Chapter 268: The Battle of Farewell (I)
Most of the league and cup competitions in Europe this year ended at the end of May, and the Champions League final will not start until June 1.
Bayern did not overturn in their last three league games, relying on the new style of play of the troika to successfully move themselves up to second place in the league, but unfortunately after winning four consecutive Bundesliga titles, they still fell to five consecutive titles.
Wu Jie also had a little regret after the end of the league, because his league goals ended up at 59 goals, and he did not break the record of 60+ league goals in a single season.
But does he really regret it?
It depends on the surface or the heart.
Wu Jie had 57 league goals ahead of his final game against Uerdingen and needed a hat-trick to set an unprecedented horror record.
On that day, the "Munich Olympic Stadium" was full of slogans with the word "60", tens of thousands of fans painted their faces with the Arabic numerals "60", and even the shops sold makeshift jerseys with the "60" number on them.
Wu Jie, with the support of 100,000 Bayern fans, scored two goals in the first half to make himself only a stone's throw away from "60".
At this time, everyone thought that Wu Jie would definitely succeed in completing the record, but no one expected that Wu Jie would be cursed in the second half, and no matter what kind of shot he could score, he would not be able to score again.
He had a total of 13 shots on goal throughout the second half, but did not increase his tally to a 60th goal until the end of the game.
Wu Jie was naturally very regretful on the surface, and when asked by reporters after the game, he also said in disappointment: "I hate regrets, but there will always be some regrets in life, after all, life without regrets is a regret in itself, this may be life." ”
But was that really what he was thinking?
Of course not!
Wu Jie thought in his heart: "Lao Tzu deliberately left you a regret that will never be made up for by others, so that you can always remember me!" ”
It's not that he's blindsided, but in the Bundesliga, let alone scoring 60 goals in a single season, no one has ever scored 50 goals in a single season.
From the original level until 2025, the Bundesliga's single-season goal record is still 40 goals set by Gerd Müller in the seventies.
So he deliberately put a record of "59 goals" in the history of the Bundesliga, just to let the Germans always look up to his legend, and if you have the ability, you can let the local players go up +1!
Wu Jie is a bit of a dog doing this, but in the season before leaving, he did have some regrets, at least he didn't win the league and the German Cup.
However, in the Champions League, he still hopes to help Bayern win another title.
This can be regarded as leaving a little property for Bayern, if they can't win this Champions League title, Bayern won't even be able to play the Champions League next season.
However, the second leg against Real Madrid in Madrid did not go as smoothly as expected, and this year's Real Madrid is only higher than Bayern in terms of hard power, especially Real Madrid who returned to the Bernabeu to make Bayern almost overturn.
Chen Haonan's pass and shot in the first half gave Real Madrid hope again, but unfortunately they lost too much away from home.
In the second half, Wu Jie used his personal ability to volley directly from outside the penalty area without stopping the ball, and the football drew a scimitar-like arc into the corner of the goal, such an exaggerated world wave could not be replaced by any goalkeeper.
In the end, Real Madrid won a 3-1 victory at home, but in the end it fell to Bayern, the number one sufferer.
The win also means Bayern will be able to claim their seventh Champions League trophy as they face either Scotland's Dundee United or Romania's Dynamo Bucharest, but either team is far from Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Wu Jie received good news from PolyGram not long after the race, the U.S. Olympic Committee wanted to use two of Wu Jie's songs as global promotional songs for the Los Angeles Olympics.
Of course, the Los Angeles Olympics will not have only two promotional songs, and the last World Cup also used many promotional songs.
But Wu Jie knows that as long as his song is selected, it must be the title song, at least it will be the most impressive, and the popularity and evaluation will be the highest.
The two songs chosen by the Americans were beyond his expectations, and they chose "How Do You Do" and "Wheogether".
Wu Jie's doubts lie in the song "Wheogether", which is obviously an anti-war song.
But if you think about it carefully, you can see why the Americans chose this song, because one of the countries that are fighting at the moment is the Soviet Union and the other is China, and of course they want to choose this song to disgust the two red countries, especially to attack the evil Soviet Union that invaded Afghanistan.
This made Wu Jie a little square, but he didn't care about the little calculations of the Americans, because when he came out with this song, it was also to disgust the Soviet Union, who let these bastards disgust China in the north.
He's just a little unhappy about not being able to charge now, but it's never possible to charge for this kind of thing.
This kind of world sports event, the advertising effect and publicity effect are much stronger than the fact that he spent 100 million US dollars to advertise around the world.
Therefore, major record companies will prepare suitable songs in advance to send them to the election, but in order to select in addition to the high quality of the work itself and the lyrics to meet the situation, the record company also has to give money to "lobby", and the last condition is the key.
This is similar to the Oscars spending money to capture the hearts of the 6,000 voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and this time, as far as Wu Jie knows, Polygram spent a total of more than 10 million US dollars on lobbying and buying gifts in order to help him choose these two songs.
But this pay is compared with the gain, of course, it is blood earned!
There are only three promotional songs for the Los Angeles Olympics, of which "Reach Out" is the opening theme song, "How Do You Do" and "Wheogether" are global promotional songs.
Wu Jie: This is equivalent to two months of free advertising on sports channels in various countries around the world, and this 10 million US dollars is of course worth no more.
This is also one of the advantages of working with Polygram, otherwise no matter how high the quality of his current works is, I am afraid that his influence will only be limited to Asia, and it is impossible to become a professional household of propaganda songs for the World Cup and the Olympic Games.
Now that he has won both the World Cup and the Olympics, I am afraid that these two events will really come to him in the future.
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On June 1, the final of the 1983-1984 European Champions Cup officially began, between Bayern Munich and Dundee United in Scotland, at the "Olympic Stadium in Rome", the home stadium of Rome.
Soon after the game started, Wu Jie could feel the malice from the referee, which should be from UEFA to be precise.
This is not difficult to understand, Bayern has won the Champions League trophy for three consecutive years, and if it wins again, it will be four consecutive championships.
This dominance has actually had a negative impact on Champions League ratings, as neutral fans are always aesthetically tired of watching a team win.
Therefore, today's penalty scale is obviously biased towards Dundee United, and most of the physical confrontations are unfavorable to Bayern, which also makes Dundee United's players more and more unscrupulous in their actions.
Wu Jie had already prepared, because half of his honors were obtained under this kind of targeting, and he was already familiar with how to deal with it.
As long as this referee is not like the Soviet referee in the Asian Cup that year, he can still handle it.
Wu Jie can also see this kind of thing, because if it is a confrontational team sport, there is nothing fair at all, and it is easy for the referee to control the field.
Some clever referees can even make you feel that he is in control of the court, and even shout "unfair" to make you think that he will favor you for a while, and then give you a back throw at a critical moment.
So what kind of sport can be absolutely fair? What kind of sports are easy to cheat?
Let's talk about the projects that are easy to cheat, basically in addition to the confrontational team sports, the classified projects are also prone to controversy and shady, and the fairest sports are still the single-person non-confrontational projects.
Of course, athletics and speed skating are relatively fair at this stage, but if you encounter a Korean who kills you in the future, there is no way to do it!
In the end, it is a relatively fair sport, in fact, it is a few sports such as shooting, tennis, high jump, long jump, weightlifting, etc.
But the most embarrassing thing in sports is that you can't win the game even when the referee is helping.
This was the case in today's Champions League final, even if the referee was on the verge of blatantly favouring Dundee United.
But I gave you a chance, and you didn't use it!
In the 25th minute of the first half, the Dundee United player, who had been dominating the field under the bias of the referee, made a mistake in his own pass and passed the ball directly to the feet of Mateus.
Mateus immediately found Wu Jie, who took the ball and accelerated from the midfield to get past two Dundee United players who put a tackle in a row, and actually accelerated again to get rid of all the returning players parallel to him, and used his absolute explosiveness and speed to get a one-on-one opportunity with the goalkeeper.
At this time, everyone knows that Dundee United has lost the goal, but I don't know how Wu Jie will score the ball?
Wu Jie's choice is "pendulum passing", this action he doesn't use often, and he has only used it three or four times this season.
But today in the Champions League final, Wu Jie once again used this trick that Bayern fans are most familiar with, swinging his body at high speed to pass the goalkeeper and score the ball.
The 30,000 Bayern fans in the "Rome Olympic Stadium" chanted "alien" in unison after Wu Jie's goal, and the Bayern fans in front of the TV stood up and shook their bodies excitedly, but unfortunately no one knew that this game was Wu Jie's swan song at Bayern.
But since it is a curtain call, Wu Jie will certainly not be stingy with his skills, he has brought the most fancy skills today, that is, to dedicate a performance without regrets to Bayern fans.
At the end of the first half, Wu Jie received a pass on the right side of the front court this time.
At this time, the two Dundee United players were nervous, and there was a confusion in communication, and one grabbed the same defensive position.
Wu Jie seized the fleeting opportunity, quickly turned his body to the direction of the two defenders standing together when he stepped on the ball with his habitual feet, and then stopped and turned and knocked, and his tank-like body actually completed the escape as naturally as flowing water, and passed the two defenders together at the same time.
But this is not the end of the performance, Wu Jie used the "alien roundabout" to complete the pass, and immediately accelerated to break through to the middle.
At this moment, three or four Dundee United players who were parallel to him, or even closer to the goal than him, were quickly eliminated by him with a gap visible to the naked eye.
When he drove 30 metres from the right side into the penalty area, only the goalkeeper could stop him.
At this time, Wu Jie suddenly slowed down and made a feint to pull the ball on the outside of his foot, deceived the center of gravity of the opponent's goalkeeper, and then immediately flicked it inward, and then accelerated to get rid of it, and hit the ball into the empty goal again.
He often uses this trick "Oxtail Change", but he has rarely used it again in the past two years after passing two "alien whirlings" at once.
In this game, Wu Jie can use two rare stunts in succession, at this time, not only Bayern fans have a feeling of New Year, but neutral fans also feel that today's game has a once-in-a-lifetime taste.