Phi-Fic Chapter 502 24 hours before the game [Part 1]
Chapter 502 24 hours before the game [Part 1]
Chapter 502 24 hours before the match
Countdown to UEFA Cup final.
The last day before the game.
The famous tourist city of Istanbul is like a bottle of canned sardines in excess these days. Hundreds of thousands of fans from both sides have turned this famous Turkish city into a red and black holy place!
According to statistics from the Turkish tourism department, the number of fans who came to Istanbul for this heavyweight UEFA Cup final has far exceeded the number of UEFA Champions League finals in the 04-05 season!
morning.
At ten o'clock sharp, more than 300 journalists gathered at the five-star Distin Hotel where AC Milan stayed, where the Rossoneri held their last press conference before the game. Carlo Ancelotti and young players Nicolas Gigi and David Beckham appeared in the press conference hall.
It has long been doomed that the 08-09 season is another season that belongs to Crazy Lee, but any topic about Crazy Lee will attract hundreds of millions of eyeballs and hundreds of millions of eyes. Complicated relationship with unclear path!
After AC Milan arrived in Istanbul, countless media and reporters wanted to conduct special interviews with the old and the young. They wanted to know what kind of mentality they would use to complete the game after they met their "mentor" lunatic Li on the battlefield...
Today, Ancelotti brought two people to the press conference at the same time, obviously to satisfy the curiosity of the fans and the media. In terms of treating the media, Fatty An is obviously more popular with the media than the mysterious lunatic Li.
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Among the noisy crowd of reporters, there was a Chinese girl who was crystal clear in ice and snow, and she had a CCTV work card hanging on her chest.
The girl's name is Zhao Weina.
Zhao Weina is a new trainee reporter who joined CCTV Sports Channel. She came to Turkey to report on the UEFA Cup match. This is the first time for this handsome Jiangnan girl who graduated from the Central Sports University to take on the task of reporting abroad. This task made the 22-year-old girl so excited that she couldn't sleep for several nights!
Three years ago, when Zhao Weina was still a sophomore, Chinese football, which was originally a pool of stagnant water, suddenly turned out to be a "hero of the world"——
When the young man who seemed to be about the same age as himself stood in front of the head coach of Real Madrid, at first everyone thought it was another April Fool's Day farce. Zhao Weina and many of her classmates once angrily denounced the distorted and irresponsible reports of the Chinese media...
However, when this seemingly absurd news was spread by many European authoritative media, and when Real Madrid's Chinese official website also published a special announcement to confirm it, the whole of China was boiling!
Zhao Weina clearly remembers that when she finally confirmed that the young figure who appeared in front of the head coach of the century giant Real Madrid was really a Chinese about her own age, her heart suddenly beat at an unprecedented rhythm!
At that time, almost 12 billion Chinese people were talking about the news that a young man named Li Tongfan was in charge of Real Madrid. Even CCTV’s news broadcast had an exceptional one-minute special report on this news. Like many young fans, Zhao Weina fell in love with this peer almost instantly...
After a period of ecstasy, many people began to calmly reflect, so young, without any coaching experience, without any outstanding results... All the reality seems to indicate that this young man named Li Tongfan will face unimaginable difficulties. The dressing room of Real Madrid is also known as a "concentration camp of contradictions". Can those superstars in the vertical and horizontal football world willingly obey his command?
At that time, countless Chinese people, even if they were not fans, were worried about the madman Li day and night, for fear that this young man who created a miracle in Chinese football would become the biggest joke in Chinese football and the biggest joke in world football...
Zhao Weina is one of the many fans who worry about Li Tongfan day and night. Like most people around her, this sophomore girl is like a lover who cares about herself, always paying attention to any news about Li Tongfan on the Internet!
In the following year, the whole world got to know this guy called Crazy Li, and fans in China, the admiration for Li Tongfan reached an unreachable peak. Looking up, among the Chinese stars in the world, there is no one who can cover the light of Crazy Li!
At this time, Zhao Weina, a junior at the School of Physical Education, quietly took becoming a football reporter as her career plan. She vowed to use her reports to spread all the information about Madman Li to the country...
After graduation, everything went in the direction that Zhao Weina expected. After graduation, with the help of her family, she entered the CCTV Sports Channel, the most authoritative sports reporting group in China, as she wished, and the first task she received was to interview the League Cup final led by Madman Li. This was the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time!
After arriving in Istanbul, what disappointed Zhao Weina was that his idol Crazy Li had always adopted a fully enclosed training for the team, so that countless reporters including him could only stop outside the big wall of the training ground every day, without getting any useful news...
Today, AC Milan held the last press conference before the game. Gigi and Beckham attended the conference again. Zhao Weina, who is familiar with every story of Madman Li, suddenly felt that this is actually a very good opportunity!
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"Mr. Ancelotti, may I ask whether Mr. David and Nicholas will get the chance to start tomorrow's game?"
The press conference started in the most normal way. Ancelotti did not have the slightest sound deafness to the question raised by the reporter of Gazzetta dello Sport, but gave an affirmative answer.
Fatty An's nod made the reporter group boil for a while. Before that, everyone was worried that Xiaobei or Gigi would not get the chance to play. If that happened, the "master-student battle" that was so hyped up would exist in name only...
Next, Ancelotti became a supporting role, and the reporters shifted their questions to Gigi and Beckham. It was Zhao Weina, a reporter from CCTV, who asked questions first. With the rise of Madman Li, Chinese journalists always get the respect of their peers on such occasions!
"... Gigi, first of all, I would like to congratulate you on defeating Inter Milan's Mario Balotelli and teammate Pato, and being elected as the best rookie in Serie A this season. I would like to ask, facing such an important game, which side do you hope can win the final victory?"
Zhao Weina's question is very tricky.
After half a year of honing in Serie A, the 18-year-old Gigi exudes a youthful atmosphere all over her body, and her soft long hair hangs below her ears again. She is a typical handsome man in England. It is not unreasonable for some media to call him 'George Best Second' or 'Beckham' Second...
Faced with difficulties from Chinese reporters, Jiji was very polite. After expressing her gratitude to Zhao Weina for her congratulations, she showed a charming smile: "The final is very important to both sides. As a player of Mr. Idiot, I certainly hope that Mr. can get all the championship trophies he needs. However, when I appear on the field in a red and black jersey, I will do my best to help the team win! How to become a real professional football player, Mr. Idiot asked me a long time ago..."
Gigi's answer won applause from the reporters on the scene.
Ancelotti looked at the high-spirited young man in front of him, still thinking about how to persuade the boss to bring him to San Siro after the end of the season. In half a season, he scored 18 league goals and 9 assists. At the age of 18, he handed over such a Serie A debut halfway, which is already a superstar performance...
While Beckham secretly gave little Jiji a thumbs up, he was also in a daze. In this boy, he saw himself who had emerged many years ago, the same young, the same handsome, and the same collection of thousands of loves!
Amid the applause, Zhao Weina asked the second question to Beckham——
"David, we know that during the winter transfer period this season, you encountered a little difficulty in Real Madrid. At that time, many Chinese fans hoped that you could join forces with Mr. Li Tongfan again. Why did you choose AC Milan instead of Newcastle in the end? Is it because Newcastle cannot pay your high salary?"
The surrounding reporters looked at Zhao Weina all changed, and asked two such sharp questions in a row. If it were someone else, they would have been rejected by the press officer or the player himself, but...
But, who made people be the compatriots of Crazy Li, and who made Beckham and Gigi both be "grateful" to Crazy Li?
Beckham showed no sign of impatience. He smiled and said, "There are many factors involved in the transfer, and commercial factors must be taken into account. However, Lee did not send out an invitation at the time, because Newcastle's lineup has been able to meet Lee's plan for the entire season. Juan Mata and Andre Arshavin are enough to support the two wings of the team... Moreover, joining AC Milan is also a dream for me. Milan is a great club. It is my honor to play in San Siro..."
"What about the next game?"
"Like Gigi, I will give my all. This is the basic work ethic of a professional football player!"
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AC Milan's last pre-match press conference was soon reported, and the two questions Zhao Weina asked were infinitely magnified——
Italian media——
"Nicolas Gigi wants to do his best for Milan, hints at permanent stay at San Siro"
"Gigi is grateful to Crazy Li, but the atmosphere in Milan makes him nostalgic"
"Suspending the issue of contract renewal with Newcastle, Milan may have a chance to get a young talent"
"Beckham insinuates that Newcastle has no money, Milan is greater than the Magpies"
"Gigi and Beckham are unanimously optimistic about Milan winning the championship! "
The reports in the English media are exactly the opposite——
"Gigi yearns to return to St. James, Mad Lee is the greatest mentor"
Beckham regrets failing to join Newcastle
Newcastle stand a better chance, says David Beckham
"Playing against Newcastle, a lot of pressure"
(End of this chapter)