Football career: From winning the championship to becoming a legend

Before the end of the first half, Angel Lopez's performance did not cause any waves. The referee on duty did not even take out the yellow sapphire card: after all, his acting was too poor...

However, it is not known whether it was Angel Lopez's pitiful performance that stimulated the team's desire to perform. In the second half, Celta regained a certain initiative and created several threats in a row.

In the 47th minute, Celta midfielder Cannabio made a direct cross from the left, and Celta's lone striker Bayano successfully won the ball 12 yards in front of the center goal, but unfortunately his header was slightly higher than the crossbar.

In the 56th minute, Celta's left winger Davide Silva attacked again on the left and successfully made a cross. This time, Celta's midfielder Nunez succeeded in grabbing the ball in the penalty area, but his header from a small angle was blocked by the focused Valdes and went out of the baseline.

After Celta missed consecutive opportunities, they were immediately punished by the goddess of fate.

After Celta's corner attack failed, Barcelona's attack was successful.

Barcelona extended the lead in the 57th minute. Ronaldinho's father organized an attack on the left and passed the ball. Iniesta received the ball in the middle under the interference of three opposing defenders, turned around and cleverly passed the ball to the right side of the penalty area. Eto'o, who was running like a ghost, rushed over, received the ball with no one guarding, and shot into the near corner from 14 yards in front of the goal, scoring his second goal!

这是喀麦隆人本赛季第17粒联赛入球；并再度巩固了他21世纪西甲第一射手的记录：2005年年度进球29个，而21世纪以来累计进球达到90个的大关！

The goal scored by the Cameroon Leopards once again set off a wave of celebration among nearly 10 fans at Camp Nou, with layers of people forming waves in the stands.

And then Barcelona took over the game:

Deco, Edmilson and Giuly, who replaced Messi in the 67th minute, took turns threatening Celta's goal.

Among them, Giuly and Eto'o, who came on as substitutes, had many sparks, and they almost changed the score in the final moments of the game...

In the 81st minute, Giuly made a clever wall-to-wall two-pass combination with Eto'o on the right side of the penalty area. After successfully breaking through the defense, Giuly calmly shot into the far corner from 8 yards in front of the goal, but was blocked by goalkeeper Esteban's legs.

In the 85th minute, Giuly made a straight pass from the midfield, and Eto'o, who received Giuly's pass, took a long shot from 24 yards in the middle. Unfortunately, the angle of the shot was too straight and was caught directly by Esteban.

In injury time, Deco made a lob pass into the penalty area from the top of the penalty area. Giuly cleverly stopped the ball 8 yards in front of the goal with the help of Eto'o's cover, and then calmly shot into the far corner again, but it was miraculously blocked by Esteban with his fingertips.

Although Celta scored a goal in the 88th minute of the game, it was a fake draw.

This time Celta's attack was completed by substitute midfielder Guerrero. After receiving a straight pass in the middle, he faced Valdés from 14 yards in front of the goal and shot the ball into the goal, but the referee ruled it offside...

However, the slow-motion TV broadcast showed that the offside call was also controversial and was likely a wrong call.

At the end of the game, Barcelona beat Celta by 2 goals, but this was indeed the team's 13th consecutive victory! Once again expanding the club's unprecedented winning streak in history!

"We didn't play well enough, but the team accomplished the task. I want to congratulate my players... We can't help but feel happy. Now I pray that Barcelona can continue this winning streak in 2006." After Rijkaard commented on the game with a pretentious smile, he also officially announced the start of Barcelona's Christmas holiday.

Helping Barcelona beat Celta 2-0, Eto'o set another record - currently, all 20 La Liga teams' goals have been scored by Eto'o. Celta was originally the last bastion, but Eto'o completed the task with two blitzks in this game.

After this round of games, Mundo Deportivo compared Eto'o and Ronaldo, and believed that as long as Eto'o maintained his current form, it would not be difficult for him to break Ronaldo's league record of 34 goals. He even had a chance to challenge the great record of 38 goals in a season set by Sara and Hugo Sanchez.

Unfortunately, Eto'o will participate in the African Cup of Nations with the Cameroon national team in January next year. If Cameroon can reach the final (held on February 2006, 2), Eto'o will miss at least five league games. It should be noted that he has never missed a La Liga game since the start of this season.

When the last league match of this round ended, Osasuna defeated Atletico Madrid 2-1 at home. Osasuna, who maintained a perfect home record this season, is still 2 points behind the league leader Barcelona.

Barcelona's arch-rival Real Madrid lost to Racing Santander 1-2 and is 11 points behind the top of the table.

Ranked third in the league standings is Valencia, which beat Mallorca 3-0 at home in this round. The Bats, who have been frantically chasing points in recent rounds, are ranked behind Osasuna with 32 points, but are already 8 points behind Barcelona.

So after the 05th round of La Liga in the 06/17 season, Barcelona took the lead with 40 points, followed by dark horse Osasuna with 38 points, followed by Valencia in third place, Villarreal in fourth place with 30 points, and Real Madrid and Deportivo La Coruna both with 29 points.

Leading Real Madrid by 11 points in the standings allows Barcelona players to have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday: the holiday for local and European players ends on December 12, while the players from Africa and America can stay at home for a few more days and only need to return to the team on January 30.

而巴塞罗那在冬歇期过后的第一场正式比赛是1月3日西班牙国王杯1/8决赛首回合对阵丙级的萨莫拉队，接着就是1月7日重燃战火的西甲第18轮，加泰罗尼亚德比，巴塞罗那做客挑战西班牙人队。

Among the 20 La Liga teams, Barcelona is the first to take a holiday.

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Speaking of holidays, it is necessary to briefly introduce the famous winter break in the football league.

Since the European league is a multi-year event, the halfway point of the league is often the Christmas and New Year holidays. In addition, the extreme cold and even snowy climate is not suitable for outdoor activities. Therefore, European countries generally suspend sports events from the end of December to mid-January of the following year. This period of suspension is called the winter break.

因此冬歇期一般从圣诞节前开始，也就是12月20日-24日之间，持续到1月初元旦之后，一般在1月15日之前就会恢复。

The winter break is a critical period for European teams to adjust their status, recover from injuries or fatigue, summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the first half of the league, and make reinforcements in the winter transfer window.

The five major European leagues, except the Premier League, all have a winter break.

The Premier League, which has no winter break, is also the most complained about by players and coaches. They believe that the extremely long game cycle and heavy and high-frequency game tasks have greatly increased the probability of players getting injured due to physical fatigue and cold weather.

However, fans really like to watch exciting football matches during the holidays: The Premier League knows that the players are having a hard time, but they just can’t change it... After all, the fans are the ones who provide them with food and clothing!

Therefore, the more commercialized a league is, the more cruel it may be.

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Although the team has a holiday, poor Ricardo Liqi has not yet had a holiday.

On the second day of the team's holiday, Ricardo was still discussing the revision of his paper with the professor at the university. However, there was also good news: the optimized and adjusted code software had been received by the professor two days ago...

After two days of discussion and arguing, Professor Almiron and Ricardo finally reached a consensus on the third day before Christmas - after all, Professor Almiron also wanted to take a holiday to spend the holidays with his wife and children, right? It was definitely not because of the Christmas gifts Ricardo had specially helped to prepare for the whole family...

Under Ricardo's diligent licking, oh no, it was a detailed and practical report, Professor Almiron finally passed Ricardo's two courses in the fall semester, and also agreed to open a separate channel for Ricardo to take credits during the winter vacation.

However, Ricardo has to complete the data collection, collation and verification of the thesis during the winter vacation. If Ricardo makes good progress, Professor Almiron can grant Ricardo a course credit on his own, as the University of Barcelona generally does not have winter vacation courses.

Unlike other universities in Europe and the United States, the winter vacation in Spanish universities is generally shorter. In fact, it is not short, but it is divided into parts: the Christmas vacation usually lasts from the end of December to mid-January, and then the spring semester starts in late January or early February at the latest; however, the spring semester starts early because there is a two-week Holy Week holiday between March and April.

In addition, Spain has a special "bridge holiday" (Puente), which means if Thursday is a holiday, since Saturday and Sunday are also off, they will simply combine Friday with the holiday, and will not adjust or make up classes for Friday's classes! Surprising? Unexpected? Envious?

Before the professor went on vacation, Ricardo successfully obtained the professor's approval of his application - a portion of Professor Almiron's scientific research funds could be allocated as special expenses for data collection and research.

With the funding, Ricardo immediately asked Chiara to contact major market research companies and business consulting companies to assist in collecting the latest business data on artificial intelligence and algorithm applications in recent years. Don't be afraid of spending money, time efficiency is the first priority!

Although Ricardo is not short of money and can buy the data himself, Professor Almiron is the first author of the paper! The professor should feel involved and engaged, right? Ricardo is mainly responsible for the work, so the professor should be responsible for spending some money, oh no, some funds...

Besides, as a senior service specialist of UBS's private banking department, Chiara helped clients solve some minor academic problems, which was also a reasonable service, right? Moreover, this big client would pay an extra service tip...

Chiara was naturally very happy to do so, and openly helped big clients handle private business during working hours - it could be considered a kind of private banking service, and the branch boss agreed to it anyway.

After all, Tesla and Facebook's investment negotiations went smoothly. One was 1100% for $11 million, and the other was 1080% for $10.5 million...

UBS has a bit of the shadow of Mantai in the future, successfully helping two start-up companies raise their valuations to over 100 million...

If Ricardo hadn't transferred another 1000 million US dollars from an offshore company into UBS's personal account, Chiara would have been a little worried that Ricardo, who spent so much money on investments, would lose all his money and his net worth would plummet...

After all, they had to spend nearly 2800 million US dollars to buy three small companies that had just been established for a short time, and they only held a little more than 10% of the shares. Even UBS insiders shook their heads when they heard about it: I have never seen such a waste of money...

However, there is no conflict between rich people squandering their money and UBS providing high-quality services!

I heard that due diligence has been completed, legal procedures and documents are also ready. In the two days before the holiday, specialists from the US branch will sign contracts with the two companies on behalf of Ricardo's private trust fund. After that, UBS will collect a service fee. In addition, there will be a first-year management fee to be collected at the beginning of next year!

We cannot let our big customers feel even slightly dissatisfied or disrespected before we issue them a bill...

The leader said: "We must lick the big customers well! Oh no, it's about providing good service..."

Chiara followed suit and said firmly, "Yes! No problem, boss!"

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The club is on holiday, and school matters are settled. Can Ricardo finally take a relaxing holiday?

No, in fact, Ricardo has just begun to face the most difficult holiday task!

Sarafina, Julianne and Chiara are the three beauties who all asked Ricardo to spend the Christmas holidays with them at the same time...

More than a week ago, Riccardo received invitations from three people on almost the same day. Of course, Sarafina in Italy and Julian in the UK asked through phone calls and text messages. Chiara came to provide logistical support last weekend. She used her hair to tease Riccardo's bulging chest muscles and whispered in Riccardo's ear about his Christmas holiday arrangements...

Ricardo was immediately overwhelmed...stepping on two boats at the same time, oh no, stepping on three boats with both legs at the same time, is not an easy challenge!

Fortunately, three days ago, a phone call from Lapang saved Ricardo's hair and also saved Ricardo's greedy desire, allowing him to continue pursuing the excitement of walking on the edge of danger...

Lafayette called to tell Ricardo three things:

1. Winning the European Golden Boy Award helped Ricciardo sign another big brand endorsement: this time it was the global endorsement of Kinder brand under the Ferrero Group, a famous Italian food company and the world's fourth largest chocolate manufacturer.

(Yes, it is Sarafina’s family’s business and brand.)

2. Then Nike invited Ricardo to go to Switzerland during the Christmas holidays to shoot winter clothing advertisements and participate in promotional activities, and asked Ricardo whether he would accept.

3. Coca-Cola also invited Ricardo to go to Paris, France to shoot commercials and attend promotional activities during the Christmas holidays. Would Ricardo accept the invitation?

Ricardo was suddenly relieved and overjoyed. Fan Jin was incoherent when he passed the imperial examination:

"Uncle Mino, you really send me a pillow just when I'm dozing off! Oh no, it's a timely help, helping the needy and the needy, being brave and righteous, seeing a light in the dark room, seeing a boat across the river..."

"Hurry up and make arrangements! Accept them all, accept them all, and fill up the Christmas holiday!"

"By the way, ask Kinder if they want to shoot commercials in Switzerland or Paris this holiday. Let's do it together..."

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