Chapter 651: Excessive
After winning the championship, Inter Milan took a day off and left Milan on the third day to fly to Barcelona to challenge six-time champions Barcelona.
Inter Milan were lucky, by the time they went to Barcelona, the impact of the volcanic ash on aviation was already very small, and it was completely possible to travel by plane, which was definitely a lucky thing for Inter.
Inter Milan has missed the Champions League final for 38 years and the Champions League trophy for 45 years. Now, Inter Milan sees the best chance to break through the embarrassing 38-year history, as long as they don't lose five goals away from home, Inter will advance to the final.
In order to witness history and cheer for the team, 4,500 die-hard Inter fans set off from Milan in hundreds of buses to Spain to watch the game.
Two hours later, the Inter fans had not yet left the Italian border, and the Inter players had arrived at Barcelona, Spain's second-largest airport.
Before getting off the plane, Barcelona's most famous "traitor" Figo reminded Mourinho that he should be careful of Barcelona fans coming to make trouble, they were clamoring to give us a good look, but Mourinho said he didn't care.
But when they went out after taking their luggage, the players of Mourinho and Inter Milan were a little dumbfounded, they didn't expect so many "fans" wearing Barcelona jerseys to pick up the airport outside.
Three or four thousand people, the vast majority of whom wore Barcelona jerseys, and there were only a handful of Inter Milan fans.
Barcelona fans wore shirts with the words "Fight to the Death" on the front and "Miracles" on the back, and banners held aloft that read "Camp Nou on April 28 is the hell of Inter" and "Jose Mourinho, you are just a little translator." ”
Seeing the players and coaches of Inter Milan come out, the Barcelona fans immediately let out huge boos and shouted at the players of Inter Milan.
Inter Milan did not expect the Catalan fans to be so fanatical, but the airport security guards were well aware that they had increased the number of security guards in advance and advised the Inter players to take the VIP tunnel and not come into contact with the fanatical Barcelona fans.
Figo was thrown a pig's head at the Camp Nou after his transfer to Real Madrid, and he knew how crazy the Barcelona fans were, so he said: "Jose, I think it's better to go through the VIP channel." ”
Mourinho's eyes were grim, he looked at Figo, then at the frightened players, and said: "It's a fight, we can't dodge, everyone walk out with me, I don't believe they can kill us." ”
With that, Mourinho strode out of the airport.
The players of Inter Milan are secretly in awe that the courage of the coach to achieve such a great achievement is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.
When the Barcelona fans saw the Inter players coming out, they hula and cheered around, pointing at Mourinho and Figo and yelling, "Judas!
Not only did the Barcelona fans scold, but there were also fans who threw rotten eggs with tomatoes at Mourinho and Figo.
Although there were more than 100 security guards and police officers around, a tomato smashed into Mourinho's body, and when it cracked, the red juice was like blood.
Undeterred, Mourinho threw his head back up and strode towards the luxury bus that picked them up.
In just a few hundred meters, because of the obstruction of Barcelona fans, the players of Inter Milan took 20 minutes, even if Inter Milan boarded the bus, the Barcelona fans still chased the bus and threw debris.
Mourinho didn't want to irritate the Barcelona fans, and when he arrived at the hotel, he didn't hold a press conference, but after a team meeting, he let the players rest before going to Camp Nou in the afternoon for acclimatisation.
But while the Inter players were resting, Barcelona police came to their hotel and asked to take Eto'o back to the police station to cooperate with the investigation.
Jose Mourinho and Inter Milan's players were stunned because they had just arrived in Barcelona and were on the hotel as soon as they got off the plane, and Eto'o couldn't have had no time to do anything bad.
Mourinho lodged a strong protest with the Barcelona police and refused to let them take Eto'o, but the Barcelona police ignored Mourinho and forcibly took Eto'o away.
Mourinho was very annoyed and immediately called President Moratti and asked him to quickly coordinate the matter.
Moratti did not expect such a thing to happen, and immediately communicated with the Barcelona management, and used his connections to consult the Barcelona police about the reason why the Barcelona police took Eto'o away.
Moratti is a wealthy man in Europe, and he can be regarded as a man and eye, and soon found out that the Barcelona police took Eto'o to investigate Eto'o's tax evasion case in 2005.
Coming back to investigate Eto'o's tax evasion after five years, and on the eve of the Champions League match, it was definitely a conspiracy, and Moratti flew to Barcelona urgently to find a local lawyer to protest to the Barcelona police station and ask for Eto'o's bail.
Samuel Eto'o will not be able to get out of the police station for a while, and Inter Milan are still preparing as planned.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Inter Milan came from the hotel to the Camp Nou for acclimatization training, and at this time thousands of Barcelona fans came to the stands, who were still "entertaining" the Inter players with boos and insults, interfering with Inter Milan's training.
Mourinho was so dissatisfied that he immediately asked club manager Blanca to call Barcelona and ask the fans to leave the stadium and Inter Milan to train behind closed doors.
However, Barcelona manager Begiristain said that Barcelona's training has always been open, and it is normal for fans to watch training in the stands, and they can't drive fans away for Inter Milan training, and Barcelona is a membership-based club, and they will not do anything that harms the rights of fans.
Inter Milan is leading by a big score, and the promotion is already nine out of ten, so Mourinho is unusual, did not stimulate Barcelona before the game, and did not have a war of words with Barcelona, but I didn't expect Barcelona to be so excessive, and brought the main striker Eto'o to investigate for no reason, and did not let Inter Milan train with peace of mind, Mourinho was very angry, and immediately after the training, he held a press conference, angry at the Barcelona management and fans," Barcelona don't want to turn the tables, you have fallen into the devil in order to win the championship at the Bernabeu, this is not a normal dream, Inter Milan is not afraid of any tricks from you, tomorrow the game is over, we will knock Barcelona out. ”
It wasn't until the evening that Eto'o was released by the Barcelona police, and the African cheetah who returned to the hotel was in a bad mood and ignored anyone and went straight back to his room.
It's common to interfere with training, insult players, and play key games, but it's too much to have the police take the main players away for investigation.
Moratti said angrily: "It's so shameless, take people away for five hours, find out nothing, and then release it and it's over." ”
Mourinho sneered: "Don't be angry, the more this happens, the more it shows that they are timid, don't worry, the difference of 4 goals, they can't erase it with any tricks." ”
Gao Xiaodong was also very annoyed, and said: "If we enter one, they will be finished, I don't believe they can enter six." ”
Moratti patted Gao Xiaodong on the shoulder, "Xiaodong, it's up to you." “
Mourinho also said: "Barcelona will definitely fight hard in this game in order to win the title at Real Madrid's home stadium, we have to defend with all our might, and we can only rely on two or three players in front of us to score goals." ”
Gao Xiaodong had just been promoted to an S-level player, and he was full of confidence and said, "Don't worry, coach, they are doomed." ”
Moratti looked at Gao Xiaodong's confident appearance, felt a lot more relieved, and said, "You guys hurry up and rest, tomorrow night is a fierce battle." ”
Moratti and Mourinho arranged for the players to rest, they thought that the Barcelona fans had done so many excessive things, and there could be no more moths, but they didn't expect that when they slept until midnight, the sound of firecrackers suddenly sounded outside the hotel, and the fans were beating gongs and drums and singing, which woke up all the Inter Milan players.
Jose Mourinho was almost out of his rage, and he immediately called the police, asking the police to come and kick out the troublesome Barcelona fans.
However, Mourinho called the police at one o'clock in the morning, and the Barcelona police arrived late at three o'clock, but seeing the fans just playing and singing on the street outside the hotel, the Barcelona police booth said that if the Barcelona fans rushed into the hotel, he would definitely arrest them, but he couldn't control the Barcelona fans singing on the street, because the Barcelona fans did not break the law.
Jose Mourinho and Moratti almost went mad, but the police did nothing but let the players close their doors and windows and go back to sleep.
The Inter Milan players are almost impossible to fall asleep after this trouble, but it has also inspired a strong fighting spirit in the hearts of everyone at Inter Milan, who originally wanted to keep a draw away from home, and now they have vowed to beat Barcelona twice away from home to break their dream of going to the Bernabeu to humiliate Real Madrid.