Barcelona was the capital of Catalonia, Spain's wealthiest region until 1833, and is now Spain's second largest city after Madrid, as well as Spain's largest seaport.

As a city dominated by tourism and service industries, football plays a pivotal role in this city, and the Barcelona football club rooted in the city is the city's business card, and even the meaning of the name Barcelona is not limited to a football club, it has played an important role as a foreign envoy in foreign relations, and it is also the target of the Catalans' struggle against Spanish rule

However, even in terms of football alone, Barcelona is one of the most successful clubs in Spain and the world, in addition to their 17 La Liga titles and three major European cup titles, Barcelona's beautiful style of play is also an important reason for their fame in the world.

Barcelona under the leadership of Cruyff was known as the dream team, but after being defeated 4:0 in the Champions League final by Italy's AC Milan in 94, Barcelona has been in a slump since then, and the league once fell to the fifteenth place, and even the Champions League seat has been lost many times, until the summer of 03 Barcelona overhaul, Laporta became the president of the club, hired the Dutchman Rijkaard to come to the club as the head coach, and bought the Brazilian star Ronaldinho. Barcelona began a resurgence and won the La Liga title last season.

In the Champions League, although Barcelona stopped in the quarterfinals last season, but their style of play has swept the world, when Chelsea and Liverpool had a war of words in the past two days, Mourinho also said that Liverpool did not deserve to win the Champions League trophy, and the strongest team last year was Barcelona, and now, Barcelona has become the third favorite to win the championship in addition to Chelsea and AC Milan.

After winning the La Liga title, Barcelona's goal this season is more inclined to the Champions League title, and in order to achieve this goal, any opponent who stands in their way will be destroyed, and now, the opponent in front of Barcelona is the Serie A dark horse Fiorentina, who has just arrived in Spain.

After the first round of the Champions League group stage, Fiorentina and Barcelona were tied on three points, but Fiorentina beat Barcelona to the top of the table with a goal difference, and Barcelona only ranked second.

In addition to being able to pick a weaker opponent at the top of the group, the first place in the group also has the advantage of being away and then home in the knockout stage, which is very important for the two-legged group stage. Because you can give it a go if you play away first, if you don't play well, you still have a chance to return to the home field, and if you play well, you may solve the problem in one round, while the home and away team do not have this advantage.

Although Barcelona fans do not look up to Fiorentina very much, there is no doubt that Fiorentina is the strongest opponent in Group C besides Barcelona, and the only enemy who can threaten the first place in Barcelona's group, so the hostility of Spanish fans towards Fiorentina is stronger than that of Bremen and Panathinaikos.

This hostility was palpable when Florence disembarked from Barcelona airport.

There were quite a few people who picked up the airport, in addition to the first and local Italian and Chinese fans, there were also a large number of Spanish fans, of course, they did not come to welcome, they came to demonstrate.

"Welcome to Hell"

"Prepare yourselves to die"

"Shrink from the Italian Turtles"

Spanish fans shouted slogans, brandished Barcelona scarves, and wantonly provoked the Fiorentina players

Fiorentina's players of course ignored such provocations, but the Fiorentina fans were not satisfied and responded to the Spanish fans with a very tough attitude, not in the slightest because this was the opponent's turf.

The police in Barcelona were obviously not at ease with the Italian fans, and they arranged a lot of police officers at the airport, seeing that the fans on both sides were emotional and there was a possibility of a group fight, the police hurried over, separated the fans from both sides, and advised the Fiorentina players to leave the airport as soon as possible and not stay too long.

The Fiorentina players were not afraid to fight Barcelona on the pitch, but they did not want to fight with the Barcelona fans before the game, so they hastily signed autographs and photos with a few fans, and then quickly left the airport to rush to the hotel they had booked.

After resting for two hours in the hotel, Fiorentina was ready to go to the Camp Nou to adapt to the venue, but was told that the stadium was watering and could not train, so if you wanted to train, you would go to the La Masia training base opposite the stadium, which is also Barcelona's youth training base, like Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Xavi, Puyol and others are from this training camp.

Barcelona knew that Fiorentina would go to the Camp Nou in the afternoon to adapt to the field, but at this time they watered it, which was obviously to make things difficult for Fiorentina, which made Prandelli and Lu Casey, who came with the team, very angry, but they had no choice but to take the team to La Masia for training

Seeing La Masia, which looked like a farm, with only an ordinary two-story building and seven or eight stone houses, the Fiorentina players were disappointed and angry, thinking that Barcelona had deliberately given them a rudimentary training ground.

"Nima, this training base is not as good as ours, it is still artificial turf." Chen Yu said in surprise.

"Is this a trick for us? I don't believe Barcelona are here to train Montolivo.

Fiore has played in La Liga, knows some Spanish, and also knows Barcelona, saying: "La Masia means farm, but it's not a pit for us, the Barcelona team also trains here, and there are a lot of talents here, such as Xavi, Puyol and the now famous Messi. ”

The place where the Barcelona first team trains is adjacent to the training place of the youth team at all levels, when the Fiorentina players come in, the youth team players are training, the Fiorentina players take a few looks, and they can't help but be attracted by these young people, because these people's passing, receiving and dribbling are so beautiful and fluid, even the senior team can't do it.

Chen Yu was a little shocked and said: "No wonder Barcelona can play so smoothly and cooperate so well, it turns out that the youth team is so powerful." ”

Fiore smiled bitterly: "Passing is the essence of Barcelona, if you don't steal quickly or fiercely, they can pass a game without making a mistake." How to put it, when you play, you know what kind of pain it is

Head coach Prandelli was also watching the training of the Barcelona youth team, and he said to the players with a solemn face: "See, the youth team is passing the ball so beautifully, we must not give them space, and the pressing must be fierce." Otherwise, our defenders simply wouldn't react, they passed the ball too quickly. ”

The Fiorentina players are watching these young people, and the young people of La Masia are also watching these "guests" from Italy, and they are still talking.

"They're all very tall."

"That's right, they're the head team."

"Which one is Chen Yu? I've heard that it's amazing. ”

"Just a black-haired and yellow-skinned one, which one else will there be?"

After a brief observation, the Fiorentina players began to warm up, while the young players of La Masia began to rest, watching the Italian players through barbed wire

If the general fans are watching, the Fiorentina players are just warming up at will, just saw that La Masia's young players have such excellent ball control and passing skills, Fiorentina players dare not slack off, they work very hard in training, and even show their own housekeeping skills, just show their skills to deal with Barcelona.

Florence originally thought that her hard work would be applauded by the children of La Masia, but what she didn't expect to hear was a burst of laughter.

"The pass is really slow, and that Chinese is not very good."

"It's not good to run, and it's clumsy to move."

"I think we can put seven or eight goals into them as a team."

"I don't think they can even touch the ball a few times."

Being ridiculed by a group of children for hurting the self-esteem of the Fiorentina players, Toni spat next door, "What do you know, this is force football, you fists and legs, as soon as the game is played, it will be the original form." ”

Brockie also shouted: "Don't forget how your dream team lost in the '94 Champions League final. ”

La Masia's little players burst into laughter, and one of the little guys shouted, "Who can't brag, or let's have a fight." ”

"That's right, it's the mule or the horse that pulls it out." 1

When the other little guy finished speaking, the young men of La Masia burst into laughter.

"Fight, just fight, ask your coach for approval." Pacini was not very old, and walked to the barbed wire fence and said angrily.

"What kind of anger is Pacini fighting with the child, come back and train"

Prandelli called Pacini back.

Fiorentina, of course, can't play with these kids, because the players have just flown in from Italy, training is a warm-up, and now it's not at Camp Nou, and Prandelli has been training for less than an hour before going back to the hotel.

In the hotel, Prandelli held a press conference with team vice-president Dainelli.

At the press conference, Prandelli was more low-key than when he was in Fiorentina, he joked: "We are not afraid of Barcelona, anyway, they are all LL players, and their people are all two legs and one head, no different from us, Barcelona and Ronaldinho sound very loud, but we have played against Inter Milan, Adriano, AC Milan Shevchenko, our defenders have no problem." Now I sleep well every night and so do my players, so a team can be beaten and we can be satisfied with a point away from home. ”

Dainelli also said they are ready, "Barcelona play fantastic football, they are the favourites in the Champions League, but we play different football than them, we have more strength, we defend better, they play games often to beat their opponents, I don't think that will happen in this game. ”