Wen Zhihao's prospect of winning this year's European golden boy is very good, which also gives more hype to the Chinese media.

Of course, as for Simeone's remarks that Wen Zhihao may impact the FIFA Golden Globe Awards, the attitude of the Chinese media is reserved, and they do not make too much fuss about these words. On the one hand, if Wen Zhihao successfully wins the European Golden Boy Award, he has already created a personal peak for Chinese players. The Chinese media still understands the truth that the rice should be eaten one bite at a time. Wen Zhihao is still young, and as a demon star who won the Treble of Europe's top league and the World Cup Golden Boot at the age of less than 18, he still has a lot of opportunities in the future to hit the Golden Ball Award.

On the other hand, there are many uncertainties in the selection of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, and in addition to the media, all the national team captains and managers of FIFA's associations participate in the voting. Since the merger of the World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or in 2010, the final winners have been Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in turn, and with the experience of Sneijder in 2010, the Chinese media are not so anxious.

Anyway, these two football kings are already over 30 years old and have entered the late stage of their careers, and when they retire, Wen Zhihao will be at most twenty-three or fourteen years old, which is the golden age of professional players, according to this trend, he has a good chance to impact this supreme honor in the future.

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The International Champions Cup continues, with Atletico Madrid taking on Chelsea on matchday 2 in China, having met once in last season's Champions League, but Chelsea's squad is now much stronger than it was when the two teams met in the group stage of last season's Champions League. In the early winter window, Arsenal midfielder Oxlade-Chamberlain was smashed for 35 million pounds, and Roma defender Emerson was poached for 29 million euros. Clearly, Conte's failure to defend the league title last season and the Champions League group exit have left Conte with a painful lesson and the Blues are ready to make a comeback in the upcoming new season.

Although it was only a pre-season warm-up, Chelsea still took this game very seriously, and revenge against Atletico was only a small part of it, which was determined by the nature of the game, but Conte wanted to see the whole team in good form.

Simeone's requirements for this game are different, as the last warm-up and consolidation test ground before the Super Cup, Simeone's more important requirement than the victory or defeat of this game is not to get injured.

So in this game, Wen Zhihao deliberately slowed down the rhythm of midfield control, and Conte still learned from the experience of last season's Champions League group stage and arranged for Kante to mark one-on-one, and his mobility can keep up with Wen Zhihao. As soon as he gets the ball, Kante will not hesitate to be close to him as soon as possible.

Wen Zhihao will not choose to play hard, Simeone asked the players to pay attention to protect themselves, and of course he will not be stupid enough to think that his confrontation ability can resist Xiao Hei, who is full of muscles and explosive physical fitness, so he passed the ball directly, either to the fullbacks on both sides of the insertion, or directly to the second organization point Saul.

Wen Zhihao's choice on the field is a mirror of Atletico Madrid's tactical strategy, seeing that Wen Zhihao almost avoids physical confrontation and uses passes to guide the attack, the media knows for the first time that Simeone does not want to be in this game.

Chelsea took the initiative for most of the game, but it was Atletico who won in the end.

Eden Hazard opened the first-half break the deadlock for Chelsea, but Wen Zhihao equalised from the penalty spot in the 65th minute, before substitute Cork fired a low shot from a tight angle after a series of breaks in the left-hand box in the 87th minute.

Atletico have won four consecutive matches in two International Champions Cups, and their resilience and control on the pitch are almost identical to last season. And this is still a lineup that has not completed the recruitment, just like the Chinese media said with a joke after interviewing Wen Zhihao: In the state of Atletico Madrid, it is estimated that Zidane and Valverde will not sleep well again.

At the end of the warm-up of the International Champions Cup, the whole Atletico Madrid team also attended a series of activities arranged by the organizers, although Simeone was a little unhappy about this, thinking that such off-field activities are not conducive to the adjustment of the player's state before the Super Cup, but he can only choose to cooperate, whether it is because of the club's emphasis on China, or the characteristics of the International Champions Cup, packaging and publicity are essential, and Atletico Madrid, as the new European Treble, has such attention in China, no matter how such activities can not be avoided.

In this way, it was delayed for two more days, and the whole team rushed back to Madrid, and the time has entered August, and the whole team can adjust for five days at most, and they will leave for Estonia, a small country on the Baltic Sea side of Eastern Europe, according to UEFA's arrangement, this year's Super Cup will be played at the Estonian National Stadium.

And in the last few days, even if Simeone doesn't do too much ideological mobilization, the players will adjust their bodies to the state of imminent battle, especially Wen Zhihao and Griezmann, the core main players, who were arranged by physical trainer Meenders to focus on opening a small stove, and train these people like dead dogs every day, but ensure that the body is not overloaded and injured, the purpose of this is to make everyone re-tense from the mind to the body muscles, and only by approaching the limit can the body looseness brought about by the holiday be faded as quickly as possible.

This kind of training is not cruel to Wen Zhihao, he just complained to Griezmann: "Da Gezi, control your mouth, some words learn to swallow back into your stomach, the boss must think that you are lazy to death, so let us all accompany you to suffer." ”

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At the same time, the Super Cup is approaching, which means that Atletico's new season is about to be unveiled, and the introduction of Atletico Madrid, which the outside world has been concerned about, has finally surfaced.

In this year's transfer, Atletico Madrid did not change their style and spend a lot of money to retain the title because they won the treble last season and the attention they received soared. The championship is still naturally still wanted by the club, but the reinforcements still insist on taking the practical route.

On the same day, Atletico Madrid officially announced three season signings. The club's official announcement reads:

"We are very pleased to announce to all Atletico fans that the team's former hero, Alda? Turan agrees a three-year contract with the club to welcome Alda home! ”

"At the same time, the club has officially reached transfer agreements with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga and Manchester City in the Premier League, and two World Cup winners will join us. Ginter, Ilkay? Gundogan, welcome! The team's defense will become more impregnable! ”

The mainstream media in Europe focused on these three transfers for the first time, and most of the media agreed that Atletico Madrid was definitely the most alternative champion team. "Marca" said: "Compared with Real Madrid's previous 200 million pounds to buy the Premier League Golden Boot Harry? Kane, even if Atletico Madrid won the title, still continued their small pragmatism. ”

After these three signings, the club's president, Enrique ? Cerezo and Simeone both stated that they were satisfied with the team's current squad, and the subtext of this sentence was that Atletico's recruitment work this summer was over.

Compared with the crazy recruitment of various giants waving money, Atletico Madrid, as the defending champion of the Champions League, such a small movement is definitely different. A total of four players were introduced, Yan Junling transferred 3.5 million euros, Ginter 7.5 million euros, Gundogan 10 million euros, Turan 8 million euros, a total of less than 30 million euros, but eight players on loan or sale, so that Atletico Madrid made a lot of money through transfers in this summer window.

Although for the club, this is a way of operating to maintain financial health, but the media often likes to spend money and willful big names like Real Madrid, and they will smash big deals at the level of 100 million euros without saying a word, which is enough to create a topic for them, and Atletico Madrid's pragmatic style of looking at their pockets is not what they like.

Just like Marca said, Atletico Madrid is "the most unlike champion", this style of selling players and selling blood to live is more like a midstream team that has been half-dead, Atletico's approach is really in line with what "Marca" wants to express, Atletico Madrid's pattern is indeed inferior to Real Madrid - of course, if this so-called pattern refers to the courage to throw money.

But not all media are not optimistic about Atletico Madrid, such as "As", which originally belonged to the same Real Madrid camp as "Marca", because of the rigid relationship with Real Madrid President Florentino, gradually turned to support Atletico Madrid.

On the front page of the newspaper As, an article appeared in which its editor-in-chief, David ? Ruiz's signed article refutes this kind of wealthy style of relying on spending a lot of money to achieve results.

It is worth mentioning that the picture accompanying the article uses the picture of Wen Zhihao's goal in the Champions League final last season, and his position is already very clear.

In this article, David? Ruiz believes Atletico have long been different from other giants.

"In La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona are the absolute focus of attention, not only because these two teams have a long-term monopoly on the title, but also because off the field, every year in the winter and summer windows, these two teams always have big deals that are shocking, and this year is no different. Barcelona brought Liverpool core Coutinho to Camp Nou for a sky-high price of 160 million euros, and Real Madrid won the Premier League Golden Boot for 200 million euros Kane did not show weakness at all, and we have become accustomed to accepting a law: the difference between giants and non-giants is whether they are willing to spend money and have money to smash. ”

"Of course, the law always applies in most cases, but in football, there is no shortage of exceptions, for example, Atletico Madrid has never spent as much money as Real Madrid, including the transfer fee for bringing in Wen last season, which is less than a tenth of Real Madrid and Barcelona, but the end result proves that it is better to buy expensive than to buy."

From the perspective of supporting Atletico Madrid, the Chinese media also summarized the three principles that Atletico Madrid has been recruiting, and jokingly said that "Atletico Madrid has opened up another way of existing." ”

First of all, in Simeone's tactical system, the players are more important than the stars. Since Simeone took over Atletico Madrid, players such as Thiago, Miranda, Courtois and other players have not been among the top stars in the Atletico Madrid period. In the 2013-14 season, Atletico Madrid was able to break the championship monopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona with a team that was not the best, relying on the overall combat effectiveness of one plus one is greater than two.

Secondly, spirit is more important than ability. This is very obvious in Atletico Madrid, almost every player who can gain a foothold in Atletico Madrid is a tough guy, even Wen Zhihao, who has been winning with four or two pounds and skills, after Simeone's training, he needs to show hardness and has a somewhat unscrupulous character. The Chinese media mentioned the just-concluded World Cup, if Wen Zhihao did not have such a change, when facing the German team in the group stage, he would definitely not be able to withstand the German team's indiscriminate bombardment. Simeone's Atletico Madrid, when it is strong, is the label that will fight for every goal, and the mental attributes of this team allow them to do a lot of things that seem impossible to do.

Finally, Atletico have always believed that the strategy of recruitment is more important than money. Even in the next season, Atletico Madrid is standing in the main position, and has always adhered to this principle, the four reinforcements are very targeted, Yan Junling's addition is just in case, strengthening the position of the team's second goalkeeper, although Ginter is not well-known, but can be qualified as a central defender, fullback, defensive back multiple positions, is a veritable backfield panacea, is a key supplement to Atletico Madrid's defense, but also brings more tactical options to the coaching staff.

In addition, with the addition of Gundogan and Turan, the Chinese media see Simeone as strengthening the midfield strength of the substitute lineup, and when Wen Zhihao is not on the field, Atletico's attacking brain will be Turan. Once the all-round core of Simeone's most relied on midfield, he would have no problem integrating into Simeone's tactical system.

At a time when almost everyone is not optimistic about Atletico's prospects for the new season, the Chinese media really pointed out the fundamental reason why Atletico can sell one player after another and still remain competitive.

Everyone expected that Atletico Madrid would have a bad time this season, and the defending champion would be regarded as the number one rival by all opponents, but the Chinese media also had confidence in Atletico Madrid out of unconditional trust in Wen Zhihao, in their words, as long as Simeone did not leave class and Wen Zhihao did not leave the team, Atletico Madrid had the ability to impact the championship. There will definitely not be as many ups and downs as Dortmund in previous years, let alone a group of players like Leicester City, who went from a championship team to a relegation team.

Because Atletico Madrid's confidence in really being able to compete with the "Western Super League Giants" comes from their way of existence that is different from other giants.