Chapter 452: Big Incidents Happen Frequently

Of course, the excitement was just that night, and Li Mudi, who woke up early the next day, couldn't help but start worrying about the two finals that were about to start.

Due to the Torino team reaching the final of the Europa League, the Italian Football Federation and the Serie A League also wanted to make new adjustments to the subsequent schedule in order not to bring more physical difficulties to the Red Bulls, but after thinking twice, they could not find a more reasonable arrangement.

Torino currently have three league games and one rematch to play, against Crotone, Napoli, SPAL and Genoa, except for the last round of the Griffin, the remaining three teams are now in a fierce battle for the title or relegation, and cannot be postponed, otherwise it will greatly affect the fairness and excitement of the league.

In anticipation of many Torino fans, Serie A only pushed back the Red Bulls' final game against Genoa by two days at noon on Friday, and did not make any changes to the hellish schedule for the following week. On May 6, Torino challenged Napoli away; On May 8, Torino hosted Crotone; May 11, Coppa Italia final; On May 13, Torino played SPAL at home; May 16, Europa League final. With five games to play in eleven days, the red bull will have to peel off its skin, if it is lucky enough to survive.

However, this plan is not entirely impossible, and if either or both teams have been relegated or relegated before the start of the match against Crotone and SPAL, the game could be postponed immediately. The Italian national team does not have a World Cup mandate, so Serie A does not have to finish as planned like other major leagues, and if only two or three teams have their fixtures postponed, in principle, it is not a big problem.

Therefore, while preparing for the next two finals, the whole Torino team and all the supporters are silently praying that the situation of the relegation battle can be determined as soon as possible, so that the team does not have to face such a difficult schedule.

And it's not all bad news, after the results of last night's two semi-finals, UEFA's official website released a very important news: Atletico Madrid's coach Simeone has been suspended for four games and fined 10,000 euros for using insulting words to protest the referee's behavior in the first leg last week. The four-match suspension has already included last night's second leg, so Simeone will not only be out of the dugout in the final, but will also be unable to sit on the sidelines for the first two games of next season's Champions League group stage. In addition, Atletico Madrid was fined 10,000 euros for fans throwing debris into the stadium.

This is undoubtedly a big positive for the Torino team, although Atletico Madrid also eliminated Arsenal without the Argentine iron manager, but did not have a clear advantage on the field. In fact, if it weren't for the Gunners' luxury forward line that was too poor against the Spanish side's steely defence and repeatedly missed opportunities, they might have been the ones who would have progressed to the final. Simeone's key role for the La Liga powerhouse is absolutely immeasurable, and some media even believe that even if Griezmann's absence is replaced, Atletico Madrid would prefer their own coach to appear on the sidelines of the final.

However, no one knows how much of a difference Simeone's suspension will bring to this final, because in terms of the overall strength of the two teams, the Bed Legion still have a certain advantage. Diego Costa, Antoine Griezmann, Koke, Godin and Oblak, Atletico Madrid have better players than Torino in many positions, and the media and professionals in football are clearly not optimistic about the Red Bulls winning in an upset. The odds given by several bookmakers are also very obvious, and Atletico's winning odds are only between 1.85 and 1.95, which is less than half of the Torino team, which can be seen from the difference in strength between the two teams.

The Spanish media "As" also published a special article to joke that the Red Bulls advanced to the Europa League final because of their excellent luck, and they did not meet any decent opponents in this event at all.

Spanish netizens, on the other hand, were even more unscrupulous, listing the opponents Torino had encountered before advancing to the Parc Olimpico in Lyon, proving that they were indeed "lying down to reach the final". Needless to say, in the group stage, except for the team that is too unlucky, it will basically not meet a team that is too strong. After entering the knockout stage, the Torino team has drawn almost the worst opponents in four consecutive rounds, Ludogorets, Lokomotiv Moscow, Red Bull Salzburg and Marseille, which were once considered to be the big packages in their respective rounds, and it can be said that the goddess of fate can arrange that Li Mudi's team has become the final opponent of Atletico Madrid. In addition to a little envy, these contents are full of the mockery of red fruits.

It's just that this random map cannon not only attacked the Torino team, but also hit other teams by mistake with his foot, which caused strong dissatisfaction among fans from all over the world. A cyber scuffle involving more than a dozen countries kicked off, and the topic after that was completely out of the scope of this season's Europa League final, and lasted until the end of the World Cup, which gradually calmed down, which is really inexplicable.

Of course, these senseless arguments did not have much impact on Li Mudi and others, and football does not rely on verbal battles to determine the winner, and the championship trophy must ultimately be won by virtue of its strength on the field.

On the morning of May 4, the Torino coach, who had just led the team to the final of the European League, did not go to work at the club's residence as soon as he left home, but got on a minibus that came to pick him up and ran directly to the airport. Today is Raul's first day in Italy to begin his coaching internship, and for the next five working days, the former Bernabeu king will be in the squad as a trainee coach for his friend, which is obviously a bit unusual.

After briefly answering a few questions from reporters at the airport, Castellazzi, the director of the reception work on behalf of the club, beckoned the group back to the station. The team did not take a break after the game, and in the face of the difficult schedule ahead, the coaching staff opted to adjust the players' condition with a continuous lower level of exercise.

Although there is no need to care more about the results of the league, it cannot be completely abandoned, in addition to showing the spirit of fair play, the team also hopes to be able to avoid injuries on the premise of helping Immobile chase the league top scorer as much as possible, so whether it is the players who played the whole game last night or the boys who were transferred from the youth team, all of them were absent and appeared in the training ground early.

After arriving on the sidelines, Raul greeted the coaching staff warmly, took off his jacket and joined the ranks of the jogging players. It turned out that he thought that he had just started coaching and did not have the ability to coach those professional players, so it was better to enter the training ground as an equal and communicate with everyone. In this way, after getting the consent of Li Mudi, such an extremely special player appeared beside Belotti and Pellegri and others.

I have to admit that Raul still maintained a good amount of exercise after retiring, in addition to being still very slim, the skills under his feet have not been lost. Not only did he not lose his sight in running laps and bouncing exercises, but he also showed a very high level in the training of shooting and long passes, which made Scholes, who had already begun to gain some weight, praise him repeatedly.

Although he has not won the honor of World and European Footballer of the Year, and his achievements in the national team are relatively mediocre, the influence of the former Real Madrid flag in football is naturally unquestionable. Just watching Manuel Pellegri and other young players always surround Raul during the break, asking him for advice on how to improve his running awareness and shooting footwork, the Torino coach can't help but feel a little jealous in his heart. Sure enough, he is a former world-class football player! This has just been in contact for an hour and has gained so many little fans, and the respect value increased by teaching them for a season or two by himself may not be as much as Raul got in this day, it is really more people than people have to die, and goods have to be thrown away!

In the afternoon, the official Twitter account of the Torino club updated a message, saying that it welcomed the Real Madrid legend to join the Red Bulls family temporarily, and hoped that everyone could spend a happy and rewarding week together.

Later, Raul also expressed his gratitude for the warm reception of the Torino club on his personal Twitter, writing: "Thank you very much to the Red Bulls and their coaching team for their warm and thoughtful reception. It's a pleasure to train with you guys! forza toro!”

These two news have caused a lot of repercussions on the Internet, and many fans have left messages saying that they are looking forward to the fresh release of an elegant young marshal, and returned Li Mudi, hoping that the latter can pass on his coaching experience to his friends without concealment, as if the Torino coach is careful.

However, the heat of the matter did not last long, and it was soon squeezed out of the hot topic, because before the evening came, there was a more attractive event from the British Isles. Scottish veteran powerhouse Glasgow Wanderers Club has officially announced that Liverpool's former legendary captain Steven Gerrard has officially taken up the role of manager of the team on a four-year contract. As soon as the news came out, it immediately sparked a heated discussion in European football.

The club, which underpinned the century-old history of Scotland's top flight with local rivals Celtic, was unfortunately forced to declare bankruptcy two years later after winning the league title in 2010 due to a debt crisis caused by serious mismanagement.

The regrouped Rangers were sent to Scotland's fourth tier to restart their journey and then managed to win promotion for two consecutive seasons, only to fail to triple jump in the promotion play-offs of the Scottish Premier League in the third year.

In the summer of 2016, they finally returned to the Premier League, but due to financial constraints, they were no longer able to challenge their old rivals Celtic. Fortunately, the heritage of the local giants is still there, and they won a third place after returning to the top league, and they have a good chance to win this place again this season. Just watching their arch-rival seal a seven-game winning streak early on, the entire Rangers club and his supporters couldn't stand it anymore, sacking their fifth manager in four years on the day the Celestial Empire was celebrating Labor Day, and let assistant coach Jimmy Nickel temporarily lead the team through the remaining two league games of the season.

Gerrard, who retired from the Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of 2016 and returned to his parent club Liverpool as the Reds' youth manager, quickly accepted the Rangers' offer and agreed to officially take over as the head coach of the veteran Scottish team from June 1 this year.

In international football, the status and influence of Glasgow Rangers and Torino are not very different, considering the team's achievements in the past one or two decades, the former who has won many championships in the Scottish top flight (from the late 80s to the end of the 90s, there was a wave of nine consecutive championships) is naturally higher than the Red Bulls, even if the overall level of the Soviet Super League is far less strong than Serie A. And Caslitia, who played in Spain's third division and later promoted to La Liga, is far stronger than Liverpool's youth team.

So just looking at the comparison of these two sets, Gerrard's step is much more than Li Mudi's, but not many people stand up at this time to question the Rangers' choice is too reckless, which makes the Torino coach, who has always suffered a crisis of confidence in the early stage of coaching the Red Bulls, a little unhappy. But he didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing, and the difference between white and yellow people was nothing new in Europe? After tweeting a message congratulating Gerrard, Li Muddy went about his big business.

On Friday night, after Ginés hurried from Spain to Italy, a secret meeting began at the Torino manager's home. In addition to these two people, there were Raul and a financial planner, Charlie Wilson of the United Kingdom, who works for a well-known British financial company and the hundreds of millions of assets of the Beckhams are in charge of the company. Wilson was temporarily invited by Li Mudi through a relationship, because Baozi is not too familiar with the operation of investment projects in Europe, so he invited such an expert.

And the reason why such an event is so official is because just this morning, the Italian media broke a big news that Zamparini, the owner of Palermo FC who played in Serie B this season, has resigned from the board of directors and put the club up for sale.

Even though he is not too interested in the Eagles, he also wants to take this opportunity to learn about the process of acquiring a football club, so as to prepare in advance for the opportunity to fulfill his dream in the future.