Chapter 110: Munich

Early the next morning, the news that Ringer had won the Puskas Prize appeared in China's major sports media.

"Ringer won the Puskas Prize, the first person in Asian football"

"FIFA Awards, Ringer Wins Important Awards"

Tokyo FC, the old club of AFC and Ringer, also posted congratulations on their official website, while the new club Bayern also sent a congratulatory message.

On the night of the awards, Ringer and his young lady went to Paris, where they planned to play for two days.

It's the end of Bayern's training camp in Qatar, and the whole team has two days off and must make the most of it.

To be honest, the first time he was in Paris, Ringer needed a young lady to show him where to go, and then he was taken to the mall.

Stroll along the Champs-Γ‰lysΓ©es during the day and drink coffee by the Seine in the evening.

"There are so many cafes in Paris." The young lady is also sighing.

It has to be said that the French people have a true love for coffee, and there are coffee shops everywhere along the way, and it is said that Paris is the place with the most and most dense cafes in the world.

After two days in Paris, the young lady returned to Japan, and Ringer returned to Munich.

Munich is the capital of the German state of Bavaria, the third largest city in Germany (after Berlin and Hamburg), the first largest city in southern Germany, and is famous all over the world for its beer and football.

There are also cars, and BMW is also headquartered in Munich.

Munich is rich in beer and is known as the beer capital. Every year from the end of September to the beginning of October, Munich hosts a two-week Oktoberfest, a festival that has a history of more than 200 years and attracts more than 6 million visitors from all over the world every year, drinking an average of more than 7 million liters of beer, more than 600,000 chickens and more than 100 cows every year.

In recent years, Munich beer has also begun to be promoted to China, and in the past two years, there have been Beijing Oktoberfest, CD Oktoberfest, etc.

In addition to beer, Munich is probably most famous for football, the European giants Bayern Munich are here, Bayern's headquarters and training base are in the south of Munich, and Bayern's home stadium is the Allianz Arena in the north of the city.

Bayern Munich's home stadium, the Allianz Arena, is a world-famous stadium, which began to be jointly built by Bayern and another team in Munich, Munich 1860, in 2002, but the stadium was not repaired, and Munich 1860 was sadly relegated, and then it was never promoted back.

In recent years, Munich 1860 has been in the Bundesliga, but every season has to pay the high maintenance costs of the luxury Allianz Stadium and the bank loan to build the stadium, the economic situation is getting worse and worse, and soon the Allianz Arena will be sold to Bayern completely because it cannot pay the loan.

Allianz Arena is sponsored by the Allianz Group, a well-known German insurance company, hence the name Allianz Arena. Allianz Insurance is the largest insurance company in Europe, with stadium title sponsors all over the world, and the home stadium of Serie A Juventus will be renamed Allianz Stadium due to Allianz sponsorship.

The designer of the Allianz Arena, Swiss Jacques Herzog, was also the designer who designed the Bird's Nest for the Beijing Olympics. Probably from the same person's relationship, the shape of the Allianz Arena is somewhat similar to the Bird's Nest.

In addition to being the home of Bayern Munich and Munich 1860, the Allianz Arena is also one of the home stadiums of the German national team. On match days, the stadium is lit up in one of three colours, red, blue and white, corresponding to the colours of the shirts of Bayern Munich, Munich 1860 and the German national team.

Because of Bayern's strength and the fact that the stadium is named by an insurance company, fans in Munich in Germany like to call the Allianz Arena a seat belt, because the game here is guaranteed and reassuring.

In fact, Ringer was a little dumbfounded when he heard this name, seat belts are easy to think of condoms, you have to wear a condom in every game, how can you shoot in?

Well, the Germans have no knowledge of the vast and profound Chinese language, so please forgive their ignorance.

The Allianz Arena was originally built with a capacity of 65,000 and was expanded to 70,000 last season to host the Champions League final. It may be that the indiscriminate expansion has broken the feng shui, and Bayern faced a group of old and weak Chelsea at the Allianz Arena, and actually lost the championship.

In 2015, the capacity of the Allianz Arena will be expanded to 75,000 people in line with the German Football Association's application to host Euro 2020.

Thanks to the hot football atmosphere in Germany, whether it is the previous 60,005 capacity or the future 70,005 capacity, tickets for the Allianz Arena are difficult to find most of the time, especially in the Champions League and the Bundesliga.

When it comes to Euro 2020, I have to say that Platini is very good at playing.

Although it has not yet been announced, in 2014, UEFA will announce that the new way to play Euro 2020 will be held in 13 different cities in 12 European countries at the same time in 13 different stadiums, with no host, of which 12 stadiums will host three group stages and one knockout round, and finally one stadium will be left for the final semi-finals and finals.

Allianz Stadium competed with Wembley Stadium in London for the right to host the final, but lost to Wembley Stadium.

What is the difference between this kind of play and the Champions League in the national team situation? Is this what Platini called "a new concept of the Europeanization of football"?

Well, it's really new.

With this kind of play, there is a high probability that the host country will not be able to participate in the European Cup, and I don't know what tricks can be played in the end.

However, Platini couldn't wait to see the effect of his new gameplay in person, and more than a year after the new gameplay was announced, he was masturbated by the Yankees.

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Krot rented an apartment for Ringer in the south of Munich, more than a kilometre from Bayern's headquarters and training base. After all, the future is mainly training, and the competition is up to two games per week, and the training is almost every day.

At the same time, Krott also helped Ringer buy a Mercedes Benz to get around. It's really just a substitute, and the price is very cheap, only more than 50,000 euros.

On the streets of Munich, taxis are all Mercedes.

For example, Ringer is now out of the airport and on a Mercedes-Benz taxi.

"Boy, where are you going?" The taxi driver was a hairy man with a beer belly, probably looking at his Asian face and asking him in unfamiliar English.

"Sebena Street." Ringer replied in German.

"Sebena Street? Are you a FC Bayern fan? Visiting Bayern? The other party started the car and didn't seem to recognize Ringer.

In fact, it is also normal, in the eyes of Europeans, East Asian faces are similar, just like Chinese think that European faces are almost the same.

"Well, I'm going to take a look at Sebena Street and see if I can meet some of the stars." Ringer didn't blush and brags nonsense with the other party.

"Boy, you're not lucky, it's a holiday these two days, and the team won't have training schedules."

"Really? Okay, so I'll go to the honor room, the Bayern Museum, and take a look. ”

"Hey, are you really a Bayern fan? Bayern's museum is at the Allianz Arena, and I can guarantee that you won't see it when you go to Sebena Street. ”

"Well, it's my first time here and I don't really know where Bayern's museum is." Ringer looked at the other party and seemed to be a little angry, and quickly admitted his mistake.

"Are you still going to Sebena, then? Or a diversion to the Allianz Arena? ”

"No, go straight to Sebena, I'm going to the Allianz Arena in two days."

"Are you Japanese?"

"It's not."

"Koreans?"

"No, I'm Chinese."

"Oh, China, I know, I heard that there are more than a billion people, and our team has just introduced a Chinese. With so many people in China, how many are Bayern fans? ”

"Well, maybe 150,000, maybe 200,000."

Ringer was talking nonsense, and then he saw in the rearview mirror that the driver's face was darkened. Obviously, the other party believes that it is true, and is quite dissatisfied with the fact that China, with a population of more than one billion, has only more than 100,000 Bayern fans.

Well, Ringer admitted, he himself talked to death.

After hearing that there are only so many Bayern fans in China, this beer-bellied buddy is reluctant to continue chatting with him.

The taxi finally arrived near Ringer's residence, Ringer paid for the car, and then said to the guy: "Hey, buddy, there must be a lot of Bayern fans in China, it should not be less than 10 million, you don't have to worry." ”

"I am a newly introduced Chinese from Bayern, I live near here, you give me a business card, if necessary, I will call you again."

In the buddy's stunned state, Ringer took his business card and turned away.

The best way to avoid pretending to fail is to flash people as soon as you finish pretending.