Chapter 98 Group Stage Draw

Of course, Frank said this is just his own thoughts, Deportivo has been playing in these rounds, almost everyone has been given the opportunity to play, and it can be said that everyone has proven their ability, whether it is a veteran or a teenager.

In the face of such a lineup, not to mention La Liga, the giants of the entire football world are coveting them, who knows if Deportivo will be fascinated by the chairman of Deportivo and sold a few future stars to Deportivo for a while.

After all, at the end of last season, this man made the decision to sell the entire club short.

However, there is still a long way to go until the winter window, and at least for Juan, for now, there is not much to pay attention to.

If you have to have one...... It must also be because of the personnel supply problem.

Deportivo La Coruna will get a relatively short break after the match against Espanyol, and they will be relaxed until the next round begins, at least.

But from the next round of the competition, they have to make a series of changes, all because of a ceremony two days later-

David Luiz finally mustered up the courage to quietly get to his Brazilian senior, and Baba laughed twice: "Senior, is there something important going to happen recently?" ”

Romario looked up, and subconsciously gave Pompons his head, he didn't expect that he would be treated like this by Big Brother and squatted down with his head covered, looking up at him with teary eyes, Romario looked at the height difference between the two now, and nodded with satisfaction; "What did you just say?"

Peng Peng swallowed blood and tears with tears, and raised his head: "Big guy, is there something going to happen recently?" ”

Romario thought for a moment and shook his head very sincerely: "It's not a big deal, what's wrong?" ”

"Is it really a big deal?" Pompons blinked his eyes and looked at him wistfully, "Are you sure?" ”

“…… What the hell are you trying to say?! Romario suddenly felt as if he was ten years younger, and this kind of gnashing of teeth and wanting to hit people was only possible when he was young.

"I just want to say that Juan didn't show up on the sidelines today...... "It's really an unusual thing for Deportivo La Coruna, after all, their young manager will try to be on the sidelines to push them whenever he wants, and even on the second day of his injury, he is still there □□.

But today! Juan Díaz didn't show up on the sidelines!

It's just an incredible thing!!

"Oh, speaking of which......" Romario thought for a moment, as if remembering something: "It seems that there has been an incident recently......"

"What?" David Lewis's eyes lit up.

"The draw for the group stage of the Champions League, of course." Romario sighed, "It's all about time. ”

Pompons immediately jumped up and said, "Champions League!!"

Romario was taken aback by the young man and glared at him several times: "What are you doing, you have never seen the world before?!"

The Brazilian guy touched his head and laughed: "Big guy, I really haven't seen it!"

The Romario man was old and fine, and he knew what he meant at once, raised his eyebrows and looked at the child several times, until the child himself was a little embarrassed before he spoke: "Pengpeng, I didn't expect you to have such great ambitions......"

"Huh?" The Brazilian child was immediately dumbfounded, he was just a little yearning and curiosity about the Champions League group stage, why did it become a big ambition?

Hearing the movement here, Redondo, who was not far away, also looked over, and Romario was unmoved: "Why aren't you ambitious, how old are you to go to the Champions League group stage draw?"

The child touched his head again, very dazed: "This ...... Isn't it possible? ”

"Of course not." Romario sighed, "The draw for the Champions League group stage is not just a random draw between several teams, but in fact a secret competition between the major clubs...... The people brought by the coach at the time of the draw for each club must be the best talent in the club, I know that, you know? ”

"Oh!" Pompons slapped his thigh, "So every coach will take his most proud player to the draw!" ”

"yes, that's it......" Romario sighed, "you still want to go?" ”

"Of course I want to go!" Puffy replied loudly, his eyes sparkling.

Romario and Redondo looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Bah, it's better to take you with me." David Silva also heard his words, and subconsciously retorted, but the two bigwigs of the team looked at him, and their eyes were simply blazing.

David Silva, who felt that he had said something unusual, opened his mouth and turned his head to run, but was held down by the fluffy puff that pounced in an instant.

"Why don't you take me?! Why?! ”

The two lads began to roll around on the grass again, and the crowd around them laughed at the daily roll, and Belleron also laughed as he watched, and Redondo noticed him and patted him lightly on the shoulder: "Are you going?"

"It depends." Belleron replied calmly, although he is usually brought with him, but that is also in the past when Deportivo La Coruna has not been able to show a star who can show his hand.

- If he had to bring it, Juan would have brought Redondo or Romario to the effect.

As a result, when Juan walked out of his office, the court was already in a mess, and several bigwigs were standing on the edge of the court watching the excitement, and their expressions were so leisurely.

…… What's going on?

When Juan walked over, the field finally noticed his approach, and they all said hello, and the two children parted breathlessly, and the little coach Laco couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

"They're nothing!" Redondo had the prescient wisdom to intercept the words of this young man with strange brain circuits.

"Okay." Juan changed the subject with some regret, "So what are you doing now?" ”

"We're competing for a place in the Champions League group stage draw!" Puffy shouted energetically, and David Silva looked up in disarray, dumbfounded.

What the hell?!

He and Peng Peng fought for a long time, and it turned out that this thing was fighting?!

David Silva is certainly not as stupid as a South American player, he understands the twists and turns clearly, and he wants to bury himself in the grass when he thinks of fighting with a big man over this......

"What's wrong, what's the problem?" Pompons' face was full of confusion, he never expected that he hadn't understood the truth yet, and Romario sighed deeply.

"The problem is...... It's better to take me or Fernando Redondo than you, you know? ”

The Brazilian teenager patted his head and suddenly realized: "That means I still have to fight with you two to be qualified?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the garden was silent, Juan coughed lightly, didn't say hello at all, turned around and left, and the players around him also immediately walked away, looking like they couldn't see the situation here when they were going to do normal training, Pompons looked left and right, touched his head and smirked, but before he could say anything, Romario had already patted him on the shoulder with a very kind smile.

"You're guts, young man."

“？？？”

Juan then said he didn't hear any wails coming from that direction......

After today's training, for the question of "who to take to the Champions League group stage draw" that everyone is very concerned about, the little coach Laco maintained a very indifferent attitude as if he didn't know everyone's eagerness, and as a result, after a few days, even Belleron, who was the least concerned at first, began to be a little curious.

Why hasn't Juan said who he's going to take with him?

Honestly, whoever goes to them will be envious! Especially the young players led by David Luiz have always been very concerned about him.

After all, this is a big deal for A Coruña!

However, they were all disappointed that day, they thought that Juan would take someone with him, and Romario, Redondo, and Belleron were the first choices, but the result disappointed them all.

Juan chose to take his assistant coach Allen with him.

Deportivo La Coruna is going to have a lot of silver teeth when it comes to the selection of personnel within Juan's coaching team, especially David Luiz, who wants to put his head in the TV and be on the scene when he watches the draw that night!

"Alright, alright, calm down." Seeing that the Brazilian boys were about to cry, Thiago Silva was also helpless, half-coaxing and half-deceiving to make people a little quieter.

…… He was so envious of Diego Fran next door, who had such a quiet roommate.

However, even next door, Messi and Fran were talking and waiting to watch the live broadcast, and after waiting for a long time, the live broadcast was finally about to start, and the entrance began to be broadcast on the field.

Among the bunch of grandfather-level figures, their little coach of Deportivo is as bright as a light bulb, especially his hair color is so light, it is easiest to attract everyone's attention.

When he appeared in the camera, everyone couldn't help but exclaim.

Deportivo La Coruna's young coach seemed to have been injured before, but now he has removed the bandages and gauze, and has a pink scar on his snow-white neck, and he doesn't know when it will be better, and it is difficult for Juan to wear a turtleneck shirt in the summer.

The pink scar loomed between the collar of his shirt, half of which was completely hidden under the collar, making it impossible to unbutton him to see what it looked like.

Such a walking hormone is standing here, and he is here to flirt with his sister, and the people he carries with him are quite in line with the temperament of this coaching gathering......

Alan also has a hard time to say, he has never heard of bringing his own assistant coach at this time, after all, most people bring their own captain, their own star or something, the most important thing is to have a long face!

For example, Real Madrid! With his own star Raul!

Juan and Allen opened their mouths at the same time, lost in a state of utterance.

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that it was Raul, they wouldn't have dared to think that the uncle in the suit and black-rimmed glasses was the manager of Real Madrid.

Real Madrid's managers have changed too often, and since Juan left in September '03, Real Madrid have changed two managers, one is Queiroz and the other is Camacho, and their terms are five months and six months respectively......

This is the third person in front of me.

García Leimon, Real Madrid's new manager, has been in office for less than a week before he came to the draw for the Champions League group stage, and I don't know whether to call it bad luck or luck......

Originally, he wanted to go and say hello to Raul, but when he saw that the coach next to him didn't seem to be very easy to get along with, Juan turned around and left directly, and to be honest, the person he wanted to chat with more came today!

He searched for a long time in the field, and finally saw the old man talking behind a row of pillars, Ferguson smiled with a red face, it seemed that people were in good spirits on happy occasions, Juan of course knew that Manchester United had been in good shape recently, Cristiano seemed to have gradually stabilized, and was rapidly dissolving into Manchester United's system, his biggest problem was about to be solved, what was not to be happy about?

Juan actually wanted to talk to the old man for a while, they talked about the use of tactical concepts, and they could also talk about the construction of the team together, of course, Juan also thought about it, he looked at the past, and the people around the lord over there were people who had a strong mark in the history of coaching, and he was still not qualified to go now.

However, it seems that the lord did not think so, and the lord saw him almost at a glance, and after noticing his hesitation, he shouted directly: "Juan! ”

Facing the lord's beckoning, Juan was embarrassed for a moment, and quickly walked over and bowed his head: "Lord, long time no see." ”

"It's been a long time since I saw you, your kid is very good these days." The lord patted his head and smiled, in all fairness, at Juan's age, he would never be able to do it to this point.

Pooling the money to buy people for the team, taking the team to be undefeated, inviting a few big guys who are about to retire and still have a good luck, and buying a few little demons are almost very promising, this kind of good thing is not strange to be classified on any coach present, but it is quite incredible to put it on the 22-year-old young man in front of him.

And it's all happening, if it's shit luck, then this piece of shit is too big!

"You teach well." Juan smiled at the lord, he had always had a face when he came, and he didn't know what to say at this time.

"By the way, about your tactical ......" The lord suddenly remembered something, and grabbed Juan's hand and wanted to discuss it with him, but now the place where they were standing was backstage, and everyone would go to the front and sit down later, waiting for the lottery ceremony to begin.

And at this time, no one can run.

Juan was still able to hide, and he brought a teaching assistant with him—and only then did his own sinister intentions be revealed, but when Juan said this, the lord sighed half ashamedly and half helplessly.

"I'm bringing Fanny."

Juan nodded knowingly, he also knew that Cristiano was not good enough to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy at Manchester United right now: "What about the others? ”

"Looks like I'm going to find Rijkaard, Dutchman." Lord Ferguson shook his head casually, not caring what the connection was, and not seeming to think that there was anything wrong with their leading scorer at Manchester United going to the Barcelona manager......

For the lord's big-hearted behavior, Juan could only express his admiration.

In fact, these two people thought before the group stage was approaching, don't run into Deportivo La Coruna/Manchester United - this is not to say that they are afraid of the opponent's strength, or deliberately release water or something, they just hope that the other party can go a little farther, and then the two sides can meet in the final!

When it comes to the finals, the two sides will be the real king against the king, and the generals will be on the same page, and they can have a game to the fullest!

He knows that some people are born coaches, and he also knows that some people are legends when they were players, and when they pick up the whip to coach a club, they can have the effect of resurrecting the dead.

He used to think that this kind of person was a little tricky, and people like Ancelotti who were very good in the playing and coaching days were rare after all, and that was after years of accumulated experience.

has never been like this little broken child, who was directly promoted to the coach of La Liga, and then came up with seven consecutive wins, which is simply unreasonable.

Juan didn't know what the lord was thinking at this moment, he looked at the situation in front of him, lowered his head and smiled: "Lord, it seems that we are about to enter the market." ”

"Oh, let's go." The old Scottish man smiled, and the two walked in side by side, both of them were also saying something in a very peculiar accent, and the people around them wanted to listen to two sentences, but the Scottish-style English was too intoxicating, and the non-British coach ignored it without listening to it, and the British coach completely gave up after listening to two sentences.

- What accent does this Nima have?!

The terrible thing is that the two people are still very close, and the exchange between the two of them is still not over, until the host announces the start and the UEFA president begins to read the oath and the customary speech, the two of them are reluctantly quiet.

At the beginning of the draw, there were four transparent basins on the workbench, and there were eight balls in each, and the selected ones were generally the celebrity superstars of previous years, Juan and Ferguson didn't care who the draw was, they only cared if they would be so unlucky, and the group stage would meet.

The draw began, and the staff put their hands in the basin and stirred.

Juan heard the old man beside him snort coldly, and then lowered his voice and said, "Actually, there is a doorway here, and the lottery is not fair and just...... It's a magic trick in front of the public, before the medium of television. ”

Juan naturally empathized with the lord's disdain: "I seem to have seen that the ball has some different weights, and I don't know what they think, they actually play this trick." ”

"What do you think, not some teams in UEFA that have a relationship? Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Inter...... As far as our Premier League is concerned, it is a bit of a match with UEFA. ”

"The Premier League is pretty much independent of the entire top flight." Juan smiled, and at this time, the people on the field reported the first name: "Group A, AS Monaco!" ”

Since the draw is that one team is drawn from each group, and then the second team from each group is drawn in turn, they are still holding their breath, and Ligue 1 Monaco is not a very good team to play against.

"Group B, Bayer Leverkusen!"

The staff member showed the note in his hand, then lowered it and walked to the third basin.

"Group C, Juventus!"

"Group D, Manchester United!" As soon as they heard the name of Manchester United, Juan and the lord breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but soon, the lord reacted and glared at him: "What is your reaction?" ”

Juan smiled bitterly: "Sir, don't you think it's a good thing to know about your grouping earlier?" It's really uncomfortable to hang me up and down like this now. ”

"Group E, Arsenal!"

The old Scottish man, who was just about to continue to make some jokes with Juan, was silent with an ugly face, of course, this is not to say that the lord is afraid of Arsene Wenger, in fact, Arsenal has been unbeaten in 46 games since the beginning of the league last year, and just a few days ago, it was Manchester United led by the lord who ended Wenger's record with a score of 1-0 at home.

"What's the matter, sir, unhappy?" Juan raised an eyebrow and smiled.

"No...... I'm not in pity. The lord gritted his teeth a little, "I didn't meet him in the Champions League, otherwise I would have killed him for two rounds!" ”

A gaze drifted over, Juan subconsciously turned his head, a little embarrassed to find that the person they were talking about was sitting behind their right, after noticing his gaze, Wenger nodded at him very respectfully, Juan smiled back, turned his head and continued to look at the draw.

"Group F, AC Milan!"

Juan let out an "ah", causing the lord to subconsciously look back at him: "What's wrong?" ”

"No, I just remembered ......something out of the blue," Juan shook his head, turning his head somewhat complicatedly to look for AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti, who easily found the personable Italian, and next to him sat a man with long hair.

In the 04-05 season, the biggest tragedy in the history of AC Milan and the greatest comeback in the history of the Champions League will forever be nailed to the pillar of shame in history - Istanbul Night.

God, Amen, poor Rossoneri.

"Group G, Valencia!"

La Liga's Bat Army, last season's La Liga top, this team has more than just people and technology.

'Group H, Chelsea!'

I don't know why, when talking about Chelsea, Juan seemed to hear the squeaking sound of the seat next to him, and he subconsciously looked back and saw the lord's already blue face.

"What's wrong, sir?" Juan was subconsciously a little worried, thinking that the old man had a heart attack again.

"Nothing...... I was just thinking that Manchester United had better be in Group H or Group E, that would be fantastic...... "I don't know where the lord got such a big grudge, Juan was almost shocked.

It's just that when I think of what the situation in the Premier League is now, Juan can understand the old man's feelings, originally he and Wenger had a good way to fight here, and there was a more capable Portuguese coach!

When I think of Mourinho, Ferguson has a very surprising illusion.

"Juan, are you Portuguese all very good at talking?"

"Huh?" Juan was stunned and tilted his head to think, "You mean, we're all talking?" ”

"Yes," the lord nodded heavily, "Cristiano, Mourinho, Queiroz, one more talkative, one more talkative, I just don't know what the situation is." ”

“…… Good you know me. Juan decided to comfort the old man, but he didn't mention him, and the old man seemed to be even more angry when he mentioned him: "Are you embarrassed to say? You sullen gourd doesn't listen to you for a long time, and if you want to hear what you say, you have to wait for the development conference to do real-time translation next to you, isn't it fun? ”

Juan was a little helpless, of course he knew that he was so bad, but the lord seemed to be a little too exaggerated, right?

"Group A, Deportivo La Coruna!" Juan was subconsciously stunned when he heard this registration, but soon realized that he had been placed in Group A.

"Congratulations, sir." Juan said sincerely, "In the group stage, we still have a chance to meet in the setting of not running into the national league as much as possible." ”

"Who's going to meet you little? I don't bother to soften you with your broken formations. The lord seemed to be in a very unusual pride at this moment, and Juan was a little worried about this - did the lord forget that they had been talking about Juan's "broken formation" before, but they talked all the way from the outermost to the seat.

"Okay, okay, I'm not rare." Juan sighed, he felt something around him silently and silently slid over, Juan looked down and saw that it was the camera position, and there was a person behind him, seeing Juan subconsciously stunned, the two looked at each other in embarrassment for several seconds.

"Hey." Juan smiled at him, "Snacks?" ”

He didn't expect that the man who was filming on the court before would be able to see it here today, so he subconsciously teased, but he didn't seem to be teasing the child, this person jumped out almost immediately, and with the camera, Juan was dumbfounded.

"Huh? What's wrong? The lord was listening attentively to the movement above at this time, and didn't notice Juan's situation here, Juan just smiled back at him: "It's nothing, I met someone who was on the same side, and I feel that the world is so small." ”

"What's so strange about that, the circle of top football is so narrow." The lord just said it casually, still staring closely at the situation on the field.

"Group D, Olympic Lyon!"

As soon as he heard that it was Lyon, the lord's first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief, and then he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, as if Manchester United's grouping was okay this year!

"Congratulations, sir!" Juan applauded very sincerely, Manchester United's Champions League group stage draw was really good, and in addition to Manchester United and Lyon, the other two teams were Fenerbach and Sparta Prague - the kind of teams that basically no one paid attention to.

Facing such a group, at least within the scary schedule of the Premier League, it should be a little easier, right?

"You also do each other." The lord smiled, Deportivo Grouping is really good, Monaco, Liverpool, Olympiacos, only Monaco is more threatening among the three teams, and last season's Champions League final was the Champions League championship between Monaco and Porto.

Although the lord's congratulations were very sincere, Juan couldn't help but want to smile bitterly.

What is there to congratulate?

This group is exactly the same as the group in his dream, so according to the next pattern, Deportivo will be out of the group with the fourth place, not to mention the top two qualifiers, and even the third-place League Cup qualification!

Juan didn't think about how miserable it must be, Deportivo had a big comeback over Milan last season, but this season the Champions League 16 didn't make it......

Compared to Manchester United and Deportivo La Coruna, the other teams they are more concerned about are really the Group of Death.

Group B, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid, Dynamo Kyiv, AS Roma.

Group C, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Macabi Tel Aviv.

Group E, Arsenal, PSV Eindhoven, Napasinekos, Rosenborg.

Group F, AC Milan, Barcelona, Shaktardonetsk, Celtic.

Group G, Inter Milan, Weddell Bremen, Valencia, Anderlecht.

Group H, Chelsea, FC Porto, CSKA Moscow, Paris Saint-Germain.

-- In comparison, Deportivo La Coruna and Manchester United seem to have really good luck. The two coaches, one old and one young, looked at each other, and didn't know why there was a feeling that was both cool and very unhappy.

Regarding Juan's luck in the draw, everyone agreed that it was better after going back, after all, compared to Barcelona next door, Real Madrid next door, and Chelsea Arsenal on the other side of the United Kingdom, they really have nothing to do.

However, Juan, who communicated the situation with his agent in the evening, suddenly remembered something: "By the way, Jorge, I heard that the lottery can be manipulated?" ”

"That's right." Jorge was very straightforward, "And there are a lot of opportunities for manipulation and a lot of skill, so what do you want to do?" ”

"No, I just remembered it suddenly...... Mourinho's former boss is not Porto, how did you get such a sign for him? ”

"Oh, you don't understand." Jorge said triumphantly, "That's the highlight of the game!" Isn't it nice to have a showdown between two clubs, a new owner and an old love? ”

"What a fart." Juan was almost speechless, if last season's Champions League champion didn't even qualify for the group stage this season, he would definitely be ridiculed to the point that he couldn't do it! But that's also about Porto......

And last season's Champions League was too upset, no one expected that it would be Mourinho and Porto who would be the winners with the last laugh.

"Didn't I say it, Juan, if you can win the Champions League, we'll send it now!" Jorge is very excited, Mourinho still has more than a decade of learning experience, and what about Juan Dias?

This little broken boy only went to learn coaching after being hit by a car, got a coaching qualification certificate within a year, and became the head coach of La Liga!

This series of tables is amazing enough, if Juan can be amazing all the way to the end and directly raise the big ear cup, it will be the most perfect counterattack!

How many fairy tales, how many miracles, how incendiary? When the time comes, there will be a group of brainless fans, and when the time comes, there will be days when he and Juan will make money!

Speaking of posting, Juan suddenly remembered what happened before, and couldn't help but squint his eyes: "Speaking of which, what's going on with my poster?" ”

"Huh?" Jorge was stunned for a moment, but soon began the process of pretending to be stupid, "What kind of poster are you talking about, I don't know the specific situation...... Aha, I'll withdraw first! ”

Juan didn't have any way to hang up the phone quickly, so he could be regarded as making money for the club......

In the first Champions League game, the club was very attentive and trained very seriously, but this was a bitter Brazilian who was free and loose by nature, he was already old, and now he had to keep up with this kind of high-intensity training, and finally on this morning, he was out of anger.

"Refuse to play?" Juan looked up from the mountain of information in front of him and looked at the person in front of him in surprise, "Why?" ”

"What, why?" Romario raised his eyebrows, with a subtle unhappiness in his mood: "What did you and I say when you first came, and what is the situation now?" ”

At the beginning, it was clear that Juan told him that all he needed was his experience, so that he would not be overworked, and he could play with Fernando Redondo when he was fine, and he could tease his little juniors.

Correct! Whereas!

After a few rounds, he knew that he had been deceived!

He's obviously here to play football, not for a vacation!

Regarding the collapse accusation of the Brazilian lone wolf, Juan calmly put down the information in his hand and smiled: "Big guy, you are really teaching everyone your experience, after all, no matter what the situation, or when you are playing, you can show more ability, so I have wronged you, I'm sorry." ”

Although there was no trace of the "sorry" expression on the face of the person in front of him, after a moment of silence, Romario still sighed.

He sat on the sofa and crossed Erlang's legs: "Okay, let's talk about my play." ”