Chapter 956 Barcelona, Are You Ready?
Due to the existence of Yang Yang, Real Madrid's third trip to China has attracted the attention of everyone in the country.
Compared with the previous two times, this time Real Madrid came to China with the strongest lineup, and promised to do everything in their power to dedicate two of the most exciting games to Chinese fans, and to lower their stance in all aspects.
For example, two times before, Real Madrid lived in the presidential suite, but this time everyone in Real Madrid chose a mid-range price room, including Yang Yang and Ibrahimovic, exactly the same as everyone else.
The domestic media also greatly appreciated this, because when Barcelona visited China last year, the club specially packaged a luxury courtyard for Messi and Guardiola, which cost close to 20,000 yuan a night. In comparison, Real Madrid undoubtedly Much more friendly.
This time, Real Madrid will come to China. In addition to playing two warm-up matches, they will also participate in a number of charity activities. In addition, the entire team will also participate in the opening ceremony of the training base of Guangzhou Hengda Team. Real Madrid and Guangzhou Hengda will become the Mutual assistance and co-construction partners.
Chinese fans are also very enthusiastic about the arrival of Real Madrid. There were more than 500 fans who went to the airport to pick up the plane. Later, in Real Madrid's training class, more than 4,000 fans came to watch the training, and Yang Yang was undoubtedly one of them. The most popular among all Real Madrid fans, the fans on the scene spared no effort to cheer for him.
In conjunction with Real Madrid's China trip, major newspapers such as Marca, Aspen, Le Monde and ABC have followed and reported, and almost all newspapers are reporting the crazy enthusiasm of Chinese fans for Real Madrid, and Marca is even on the front page. Toutiao used the Chinese title "Hala Madrid!" for the first time.
Aspen reported that in order to be able to witness their idols, more than 4,000 fans were buying tickets to enter the stadium to watch a training session of Real Madrid, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Robben and Casilla. Si and others have successively caused the screams of Chinese fans, but Yang Yang's appearance caused the craziest shouts on the scene.
The Spanish newspaper also tracked and reported the activities of the Real Madrid players, as well as a free activity the next morning after arriving in Guangzhou. As the host, Yang Yang invited everyone from the team to go to Shangxiajiu and other places in Guangzhou to play and shop. It attracted many fans to gather, and finally the police were dispatched to maintain order.
In addition to the players shopping by themselves, Yang Yang also presented a precious gift with Chinese characteristics to everyone in the team.
In the public training session the day before the match between Real Madrid and Guangzhou Hengda, Adidas arranged for 109 Chinese teenagers to "play against" Real Madrid. These Chinese teenagers represent Real Madrid's 109-year history, and Most are young football players from China's formal youth training system.
In the end, the two sides fought 2-1 and Real Madrid won by a "near" victory, but the atmosphere at the scene was very active, even because there were too many people on the scene, and some small players collided, and then they started. Fortunately, Yang Yang, who was on the side, saw it and ran immediately. "Persuade" in the past.
Different from the crowd tactics of small players, Real Madrid's game against Hengda Team is a real team.
Before the team came to China, Real Madrid publicly stated that it would take the warm-up game seriously and let Chinese fans see the strongest Real Madrid.
As it turns out, Real Madrid did exactly that.
In the game, Real Madrid kicked head to foot, without any hesitation, and played an 8-0 rudely. This is the result of Yang Yang and other main players being substituted in the 60th minute. Otherwise, they can always be Brush a double-digit goal out.
The Chinese media and fans are also very enthusiastic. Although the game lost badly, from Hengda to the domestic media and fans, they all agree with this game and believe that there is still a huge disparity between Hengda and Real Madrid. strength gap.
"Today's Real Madrid is of course also here to make money, but unlike the previous two and last year's Barcelona, they played games worthy of the audience, and Real Madrid showed their best to all fans who like them. The most beautiful football."
"The 8-0 score was cruel, but it also made us all see the essential gap between Chinese football and the most advanced football in Europe. Real Madrid made us see the gap and the direction. They beat them on the pitch. gave us, but also gave us respect.”
Ancelotti was also outspoken in his subsequent interview with the Chinese media, saying that the skills of Chinese players have made great progress, but there is still a clear gap between them and the advanced level of Europe.
"I know that there are more and more Chinese players playing in the Europa League. This is a very good phenomenon. Yang Yang is an incredible player and the core competitiveness of our Real Madrid. I believe that in the future, , China will emerge a second, third, more Yang Yang."
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After playing Guangzhou Hengda, Real Madrid flew north to Tianjin that night, and defeated the Tianjin team 6-0, ending all their pre-season warm-up matches with a seven-game winning streak.
After the Tianjin team's game, Real Madrid got a daytime break in Beijing the next day. Yang Yang once again invited all his teammates to his villa next to the Summer Palace as a guest, and asked Winston Bogard, the Real Madrid veteran, to be a guest. Acquaintances came to accompany them, and went to the Summer Palace to visit the beautiful scenery, and prepared a sumptuous and delicious meal at noon.
During the period, the Real Madrid players also specially visited the fitness club of Yang Yang and Winston Bogard, and they were full of praise for the software and hardware facilities of the club. After all, Winston Bogard personally managed these.
It was not until the evening that the entire Real Madrid team boarded the plane back to Madrid, Spain.
But at this time, the whole country in Spain has already been fried.
For seven consecutive warm-up matches, Real Madrid is full of firepower. Not to mention the seven-game winning streak, its offensive strength has also been greatly improved. After a month of adjustment and preparation, Real Madrid under the coach of Ancelotti is in good shape. It's obviously been adjusted.
As Real Madrid's nemesis, Barcelona's performance this summer is not ideal.
Although Guardiola's team defeated Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Audi Cup Invitational, in the previous two warm-up matches, they first drew 0-0 against the little-known Haki in Croatia. Duke, followed by a 2-2 draw with the Brazil international in the opening match of the Audi Cup.
After winning the Audi Cup, Barcelona went directly to the United States, which happened to be staggered from Real Madrid, but in Washington, Barcelona lost 1-2 in the first game to Manchester United in the Premier League, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice.
Then, in Miami, Barcelona lost 4-1 to Guadalajara.
Yes, that's right, the Mexican powerhouse that was beaten 3-0 by an out-of-form Real Madrid.
It was mid-July, and Real Madrid had just started the summer training camp. Ancelotti went directly to a large number, which caused the Real Madrid team to be in poor condition, but even so, the team still won the Mexican team 3-0.
But in early August, when the Spanish Super Cup was very close, Barcelona lost to Guadalajara 1-4 in Miami, while Real Madrid defeated Guangzhou Hengda 8-0 in China.
When the war between China and the United States came back to Spain, the whole of Spain was fried.
The domestic media in Spain was at first full of worries about Real Madrid's summer preparations, because the seven warm-up games almost ran around the earth for half a circle, which was very physically exhausting for the players, and too many commercial activities would distract the players' attention. .
But when the summer training started, everyone found that Ancelotti and his team had formulated a high-intensity pre-season training program for Real Madrid, and the Real Madrid officials were also very cooperative, trying not to avoid it during the trip to the Americas and China. Arrange players to attend commercial events, even if there are individual players, to ensure that the entire team can focus on preparing for the new season.
During his stay in Guangzhou and Tianjin, Ancelotti even arranged for extra training for the players, and the training intensity exceeded that of daily training. One of the two holidays was to adjust after arriving in Guangzhou, and the other was to wait for the flight to return to Madrid.
On the other hand, Barcelona, whether it was in Eastern Europe and Germany, or the subsequent training in the United States, the training effect of Barcelona was not satisfactory. According to Catalan media reports, this time the trip to the United States was arranged in a hurry, and Barcelona officials were obviously prepared. Insufficient, this is a disaster for the team's pre-season preparations.
Guardiola publicly stated in an interview with the Spanish media after the 1-4 loss to Guadalajara that such a training camp was a disaster, "We are here for tourism, this is not what I need. The real training camp, even the hot weather here makes the players very uncomfortable, which is not a good sign."
The 1-4 loss to Guadalajara, Mexico, undoubtedly made Guardiola extremely annoyed, because this team just lost 3-0 to the arch-rival Real Madrid not long ago, but it gave Barcelona such a fiasco in a blink of an eye. , which puts a lot of pressure on everyone up and down Barcelona.
Even the media in Catalonia asked questions one after another, facing Real Madrid in such a state, how can Barcelona break the curse of invincibility against Real Madrid in the past two years?
Fortunately, in the last warm-up match in the United States, Villa and Sedou Keita scored to help Barcelona beat the Mexican Americas 2-0 and avoid an embarrassing defeat to end the Americas rallies.
The summer training camp and the warm-up match do not have any practical significance, but the situation reflected from the training camp and the warm-up match is undoubtedly very informative, so that when Real Madrid and Barcelona both returned to Spain, the domestic media in Spain treated the two The attitude of the team is also completely different.
Many people believe that Ancelotti has learned from Benitez's experience and adjusted his state during the summer preparations. He is currently gearing up for the arrival of the new season. They will start the first official game of the new season. , from the Super Cup against Barcelona, began to attack the championship.
The Catalan media was worried about the state of Barcelona, and the World Sports News even posted a question mark on the front page the morning after Barcelona returned to Spain.
Barca, are you ready?