Chapter 258: Championship Trophy

After winning the European Player of the Match, Ringer soon returned to Madrid.

When he returned to Madrid, the first thing Ringer did was to see off his parents and young sister at the Madrid airport. It's September soon, and my parents are going back to class, and the young lady has been here for a long time and has to go back.

Soon August 31, the day of the second round of La Liga, is also the first league home of Atletico Madrid this season.

The Spanish Football Federation has informed Atletico Madrid that it will award Atletico Madrid last season's league trophy before this match.

MD, the championship won in May, and now it's almost September before I have the opportunity to touch the trophy, and the Spanish Football Federation really TM can play.

With the first league home of the new season and the trophy being presented before the game, Calderón is a tight ticket for this game, with many fans wanting to witness the team's 10th league title at home.

Before the start of the game, the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Villa, appeared in the stands with the trophy, and then on Atletico Madrid's side, Gabi took Ringer, Juanfran, Godin, Koke and several other representatives to take the trophy from Villa, and then brought the trophy to the field, at this time there were 9 league championship trophies won by Atletico Madrid before and a copy of the Champions League trophy.

Atletico took the opportunity to showcase their 10 league trophies and their newly won Champions League trophy on the pitch.

Although the Atletico fans cheered a lot, Ringer felt a little lacking in atmosphere, last season's heroes Costa, Courtois and Felipe have all left, and the newcomers Griezmann and Oblak have no sense of belonging to this trophy, so the trophy is generally a little embarrassing.

Also, La Liga doesn't even have a league championship gold medal, which is even more embarrassing. It was the first time that Ringer had encountered such an important award, and he was reluctant to even give out a gold medal.

Is it so poor? Don't even have the money to get a gold-plated gold medal?

Even a water champion like the UEFA Super Cup can have a gold medal, but the La Liga champion does not have a gold medal.

La Liga is indeed quite special, La Liga champions, Copa del Rey champions, Spanish Super Cup champions, all of which have no gold medals.

So playing in La Liga, if you want to win the championship and gold medal, you can only go to the European arena to get it.

After a simple presentation of awards and trophies, the competition will officially begin.

Simeone will continue his suspension, but he has put the best in his squad to get a home win. It would have been more embarrassing to lose just after winning the championship trophy.

Atletico Madrid's opponents in this match are promoted Maebar, a small-town team from the Basque Country.

It's really a small town team, Eibar is a small town in the Basque Country, and the Eibar club is also a typical pocket club, and it has long been a low-level copy of the Basque Country team, giving experience to talented players.

Xavi Alonso, David Silva and other stars have all gone to Eibar to brush up on experience when they were young.

Before being promoted to La Liga last season, Eibar's total assets were only more than 4 million euros, and now they have increased slightly when they are promoted to La Liga. And their home stadium has a capacity of just over 5,000, making it the smallest home stadium for a La Liga team this season.

In fact, when they were in La Liga last season, they were already the team with the smallest home capacity in La Liga.

Such a small team, with only the team that their town's scrap collector is willing to sponsor, beat Deportivo La Coruna last season, won the La Liga title, successfully promoted to La Liga, and also has some relationship with Chinese fans.

Before the start of the season, each team in La Liga must pay a security deposit of 1.7 million euros to the Spanish Football Federation. 1.7 million euros is a drop in the bucket for a giant like Barcelona and Real Madrid, and even most teams can easily take it out, but for a small town team like Eibar, it is a huge amount of money, and they can't take it out at all.

If you can't get it, you will be disqualified from La Liga, so what should I do?

The chairman of their team first crowdfunded from the fans in the town, but in a small town with only more than 20,000 people including the elderly and children, the local economy is not very good, and it is impossible to raise so much money by relying on the people.

So, they started to use the Internet again to get fans around the world to subscribe for shares in this small team at a price of 50 euros per share.

After hearing the story of this inspirational little team, many fans were willing to lend a helping hand, and now the problem was finally solved.

More than 8,000 people from 48 countries around the world subscribed for varying amounts of shares, and Eibar ended up raising more than €2 million without fear of being stripped of La Liga.

Among all the fans who subscribed for shares, Spain had the largest number of fans, followed by American fans, and the third most were Chinese fans from the other side of the world.

So, now a group of Chinese fans has become the third largest shareholder of this La Liga team.

In fact, many Chinese fans are still complaining that they really can't read Spanish, otherwise, many people are willing to subscribe for one or two shares to support this small team, and they can surpass the Yankees in minutes and become the second largest shareholder of Eibar. (Spanish is the first choice for Americans to learn a foreign language, so there are many Americans who know Spanish)

In fact, many Chinese fans have already had the consciousness of shareholders, and at the beginning of the new season of La Liga, they have made various suggestions on the Internet, how to play Barcelona in the league, how to play Real Madrid, and how to deal with Ringer when playing Atletico Madrid.

Spending a few hundred dollars to feel the fun of the shareholders of a La Liga team is actually not a pleasure.

Eibar is such a fantastic team.

Although it is a magical team, it is always a promoted horse and its strength is limited.

Immediately after the start of the game, Atletico launched an attack at home and it quickly paid off.

In the 12th minute, Ringer dribbled the ball on the right side in front of the penalty area, passed the opponent's back Elasty, and then distributed the ball to Griezmann in the middle, Griezmann took two steps into the penalty area, attracted the opposing defender to come, and then passed back to the right side.

Ringer followed up and shot hard with his feet up, and it was all in one go, and the ball flew into the opposition goal from the far post.

"Ringer~~ This is Ringer's first La Liga goal of the new season, he is now the undoubted core of Atletico Madrid, other teammates will deliberately create opportunities for him, and he did not disappoint everyone, and he greeted the championship trophy with a goal in Calderón!!"

Ringer's goal filled Calderón with cheers, and every goal he now scores will delight Atletico fans.

After taking the lead, Atletico Madrid did not slow down the attack, and the opposite side was just a promoted horse, and everyone was full of confidence.

In the 34th minute, Ringer's long-range shot created a corner, and then Miranda headed home from the corner kick to make it 2:0.

Atletico had a two-goal lead in the first half, but with a grassroots team like Eibar, most of Atletico's starters are worth more than the whole team combined, and they can be promoted to La Liga, and they have won their first game in La Liga in the last game, and they rely on bloody hard work.

So at the beginning of the second half, they immediately showed the fighting spirit of not admitting defeat.

But Atletico are a team that is good at counter-attacking and quickly taught them a lesson.

In the 54th minute, the opponent pressed heavily to look for opportunities, and Gabi immediately picked up the opponent's back after breaking the ball. The opponent's defense was weak, and Ringer followed up to get the ball, just stepping on a bicycle to pass the opposing defender Albentosa, it was already a single knife.

Quickly into the box, Ringer struck the ball through the crotch and broke through the opposition goal again.

“Goooooool~~~~~”

"Lin's goal~~~ Lin's crotch break!!"

"Lin has scored a brace and since the start of the new season, Lin has scored a brace in three of Atletico's five games!!"

Ringer's goal made it 3-0 and Atletico sealed the win, so everyone slowed down and took control of the game.

Eibar only pulled a goal back in the 84th minute with a long-range shot, but it was no longer in the way.

In the end, Ringer scored twice as Atletico Madrid beat promoted Eibar 3-1 at home to claim their first league win of the new season.