Chapter 123 Sanjie bids farewell to Camp Nou
On 20 May 2010, Barcelona hosted the final of the 109th Copa del Rey at Camp Nou against Atletico Madrid.
The semi-finals were played back in February, and as is customary in recent years, the venue for the final will be decided in March. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have a good relationship, and both clubs have a bit of bad water in their stomachs, so they jointly applied to the Spanish Football Federation, hoping that the final can be played at the Bernabeu, the home of Real Madrid.
As Real Madrid's two biggest rivals in La Liga, the 'sinister intentions' of Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are clearly revealed, just to run to the door of Real Madrid to disgust people's homes, and the atmosphere of small citizens is very strong. Real Madrid righteously rejected the request of the two Xiaoxiao, and did not wait for the amount of venue fees.
Then, following applications from various clubs, the Spanish Football Federation selected four stadiums at the Camp Nou, Atletico Calderón, Valencia's Mestalla and Real Betis' Biramalin as alternatives. After two more rounds of voting, the Camp Nou finally won the hosting rights by a simple majority.
But it was nominally a neutral venue, and after the draw, Atletico Madrid became the home team in the final, and they will wear the red and white sheets stripe of the home jersey. Barcelona's red and blue stripes and red and white sheets are visually similar, so they can only play at Camp Nou in the away yellow jersey.
Fortunately, because the relationship between the two clubs is really good, Atletico Madrid did not insist on using the home team's dressing room, otherwise Zhuo Yang and they are really not used to it.
At this time last year, Barcelona won 4-1 at the Mestalla Stadium to win the trophy for the 25th time and top the list. Second in second place is Biba, who is 23 times, Real Madrid are third with 17 times, and Barcelona's opponents today are far behind Atletico Madrid in fourth place with nine times.
Therefore, Barcelona is actually not very rare for this Copa del Rey, but standing in the final and not wanting to win the championship is also a lie, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat.
Both teams wanted to make up for this season's disappointment with this trophy, and Barcelona were brilliant in the league, winning the title by a record percentage point, but they were not satisfied with the Champions Cup.
Atletico Madrid unexpectedly won the Oiran in the League Cup, but they were miserable in 10th place in the league, which made Atletico Madrid, who are known as the first person under the Western Super League, embarrassed. If it weren't for the UEFA Cup winners, the season would have been a complete failure with their team's staffing.
In fact, Atletico Madrid's current UEFA Cup is not low, they were beaten by Chelsea and Porto to third place in the group in the Champions Cup, and then went all the way to Galatasaray, Sporting Lisbon, Valencia and Liverpool.
Their opponents in the final are no less impressive, with defending champions Shakhtar Donetsk, Juventus, Wolfsburg and Hamburg all shackling the farmer.
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Before the start of the game, the La Liga champions and the UEFA Cup champions took a photo together, and there was no atmosphere of fighting for life and death.
Pep Guardiola is clear in his heart, although Barcelona 'carelessly' defeated Meazza - Guapep insists that it is just careless, but in La Liga, there are still ants in the eyes, especially at Camp Nou, can draw any opponent in La Liga.
This is not hubris, but is based on scientific truth.
So, despite his reputation for being strict and sometimes unapproachable, Guardiola was very emotional in the final and final home game of the season by sending in three players who were almost certain to leave this summer.
Thierry Henry's agent was already in contact with him in the MLS, and in fact he was tempted to leave last summer when he learned that Ibrahimovic and Djojan had joined Barca, and Henry knew very well what the arrival of these two immortals meant to him. In the end, the reason why he didn't leave was that he persuaded himself that he could follow Zhuo Yang to play a Champions Cup, which was originally the only reason why Henry said goodbye to Highbury and went to Barcelona.
Therefore, by now, Henry has seen through his frustration that there are times in his life when he must have it, and there is no time in his life to ask for it.
When it came time to really say goodbye, Barcelona's forward line was completely out of place, and it would be annoying to stay any longer. Henry can see that it is not the arrival of Zhuo Yang that robs him of his opportunities, but the rapid growth of Pedro and Bojan is the real reason why he is on the bench. In Barcelona's football philosophy, La Masia's production belongs to the lineage of the red and the young, and it will always have priority.
Henry can't disobey this kind of tradition, and Zhuo Yang, he can't change it.
And although Henry is a quiet and humble man, he has a lot of opinions about Guardiola. Once the whole Barcelona team stayed in the hotel on the first day before the game, Guardiola found Henry's wife still chatting with him in the hotel at 10 o'clock in the evening, and Guardiola directly reprimanded Henry in front of Henry's sister-in-law for neglecting his schedule and slacking off the game.
No matter how modest he is, the captain of the French national team, King Highbury, and the elder Henry are also face-saving people, and he has had no personal contact with Guardiola since then.
Originally, Henry thought that Gua Shuai was such a person, and he wanted not to worry about him, but this season he found that Zhuo Yang was absent from training and flew back and forth all day in order to fall in love. Don't say 10 o'clock, he can go wherever he wants in the middle of the night, but Guardiola doesn't ask, he doesn't see it, which makes Henry tired.
Henry can't control Zhuo Yang, and he can't be jealous of his super-team treatment, but he can't avoid putting this injustice on Guardiola's head.
Yaya Toure also has an issue with Pep Guardiola, and his disagreement with Guardiola comes from football, from his position on the pitch.
Toure aspires to be a B2B central midfielder, but Pep Guardiola insists on persuading him to be rooted at the back, a positional disagreement between the two men. Pep Guardiola is not good at patient persuasion, and Toure feels that he is very arbitrary and authoritarian, and unreasonable.
In fact, neither of them is willing to communicate, and they have their own calculations in their chests. As a result, Toure gradually believed that Gua Shuai was prejudiced against him, and even racist. These are not nonsense, they are all free minds.
Toure has been linked with City during the winter break, with the only disagreement now being on the annual salary. Toure believes that his comprehensive offensive and defensive ability in the midfield is definitely not inferior to Zhuo Yang, in order to smooth out the resentment of being looked down upon by the old melon in Barcelona, so the annual salary he asks for is naturally on par with Zhuo Yang, and Zhuo Yang's 12 million is the highest salary in today's football.
Another player to leave is Mexican centre-back Rafal Marcos, whose reasons for leaving are no longer verbose. Marcos and Henry had a good relationship, so Henry invited him to go with him to the New York Red Bulls, and Marcos readily agreed.
Marcos has recovered after two months of recuperation and returned to training more than a week ago, with today being his first appearance since recovering from injury, starting alongside captain Puyol at Barcelona centre-back.
Similarly, Thierry Henry started in place of Ibrahimovic, with Toure taking on Sergio Busquets in midfield.