Super Marshal

The gap between the rich teams and the hanging silk teams is not only reflected in the hotel where they live away, but also in the pre-season preparations.

When Real Madrid and Barcelona went to Austria and other resorts for pre-season training, Atlético de Madrid could only stay in Mahadaenda sadly, sticking to their own three-acre land and training silently.

It's not that the management is stingy and refuses to pay the money, but that Gao Han thinks it's unnecessary.

Originally, the management proposed that the team go out for training, and also listed several good candidates, such as the resort resort of Canary Islands, or the island of Mallorca in the south, which are all very good choices, and arrange warm-up matches Also easy.

But Gao Han finally gave up this choice after communicating with the management and the coaching staff.

The main reason is that the budget is not enough.

There are more than 20 players on the team, plus the coaching staff and staff, and a large number of people, going out for a month of training, the expenses are quite staggering.

Therefore, in the end the team chose to stay in Madrid, and the warm-up match did not arrange any too strong opponents.

In the five warm-up matches, three opponents came from Spain, and the other two were Parma from Serie A and Everton from the Premier League. They were all typical Serie A and Premier League teams.

The reason for this arrangement is also to help the team adapt to the style of play in other European leagues.

The strength of the opponents in the warm-up match is not strong, and Atletico Madrid is relatively stable in terms of lineup and style of play. Therefore, after a period of training, the Sheets still performed well in the warm-up match.

He won all five games, and the biggest score was a 6-0 victory over a La Liga team.

Among them, the 3-1 victory over Everton and the 1-0 victory over Parma all showed the stability and strength of the team.

With the successive victories in the warm-up match, Atletico Madrid's market for the new season is also bullish.

During the training period of the Sheets Corps, from mid-July, the qualifying matches for the UEFA Champions League will also start one after another.

By mid-August, there had been two rounds of qualifiers.

After drawing lots, Real Madrid's opponent in the third qualifying round is the strong team from Ukraine, Shakhtar Donetsk.

The two sides faced off in two rounds. Real Madrid played first away and then played host. The schedule is good.

The opponent is not strong, but it is too troublesome to go back and forth from Spain to Ukraine.

In addition to the results of the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round draw, UEFA also announced the list of UEFA's best awards of the year.

The three players shortlisted for the best goalkeeper are Bayern Munich's Kahn, Juventus' Buffon, and Real Madrid's Casillas, all of which are among the top goalkeepers in today's football.

The best defenders are Real Madrid's Roberto Carlos, Roma's Cafu and Liverpool's Hyypia.

The best midfielder is contested by Manchester United's Roy Keane, Bayer Leverkusen's Ballack and Arsenal's Vieira.

The best striker is between Juventus' Trezeguet, Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy and Real Madrid's Raúl.

The three candidates for the most valuable player are Real Madrid's Zidane and Raul, and Manchester United's Van Nistelrooy.

As the most popular team in European football last season, Atletico Madrid can be said to have won nothing in terms of player awards.

But as the head coach, Gao Han was shortlisted for the best coach of the year, competing with Real Madrid's Del Bosque, Manchester United's Ferguson, and Bayer Leverkusen's Top Muller.

Newcastle manager Bobby Robson was awarded a special achievement award.

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"It's not fair, it's absolutely not fair!"

As soon as Gao Han got this list, he was very upset.

"The status of the Champions League has been infinitely elevated, the UEFA Cup has been completely ignored, and the performance of the league has been seriously underestimated."

This is Gao Han's view on this nomination.

"Kane and Buffon are in a different league from ours, so I won't say much, just say that in La Liga, Cech won the best goalkeeper of the season and was selected into the best team. He conceded the fewest goals and performed the best. Why didn't he Can you be shortlisted?"

The members of the coaching staff in the office were speechless.

In fact, everyone knows that these UEFA awards are based on performance, but reputation is very important.

"We can't say the best defender, but what about the best midfielder? Kaka, Deco, Guardiola, they definitely have the qualifications to be shortlisted, especially Kaka."

"As for the best striker, the same is true, whether it's the number of goals or the performance, or even everyone pulls out the championship. Villa lost to Trezeguet, Raul and Ruud van Nistelrooy?"

At the end, Gao Han angrily slapped the fax in his hand on the table.

"This is nothing but naked discrimination!"

"I can't help it. Who will let someone be a wealthy family or a big-name superstar?" Cantarero was also very unwilling, but very helpless.

Sergio Garcia even patted Gao Han on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "No, you have been shortlisted for the best coach, and you represent the team and won this award."

Gao Han frowned, and said sarcastically, "Does it cost money?"

Everyone burst into laughter, this is too outrageous, it seems that UEFA awards are bought with money.

But Gao Han really felt that it was like this.

It's just that the money was spent on the player's transfer fee to gain fame.

Otherwise, in terms of performance, Atletico Madrid would not be so unbearable.

La Liga has won all 38 rounds, the UEFA Cup, and a Spanish King's Cup. Isn't this the best in Europe?

Without outstanding players, Atletico Madrid's champions are all bought with money?

"No way, look at Sporting Lisbon's Jardl, who has scored a total of 42 goals, but still can't make it into the best striker ranking."

Tony Munoz, who came to the Sports City specially for this matter, was also comforting.

Frankly speaking, he is also very unwilling, but there is no way, who makes someone rich?

"UEFA also said that this list is not a pure data comparison, what people consider is the comprehensive performance evaluation."

Everyone listened to Tony Muñoz's sour words, and the more they listened, the more they felt harsh.

After this guy retired, he started to work as an administrator, and his speech is getting better and better.

"Oh, by the way, this big bag is all letters from your fans."

Gao Han glanced at it, oh my god, there is a big bag, probably thousands of letters.

"So much?" Gao Han had a headache.

When he first received letters from fans, he was very excited and replied one by one.

But later, as Atletico Madrid's performance got better and better, and there were more and more letters from fans, he really couldn't stand it.

So, colleagues from the club's fan service department helped him screen, and most of them even helped to reply to the letter.

But there will also be some letters that need to be handled by Gao Han himself.

For example, Emery was able to come to Atletico Madrid at the beginning because he wrote a few letters to Gao Han and applied for an internship at Atletico Madrid. Later, Gao Han gave him and several others a chance.

But in the end, only Emery was valued by Gao Han and stayed.

"Most of our colleagues here have read it for you and returned it. Some fans even sent you gifts, and we also returned a small gift from the club for you."

Gao Han nodded in satisfaction, which left a lot of effort for himself.

"However, there are a few letters that you have to figure out for yourself, and one of them is particularly interesting."

As he said that, under the curious eyes of everyone, Tony Muñoz took out a small bag from the letter bag, which contained about a dozen letters.

"These dozens of letters were written by the same person, and the address was also the same, and they were very regular, one letter a week."

When everyone heard this, they immediately laughed.

"It turned out to be a die-hard fan."

"That's kind of interesting."

"No, no, you don't understand, the point is not this." Tony Muñoz stopped quickly.

"What's the key?"

"Yes, let's hear it."

"Say it quickly, don't dawdle."

Gao Han's face was full of black lines, "Why do you guys become so gossip?"

"The point is, this is a woman." Tony Muñoz looked at Gao Han ambiguously and smiled.

Everyone suddenly oh.

Female fans? Also write a letter a week?

My God, this is too happy, right?

"How do you know it's a woman?" Gao Han was surprised.

"It's very simple, there are photos in it."

When everyone heard this, they were immediately excited, and they all eagerly asked for photos.

After obtaining Gao Han's permission, Tony Muñoz took out one of the letters and took out a photo from it.

"Oh, my God, she looks pretty."

"Yeah, look, she's tall in a bikini, but she's not hot enough."

"No way, I think it's quite well-proportioned, and it looks beautiful."

"Looking at the photo, did you participate in some beauty pageant and win the championship?"

Everyone talked about it, and I talked about it, but when Gao Han saw this photo, his first reaction was that it looked familiar.

I always feel as if I have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember it.

Especially the curly snake hair like Medusa.

"Tony, where is she from?" Gao Han asked strangely.

But Tony Munoz asked back with a smile, "Haven't you seen it?"

"Nonsense, how did I see it?"

"But she said in the letter that she met you and thanked you for helping her."

"Really?" Gao Han still didn't quite believe it.

After taking the envelope from Tony Muñoz, Gao Han glanced at the address.

"Israel?" Gao Han frowned.

"Haven't you been to Tel Aviv, Israel before?" Cantarero reminded.

Gao Han slapped his thigh hard, "That's right, I went with Paul to spy on the military situation, it seems that I met her in a hotel in Israel."

hotel?

When everyone heard it, their eyes lit up.

Men, hotels, beauties, it's too easy to associate these three.

"Get out, you bastards!" Gao Han almost kicked them to death.

Everyone burst into laughter.

"She seemed to be going to sign up for some beauty pageant, but she was late. I saw that it was not easy for her to be busy, so I casually said a word for her, yes, it was her!"

Gao Han himself didn't expect that the little girl would write a letter to himself every other week afterwards.

Oh my god, I counted the envelopes, and there was no interruption, which is interesting.

"Hey, it's good if you think about it." Tony Muñoz also smiled, "I will tell my colleagues in the fan service department when I go back, and all her letters will not be opened in the future, and they will be handed over to you directly. , so as not to accidentally spy on some secrets that should not be known."

Everyone roared with laughter again.

Gao Han felt that even if he really jumped into the Yellow River, he would not be able to clean himself up.

However, this letter, to reply or not to reply?

What a question!