"David, there is an invitation letter inviting Notts County to send people to the Shanghai International Football Forum on the 15th of next month, which is sent to us by our jersey sponsor Nike, and they have a cooperative relationship with the organizers, I think this is a good platform for Notts County."

While David was thinking wildly, Soriano suddenly appeared in David's office.

"I know you've always been afraid of trouble, and you will never go to this kind of occasion, so I'm going to participate!"

Soriano said in a tone of "I've seen through you".

Shanghai?

In the middle of next month?

When David heard these two words, he was furious.

snatched the invitation letter from Soriano's hand, his eyes were about to stick to it, for fear that there was a word that he didn't read carefully enough.

"I think such an important thing should be done by me, the chairman!"

David excitedly held the invitation and said quickly: "Don't you still have a lot of things to do about building the stadium, and it was close to Christmas at that time, I should give a big vacation to the hard-working people, so that you can go back to Spain and have a good Christmas with your family, so I'll go to this forum!" ”

Soriano looked at David with a look of surprise on his face, as if he were looking at the sun rising in the west.

"This is not your character, why would you rush to go to such a troublesome matter? Are you sick today and haven't taken your medicine yet? ”

David's face was instantly covered with black lines.

Is the impression you give people so bad?

"Well, I think I'm still a competent chairman, although sometimes I'm a little lazy, but when did I drop the chain when it came to important things?" David said indignantly.

"Okay, okay, you're competent, since you're willing to go, you can go, and I'm happy to be free, but it's such a good opportunity to promote Notts County, don't mess it up!" Soriano sighed, carefully admonished.

However, before going out, Soriano seemed to be muttering to himself: "That place in China is like a football desert, and there is a Mao meaning to hold a football forum there!" ”

David could only pretend not to hear, after all, he had nothing to do with China on the surface.

But in fact, it is extremely painful in the heart, and this is an eternal pain for Chinese fans.

Well, a bit of a stretch, David scratched his head and looked at the invitation and giggled.

This invitation is really timely, Jun Ji-hyun is filming an advertisement in Shanghai, and the two are not familiar enough to visit the class, and now with the excuse of the forum, it is completely different.

This can be described as a coincidence, so that the words of asking her will not seem abrupt.

Yes, very good!

As for what the forum is going to do, David won't care!

In the next few days, David's whole person was refreshed, so that the players thought that Mr. Chairman was going to pay bonuses again!

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The results of the UEFA Cup draw have been revealed, and Notts County's last-32 opponent is La Liga side Celta.

Everyone wants to draw a weak team in the lottery, so that the chances of promotion will be greatly increased, and perhaps Notts County is such a weak team in the eyes of many teams.

However, Celta de Vigo is a different story, and in the years of the turn of the century, Celta was the second most stable group in La Liga.

For several consecutive seasons, it has not fallen out of the top six in the La Liga standings, and La Liga has been able to achieve such results during the period of European dominance, which can imagine the strength of Celta.

It seems that now, the media has made Celta the biggest favorite to win the UEFA Cup apart from Liverpool.

It's no coincidence that Celta de Vigo are generally favored, and if you look at the players who have played for the team in recent seasons, you can see what it means to be a famous player.

For example, Mazinho, Salgado, Makelele, Penev, Juan Sanchez, Dutrul, Serades, McCarthy, Lucin, etc., although these people have not been too long, but they have effectively enriched the team's squad.

Let's take a look at the more consistent main players, such as Argentina international Caballero, Spain fringe international defenders Juan Forlan and Velasco, Brazilian full-back Silvinho, Russia + Brazil midfield combination of Mostovoy, Karpin and Edu, Catania, Argentina international winger Gustavo López, etc.

Catania was naturalized into the Spanish national team and played during Camacho's tenure;

Although Edu does not have Arsenal's resume of playing in the Copa America as a main player, he has also been selected for the national team and performed well in the 2000 Olympics;

Caballero and Gustavo López both have a place in Bielsa's national team for the 02 World Cup.

At this time, the four giants of La Liga played Celta, and it can be said that there is no certainty of victory.

Then look at Celta's strong performance in European competition in recent seasons, 98-99 League Cup double defeat Liverpool, 99-00 League Cup 7-0 Benfica, 4-0 victory over Juventus, I am afraid that even the big teams may not be able to achieve this level.

After the draw of Celta, the media in England have begun to observe a moment of silence for Notts County.

In their opinion, even if Liverpool met Celta, they did not dare to say that they would win, and now it is Notts County to meet such a strong team, and it seems that the result is predestined before the game even starts.

That's your Notts County bad luck, no wonder no one else!

There are really a few little-known teams in the round of 32 of the UEFA Cup, like Liberec, Clarkov or something, wouldn't it be nice for you to meet such teams!

Didn't you see that after drawing Notts County, the La Liga media has already helped Celta celebrate advancing to the round of 16 of the League Cup in advance!

In this season's Champions League, La Liga teams are extremely strong, and all four teams have advanced to the second round of the group stage, that is, the round of 16 of the Champions League, which no other league can do.

Many Spanish media outlets are optimistic that this season's Champions League title will be won from four La Liga teams.

With a near-dominant performance in the Champions League, if La Liga teams can also perform strongly in the UEFA Cup, who else is eligible to compete for the La Liga first spot?

Therefore, the three clubs that have advanced to the last 32 of the UEFA Cup are highly anticipated.

Among them, Celta is undoubtedly the most optimistic.

Now, the draw has been drawn again, which is simply the rhythm of the destined champion.

Although Notts County eliminated Celtic, the giant of the Soviet Super League, however, in the eyes of the five major league teams, the Soviet Super League? What the hell is that?

What is there to brag about in the victory over the Soviet Super League team! (To be continued.) )