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Chapter 338 Record breaking! Madman, it will be disadvantageous if you try my sword or not! [A big chapter with words, please beg me to subscribe]

Although Adriano had played for Atletico Madrid for two years before, as the first superstar signed by the Sheets, Atletico Madrid paid enough attention to it.

When Carlos Leo chatted with Yang Hao, he emphatically mentioned that Inter Milan's business development capabilities are very limited, and Adriano's commercial value is far underestimated.

As the Golden Ball winner for two consecutive years in 03 and 04, Adriano's commercial value is even worse than Drogba. Can you believe it?

Therefore, the Sheets Army specially created a stunning debut ceremony specifically for Adriano's joining.

Atletico Madrid wants to follow what Real Madrid did when they signed Zidane and Beckham, creating a massive joining ceremony for Adriano and also inviting media from all over the world.

According to Atletico Madrid's earliest assumptions, only one or two hundred media should be invited.

Unexpectedly, the media's enthusiasm far exceeded outside expectations.

Nearly 500 media companies applied to come to the Emirates Stadium to report on Adriano's joining.

In addition to the media being more enthusiastic than expected, the fans' response was also quite enthusiastic.

The club originally expected 30,000 to 40,000 people, but it turned out to be far more than that.

Now back, everyone is happy.

As the first superstar trained by Atletico Madrid, Adriano's return represents the advent of a new era!

Regardless of salary, bonuses, appearance fees, signing fees, etc., he unconditionally accepted Atletico Madrid's contract.

"I have said before that I will never forget my time at Atletico Madrid and I am very proud to be back at Atlético Madrid."

This far broke the record set when Beckham joined Real Madrid.

It has been two years since the new stadium opened. Atletico Madrid is now the second-largest club in European football in terms of revenue, and is not even far away from Real Madrid. If they continue to sell like they did in the past, it really cannot be justified.

Now, Adriano's return is a strong signal.

But now, Atletico Madrid wants to tell the world and all fans in this way that selling their superstars is a thing of the past. From now on, Atletico Madrid will usher in a new era.

It has indeed reached this stage.

The two even trained with Kiko and had a very good relationship.

It can be said that Atletico Madrid gave Adriano the highest treatment.

Adriano also said very excitedly.

"We are very happy and very proud to tell our fans that Adriano is back home!"

In addition to media reporters and fans, everyone at Atletico Madrid is also full of expectations for Adriano's return. Not only are all the management present, but Yang Hao is also present at the signing site. Tony Munoz, Kiko, Aji Stars such as Leila, Baraja, Torres, Kaká, Messi and Ramos were also present.

This move brought him overwhelming cheers.

"I know that Atletico Madrid is already the best team in the world, and I will do my best to make Atletico Madrid even stronger!"

More than 70,000 Atletico Madrid fans at the scene burst into applause and cheered loudly.

In the past, many people said that Atletico Madrid would only train players and then sell them.

Back then, when Adriano was the main player at Atletico Madrid, he took Torres with him.

Adriano also emotionally thanked the Atletico Madrid fans, "This is my first time wearing an Atletico Madrid jersey and walking into the Emirates Stadium."

At the Emirates Stadium, there were more than 500 security personnel alone.

At that time, they were just a group of unknown little guys, but now, they are all the best superstars in world football, and in the past few years, Adriano and Atletico Madrid have always had a close relationship. .

But at the signing ceremony, the excitement between Torres and Adriano after a long separation was definitely not fake.

On that day, more than 76500 Atletico Madrid fans walked into the Emirates Stadium to witness Adriano joining.

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"From now on, I will fight for Atletico Madrid, this stadium, and all Atletico Madrid fans for the rest of my career!"

Cerezo welcomed Adriano on behalf of Atletico Madrid at the joining ceremony at the Emirates Stadium and revealed a detail in his speech.

Another thing that is very attractive is that after Adriano returned, he directly chose a relatively unpopular jersey number, No. 36, instead of competing with other teammates for the jersey number.

During the entire joining ceremony, Atletico Madrid spent an investment of 200 million euros and created a huge momentum.

When he appeared wearing Atletico Madrid's new jersey for the new season, almost everyone at the scene cheered.

Before this, many media were worried that Adriano's joining would cause conflicts with Torres.

The atmosphere of the entire signing and joining ceremony was also excellent.

It really made everyone at the scene feel an atmosphere of welcoming Adriano home.

Ramos, Kaka, Messi and others were all in the youth team at the time, and their relationship with Adriano was also quite good.

When Atletico Madrid was negotiating a personal treatment contract with Adriano, the Brazilian didn't even make any demands. He read the contract offered by Atletico Madrid and signed it.

Atletico Madrid's elaborate preparation for Adriano is more than just a ceremony.

At the same time, the TV station responsible for the live broadcast also made statistics on the ratings. It is estimated that more than 1000 million people watched Adriano's joining ceremony, which is also a record-breaking event.

Adriano came to the scene with his parents, wife and children. When he saw Yang Hao, he immediately gave him a warm hug. He also hugged Atletico Madrid executives one by one, as well as the players of the Shelter Army...

After speaking, Adriano kissed the Atletico Madrid team emblem heavily on his chest and thanked all Atletico Madrid fans.

After the joining ceremony, Adriano's new No. 5500 jersey was put on the shelves at 36 Nike sales outlets across Spain. Two hours after its debut, more than 2 pieces of this new jersey were sold.

This is also very popular with Atletico Madrid fans.

This is enough to prove the joy and celebration of Atletico Madrid fans for Adriano's return.

Selling 2 pieces in 1 hours is definitely an astonishing number.

According to Atletico Madrid's official pricing, a single jersey is 68 euros, and an additional 18 euros is added to print the number and name, for a total of 86 euros, and 1 pieces is 86 euros.

This definitely exceeds all previous jersey sales records when new players join.

When Beckham was the most popular, he sold 3 pieces in just 8000 hours when he joined.

Of course, this is also due to Atletico Madrid's careful preparation and brand building over the years.

Two hours after the joining ceremony ended, the official fan store downstairs of Atletico Madrid's headquarters was still overcrowded, with long queues at all three cashiers and 2 work counters.

The queue is expected to take more than half an hour.

The reason for this hot sales phenomenon is very simple. Atletico Madrid cooperated with Nike to launch a new jersey, and with the addition of Adriano, the fan store was directly overcrowded.

In fact, not only now, but even on weekdays, Atletico Madrid's jersey sales are better than Real Madrid's.

One of the simplest evidences is the sales of out-of-season jerseys.

Teams often change their jerseys, and out-of-season jerseys are sold at a discount. Even after the season, Atletico Madrid's jerseys can still be sold for about 2% off. In some special years, such as the Triple Crown period, they can be sold at a discount. Sold for more than years at normal price.

As a rival in the same city, Real Madrid often discounts its games as soon as the season ends.

Just like now, the 08/09 season jerseys have begun to enter discount promotions, and there will be buy one get one free in the future.

In addition to the hot sales of Atletico Madrid's normal jerseys, some commemorative T-shirts are also very popular among fans.

On Internet platforms such as eBay, you can easily find second-hand sales of Atletico Madrid commemorative T-shirts, jerseys and souvenirs. They are often sold at increased prices, and there are always fans who like to buy them.

This makes Atletico Madrid's overall jersey sales better than Real Madrid's.

As many have said, in the past few years, Atletico Madrid's overall brand image has even surpassed Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​becoming the first in La Liga and even European football, but it is still slightly behind Real Madrid in terms of revenue.

This is mainly because Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid's revenue growth is very fast.

But in terms of influence, Atletico Madrid has far surpassed Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Not long ago, Merian, chairman of the Spanish Tourism Enterprises Association, said in an interview with media reporters that the prosperity of Spanish football has greatly promoted the development of the entire country's tourism industry.

“Throughout 2008, a total of 30 Japanese tourists came to Spain, and the vast majority of them visited Atletico Madrid’s Emirates Stadium and Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium when visiting Madrid, and shopped in the official fan stores .”

“In addition, in 2008, more than 150 million citizens from countries that rarely went to Spain for vacation chose this country full of sunshine and beaches, and the reason why most of them chose Spain was related to football. "

Merian appealed to the Spanish government.

Spain's agriculture and industry are not very developed, and tourism has always been the pillar of Spain's tertiary industry.

However, with the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, tourism around the world has shrunk. Spain already has the highest unemployment rate in the EU, reaching 15%. Under such circumstances, efforts should be stepped up to support the development of the football industry. .

Merian released data from an association, and the survey results show that with the popularity of La Liga teams such as Villarreal and Deportivo La Coruña, the tourism industry in these two small towns has also set off a wave.

Just like Deportivo, after signing Park Ji-sung, it attracted many Korean tourists.

There is also Villarreal, which has become a must-visit city for tourists in Argentina.

You know, A Coruña is not a big city in Spain, and it does not have good tourism resources. Villareal is just a small town.

But football has become their calling card, allowing them to attract countless tourists from all over the world to Spain.

Merian called on the Spanish government to continue to strengthen support for the football industry and use the development of the football industry to activate the Spanish tourism market.

"Next year is the World Cup!"

"If Spain can achieve good results in the World Cup, or even win its first World Cup championship, we should carry out a series of tourism publicity and promotion around this theme to attract more tourists."

Merian revealed that his appeal was not without purpose.

For example, Tenerife struggled to break into La Liga last season.

This team from the Canary Islands also hopes to use the platform of La Liga to promote the tourism resources of the Canary Islands. The local government has given this team great support.

Unfortunately, Tenerife lost to Zarez and Zaragoza in the play-offs and missed promotion.

However, Tenerife is making a comeback this year.

This situation is also of great benefit to Atletico Madrid.

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The day after Adriano joined, Yang Hao came to Atletico Madrid headquarters again and participated in a massive signing ceremony at the press conference at the Emirates Stadium.

In addition to Atletico Madrid, there was also Savills, a real estate service provider from the UK, at the signing site.

Atletico Madrid's two skyscrapers are expected to be fully completed in 2010. At that time, Atletico Madrid will hand over the leasing, management, operations and properties of these two twin towers, as well as the two headquarters buildings, to Savills Si is responsible.

Savills is also full of expectations for Atletico Madrid's project. Even at a time when the world is suffering from the subprime mortgage crisis, they still made a commitment in the contract to ensure that Atletico Madrid's return rate will not be exceeded every year. Less than 7%.

Not only that, at the signing site, settlement agreements were also signed with many multinational companies including Hilton Hotels, Amazon, PMC Spain, FM Insurance, etc. They will all settle here after the completion of the Twin Stars Towers.

Although the current real estate market conditions outside are not very good, Atletico Madrid's location is very attractive.

Hilton plans to build an iconic ultra-high-end five-star hotel in the city center in the Twin Towers.

This is enough to prove that it was a wise choice for Yang Hao and Atletico Madrid to tighten their money and take up this project.

More importantly, after taking possession of this project, Atletico Madrid actively prepared for the connection. Savills is one of the leading companies with the strongest commercial real estate operating capabilities in the world. The cooperation between the two parties can be described as a strong alliance.

With the endorsement of Atletico Madrid's Emirates Stadium, the elegance and high-end of the Twin Towers, and the strong presence of major multinational companies, this place has attracted strong attention from the outside world even before it is completed.

According to the contract between Atletico Madrid and Savills, Atletico Madrid's annual income is expected to reach 7 million euros at an annual rate of return of 1%, which is more than enough to pay for all of Atletico Madrid's remaining low-interest bank loans.

There is still a lot left.

Savills conducted research and told Atletico Madrid that with the completion of the Madrid Old City renovation project, especially the renovation of the Manzanares River, it will become another landmark building and landmark in Madrid. Tourist attraction.

By that time, Atletico Madrid's two twin buildings are bound to further increase in value, and rental income will also rise accordingly.

Especially after surviving the economic crisis.

Based on the materials he saw in his previous life, Yang Hao predicts that after 2015, the entire commercial real estate in Spain will recover rapidly and the rental yield will continue to rise. He believes that the rental income will be even more impressive by then.

In Yang Hao's previous life, the richest man with a small goal entered the market from 2013 to 2014, hitting this point.

Unfortunately……

But now, Yang Hao entered the game earlier, and in the most advantageous way.

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On the first day after the team training, everyone came to Mahdahonda to report.

Including the international players who participated in the Confederations Cup final, they all came back to report after taking more than a week off.

The old rule is that all players undergo detailed physical examinations as soon as possible after returning to the team.

Yang Hao emphasized the physical examination of Adriano.

The Brazilian has been under a lot of competition pressure over the past few years, which has caused his body to become somewhat over-exhausted.

Moreover, with his high-intensity physical confrontation style, it is impossible to say that he does not have some injuries or something.

As far as Yang Hao knew, his knees and back had been suffering from chronic diseases for many years.

The report Paralles got back also showed that Adriano did have injuries, some of which were caused by not handling the injuries properly at the time and rushing to play again.

Yang Hao asked the coaching staff to cooperate with the team doctor and try to come up with a plan.

He talked to Adriano and found that Atletico Madrid's current style of play is completely different from that of then.

When Adriano was here, the Sheets Army actually still played a relatively balanced game, but now they play more freely.

It can even be said that it is more unrestrained.

Whether it is passing and receiving, or the pace of the game, it is obviously faster.

Adriano has been playing in Serie A before, so it still takes time to adapt to this aspect.

There are basically no major problems with the team's physical examination.

In the first two days of the training camp, the team adjusted and prepared in Madrid.

After everything was ready, Yang Hao took the team on a special plane and flew to Cape Town, South Africa.

Since Atletico Madrid's pre-season training and pre-season games are projects jointly organized by La Liga, Atletico Madrid and the South Africa World Cup Organizing Committee, they are well arranged.

After the team arrived in Cape Town, they checked into the most luxurious five-star beachfront hotel in Cape Town, right next to the Green Point Stadium.

The stadium is not yet fully completed, but it is almost there and will host Atletico Madrid's first warm-up match.

In fact, the Green Point Stadium is located in an area called Green Point Park, and there is another stadium next door, called the Green Point Stadium, an oval sports ground with only one sided bleacher.

It is currently being used for training by Atletico Madrid.

La Liga arranged for Atletico Madrid to go to South Africa for training this time. In fact, it hopes to use this kind of training and pre-season games to develop the market south of the Sahara Desert.

Although it was a pity to sell Drogba, Atletico Madrid still received a warm welcome from local fans after arriving in Cape Town.

The football atmosphere in South Africa is also very enthusiastic.

Many people may not know that, in fact, as early as the late 1990s, Ajax of the Netherlands once founded Ajax Cape Town in Cape Town, which was regarded as a satellite club of Ajax in South Africa. .

The purpose is to land on the African continent and attract more young African players to play in Ajax.

Pienaar from Deportivo joined Ajax through here, as well as others like Trabelsi.

This can be regarded as a key step for Ajax to move its youth training towards globalization.

But it is a pity that this project later failed, Ajax suffered huge losses, and has been unable to recover since then.

The potential of the African football market is amazing.

Or, strictly speaking, it should be that the potential of African-American players is amazing.

Cristiano Ronaldo has African ancestry, as does Valencia’s Nani, and many others.

In 2023, when Yang Hao traveled through time, more than half of the mainstream skin colors in European football have been dyed dark.

Yang Hao actually has no discrimination against this, he is just stating a fact.

The strength of French football lies in their large-scale introduction of African Americans.

This will be a trend for a long time to come.

Ajax left early and didn't have that much strength, so they disabled themselves.

After arriving in Cape Town, Atletico Madrid's summer training camp also kicked off.

Goalkeepers: Neuer, Palop;

Defenders: Evra, Alves, Zabaleta, Marcelo, Pepe, Ramos, Thiago Silva and Godin;

Midfielder: Xavi Alonso, Kaka, Iniesta, Mascherano, David Silva, Modric, Toni Kroos and Busquets;

Forwards: Torres, Messi, Di Maria, Suarez, Hazard, Adriano and Lewandowski. No more, no less, exactly 25 people.

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Yang Hao left full responsibility for the team's physical reserves and physical training to Juanma Lillo, Pintus, Ortega, Roca and others. He basically did not participate and was only responsible. set a goal.

But in terms of the team's tactics, he and Juanma Lillo, Guardiola, Pochettino and others have been repeatedly deliberation. Baraja, who is about to retire, also came to South Africa with the team and followed Yang Hao. learning from the coaching staff.

In the past few years, Yang Hao has always insisted on playing 433.

But later he discovered a problem: when facing an opponent with particularly good defensive capabilities, what 433 can do is actually relatively limited.

On the scene, the advantage of controlling the ball is obvious. It can compress the opponent's defensive area into a small space, or even close to the penalty area. But what's the next step?

Passing and controlling the ball itself cannot break the game, that is to say, it cannot break the dense defense.

How to do?

In the end, I found that there were not many options available.

Basically the same thing.

Set pieces, personal abilities, or the delicate cooperation of players in a narrow range.

In set kicks, corner kicks and indirect free kicks have always been Atletico Madrid's weapons. Messi took direct free kicks last season, and Alves was also good.

When it comes to coordination in a narrow range, it's basically the kind of delicate passing and cutting between players such as Messi, Iniesta, Kaká, and David Silva, which dazzles the opponent and makes them overwhelmed.

But this kind of thing itself is rare.

To be honest, this still requires some space.

What's left is the player's personal ability and working alone.

If they encounter a mid-to-lower team, Atletico Madrid is actually not afraid. There is a great threat of going it alone.

But in a Champions League knockout match, it's very troublesome to encounter someone like Mourinho's Barcelona or Manchester United's Ferguson, who are so strong in their own right and yet have the audacity to put up an iron-barreled formation.

After failing in the semifinals for two consecutive seasons, if Yang Hao doesn't want to change, then he is not qualified.

So, he decided to try two forwards or even a 343 tactic.

442 will definitely not become the main tactic, but at certain times, when breaking dense defense, the existence of double forwards can greatly improve the team's tactical methods.

Yang Hao plans to give players more freedom to play in the new season and make the team more fluid.

According to Yang Hao's thinking, when the team needs to play 442, the most important task of the two centers is actually not to score goals.

If they can score goals, the team won't need to play two forwards.

So what is their mission?

Spread the defense to both sides.

Atletico Madrid's current situation is that Messi on the right is the biggest threat, with David Silva and Di Maria on the left.

Let's say the two strikers are Adriano on the left and Torres on the right.

If the ball is on the right, Alves goes forward to get the ball, and Torres is responsible for pulling to the right to receive the ball. Messi will take advantage of the situation and run forward to the position where Torres is open.

At this time, there are actually three forwards, with Messi in the middle.

Kaka also took advantage of the situation and pushed forward, which allowed him to quickly form an offensive formation of four players on the wing and in the ribs in a very short period of time.

The opponent, Torres, Kaká and Messi were left empty in the middle.

Instead of following Torres, let Torres get the ball, face the attack, and then pass it back.

In this case, through repeated movement and pulling, a hole is opened in the opponent's defense.

The ball is on the left?

Adrianola pulls aside.

His right foot is also very good now, but he is a left-footed player. When moved to the left, he can also get the ball and organize attacks, and he can also pass down the bottom.

Whether it is David Silva or Di Maria, they can quickly insert themselves diagonally to hold their position in the middle of the frontcourt. Iniesta presses forward and can also form a four-man offensive square on the left and ribs. .

Atletico Madrid's two wing attacks can be quickly connected through long passes and transfers, and the attack direction can be switched quickly.

This has been a major strength of Atletico's offense in the past.

Maybe, some people will say, what about the defense in the midfield?

The opponent has already set up a steel barrel formation. Do you still need to consider defense at this time?

Therefore, this will not become Atletico Madrid's main tactic, but at critical moments, it can play a key role.

Atletico Madrid's current advantage is that this group of players all have very delicate foot skills, and have comprehensive characteristics and strong personal abilities. Once a local area advantage is formed, they can quickly form a threat.

In this style of play, players do not actually need to resist people too much or engage in physical confrontation. It is more accomplished through flexible movement and support, as well as skillful coordination with the feet.

"What I'm trying to say is, it's not a set set, you know what I mean?"

"If Messi dribbles the ball all the way from the right rib to the left rib, he can also quickly form an offensive formation with his teammates on the left to create a threat."

"In the same way, our two forwards don't have to go wide. They can also go back and let the wingers go up. The central midfielder pulls wide and the wingers move diagonally. This is also a kind of rotation."

"Even if Messi goes up and finds that the ball has not been passed, then he can judge like a center what he should do, retreat, or pull wide to create opportunities for other teammates to move forward."

"I just hope that through this kind of non-stop running and pulling, you can be full of agility on the court and prevent your opponents from keeping up with our rhythm."

"As long as such an attack is successful once, it will basically be a threat, or even a goal!"

Yang Hao conveyed his ideas to the players in the first tactical meeting.

They have all played in Atletico Madrid for many years. When Yang Hao said this, they basically understood it.

Even Lewandowski, who had just joined, was still confused, and Adriano was also confused.

When Lewandowski was in the Polish League, he played more as an arrow, and his main task was to score goals, but now he understands Atletico Madrid's tactics to a certain extent, which are much more complicated than when he was in Poland.

But it's okay, he still has enough time to get familiar with and understand it.

Adriano was sighing.

When he left Atletico Madrid, the team's tactics were not as complex and detailed as they are now.

In Inter Milan, although Serie A is famous for its tactics, everyone knows that in the past few years, Serie A's title of tactical paradise has been lost to La Liga. Now La Liga is the stage where tactician masters compete, and various tactics emerge in endlessly. .

Kick 442, kick 433, kick 4231... Anyway, there are all kinds of tactics, various, and various concepts are colliding.

Atletico Madrid has been able to stand out in La Liga and the Champions League in the past few years not only due to the ability of its players, but also its advanced tactical system.

Adriano has been playing football for many years. Even if he doesn't understand it very well, he can still detect the power of Yang Hao's idea.

As long as the players cooperate tacitly, it is really difficult or even impossible to guard against the opponent.

As for the number of goals scored by the forwards, there is no need to worry about this at all.

Today's forwards have a wide shooting range and will not stick to the middle of the penalty area. In fact, more goals are scored from the front edge of the penalty area and the two ribs.

Besides, after pulling it out, and then thrusting forward in the opposite direction, it will actually be more threatening.

The key depends on the movement and performance on the spot.

Thinking of this, Adriano couldn't help but sigh.

He originally thought that when he arrived, he still had to play the same role as when he was at Inter Milan, using his body to hold the opponent's center back and defense, but now it seems that Atletico Madrid's tactics are not so rough.

Yang Hao is actually still working on another idea, another way of playing with two forwards, with Messi playing as an attacking midfielder.

That is the conventional 442 small diamond midfielder.

The formations change, but the style of play remains the same.

The two forwards pulled wide, and Messi played in the middle and then inserted.

For the current Atletico Madrid, the players cooperate well enough, and as long as they can form an offensive threat, there is no problem in playing any way.

And these are also reflected in training.

Atletico Madrid's training intensity has always been very high, which is well-known in European football.

When practicing the team's skills and tactics, the coaching staff will also design some training programs to allow players to familiarize themselves with Yang Hao's tactical requirements through training, while also helping players integrate into the team.

The joining of Adriano, for Atletico Madrid, is equivalent to realizing the possibility of two forwards.

The three forwards still have different characteristics, but they all have very good ball-taking abilities, especially Adriano and Suarez.

This allows Yang Hao to arrange different tactics according to different teams.

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Atletico Madrid's first warm-up match after arriving in South Africa was arranged at the Green Point Stadium.

The opponent is Ajax Cape Town.

This team has good strength in the South African domestic league. The biggest star of the team is South African international midfielder Rancho Davis.

Since the Green Point Stadium has not yet been fully completed, this stadium, which can accommodate 66000 people, only has 55000 seats open to the public this time, but they were sold out immediately.

In this warm-up match, the Sheets Army still played with a lineup in the upper and second halves. They easily defeated Ajax Cape Town 3-0 in the warm-up match and easily won the warm-up match.

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Three days later, Atletico Madrid faced Santos, a powerful team in the South African League, at another stadium in the center of Cape Town.

Like Ajax Cape Town, the full name of this team should actually be called Santos Cape Town.

This is the partner club of Santos in Brazil.

This time, the game was not played at Green Point Stadium, but at Newland Stadium.

The stadium can accommodate 51900 people, and tickets are in short supply.

Atletico Madrid's influence in Africa is still very good, and it is popular among local fans.

This time, the Shenzhen Legion defeated their opponent 2-0 in the second warm-up match.

Won two consecutive wins in the warm-up match.

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After the two warm-up matches, the Sheets Army continued to stay in Cape Town for training.

The main thing is to study the problems exposed in the past two warm-up games.

Yang Hao and the coaching staff began to solve some new problems brought about by Adriano joining the team, including the cooperation between players and so on.

This is also an obvious question.

After all, Adriano has been away for many years. After returning, it is unrealistic to want to integrate into the team all at once.

Judging from his performance in the two warm-up matches, he is still relatively unfamiliar with Atletico Madrid's current style of play and is relatively unfamiliar with coordination.

But the strength of the players is there. As long as they strengthen their integration, I believe they will be able to integrate into the team soon, and there will be no big problem.

Subsequently, the team ushered in the third warm-up match, again at the Green Point Stadium.

But the opponent in this warm-up match is the Spaniard.

Valverde comes from Barcelona and his tactics are very aggressive.

This summer, the joining of Adebayor and Kolo Toure greatly improved the Spaniard's strength.

But this is a warm-up match after all.

Judging from the game process, Valverde was also debugging the team's tactics. He adopted two sets of play styles of double forward and single forward respectively. He was obviously trying his best to adapt to the team's top scorer Santa Cruz last season. , and the coexistence issues between the newly joined Togolese center Adebayor.

Witnessed by 5 fans at Green Point Stadium, the two teams played a very fierce duel. Both sides fought fiercely, and neither held anything back.

Yang Hao played as a lone forward for most of the game. In the first half, it was Adriano, and in the second half, it was Torres. Suarez came on as a substitute for half an hour and played as a double forward.

In the end, Atletico Madrid and Espanyol ended in a 3-3 draw.

Both teams are not very in shape and have good offensive firepower, especially Arshavin and Zhirkov, who are very active. Valverde even once ranked out Adebayor, Santa Cruz and Fellaini. The three-tower combination.

I have to say, this guy has a really big appetite.

With these three tall men standing there, all the defense lines in La Liga were trembling.

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After playing against Espanyol, Espanyol will continue to stay in Cape Town, while Atletico Madrid will depart from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and face La Liga newly promoted Zaragoza at the newly completed Mandela Bay Stadium. Sa.

This game was also very intense.

Although Zaragoza is a newly promoted team, the strength of this team is obvious to all, and unlike Jerez and Rayo Vallecano, they are very familiar with the current La Liga.

Atletico Madrid finally defeated Zaragoza 3-1.

This game also attracted 5 fans to watch the game, causing a wave of watching in Port Elizabeth.

After playing several warm-up matches, especially the games against Espanyol and Zaragoza, Adriano revealed his true feelings when communicating with Yang Hao, that is, the current strength of La Liga is really strong. .

Moreover, it is too strong.

When he left Atletico Madrid, there was a huge gap in strength between the strong teams and the weak teams. The score might not be huge, but it wouldn't be so difficult to play.

The current situation is that all teams are very strong and the competition is very fierce.

For example, when playing against Espanyol, we faced Kolo Toure and Zygrinski.

Needless to say, the former is the backbone of Arsenal's defense, which is the main defense of the Premier League team. Zygrinski's previous performance in Ukraine is also obvious to all. He was also a central defender at the Champions League group stage and even the top 16 level.

Just imagine, facing a La Liga team and encountering opponents like this, the pressure is really too much.

Yang Hao could only smile and remind him that this was just a warm-up match.

The real La Liga hasn't started yet.

Atletico Madrid's first test of the new season is the Spanish Super Cup.

The match venue was arranged to be held at two World Cup stadiums in Johannesburg, and the opponent was Mourinho's Barcelona.

That is the real collision of Mars with the Earth.

Yang Hao also wanted to use Barcelona to test his newly developed tactical play.

Of course, if Mourinho can make up his mind to attack Atletico Madrid, Yang Hao won't mind.

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After playing Zaragoza, Atletico Madrid set off for Durban and played another warm-up match at the Durban Stadium against Deportivo La Coruña.

As a South African international, Pienaar represented Deportivo this time and played the entire game, attracting more than 6 fans and almost turning the Durban Stadium into Deportivo's home stadium.

In the end, the two sides played 2-2, and Atletico Madrid failed to crack the hard nut of Deportivo.

Yang Hao still had his own lineup for the first and second halves.

……

Subsequently, Atletico Madrid traveled to Bloemfontein to play their last game at the Free State Stadium, which was also the last game of the La Liga pre-season.

The opponent is Valladolid.

Atletico Madrid played very easily this time and defeated their opponents 4-0.

This also made Yang Hao feel that Valladolid had been poached a lot of people, was it too weak?

Of course, regardless of whether it is weak or not, relegation in La Liga this season will still be very tragic.

After playing Valladolid, Atletico Madrid headed north from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg.

By this time, Mourinho's Barcelona had been waiting here for a long time.

Both legs of this season's Spanish Super Cup will be held in Johannesburg.

The first game is at Ellis Park, the venue for the Confederations Cup final.

The second round was held at the recently completed Football City Stadium, which can accommodate 88500 people.

This will be the first official match at Soccer City Stadium.

Yang Hao is also looking forward to this showdown.

He wanted to give it a try and see if Mourinho could stop Atletico Madrid's attack this time!

(End of this chapter)