Chapter 049: The Spanish National Derby
The Spanish national derby is not just a game, in addition to its political implications, it is also a contest between two different philosophies of life and two different football philosophies.
Real Madrid represents central orthodoxy, represents the Spanish royal family, and is a sign of grace and luxury; Barcelona represents a remote Catalonia that is hard-working, hard-working and passionate about perfection.
Real Madrid is the maker and defender of the rules, and Barcelona is always eager to break with tradition; Real Madrid strive to take the best for themselves, and Barcelona strives to create the best in the world.
Real Madrid has been named the most successful club in the world in the past century, and they have reached unattained heights in terms of commercial development and competitive performance, and are a model for professional football clubs around the world to follow.
Barcelona is the best-looking team in world football in recent years, they adhere to a unified team building idea and unified formation of youth talent to ensure that their players think like a person on the field, play like a person, and achieve the perfect harmony of competitive results and beautiful process, which is the realm that many teams dream of.
The two teams represent different football philosophies and different football pursuits. This diametrically opposed difference makes them unable to integrate with each other, and can only fight-for-tat.
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This is Zhuo Yang's eighth season in professional football, and he has played hundreds of games. In the past eight years, Zhuo Yang has met almost all the traditional giants in Europe, but only two have never met - Real Madrid and Chelsea.
Because of this, after the Six Musketeers separated from Madibao more than five years ago, Zhuo Yang, Grandpa Mo, Brother Meng, and the Little Pig brothers all had the experience of 'fighting in the same room' on the field, but they never encountered the butcher and the scar.
But today, it's finally time to fight face-to-face with the butcher De Jong.
The butcher has been in Real Madrid for more than five years, and five years ago it was still the era of the first phase of the galaxy, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham, Figo, and Luo Carlos have made a team that they thought would only appear in a dream. Five years later, the old Galactic Battleship has been left in the memory, and the only people who can leave the mark of that era are Captain Raul, the two vice-captains Casillas and Guti, and the butcher.
In terms of the team's competitive status, the butcher and Casillas are even more solid than Raul and Guti, and in the dressing room, the butcher is also the first of the three captains. The 25-year-old butcher is a well-deserved veteran of Real Madrid.
Xavi and Messi have both said that their most palpitating opponent in La Liga is the butcher, who cannot be broken or defeated, no matter what method is used, the butcher will always stand there, desperately hard.
When the six brothers separated, it was agreed that the butcher would be the first to win the Champions League, after all, the Real Madrid battleship was in full swing at that time. However, after five seasons, Real Madrid is like falling into the top 16 every year, without increasing or decreasing.
In the past five years, Real Madrid and Barcelona have monopolized the La Liga championship, and the annual Champions League qualification is almost a benefit brought out of the mother's womb, but in the past five years, the fate of the 'Champions League Sixteen' has made the butcher quite helpless, and he has also been nicknamed 'Sixteen Slaughter' from his brothers.
But that's fine, unlike the other five brothers' teams that have always had ups and downs in the Champions League, the butchers always finish their work in Europe on time after the beginning of March. Every year, when the brothers' schedules are busiest, it is the day when the butcher's time is the most relaxed.
As a result, the butcher always has time to visit several brothers, especially after Zhuo Yang transferred to Milan, the butcher always has to take time to go to Zhuo Yang and his second brother every year. Madrid is more than 1,100 kilometers from Milan, a two-hour flight, and a day's drive through France is enough.
The butcher loves to drive and loves cars.
At the end of 2004, because of following the trend, all five of them signed up for college and chose the major they were interested in. Now, five years have passed, except for Scar, a really fashionable scumbag, the other four brothers have successfully graduated from their respective schools and received bachelor's degrees.
Grandpa Mertesacker graduated from the University of Manchester Law School with a bachelor's degree in law; Piggy Schweinsteiger graduated from the Department of Football and Sports at the University of Sport Cologne, and the 25-year-old Piggy is already qualified to coach the youth team; The second brother, Montolivo, graduated from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Turin with a Bachelor of Arts; De Jong graduated from the Compluton's Business School in Madrid with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Management.
In 2007, a butcher who was still a college student and a friend co-founded his 'Continental Automobile Sales Company', which only sells luxury cars and classic cars, and belongs to the luxury industry. Now the butcher's business is not too hot on the surface, but there is a sum in this industry, and he earns more than his Real Madrid annual salary in a year.
Over the years, Zhuo Yang has also been to Madrid several times, sometimes to eat and drink with his brother, and twice to go to the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid for musical business, and he and the vice president of the Royal Mayin, the head of the piano department, Ms. Maria Piles, are quite able to talk.
Zhuo Yang has not faced Real Madrid, but now he has many acquaintances there. In addition to the butcher de Jong, there is also the former Bundesliga Dortmund defender Metzeld, in 2007, under Dortmund's dormant salary reduction strategy, Metzelder came to Real Madrid on a free transfer.
There are also Van der Vaart, Cristiano Ronaldo, and even Ramos, all of whom have dealt with Zhuo Yang, not only in other teams.
Of course, now there is Kaka, and for Zhuo Yang, Kaka is no less than the brotherly best friend of the Six Musketeers.
It is not surprising that Kaka quickly became friends with the butcher after arriving at Real Madrid. The two of them used to spend vacations together, and with Zhuo Yang as a matchmaker in the middle, more importantly: both of them are very easy to get along with, both are polite, and both like to be kind to others.
Butcher and Kaka, if they have a bad relationship with someone, they don't have to guess, they are basically the responsibility of the other party. Being able to act like enemies with both of them means that your character is outrageously bad, and you must have no true friends in this world. So, can Kaka and the butcher not become good friends?
It is precisely because of the relationship with the butcher and Kaka, although the national derby has always been full of spittle, and it has always been as exciting as the game, but Zhuo Yang, who has been a pioneer since ancient times, did not speak ill of each other this time, no provocation, only respect.
But not everyone thinks of his friends above football, above fame and fortune and the national derby like him, and Ronaldo's pre-match silence caused an uproar in Barcelona.