Green Dragon

Chapter 86 The Last Lunch
Since the WHC Wizzup team list and related information could not be found at all, even in the eyes of Long Shute, the players on the opposite side looked like gray villains...

The process of this game was simply horrible, Ajax ended the last game of 18 with a score of 0-2009.

They staged a bloody tragedy in the history of the Dutch Cup in a stadium that can only accommodate 8000 people!

Four Ajax players scored twice, captain Suarez blasted six goals, and even Long Shute got a lot of offensive opportunities, and scored his own goal in the 80th minute of the game!
The difference between professional teams and amateur teams is vividly displayed in this game. After all, the players in Weizpu's team are likely to be university professors, taxi drivers, postmen, plumbers... let these It is indeed difficult for a man to play against a team that has just reached the top 16 of the Champions League.

Van Basten showed no mercy. He turned the 2009 calendar with the most complete main lineup and the best performance.
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"Starting tomorrow, you can enjoy a two-week holiday. Today's simple lunch is considered a Christmas dinner prepared by the club. I hope everyone can enjoy themselves."

It was noon on December 12, and Ajax chairman John Junker, as usual, gave a simple speech at this year's year-end dinner.

He urged the coaches and players to continue to work hard in the second half of the season, trying to reverse Twente to regain the league championship for the club and show a better performance in the Champions League.

Then he distributed the December bonus as a red envelope to each player one by one.

At the end of the conversation, the chairman with a slightly protruding belly also kindly sent encouragement to Long Shute: "In Ajax, you don't need to have any worries. As long as you play well, no one can disturb you. In life, although the club cannot solve all your difficulties, we hope you can regard the team as your solid backing."

Although these words were somewhat polite, Long Shute still smiled and expressed his gratitude: "I know, thank you, Mr. Chairman."

When the clock reached 12 noon, the head coach seemed to have just remembered something, and quickly signaled the staff to turn on the large-screen LCD TV on the wall.

A melody that everyone is very familiar with reverberates in the banquet hall.

While holding the goblet, Van Basten explained to everyone: "Maybe we should care about our knockout opponents..."

"Oh, Marco, how do you become a workaholic now?" Bergkamp shook his head with a wry smile.

But Van Basten seriously taught his assistant: "Although the players can rest, as coaches, shouldn't we prepare for the game in advance?"

Amidst their chatter and laughter, UEFA President Michel Platini and Secretary-General Infantino appeared on the screen.

The 16 teams were divided into two pots based on their results in the group stage.

The No.1 of the eight groups are: Barcelona, ​​Bordeaux, Chelsea, Arsenal, Lyon, Sevilla, Real Madrid, Manchester United.

No.2 is: CSKA Moscow, Stuttgart, Olympiacos, Inter Milan, Porto, Ajax, AC Milan, Bayern Munich.

The top three of La Liga and the three giants of the Premier League have collectively entered the first pot, while the Milan duo and Bayern Munich can only advance to the knockout round as the second place in the group unexpectedly, which means that there will definitely be at least one pair of strong dialogue focus battles.

Since there are basically no teams from the same country to avoid, such a draw only took a few minutes to be declared over.

Sure enough, there are two highlights worthy of appreciation.

Inter Milan met Chelsea, and Mourinho faced his old club.

AC Milan met Manchester United, and Beckham, who was loaned to Milan by the Los Angeles Galaxy, is about to return to Old Trafford.

Bayern Munich escaped the siege of the first tier of tyrants. They drew the first place in Group E, Lyon. Even a fool can see the happy look on Rummenigge's face.

The defending champion Barcelona is preparing to teach Stuttgart how to behave. The Bundesliga team can already declare that their Champions League tour this season is officially over. No one will think that they can stop the progress of the Cosmos team-Barcelona is simply sweeping the Cosmos during this time period exist!
Arsenal drew Porto, Serbia played against CSKA Moscow, and Bordeaux competed with Olympiacos for a spot. It is estimated that these games did not attract much attention.

And finally... Ajax.

Infantino, the big bald man, held a piece of cardboard with blue light flashing in his hand, on which was written a dazzling name:

"real Madrid."

"Pfft..." Someone sprayed out the wine in his mouth in one gulp.

There were also people who were beating their chests and coughing again and again.

The goblet in Van Basten's hand almost fell to the ground, his mouth trembled slightly, and he finally restrained himself from making a sound.

He originally wanted to greet Platini's old mother!
You gave me Ajax as a big gift to Florentino? !

That's Real Madrid!

Not to mention that they just bought the two golden ball-level superstars Ronaldo and Kaka. They just bought a player with much more than Ajax's transfer funds this summer!
Check out their new player acquisitions this year!

C罗9400万、卡卡6500万、本泽马3500万、哈维阿隆索3500万、阿尔比奥尔1500万……

The price of these few people can already buy five or six Ajax...

Van Basten suddenly felt that the French wine in his mouth was extremely bitter.

Looking at Florentino's bright smiling face on the TV screen, he couldn't help but want to shout to the sky again:
God damn thief!

I, Marco Van Basten...how can I be so miserable!
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Compared with the hard-faced head coach, the club chairman seemed very calm.

"The top sixteen is already a very good result, Marco," Jacques comforted Van Basten instead, "No one will put extra pressure on you, you can make proper adjustments and focus on the competition for the league .”

Van Basten could only nod.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, they will no longer complain about bad luck. Instead, they have to figure out how much extra broadcast fees these two games against Real Madrid will bring to the club...

Real Madrid's supporters are all over the world, and there are definitely more countries and regions that pay attention to Real Madrid games than Bordeaux and Olympiacos.

Jake even considered whether to temporarily increase the cost of home sponsorship advertisements.

And Van Basten considers it from the competitive level.

In fact, from another perspective, meeting Real Madrid is at least much better than meeting Barcelona...

After all, the Dream Team led by Guardiola is really terrible. In the past 2009, they met gods and gods, and Buddhas and Buddhas. The whole European clubs were shadowed by them. In such a strong contrast, it seems a little weak.

You know, before Lafayette Florentino regained the chairmanship of Real Madrid in 09, the Galaxy Battleship had stopped in the top [-] of the Champions League for five consecutive seasons...

The name of Royal Sixteen Lang also spread like wildfire at this time, becoming a great weapon for other clubs and fans to laugh at them.

But even so, when it is really necessary to face such a behemoth, whether it is Ajax or other teams, they will still feel a thrill.

That was the most dominant club in the history of the Champions League.

That was officially recognized by FIFA as the greatest club of the 20th century.

That's (one of) the most influential and appealing clubs in the world.

With such an opponent standing in front of him, everyone would feel trembling.

(End of this chapter)