The next day, François called to confirm that Bordeaux had officially signed a four-year contract with Nedved. www.biquge.info After such a long time of see-sawing, Fan Shang was relieved that he had finally managed to get Nedved. This time, he is not worried that those Serie A clubs will come to grab him, and he does not have to worry about the vacant seats left after Zidane leaves.

France's second match at the European Championship is against Spain at Elland Road in Leeds. The current Spain is not the world champion of the future, but they also have a lot of stars, Hierro, Raul, Enrique and others are by no means idle.

France did not dominate the game as they did in the first game, as they were almost evenly matched with Spain for 90 minutes before the two teams ended 1-1.

France's goal was scored in the 49th minute by Novak Djokaeff, while Spain's equaliser was equalised by Canemiro in the 86th minute.

At the end of this game, France and Bulgaria tied for top of the group with one win and one draw, both 1:0 and 1:1, Spain finished third with two games and two draws, and Romania finished bottom of the group with two games.

France's final group game was a group top match against Bulgaria. Bulgaria reached the semi-finals in the '94 World Cup, and this time they are also ambitious in the European Championships, but they performed well in the group stage with one win and one draw. They also took this match against France very seriously.

The game between the two teams was very intense, and the game scene was quite good. In the end, France won 3-1 against Bulgaria thanks to Blanco and Leko, as well as an own goal from Bulgaria itself. One of the goals that saved Bulgaria face was their number one star Stoichkov.

In the other group game played at the same time, Spain defeated Romania, who finished bottom of the group, 2-1. It is with this victory that Spain has accumulated 5 points with two draws and one win, and is 1 point ahead of Bulgaria to occupy the second place in the group, and enter the quarterfinals of this European Championship at the same time as France.

After qualifying, France will face the Netherlands, the second place team in Group A, in the round of eight. The collision of these two European giants can be regarded as Mars hitting the Earth, so the pre-match preparation of the French team can be regarded as much more important than the group stage.

Before the game, Jacques brought the coaching staff together to discuss the upcoming match against the Netherlands.

Vincent was there, of course, but he still didn't want to talk too much, so he sat in the corner, and Le Maire sat next to Vincent. Closer to Yakai are the physical trainers, goalkeeper coaches and a few others.

"Fan Shang, Roger, what do you two suggest for this match?" No matter how far Fan Shang sits, he didn't escape Yakai's eyes.

Fan Shang was full of black lines, and thought to himself, "Big brother, you attach great importance to me, but you don't have to be like this, every time you have this kind of combat meeting, you will call my name first......"

"Let's say Roger first," Vincent kicked the ball directly to Lemaire.

Lemaire, the fat man, is still relatively sincere, and now the relationship with Fan Shang has eased, and when he heard Fan Shang say this, he felt that Fan Shang gave him a chance. So he gushed out his thoughts.

When Le Maire finished speaking, Fan Shang added in time, "I think Roger is right, in addition, when we enter the knockout stage, should we strengthen the training of penalty kicks, after all, penalty shootouts often happen." ”

Jacques nodded, agreeing with the two of them, and then asked about the fitness and goalkeeper coaches before letting everyone go back to the room.

The match against the Netherlands was played at Liverpool's Anfield Stadium, a 42,000-capacity stadium that was packed today, mostly with fans from France and the Netherlands.

In the warm-up before the game, Witzger took the initiative to run to the French coach's bench to hug Vincent.

"I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not only leaving Bordeaux, but I'm not going to show mercy today." Witzger said

"Richard, don't care, this kind of thing is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences, I know your feelings for Ajax, so I won't stop it, but at least you have to ask Ajax to give you a price worthy of you, the price they are offering now is not like buying players at all, but like going to the market to buy vegetables." Fan Shang responded

Witzger smiled bitterly, "Boss, Ajax really don't have much money, and many of their players have to be transferred freely. But I'll keep in touch with them after the European Championships. ”

"Also, Richard, you shouldn't have an easy match today, you should know my style," Fan Shang raised his eyebrows and looked at Witzger.

This look made Witzger's heart tighten, he really knew his own head, often came up with some small tricks that were not in the flow, and it can be said that he was not soft on the opposing players, and he took the cards as a drink. Witzger really didn't know if Vincent would do anything to the Dutch players in the game.

Fan Shang is just scaring and scaring Weitzge this time, he is even a think tank of Yakai, if this identity proposes to use lethal tactics or some other small means, it is estimated that Yakai will look down on him, which will have an impact on Fan Shang in the future, so he still focuses on taking the orthodox line this time.

The Dutch team may have really been infected by Witzger, and from Witzger, the players on the field played timidly, and immediately fell to the ground when they saw the French players move a little bigger.

Fan Shang's eyes were about to pop out when he saw such a Dutch team, and Jacques was also incredulous, "What's going on with the Netherlands?" Why are they so nervous? ”

Fan Shang looked at the bewildered coaching staff around him, and quickly shook his head, he couldn't say that he scared Witzger.

Although the Dutch team performed surprisingly, the French team did not do much well, and the two forwards who started the game, Leko and Djokaeff, wasted chances. Yakai outside the field couldn't stop beating his chest when he saw this situation, but he couldn't change anything, the opportunities came out, and if he couldn't score, he could only blame the striker's lack of ability, and he couldn't shoot in person.

The 90 minutes passed quickly, and the two teams exchanged a 0-0 draw to go into extra time. In extra time, the two teams were still inseparable, and the two teams still maintained a score of 0:0 for 120 minutes.

The two teams played the second penalty shootout of this European Championship, and the host England eliminated Spain 4-2 on penalties in an earlier game to enter the semi-finals.

Seeing the team enter the penalty shootout, Yakai patted Fan Shang on the shoulder, meaning that he really let you say that he was looking for it, and the penalty kicks in the past two days of training were not practiced in vain.

Sure enough, the five players who came on in the French team lived up to the hopes of the coach and the fans at all, scoring all the penalties. Although the Dutch team also had good footwork, Seedorf's penalty was denied by French goalkeeper Rama.

France narrowly defeated the Netherlands with a score of 5:4 and became the second team to reach the semi-finals of this competition. Their semi-final opponents will be between Portugal and the Czech Republic.

Only then did Fan Shang know that France had stopped in the semi-finals, and the Czech Republic had eliminated France to enter the final, but although Fan Shang knew this fact, he was not prepared to prevent this from happening. He doesn't want to be now, but he doesn't want to flap his butterfly wings and affect the World Cup in '98.

In the match against the Netherlands, his old disciple took the initiative to greet him, and in the match against the Czech team, he did take the initiative to greet his new disciple.

"Pavel, now you're finally part of Bordeaux"

"Yes, what should I call you now?"

"Boss, that's what most players call me, but you can call me Mr. Coach, boss or something, anyway, whatever you want."

"Okay, boss, I'll do my best in this game."

"I'm looking forward to your performance, don't be burdened. Even if you eliminate France, you will not have a problem in Bordeaux, and no one will dare to say anything with me! Fan Shang said confidently

"Thanks, I'll do well"

Nedved did what he said he would, and he ran on the pitch to drive the entire Czech midfield. This kept the Czechs evenly matched with France in the game. Both teams had chances, but neither took them.

In the end, after 120 minutes of tug-of-war, the French team once again had to play a penalty shootout with their opponents.