Golden Greenery

On May 20, 2010, Barcelona ushered in the 109th Copa del Rey final at the Nou Camp away from home. The opponent was Atletico Madrid.

The semi-finals have been played as early as February. According to the tradition in recent years, the venue for the final will not be finalized until March. Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have a good relationship, and the two clubs have some bad feelings in their bellies, so they jointly applied to the Spanish Football Federation, hoping that the final could be played at the Santiago Bernabeu, home of Real Madrid.

As Real Madrid's two biggest rivals in La Liga, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid's sinister intentions are obvious. They just want to go to Real Madrid's door to disgust people, and they have a strong sense of being philistine. Real Madrid righteously rejected the request of the two young boys and refused to pay any amount of venue fees.

Then, after applications from various clubs, the Spanish Football Federation selected four stadiums as alternatives: Camp Nou, Atletico Calderon, Mestalla in Valencia and Villamarin in Real Betis. After two more rounds of voting, Camp Nou finally won the right to host with a simple majority.

But this is a nominally neutral venue. After a draw, Atletico Madrid became the home team in the final, and they will wear the red and white stripes of their home jerseys. Barcelona's red and blue stripes and red and white sheets are visually similar to a certain extent, so they can only wear the away yellow jersey to fight at the Nou Camp.

Fortunately, because the relationship between the two clubs is indeed good, Atletico Madrid did not insist on using the home team's locker room, otherwise Zhuoyang and the others would really not be used to it.

At this time last year, Barcelona defeated Bilbao 4:1 at the Mestalla Stadium and won the cup for the 25th time, ranking first on this list. Biba ranked second with 23 times, Real Madrid ranked third with only 17 times, and Barcelona's opponent Atletico Madrid ranked fourth with 9 times.

Therefore, Barcelona is actually not very interested in this Copa del Rey, but standing in the final and not thinking about winning the championship is a lie. No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat.

Both teams actually wanted to use this trophy to make up for their regrets this season. Barcelona was extremely successful in the league and won the championship with a record-breaking percentage, but their failure in the Champions League left them unsatisfied.

Atletico Madrid unexpectedly won the UEFA Cup, but they were sadly ranked 10th in the league. This made Atletico Madrid, known as the number one player in the Spanish Super League, embarrassed. If it weren't for this UEFA Cup championship, based on the staffing of their team, this season would be a complete failure.

In fact, Atletico Madrid's UEFA Cup this year is not low in gold. They were jointly suppressed by Chelsea and Porto in the Champions League and fell to third place in the group. After sinking to the UEFA Cup, they beat Galatasaray, Sporting Lisbon, and Valencia all the way. and Liverpool.

And their opponent in the final, Fulham, was equally good.

Defending champions Shakhtar Donetsk, Juventus, Wolfsburg and Hamburg have all fallen victim to the farmer's knife.

Before the game started, the La Liga champion and the UEFA Cup champion took a photo together affectionately. There was no life-and-death battle atmosphere at all.

Guardiola has a clear mind. Although Barcelona's "carelessness" in defeating Meazza and Pep insisted that it was just carelessness, he is still an ant in La Liga, especially in Camp Nou, where he can tie any opponent in La Liga.

This is not arrogance, but is based on scientific truth.

Therefore, although Guardiola is known for being strict and harsh, and sometimes even unreasonable, he still very emotionally sent three players who were basically determined to leave this summer in the last and last home game of the season, so that They have a farewell.

Henry's agent is already contacting him in the Major Leagues. In fact, last summer, when he learned about the news that Ibrahimovic and Zhuo Yang had joined Barcelona, ​​he had the idea of ​​​​leaving. Henry knew very well that the arrival of these two gods would have an impact on him. means nothing. The reason why he didn't leave in the end was that he convinced himself that he could win a Champions League with Zhuoyang. This was originally the only reason why Henry said goodbye to Highbury and went to Barcelona.

So, now, Henry is disheartened and has seen clearly that there is a time in life that must come, but there is no time in life, so don't force it.

It's time to really say goodbye. Barcelona's forward line has completely lost its position, and it will become annoying to stay any longer. Henry could see clearly that it was not Zhuoyang's arrival that robbed him of opportunities. The rapid growth of Pedro and Bojan was the real reason for him to sit on the bench. In Barcelona's football philosophy, La Masia products belong to the direct lineage of Gen Hongmiaozheng and will always have priority.

Henry can't violate this tradition, and Zhuo Yang can't change it either.

And although Henry is a quiet and humble man, he has strong opinions on Guardiola. Once, the whole Barcelona team stayed in a hotel the day before a game. Guardiola found Henry's wife still chatting with him in the hotel at 10 pm. Guardiola directly reprimanded Henry in front of Henry's wife for neglecting his schedule and neglecting the game. .

No matter how modest he is, Henry, the captain of the French national team, the king of Highbury, and the eldest man, is still a man of face. From then on, he had no personal contact with Guardiola.

Originally, Henry thought that Guashuai was such a person and wanted not to care about him, but this season he discovered that Zhuo Yang was absent from training and flew back and forth all day long to have a relationship. Not to mention 10 o'clock, he could go wherever he wanted to mess around in the middle of the night, but Guardiola ignored them and pretended not to see them all, which made Henry feel sick.

Henry can't control Zhuoyang, nor can he be jealous of his super-team treatment, but he can't help but blame Guardiola for this injustice.

Yaya Toure also has objections to Guardiola, and his differences with Guardiola come from football and position on the field.

Toure is eager to become a B2B-style core midfielder, but Guardiola insists on persuading him to take root in the defense. This is an irreconcilable difference between the two in terms of position. Guardiola was not good at patient persuasion, so Toure felt that he was very arbitrary and dictatorial and unreasonable at all.

In fact, both of them are unwilling to communicate and have their own agenda. As a result, Toure gradually believed that Guashuai was biased against him and even racially discriminated against him. These are not nonsense, after all, they are all things that one can freely prove.

Toure had already been in contact with Manchester City during the winter break, and the only difference now is over annual salary. Toure believes that his overall offensive and defensive capabilities in the midfield are definitely no less than Zhuo Yang. In order to smooth out the resentment in his chest that he was underestimated by Lao Gua in Barcelona, ​​the annual salary he asked for was naturally in line with Zhuo Yang's standards, and Zhuo Yang Young's 12 million is the highest salary in football today.

Another one who is leaving is Mexican central defender Rafael Marcos. The reason why he must leave no longer needs to be explained. Marcos and Henry had a good relationship, so Henry invited him to go to the New York Red Bulls with him, and Marcos readily agreed.

After two months of recovery, Marcos has recovered and resumed training more than a week ago. Today is his first appearance since his recovery. He started with captain Puyol as a Barcelona central defender.

Similarly, Henry started in place of Ibrahimovic and Toure replaced Busquets in the midfield.