The 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League has completed all six group rounds, and the dust has settled on the top two teams from each group to advance to the round of 16, but the draw for the quarter-finals will be held in Nyon, Switzerland, ten days later.

Valencia, the only team to win all of their games in the group stage, is naturally the team that has attracted the most attention, and Iello has also attracted attention because of his brace in this game, scoring 11 goals in six rounds of the group stage, breaking his own record for the most goals in the Champions League group stage last season.

At the same time, the three major European bookmakers lowered the odds of Valencia to win the championship again, catching up with the second place.

Ailo's ability to break his Champions League group stage goal record last season in this game was naturally recognized by the mainstream media in Europe, but these praises are as common as eating and drinking for Iro.

The mainstream media in Europe did not make a big deal of it, but only a little brushstroke, after all, Iroh's goal efficiency for more than a year is really terrifying......

"In the 12 games of the Champions League last season, Ai scored 16 goals, breaking Altafini's single-season record in the Champions League for many years, and he broke his own group stage goal record set last season in six group games this season......

Summary of the Champions League column for The Squad Newspaper.

"The top scorer is in excellent form, Valencia's 1/8 final opponent is going to suffer? —The Guardian

Horror! 10 goals last season, 11 goals this season" - Milan Sport Newspaper

A moment of silence for Valencia's potential adversary! -- As

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As time went on, apart from the Chinese media's search for the 'truth' about Iello missing out on the Ballon d'Or by one point, the mainstream media in Europe focused on the shortlist of the last three finalists for the World Footballer of the Year at the end of the year.

Originally, Arlo was nominated as a candidate for the 2006 World Footballer of the Year by the head coach of the Spanish national team, Aragonés, with his perfect performance last season, and later he was out of control, and was recognized by the national teams and captains of European countries, and directly entered the list of 30 candidates for the World Footballer.

What is even more unexpected is that Iro's name appeared in the list of the last three candidates for the World Footballer of the Year announced on the official FIFA website today.

Therefore, the first time FIFA announced this result on its official website, all the media who paid attention to this year's World Footballer of the Year were quite surprised!

Because according to the current reputation in international football, it is quite normal for Zinedine Zidane, the Golden Ball winner of the German World Cup, and Cannavaro, the silver ball winner, to be among the last three candidates, but Iroh is ......

His popularity in the world is simply not as good as that of Ronaldinho, Henry, and Buffon.

In fact, what everyone doesn't know is that Iroh has become a hot topic in the world's major media by missing the European Golden Globe Awards by one point recently, so he has added a lot of impression points to him.

Especially in the days when the European Golden Globe Awards were awarded, Iroh had more than 100 million searches on the Google search engine, becoming the king of search volume that day.

As we all know, the selection of the World Footballer of the Year is not as professional as the European Ballon d'Or created by "French Football", but it is voted by the head coaches and captains of each national team, and the competition is more about the player's impression score in world football.

For example, you can't expect very poor and backward African, South American, and Asian countries to have time to watch the European La Liga and UEFA Champions League, so their national team managers and captains learn more about the world's famous players from the media.

In this regard, Ailo can be said to be in a comprehensive disadvantage, you must know that the Chinese national team has been notorious in the world in the past two years.

But it just so happened that because of the heated discussion some time ago, Iroh completely added a lot of impression points among backward football countries, and naturally leaned towards this rising star when voting, because some national team coaches and captains with votes felt that they were numb to always voting for those old scumbags......

At this moment, when the media from China learned that Iroh was selected as the last three candidates for the year-end FIFA World Footballer of the Year, they were completely confused!

The World Footballer of the Year award is different from the European Ballon d'Or, even if Iello does not win the World Footballer of the Year in the end, even if he wins the third, he can still be on camera!

This is a great opportunity to raise the profile of Chinese football around the world!!

They are as excited as cats smell fish!!

Of course, Iroh is also confused!

Aren't the final three of this year's World Footballer of the Year Zinedine Zidane, Cannavaro and Champions League winner Ronaldinho in the World Cup?

Could it be that this little butterfly has completely disrupted the order of this world?

He didn't know......

So when he was called to the office by head coach Flores and saw the invitation from FIFA on the same day to be held in Zurich, Switzerland at 8 o'clock in the evening on December 18, the whole person was stunned.

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The reporter, who had previously been cold because the curtain came down on the European Golden Globe Awards, came to Valencia like an aphrodisiac, seeking an opportunity to interview Iello.

For these enthusiastic reporters, Iroh did not satisfy them, and still spent it blindly in training and training.

His behavior has also unknowingly infected Wang Xiaolei, who is currently the main goalkeeper in the Valencia B team, and has a profound impact on Jiang Zhipeng and Wu Xi in the Valencia U17 youth team.

As a result, these young players who are pursuing their dreams in a foreign country begin to sigh: there is really no shortcut to success!

Although most reporters have no way to interview Elo, Enrique Wien, the editor-in-chief of Valencia Sports Newspaper, and Qi Liuhai, the editor-in-chief of New Wolf.com, who have a very good relationship with Elo, have exclusive revelations!

(Note: Because of his good personal relationship with Iroh, Enrique Wayne became the editor-in-chief, and Qi Liuhai, a middle-aged man with a Mediterranean hairstyle, was also poached by the new wolf network at a high price to be the editor-in-chief of the sports department of the new wolf website in charge of football reports)

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Time passed quickly, and the 14th round of the 2006-2007 La Liga season was in full swing, and Valencia, who had won thirteen consecutive league games, faced Deportivo La Coruna, who had not won three games recently.

Ello was left on the bench by Flores, but his second-half brace helped his side beat Deportivo La Coruna 4-0 to continue their best start to the new European top flight.

After this game, Valencia is already 13 points ahead of Barcelona in second place in the league, which is definitely an incredible gap, and the league has only been 14 rounds!

Spain's mainstream media can't wait to applaud Valencia as the reigning La Liga champions.

However, the head coach Flores and the players in the team are still quite modest and do not recognize this title, otherwise, after the start of the second half of the season, they will definitely become the primary target of attack by La Liga teams.

After the 14th round of La Liga is over, everyone's attention is not on the final three-person shortlist of World Footballer of the Year, but on the draw ceremony for the 1/8 final of the Champions League in Nyon, Switzerland.

Valencia, the only team to win all six rounds of the Champions League group stage this season, naturally received the most attention, and the teams that were second in each group except Real Madrid, Barcelona and Roma all felt panicked.

Because the draw ceremony for the 1/8 finals of the Champions League follows the principle of avoiding the same group and the same team under the same Football Association, that is to say, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Roma, who are ranked second in the eight groups that advanced to the round of 16 in the Champions League this season, avoided Valencia.

And the remaining five opponents are going to be tragic, because Valencia is super terrifying this season! All competitions are still won so far!!

In such a terrifying state, it is naturally better to retreat.

As a result, Inter Milan, PSV Eindhoven, Celtic, Porto and Lille have become potential opponents for Valencia, and Inter Milan are naturally the strongest opponents in the second group and one of the most unwanted opponents in each group.

It is worth mentioning that at the draw ceremony held on the same day, Iroh once again said cheaply, "It should be Inter Milan!" ”

The next result can be imagined, Valencia really drew Inter Milan.

Hey, everyone is used to Iroh's prophecy, so this time it wasn't surprised, but accepted the reality with a smile.

Interestingly, after drawing Inter Milan, Marchena and Baraja both sharpened their knives and became excited, and later everyone found out that the two had a conflict with Ibrahimovic and Materazzi, who had previously spoken wildly because of Elo's threat to book next year's European Ballon d'Or.

Therefore, this match is destined to attract the attention of all the good fans.

At the same time, there are two other matches that attract the attention of fans: Real Madrid vs Bayern and Barcelona vs Liverpool!

The former is a direct dialogue between the old powerhouses, while the latter is the winner of the last two UEFA Champions Leagues, and it will naturally receive no less attention.

The reason why the UEFA Champions League has attracted more and more attention is not only inseparable from the gold content of the game itself, but also the hype of the media on both sides of the game.

However, the hype only lasted for one day.

Because next is the league match day for the European countries, as well as ...... The winner of this year's World Footballer of the Year is chosen!

At the weekend, the entire Valencia squad arrived in Zaragoza.

Originally, everyone thought that Valencia would win this game without any suspense, but the final result surprised all the media who followed this game, Zaragoc actually drew 0:0 at home to Valencia.

The next day, in addition to reporting that Valencia had ended their 14-game winning streak in the league, the media focused on the World Footballer of the Year ceremony, which will be held in Zurich, Switzerland, the following day.

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