Chapter 396: Tee Time
In fact, Atletico Madrid's three consecutive league titles are definitely something worth mentioning, but because of the Barcelona media's revenge on Gao Zheng, it was completely drowned......
Maybe that's what the Barcelona media are really for?
In order not to give Madrid's media a chance to hype up Atletico Madrid's three consecutive championships and embarrass Barcelona, so just use another thing to overshadow the limelight of this matter?
If you think about it, it's really possible.
But honestly, it doesn't work.
Because after people are tired of the initial topic and aesthetically fatigued, they will still return to the matter of the three consecutive championships of Atletico Madrid.
The criticism of Gao Zheng by the Barcelona media did not last long, and in less than three days, the heat was almost over.
After all, there are more important things that need their attention.
That's the Golden Boot fight.
As long as the suspense of the golden boot does not end for a day, the topic of the Barcelona media will not last long.
A week later, the suspense ushered in the final scene.
In the 38th round of the league, Atletico Madrid will face Celta Vigo at home, and Barcelona will challenge Granada away.
The vast majority of people don't care much about the outcome of these two games.
It really doesn't matter what the outcome of these two games is.
Celta Vigo are currently fifth with 60 points, but they are four points clear of fourth-placed Villarreal and a last-ditch win over Atletico Madrid in the final round of the league will not see them move up to fourth in the league and miss out on Champions League qualification.
In that case, what's the point of winning or losing?
Even if they lose, eighth-placed Malaga won't be able to catch up.
In other words, Celta Vigo's qualification for the Europa League has already been secured early, and this last game, whether won or lost, will not affect their final result, so what reason is there for the players to fight hard in this game?
Many Celta Vigo players are probably thinking about where to go during the holidays.
Barcelona's opponents Granada are in a similar situation to Celta Vigo.
At present, Granada has 39 points, ranking 16th in the league, and although Sporting Gijón, which is in the 18th deep relegation zone, is only three points away from them, because in the two games between the two sides this season, Granada has the upper hand with one win and one draw, so even if Granada loses to Barcelona in the last game, and Sporting Gijón wins, it will not lead to Granada's relegation.
However, Getafe, who is ranked first in Granada, is likely to be a substitute......
It doesn't matter if you win or lose these two games, the only thing that matters is the number of goals.
Gao Zheng and Suarez, both of whom have scored 37 league goals now, and whoever can score more goals in the final game will win the La Liga Golden Boot this season.
The final round of La Liga matches is different from what many people think, not all games are played at the same time.
From May 13th to 15th, it was played in three different time periods.
The first match was Valencia at home against Real Sociedad, while the last match was against Rayo Vallecano at home against Levante.
I don't know if it's a coincidence, or if it's deliberately arranged by La Liga officials.
Barcelona's away game against Granada and Atletico Madrid's home game against Celta Vigo were scheduled to kick off at the same time on the same day.
May 14, 4 p.m., May 14, 11 p.m. Beijing time.
For Chinese fans, although this time is not as good as the golden time of eight or nine o'clock, at least they don't have to stay up too late, and they don't have to wait until a little bit after watching the game, so they don't delay sleeping.
Besides, the next day is Sunday, so if you don't go to work or school, you can sleep in.
So La Liga officials arranged these two games at this time, which is really intimate.
Chinese fans can't help but wonder if La Liga officials are currying favor with the vast Chinese market......
However, if the official La Liga station is very trying to please the Chinese market, then they should arrange this game at 11 o'clock at noon, which is 6 p.m. Beijing time, which is more convenient for Chinese fans to watch the game, and they can even call friends on Saturday afternoon, come to their homes, order a bunch of takeaways, prepare a case of cold beer, and watch the game while drinking at that time. You can also go to the big-name stalls, drink cold beer, skewers, and cheer for Gao Zheng with the fans you don't know around.
In this round of the league, Málaga's home match against Las Palmas is scheduled to kick off at 11 p.m. local time.
It's a really weird time, after all, it's a morning in Spain – Spaniards don't eat lunch until 2 p.m. and dinner at 9 p.m.
The reason why the Spaniards eat so late is that they are in the same time zone as the United Kingdom, but they use the time in central Europe, which is in time with Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, which is more than 2,500 kilometers east of the capital, Madrid.
This is very strange, if you don't use the time of your own national standard, why should you have Central European time, which is so far from your own?
All this was caused by Franco, the Führer of Spain, in order to shoot Hitler's sycophants at that time, he asked the whole of Spain to be changed to Central European Time, and the time was the same as that of Germany.
But the Spanish people were very dissatisfied with this adjustment, and they could not change the policy of the upper echelons of the country, so they had to fight against this stupid policy with their own way of life.
So although the pace of their lives has not changed, time has changed. What used to be lunch at one o'clock at noon became two o'clock in the afternoon, and dinner, which was supposed to be eight o'clock, became nine o'clock in the evening.
Over time, people have become accustomed to this way of life, where the actual time and the time of publication do not match at all.
And an hour later than the correct time zone also means that the sun will rise later and set later, which is what this Spanish has brought to the sunset.
This sunset, which is an hour later than that of the United Kingdom, has become an advantage for Spain, and Spain has become a popular holiday destination for many European nationals.
But for the vast majority of Spaniards, living in the wrong time zone can lead to a series of problems, such as lack of sleep. Because they live in the correct time zone, but the legal time is an hour earlier, which means that their nightlife does not begin until ten o'clock in the evening, just after sunset in Spain. However, at nine o'clock in the morning of the legal time, Spaniards will start to work, and many Spaniards may not go to bed until one o'clock in the morning, and they have to get up in advance according to the legal working time to prepare, eat breakfast, and go to work, which causes the problem of insufficient sleep time.
As a result, the Spaniards have developed a tradition that is rarely seen in Europe, that is, napping.
Without a nap, the vast majority of Spaniards simply won't be able to work all day. According to one survey, eighteen percent of Spaniards take regular lunch breaks, while nearly sixty percent of Spaniards don't even eat lunch at all.
So although the Spanish government began to discuss changing the time back to the standard time zone since this year, it was opposed by the vast majority of Spaniards because it would deprive them of their lunch break......
It's ironic. When Franco insisted on changing the time, the Spanish people objected and resisted by continuing the rhythm of their accustomed life.
But after 70 years of changes, everyone has become accustomed to this distorted time, and they are opposed to changing back to the normal rhythm of life......
Once you know this particular custom in Spain, you can understand why every time a La Liga match kicks off at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, it causes so many fans and clubs to be dissatisfied.
Because it's supposed to be time for Spaniards to have lunch or take a nap, but you ask the players to run for 90 minutes in the scorching sun, and you ask the fans to give up their lunch break to watch the game.
Whether it's playing or watching the game, I'm afraid I don't have the energy......
The time of the 11 p.m. kick-off isn't much better now...... The professional league played in the morning is a rarity in the world.
As for the kick-off time of Atletico Madrid's game, four o'clock in the afternoon is the time when the Spaniards have just woken up and taken a nap, which is actually not a good time to play, after all, no one will be in the best state after waking up.
In fact, those games that kick off at two or three o'clock in the morning Beijing time are the traditional kick-off times in La Liga.
It's just that with the advent of the era of globalization, the influence of La Liga has gradually expanded, and in order to open up a broader market, La Liga must make such a change, which will lose some of its benefits, but it is the same as Franco's forced change of time.
Over time, don't you get used to it......
Maybe in the next few years, Spaniards will get used to all kinds of games at 11 o'clock in the afternoon and three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and they would never have imagined that this was a commercial consideration made by La Liga in order to curry favor with fans in the Far East......