The Era of Emerald

() "Tony, which teams do you think Fiorentina will be grouped with?" Karin, who flew to Monaco with the team, sat on Zhuang Mingge's right, and on the left was Little Groz, two flowers The flowers sandwiched Zhuang Mingge in the middle, and this gorgeous scene attracted the attention of many people present.

"Uh, this..." Zhuang Mingge scratched his nose, looking at the piece of paper in his hand with the names of the sixteen teams participating in the Champions League.

The current European Champions Cup only allows the league champions and defending champions of each country to participate. It is not like the later generations to allocate places according to the total points of the European leagues of each country. Therefore, it is impossible for the giants of the four major leagues to appear in the European Champions Cup. of.

The grouping method is not as in later generations, according to the points of each team in the European war in the last five seasons, and then draws lots. Instead, a series of qualifiers will be held in August, and finally 8 teams and 8 teams will be determined. The pre-seeded teams are divided into four groups.

Although the Bosman Act has appeared, only one and a half months is obviously not enough to change too many things. Although the gap between the rich and the poor has appeared, it is not yet obvious. This can be seen from the process of this Champions League qualifier. Gothenburg, the Swedish league hegemony who reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season, was eliminated by Legia from Poland in the qualifiers, which is enough to show that the influence of the short-lived Bosman Act has not completely changed the European football pattern.

Thanks to the blessing of Fiorentina in Serie A, in order to ensure the ratings and the attention of fans, the champions of the four major leagues will definitely be selected for the list of seeded teams, which allows Viola to avoid the Champions League smoothly. Become one of the 8 seeded teams in the qualifiers, otherwise, if the gutter capsizes in the qualifiers, Fiorentina will probably become the laughing stock of European football for a long time.

However, this also increases the difficulty for Zhuang Mingge to guess that Fiorentina will encounter opponents in the group stage. After all, there is no saying that the same league team avoids it-because there are no clubs from the same league at all.

"Well, I don't know. The lottery depends on luck." Zhuang Mingge shrugged and had to tell the truth, "I hope Florence will not be assigned to a group with too strong strength."

After a short opening remark, as the special guest of the draw ceremony, Platini walked onto the stage with a smile on his face. There were two transparent boxes on the table, each containing the tickets for this season's European Champions Cup group stage. 8 pieces of paper with the names of the seeded teams and 8 pieces of paper with the names of the teams that entered the main match after the elimination rounds.

"I am very grateful to have this opportunity to attend the UEFA Champions League group draw ceremony as a special guest. Here I sincerely hope that after the results of the draw come out in a while, everyone will not be because everything is God's will." Platini said here , and spread his hands pretending to be helpless, which caused a burst of laughter from the audience.

Heck, UEFA won't play tricks in the draw, it's called hell.Hearing Platini's opening remarks, Zhuang Mingge curled his lips in disdain. Looking at the later generations after Abramovich took over Chelsea, the Blues faced Barcelona and Liverpool almost every year. There is nothing tricky in it, even if Zhuang Mingge was killed, he would not believe it.

Of course, the reason why this happens is to create enough gimmicks to attract the attention of the fans. The peak match between the two giants of Barcelona and Chelsea is always more attractive than the match between Porto and Monaco?

Secondly, another reason why Chelsea encountered so many strong teams in the Champions League is that it inevitably violated the interests of too many people in the process of rising, such as raising the transfer value of players, disrupting the Regarding the order of the transfer market, in order to appease those wealthy teams who are dissatisfied with Chelsea, UEFA will naturally make it difficult for such gold dollar teams on the schedule.

However, Fiorentina doesn't seem to have any interaction with these teams in recent years. After all, before Zhuang Mingge took over Fiorentina, Viola's record can only be called the level of the middle reaches of the league. UEFA doesn't seem to have any gimmicks. Moreover, when Fiorentina built the current lineup, they did not obtain players by maliciously raising prices, so they should not be punished by those officials of UEFA...

At this moment, Platini stretched out his big hand and pulled out two notes from the transparent cardboard box containing 8 seeded teams.

"The two seeded teams selected into Group A are... Porto of Portugal and Monaco of France!" Platini announced with a smile on his face.

Zhuang Mingge saw that Wenger, who was sitting in front of him, heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the results of the draw announced by Platini. It seemed that he was very satisfied with his team being able to be in the same group as Porto.

Before the advent of the Bosman era, the gap between the giants of Italy, Spain, England, Germany, France and the Netherlands was not that big. For example, Ajax in the Netherlands has won the UEFA Cup and the Champions League in recent years. Team A has also repeatedly performed brilliantly in European competitions, so among the eight seeded teams, Porto from Portugal is relatively easy to deal with.

However, Fiorentina was not as lucky as Monaco. Platini drew La Liga champions Real Madrid and Fiorentina together, and then threw the Scottish Super League champions Glasgow Rangers and Romania's Steaua Bucharest from another box. Arrived in Group C where Florence is located.

After the draw results of Group C where Fiorentina is located, it means that the grouping ceremony has come to an end. The final grouping is as follows: Group A includes Greek champion Panathinaikos, Ligue [-] champion Monaco, and Portuguese champion Porto and Danish champion Aalborg; Group B has Russian champion Moscow Sparta, Polish champion Legia, Norwegian champion Rosenborg and new Premier League champion Blackburn; Group C has Serie A champion Fiorentina, La Liga champion Real Madrid, Romanian champion Steaua Bucharest and the Scottish Super League champion Glasgow Rangers; Group D includes the previous champion Ajax, Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund, Hungarian champion Ferenc Varos and Swiss champion Grasshopper.

"UEFA is really keen to create gimmicks!" Zhuang Mingge couldn't help thinking in his heart after seeing the matchup situation in Group C. In recent years, La Liga and Serie A teams have always met in European wars. It is the place that can attract the fans' attention the most.

And among these four groups, only Florence's group has three teams that have won the European Champions Cup, namely Real Madrid (6 times), Glasgow Rangers (1 time), and Steaua Bucharest (1 time) , From this point of view, the group that Florence is in can also be called the group of death. ps: The unit has a four-day military training starting from today, these days I asked others to help me update...