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After the welcome party, it means the beginning of a new season for Rafael.

And this is destined to be a difficult season, because the Champions League has expanded again this season!

This is the second expansion of the Champions League after a lapse of 2 years, from the initial 16 teams to 24, and this season there will be 32 top European teams fighting for the championship.

As the defending champion, Inter Milan will also face tremendous pressure, because their goal this season is to defend three championship titles!

As captain, Raphael must of course set a good example, especially on the training ground.

Robson Sr. could not have been more pleased with his performance.

But the old gentleman also has a little trouble, and this trouble comes from Ronaldo.

As one of the head coaches who know Ronaldo best in the world, Robson Sr. knows the weight of this beloved student very well.

So during the America's Cup, he found that Ronaldo's weight was a bit unusually thin.

It can be said that Ronaldo made a huge effort behind the scenes, but after 3 weeks after the Copa America final, Ronaldo's weight when he returned to Pinetina attracted the attention of the entire coaching staff.

This also made the old gentleman have to talk to Ronaldo, he should always know what happened to his lover.

It may be because the other party is the old Robson that Ronaldo revealed his secret. His national team coach Luxenberg made him take a strong weight-loss drug, which has serious side effects.

This short sentence made the surprisingly good-tempered old Robson almost explode in anger!

Let players take powerful diet pills?

Is Luxenberg thinking of straws?

Ronaldo was silent.

After the Copa America ended, Luxenberg was forced to resign as the national team coach, not only because they lost to Argentina, which was unacceptable to Brazilian fans, but also because of Luxemborg's tax evasion scandal.

Brazilian fans no longer accept that such a coach is in charge of the national team, and Luxenberg can only sadly accept the fate of getting out of class.

The change of coach of the national team also means that Ronaldo no longer has to deal with Luxenberg, so he can speak out about these things.

As he had guessed, Robson Sr. comforted him for a long time before telling him that he would have to take some time to get back into shape with the help of a strength and conditioning coach.

The old Robson said bitterly: "This is mainly for your knees, Ronnie, we talked about this topic last season, and it is too heavy. We still have some time, this should not delay your new season... ..."

Facing such an old Robson, what can Ronaldo say?

Especially after he had just experienced a coach who put him on powerful diet pills regardless of the side effects.

Ronaldo started his small stove journey, and Figo also started a small stove with him.

However, the reason why Figo made a small fuss was because he was accidentally injured by Ashley Cole during training, but anyway, he can be regarded as a person with a companion.

Robson Sr. contacted Moratti after learning about what had happened to Ronaldo.

When Moratti came to his office, the old gentleman who had been the coach of the national team for eight years was still angry, and he said very strongly: "We must warn the Brazilian Football Federation that if they dare to do this again, they have to be careful." Let's take the case to FIFA!"

Moratti was a little hesitant, because he was worried that it would make Ronaldo a sandwich biscuit and cause him trouble.

The old Robson saw through his small thoughts at a glance, and emphasized: "Massimo, we must do this! We will not make this public, but you must have a tough chat with the Brazilian Football Association, Ronnie It's our player, we have 7 years left on our deal, they can't damage his body like this!"

"Undisclosed" and "7-year contract" really touched Moratti's heart. The chairman of Inter Milan did not hesitate, but asked the old Robson in a low voice: "Bobby, do you think Rafa will be with us this season?" Renew? I want to invite him to my house for dinner today to talk about it."

When Rafael signed the contract, he only signed a five-year contract, so he did not hesitate to make concessions on the annual salary.Moratti has regretted countless times during these two years, blaming himself for not being persistent at the time. Anyway, it must be a "5" contract!

Last season, he wanted to talk to Rafael about renewing his contract, but until now Rafael's agent has not let go, and he is almost dying of worry.

Old Robson shook his head helplessly. Seeing Moratti's depressed face, he had no choice but to comfort him and said, "I have some good news for you?"

Moratti looked at him.

The old Robson smiled and said: "Luis is going to the nursery, it's in Pinettina. As long as there is no away game, Rafa will pick him up personally."

This is definitely super super good news!

Moratti certainly knows what this means!

But after a few seconds of ecstasy, the chairman of Inter Milan's IQ came online again, and he couldn't hide his jealousy and asked, "Did Rafa tell you? When?"

The old Robson said with a smile: "Two days ago, the day he returned to the team early."

Moratti is even more jealous!He obviously came over to chat with Rafa that day, but he didn't hear the news!

His expression was too obvious, and the old Robson persuaded with a hint of slyness: "I think Rafa still likes Inter Milan very much. When he joined every new player, he told them the same sentence, welcome to Inter Milan." Milan, we will win everything here."

Such a sentence easily appeased Moratti and even put a smile on his face.

At this time, the old Robson said: "Rafa is a person who likes to hold the initiative in his hands. His personality is like this. I believe that under the same conditions, he will definitely stay at Inter Milan. As long as we give him some time .”

Moratti nodded slightly.

Raphael always does.

"I think we can add a friendly match," said Robson Sr. "Originally we didn't arrange it because of the America's Cup, but I still have some ideas about the lineup, so I think it would be good to add one."

This is business, Moratti immediately asked: "Is there a goal?"

The old Robson said: "It is best to be a La Liga team, not too strong, and the date can be arranged later."

The exhortation of "don't be too strong" made Moratti obviously a little disappointed, but he still nodded his head to express his understanding.

Louis going to school is obviously a big event, and after the news was exposed by the media, it aroused heated discussions.

Louis was born on March 1997, 3 and is now two and a half years old.

According to the regulations in Italy, children over 3 years old can go to kindergarten, and babies under 3 years old go to nursery school.

Raphael didn't have to send Louis to the nursery, but no matter whether he went to the nursery or kindergarten, Louis would go to school sooner or later.

Since you have to go to school, there is one thing that you must face

Louis, where do you go to school?

Of course he didn't want Louis to leave his parents, but he was a professional player, destined to travel between home and away games, and he couldn't take care of Louis wholeheartedly.

At this time he would like to thank Javier and Ada for their sacrifices, they would rather move back from the city center.

Rafael was very moved. He was moved by spending a lot of money to buy a house for his brother in a small town to renovate, and he also planned to give Javier a luxury car.

Javier was also very moved. He was so moved that he told his younger brother that he wanted to buy a Maserati this time, and he wanted to give it to Ada in red!

As the queen of sports cars, Maserati is both elegant and beautiful. Raphael placed an extra order with great enthusiasm. He wanted to buy a blue and white one for Aimar.

Since there are only two nurseries in the town, it's no secret where Louis goes to school.

The media squatted patiently for two days, and on August 8th, they took pictures of Rafael sending his children to school.

The parents were also shocked when they saw Rafael.

Of course they knew that Raphael lived in this small town, but the high wall made him seem to live in another world.

What now?They saw him so unprepared!

Raphael patiently signed autographs for the parents, and even humbly asked for some parenting experience.

When he was parting from the child, he was just an ordinary parent, trying to comfort the crying Louis in a hurry.

Such a scene of "farewell to life and death" also made the flashlights of the media light up non-stop. Such a Raphael will definitely shock countless fans!Three (iii) YQχδ.℃òΜ

Because he was too short, only half of his face was photographed, and his father looked helplessly at his younger brother and son

I will stay, okay, I will be an accompanying student for a few days, and accompany our little one to get used to it!

When the time came to August 8, UEFA conducted a draw for the UEFA Champions League group stage of the new season.

Although Raphael didn't say he was looking forward to it, he was very honest and installed TV sets in all the bedrooms at home.

Then he nestled confidently in his room and watched the whole process of the lottery with Aimar by phone.

This lottery is more complicated than before. Let's first introduce the allocation of places.

Due to the expansion of the army, a new division method has been adopted for the places in the UEFA Champions League this season. The top three league points in each country, Serie A, Bundesliga and La Liga, get 4 places. The fourth place needs to participate in the third qualifying round, and the fourth to sixth places. The Premier League, Ligue 4 and Eredivisie each get 3 places.

Before the draw, Serie A team Parma, Ligue [-] team Lyon and La Liga team Mallorca failed to get past the third qualifying round and entered the main match.

But even so, among the 32 teams participating in the main match, 18 teams come from the six leagues of Italy, Germany, Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands.

The teams from these six leagues not only occupy 18 places, but under the new rules, the giants have a higher chance of survival

This year's Champions League will use a two-stage group stage.

In the first stage of the group stage, 32 teams were divided into 8 groups for a double round-robin match.What is different from the past is that it is no longer one team that can directly advance, but two teams.

These 16 advanced teams will enter the second stage of the group stage, and then be divided into 4 groups for a double round-robin match again. The top 2 teams can advance to the top 8 and enter the knockout round.

Under this competition system, Barcelona, ​​Bayern and Manchester United are in a group like last season, and the tragic situation where only one of the three giants can directly advance will rarely happen again. In addition to the top of the group, the second in the group can also qualify smoothly.

As the defending champion, Inter Milan is of course the seeded team. In the first stage of the group stage, they were assigned to Group H.

Their three opponents are Chelsea from the Premier League, Hertha Berlin from Germany, and Galatasaray from Turkey.

The current Chelsea is not the future Chelsea. Among the three teams, only Galatasaray's away game is difficult to play.

Rafael is very satisfied with this grouping, but the luck of Valencia, where Aimar plays, is a little bit worse, they are in Group F.

They are in the same group as last season's Champions League runner-up, German giants Bayern, Dutch giants Eindhoven, and Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers.

Compared with Inter Milan's lottery luck, Valencia's lottery result can be described as quite tragic, and it can almost be said that they were divided into the death group.

The reason why it is "almost" is because there is another group and group f that are brothers and sisters of group a.

This group brings together Serie A giants AC Milan, La Liga giants Barcelona, ​​Premier League giants Arsenal, and the overlord Aik from Sweden.

After the lottery results came out, Raphael kept his mouth shut very obediently, and instead of making sarcastic remarks, he chatted with Aimar about several Bayern players.

From Matthaus to Effenberg, to goalkeeper Kahn.

Of course Aimar felt this kindness. They chatted for a long time, so that no one noticed how excited Rafa's old father was.

Hughes even posted a dynamic on the network:

hughes10: So glad my little angel is coming home.This is the first time I have watched you play football in the city where you were born.

Of course he is happy, because not only will his son return to England and London, but he will also play football at their doorstep.

It even made him think

If Rafa had grown up in London, wouldn't such joys have come every week?

The author has something to say: the chapter that made me almost bald...

This two-stage group stage almost drove me crazy orz