Chapter 186: Champions Cup Grouping (II)
"Tony, which teams do you think Fiorentina will be in a group?" Karin, who flew to Monaco with the team, sat on Zhuang Mingge's right hand, and sat on the left side of Little Groz, two flowers sandwiched Zhuang Mingge in the middle, this gorgeous scene attracted the attention of many people present.
"Uh, this one......" Zhuang Mingge scratched his nose and looked at the paper in his hand with the names of the sixteen Champions League teams.
The current UEFA Champions League only allows the league champions and defending champions of each country to participate, and it is not yet allocated according to the total European points of each national league as in later generations, so it is impossible for the giants of the four major leagues to appear in the UEFA Champions Cup.
Rather than being divided into European points from the last five seasons and then drawn as in later generations, a series of qualifiers will be held in August, where eight teams will be divided into four groups with eight pre-seeded teams.
Although the Bosman Act has appeared, but only a month and a half is obviously not enough to change too many things, although the gap between the rich and the poor has appeared, it is not yet obvious, this point, from the process of the Champions League qualifiers can be seen, last season's Champions League quarterfinals of the Swedish league hegemon Gothenburg was actually eliminated by Legia from Poland in the qualifiers, enough to show that the influence of the Boseman Act has not completely changed the European football landscape.
Thanks to Fiorentina's blessing in Serie A, UEFA in order to ensure ratings and fan attention, the champions of the four major leagues are bound to be selected into the list of seeded teams, which makes the purple lily successfully avoid the Champions League qualifiers and become one of the eight seeded teams, otherwise, in case of gutter capsizing in the qualifiers, Fiorentina may become a laughing stock in European football for a long time.
However, it also makes it more difficult for Zhuang to speculate that Fiorentina will face opponents in the group stage, after all, there is no such thing as a team from the same league - because there are no clubs from the same league at all.
"Well, I don't know, this kind of thing depends on luck." Zhuang Mingge shrugged his shoulders and had to tell the truth, "I hope Florence will not be divided into a group that is too strong." ”
After a brief opening remarks, Platini, as a special guest of the draw ceremony, walked to the stage with a smile on his face, and on the table were two transparent boxes containing eight notes with the names of the seeded teams and eight of the teams that had gone through the knockout rounds to enter the main stage.
"Thank you very much for this opportunity to attend the Champions League group draw ceremony as a special guest, and I sincerely hope that after the draw results come out in a while, everyone will not be because everything is God's will." When Platini said this, he spread his hands helplessly, causing a burst of laughter from the audience.
Cut, UEFA won't do anything in the draw, that's hell. Listening to Platini's opening remarks, Zhuang Mingge pursed his lips disdainfully, looking at the later generations after Abramovich took charge of Chelsea, the Blues had to face Barcelona and Liverpool almost every year.
Of course, the reason why this situation will arise is to create enough gimmicks to attract the attention of fans, and the summit matchup between Barcelona and Chelsea is always more eye-catching than the Porto vs Monaco match, right?
Secondly, there is another reason why Chelsea will meet so many strong teams in the Champions League, that is, it inevitably infringes on the interests of too many people in the process of its rise, such as raising the transfer value of players, disrupting the order of the transfer market, etc., in order to appease those giants who are dissatisfied with Chelsea, UEFA naturally needs to embarrass this kind of golden team on the schedule.
However, Fiorentina does not seem to have had any intersection with these teams present in recent years, after all, before Zhuang Mingge became the owner of Fiorentina, Purple Lily's record can only be called the level of the middle of the league, UEFA does not seem to have any gimmicks to create, and Fiorentina did not get players by maliciously raising prices when building the current squad, so it should not be rectified by those officials of UEFA......
At this time, Platini, who walked to the stage, stretched out his big hand and pulled out two notes from the transparent cardboard box containing the eight seeded teams.
"The two seeded teams that were selected for Group A are...... Porto in Portugal and Monaco in France! Platini announced with a smile on his face.
Zhuang Mingge saw that Arsene Wenger, who was sitting in front of him, was relieved to hear the draw results announced by Platini, and it seemed that he was very satisfied that his team could be in a group with Porto.
Before the advent of the Bosman era, the gap between the giants of Italy, Spain, England, Germany, France and the Netherlands was not large, such as Ajax of the Netherlands has won the League Cup and the Champions Cup in recent years, and the French team has also repeatedly performed well in European competitions, so among the eight seeded teams, Porto from Portugal is relatively easy to deal with.
Fiorentina were not as lucky as Monaco, though, as Platini drew La Liga champions Real Madrid and Fiorentina together, and then threw the likes of Glasgow Rangers and Romania's Bucharest stars from another box to Group C.
After the results of the draw for Group C where Fiorentina is located, it means that the grouping ceremony has come to an end, and the final grouping is as follows: Group A has Greek champion Panathinaikos, Ligue 1 champion Monaco, Portuguese champion Porto and Danish champion Aalborg; Group B has Russian champions Spartak Moscow, Polish champions Legia, Norwegian champions Rosenborg and Premier League champions Blackburn; Group C Serie A champions Fiorentina, La Liga champions Real Madrid, Romanian champions Bucharest and Soviet Super League champions Glasgow Rangers; Group D features last year's champions Ajax, Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund, Hungarian champions Felenkvaros and Swiss champions Grasshopper.
"UEFA is really keen on creating gimmicks!" After seeing the situation in Group C, Zhuang Mingge couldn't help but secretly say in his heart that in recent years, La Liga and Serie A teams have always been able to meet in European competitions, and this kind of grievances and grievances are the most attractive place for fans.
And in these four groups, only Fiorentina has three teams in the group that have won the European Champions Cup, namely Real Madrid (6 times), Glasgow Rangers (1 time), and Bucharest Star (1 time), from this point of view, Fiorentina's group can also be called the group of death. PS: The unit has a four-day military training from today, and these days I ask others to help update it......