Chapter 033 Monte Carlo Awards Ceremony
After playing against Manchester City, Zhang Yang took a helicopter specially arranged for him by the club, and his destination was Morocco.
That afternoon, Morocco, the smallest and richest country along the Mediterranean coast, was full of stars. At the center of the Grimaldi Conference in Monte Carlo, European football celebrities, current stars, and senior UEFA officials gathered here to participate in the 2008/2009 European Champions League group stage draw ceremony. Manchester City did not even have the qualification of the League Cup, so it naturally had nothing to do with this group draw. However, this draw ceremony was also the award ceremony of major awards in the UEFA Champions League last season.
Zhang Yang scored fifteen goals in the Champions League last season, breaking Altafini's goal record and won the Champions League Golden Boot for the rest of the year. He is also the most powerful contender for the best striker. How could he be missing at the award ceremony?
Although Manchester City Club has no chance to have such a big scene, they have Zhang Yang. With Zhang Yang's glory, Manchester City is also fortunate to show their faces at this "gathering" where European giants gather. Manchester City Club General Manager Cook personally accompanied Zhang Yang to the award ceremony and attached great importance to Zhang Yang's trip. The helicopter Zhang Yang was riding was rented by the club for money.
This is Zhang Yang's second time to come to the draw ceremony. Like last time, he participated with the management of his new owner. In the 2006/2007 season, Zhang Yang played for Marseille in the Champions League. He tied Altafini's goal record with fourteen goals. That summer, he transferred to AC Milan and won the Best Forward Award as an AC Milan player. However, when Zhang Yang received the award, he also said that the award belonged to Marseille and his teammates in Marseille.
This time, he had just transferred from AC Milan to Manchester City, and was also considered by almost everyone as the winner of the best striker. In this award, no one has the qualification to challenge Zhang Yang.
Because they just finished the league that day, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Arsenal were the latest clubs to come.
People from these clubs came almost at the same time, which attracted attention from the scene. Manchester United is the new champion of the Champions League, Chelsea is the runner-up, Arsenal and Liverpool are also mainstream European giants. The Premier League has been quite strong in recent seasons, so it is naturally very eye-catching.
In addition, Manchester City, as the only "no-staff" who came to the scene who missed the Champions League, also attracted everyone's attention. For this nouveau riche who suddenly emerged, other wealthy families observed with a scrutiny attitude. Of course, their eyes were still filled with a certain sense of pride and contempt.
In the eyes of these giants, nouveau riche like Manchester City is a country bumpkin who has never seen the world. Well, the mentality of hatred for the rich is common. Manchester City is so rich now, everyone will definitely be unhappy. At this moment, seeing Manchester City, these clubs qualified to participate in the Champions League, have more or less pride and pride in their hearts. That means, no matter how rich you are, you are still nouveau riche. Hey, listen well, nouveau riche, you are not qualified to enter our circle!
Of course, these people are all stingy, so naturally they will not express this contempt too obviously. If you don’t say anything else, you can’t be able to get along with money. Manchester City is a big deal in the transfer market, which makes these wealthy families itchy. They both despise Manchester City and are eager to deal with the ‘defective products’ in their teams at high prices to Manchester City, making a big profit. Is this contradiction? It’s not at all contradictory.
When Zhang Yang came down to the door of the venue accompanied by the club's general manager Cook, Manchester United's people also arrived.
Although he is a mortal enemy in the city, Zhang Yang has a very good relationship with Manchester United in private. Both Manchester United godfather Ferguson and Manchester United core Cristiano Ronaldo have good personal relationships with Zhang Yang.
When we met, Ferguson, Van der Sar and Zhang Yang said hello, and Ferguson also seemed to have a good conversation with Manchester City Club General Manager Cook.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zhang Yang walked towards the hall with their backs. The relationship between the two is good. First of all, their agents are Mendes. In addition, what is interesting is that Melissa Trio, one of Zhang Yang's girlfriends, and Nereida, the girlfriend of Cristiano Ronaldo, are distant cousins. Of course, both of them are geniuses who are rare in football. The geniuses only value geniuses. There are no other possibilities between the geniuses, or they are hostile to each other or appreciate each other. There is absolutely no other possibility. There is a mutual appreciation between the two, and of course they are competing with each other, wanting to suppress each other.
Although the arrival of Ferguson, Cristiano Ronaldo and Zhang Yang caused a big sensation, and many stars and football celebrities stood up to say hello to them or nodded.
Needless to say, Ferguson and Cristiano Ronaldo are the new European champions, and Cristiano Ronaldo is the biggest contributor to Manchester United's championship.
As for Zhang Yang, although he has transferred to the unknown Manchester City now, Zhang Yang's personal ability and influence in football are clearly visible, and others will not ignore this superstar just because he transferred to Manchester City.
The gaze was wandering around the hall, and soon he found AC Milan's head coach Ancelotti, club general manager Galliani, Kaka and Maldini.
Ancelotti had long noticed Zhang Yang. When Zhang Yang looked at him, Ancelotti also happened to look over. Ancelotti and Zhang Yang both nodded to each other. Although Zhang Yang left AC Milan and had a feud with the club when he left, his relationship with head coach Ancelotti was not affected, and his relationship with AC Milan's former teammates was also well maintained.
When Kaka and Maldini saw Zhang Yang, they waved their hands to greet him. Kaka originally wanted to come up and chat with Zhang Yang, but when he saw Zhang Yang talking with Cristiano Ronaldo, he made a gesture, meaning that I would not go over. Zhang Yang also nodded to indicate that he received it.
I have to say that Manchester City is indeed an alternative tonight. Today there are representatives from 33 clubs coming to disrupt the scene, including 32 clubs, which are the top 32 teams in the Champions League this season. Manchester City is a completely embarrassing bystander.
I don’t know whether UEFA intentionally or unintentionally, Manchester City’s seat was just on the side of Barcelona Club, and Messi was not far from Zhang Yang. In the quarterfinals of the Champions League last season, AC Milan met Barcelona and eventually eliminated Barcelona. Zhang Yang and Barcelona also made enemies. The Catalan media were so aggressive that Zhang Yang was criticized, and the Italian media also sarcastically and criticized Messi. Both Messi and Zhang Yang themselves seemed to have no good feelings for the other party.
So, at this time, although the two were very close, the two talented young men in today's football world just glanced at each other and turned their heads over, and neither of them wanted to chat with each other first.
Messi is still not convinced that Barcelona was eliminated by AC Milan last season. Messi is not convinced about Zhang Yang. He originally planned to seek revenge on Zhang Yang this season, but he didn't expect Zhang Yang to transfer to Manchester City, which surprised Messi. He also said on his Twitter, "I can't believe that Zhang went to Manchester City. This is not a choice that an aspiring player should make. If it were me, he would never make such a choice. In my life, money will never be the first."
Obviously, Messi despises Zhang Yang's choice very much. He believes that Zhang Yang chose to join Manchester City because he was tempted by Manchester City's money. This also represents the views of a large number of people.
This made Zhang Yang very unhappy. He also responded on his Twitter, "How can the sparrow know the ambition of a swan? Unfortunately, I can't play against Barcelona next season. I enjoyed the game of eliminating Barcelona last season, and it felt so good."
This is a naked, naked slap in the face. If Messi said something that could not be too bad, Zhang Yang's counterattack would be not polite at all and did not give Messi face. Therefore, we can understand why Messi, who has always been a good temper, is so rude and doesn't say hello when he sees Zhang Yang.
He has a deep resentment towards Zhang Yang.
Less than five minutes after Zhang Yang sat down, two hosts who hosted the lottery ceremony came out from behind the station. The male host was CNK host Pinto, the female host was Sylvia. Her identity was a supermodel and a host of Dutch TV. In addition, she was also the wife of Dutch star Van der Fate.
Sylvia, who has an impressive figure and temperament, announced the process of the draw ceremony tonight to all the guests, reviewed the scene of the Champions League final last season, and then invited former Manchester United goalkeeper Schmeichel to present the award to the best goalkeeper.
The three people running for this position are Manchester United's Van der Sar, Chelsea's Cech and Real Madrid's Casillas.
The one who was elected as the best goalkeeper was Chelsea goalkeeper Cech. It was a bit surprising that Cech was able to beat Van der Sar. The Czech goalkeeper was not good at this year's European Cup. Of course, in terms of performance in a season, Manchester United goalkeeper Van der Sar will never be worse than him. The best goalkeeper of the European Cup Casillas scored not much because Real Madrid had a poor record in the Champions League last season.
At the same time as the award ceremony was held, the draw of the Champions League group stage in the 2008/2009 season was also held at the same time.
Lampard became the first Chelsea player to win the Best Midfield honor, and presented him with Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton. The only English player to win the honor was Beckham nine years ago.
Terry won the award for Best Defender, and former AC Milan captain Barreci awarded Terry for Best Defender. Although he missed a penalty in the Champions League final, the captain of the Blues still beat Ferdinand, who was very popular. This is also the fact that Terry once again "beats" Ferdinand after the English team's captain's armband battle.
Below, only the awards for Best Forward and Best Player are left.
There was almost no suspense in the award for Best Forward. Zhang Yang won the award for Best Forward, which was also the award for him again. When Zhang Yang first took over the trophy for Best Forward from Portugal legend Eusebio, he looked calm because he knew he would win this award for a long time, but he didn't have much surprise.
In fact, besides the Champions League group draw next season, what people are most concerned about is who will be the award for the best player.
Although Cristiano Ronaldo is the biggest contributor to Manchester United's Champions League, Ronaldo scored 42 goals last season, not only becoming the top scorer in the Premier League, but also becoming the second scorer in the Champions League with 8 goals. However, Zhang Yang's 15 goals in the Champions League and the Serie A win the Golden Boot by breaking the goal record, which is also quite fierce.
In the words of "French Football", 'Cristiano Ronaldo is not 100% the Best Player Award, because if Zhang Yang wins the Best Player Award, there is no problem. Although he has not won the Champions League, Zhang Yang is not worse than Cristiano Ronaldo throughout the season, and Zhang Yang is better than Cristiano Ronaldo just looking at the data alone.'
The camera gives Cristiano Ronaldo and Zhang Yan close-ups respectively.
Cristiano Ronaldo looked a little nervous, while Zhang Yang looked calm.
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