I Want to Be the King of Football

For Su Dong's last warm-up match in Asia, facing the Shanghai team's performance, it caused an uproar in China.

If in the past, fans only learned about Sudong through live games and video highlights, then this time, nearly 60,000 fans watched the game on the spot, and the Shanghai United team, which gathered international players, experienced Sudong’s terrifying lethality firsthand.

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

General Fan 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, he is amazing!

The domestic media and fans generally praised Su Dong's performance of the big four in half an hour and contributed another assist to help Barcelona lead 5-0 's answer sheet.

On the one hand, he lost the Asian Cup final, and on the other hand, Su Dong made a big splash through his trip to Asia and slaughtered the teams of China, Japan and South Korea.

Even many international players and football people, including General Fan Da, 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 team, Barcelona quickly set off to return to Europe, but the team did not return to Spain, but flew directly to the United Kingdom.

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

After a long journey to Asia, although Barcelona has a bumper harvest in terms of business, the consumption of players is also very large, especially for some core players. Due to commercial contracts, they must play every game. Ninety minutes, it made them very tired.

On the evening of August 14, in a warm-up match held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Rijkaard hid Sudong and Ronaldinho in the ice, and instead arranged for other players to start and continue to run the team. .

The teenager Iniesta completed a wonderful goal in the 78th minute, scoring the only goal of the game for Barcelona, ​​helping the team beat Parma from Serie A 1-0.

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During Barcelona's time in the UK,

The Swedish striker Larsen, signed by Barcelona from Celtic, has officially joined the team.

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

This also allows Barcelona to further enhance the attacking firepower of the striker.

According to media analysis, among the top three players in attacking firepower currently owned by Barcelona, ​​Su Dong scored 35 goals, Larson scored 31 goals, and Ronaldinho scored 15 goals. The attacker's number of league goals last season was 81.

This is a very crazy number, because after Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, which ranked second in the attacking firepower index, only has 61 goals, which is 20 goals less than Barcelona.

Although this comparison method is not objective, 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 Su Dong for 80 million euros, which is even more shocking!

If a month ago, when the transaction was just completed, the whole world was questioning Su Dong's worth, but after going through Asia, I saw Su Dong's crazy scoring performance and the tsunami he caused in the Asian region. Everyone basically changed their opinions, and even turned their heads to think that Barcelona made a shrewd deal.

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

And in third place, it 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. .

Deloitte believes that, as the region with the fastest economic growth and the greatest potential in the world, Asia has an extraordinary attraction to all enterprises and institutions in the world, especially East Asia.

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

Deloitte finally said that Barcelona's potential is quite amazing, and the key depends on Sudong's achievements.

Can the nineteen-year-old Su Dong stand firmly in the ranks of the world's first-tier players? Can it continue to be successful at Barcelona?

This will determine the speed and potential of Barcelona's ascent in the commercial sector.

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

In the face of Peralada in the West Division III, Rijkaard did not arrange for core players such as Sudong, Ronaldinho and Puyol to play, but he still defeated his opponent 4-0.

Just joined Larson scored twice, Edmilson and Motta each scored a goal.

In the subsequent final, Barcelona faced Espanyol, with goals from Deco and Ronaldinho, they defeated their opponents 2-0 and won the Catalonia Cup for two consecutive years.

Su Dong missed the whole game again, mainly in preparation and adjustment for the new season.

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

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

Ancelotti's side didn't do their best, and so did Barcelona, ​​with Ronaldinho and Puyol both sidelined.

Su Dong acted as a center and performed bravely. He first attracted the attention of Kaladze, created a scoring opportunity for Giuli, and then used his skillful foot skills to force a breakthrough and assisted Iniesta to score.

In the end, Barcelona beat AC Milan 2-1 and won the Gamble Cup.

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With the end of the Catalan Cup and the Gamble Cup, the curtain of the new season of La Liga is about to kick off.

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

Last season's weak front line problem was basically filled after Su Dong joined, especially after the arrival of Larson, it made people see the determination of the club to make up for the front line problem.

From the point of view of the warm-up match, Su Dong, Giuly and Ronaldinho are also getting more and more tacit understanding. If there is no accident, they will form Barcelona's frontcourt attacking trident in the new season.

Since Rijkaard likes to use the 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, which not only activates Harvey, but also activates Ronaldinho and frontcourt offense.

Deco replaces Davies to partner with Harvey. As for the midfielder position, Edmilson, Motta and Marcos are all competent, and even Van Bronckhorst can play in this position.

If it is said that there is a small hidden danger in the back midfield, then the problem of the back line is very big, especially the central defender.

The right back is Belletti as the main force, and Gabri can substitute for this position.

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

The real trouble is in the centre-backs.

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

For example, in the Gamble Cup against AC Milan, Rijkaard arranged for Marcos and Oleg to form a central defender, but neither of these two players could be reassuring in the game whether they could become Puyol's qualified partners, There is some doubt about this.

Originally, Rijkaard hoped that the team could introduce another central defender, such as Zaragoza's central defender Milito, but Barcelona really couldn't come up with more transfer fees and could only give up.

This also leaves some hidden dangers.

Barcelona's style itself is to focus on offense and light on defense. Nowadays, there are obvious defensive problems, especially the lack of central defenders. This is easy to be used by opponents. If it is handled carelessly, Barcelona is likely to have major problems.

Ancelotti made a provocation with a smile just after the Gamble Cup game, saying that Barcelona had better not draw AC Milan in the Champions League group stage, because if he played another game, he would definitely not lose!

I have seen the weakness of Barcelona! Ancelotti smiled confidently.

The Rossoneri were assigned to the second tier in the Champions League group stage draw, while Barcelona was assigned to the first tier. The possibility of being drawn to the same group really exists.

Rijkaard is also aware of the team's defensive problems, but he is unable to sign new players. He can only work hard to defend on the existing basis. He believes that the team's offense can effectively make up for the weakness of defense.

On the other hand, the arch-rival Real Madrid has 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 attacking power in the frontcourt, while Samuel and Woodgate are both well-known central defenders in Europe. The arrival of these two defensive players is bound to greatly improve Real Madrid's defensive capabilities.

So much so that, before the start of the season, the winning odds offered by many European bookmakers to La Liga teams, Real Madrid was the undisputed number one in La Liga. They all believed that a pragmatic and rational signing strategy would make Real Madrid’s overall The lineup is more balanced and I believe it can be successful in the new season.

Barcelona followed closely, and the biggest hidden danger other than the back line was the thickness of the bench lineup.

In order to raise enough funds to introduce Sudong, Barcelona can be described as selling iron and cleaning most of the bench lineup, including Gerard, Sergio Garcia, Kluivert, Cocu, Reziger, Luis Garcia, Kua Reisma and other stars were sent out of Camp Nou.

The question that comes with it is that, without enough bench thickness, how can Barcelona ensure the smooth performance of the team in the long season?

But even so, the gaming company still believes that the La Liga in the new season will be a duo of Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​including Valencia, Deportivo and other teams, and it is basically difficult to form a threat.

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