Chapter 319 I am actually a good person! At
the end of August every year, Monaco becomes the focus of attention of football fans all over the world.
The annual UEFA Champions League group stage draw will be held here.
This year, due to various reasons such as the European Cup, the group stage draw ceremony was postponed to early September.
As the top scorer of the Champions League last season and the main striker of the Champions League champion Valencia, Su Dong received an invitation from UEFA and came to Monaco to attend the UEFA annual awards ceremony.
As in previous years, the awards ceremony and lottery draw were held simultaneously.
Although it was a national team match day, several award-winning players were invited to attend the event.
The best goalkeeper is Cañizares from Valencia, the best defender is Carvalho from Chelsea, and the best midfielder is Su Dong's current teammate Deco. As for the best forward, Su Dong has no national team competition tasks and has more time.
Cañizares came to Barcelona from Valencia to meet up with Su Dong, and they were accompanied by the equally leisurely David Silva and Messi. These two little followers had nothing to do, so they wanted to accompany Su Dong to Monaco.
Anyway, UEFA will take care of food and accommodation, and the air tickets are very cheap and have been paid for by Su Dong.
After arriving at Nice Airport in France, the four boarded a helicopter from Nice Airport to Monaco.
When they checked into the hotel prepared for them by UEFA, they found that Deco and Carvalho, two Portuguese internationals, had already checked in before them. In addition, Su Dong also met Otto the Great Rehhagel, who led Greece to win the European Cup this summer, in the corridor.
He will receive the title of European Cup champion coach.
Although Rehhagel's victory over Portugal made his good friend Ronnie very painful, Su Dong still admired this famous coach very much. He took the initiative to walk over to meet Otto the Great and exchanged a few words, just to express his admiration for him.
Greece's style of play is indeed not pleasing, but being able to organize the defense to this level still requires a lot of effort.
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After entering the room, Su Dong took a short rest, and then Deco and Carvalho came to him.
When they saw David Silva and Messi, both of them were a little surprised, but they were quickly relieved.
During this period, everyone in the Barcelona team could see Su Dong's love for Messi.
To put it simply, Messi is the one protected by Su Dong!
Deco didn't have a very good impression of Messi because he was Brazilian and was naturally not fond of Argentines.
What's more, Messi rarely interacts with other people in the first team and stays around Su Dong all day long.
If Su Dong is the most hardworking player in the first team, then Messi should be ranked second, and the two are together.
When he saw Carvalho, Su Dong couldn't help but feel a sense of evil.
"I'm really looking forward to drawing Chelsea in the draw ceremony this afternoon!" Su Dong said with a smile.
Carvalho felt a chill down his spine when he heard this.
Meeting Su Dong? That was definitely the last thing he wanted to encounter.
Fortunately, Su Dong did not continue to argue with him about this matter, but changed the subject and mentioned another player.
Drogba.
"How is he performing in your team?" Su Dong asked with concern.
"You know him?" Carvalho was a little surprised.
Su Dong nodded. "We met in the Champions League group stage last season. He lost the game and was very dissatisfied. He said he would beat me if we meet again. Tell him later that I'm still waiting for him!"
At the end of his speech, Su Dong smiled confidently.
Carvalho nodded in agreement, but the look he gave Su Dong was unusual.
He could see that Su Dong was much more confident than when he was in the Portuguese Super League.
Today's Su Dong is no longer afraid of challenges from any opponents, so he issued such a provocation to Drogba.
"To be honest, Su, you have a lot of enemies. Two days ago, the newly introduced center forward of Juventus said he wanted to kill you. When did you offend him?" Deco said with a smile.
Su Dong smiled helplessly, "I don't know why so many people are staring at me. Actually, I am a good person."
Everyone smiled.
Su Dong is indeed good, but there is a reason why so many people are staring at him.
The record transfer fee of 80 million euros allowed Su Dong to surpass Zidane in one fell swoop.
Although the voices of doubt from the outside world have become much smaller now, in fact, there are still many people who are dissatisfied with Su Dong, because he is too young, and many people regard him as a target and want to bring him down.
For example, Juventus signed Swedish center forward Ibrahimovic from Ajax for 16 million euros.
At the press conference where the Swedish giant joined the Old Lady, a media reporter asked Ibrahimovic what he thought about the news report that his playing style was very similar to Su Dong, both of whom were very tall and strong, and had excellent footwork. This made the Swedish center forward furious on the spot.
Ibrahimovic said that he is not like anyone else, "I am me!"
Regarding Su Dong, Ibrahimovic said that he did not understand why any team would be willing to pay such a high transfer fee for him, which was unreasonable.
"The price of signing him is enough to buy five Ibrahimovics. I don't think such a person exists in the world!"
The Swedish center forward also said confidently, "I am not a player who likes to provoke others, but I want to say that I am stronger than Su Dong, and I will prove it in the new season!"
This is the whole process of Ibrahimovic's attempt to get rid of Su Dong.
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Su Dong himself was also very depressed. He was really shot while lying down.
He clearly did nothing and said nothing, yet another opponent showed up.
"But this is a bit troublesome!" Su Dong smiled awkwardly.
"What do you mean?" Deco asked curiously.
"Chelsea is in the second tier, and Juventus is also in the second tier. So should we face Chelsea? Or Juventus?" Su Dong asked Deco with a smile.
Deco burst out laughing immediately.
This season's Champions League is really a bit scary.
Porto, Deportivo La Coruna and Valencia have all made it into the seeded teams thanks to their outstanding performances in recent seasons.
Following that, teams such as AC Milan, Liverpool, Juventus, Inter Milan, Roma, Lyon and Chelsea entered the second tier. This is a crazy pace.
No matter who you meet, it's basically a strong dialogue.
However, there is also an advantage, that is, there are basically no strong teams in the third and fourth tiers.
"Based on previous Champions League draws, it will most likely be a two-strong lineup," Cañizares speculated.
The so-called two-strong structure means that there are four teams in a group, two strong teams, one mid-range team and one weak team in the fourth tier.
Of course, if you are lucky and draw the weakest team Panathinaikos in the second tier, that would be a different story.
"I still hope to draw Chelsea!" Su Dong looked at Carvalho seriously and said.
Chelsea's central defender was very depressed. Why are you targeting me again? Can we not make such nightmare-inducing jokes?
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Sometimes, things in the world are really strange.
If we talk about the Champions League draw, the team that Su Dong least likes to face is definitely Serie A.
The defense of Serie A teams is very good, which gives him a headache.
It was like this as early as when I was at Sporting Lisbon, and later it was the same in Valencia, and it was still the same when I arrived in Barcelona.
Some people say that the food chain in European football in recent years is that La Liga defeats the Premier League, the Premier League defeats Serie A, Serie A defeats La Liga, and the Bundesliga just cheers on the side.
But the problem is that among the eight teams in the second tier, there are four Serie A teams.
The probability of a seeded team drawing a Serie A team is 50%.
What's even more unfortunate is that Juventus, the strongest team in Serie A, was drawn to Barcelona.
When the draw results came out, Su Dong clearly heard Deco's surprise next to him.
It would be fine even if you drew Roma, after all, after Capello, Emerson and other powerful stars moved to Juventus, Roma's overall strength has been greatly reduced from before, but it happened to be Juventus.
The third-tier team was drawn to Ajax, and the fourth-tier team was drawn to Shakhtar Donetsk.
Barcelona's draw was not ideal. It cannot be said to be terrible, but it is really not good.
Not to mention Juventus's strength, Ajax is also strong. Shakhtar Donetsk is far away in Ukraine. According to the schedule, Barcelona will have to travel to Ukraine in the last round of the group stage, and that is in December.
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During the draw, Su Dong went on stage to receive the award for the best forward of the season.
The person in charge of presenting him with the award was Prince Albert of Monaco.
Several other awards were subsequently presented, for example, Rehhagel received the Champion Coach Award, and Portuguese Football Association President Martial received the Special Contribution Award, which was due to Portugal's successful hosting of the European Cup.
The grand finale award is the season's Most Valuable Player.
There is actually not much suspense about this, because everyone basically believes that there are only two players who can compete for this award, one is Su Dong and the other is Deco.
Su Dong's competitive chips come from his outstanding performance in the Champions League and La Liga, especially his 35 goals in La Liga, which broke the historical record set by Ronaldo, which caused a sensation around the world.
The number of goals scored in the Champions League also reached 17, which also made history.
It can be said that Su Dong’s performance last season was phenomenal!
Deco's bargaining chip came from the runner-up of the Champions League, and in this summer's European Cup, although Deco's performance was mediocre, he also helped Portugal get the runner-up.
Whether it is Deco or Carvalho, it is actually quite tragic because they won two runner-up titles.
Although it is better than Sanya Wang Barak in 2002, it is still somewhat uncomfortable.
Many people wondered whether Deco's two runner-up titles could match Su Dong's achievements. More importantly, UEFA's annual awards have always been regarded as a benchmark for the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year.
From September to the end of the year, during these three or four months, there were basically no other significant awards.
As long as he wins the Player of the Year award and performs well in the upcoming leagues, the possibility of winning both awards is very high.
Therefore, media and fans all over the world are watching the award ceremony in Monaco.
Whether it is Su Dong or Deco, whoever wins this award will become the number one favorite for the World Footballer of the Year and the European Golden Ball.
(End of this chapter)
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