Chapter 635: An Unexpected Panic

After the game, the most lively is obviously the major news media, many well-known experts and reporters have published their views and analysis of the Champions League semi-finals in newspapers and on the Internet, most of them are singing praises to the victorious Real Madrid, believing that they are the top seeds of this season's Big Ear Cup winners, no matter who can successfully advance in the other set of matchups between Manchester City and Grand Paris, it may be difficult to prevent the Galaxy from winning the fifteenth Big Ear Cup in team history.

In addition to praising Li Mudi's coaching ability, "As" also praised his super vision in the transfer market, because several new signings brought in by him did show extremely high combat effectiveness. In particular, the Italian striker Manuel Pellegri, who spent a lot of money to poach from Paris Saint-Germain, played a super high goal efficiency in his second season at the Bernabeu, not only temporarily ranking third in the scorer list with 21 goals in the league, but also out of control in the Champions League, with the two goals just scored, he became the fifth super scorer in history who can score 12 goals in a single season.

(PS: The first four are German legend Gerd Müller, Dutch king of the small penalty area Ruud van Nistelro, and the peerless duo Melo)

And what's even more terrifying is that these dazzling results are still obtained when he doesn't play a lot of time and needs to rotate with his teammates, this goal rate is definitely the existence of the top five leagues, no matter how to praise it.

But there are not no people who support Juventus and sing down Real Madrid, but they are basically those celebrities of the Bianconeri, and they are not convincing, but one of the long-lost voices has attracted great attention from the outside world, because the person who spoke is Cristiano Ronaldo.

Since his official retirement from his parent club Sporting de Portugal in the summer of 2024 (technically, his first training camp should have been that of the Principality of Andorra, and then signed with Madeira National Football Club, before coming to Lisbon at the age of 12), the football superstar, who is only one last layer away from the football king, but has never been able to pierce it, has not disappeared from the public eye, but continues to be active in major newspapers and magazines as a successful businessman. It is a model of a successful transformation of a player after retirement.

But about the rights and wrongs of the football world, Ronaldo, who has taken off his shirt, actually doesn't have much intention to comment, but this time his two old clubs met in a narrow way in the European competition, which still aroused a lot of his thoughts, and it was rare to vomit in an interview with reporters.

He said that compared to Real Madrid, Juventus has a better atmosphere and is more like a big family, and if you have such a cohesive and welcoming environment, all miracles can happen. So in the eyes of the former Portugal national team captain, the suspense of this semi-final has not completely disappeared, although the chances are not high, but the Bianconeri still have the possibility of making history.

These words reveal his support for Juventus between the lines, but careful people can also taste a trace of his resistance to Real Madrid. The humiliation of being sold after being broken by Lafayette has obviously not been completely dissolved from the depths of Ronaldo's heart after nearly eight years, and this feeling of hatred for the Galaxy Battleship that once climbed with him to the highest peak of his career has not dissipated, even if the "culprit" at the time has retired, this hostility has not changed.

As the common name of both teams and a legend in former world football, Ronaldo's statement immediately attracted a lot of media and fans' attention, and also brought some confidence to Juventus fans who no longer had illusions about advancing to the final after the first leg.

However, before the discussion about whether Juventus could complete this miracle that could go down in history was in full swing, European football was shattered by a sudden scandal. According to authoritative media reports, after a national league in Eastern Europe held last weekend, the anti-Xing//Fen agency conducted a urine test on one player in each of the two teams, and the results were both positive. After further testing the two teams and even the entire league, they found that the use of performance-enhancing drugs that are banned by international organizations is already extremely common in the sports world of that country.

And through the investigation of professionals, the anti-Xing//Fen agency has come to an extremely terrible conclusion, the use of illegal drugs has risen again in today's international football, and this ugly phenomenon exists in many countries and even some leagues that are famous all over the world.

As soon as this news was made public, it immediately caused a tsunami-like disaster in the football world, and many media that followed the trend in order to attract the attention of readers, they have come up with some previous suspected or even almost confirmed cases, and many teams and players have been involved in this major incident, including Real Madrid and Juventus, the two giants.

In 1998, the Czech coach Zdenek Zeman, who was the coach of the Roma team at the time, openly accused Juventus of injecting its players with banned drugs in an interview with reporters, which can explain why Piero's muscles have grown to the level of a bodybuilder in a short period of time, including Zidane, Deschamps and a series of top stars were also implicated in that incident.

It was only because of the Italian's long-standing tradition of protecting the short that in the end, the big incident that might have turned into the biggest scandal in world football at the time ended up being artificially turned into a small incident in the endless appeals and trials. It wasn't until six years later that the so-called trial of the century came to an end, and Juve's team doctor at the time, Agrigra, became the only unlucky guy and was sentenced to a prison sentence of 22 months on all charges. What's even more infuriating is that this penalty was overturned by the Italian Olympic Committee, and in the end, everyone in Juventus escaped the sanction, you say absurd is not absurd!

Fortunately, Zidane and Deschamps both admitted many years later that they did take illegal drugs, which can be regarded as a little comfort to Zeman, who became the only victim in this incident, otherwise the old coach who was kicked out of Italian football is indeed too wronged.

In 2009, legendary Italian centre-back Cannavaro, who returned to Juventus, was found to have a problem with a urine test, only to be blamed by the team's medical staff and save the reputation of the club and national team captain, if they still have it.

The last time the old woman was linked together, after the 2020 Champions League final, Ronaldo, who was 35 years old at the time, seemed to have returned to his youth in the 90-minute game, which can be said to be full of speculation, because according to the normal development of the human body, this is really a little unscientific.

Moreover, the Portuguese king has also missed the test once due to an accident, which has to cause people's infinite reverie. It's just that because Ronaldo's name was not in the spot check list after that final, the source of his motivation for his courage at that time is still an unsolved mystery, and has become a tool for many black fans to constantly attack him.

To sum up, Juventus is definitely the team with the most black history in terms of illegal drugs among the European giants, so as soon as a similar incident breaks out, people can't help but turn their eyes to the direction of Torino City, and then take a closer look at this club with a skeptical eye to see if there is another team doctor whose job is not guaranteed.

As for their current Champions League rivals, Real Madrid, they have also had a stain on this. In 2018, the website of the authoritative German media "Der Spiegel" broke the news in its special column "Football Demystification" that the then Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos had violated the doping test three times, including the urine submitted before the 2017 Champions League final failed the drug test.

When the UEFA anti-revital//fender department came to the door, Shui Ye defended that the club doctor had treated him the day before the game, using drugs containing dexamethasone. According to the regulations of the American Medical Association at that time, dexamethasone could be used before the game, but it had to be reported at the time of the drug test, and Real Madrid explained the incident as the team doctor did not follow the procedure.

As a result, it was clear that Ramos did not receive any punishment and then led the Galaxy to a 4-1 victory over Juventus in the final to defend the Champions League title.

From this point, it can be seen that if Juventus is the symbol of Italian football and the godson of the National Olympic Committee, then Real Madrid is the godson of UEFA!

Well...... These words should have been uttered by UEFA's own son, the Barcelona fans, and do not represent the personal position of this author.

In other words, Real Madrid also has a suspected criminal record in the matter of illegal drugs, especially after they just slaughtered the powerful Juventus as if they had beaten chicken blood, and it is impossible not to make people have some alternative associations. In the minds of a small group of people, judging from the financial resources of the Galaxy Battleship, it must not be an impossible task to purchase or even research some "special drugs" that cannot be detected by the current technical level.

The Real Madrid club's response to the malicious slander from the outside world is still very timely, and the chairman Raul immediately said at a special media conference that the team is 100% clean, and welcomes the visit and supervision of relevant institutions at any time, and the players are also willing to conduct the most comprehensive drug examination, hoping to return their innocence.

As for those who spread rumors and have malicious intentions, Real Madrid will also reserve the right to trace their infringement of the club's reputation, and if they cannot delete the posted online post and apologize within the deadline, then the only thing waiting for them is a summons from the court.

These things were originally handled by the club's top management, but Li Mudi felt pressured by this sudden incident, because his cheating ability can indeed give the outside world the feeling that he has used some kind of unknown drug.

For example, the number of injuries in the team has decreased significantly, for example, the speed at which young players have improved their ability has been significantly accelerated, and correspondingly, their physical fitness will also increase rapidly, which is very consistent with the judgment of Real Madrid players taking some unknown illegal drugs.

Although no matter how advanced the technology is, it will certainly not be able to detect anything, but if it is really regarded as a thorn in the side of the relevant institutions, then the life of the club will obviously not be easy, after all, no one wants to be under the outside world under a magnifying glass for a long time to keep under the watchful eye of this kind of suspicion.

Unexpectedly, it has been more than ten years since he crossed over, and the secret that had been kept quite closely guarded before would bring such a big threat to himself and the team, which Li Mudi did not expect in any case. He really couldn't figure out why the other protagonists who crossed over, after frequently coming up with things or skills that clearly surpassed the technology or power of the original era, never suffered the suspicion of the smart people who existed there, and he just passively applied a few auras, which could lead to unpredictable crises, how could the gap between people be so big?

Fortunately, for the time being, the Real Madrid coach is still safe, and there is no plot that he is very afraid of, and everyone obviously attributes the reason why Real Madrid's overall physical condition has been good this season to luck. As for the acceleration of the improvement of young players' abilities, not too many people have felt it yet, after all, everyone's growth trajectory is different, there are examples of Messi who can be promoted to top players before the age of 20, and the children in Real Madrid's academy who have not received much attention from the outside world will naturally not look too weird.

So at least for now, Li Mudi's worries are still a bit unfounded, but what if this really weird phenomenon can continue? No one can say when the common villain will appear, pushing himself into a situation from which he will never recover.

So before the Copa del Rey final this weekend, the Real Madrid coach was still affected a lot in his mentality and failed to concentrate all his energy on preparation.

Luckily, he also had a team of great players who didn't need much intervention at all, and the coaching staff, led by assistant coach Harvey Platz, did their job well, adjusting the players' form to a relatively peak level, so that Li Mudi, who had finally recovered from two consecutive nights of cranky thinking, could lead a very competitive team to the venue where they were competing for their second title of the season.