domestic debut.

On the one hand, he lost in the Asian Cup final, and on the other hand, Su Dong used his Asian tour to shine and slaughtered the teams of China, Japan and South Korea. This made his call for being selected for the national team become very enthusiastic again.

Even many people in the international football and football circles, including General Fan, are calling for Su Dong to be recruited into the national team.

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Su Dong didn't know much about the uproar he caused in the country.

After playing the Shanghai City team, Barcelona set off to return to Europe soon, but the team did not return to Spain, but flew directly to the UK.

After Barcelona arrived in the UK, they conducted a closed training camp again, mainly focusing on adjustment and recovery.

After a long journey in Asia, although Barcelona has a good harvest in terms of business, the consumption of players is also very high, especially for some core players, who are limited by commercial contracts and must play every game for 10 minutes, which makes them very tired.

On the evening of August [-]th, in a warm-up match held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Rijkaard hid Su Dong and Ronaldinho in the snow, arranged for other players to start, and continued to run the team.

The teenager Iniesta scored a wonderful goal in the No.708 minute, scoring the only goal of the game for Barcelona, ​​helping the team beat Parma from Serie A [-]-[-].

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During this time when Barcelona was in the UK, the Swedish striker Larsson signed by Barcelona from the Celtics officially joined the team.

In the coming season, he will serve as the team's backup striker and compete with Su Dong.

This also allowed Barcelona's striker attack firepower to further increase.

According to media analysis, Barcelona currently has the top three offensive firepower players, Su Dong has 35 goals, Larson has 31 goals, and Ronaldinho has 81 goals. That is to say, the three Barcelona attackers scored [-] goals in the league last season.

This is a very crazy number, because after Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, which ranks second in the offensive firepower index, only has 61 goals, which is [-] goals less than Barcelona.

Although this kind of comparison is not objective, but to a certain extent, it also reflects Barcelona's determination to completely make up for the lack of attack last season, especially the signing of Sudong for 8000 million euros, which is even more shocking!

If a month ago, when the transaction had just been completed, the whole world would have questioned Su Dong's worth, but after going through Asia, seeing Su Dong's crazy scoring performance and the tsunami he caused in Asia, everyone basically changed their views, and even turned around and thought that Barcelona had made a shrewd deal.

Germany's Deloitte released a report, fully considering the commercial activities and warm-up matches of the major European teams this summer, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, Real Madrid and Manchester United are still the two most commercially attractive teams in world football today.

And ranked third, impressively is Barcelona.

The evidence given by Deloitte shows that the sensational effect caused by Barcelona's Asian tour even surpassed that of Real Madrid last year. It not only made a lot of money, but also attracted a strong popularity, which made Barcelona's influence in the Asian region even higher.

Deloitte believes that, as the region with the fastest economic growth and the greatest potential in the world, Asia is very attractive to all enterprises and institutions around the world, especially East Asia.

"Su Dong from China has unparalleled advantages. He is like a behemoth attracting money, constantly attracting brand sponsors from all over the world, and becoming a stepping stone for countless brands to enter Asia, especially the East Asian market."

Deloitte finally stated that Barcelona's potential is quite amazing, and the key depends on Su Dong's achievements.

Can the 19-year-old Su Dong stand firmly among the world's first-tier stars?Can you continue to succeed in Barcelona?

This will determine the speed and potential of Barcelona's rise in the commercial field.

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Returning to Barcelona from England, Barcelona ushered in the annual Catalan Cup.

Facing Peralada in West C, Rijkaard did not arrange core players such as Sudong, Ronaldinho and Puyol to play, but still defeated his opponent [-]-[-].

Larsson, who just joined, scored twice, Edmilson and Thiago Motta each scored a goal.

In the ensuing final, Barcelona faced the Spaniard, and with the goals of Deco and Ronaldinho, they defeated their opponents [-]-[-] and won the Catalan Cup for two consecutive years.

Su Dong missed the entire game again, mainly because he was preparing and adjusting for the new season.

Subsequently, Barcelona once again ushered in the annual traditional event, the Gamper Cup.

The opponent in this warm-up match is AC Milan.

Ancelotti's team didn't do their best, and neither did Barcelona, ​​with Ronaldinho and Puyol absent.

Su Dong acted as the center and performed bravely. He first attracted the attention of Karadze and created a chance for Giuly to score. Then he used his skillful foot skills to force a breakthrough and assisted Iniesta to score.

In the end, Barcelona narrowly beat AC Milan [-]-[-] and won the Gamper Cup.

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With the end of the Catalan Cup and the Gamper Cup, the new season of La Liga is about to begin.

Rijkaard's debugging of Barcelona has basically been completed, the team's main lineup has also emerged, and everyone has basically seen the situation of Barcelona this season.

The weakness of the front line last season has basically been filled after the joining of Su Dong, especially after the arrival of Larson, it has made people see the determination of the club to make up for the problem of the front line.

Judging from the warm-up match, the cooperation between Su Dong, Giuly and Ronaldinho is becoming more and more tacit. If there is no accident, they will form Barcelona's frontcourt offensive trident in the new season.

Since Rijkaard likes to use a four-three-three formation, three of the midfielders are in an inverted triangle position. This is also the team formation established since the winter break of last season. It not only activated Harvey, but also activated Ronaldinho and the frontcourt offense.

Deco replaced Davis and partnered with Harvey. As for the midfielder position, Edmilson, Motta and Marcos are all competent, and even Van Bronckhorst can also play this position.

If there is a small hidden danger in the midfielder, then the problem in the defense is very big, especially the central defender.

The right back is Belletti's main force, and Gabriel can replace this position.

There are more left backs, and Sylvinho, Van Bronckhorst and Navarro can all be competent.

The real trouble is at the centre-back.

Judging from the warm-up match, Puyol is the unshakable main force and the captain of the team, but whether it is Marcos or Oleg, it is not very reassuring.

For example, in the Gamper Cup against AC Milan, Rijkaard arranged for Marcos and Oleg to form the central defenders, but neither of these two players can be reassuring in the game. Whether they can become Puyol's qualified partners is doubtful.

Originally, Rijkaard hoped that the team could introduce another central defender, such as Zaragoza's central defender Milito, but Barcelona really couldn't afford more transfer fees, so they had to give up.

This also left some hidden dangers.

Barcelona's style itself is to focus on offense and light on defense. Today's defensive problems are obvious, especially the lack of central defenders. This is easy to be used by opponents. If it is not handled carefully, Barcelona is likely to have big problems.

Ancelotti smiled provocatively after the Gamper Cup game, saying that Barcelona had better not draw AC Milan in the Champions League group stage, because if they play another game, he will definitely not lose!

"I have seen Barcelona's weakness!" Ancelotti smiled confidently.

In the UEFA Champions League group stage draw, the Rossoneri were placed in the second tier, while Barcelona were placed in the first tier. The possibility of being drawn into the same group really exists.

Rijkaard is also aware of the team's defensive problems, but he really can't sign in, and can only do his best to defend well on the existing basis. He believes that the team's offense can effectively make up for the weakness of the defense.

On the other hand, rivals Real Madrid only introduced three players this summer, namely Owen from Liverpool, Woodgate from Newcastle, and Samuel from Rome.

Among them, the arrival of Owen has strengthened Real Madrid's frontcourt attack power, while Samuel and Woodgate are well-known central defenders in Europe. The arrival of these two defensive players is bound to greatly enhance Real Madrid's defensive capabilities.

So much so that before the start of the season, Real Madrid is the undisputed No. [-] La Liga team in the winning odds offered by many European gaming companies. They all believe that a pragmatic and rational signing strategy will make Real Madrid's overall lineup more balanced, and they believe that they can succeed in the new season.

Barcelona followed closely behind. The biggest hidden danger besides the back line is the thickness of the bench lineup.

In order to raise enough funds to introduce Su Dong, Barcelona can be said to be selling iron, cleaning most of the bench lineup, including Herald, Sergio Garcia, Kluivert, Cocu, Reziger, Luis Garcia, Quaresma and other stars were all sent out of the Nou Camp.

The ensuing question is, lacking sufficient bench thickness, how does Barcelona ensure the team's smooth performance in the long season?
But even so, the gaming company still believes that the new season's La Liga will be a duo of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​including Valencia, Deportivo and other teams, and it is basically difficult to pose a threat.

But in the competition between Barcelona and Real Madrid, Real Madrid is undoubtedly at the forefront.

(End of this chapter)