No. [287]: Award ceremony at the lottery ceremony
Infantino, dressed in a black Armani suit, took to the stage and said: "Now we have Mr. Puyol, the captain of Barcelona, and Breitner, the guest of honor in this year's UEFA Champions League final, appear!" ”
Suddenly, there was a round of warm applause at the scene.
Dongfang Chen, who was sitting next to Arsène Wenger, also applauded, and at this time, he saw the captain of the Barcelona team, Puyol, walking onto the rostrum with the UEFA Champions League trophy Big Ears Cup, and the former famous German star Breitner appeared with him.
Dongfang Chen stared at the silver big ear cup, Dongfang Chen's heart was also excited, when will he Dongfang Chen be able to lift the UEFA Champions League trophy?
Dongfang Chen is full of desire and longing for this trophy, and he also firmly swears in his heart that he will definitely win the European championship in his lifetime, because he knows that this is his World Cup!
Puyol stepped up to the stage and raised the big-eared cup above his head as if to assert sovereignty. The players of the other teams below have a bad look on their faces, they think Puyol is simply too arrogant.
Especially Cristiano Ronaldo, he stared at Puyol coldly, thinking to himself, now you have fun, this season, the Champions League must belong to our Real Madrid.
Things are not going well for Cristiano Ronaldo, who needs the Champions League title to cement his place at Real Madrid, who is the big brother of Real Madrid, and no one can take his place.
As soon as he thought of this, Cristiano Ronaldo immediately turned his head slightly and looked at Dongfang Chen, his eyes full of strong fighting intent.
Feeling a gaze lock on him, Dongfang Chen immediately turned his head to look over, and he found Cristiano Ronaldo's eyes full of war intent.
Dongfang Chen frowned slightly, ignored Cristiano Ronaldo, and turned his head directly and looked at the stage.
The relationship between Dongfang Chen and Cristiano Ronaldo is not very good, and when they were in Manchester United, the two even had a little holiday. So Dongfang Chen didn't give Cristiano Ronaldo a good look, and he didn't even care about the other party.
Cristiano Ronaldo snorted coldly, didn't pay attention to Dongfang Chen, and turned his head directly and looked at the stage.
By this time, both Puyol and Breitner had already spoken and stepped down from the podium.
UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino immediately said: "Last season's UEFA Champions League was very good, Barcelona was amazing and won the eventual title. I hope you can give your fans more exciting games this season, so let me give you a brief overview of the teams that have qualified for the last 32 of the UEFA Champions League today! ”
At this time, Infantino began to introduce the top 32 teams in this year's UEFA Champions League, and every time a team was introduced, the big screen showed some of the team's highlights from last season and recently.
It took a little time to introduce the 32 teams, but the guests were not impatient, but they were very serious, because it was a good opportunity to get to know the opponents, and these managers and coaching staff from each team naturally did not miss this opportunity.
And players like Dongfang Chen also need to know these opponents through guò, so they are very serious.
When introducing the Turkish team, UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino once again announced the news, he said: "Because of the alleged match-fixing incident of Turkey's champion Fenerbahce last season, now the Turkish Football Association has disqualified from the championship and participation in the Champions League. Trabzonspor is a giant club in Turkey......"
For this news, Dongfang Chen and the guests below already knew, in the early hours of this morning, the official website of UEFA announced the news, and now they will not be surprised to hear this news. However, the introduction of the Trabzon sports team also appeared on the big screen at the scene, which made the people at the scene very surprised, they didn't expect UEFA's work efficiency to be so fast!
I decided to change teams in the early morning, how long has it been? They made a video presentation of the new team, and the efficiency was really amazing.
However, there were also many people at the scene who frowned, and Dongfang Chen was one of them. In fact, Dongfang Chen is a little skeptical, is this video really made today? Dongfang Chen is a little unconvinced, this should have been prepared by UEFA a long time ago, right?
If this video is really prepared by UEFA for a long time, then there must be a cat in it, is UEFA really operating in the dark? Is there some big conspiracy here?
Now there are still many people who have the same idea as Dongfang Chen, but at this time, they have not come out, after all, this has nothing to do with them, whether it is Fenerbahce entering the Champions League group stage, or Trabzonspor entering the Champions League group stage, it really does not have much impact on them.
Infantino was satisfied, and there were no voices below that shouldn't have appeared, and they were very relieved.
Infantino continued: "Okay, now that you know who will qualify for the last 32 of this season's UEFA Champions League, then I'm going to give you an overview of the teams drawn for this season's UEFA Champions League. ”
This situation, in fact, is already very clear below, because this sub-level situation came out early, because everyone can see this point, and this UEFA is really not easy to cheat, or manipulate.
At this time, Infantino still informed everyone of the situation of the top 32 of the UEFA Champions League on the spot, and the top 32 of the UEFA Champions League this season is as follows:
Pot 1 (seeded): Barcelona (defending champions), Manchester United, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Porto and Inter Milan.
Pot 2: AC Milan, Lyon, Shakhtar Donetsk, Valencia, Benfica, Villarreal, CSKA Moscow and Marseille.
Pot 3: Zenit St. Petersburg, Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Olympiacos, Manchester City, Lille, Basel, Borisov (Belarus).
Pot 4: Borussia Dortmund, Naples, Dinamo Zagreb, Atlético Greeks (Cyprus), Trabzonspor Sport, Genke, Vitoria Plzeň (Czech Republic), Galati (Romania).
After hearing Infantino's introduction, the people at the scene were more aware of the situation of the windshield, and Dongfang Chen, who was sitting next to Arsène Wenger, even saw Arsène Wenger record the situation in his small notebook.
Arsène Wenger was really careful and very well prepared.
Although Arsenal did not directly qualify for the last 32 of the Champions League this season, they had a very good schedule in previous seasons, and their points were high, so they naturally entered the first tier and became seeded.
At this moment, Infantino, the secretary general of UEFA, immediately said: "Okay, I know you can't wait now. So let's not talk about it and start the draw for this season's UEFA Champions League group stage. ”
Dongfang Chen and the guests at the scene immediately applauded warmly, and the atmosphere of the scene came up at once.
After the applause, the scene suddenly fell silent, because everyone knew that the next thing was the beginning of the highlight of the evening, and they were silent and looking forward to the arrival of the event.
Seeing the expectant expressions of the guests, Infantino smiled slightly, and then said: "Now we welcome the former Portuguese national team superstar Luis Figo, who is the guest of the draw for the first team in the Champions League this season, and he will also announce who will win the best goalkeeper in the UEFA Champions League last season?" ”
Just as Infantino's words fell, the scene immediately burst into thunderous applause. Amid this applause, former Portugal national team superstar Luis Figo took to the podium.
Dongfang Chen in the audience looked up at Louis Figo on the stage, and his heart was also excited, today's highlight is really about to begin.
As soon as Luis Figo came to the stage, he immediately stepped forward to shake Infantino's hand, and after shaking hands, Infantino gave up his place to Luis Figo, while two blonde and blue-eyed hostesses came up with two trays, one with an envelope and the other with a trophy.
Louis Figo immediately took the envelope out of the tray of another hostess, and he opened it in public, but he looked at it secretly by himself, and after peeking for a while, a smile appeared on Luis Figo's face.
At this time, Valdés, Petr Cech and Edwin van der Sar were very nervous because they were nominated for the best goalkeeper in the Champions League last season, and this award was produced among the three of them, and they naturally hoped that they could win the award, and they were very nervous.
Dongfang Chen is also speculating about who of these three will win the award, in his opinion, he is more optimistic about Van der Sar, Van der Sar performed very well in the UEFA Champions League last season, but Van der Sar is not the goalkeeper of the championship team, which has a great impact on him.
At this moment, Luis Figo, who was on the podium, immediately announced: "The winner of the best goalkeeper in the 2010-2011 UEFA Champions League is ......"
The scene immediately fell silent, and everyone below stared at Luis Figo with anticipation.
Luis Figo smiled slightly, deciding not to tease everyone, and said directly: "Congratulations to Czech goalkeeper Peter Cech from Chelsea in the Premier League, who won the best goalkeeper award in the UEFA Champions League last season!" ”
Peter Cech was very excited, he immediately stood up, to be honest, he didn't expect him to win the award, in his opinion this award probably belongs to Valdés, because Barcelona won the Champions League last season, Valdés as the goalkeeper of the champion team naturally has the best chance of winning.
Petr Cech was genuinely surprised to receive this award.
The rest of the audience was also shocked, they didn't expect it to be Peter Cech, but Peter Cech also had a good performance in the Champions League last season, and he was able to accept the award.