Chapter 565: Sniper Award

For Barcelona and Madrid's sarcasm and ridicule, Li Ang didn't pay attention to it at all, everything is based on results, and now what he says is superfluous, when Sporting Gijón goes from victory to victory, and keeps advancing, those sarcasm and ridicule are all turned into flowers and praise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Leon could ignore the media, however, he had to reassure and integrate the mentality of the players.

The media is hyping the treble, and it is naturally impossible for the players not to participate in it, and assistant coach Scott Ray warned Leon that the players' hearts would fluctuate.

At the end of the day's training, Leon called all the players to give a lecture.

"I know the media is hyping the possibility of a treble these days. "I also know that everyone is talking about this in private." ”

"If you ask me about the possibility of a treble, I will say that I am very eager and willing to lead you to create this great achievement that belongs to us. Leon paused, seeing the sparkle in the players' eyes, he continued, "However, everyone should remember one sentence, the road has to go step by step, we only have to be down-to-earth, game by game to win, do this well, we can achieve that great achievement!"

"So, stop thinking about it, don't bother with it, of course, you can bury your desire for victory and championship in the bottom of your heart, spur yourself to work hard, and when the season is over, it's time for us to raise a glass and celebrate!"

Li Ang's remarks are very timely and appropriate, he did not avoid the topic of the 'Triple Crown', but gave a positive reply to this, which greatly enhanced the confidence of the whole team, Li Ang is the backbone of this team, he is confident that the players will be encouraged, and then he emphasized to be stable, not impetuous, and win ball by ball!

It's timely, it's critical!

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Li Ang keenly captured the signs of confusion and dealt with it in a timely manner, which not only stimulated the fighting spirit of the players, but also avoided blind excitement and the possibility of collapse caused by gains and losses. This is because he is very alert and worried about the current situation of Sporting Gijón, the treble is in sight, but Sporting Gijón is walking on thin ice, if a game is not played well, it may cause an avalanche-like chain reaction: Leon is trying to win the treble, in terms of the strength of Sporting Gijón and the thickness of the bench, it is a little exaggerated to say, this can be compared to a 'snake swallowing an elephant', and a little attention may cause serious internal injuries.

In the 36th round of La Liga against Racing Santander at the weekend, the opponent has not yet been relegated, this game will not be easy for Sporting Gijón, but in the middle of next week, Sporting Gijón will travel to Lisbon to play the final of the League Cup, which is bound to distract Sporting Gijón in the match against Racing Santander.

In such a situation, Leon was extremely cautious about this match, and he wanted to avoid surprises: this match must be won no matter what!

Leon regards the three points in the match with Sporting Santander as a must-win, and Barcelona naturally hopes that Racing Santander, who are fighting for relegation, can cause problems for Sporting Gijón, and it is best to be able to stop Sporting Gijón.

Barcelona must first win the next three league games if they want to win La Liga and then pray that Sporting Gijón will make a mistake.

In Spanish football, there has always been a tradition of awarding sniper prizes to rival opponents. There are many rumors about this kind of precedent, but there are not many times when it is actually confirmed. Just before the start of the 36th round of La Liga, the media revealed an explosive news that Barcelona secretly offered a sniper award to Racing Santander. On the one hand, Racing Santander has reasons and motivation to fight for relegation, but in order to further stimulate Racing Santander's three military lives, Barcelona hopes to use money to stimulate the team to drag Sporting Gijón forward.

It is an open secret in La Liga that a team offers rewards to teams that beat rivals, although Spain's sports laws do not allow bonuses to be offered to third parties who beat their rivals, but because the law does not explicitly prohibit it, and from a moral point of view, it seems to be far more "bright" and more acceptable than spending money to buy match-fixing black whistles such as the opponent's referee, so this kind of "black gold behind the scenes" is almost every year in Spain.

In fact, Barcelona spent money to ask other teams to help snipe the championship opponent, not the first time, in the early 90s of the last century, Barcelona had twice reversed Real Madrid at the last moment to win the championship: Tenerife in 1992 and 1993 for two consecutive years in the last round of Real Madrid, to help Barcelona come back to win the championship, although there has been no direct evidence that Barcelona spent money to ask Tenerife to snipe Real Madrid, but, in fact, Tenerife did finally receive Barcelona's "payment" Not only did the team participate in the Gamble Cup (a friendly match held by Barcelona every summer in honor of the club's founder), but even the president of the team at the time was awarded the Barcelona Medal!

This method of using money to spur some teams to hold off their rivals in the title is known in Spain as 'Operation Bin Laden': in Spain, the 500-euro note is nicknamed "bin Laden" because the extremely developed bank card system makes it rare for Spaniards to use such large denominations, making the latter like "bin Laden", although it is not known. Winning bonuses offered to third parties are similar, as are they – everyone knows they exist, but they don't show them publicly.

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The first to come to light was an Israeli media outlet called Goal Illustrated, which quoted Arroyo, the wife of Santander goalkeeper Awate, who boasted that her husband would be able to earn a sum of 50,000 euros worth of extra money while chatting with her girlfriend.

Subsequently, "Goal Illustrated" quickly followed up and inquired about the news that Barcelona offered a sniper award for Racing Santander, if Racing Santander can draw with Sporting Gijón, Barcelona will reward all players on the pitch with a total of 300,000 euros, and if they can beat Sporting Gijon, the bonus will be doubled to 600,000 euros, of which if the goalkeeper can keep a clean sheet at Sporting Gijón, he will receive an additional 50,000 euros in bonuses, and the players who score goals are also worth 50,000 euros per goal!

After this news was exposed by the Israeli media "Goal Illustrated", the Madrid media "As" reprinted it for the first time, and immediately caused an uproar in Spanish football.

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