1030 Spiritual Leader
Entering July, the transfer market is in full swing, and the La Liga schedule is also freshly released.
The first opening match of the new season was played by promoted Celta Vigo against Malaga.
Celta Vigo can also be regarded as a traditional strong team in La Liga, during the turn of the century, it even stood in a position similar to the current Valencia and Sevilla teams, and was faintly the first group army after the Spanish Super League duo, when Florentino took charge of Real Madrid, it was Makelele who was introduced from Vigo Celta.
In the 0304 season, Celta Vigo even reached the round of 16 of the Champions League, but unfortunately lost to Arsenal, and the European results were brilliant, but they were relegated in La Liga.
After a lapse of five years, Celta Vigo returned to La Liga and participated in the La Liga opener with the local tycoon Malaga, known as La Liga Manchester City, which is also a big attraction for veteran La Liga fans.
……
Real Madrid's schedule at the start of the season is stressful.
The first round of the league is on August 18 against old rivals Valencia, and it will be a tough game to play in, and although Real Madrid are playing at home, it is also necessary to fully consider the difficulty of the first game of the league.
However, if you look at the club's historical results, the draw between Real Madrid and Valencia is very auspicious, the two sides have a total of nine first-round meetings in the league, seven of which were won by Real Madrid, and the remaining two were won by Valencia, and there is always a team that can win the title that season.
In the 2000-2001 season, the two sides met in the first round, Mendieta's penalty kick helped Valencia take the lead, but Raul and Figo scored successively to help Real Madrid reverse, and Real Madrid won the championship this season; A year later, the two sides met again in the first round of the league, with Rafael Benitez leading Valencia to beat Real Madrid and then win the La Liga title this season.
Interestingly, the 2000-2001 season was Florentino's first game at the helm of Real Madrid, while the 2001-2002 season was Benitez's first game in charge of Valencia and Zinedine Zidane's first game at Real Madrid.
It can be said that both sides are happy with the draw for the first round of the league, especially Real Madrid, but they cannot be careless.
Real Madrid have had a stressful start to the season, with two Spanish Super Cup games against Barcelona making it a tough battle, while the UEFA Super Cup is against Atletico Madrid, and last season Simeone managed to lead the Sheets to victory in the Europa League.
The new season is full of hard battles, and it is also a big challenge for Real Madrid, which has just reorganized.
In addition to the first round, the derby of the century with Barcelona was also greatly advanced.
The first derby of the century is scheduled in the seventh round and the second in the twenty-sixth round, which is different from the previous ones that have been scheduled at the end of November and April, and the impact on the Champions League will be relatively small after the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is greatly advanced.
For example, there will not be a couple of consecutive derbies of the century like last season's Real Madrid.
Despite the pressure of Real Madrid's new season, the coaching staff did not pass on the pressure to the players, and the summer camp started a week later than usual, and did not start until July 16.
This is mainly due to the large number of internationals in the Real Madrid team, especially those who participated in the European Championship, who began to participate in the national team training camp at the end of May and did not play until the beginning of July.
After the training camp, Real Madrid will play two warm-up games in Europe, before flying to the United States for four warm-up games in the summer, and will not return to Europe until mid-August, where they will play against strong teams such as AC Milan.
In recent years, Real Madrid has continued to travel to the United States to participate in summer training tournaments, mainly for commercial reasons.
In the latest edition of the Forbes Fortune list, Real Madrid has become the most valuable club in the world with a market value of $3 billion, while Manchester United, which ranks second, is only $2.23 billion, followed by the American baseball club New York Yankees and the football club Dallas Cowboys, both of which are $185 million.
The soaring commercial value and the sharp increase in financial income all prove that Real Madrid is the richest club in world football today, but in the transfer market this summer, Real Madrid sold people as much as 120 million, but the buyers only spent 47 million euros, a full profit of 73 million euros, which is another amazing huge amount of money.
In this regard, Real Madrid officials gave a plan early, saying that the team will start the stadium renovation this year.
According to the renovation plan provided by Real Madrid, the corner passage of the Bernabeu Stadium will be removed, the original commercial corner will also be renovated, and Real Madrid will build a luxury hotel and shopping center inside the stadium, which will bring a steady stream of revenue to Real Madrid in the future.
In order to renovate the new stadium, Real Madrid has offered to exchange part of the land with the city of Madrid to renovate Castilla Avenue opposite the Bernabeu Stadium, a plan that has been approved by the Madrid High Court of Justice, and a number of banks have promised to give Real Madrid long-term low-interest loans.
In recent years, the European economy has been depressed, the European debt crisis has erupted, and the Spanish domestic economy has also borne the brunt, and the vast majority of banks have begun to tighten their monetary policy and dare not lend easily, which has led to membership clubs like Real Madrid becoming the favorite high-quality customers of banks, coupled with Real Madrid's net income of more than 70 million yuan in the transfer market this summer, with abundant cash flow, it is naturally willing to give long-term low-interest loans to support Real Madrid's renovation of the new stadium.
With the permission of the government and the loan support of the bank, Florentino was naturally affirmed by the members of Real Madrid at the general meeting, after all, taking advantage of the team's three consecutive championships and a significant increase in financial revenue, and the European economic depression, the bank is willing to take out low-interest loans to give a godsend, just in time to renovate the Bernabeu Stadium.
It is expected that the renovation project will commence at the end of 2012 and run for four years, ending in 2016, with no impact on the use of the Bernabeu Stadium throughout the construction period.
Due to the need to renovate the new stadium, Real Madrid had already begun to build a new headquarters building at the Valdebebas training base before the end of last season, and the Spanish construction company RLH won the bid to build an office building with two rectangular stacks based on the topography of Valdebebas.
Once the building is opened, Real Madrid will move all the offices and administrative staff of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to Valdebebas, and then transform the interior of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to be used for commercial operations such as luxury hotels and shopping malls.
Because of this, when the Real Madrid players returned to Madrid for the new season and came to Valdebebas to report, everyone found that the area north of the training base near the main road was in full swing.
In just over a month, the basement has been built, and the tall tower crane can be seen from afar.
…………
…………
Yang Yang returned to Madrid from Greece the day before the start of the summer training camp.
In the past, he took his wife and children from Australia to Greece, and originally planned to go to Northern Europe, but Yang Yang was worried about the new season and finally returned to Madrid ahead of schedule.
During this period of time, he was immersed in the gentle township, his body and mind were well rested, and he was even a little blessed, and Yang Yang was also very helpless about this, which just confirmed the sentence, the heart is wide, and the body is fat.
When he came to Valdebebas, Yang Yang specially drove around the construction site, and then entered the training area of the first team through the gate.
Parking in the parking lot, as soon as he came down, he saw someone next to him looking at him with a smile, and when he looked up, it was Raul.
"Hey, Raul, why are you here?" Yang Yang was very surprised.
Raul stepped forward with a smile and hugged Yang Yang, congratulating him on his new marriage, and Yang Yang also thanked him.
When he got married before, he originally considered inviting Raul and Ronaldo and others, but because they really didn't have any deep friendship, and they were not Real Madrid players now, Yang Yang didn't want to bother them.
If he is still an ordinary player in the past, then Yang Yang will definitely invite him, because Ronaldo is his idol, but now Yang Yang is no longer needed, and if Ronaldo and Raul are others, the scope of the banquet will be too large.
"How?" Yang Yang asked with concern.
"I heard that you opened camp today, and I happened to be in Madrid, so I came over to have a look." Raul laughs and looks like he's in a good mood.
After two years at Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga, Raul moved to Qatar's Al Sadd this summer, mainly because of the high salary and relatively easy time, which is the best place to retire.
Many fans outside are still upset about Raul, but they don't know that in fact, he is living a good life, but if he stays in Real Madrid, he may have to live on the bench, neither can he play, nor can he receive such a high salary, which can be described as a loss of fame and fortune.
After the two met, they walked politely all the way to the training building of the first team.
"I heard that you won't be back until the end of July, why did you come so early?" Raul asked curiously.
Yang Yang shrugged helplessly, "I'm tired of playing outside, I want to come back quickly, and there are new teammates joining, I definitely want to come and see." ”
Yang Yang said it casually, but Raul listened attentively.
Eden Hazard spent 40 million euros on Real Madrid, which is not too high or low in the transfer market this summer, but it is not so influential.
According to the usual practice, Real Madrid will definitely hold a press conference and home debut ceremony for him, but the current popularity of the Belgian must not attract many fans to the stadium, in the case of Casillas and Ramos, the two captains and vice-captains, are on vacation because of the European Cup final, Yang Yang chose to return early, which is undoubtedly the greatest support for Hazard.
From this point, Raul can also clearly see Yang Yang's maturity.
For example, he was the first to send a welcome to Hazard on Twitter, and now he has returned early to participate in Hazard's joining ceremony, which is enough to prove that Yang Yang is already the spiritual leader in the Real Madrid dressing room.
And he's doing a good job.
Raul was very relieved and relieved about this.