Chapter 325: Documentary
After the league, everyone's eyes are naturally locked on the Champions League.
The current situation is that the Bundesliga is over, but there is still the final round of La Liga, and Real Madrid is out of contention for the league title. So they can also put all their energy into preparing for the Champions League final.
The final round of La Liga was dominated by Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.
The two teams are currently in the top two of the league, and the final round of the league is a direct dialogue between the two teams.
Barcelona will host Atletico Madrid.
As long as Atletico Madrid doesn't lose to Barcelona, they will win the league.
For those teams who don't play in the Champions League final, they can take a break after playing the last round of the league.
But because there is a World Cup this summer, the players who are going to play in the World Cup cannot rest yet, and they have to go directly from the club to report to the national team and participate in the final training camp.
This year's World Cup starts on June 12, and the major European leagues basically end in mid-May, leaving less than a month for national teams to prepare for the World Cup.
The Bundesliga and the Premier League ended early, with the final rounds of the Bundesliga and the Premier League ending on May 10 and 11.
For the Chinese team, Yang Muge, who played in Schalke 04, has left Germany, returned to China, and reported to the national team.
However, Zhou Yi and Yan Min will not be able to return to the national team until May 25 at the earliest because Dortmund reached the Champions League final.
This is not good news for the Chinese team.
When the absolute core of the team returns, there are only 20 days before the start of the World Cup, which will have a very negative impact on the preparation of the entire Chinese team.
Yang Muge is the first foreign international player to return to the team.
Next up to return to China is Chelsea goalkeeper Sun Pan.
The Premier League ended a day later than the Bundesliga, with Chelsea beating Cardiff City 2-0 away to see Chelsea fail to win the league this season, but they finished third in the league and qualified for next season's Champions League.
A week later, La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A were all over.
In La Liga, Atletico Madrid drew 1:1 away from home and won the league title.
In Serie A, Guo Nu's Inter Milan lost to Chievo 1:2, and finally only won the fifth place in the league and qualified for the Europa League, but still missed the Champions League.
Unless Guo Nu transfers to a team that can play in the Champions League, Guo Nu will be the only Chinese player who has not participated in the Champions League next season.
Paris Saint-Germain beat Montpellier 4-0 at home in the final round of Ligue 1. This season, Paris Saint-Germain won the league title ahead of schedule, and they ended up as many as nine points ahead of second-placed Monaco.
He Ying also won Ligue 1 titles for two consecutive seasons, but this season was his first full season at Paris Saint-Germain.
He has scored fifteen goals in Ligue 1 this season and is seventh on the Ligue 1 scorers' charts. The Ligue 1 Golden Boot belongs to He Ying's teammate Ibrahimovic, who has scored 26 goals, well ahead of the others.
There are as many as five people in second place, and they are tied for second place, all scoring sixteen goals. They are Calou in Lille, Yedder in Toulouse, Abubakar in Lorient, Cavani in Paris Saint-Germain, and Gignac in Marseille.
He Ying and Lyon's Lacazette shared 15 goals and tied for third.
Although he did not win the Golden Boot, with the two scoring weapons of Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani in the team, He Ying still scored 15 goals, which is already very good, and this is his most goal in the top flight.
He also scored four goals in the Champions League and is the second-highest scorer in the Champions League for PSG, second only to Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Such performances have helped to elevate his status in the team, and it is believed that he will play an even more important role for Paris Saint-Germain next season.
After He Ying and Guo Nu returned to the team, the Chinese national team was basically assembled, leaving only Zhou Yi and Yan Min.
Much of the attention of Chinese fans has also shifted to the national team.
The Champions League final is of course very important, but Zhou Yi has already won it, and it is too difficult to defend the Champions League, so everyone doesn't have much hope.
The World Cup, on the other hand, is a more important event than the Champions League.
The last time the Chinese team participated in the World Cup was 12 years ago.
The World Cup, as a major football event in the world, is of course more worthy of attention than the Champions League.
According to the announced preparation plan, the training camp of the Chinese team is divided into three parts. The first is the domestic training camp, which is mainly attended by players who play in the country, and has started before the end of the European League, and the domestic league has been temporarily suspended to make way for the national team to prepare for the competition. Zheng Zhi, who had a high call to return to the national team before, also got his wish this time and entered the training camp, of course, whether he really wants to take him to Brazil in the end, it is not necessarily, it depends on his performance during the training camp, but he finally has a chance.
Next, on May 15, the domestic national team players will leave for Europe for a training camp.
The reason why they chose to train in Europe is to take care of the overseas players who participate in the European leagues in Europe, and on the other hand, it is also convenient to arrange warm-up games, in which they have two warm-up games to play. Another reason is from the distance, anyway, from China to Brazil, it is also to transit in Europe, so when you train in Europe, when you fly to Brazil, you can fly a little less distance, save time, and reduce the energy and physical loss of Chinese players on the journey.
The third part, of course, is to go to Brazil for training, where they still have a warm-up match waiting for them, and then continue to train until the start of the World Cup.
Zhou Yi and Yan Min will go directly to Spain to meet the national team after the Champions League final and participate in the national team training camp.
This summer will be very busy for Zhou Yi.
There is only a break after the World Cup match.
If China reach the knockout stages, Zhou Yi and Yan Min will almost certainly miss Dortmund's training camp for the new season.
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Borussia Dortmund have been preparing for the Champions League final since 12 May.
For Zhou Yi, in addition to preparing for the Champions League final, he has one more thing to participate in.
That is to make a documentary with him as the main character.
The project was actually proposed a year ago, when he led Borussia Dortmund to the Champions League, and after that, a company in China contacted Zhou Yi's agent Schulze through various channels and proposed to him to make a documentary about Zhou Yi.
Schulze is quite interested in this proposal, after all, being able to let Zhou Yi appear on the big screen is also very helpful for Zhou Yi's personal image improvement.
However, at that time, it was just an intention, and the company that was looking for Zhou Yi had nothing but intentions, they hoped to get Zhou Yi's authorization and consent, and then they could carry out follow-up work.
Zhou Yi has no objection to filming a documentary, but he has his own things to do, so he left this matter to Schulzer.
Later, Zhou Yi met each other several times one after another, and each time the other party would bring a different person.
Some are said to be investors, and some are said to be directors.
I came to Germany to meet several times, the two sides negotiated I don't know how many times, there were differences and arguments, and there were several times during the period, when Zhou Yidu almost didn't remember this matter, one day Schulze told him that the matter was finalized.
It is said that this is an international team, not only from China, but also from the United Kingdom and Germany.
This is also what Schulze demanded. In the beginning, Chinese companies just wanted to make a documentary and broadcast it in China. However, Schulzer felt that it would be a pity if it was only broadcast in China, and he hoped to be able to release it globally, of course, mainly in China, but the internationalization of the team was inevitable.
At the same time, this documentary also needs to record Zhou Yi's performance in the World Cup, which needs to be approved by the Chinese Football Association, so that he can follow the Chinese team to the World Cup as a team of photographers, starting from the training camp and filming to the World Cup games.
At the same time, they will also be allowed to enter the dressing room of the Chinese team to photograph the hidden images and stories of the team.
Negotiations with the Chinese Football Association were very difficult, after all, there has never been such a thing in the history of Chinese football.
Even in the history of Chinese sports, it is a precedent.
The producer used various public and private relationships to convince the Chinese Football Association of outstanding sports documentaries in the history of European and American sports.
For example, the documentary "A Summer Fairy Tale" of the German national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
In the end, the producer promised to shoot a documentary during the World Cup for the Chinese national team for free, which was the qualification to be filmed.
When the time comes, they will participate in all stages of the training camp with the team, and the team's coaching staff, locker rooms, dormitories, and hotels will all give them the green light. At the same time, the filming team must also promise not to leak the filming content in private, and all filming activities must be carried out without interfering with and affecting the team's preparation.
Originally, I just wanted to shoot a documentary about Zhou Yi, but now it has changed from one to two documentaries, and the manpower needs to be increased, and the investment of time and money is far beyond the initial expectations, and more companies have to be involved.
For these reasons, the preparation took a lot longer than previously anticipated.
Fortunately, the final documentary can be filmed before the World Cup.
Now the film crew in charge of the part of the national team has entered the training base of the Chinese national team in China and started filming.
The film crew in charge of Zhou Yi rushed to Germany, on the one hand, to film Zhou Yi's preparation for the Champions League final, and on the other hand, they also had a task - they will reveal the secrets of Zhou Yi's various magical performances on the pitch to the world in the documentary.