Chapter 246: The Final Begins

It's so uplifting.

Dick's last sentence can be called the finishing touch - stealing the limelight from the World Cup, which is something that few teams can do, after all, for most people, the World Cup may now begin to become mixed, and the average may not be as good as the European Cup and Champions Cup, but the brand of the World Cup is there after all, when the World Cup starts, China's uncles and aunts who don't watch football and sports news may also know that there is a football World Cup in the world, but they will not know what other European Cups and Champions Cups……

Now Dick wants to steal the limelight from the Champions Cup, whether he can do it or not is two words, but to have such an idea is enough to inspire the players!

The morale of the Atletico Madrid players is waiting for the day of the Champions Cup final.

For the whole of European football, the Champions League final is definitely a big event, even the managers of the teams that have been eliminated before often come to watch this game, and this Champions Cup is no exception.

After the players on both sides finished their warm-up on the field and returned to their dressing rooms, the TV cameras began to look for people in the stands, and they did find a lot of familiar faces - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and Roma manager Capello sat side by side in the stands, Wenger sat on the other side of the stands, and the senior management of the two clubs was naturally indispensable. It is the remaining shareholders of the two clubs, Cerezo and Abasolo .

Of course, there are other managers - Mourinho is wearing a trench coat and sitting in a corner of the stands, but he has just successfully put out the fire in Porto, and he has only been in charge of Porto for half a season, and he has not yet made any name on the European continent, so it is natural for the camera camera to ignore him.

The players from both sides were now waiting in the tunnel before Dick swaggered out of the tunnel and when he appeared outside the tunnel, there was a huge cheer from the Atletico fans in the stands.

Dick smiled and waved to the stands, now was certainly not the time for him to put out the fire, when he waved to the stands and was greeted with a boo, and at this time, he was greeted with extremely enthusiastic cheers!

Some people are born to be able to attract everyone's attention and easily get everyone's love! In just two years, Dick has become a god in the hearts of Atletico fans, as he can bring Atletico fans any title they need!

When he was fighting the fire, he brought the Copa del Rey title, and in the second season, he brought the League Cup and the league title, and now, the league title is in hand, and he is making great strides towards the championship of the Champions Cup!

If you look at Dick's resume, you will naturally know why Dick has the support of so many Atletico fans!

Mourinho's eyes were staring at Dick - in the past two years or so, it has changed too much, and when he saw Dick, it was a dirty guy with a flattering smile, hoping that Cruyff could take a look at his future plans for Barcelona, and at that time, Mourinho was already Barcelona's assistant coach, and he was often able to fight with Cruyff because of his football philosophy. Then the gap between Dick and the professional coaching circle can even be recorded in light years!

Mourinho is by no means a dick, in fact, he can be regarded as a football family, his father was a member of the Portuguese national team, with such a starting point to become a professional coach is actually not too difficult, and he is also smart, studious, capable and able to forbear, ten years of dormancy, successively studied under Robson, Van Gaal and Cruyff and other famous coaches, and then gilded the position of assistant coach in Barcelona, and after returning to Portugal, he coached Benfica and Leiria, Now that he finally has his place in a big club like Porto, Mourinho has done well enough and has built a solid foundation.

But what about Dick? Compared with Dick's speed, Mourinho's process of enriching himself and coaching the team seems to be as slow as a snail, he has such good luck to be able to get the appreciation of the old Hill when he has nothing and directly coach the second team of Atletico Madrid at the second level of La Liga, and then he can meet a team of Atletico Madrid that has been so rotten that he can't find a suitable manager before the end of the season, and then he successfully turned the tide and successfully put out the fire, won Hill's trust, and then rose like a legend in the next two seasons, and now, He stood on the field of the Champions Cup final!

Dick's achievements in the past two years or so are simply a legend, an unprecedented legend in international football - no manager has ever been able to complete such earth-shaking changes and create such earth-shaking achievements in just over two years, and only this Dick can do this.

Sometimes when he sees some news from Dick, Mourinho can't help but think that he is weak, but with his character of getting stronger and stronger in the face of setbacks, this will not discourage him - as a manager, there will be no complete failure, he can still have a lot of time to catch up with the opponent! At least now that he has gained the trust of the whole Porto body, this is the time for him to make a big difference, and he will never resign in anger after achieving good results like Benfica did because the management did not like him.

"One day, I will stand on such a stage!" Mourinho clenched his fists and thought.

While Mourinho was swearing in his heart, Dick had returned to his place and sat down, waiting for the game to begin, and Topmüller also sat down in his place, while the cheers from the stands rose high again as the players from both sides had already played!

Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen are all sent in a four-five-one formation, it is obvious that Dick and Topmuller value the midfield - and the configuration in the back line is similar, two powerful fullbacks, a tall central defender and a flexible central defender, but there is a gap in the forward line, Atletico Madrid's center forward is Jardel with good height, and Leverkusen's center forward is the agile Neuville, of course, the quality of the substitute strikers on both sides is not bad, Atletico Madrid has Cruz and Torres, Bayer Leverkusen have young Berbatov and veteran Kirsten.

Before the start of the game, players from both sides observed a moment of silence on the sidelines – in memory of the legendary Ukrainian coach Lobanovsky, who had passed away just a day earlier, and Dick showed his respect for his predecessors by standing on the sidelines with his hands crossed on his lower abdomen and waiting for the silence to end.

It was only after the silence was over that Dick sighed, returned to his place, and then turned to Marriner and said, "Life is so impermanent...... To be honest, I admire the coaches of the past, and it is because of their hard work that football has been able to get to where it is now...... Okay, now let's follow the game! ”

"Well, Dick's words are very appropriate, to be honest, we should also pay attention to the old coaches and players, they have made great contributions to the development of football, but at that time they were not able to make too much money, think of Garrincha who died of poverty, when our current players are enjoying cheers and high salaries, don't forget that all this is based on the efforts of those people...... Again, in Dick's words, let's focus on the game now......"

ESPN's commentator couldn't help but sigh after hearing the translation of the lip expert, it was because of this sentence that Dick's image suddenly became better than before, and many people began to think that although Dick sometimes likes to be unforgiving, most of the time, he is still a good person......

It is Corina who officiates this game again, it is obvious that as an Italian, there will be no worries about enforcing this game, and his penalty will be very convincing, so that there will be no players who are dissatisfied, after all, these two teams are rarely in the Champions Cup finals, if there is any penalty error, it is easy to think of injustice or something like that, the World Cup is about to start, and UEFA does not want to have any trouble.

When Corina looked at the time, he motioned for both players to get ready, and then blew the whistle for the start of the game!

Jadel kicks the ball to Belleron and runs forward – it's time for the game!

Belleron passed the ball back and then pulled back to get the ball from Baraja's feet again, remembering Dick's previous advice to control the ball before waiting for an opportunity to attack.

"In terms of experience, our experience in the Champions League final with Bayer Leverkusen is half a pound, that is, it is equal to zero. But we have better skills, so don't worry, they lost two titles, they will definitely want to fight hard in this game, maybe at first they will want to take us by surprise with a rush immediately, so don't worry! ”

With Dick's words echoing in his mind, Belleron looked up at the Leverkusen players who were pouring towards Atletico Madrid's half like a tide, turned around unhurriedly, and then passed to Makelele behind him.

Then he made a gesture to signal everyone not to rush, pass the ball slowly, and not make mistakes.

In Atletico's skillful back and forth passes, the pressing of the Leverkusen players did not have much effect, and Atletico still controlled the ball, and then distributed the ball to the wing, and Vicente launched the attack on the left side!

Sebezen met him, and then cautiously retreated while jamming Vicente's forward path, he knew that Vicente's speed was fast, and he just couldn't let him rush up.

Seeing that the opponent was defending so carefully, Vicente chose to pass the ball back to Belleron, who immediately passed the ball to Capdevilla on the left before Ballack pressed over, and Capdevilla was about to break forward with the ball, but was directly put to the ground by Schneider who returned to the defense.

Collina's whistle blew and Atletico were awarded a free-kick from the touchline.

Dick frowned slightly, Bayer Leverkusen started a frantic press from the start of the game, and this action seemed to prove that they will use a lot of fouls in the game - is this to lure Atletico into fouling as well?

"In that case, we can also take advantage of the free-kick opportunity to score goals...... They're very high......" Dick thought silently to himself.