When Gorka returned home, he told his father that he had been fired again.
This time my father did not yell, but took out two tickets.
"What is this?" Gorka asked.
"As you can see, son, these are two tickets to the Champions League final."
Gorka opened his mouth and looked at his father in surprise: "Are you a fan of Bayern Munich or Lazio?"
"I am nobody, son. But that day we are going to see how the damn Chinese lost the final!" Gorka's father said fiercely.
Gorka was speechless.
My father holds more grudges than me.
"But to be honest, I don't think Lazio will lose..."
"No, Lazio will definitely lose, because Bayern Munich is their nemesis! They were eliminated by Bayern Munich twice!"
My father said firmly.
"When the time comes, you come with me, and we will go to the scene to see how Chang was defeated by the German team!"
"But dad..." Gorka hesitated.
"But what? Have you forgotten who made you end up in this situation? It's Chang! That Chinese who deserves to go to hell! There are not many opportunities to see him unlucky on the spot, son!"
Looking at his father, whose face was twisted with anger, Gorka nodded: "Okay, I'll go. Anyway, I have nothing to do now..."
"Yes, yes, you made the right choice, son. We all owe our lives to that damn bastard, so we need to go there even more!"
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The media initially thought that Chang Sheng's choice of Getafe as the place to prepare for the Champions League final was not a wise choice.
They believe that Chang Sheng is just following their emotional call and chose this place.
Because everyone knows where he came from.
The media thinks this is bad for two main reasons.
First, the facilities at Getafe's training base are old and crude. They are completely incomparable with high-level training bases, let alone Real Madrid's Valdebabas Sports City. Even Martin's training base in Mahadahonda is inferior.
Not comparable.
The second reason is that Getafe fans will be too enthusiastic. Just look at the scene when they welcomed Lazio. It was really shocking. I'm afraid Getafe won the championship and that's it...these enthusiasm will disturb Lazio.
Training to prepare for war. Moreover, Chang Sheng implements closed training. With these enthusiastic fans, will Chang Sheng still conduct closed training?
If you do it, wouldn't it chill the hearts of Getafe fans?
If we don't do it, how can we have peace and quiet when faced with the interruptions from so many fans and reporters every day?
So how to prepare for war quietly?
So they all think that the winning choice and Getafe have put themselves in a dilemma.
But in fact this is not the case.
The media believed that the overly enthusiastic Getafe fans would become a burden to Victory and Lazio.
But the first training session after Lazio arrived in Getafe was still a closed training session.
No reporters or fans are allowed to enter to watch the team's training.
Only at the end of training, fans can ask for autographs from players.
Journalists can also come for interviews. But it is impossible to take videos and photos of training.
Moreover, Getafe fans are very sensible and are not overly enthusiastic here.
They knew Lazio needed a quiet environment to prepare for the match.
So actually during normal training, not many fans go to the training base to disturb the team's training.
Even after the training, not many fans came to ask for autographs because they knew that Lazio players needed to rest.
Their current calmness is in sharp contrast to their previous enthusiasm, which is really surprising.
So just like Chang Sheng said, they can enjoy peace and quiet when they return home.
In such an environment, Lazio's preparations went quite smoothly.
until before the game starts.
Chang Sheng leads by example and doesn't even visit his old neighbors who live near the training base, even though there are not many familiar people left.
He just sent some tickets to these old neighbors and invited them to watch the final.
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On the day of the match day, Lazio conducted simple physical training in the gym at the training base in the morning.
The afternoon is rest time.
After lunch, all Lazio players had to take a lunch break. Even the coach was no exception.
At this time, Las Margarita Sports City was silent.
The Spanish league has ended, Getafe has disbanded long ago, and the players have all gone on vacation.
Even the youth are no exception, and there is only one team like Lazio here.
Chang Sheng also took a nap.
His nap is very short, half an hour.
I will definitely wake up after half an hour and it will be impossible to continue sleeping.
For him, a half-hour nap is enough.
After I got up, I felt refreshed and most importantly, my mind was clear.
It will help him not to get confused during the evening game.
Because the game is at 7:45pm.
So the dinner time is a little earlier.
It was scheduled to start at half past four.
Don't eat too much, lest the players become too full and the blood will be supplied to the digestive system first, causing drowsiness and weakness.
Anyway, you can have extra food during the intermission.
After dinner, take a short rest.
The whole Lazio team will get on the bus and go to the Bernabeu Stadium to face their opponent Bayern Munich, who has never won in the Champions League!
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This Champions League final has attracted much attention because of this stunt.
Before the game started, media from all over the country gathered at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, and satellite broadcast trucks could be seen everywhere around the stadium.
In addition, fans of both teams also arrived near the stadium in advance, and the atmosphere before the game was quite friendly.
Although Lazio was eliminated by Bayern Munich twice, it was not enough for the two teams to glare at each other and start a fight.
The most important thing is that Lazio no longer has that ungrateful faction who is causing trouble everywhere.
Fans from both sides even took photos cordially before the game.
Of course, once the game started, this friendly atmosphere disappeared.
Every fan's emotions will rise and fall depending on the performance of his team.
Sometimes excited, sometimes depressed, sometimes quiet, sometimes anxious...
At 6:45 in the evening, buses from both teams arrived at the stadium one after another.
Fans who had seemed close to each other before were immediately divided into two camps.
Lazio fans cheered for their team, and Bayern Munich's team went to support their team.
There were a lot of media gathered around the place where Lazio got off the bus, wanting to take some shots and photos of Lazio players getting off the bus and entering the stadium.
This is the third time Chang Sheng has led the team to the Champions League final.
In this Lazio team, many players are playing in the Champions League final for the first time.
But when these players came down, no one could see on their faces the slightest bit of nervousness or discomfort of participating in the Champions League final for the first time.
Instead, there is only a smile that represents relaxation and confidence.
It is the first time for Gotze to participate in the Champions League final. As the main player of the team, he should feel that his task is very heavy.
It's normal to be nervous about participating in such an important competition for the first time.
But Gotze, who appeared in front of many reporters, was wearing a formal suit issued by the Lazio club and had a sports backpack on his shoulders.
Then he held a portable DV in his hand and kept his eyes fixed on the LCD screen of the camera.
He's videotaping!
There was a smile on his face.
You can see the relaxation, the confidence, the curiosity, the freshness on his face... but you can't see the tension.
When reporters were filming him, he also pointed the camera at these reporters.
He was mumbling something, probably explaining something to his companion.
Gotze, who participated in the Champions League final for the first time, used this method to leave a lasting memory for himself.
Such a move greatly disappointed the reporters.
They then turn their attention to others, maybe Gotze is an exception?
For someone so young to be the absolute main player at Lazio, he must have a big heart.
So it should be normal not to feel any progress, right?
But it wasn't just who they set their sights on. None of Lazio's players were seen feeling nervous.
They either have smiles on their faces or are chatting with their teammates. Even when they are alone, they wear headphones and are immersed in the world of music.
Until the last Lazio player walked into the tunnel, these reporters could not find anyone who seemed as nervous about this final as they imagined...
They looked at each other.
Could it be that Chang Sheng didn't lie? For them, Getafe is really like their spiritual hometown, where they can make people feel quiet and peaceful?
But Getafe and Lazio have a shitty relationship!
This is fucking hell!
Some people secretly wonder, could this be a performance specially performed by a winning team?
In fact, they were also very nervous, but they didn't want to leave anything to the media, so they chose to perform.
For those who refuse to believe that Lazio is really not nervous, this is the only reasonable ending.
They believe this explanation.
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It's a pity that these reporters can't come and take a look in the Lazio dressing room, otherwise they will know whether these Lazio players are really acting.
In the Lazio dressing room, relaxing music was playing, and the coaches were busy putting prepared things on the table.
The players' jerseys are also hung in their respective wardrobes.
Camera reporters from the TV broadcast had come in before and took pictures of the locker rooms of the two teams.
Compared with the neat locker room in the photo, the current locker room is much messier.
This is a normal locker room before a game.
Just because this is a Champions League final does not make it any different.
The players changed into warm-up clothes and did not go out immediately. Instead, they rested in the locker room.
Listen to music, take selfies, send text messages, make phone calls, style your hair, close your eyes and fall asleep, or pray.
People who are worried about injuries are bandaging their fragile ankles to ensure there is more support.
There were also a few people who had itchy feet and started playing football in the locker room. Three or four people passed the ball back and forth in the open space of the locker room.
Just like they did when they went out to warm up later.
Lazio emphasizes passing and focuses on passing in training, so it has developed this habit. The little games between players to kill time are all about passing.
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Everyone is busy according to their own habits.
A locker room is like a small world.
Here, life has everything you need.
But actually, I really don’t see anything to be nervous about.
The assistant coach controls the warm-up time. When the time is up, he enters the locker room and informs the players to go out and warm up.
After the players left, Chang Sheng would enter the locker room.
At this time, this is his alone space.
There is no rule saying that the head coach cannot go to the stadium with the team to watch the warm-up.
There are no such rules, nor are they any unspoken rules.
Not watching the players warm up is just a personal habit of winning.
Before the game, he needs to be alone and quiet.
An empty locker room is undoubtedly the best place.
After the players all went out, Chang Sheng pulled a folding chair in front of the tactical board, sat astride the chair, rested his hands on the back of the chair, put his chin on his arms, and looked at the situation in front of him.
