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( ) The game is now over across Europe.

The top leagues of each country are over, and the top league champions of each country have already come out.

And on May 5, the UEFA Cup is also over.

Valencia, led by the young marshal Benitez, defeated Marseille [-]-[-] and won the UEFA Cup.

Therefore, what should be over in European football is over.

Now there is only one game left in the entire European football.A competition for the club's top honors.

Champions League final.

But to be honest, the appeal of this season's Champions League final has dropped drastically.Even if people don't say it, everyone can see it.It can be seen from the popularity of media reports that it is an indisputable fact that the attractiveness of this season's Champions League final has declined.

It can be said that this season's Champions League final is the least attractive Champions League final in the past ten years.

Let’s talk about the Champions League final after entering the 21st century.

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It is clear at a glance.

Every Champions League final will have a traditional European giants.

Real Madrid, Bayern, Milan, Juventus.

In addition to them, Valencia and Leverkusen are also teams that have performed very well in recent years.

But what about this time?

Chelsea and Porto.

Chelsea are upstarts.They even have only two top league titles in England, and this is the first time in their history that they have entered the Champions League final.Although Chelsea because of Abramovich.received great attention from the media.

But in terms of influence, it is far from being able to compare with the traditional European giants.

The players in the Chelsea team seem to be worth a lot, but most of them are due to the bulging worth of Abramovich.It is completely different from the superstars of those traditional giants.

Influence is not a one-time thing.

As for Porto.

Their historical achievements are quite brilliant.He even won a Champions League title 17 years ago.But what's the use.

If on history.Ajax and Benfica beat Porto.

But to no avail.

Since the Bosman Act, except for the four major European leagues, other leagues have been hit hard.Like Ajax, if there is no Bosman Act, maybe it is now a giant team that can challenge Real Madrid, Milan, and Bayern.

Not sure.

Rather.

But what now.

Even if Ajax is facing the poaching of ordinary strong teams in the Premier League, they don't have much resistance.Not to mention the giants of the four major European leagues.

Therefore, Porto entered the Champions League final this time and was considered a dark horse by the European media.

Neither Chelsea nor Porto is a team that UEFA does not want to see in the final.Because the two teams are not well-known.They all belong to the dark horses of this season's Champions League.

The legend of the big black horse is indeed very good.

But the same big dark horse means not enough fame.Not enough fame means low ratings.The ratings are not high, it means the loss of economic interests.

Of course, what UEFA hopes most is actually to have a European giant and dark horse come to the final.

Because having a wealthy family means fame and ratings.

In addition, there is a beautiful dark horse legend, so no matter who can win in the final, there will be enough to watch.Only at this time can the dark horses show their value.

It's a pity that the final turned into a duel between two dark horses, which is not what UEFA wishes.

European football is self-financed.

The Champions League is one of UEFA's biggest revenue earners.

Therefore, UEFA is very dissatisfied with Chelsea and Porto entering the Champions League final.It would be much better if one of their two teams was Real Madrid, Milan or Arsenal.

But there is no way to enter.

They could only pinch their noses and recognize it.

Schalke.

Schalke is a city in the Gelsenkirchen region of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany.

It used to be a large industrial city in Germany.

But then it faded a bit.

Recently, Schalke has become very lively.Because the Champions League final will be held at the Schalke Stadium in the Schalke 04 club in the Schalke area.

As the game approached, Chelsea fans and Porto fans began to flock to Schalke.

UEFA are not happy with Chelsea and Porto reaching the Champions League final.But their fans were overjoyed.

Porto is considered to be the first team to break through the four major European leagues and enter the Champions League final after the implementation of the Bosman Act.Because since the implementation of the Bosman Act and other small league teams have been fatally hit, no team outside the four major leagues has entered the Champions League final.

This time Porto gave an example to those minor league teams.Porto fans are very happy because they just won the UEFA Cup last season.Now we're in the Champions League final again.Therefore, they entered Schalke in groups.

Not to mention Chelsea fans.

This is the first time in Chelsea's [-]-year history that they have entered the Champions League final.Chelsea fans are already extremely excited.

Champions League final.

Ex-Chelsea fans couldn't even think about it.

Into the Champions League final.

excited.

Chelsea fans are not short of money.

From the distribution of England fans.The living conditions of Chelsea fans are very good.Although a visit to Schalke will definitely cost a lot to watch a Champions League final.But for fans who regard football as their life, they still don't care.

Especially Chelsea fans with good living conditions don't care.

In the rough statistics of the current media, until the day before the game.More than [-] Chelsea fans have come to Schalke.Even more Chelsea fans have left for Schalke.

But what?

This time the Champions League final.Only [-] tickets were allocated to Chelsea fans.

But according to the current influx of Chelsea fans.There may be more than 5 Chelsea fans who came to Schalke from London on the day of the game.Twenty thousand people have votes.The remaining tens of thousands are fans without tickets.

Porto is not so exaggerated.

But there were also a lot of fans.

There will also be thousands or even tens of thousands of fans without tickets.

These are all destabilizing factors.

Some of these fans without tickets will watch the big-screen TV outside the stadium.If you all watch the game outside the stadium, there is no big problem.After all, there will be many police officers to maintain order.But I'm afraid that many people will watch the football among all kinds of wine.

At that time, any fights after drinking are very likely.

This is the most terrible.

Therefore, the Schalke police are very nervous.

Afraid of what might happen.

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Both sides of the game, Chelsea and Porto, were quiet.

Before the game, there were no verbal scenes.

Su Yun was surprised by this.

Because the young coach Mourinho of Porto, who is about to face the opponent, is not an ordinary person.In this season's Champions League, many people have realized his articulate ability.

Especially when facing Manchester United.

Facing Ferguson, who is now very prestigious in European football, Mourinho is not afraid at all.

Even satirized Manchester United several times.

In the first round of the UEFA Champions League round of 2, Porto won 1-[-].After that game, Ferguson refused to shake Mourinho's hand in congratulations: "I didn't shake his hand. I was fed up with his players constantly diving."

Mourinho immediately retorted Ferguson: "I don't agree with Ferguson's criticism of my players. After I watch the video and find that my players are wrong, I will apologize to him. Otherwise, I hope he can do the same This. Manchester United is a great team, our players are less than a tenth of Manchester United's market value, they should beat us by a big score."

This is Mourinho who is not afraid of anything.

During the second leg, Ferguson criticized Porto for diving and the referee.But Mourinho immediately shot back: "Why are they so afraid of us? I don't understand. They are the favorites, and the players are better than mine. They deserve to be promoted. There is no need to talk about flopping, acting and refereeing. These boring topics."

The nearly 41-year-old coach has been the hottest head coach in European football in the past two years.

Last season, he led Porto to win the UEFA Cup, the Portuguese Super League Championship, and the Portuguese Cup, completing the minor triple crown.At that time, he was already a sensation in European football.And this season won the Portuguese Super League championship again, and now it has reached the Champions League final.

This is currently a rising young marshal in Europe.

After entering the Champions League final, Su Yun thought that Mourinho would start a scolding war.Unexpectedly, Mourinho was very low-key, and even after Schalke, he hardly appeared in the media.

Of course, it is better not to scold and fight.

Su Yun can also prepare for the battle with peace of mind.

The time is getting closer.

Slowly came May 5th.

At 06:30 in the evening.Su Yun led Chelsea to the final venue, proudly going to the Schalke Stadium.

The Champions League final kicks off at 45:[-] local time.

UEFA stipulates that one hour and 45 minutes before the start of the game, you must arrive at the stadium.But Su Yun came here earlier.Because Su Yun wanted to let the players get familiar with the atmosphere of the final before the final.

When the bus came to the stadium, it was full of Chelsea fans at a glance.There are far more Chelsea fans than Porto fans, and not one or two more, but tens of thousands more.

Really a lot.

More than 6 Chelsea fans flocked to Schalke.So much so that today more than [-] Chelsea fans did not get tickets for the Champions League final.

There are no tickets.They are depressed.

But it didn't affect their excitement at all.They are all outside the court, surrounded by circles.They watched the big screen outside the stadium.The same can be very happy.

So I saw Chelsea's bus coming and shouting excitedly.Even some fanatical fans kept following and surrounding the bus.

"Chelsea! Chelsea! Chelsea!"

"Sue! Sue! Sue!"

"Give us a champion! We want a champion!"

It looks like a blue ocean from the bus.All, all.They completely occupy the outside of the field.And they kept waving Chelsea scarves and chanting "Chelsea".

"Champion! Champion! Sue, we want a champion!"