champion professor

Chapter 371
"Friends in the audience, tonight's UEFA Champions League awards ceremony will be broadcast here, and next will be the broadcast news of the Athens Olympic torch relay."

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A thrilling game, both sides dedicated a wonderful game to the audience.

Neither of them chose the most conservative tactics in order to minimize the risk. This is of course based on Shao Bo and Ferguson's deep understanding of each other, but the fans also enjoyed a game that is enough to recall for many years.

However, no matter how exciting the game was, Shao Bo and Arsenal were the final winners.

This is the first Champions League trophy in the history of the Arsenal club, and it is also the first Champions League trophy in London, a city with a long football history.

Generally speaking, the capital is located in an important place, and the local football clubs may also receive certain policy or economic support, and their development should be relatively good.

So in addition to the Bundesliga, whether it is London or Paris, Rome or Madrid, they all have several teams that dominate the world, or they have fallen into a trough for a period of time, but they will eventually come out of the shadows and rise again.

Although Berlin in the Bundesliga has no sense of presence in the football circle, it also has unique economic and political factors in Germany.

After all, it has only been more than ten years since the merger and reunification of East and West Germany. The foundation of football in East Germany was not good. In the era of planned economy controlled by the Soviet Union, the living standards of the people in East Germany were very poor, and they often needed help from their West German compatriots. Bailout, let alone free time to play football.

How easy is it for them to catch up with a team that has been developed for nearly a hundred years or at least half a century?Whether it is Bayern Munich in the south or Dortmund in the west, they are all regions with financial resources and personnel that are the best in Germany, and they have a solid foundation.

However, England, the birthplace of modern football, does not have this problem. As the capital of England, London, no matter how poor it is, can still gain room for survival.

Among other things, in England's top league, at least four to six teams are guaranteed to show up every year.

Except for Arsenal, who never left the top league after the First World War, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Ham United basically rarely encountered relegation concerns.

Crystal Palace, Millwall, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers are playing promotion and relegation games from time to time.

As for Leyton Orient and Wrexham, they are at the bottom of the 92 professional teams.

As for the other London-based clubs, either because their history is not long enough to be competitive, or because they have long since disappeared in the long river of history.

Looking at other major European cities, even including non-capital cities such as Barcelona, ​​Manchester, and Milan, there has never been a city that has an extremely rich football culture and enough eye-catching clubs like London.

However, what frustrates all fans in London is that they have the most proud fan base and the largest number of professional teams, but among so many clubs in London, no club has ever brought over to the capital of England A Champions League trophy.

Apart from the Champions League trophy, a large number of clubs in London have already won all the honors they can get.It is precisely because of this that the void of the Champions League has always been a pain in the hearts of London fans.

This time, the match between Arsenal and Manchester United is a civil war in England, so domestic fans are also divided into three categories: Manchester United, Arsenal Party, and neutrals.

Most of the fans in London supported Arsenal's victory over Manchester United. After all, there is also a north-south dispute in the UK, and Liverpool and Manchester United, the teams that have won the Champions League, are both northern clubs. Only Arsenal can do it. Become a Southern Club representative.

However, as the mortal enemy of Derby, most Tottenham fans do not want Arsenal to win the Champions League trophy. They would rather continue to stay without the Champions League trophy in London than to watch the joy of their neighboring rivals.

After all, Tottenham Hotspur is the club that won the first European intercontinental honor for London.They occupied the European Cup Winners' Cup throne in 1963, becoming the first British team to win a European championship.

But this is probably one of the few achievements Tottenham can be proud of. After all, in other respects, they were blown away by Arsenal.

If Arsenal wins the Champions League, which currently represents the highest honor in Europe, for London, Tottenham Hotspur will have nothing to win.

In order to avoid this from happening, Tottenham Hotspur instead hope that Manchester United can win the game.

However, Manchester United obviously did not complete the task assigned to them by Tottenham Hotspur, so that Tottenham Hotspur fans had to curse under their breath in the face of triumphant Arsenal fans.

At the press conference, Ferguson's unhappiness was naturally not because he failed to complete the task entrusted to him by the Tottenham fans. In Ferguson's eyes, there is no doubt about whether there is Tottenham Hotspur.

If it weren't for all the head coaches not being able to miss any press conference without special circumstances, I'm afraid Ferguson would have left the venue long ago.

After the awards ceremony, they had to attend the dinner, and after the dinner, everyone at Arsenal, whether they were players or the coaching staff, could only take a nap in the hotel and fly back to North London by plane.

They will also take this authentic championship trophy back to North London for a bus parade!

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North London, Evans Square near the River Thames in Islington, where nearly [-] fans crowded here. The reason everyone is here is not the appearance of the Prime Minister or the Queen’s visit, but Arsenal’s championship parade is about to start here .

The red and white convertible bus was full of players, and the three trophies of the League Cup, the Premier League trophy and the Champions League trophy were all displayed.

Now the authentic and replicas of the UEFA Champions League trophy have been engraved with the name of the champion team. Players holding the genuine trophy can also see Arsenal's name on it.

Moreover, although the gold content of the League Cup and the FA Cup cannot be compared, Arsenal has now won a rare triple crown, which is comparable to Ferguson's achievement in 1999.

Arsenal were suppressed by Manchester United for various reasons back then, but five years later, they successfully fought back with a triple crown, so those who had doubted the club in these years.

Henry, Vieira, Pires, Klose... These outstanding players are all standing on the bus.The players are now wearing commemorative shirts made by the club to celebrate the championship.

There are several colors to choose from, such as red, white, red and white, but all of them are printed with Arsenal's team logo and the words "03-04, Champions League, Premier League, League Cup", which represent the team's achievements in this season. Honor achieved.

This is the opinion put forward by Shao Bo after he won the first honor for the club. Football clubs always develop these businesses later than other commercial companies, so the peripheral development industry that is very mature in terms of entertainment stars should be placed In the football circle, it became a blank market.

Arsenal first settled in this market and achieved very good results.At least it can actually increase the club's profits by millions of pounds every year.

Facing the camera and facing tens of thousands of fans, the players held up three trophies.

London, the foggy capital, gave Arsenal a lot of face today, the sky was clear and cloudless.The three trophies shone against the sun, and this scene was deeply imprinted in the hearts of every fan present.

The bus moved forward slowly, crossing the Islington area along the Central Avenue towards Highbury.

This time the championship celebration will be Highbury's finale.

Shao Bo finally completed the goal he set at the beginning of the season, allowing Highbury, a stadium that has served Arsenal for more than 90 years, to also receive a Champions League trophy.

The honor room of this ancient stadium is also the rare honor room in Europe that gathers the three major European cups.

The European Cup Winners' Cup, one of the "three major European cups", has been cancelled, so many teams will never be able to complete this achievement.

Only four teams, Juventus, Ajax, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, have achieved this achievement before Arsenal, and now Arsenal has become the fifth club to do so.

This has added a lot to Arsenal's heritage!
After all, even the Milan duo, Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid failed to do this.

After making up for the only shortcoming of honor in the Champions League, Arsenal has almost become an invincible golden body, and it is no longer a target that can be hacked at will.

Of course, the joke is to catch whoever is blackmailing. Even if Arsenal brought the first Champions League trophy to London, they were shot several times while lying down.

After the bus drove into Highbury, the players walked into the stadium through the player tunnel. Now the Highbury lawn has been removed and replaced by rows of seats and stands in the middle.

Who made Highbury only have less than [-] seats? There are too many fans who want to participate in the Highbury farewell ceremony and Arsenal's championship celebration. In addition, the club also has the idea of ​​making a small fortune by adding seats. is the only possible way.

Of course, it is impossible for guests like Beckham, Zola, and Alan Shearer to sit in the temporary seats. Most of them are sitting in the stands.

These guests are either world-famous stars, or players who have made great contributions to Arsenal.

It's like the two players who scored key goals for Arsenal in 1989, Michael Thomas and Alan Smith.

It's like Ian Wright, Arsenal's current goal record holder, or David O'Reilly, who has become the club's record holder for appearances with 722 times.

At the farewell ceremony in the morning, bands from England and Ireland came here to support Arsenal.

"TOOHARDTOSAYGOODBEY" is the right song for the occasion, and even sang it on the spot. Many fans listened to this song with a deep connection with Arsenal, and couldn't help but think of those players who worked silently for the team, and their aging self. , A player who is no longer young.

Thinking of this brings tears to their eyes because they love Arsenal so much.

　The second change, the third change continues

　　
　
(End of this chapter)