On September 1, the football school opened by Manchester City Club in Jiangcheng officially opened, and the name of the football school is called "Victory Football School", which is of course related to Manchester City coach Mu Shengli, and part of the funds for opening this football school came from Mu Shengli's bonus last season, and nominally this football school was also opened at the request of Mu Shengli. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the name "Victory" also fits the spirit of a football club, footballers play football, isn't it to strive for victory?

Mu Shengli was appointed honorary principal of the football school, but because he had to travel to Monaco the next day to participate in the Champions League group stage draw, he had to regretfully miss the opening ceremony of the football school.

Of course, there were many senior leading cadres from Hudong Province and Jiangcheng City who attended the opening ceremony, such as Governor Zhao, who personally attended the opening ceremony.

The executive principal of the football school is Coach Zhu, Manchester City Club also sent more than a dozen excellent European youth coaches, as teachers of the football school, now the football school has only recruited less than 100 students, all of them are potential teenagers under the age of 15, from all over the country, among them there is a special student, that is, Kong Xiaodong, he is 12 years old this year, but after the test of the European youth coach, he has been placed in the U15 students to train with them.

Kong Xiaodong has been training with Ding Hongxing for two years before, and has developed good training habits, he is taller than the average twelve-year-old, and his game temperament is also very close to Ding Hongxing, with comprehensive skills and a tough style, his potential Even these youth coaches from Europe are amazed.

Victory Football School is different from some football schools in China, it is not for profit, students enter the football school, must be tested, need to have a certain technical ability and potential to enter the football school, the average student only needs to pay a maximum of thousands of yuan per year tuition, food, which is low in the current tuition standard of many football schools, you must know that the teachers of the Victory Football School are all high-level youth coaches from European football powers.

If it is a particularly potential student, Victory Football School is exempt from tuition, food expenses, and even a certain amount of subsidies, which is a huge blessing for some good seedlings from poor families.

It is worth mentioning that the food of the Victory Football School is very good, basically in accordance with the food standards of European clubs, in order to train professional players, there is no high-fat junk food, carbohydrates are relatively small, the most eaten are those high-protein foods, and the cooking methods are also relatively scientific, of course, such cooking methods are initially very unsuitable for the students, think about it, a large plate of boiled chicken, must be eaten quickly, how many people can do it?

However, after a long time, the students will gradually get used to this diet, especially after they gradually feel the improvement of their physical fitness.

Although the football school has opened, it is not yet fully completed, and many infrastructure and training facilities are still under construction, and as these facilities are slowly built, the number of students enrolled in the school will gradually increase.

This football school is destined to be unprofitable, but what is this for Ding Hongxing? Even if he spends tens of millions of yuan for this school every year, as long as the school can really cultivate a few excellent students, it is worth it.

Although Ding Hongxing himself does not want to join the national team, but after all, he is a Chinese, he also hopes that Chinese football will get better and better, and now he can't do many things, but he can still cultivate some reserve forces for Chinese football.

On 2 September, the much-anticipated draw for the Champions League group stage was held in Monaco, with 16 teams in the tournament taking their places.

The sixteen teams are made up of eight seeded teams and eight teams from the qualifiers, the eight seeded teams are the top seven league champions and defending champions in Europe, they are Serie A champion AC Milan, La Liga champion Atletico Madrid, Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund, Premier League champion Manchester City, Ligue 1 champion Auxerre, Eredivisie champion Ajax, Portuguese champion Porto, and defending champion Juventus, and the eight teams from the qualifiers are Swiss champion Grasshopper, Polish champion Widzu, Turkish champion Fenerbahce, Austrian champion Rapid Vienna, Soviet Premier League champion Glasgow Rangers, Norwegian champion Rosenborg, Romanian champion Bucharest Star, Swedish champion Gothenburg.

After the draw, Ajax, Auxerre, Grasshopper and Glasgow Rangers were placed in Group A, Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Videzu, and Steaua Bucharest were placed in Group B, Juventus, Manchester City, Fenerbahce, and Vienna were quickly placed in Group C, and AC Milan, Porto, Rosenborg, and Gothenburg were placed in Group D.

Manchester City are in a group with defending champions Juventus, Turkish champions Fenerbahce and Austrian champions Rapid Vienna, which is definitely not a good signing.

Juventus is the defending champion, they also bought Zidane, Vieri, Boksic and other very strong players this season, which can be described as strong, Fenerbahce is the Turkish champion, the strength should not be underestimated, and their home stadium Saraggio Golu Stadium is the famous devil's home stadium in Europe, even if it is a giant, there are not a few who overturn in the gutter of this stadium, the only team in this group may be easier to deal with is Vienna Fast, but they are definitely not the weakest team in the Champions League round of 16 this season.

Manchester City's first Champions League fixture of the season will be on 18 September when they take on Rapid Vienna away from home.

The strong teams in this group are super strong, and the relatively weak teams are not so easy to deal with, and the Manchester City team is relatively inexperienced in the Champions League, so as soon as the draw results came out, many English media exclaimed that this is a group of death, and they are not confident that the less experienced Manchester City team can qualify from the group, you must know that last season's Blake fell in the group stage.

In addition to the Manchester media, the Times and The Sun are full of confidence in the Manchester City team, they believe that Ding Hongxing is the champion player, and Manchester City also has former Champions League winner Seedorf, who firmly believes that Manchester City can successfully qualify from the group under the leadership of Ding Hongxing and go far in this season's Champions League.