Chapter 84: The Bernabeu

The Bernabeu Stadium, the full name of Santiago. The Santiago BernabΓ©u Stadium, the dream theatre of world football, was inaugurated on 14 December 1947 with an initial capacity of 80,354 spectators, and the club's capacity has since been increased to 120,000 in 1952, making it one of the most famous football stadiums in the world.

Since 2005, the Santiago Bernabeu has been awarded a five-star stadium by the European Football Federation, which means that the stadium can be used as the venue for the UEFA Champions League final.

The stadium has also hosted many memorable international matches, most notably the 1982 World Cup final, where Spain won their first international award, Euro 1964.

As the owner of this stadium, Real Madrid's brilliant record in European football is not at all worthy of this great stadium, just like the slogan used by Real Madrid: the best team, the best stadium.

Here, there is a man who is absolutely indispensable, who, with his conviction and vision, has successfully led and completed this monumental project, and who is an icon of Real Madrid, Santiago. Bernabeu.

Before the establishment of the Bernabeu, Real Madrid did not have a stable home stadium, but moved several times, until Santiago in 1943. The Bernabeu was elected president of the club, and Real Madrid began to build a stadium that truly matched their identity.

In 1947, the stadium was put into use, then called "La Castellana", and it was not until the beginning of 1955 that the stadium was renamed after the president.

On December 14, 1947, with the opening match between Real Madrid and the Portuguese club Os Belenenses, Santiago. The official inauguration of the Santiago BernabΓ©u Stadium was the best and most modern stadium in the world at the time. This was followed by the first expansion, which took place in 1954, making it the largest.

In the 50s and 60s of the last century, Real Madrid won the Champions League six times, five of which were consecutive times, which is definitely a record that has never been seen before or since.

In 1964, the Spanish national team won the first European Championship trophy in the country's history. Then, from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, the club returned to the revamped Bernabeu three Champions League trophies in five years, and the silver Bernabeu re-established itself as the centre of European football.

For the 1982 World Cup, the stadium underwent extensive renovation and reconstruction, which was to be the venue for the final, with the number of stands reduced to 90,000 and the installation of state-of-the-art scoring screens.

On the day of the 1982 World Cup final, the stadium was packed, and Italy eventually defeated Germany to win their third World Cup in their history.

Tardelli's frantic expression after scoring the second goal for Italy left him a place in the football class, a goal that put the Italians ahead of the Germans.

Tardelli will always be remembered for the look of excitement on his face and his frantic celebrations as he rushed to the bench on the sidelines to celebrate the goal with his coach and team-mates.

Italy's golden boy Rossi Paolo. Rossi also scored in that final, not only winning the winner's medal, but also being named the top scorer, another legend of Italian football, goalkeeper Dino. Zoff also ushered in the pinnacle of his football career when he graduated from King Juan of Spain. Carlos I took over the trophy at the age of 40 in 1982.

It can be said that the Bernabeu stadium has carried countless glories in the history of football, after entering the new century, Real Madrid's performance has declined, but this season the Bernabeu once again shocked the world, after Florentino re-assumed the chairmanship, with a huge amount of money to build the second generation of the Galaxy Battleship, so there are a series of top superstars such as Camaro, Kaka, Benzema and so on.

Today's Real Madrid can be described as star-studded, but the current Fiorentina is not far behind, not to mention the new and old male gods of Digan and Beckham, that is, Modric, Fellaini, Kompany, Thiago. Silva and others are now among the world's best players with Fiorentina's achievements.

So in the face of Real Madrid's Galaxy Battleship Phase II project, the whole Fiorentina team did not pee at all.

The best team of the 21st century is not self-proclaimed, it is a mule or a horse that comes out to slip around, and the time will know.

In all aspects, Fiorentina definitely has the upper hand in the defensive line, and Fiorentina's starting goalkeepers and defenders are Frei, Pasquale, Kompany, and Thiago. Silva and Desiglio.

Real Madrid's goalkeeper and defenders started with Casillas, Garay, Albiol, Pepe and Ramos.

In terms of fame, Fiorentina started five people, one is the main goalkeeper of the French team, two are the backbone of the Italian national team, one is the vice captain of the Belgian national team, and the other is the defensive leader of the Brazilian national team.

Real Madrid's defense is different, in addition to Casillas is considered to have top strength, Garay is still very young and lacks experience, although Ramos and Pepe are known as world-class, but the state of the two is not stable enough, especially Ramos's brainless assist, and Pepe's single-cell brain, which are bombs that can detonate at any time, in addition, Albiol is only a marginal figure in the Spanish national team, and his ability can only be regarded as average.

The only thing that can be compared is the goalkeeper, Casillas and Frei are indistinguishable in terms of strength and condition, but Casillas's waist injury has just healed, and it is difficult to predict what the state of the field will be.

Although Real Madrid were more optimistic about a win before the game began, the real professionals in football were more optimistic about Fiorentina.

The support of former rivals Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger is the best gift for Fiorentina, and yesterday the managers of Manchester United and Arsenal both pointed to Fiorentina when they expressed their thoughts about the winner of the Champions League final.

'It's too hard to predict the winner, but you have to say that Fiorentina are more experienced and more consistent, which can play a key role in a final, Real Madrid have been very beautiful on the pitch this season, but they are not consistent enough, and if they give Pellegrini another two years, Real Madrid may have a better chance." Arsene Wenger predicted in an interview, "Fiorentina's strength is that they defend well, which may help them secure the title. ”

Sir Alex Ferguson, who lost twice to Fiorentina, was also on Fiorentina's side this time, and he said: "Deegan has a quality that can make the whole Fiorentina team look different and I think they will win the title eventually, but one thing that worries Real Madrid is their stars. ”

This season was when Real Madrid knocked out Manchester United in the semi-finals, and Camero hit back, scoring a goal home and away, helping Real Madrid finally win against his old club.

"Guys! The enemy has come to the door! I don't need to stress how important this game is, but by winning this game, we are the champions, the first European king to win three consecutive championships since the Champions League was restructured. ”

"The people of Madrid must now think that they have won, and the whole world is probably on their side, why? What do you think, Gianpaolo!? ”

Pazzini put on a cynical look and said: "What's so strange about that, people want to see a festive scene, the Madridians win the championship on their doorstep, that scene, wow! It must be very lively. ”

Pazzini's words caused a burst of laughter in the locker room, and Digan couldn't help laughing: "Very well-said, that's probably what it is, Madridians think they are noble, they feel that they are born champions, and the others are just a group of hillbillies in their eyes, even if they haven't won a championship for several years, but that feeling of being born high will not change, just like this game, from the beginning, they feel that they are looking down on us, do you know what it is?" Even from the top down, those Madridians have always thought that their status is higher than ours, and much higher, maybe they still think that playing against us is a charity for us! Marouwan, what do you think we should do? ”

Fellaini shouted: "Kick their balls!" ”

Degan smiled and clapped his hands: "That's right, I like this statement, it's vulgar enough!" This is our image in their eyes, vulgar, mean, no way, people think so, white aristocrats, purple farmers, everyone knows who they should support! ”

"People are looking forward to a great moment when Real Madrid become the first superpower to win 10 Champions League trophies and become the best team of the 21st century, who cares if the humble Fiorentina lives or dies? Except for us, those damn aristocratic lords, who want us to be their little supporting characters to reach the top, our answer is, think too much! ”

The teammates laughed when they heard this, and the tension before the game disappeared for a while.

"That's it! Guys! Today is indeed going to be a great moment, but it's not Real Madrid, those self-righteous aristocrats will fall in front of our humble little people today, isn't it exciting to think about it!? ”

"That's right! Rod! them! ”

"Let them kneel in front of us and admit defeat!"

Degan's voice rose sharply: "Yes! We're going to overthrow them, and let the whole world know who the greatest team is, it's us, it's Fiorentina, it's us little people, and we're going to beat all the self-righteous aristocrats, so that they will tremble when they see our purple and gold robes from now on, so that they won't dare to say those in front of us from now on! ”

Look at the time, it's time to play, and the UEFA staff has come to urge several times just now: "Let's go!" Guys! This is the territory of the Madridians, but after 90 minutes, we will conquer the Bernabeu! ”

By the time Digan led his team-mate to the pitch, the Real Madrid players had been waiting for a while, and when they were far away, Digan saw his brother Kaka.

"Ricardo! I'm going to disappoint you again today! ”

Kaka smiled: "That's it! Rod! Don't be presumptuous, don't forget that this is our territory, and I'm sorry that I'm going to mess with your curtain call in Florence! ”

As the opponent of Kaka, it is really unpleasant, Digan and Kaka hugged, directly ignored the golden mulo who wanted to let go of the cannon, and walked to the front, standing next to him was Casillas, the captain of Real Madrid in this game.

Raul, the old golden boy, is now basically going to be given up by Real Madrid, the former Bernabeu darling is old, and when it's time to get out, this is the human touch of Real Madrid.

Casillas is not a man of words, and he has no grudge against Degan, if anything, at the European Championships, when Degan's goal deprived him of a chance to lift the Delaunay.

Outside is the stadium at the Bernabeu, standing here at the entrance and listening to the deafening singing of the Real Madrid fans outside, it is indeed shocking.

Walking in, looking at the surrounding stands, a piece of snow white, Florence's purple looks very inconspicuous here, after the renovation again, the Bernabeu Stadium, which can accommodate 100,000 people, is completely a super giant compared to Vladhi.

It's the best stadium, but it's the best team!

Today Deegan and his Florence are in charge!

To Deagan's surprise, he walked into the stadium and was surprised that there were no boos when his name was read over the radio.

In fact, there is nothing surprising that now Degan will join Real Madrid next season transfer rumors, as the world's No. 1 player, Degan is the object of many giants on the continent, at this time, Real Madrid fans do not want to leave a bad impression in Degan's heart.

If Digan can really transfer to Real Madrid, Real Madrid will really become a veritable galactic battleship at that time.

What that would be like is exciting just thinking about it.

Not to mention the wishful thinking of Real Madrid fans, if they knew what Degan was thinking now, they would definitely rush down and trample Digan into mud to protect flowers.

If you score a goal in front of these Real Madrid fans, then FEEL will definitely be more cool!