Chapter 219 Expedition to Barcelona
On the evening of January 10th, the whole Ibiza team departed from Ibiza Airport on a chartered flight and arrived in Barcelona.
The whole team has solemn expressions. Now everyone has learned the news of the sudden death of the old chairman, Mr. Javier Nieto Alfonso.
Mata, Royce, Alba, Lewandowski and other new players who joined the team last summer did not have much emotion, but the 'old' players who have played for Ibiza for many years are very sad , especially the players trained by Ibiza's own youth training such as Clement, Fareko and Simon Wright are very sad, and the little Fareko even couldn't help crying bitterly.
Before he was born, the boss of Ibiza was the old Alfonso. Farek entered the Ibiza youth training at the age of 9. Later, he attracted attention because of his outstanding talent. He loved the genius he had cultivated very much. The old Alfonso had no grandson, so he almost regarded this little guy as his own grandson, and loved him very much.
Arrive at the Reberto hotel chain in Barcelona and arrange for the players to check in.
Fang Jue received a call from Miss Papa. Manchester City had agreed to let Sun Jihai leave, because Sun Jihai's contract in Manchester City expired in half a year. In order to thank the Chinese veteran for his contribution during his six years at Manchester City, Manchester City It was just a matter of favor and did not intend to earn a transfer fee from Sun Jihai, so he agreed to terminate the contract with Sun Jihai half a year in advance and send Sun Jihai to Ibiza.
Of course, Sun Jihai only has half a year left on his contract, and he is "advanced", even if the transfer fee is charged, it is only a few hundred thousand euros. However, the attitude of the Manchester City team is good. Manchester City does not want the transfer fee, so , Sun Jihai joined freely, and Ibiza will take care of it properly in terms of salary negotiations.
In addition, Li Zihua has already contacted Sun Jihai and his agent through the introduction of an intermediary. Sun Jihai is very interested in joining a Chinese-funded organization and a Chinese head coach's West Second Division team.
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Outside the Leiberto Hotel chain, many reporters gathered.
"Ronaldinho is here!"
"It's Puyol, the captain is here too!"
"Messi is here!"
Ronaldinho appeared at the Rebeto hotel chain and left in a hurry, followed by Barcelona captain Carles Puyol, Barcelona's golden boy, who just finished second in the Ballon d'Or after Kaka Several Barcelona stars such as Lionel Messi appeared in the Rebeto Hotel successively, which attracted the attention of the local media in Barcelona.
When Puyol left the hotel, he was surrounded by reporters for an interview.
The Barcelona captain admitted that his trip was to visit Ibiza coach Fang Jue.
A reporter half-jokingly asked if it was to cheer for Ibiza and encourage them to beat the Spaniard in the Copa del Rey.
Puyol naturally denied it. He said that the Spaniard is Barcelona's team. At this moment, although the Spaniard is Barcelona's derby enemy, he still hopes that the local team in Barcelona can win.
Puyol said the purpose of his trip was to offer condolences.
"Fang and I are friends, and I also know Mr. Alfonso, the chairman of the Ibiza club. We are saddened by the passing of Mr. Alfonso. Football has lost an old man who really loves football."
Only then did the reporters know the news of the death of the old chairman of the Ibiza club. Yes, although the whole Ibiza island is immersed in sadness at this moment, Alfonso is not well-known in Spanish football. These reporters I don't care about and understand the death of an old man, but now it is because of the visit of Barcelona stars, some media are also reporting the news of the death of the old Ibiza chairman in an unimportant corner.
"Obviously, this is a difficult moment for Ibiza. Their old president, Mr. Javier Nieto Alfonso, has passed away unfortunately, and they will also face a powerful Spaniard at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona..." — - "Daily Sports Daily".
"Ibiza head coach Mr. Fang Jue is friends with many Barcelona stars including Puyol, Ronaldinho and Messi. Our captain personally visited the visiting Ibiza team to express his condolences and condolences... ..." "World Sports Daily" reported, "...the young Chinese coach of Ibiza has become a magical coach in the Second Division. It is worth mentioning that he has a good relationship with many Real Madrid players. Last season, Ibiza was a guest at the Bernabeu in the promotion play-offs of the Spanish B-League last season. Some reporters also photographed Casillas chatting with the young Chinese coach. It is said that he and Zidane are also friends... The head coach Mr. Before the head coach, he worked in the Ibiza club and was a craftsman who sold his own handicrafts on the beach. It is said that his works are as popular with some female customers as he himself.”
Yes, Alfonso's death was only briefly mentioned by the media. In their eyes, the death of this old man is not as valuable as reporting interesting stories (gossip) about Ibiza's young head coach.
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January 11, at 8:40 in the evening.
Barcelona, Olympic Stadium.
In the fifth round of the 2007/2008 Copa del Rey and the first round of the 1/8 finals, the Espanyol's home game against Ibiza is about to begin.
Players from both sides have entered the field.
Before the start of the game, a ceremony of silence was held to commemorate Mr. Javier Nieto Alfonso, the old chairman of the Ibiza club who passed away yesterday.
The camera panned over the Ibiza players, Fareko on the bench burst into tears, everyone was solemn, and Fang Jue also had an extremely serious expression.
A photo of Mr. Alfonso was shown on the big screen at the Olin poker stadium in Barcelona.
The ceremony of silence is over.
The Spanish fans stood up and applauded, giving the visiting team the greatest respect and comfort.
The starting lists of both sides were also displayed on the big screen in the stadium.
Ibiza:
Goalkeeper: 1-Simenlet;
Defense line: 20-Abate, 15-Koscielny, 2-Ayala, 16-Alba;
Midfielder: 5-Clement, 4-Mark Korosas, 7-Mata, 17-Royce, 10-Deisler;
Forward: 25-Lewandowski;
Spanish:
Goalkeeper: 1 - Kameni;
Defense: 8-Zabaleta, 21-Jarke, 19-Torrejon, 6-Clemente Rodriguez;
Midfielder: 22-Moises, 25-Smijanic, 7-Baldo, 11-Rierra;
Forwards: 10-Luis Garcia, 23-Tamudo;
"The Spaniards really valued us and kicked us like Real Madrid." Fang Jue put down his hands and got the Spaniard's starting list, shaking his head and said.
Fang Jue has a good memory. He has studied the Spaniard thoroughly. He immediately remembered that the starting lineup of the Spaniard today is exactly the same as that of Real Madrid at home in the 8th round of La Liga. In that game, the Spaniard With the goals of Riera and Tamudo, they defeated Real Madrid 2-1 at home and gave the Galacticos their first defeat of the new season.
"The Spaniards attach great importance to the Copa del Rey. They intend to decide the outcome in one game." Ceballos said.
Fang Jue nodded, and he was a little disappointed at the same time. He thought that the Spaniard would pay special attention to the league and not the Copa del Rey. You must know that in the La Liga three days ago, the Spaniard had just finished a focus match. The third-placed Spaniard beat the fifth-placed Villarreal 3-0 at home. Fang Jue thought that after just finishing a focus game, the Spaniard was tired in today's game. Will choose to rotate, now it seems that this is not the case, the Spaniard seems to have a lot of ideas about the Copa del Rey.
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Although Fang Jue is eager to win, he has to admit that it is difficult. The Spaniard's starting lineup is indeed very strong.
Kameni is the goalkeeper of Cameroon, played in the 2006 World Cup.
Right back Pablo Zabaleta is a young Argentine international. Fang Jue was impressed by this player. Argentina won the World Youth Championship in the Netherlands in 2005. Messi was the number one star and Zabaleta was the captain of Argentina.
The full-back is both offensive and defensive, good at sprinting, and has a good long-range shot.
The reason why Fang Jue paid attention to Zabaleta was because he watched the Chinese National Youth Team. In that World Youth Championship, the Chinese National Youth Team was led by German coach Klauschen. Sheng defeated Turkey, Ukraine and Panama respectively, and scored 9 goals in all three games in the group stage to qualify for the first place in the group. In the end, unfortunately, they lost to Germany 2:3 in the quarter-finals and stopped at 16. powerful.
Central defender Dani Jarque is a product of the Spaniard's youth training. In 2006 and 2007, he served as the core of the defense and helped the team win the King's Cup and the UEFA Cup runner-up. This is also a Spanish international.
Left back Clemente Rodriguez is also an Argentine international and has won the Athens Olympic gold medal.
The midfielder Smijanic is a Serbian international; Albert Riera is a Spanish international. Riera made his debut in Mallorca. Although his height is close to 190 centimeters, Riera is not slow. Possesses excellent footwork.
Luis Garcia on the forward line, produced by Real Madrid Castilla, is also an active Spanish international, and another forward, Tamudo, is also an active Spanish international. Tamudo is the captain of the Spaniard and plays in the Spanish national team. , he is considered to be the substitute of Real Madrid captain Raul. Unlike Real Madrid No. 7, who has been favored by thousands of people since his debut, Tamudo has a mediocre appearance and a simple style of play. He did not attract much attention in his youth.
Tamudo joined the Espanyol's youth training at the age of 14 and walked step by step. After two rents out, he finally gained a firm foothold in 1999/2000. In the first complete La Liga journey, he contributed 10 goals in 34 games and followed the team to the King's Cup final. In the final, a sneak attack in the opening two minutes helped the Spaniard defeat Atletico Madrid with a final score of 2:1 to win the championship. In the subsequent 2000 Sydney Olympics, Tamudo reached the final as a member of the Spanish National Youth Team and won the runner-up.
In the next 9 seasons, Tamudo became a legend of the Spaniards. His league goals in each season have never been less than 10 goals, and he has gradually become the banner of the Parrot Legion.
In the 2001/2002 season, the young Tamudo became the captain of the Espanyol team and scored 17 goals that season, tied for fourth in the scorer list.
In the 2003/2004 season, Tamudo once again broke out and got the third place in the scorer list with 19 goals. Such a result is the foundation of the Espanyol team, which sticks to the middle and occasionally hits the top 6. Similarly, maintaining such a scoring efficiency has never been an easy task for a striker.
Counting from the youth training period, Tamudo has played for the Spaniard for 13 years. Since returning on loan in the summer of 1999, he has scored 118 La Liga goals in 9 years, which is also the Spaniard's team history record.
Moreover, it is worth mentioning that Tamudo is the most disliked player by Barcelona fans. El Tamudo scored his 112th and 113th goals in the Espanyol club in the 2:2 draw with Barcelona in the Barcelona derby, and then surpassed the famous Rafael Maranhão to become The club's all-time top scorer. It is worth mentioning that Tamudo's stoppage-time kill at Camp Nou also ruined the dream of winning the title of rival Barcelona in the same city. After the end of the season, Barcelona and its rivals Real Madrid had the same 76 points, but they were at a disadvantage due to the relationship between the winners and losers of the mutual competitions and could only rank second.
Yes, Tamudo's name is Raul. Tamudo has the same name as Madrid's No. 7, Galactico has its own Raul, and the Spaniards also have their own Raul, it's just so amazing.
Just looking at this starting lineup, the Spaniard is now ranked third in La Liga, only one point behind Barcelona, and it really deserves its name. This is a very strong team.
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In addition, in the eyes of many media, the most important thing for the Spaniards is that they have a talented head coach: Esneto Valverde.
Before the game, there was a report in the "Daily Sports" that praised the head coach of the Espanyol, Esneto Valverde.
Valverde took over the Spaniard last summer. When he took over, the situation of the Spaniard was not good. In a critical moment, Valverde chose to trust the young people. The team's average age is only 23.8 years old. The main defense line includes 23-year-old Dani Jarke, 21-year-old Zabaleta, 20-year-old Torrejon; Rufete is 29, Tamudo is 28, Luis Garcia is 25 and Riera is 24.
It's a combination of talented stars and known veterans, and it's perfect.
Valverde's Spaniard set off a youth storm last season. Indeed, the Spaniard's performance in La Liga was not outstanding. In the first ten rounds, he only scored 1 win, 6 draws and 3 losses, and ranked 11th at the end of the season. However, Valverde's youthful storm brought the team to the UEFA Cup final.
Under his leadership, the Spaniard maintained a complete victory in the group stage against Ajax, Austria Vienna, Sparta Prague, and Wilshire Belgium; in the knockout rounds, he won all home games and was unbeaten in away games, and eliminated Livorno and Haifa in succession. Maccabi, Benfica and Werder Bremen are in the final.
"Daily Sports" praised Valverde, and also listed many stars and talented players who fell at the feet of Spain last season: Stekelenburg, Vermaelen, Sneijder, Huntelaar (Aja Alex), Amelia, Lucarelli (Livorno), David Luiz, Rui Costa, Karagunis, Simao, Nuno Gomez (Benfica), Wiese, Frings, Diego, Almeida, Klose (Werder Bremen).
Finally, "Daily Sports" looked forward to the match between the Spaniard and Ibiza, and also compared Valverde and Fang Jue. Both of them like to reuse young players and set off a youth storm in their respective leagues. , and achieved outstanding results, Spain ranked third in La Liga, and Ibiza ranked first in La Liga. However, the newspaper finally stated that Fang Jue was far behind Valverde, and Valverde led the Spaniard to win. As far as the runner-up in the UEFA Cup last season, the gold content of the third place in La Liga is also much higher than Fang Jue's Ibiza.
"This game is a good learning opportunity for the young Chinese coach. Valverde will give this young over-the-top coach a good lesson."
For this argument of "Daily Sports Daily", the well-known Fang Jue licks the dog "Catalan Evening News" reporter Fernando refuted it. He said that Coach Fang Jue is a very talented coach. The party must be coach Fang Jue. Then, Fernando Barabara said a lot that seemed reasonable, but after careful analysis, there was no nutrition. Finally, he came to the conclusion: Fang Jue must win, Ibiza must win, and Valverde must win. Virtue is not as good as Fang Jue!
At this moment, Fernando is in the media seat. He thinks of the ridicule caused by his report, and he is very happy. He is looking forward to, looking forward to Ibiza losing, preferably a disastrous defeat, and then he will do it again. Sophistry, hatred... Tsk tsk, it's amazing just by imagining it.
Who would have thought that Fang Jue's licking dog was an undercover agent!
I am so talented!
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The stands of the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.
Sun Jihai and his manager Yu Haotao hurriedly took their seats.
At this time, the game had already started for more than ten minutes, they were stuck in traffic and came late.
"Ji Hai, I still think you should think carefully." Yu Haotao said, he does not support Sun Jihai to play in Spain, Yu Haotao has been persuading Sun Jihai to join Sheffield United in the Championship after the end of the season. On the one hand, it is because he believes that Sun Jihai has played football in England for many years and is familiar with the football environment in England. However, because of another important reason, Yu Haotao is also one of the leaders of the cooperation between the Sheffield United Club of the Championship and Chengdu Sheffield United. , He has already planned that Sun Jihai will play for Sheffield United for one year, and then return to Chengdu to play. You can reap certain benefits from it, but Yu Haotao feels that he has a clear conscience, and he is indeed thinking about Sun Jihai. This plan is also very helpful to the players.
However, after Sun Jihai learned that a La Liga team was interested in him, and that Ibiza’s major shareholder and head coach were Chinese, he became interested, especially after inquiring about Ibiza’s team. Now leaders in La Liga and hopefully promoted to La Liga at the end of the season, he is even more interested.
If he can play in La Liga, Sun Jihai is still very interested. Now, the money factor is no longer his first consideration. In the final stage of his career, he can experience different football and be able to play in La Liga. game, he wanted to try it.
Moreover, Sun Jihai was also very surprised to learn about the Ibiza club initially. The German international Deisler and the old Argentine captain Ayala are both in this team, which made him even more curious about Ibiza.
Of course, he is even more curious that a young Chinese can coach Ibiza and has achieved great success.
Therefore, Sun Jihai ignored the dissuasion of his old manager and friend, and insisted on coming to Barcelona. He wanted to watch the team's game live and observe the team closely.
"Brother Tao, what do you think of this game?" Sun Jihai asked.
"The Spaniard wins." Yu Haotao said, "It may even be a big victory."
"Brother Tao doesn't like Ibiza so much?" Sun Jihai asked.
"The strength gap between the two sides is huge." Yu Haotao analyzed, "The Spaniard has one Cameroon international, two Argentine internationals, one Serbian international, four Spanish internationals, and the head coach Ernesto Valverde is also very capable. It is the champion of the Spanish King's Cup, the runner-up of the UEFA Cup last season, and now it is the third place in La Liga. Such a strong team cannot be matched by La Liga teams. In addition to Deisler and Ayala, Ibiza has The other players are not worth mentioning at all, the gap is too big."
As he was talking, Yu Haotao suddenly felt that he should not prevent Sun Jihai from coming to Barcelona to watch this game. After watching Ibiza suffer a defeat or even a disastrous defeat, maybe Sun Jihai will realize that this team La Liga teams are not a good place to go, they will change their minds.
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Fang Jue stood on the sidelines, his eyes fixed on the inside.
After the start of the game, the Spaniards showed great aggression. They put a lot of pressure on the Ibiza fans. Obviously, as Ceballos said, the Spaniard coach Ernesto Valverde and confidence, he wants to It takes a game to decide the world.
Fang Jue turned his attention to the Spaniard's Cameroonian goalkeeper Kameni. The latter seemed very leisurely after the start of the game. The Spaniard took the initiative and once formed a half-court siege against Ibiza, which made Kameni fine. Can do, even a little boring, I don't know if it was intentional or really sleepy, the Cameroon goalkeeper even yawned, which also aroused the cheers of the Spanish fans in the stands: They are very proud.
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