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At first, Ronaldo didn't notice the photos of Karl and Beckham's "teacher-student relationship" published by the media, and he didn't know that the two of them would cooperate in a public service advertisement in the summer.

Because he has been too busy recently: Manchester United encountered an absolute devil schedule within this week, first the second leg of the Champions League semi-final with AC Milan, followed by the Manchester derby with Manchester City two days later, two games in three days All the players are as tired as dogs, but they haven't taken a few breaths yet, and the match against Chelsea is approaching again... Three heavyweight duels within a week, no matter how strong the physical strength is, it will take off a layer after the match Pi, all the players who didn't get injured in the game, when they heard the referee's final whistle, they were busy thanking God in their hearts.

After a 0:0 draw with Chelsea, Manchester United has won the Premier League championship this season with a 2-point advantage over No.7 in the standings. Ferguson breathed a sigh of relief and generously released two Day off, let them have a good rest.

Only now is Ronaldo free to have dinner and clubbing with his teammates, or go home and play games on the Internet by himself.To be honest, he really wanted to find someone to talk to now-God knows how many things he has accumulated in his heart!A few days ago, I was single-mindedly thinking that the game was okay, but now I am free, the sadness of losing the semi-finals of the Champions League, the unwillingness to lose the league golden boot to Drogba, and the emptiness and loneliness of guarding such a big house by one person suddenly flooded Come up, let him who has always been cheerful become a little dull.

It wasn't until he browsed the news of the recent good results of Munich 1860 on the Internet that Ronaldo became a little happier-although his life was not smooth sailing, Karl's life has been quite nourishing recently!What's more, the praise of the Lions coach by various news in China made Ronaldo feel a little bit proud, and he wished he could immediately wince at others, "Look at how amazing my friend is!".

There are inevitably comparisons among peers. For example, Drogba can kiss the Premier League Golden Boot trophy awarded to him by the FA in the near future, which makes Ronaldo feel very sour.

But Carl is different. He and Ronaldo are a coach and a player. There is no natural comparison relationship. Coupled with deep feelings, Carl's career will only make Ronaldo feel happy. At most, he will look forward to it: "No Knowing how different the way Carl manages players now is from when he was at Manchester United."

After surfing the Internet for a while, just as Ronaldo was about to call Carl, he accidentally clicked a webpage with his right hand, which made him stunned instantly.

After an unknown period of time, a crisp sound of "snap" recalled Ronaldo's soul.

He looked down, and it turned out that the mobile phone fell from the palm of his left hand and fell to the ground. The body was not damaged, but the screen was black.

As for why his hands slipped, Ronaldo knew that it was because he was so distracted that he completely forgot that he was still holding something in his left hand.

Frowning, ignoring the mobile phone on the ground, he stared angrily at the photos on the web page.

It was a semi-nude photo of Karl Alston and David Beckham embracing intimately, against a beautiful beach somewhere in the background, and Beckham, muscular but underdeveloped, with arms covered in tattoos, was smiling. With a charming face, Carl, who only wears a pair of beach shorts, does not seem to have a good figure, but those gray-blue eyes are really terrifying. No matter who sees this photo, their eyes will definitely be taken away by those eyes at the first time , maybe you will also feel numb and overheated cheeks along the way...

If you can calm your emotions and look carefully, most people can quickly find something wrong with this photo: for example, the background of the beach is too blurry, and it doesn’t fit in with the characters. The two people seem to be floating on the beach. , without the down-to-earth feeling of real photos; another example is that Beckham's head is leaning on Carl's shoulder, but his body's turning is inconsistent with his head, and he is slightly sideways, which makes people look very awkward and uncomfortable Another example is Carl's body. Everyone knows that the Lions coach never exposes his skin except his neck and wrists in front of others, and no reporter has ever taken photos of him on vacation. According to common sense, his body should be relatively The facial skin looks pale. Who in the world of football does not know that the skin of the head coach of Munich 1860 is delicate and white, which cannot be changed by wind or sun?But Luo's exposed body in the photo is a bit tanned brown, and it looks darker and rougher than the facial skin; the last and the biggest BUG is that Karl Oston's hair is dark golden, but the photo The chest hair on the middle body is brown-black and even a little curly!

In a word - this photo is too much like a composite!

However, Ronaldo was so shocked when he first saw the photo, and he couldn't calm down, so for a while, the Portuguese star didn't realize that there was something wrong with the photo, and he didn't even think of browsing the photos below. news.

Ronaldo was in a very bad mood. If he had to find an adjective to describe it, it would be "a volcano in his chest is erupting."

He suddenly threw away the notebook, stood up and walked a few heavy steps in the living room, with such force that it seemed as if he wanted to step on the floor to make two holes.

After feeling numb in his feet, he fumbled for his phone in his pocket again, eager to call someone and ask what was going on.

After searching all over the body but not finding the phone, and his anger increased by three points, he suddenly remembered that the phone seemed to have been dropped by him on the ground just now?

Looking down and looking around, he found the mobile phone lying on the floor. Ronaldo bent down to pick it up and turned it on, but no matter how he pressed it, the mobile phone screen was black.

This made Ronaldo so angry that he simply swung his right hand down and threw the phone out again. After tasting the feeling in his heart, he still felt unhappy, and he walked over again "peddling", as if venting his anger. He kicked the broken mobile phone away, and kicked it to some corner of the room.

If there are people who are engaged in the research and development of luxury mobile phones here, they must have cried out in distress now: "It's not a mobile phone that fell, but a lot of euros!"

As a world-class star with an annual salary of several million pounds, Ronaldo will never treat himself badly in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. For luxury mobile phones developed by high-end customers, customers can choose gold, platinum, gemstones, diamonds and other production materials according to their own needs, and are hand-set by the same batch of craftsmen who build Rolls-Royce cars. The global limited edition.Ronaldo forgot the specific price of the mobile phone he chose, but it is definitely a price at which he can buy a good sports car.

But just like many women can quickly release their inner negative emotions through shopping spree, most men can quickly free themselves from their dark emotions by destroying them.

After shooting a lot of euros, Ronaldo finally felt more comfortable. He sat on the sofa again, retrieved his notebook and prepared to send a fierce email.

But when he put his eyes back on the webpage that hadn't been closed yet, he was stunned again.

It turned out that there was actually a line of title on the top of the photo, and a paragraph of text below it, but because the first thing he saw was a picture, and the impact of the picture was too great for him, he completely ignored those words.

After re-reading it now, Ronaldo realized how much he was unnecessarily angry.

The caption on the photo reads "Auston and Beckham's post-match hug triggers a PS frenzy on the Internet", and the text below reads: "As soon as the news that Auston and Beckham will cooperate in filming a gay public service advertisement this summer spreads After the release, it aroused countless netizens' imaginations. All the photos of the two of them in the past did not escape the black hands of netizens, and they were all PSed to look like a gay couple...Because most of the photos were too serious, netizens had to use embedding techniques to maintain The poses of the two remain the same, but all the clothes are canceled through the software...By the way, even the background has become a bathroom, bedroom, beach, and even a swimming pool and bed..."

Conscientiously and carefully connecting his own memories, Ronaldo was pleased to find that Carl's figure in these photos was indeed different from the one in his memory, and it was indeed synthesized by netizens themselves.

However, after seeing the words "gay public service announcement", his face darkened again.

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On May 5th, the Hampton Park Stadium in the south of Glasgow, Scotland, which can accommodate 17 fans, was full of voices. The UEFA Cup final of the 2006-07 season was held here.

Hampton Park Stadium is the national stadium of Scotland. It became famous in the world at the beginning of the 20th century. It has created a record of 15 people watching the game. The design of the VIP box at Wembley Stadium, the famous home of the England national team, started Hampton Park has drawn a lot of inspiration here. After the latest renovation was completed in 1999, UEFA awarded it the title of "five-star stadium". Since then, Hampton Park has been able to host many important events of the national team and UEFA.

Although the stadium has been refurbished, the refurbishment is generally concentrated on the turf of the stadium and the fans' stands. Other buildings have been changed relatively little. It can be said that the appearance is bright, but the inside is quite simple.

In the historic dressing room at Hampton Park, Karl is giving his players final pre-match mobilization.

Pointing to the thin locker room door, Carl asked, "Did you hear the fans singing in the stands outside?"

The players just listened a little and shouted: "It's our team anthem!" "RockMe60!" "They're singing Munich 1860 must win!"

The opponent of Munich 1860 for the Bertoni Cup (Europa League trophy) was the La Liga team Sevilla. Since it is a Spanish team, if Sevilla fans sing or shout slogans, they must use Spanish. Now The venue for the evening match was again in Scotland. If there were neutral fans nearby to watch the match, they would definitely speak English or Gaelic.

Since the Lions players can immediately recognize that the singing outside is in German, that only means one thing, that is, there are so many German fans who come to Hampton Park to watch the game tonight, so many that they can completely suppress the Sevilla fans And the point of neutral fan voices.

None of the players who can make a living under Karl's hands are stupid, on the contrary they are all very smart.

"Yo hoo!" Several young players raised their hands and cheered, "It's all our people outside!"

Carl knocked on the cupboard door, and after the players quieted down, he asked, "Does anyone know how many fans are here for us tonight?"

This stumps the players, they only know that since the team reached the Europa League final, the enthusiasm of the fans has soared to another level. It has been decades since 1860 Munich has reached the final of a European competition. , especially under the premise that Bayern has been eliminated from the Champions League, most of the city of Munich is boiling!

When the team boarded the plane from Munich to Glasgow, Scotland the day before yesterday, they also met many, many random fans at the airport.It seems that since more than ten days ago, the fan group of 1860 Munich has been busy organizing a chartered flight to Scotland to watch the Europa League final, but the players don't know how many fans flew over with them from Germany.

You look at each other, and I look at yours. After pondering for a while, the players began to guess: "Ten thousand and seventy-eight?"

"It can't be that little! Twenty thousand, I guess!"

"Twenty-five thousand!"

"Thirty thousand!"

"Hampton Park has a total of 5 seats, the maximum is [-], it can't be more!"

"Stop it, you all guessed wrong." Looking over the shocked expressions of each player, Carl said with satisfaction: "The exact number is 32821."

Sure enough, the locker room fell silent as Carl had expected.

The players had incredible expressions on their faces, as if they were asking: What? 32821 people?I heard that right! ?

In fact, this number also surprised Karl.

The UEFA Cup final is different from ordinary events. Not only will the competition venue be held at a third-party stadium determined by UEFA, but even the distribution of tickets is determined by UEFA.

Like today's decisive battle between Munich 1860 and Sevilla, UEFA allocated the tickets a few months ago: Hampden Park has a total of 52000 seats, that is, 52000 tickets, Munich 1860 and Sevilla received 13000 tickets respectively, and another 26000 tickets will be given to UEFA's 53 football associations, commercial sponsors, media partners and part of the local organizing committee in Glasgow, Scotland, and the rest will be sold to neutral fans.

The tickets shared by the two teams are of course sold to their respective fans. Because the number of tickets is limited, it is inevitable that there will be fans who cannot buy tickets. Then they can use the identity of neutral fans to buy tickets from UEFA. It is more troublesome-first, an application for ticket purchase is submitted to the public from February to March, and each person is limited to two tickets, and then the UEFA ticketing department will determine the ownership of the tickets through a lottery, and the tickets will be sent by mail around mid-April. Send it to fans.

The Europa League final comes only once a year. Of course, it will be very troublesome to buy a ticket. If the fans cannot grab the tickets sold by the team and are not selected by UEFA, then the only way for them to buy tickets is One - to buy from others at a high price!

Think about it, starting from Munich, Germany, to watch a game in Glasgow, Scotland, just the air tickets and board and lodging is a lot of money, plus the expensive tickets - only 13000 Munich 1860 fans can get from The club bought low-priced tickets, and the remaining nearly 20000 people bought them through other channels. A few days ago, a mid-level ticket with an original price of 99 euros was copied online for more than 700 euros!

It was not easy for every 1860 Munich fan who appeared at Hampton Park tonight. The time, money and even energy they spent were immeasurable!

How precious are these fans who travel thousands of miles to Scotland just to boost the team regardless of cost!And how lucky is Munich 1860!

Karl is very fortunate now, if it wasn't for his impromptu idea this morning and asked Hasler to investigate the ticket sales of the game, then he might lose a sharp weapon to motivate players now!

"Our fans are not as rich as Bayern's fans. Most of them are just working class. Their occupations may be cement workers, car mechanics, bartenders...even beggars and homeless people."

"Their monthly salary ranges from a few hundred euros to several thousand euros, and the proportion of the middle class is not large, let alone the rich. Perhaps many people even have no income."

Carl's voice was low.

"I can imagine such a picture, they worry and work hard every day for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of themselves and their families, counting every penny in the account - if they spend more than this month, they will definitely not have enough food next month ; do not add a few new clothes throughout the year, and still wear the old coat five years ago in the cold winter, so that you can buy a set of season tickets for the new season; eat one less sausage for lunch every day, and you should be able to accumulate it for a week after the game Enjoy a glass of beer with friends…”

"Football is probably one of the few hobbies these fans have; victory may be the only thing that can make them forget their troubles and feel happy in real life."

Some players were born in middle-class families and have never tasted the hardships of poverty since they were young. They can’t understand what it’s like to have no money to drink beer and watch games. But at this moment, listening to the voice of the boss and thinking about those words, they feel inexplicably sad.

There are also some players who have suffered enough from poverty since they were young. They know what it feels like not being able to afford new jerseys and not being able to own a football that belongs only to them. They can empathize with what Carl said.

"The fans outside who are here for you, those who are cheering for you." Karl pointed to the door of the locker room: "Some of them overdrawn their credit cards to buy tickets to come here. Some of them today I don’t even have a place to stay at night, and I have to go to the airport to wait for the plane after the game..."

"But they still came! They came for you, for the Europa League final, for the victory! Are you willing to let them down? Willing to let them spend the last penny in their pockets, but leave here with their heads down Is it?"

"Do not!!!"

The excited blood of the players welled up in their hearts, and they trembled all over.

They clenched their fists and couldn't help yelling, "Never let them go back with failure!"

"Kill!!!"

"Fight for the fans!"

"Never lose! Never! If I lose the game, I will, I will run back to the Allianz Arena!"