Chapter 654: The Group of Death
"Hi, Miss Lahri!"
When Charlene Lahri and Stephen Howard, chief editor of The Sun, walked into the Grimaldi Convention Centre in Monaco together, they were immediately stopped by someone nearby.
Charlene Rahry, who was dressed in a black and white OL professional suit, looked back and found that he was being stopped by two black-haired and yellow-skinned Oriental men, one of whom should be about forty, and the other was less than thirty years old.
Calling out to them was the young man in his twenties, slightly chubby, with short hair, and wearing a crisp suit.
When she saw this person at the beginning of the year, Charlene Lahri felt a little familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was, so she frowned slightly.
"Excuse me, are you ......?"
The chubby young man was unrecognized, seemed a little embarrassed, and scratched his head, "Miss Rahri, have you forgotten?" We just met in Southampton not long ago, and we're going to work together, remember? ”
As soon as he said this, Charlene Lahri immediately remembered.
"Oh, you're Mr. Qiu of the Ball Emperor!"
Qiu Zaifei is even more embarrassed this time, are these European and American girls so direct?
"Yes, Miss Lahri, I didn't expect to see you here!"
Charlene Lahri and Stephen Howard looked at each other, both smiling implicitly.
They were all invited by UEFA to vote for the best player of the season in Europe tonight, so how could they not be?
But out of politeness, they certainly wouldn't say these things.
"Miss Lahri, let me introduce to you, this is the editor-in-chief of our most authoritative sports newspaper in China, Mr. Luo Mingluo, their newspapers and magazines are cooperating with us!"
"Hello, Mr. Luo!"
"Hello, Miss Lahri!" The middle-aged Luo Ming hurriedly and politely shook hands with Charlene Lahri.
Others may not know, but he knows better than anyone that Charlene Lahri is a hot top name in Britain and even Europe at the moment, and the one who walks with her is not small.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be Mr. Howard of The Sun!"
Stephen Howard was a little surprised, he didn't expect to be recognized, nodded with a smile, and then was polite.
"By the way, Mr. Qiu, aren't you planning to find some famous columnists to cooperate with you recently and translate their articles into your application software?" Charlene Lahri suddenly thought of her.
"Well, yes!" Qiu Zaifei nodded.
"Then, Stephen is the most famous columnist in our UK, much more famous than Martin Samuel and others, who are often translated in your country, and his articles are very sharp and insightful!"
Luo Ming was taken aback by what he heard, this Stephen Howard is the chief editor of The Sun, and the column is indeed quite famous, and their newspaper has considered reprinting it before, but the other party has not even paid attention to it.
Will it now be licensed to the new app that has just been launched?
Who knows, what happened next made Luo Ming's jaw drop almost without shock.
"Charlene, this is what you mentioned before, the new project invested by Young Master Huan?" Stephen Howard asked with a smile.
"Yes, my column has been exclusively licensed to them, and I have also put them in touch with several famous European writers, such as Cruyff, Alfredo Relano, and José Ramón de la Morena."
Luo Ming listened to it stupidly!
Needless to say, Cruyff is no longer known, but his columns are being reprinted and translated by all the domestic media.
As for Alfredo Relano, he is not well-known or even completely unknown, but he is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper As, and has worked in several newspapers and media outlets, such as Marca, Le Monde Sport, El País and Radio Serre, and has been involved in football for more than 30 years.
His daily columns in the newspaper Ass are front-page, and the audience is very impressive in Spain, and it is often accompanied by big news and exclusive insiders.
As for José Ramón de la Morena, the famous writer of Radio Serre, known as the first person in the Spanish media, there is no need to say more about his influence, he belongs to the kind of authoritative whistleblower who will not be wrong once he opens his mouth.
Luo Ming knew that Emperor Zhiqiu, under Yang Huan's investment, had caused a huge response in the domestic fan circle as soon as it was launched, but he didn't know that their ambition was so great that they had contacted so many famous European artists.
"You've contacted so many people, you shouldn't be one of them, right?" Stephen Howard said with a smile.
Charlene Lahri pouted, "He's going to name your column!" ”
Stephen Howard was stunned when he heard this, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Okay, since Young Master Huan ordered the general, then I will agree!" ”
Luo Ming was shocked when he heard it again, he really didn't expect that this Young Master Yang Huan still had such influence in the European media industry.
At this moment, I saw a movement at the gate, and everyone turned their heads to look.
I saw the smiling Yang Huan and UEFA President Platini walking into the venue side by side, and the shouts of Young Master Huan could be heard along the way, and it seemed that this Young Master Huan was much more favored than Platini.
"Young Master Huan!" As soon as Qiu Zaifei saw Yang Huan approaching, he immediately shouted excitedly.
Yang Huan nodded and smiled at a few of them, and after saying hello, he hurried past them.
In the end, under the attention of the audience, Yang Huan accompanied Platini to sit in the front row, and the relationship between the two seemed to be very close.
Charlene Lahri and Stephen Howard sat in the media area, while Qiu Zaifei and Luo Ming were confined to the back row.
"I didn't expect that this young master Huan has such a wide network in Europe!" Luo Ming was a little amazed.
Qiu Zaifei also felt honored, raised his head and nodded with his chest up: "That is, our young master Jiahuan is in European football, and they are all big people who can cause earthquakes with a stomp, who is not welcome to see it?" ”
If it was before, Luo Ming would definitely be very opposed, but now, he really believes it a little.
The European football world is closed, and it is indeed closed, full of a lot of traditional rules such as seniority.
Therefore, it is difficult to get from an outsider to the top of the pyramid.
Otherwise, why is it that with the connections, resources and financial resources of Abramovich and others, after so many years, they still can't get mixed in with the inner circle, and still become the local tyrants and nouveau riche who are despised by Platini, Florentino, Russell and others?
Therefore, it seems that it is really not easy for Young Master Huan to be able to mix with today's status and influence!
As for some people in China who say that he is a profligate rich second generation, it is even more ridiculous!
If a rich second generation who only knows how to spend money can be mixed up with UEFA President Platini, then UEFA will be too worthless.
But what surprised Luo Ming even more was the lottery ceremony that followed.
Although Southampton won the Europa League and defeated Manchester United to win the Premier League as a promoted horse, the team's number one star Ibrahimovic still lost to Cristiano Ronaldo in the European Player of the Season award without the slightest surprise.
This is not surprising at all, because Real Madrid won the Champions League last season, so it is only natural that Cristiano Ronaldo won the European Player of the Season.
But in the subsequent draw ceremony, Southampton took a big advantage.
As a newcomer to the UEFA Champions League, the Saints have won the Europa League for two consecutive seasons and have accumulated more than 60 European points in total, which puts Southampton in the third pot of the Champions League group.
As a result, the other European giants were scared one by one!
Needless to say, the strength of the teams in the first pot is also gathered in the teams in the second pot, including Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille, AC Milan and other strong teams.
But in the third pot, there are still difficult teams such as Manchester City, Bayer Leverkusen, Southampton, and Dortmund, you say, can those teams in the top two not be afraid?
As for the fourth pot, Real Sociedad and Napoli are also strong teams, which is scary to think about.
If one of them is not careful, it may be a group of death!
But in the end, the draw turned out to be really scary, and there was indeed a group of death, but it was not Southampton, nor Atletico Madrid.
Southampton is the team in Pot 3, the team drawn in Pot 1 is Porto in the Portuguese Super League, the team in Pot 2 is Zenit St. Petersburg, and the team in Pot 4 is Vienna Austria.
The result of this draw is quite satisfactory, especially for Southampton, which is a third-pot team, and it is not bad to be able to avoid the giants in the first two pots and draw Porto and Zenit St. Petersburg in succession.
But Atletico Madrid's draw luck was significantly better.
Atletico Madrid, the team in Pot 1, were drawn against Schalke 04, Basel and Steaua Bucharest, and it was arguably the luckiest result of all the teams.
Relatively speaking, Arsenal's luck is miserable, as the first team, the Gunners draw against Marseille, Borussia Dortmund and Napoli, all of which are strong teams in the other three pots, which can be called the group of death.
Manchester United's luck was also not good, with Shakhtar Donetsk, Bayer Leverkusen and Real Sociedad drawn in a rather disadvantageous position.
As for Manchester City, as a team in Pot 3, Manchester City were lucky, meeting Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow and Plzen Victory.
If you look at the strength, as long as Manchester City plays normally, the possibility of qualifying from the group is quite high.
As soon as the results of this draw were announced, the entire Grimaldi Convention Center was in an uproar.
Everyone exclaimed, and everyone's expressions were completely different.
Some are rejoicing at their team's good luck, while others are beating their chests and feeling depressed about their bad luck in the draw, and some are purely here to play soy sauce but gloat over the situation of some people.
In short, in the Grimaldi Convention Center, you can find any kind of person and any kind of expression.
Atletico Madrid won the best draw of the game, and Soriano breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly becoming more upright and narrowing his abdomen, clearly confident that the Sheets would emerge from the group stage.
And this often represents a constant stream of money and benefits!
As for Southampton, his luck was also quite good, Peter Kenyon was also in a good mood, and Yang Huan glanced at Platini with deep meaning, and the latter smiled tacitly and didn't say anything more.
After the lottery ceremony, Yang Huan didn't stay long at the Grimalty Convention Center, so he couldn't get cheap and sell well, right?
However, he could fully foresee that by tomorrow, when the whole world knew the results of the draw, the sound of conspiracy theories would surely resurface, and by that time, it was not known how many people would envy and hate Southampton!
In fact, everything was as Yang Huan expected.
The next day, almost the world's media hyped the results of the draw for the Champions League group stage.
But there is one thing that Yang Huan didn't expect!