The strongest winger

Chapter 1039 The First Death Group in History
After Valencia beat Real Madrid at home and away to win the Spanish Super Cup, their performance continued to be outstanding. A week later, in the European Super Cup at the Louis II Stadium, they defeated the 4-0 Europa League champion Atletico Madrid with a big score of 2011:2012 and became the king of Europe.

In addition, Atletico Madrid's overall strength is not as good as that of Valencia, so losing to Valencia in the UEFA Super Cup is a normal result, which means that it will only become news when Valencia loses to Atletico Madrid.

The end of the European Super Cup also means that the new season of the UEFA Champions League has begun again. The 32 teams that were shortlisted for the 2012-2013 UEFA Champions League will launch an impact for the final championship.

But before that, the 32 teams still need to be divided into four grades under the overall planning of UEFA, and then divided into eight groups.

Before the draw, UEFA also needs to award trophies to the best players in the UEFA Champions League in the 2011-2012 season.

Valencia, which won the UEFA Champions League in the 2011-2012 season, became the biggest winner again. The best goalkeeper was Wang Xiaolei, the best defender was Godin, and the best midfielder was controversial. Cristiano Ronaldo, who played as a winger for almost the entire season in Real Madrid, became the best midfielder.

The best striker is naturally undisputed. Aiello, who led Valencia to become the European champion, was elected the honor. As for the best player in the UEFA Champions League, there is no suspense.

Interestingly, when the best striker and best player in the Champions League were selected, many media remembered yawning, because for them, these two honors were not in the slightest suspense.

And the result also verified their conjecture...

After the best of last season was awarded, the group draw for the 2012-2013 UEFA Champions League was held. I don’t know if UEFA deliberately wanted to cause trouble for Valencia.

Just when everyone thought that the team drawn to the fourth tier of Group D would be a balanced draw, Dortmund, the Bundesliga champion who returned to the Champions League in the 2011-2012 season, was drawn out as the fourth tier team and placed in Group D.

That is to say, the four teams drawn from Group D of the Champions League in the 2012-2013 season Valencia, Manchester City, Ajax and Dortmund formed the death group!
What kind of odds are the champions of the four leagues drawn in the same group?
Journalists with a keen sense of news looked at UEFA President Michel Platini who was sitting in the first row. They believed that the draw was definitely due to human factors, because after Michel Platini was elected UEFA President, he has been extremely dissatisfied with those teams with a lot of money, especially Valencia and Manchester City, which have been crazy about buying people in the first two or three seasons.

The super purchasing power of the two teams directly caused confusion in the European transfer market, and at the same time led to inflated player prices, and even made it impossible for those small and medium-sized teams that were in urgent need of players to buy their favorite players at actual prices.

Therefore, Platini's main job after being elected as the UEFA president is to speed up the implementation of the Financial Fair Play Act. In the last year when the clubs don't care about the financial deficit, it is very possible that UEFA will stumbling the rich teams like Valencia and Manchester City.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the media remembering to give full play to one's own imagination. It is a normal imagination space...

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"Oh my god, Dortmund was actually drawn into Group D! It's incredible! It means that the champion teams of the four leagues constitute the first death group of the European Championship this season. It can even be said that this is the most terrifying death group in the history of the Champions League!"

The eyeballs of Sky TV commentator Andy Gray almost popped out.

His partner Martin Taylor continued: "Except for the obvious disadvantage of the Eredivisie champion Ajax, the other three teams may compete for the right to qualify for the group, especially the defending champion Valencia.

"...Of course, Valencia's group has the greatest chance of qualifying, because they are bound to become the strongest team in this group with Ai! It's just that Manchester City and Dortmund have suffered..."

Duan Xuan, the commentator of CCTV 2012, gave a different opinion and said with a smile: "Oh? Dortmund is the fourth team drawn in Group D? This group is so interesting! Ai Luo and Feng Xiaoting, the national team teammates, will face each other for the first time! I believe that the fans who are sitting in front of the TV watching the 2013-[-] UEFA Champions League group match to raise money at this moment are very excited and eager!!"

At the same time, on China's domestic network, Weibo, which has gradually become a social network for netizens, is almost being maxed out by fans. The most popular Weibo with #阿罗和冯晓彤first confrontation# has tens of millions of Weibo updates in just 5 minutes.

Fortunately, Weibo's background server is strong enough, and it just didn't crash when the traffic exceeded the standard.

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Just when the media and fans focused their attention on the draw itself, the on-site director suddenly gave close-up shots of the head coaches of the four teams on the scene. Aside from the relatively natural expression of Ancelotti, whether it was Mancini or Klopp, it was easy to see from the camera that they were extremely dissatisfied with the UEFA draw!
Especially Manchester City coach Mancini, he miraculously led Manchester City to regain England's top league championship after 44 years last season, which made him feel a little proud, but this draw...almost cried out.

He won't be in the mood to be drawn into a group with Valencia, because Valencia is strong and must occupy one of the group spots, so Manchester City can compete for the second qualifying spot, but the Bundesliga champion Dortmund is drawn to Group D, which makes Manchester City's qualifying situation more delicate, especially the third tier is the Eredivisie champion Ajax...

Borussia Dortmund coach Klopp was also unhappy. When they returned to the Champions League in the 2011-2012 season, they were drawn into a group with Arsenal and Marseille.

Unexpectedly, after defending the Bundesliga champions, they will be drawn again into a group with two teams in the UEFA Champions League group draw in the new season. If foul language is allowed, I believe Klopp will definitely greet Platini with a loud voice...

Ajax's young manager, Frank de Boer, was more open-minded, accepting the reality with a shrug.

(End of this chapter)