Midfielder Ruler

Few cities in the world stand still for a football match, Glasgow, Milan and Manchester.

Yet there is one city with an unrivaled football carnival that stands out from the pack.

The Argentine national derby has at least two games every year. The confrontation between Boca Juniors and River Plate will no longer be a simple game, but more like a national feast, attracting countless eyes.

It is a day when work is put second, things to be done are put aside, outstanding bills are left behind, and only the 90-minute battle between River Plate and Boca Juniors is cheered on.

There are still two days before the Argentine national derby. The football atmosphere in the city of Buenos Aires is much stronger than before, and many people appearing on the streets are wearing Boca Juniors and River Plate jerseys.

The local police in Buenos Aires have been prepared for a long time. The national super derby, which meets at least twice this year, the police dare not be careless and a little bit negligent, and there will be bloodshed again.

But in many cases, it does not mean that there will be no accidents if you are fully prepared.

In the past two days, there have been at least five fights on the streets of Buenos Aires, all of which were caused by Boca fans and River Plate fans.

The day before the match, Tang Zheng learned about the frenetic derby atmosphere in Buenos Aires in the past two days through the Internet and newspapers, which surprised him. His previous knowledge of the derby was still limited to the Spanish national derby, Milan derby and Manchester City. Tedby...

It was the first time he paid attention to the Argentine national derby, and it was also the first time he saw the charm of the derby.

In fact, in the past few days of preparing for the national derby, Diego Simeone, Jorge Gortillo, and players trained by River Plate instilled the meaning and spirit of the derby into the players, which is commonly known as brainwashing.

This is... a match that cannot be lost!

Listening to the passionate and indignant speech, Tang Zheng and some of the new team members seemed to be full of strength, wishing that the derby would come soon.

At the same time, Argentine National Television and the television stations under the three major media groups in Argentina are all building momentum for the upcoming national derby.

Among them, the largest media group - Bugle Group invested the most staff. The well-known TYC sports TV station, 13 TV stations, and FM100 TV stations are all using resources to create a super fanatical atmosphere for this national derby through all channels.

In the most prosperous capital area of ​​Buenos Aires and the center of La Boca district, journalists from major media can be seen everywhere, including whites, yellows, and blacks.

Many of them are foreign tourists from other places. In addition to visiting the major tourist attractions in Buenos Aires, they also pay attention to the extended product of the world's number one sport - the world's number one derby.

Of course, the area with the most reporters is still the Boca area. After all, the next national derby will be held at the Candy Box Stadium, and the focus will naturally be tilted towards Boca Juniors.

In addition to a large number of local journalists in Argentina, there are also reporters from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and the United States to follow up and report.

Although the Argentine national derby cannot attract global attention like the Spanish national derby, Manchester derby and Milan derby, the attention of several nearby countries can still be attracted.

Moreover, Argentina, as an important source of stars in the European League, can also attract the attention of some European media. Only the relatively backward Asian region and the economically backward African region have little attention.

China is a wonderful place to pay attention to the Argentine national derby this time. Countless netizens and fans are looking forward to the start of the national derby, but CCTV 5, the national sports TV station, has no live broadcast plan for this game.

It can be said that it is the only country on this planet that has a huge market but does not know how to cherish and utilize it.

However, as the call for live broadcast of the Argentine national derby in China is getting louder and louder, some sponsors have already spotted business opportunities.

I hope to take advantage of the opportunity of this Argentine national derby to advertise.

Originally, the Argentine national derby was played at two o'clock in the morning, and the advertisement typesetting fee at this point was not high. The merchant saw the opportunity and bought the advertisement at this point at two or three times the price.

This sudden change was not expected by the top management of CCTV, but after a little thought, it is completely feasible.

CCTV originally had the exclusive right to broadcast the Argentine national derby in mainland China. The problem of merchants who were worried about it before can be perfectly resolved now.

Move the advertisement at two o'clock in the morning, anyway, the advertisement fee at this point is cheap, even if you pay compensation, it is a sure-fire business.

Coupled with the non-stop consultation of provincial TV stations about the possibility and cost of buying the Argentine national derby in a single game, CCTV had to consider it carefully.

In the end, less than 24 hours before the Argentine national derby, CCTV Five officially announced that the second round of the Wembley Tennis Open, which was originally scheduled to be broadcast live at 2 o'clock in the morning the next day, was replaced by the 2008 Argentine First Division Autumn League. In the thirteenth round, Boca Youth VS River Plate replaced.

After the news was passed on by CCTV, it caused a huge sensation.

After all, the exclusive broadcast rights signed by CCTV 5 and the Argentine Football Association will not be until the end of 2008. Prior to that, other domestic broadcast media did not have any rights to broadcast the Argentine League.

If you want to watch the live broadcast, you can only go over the wall to watch the live broadcast on the websites of other countries, but this choice will prevent the older generation of fans from truly experiencing the Argentine national derby with Chinese participation.

Moreover, the live broadcasts of foreign TV stations are all in foreign languages, which do not sound as appropriate as Mandarin. Therefore, after CCTV 5 announced the live broadcast of the Argentine national derby, it was very sensational.

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According to the usual practice, the day before the game, the head coach Diego Simeone announced the 18-man roster for the next day's game, and then the whole team went to the hotel where they stayed and entered the final preparations.

Without any surprises, Tang Zheng entered the 18-man squad for the National Derby.

He has performed well in recent games, and it is normal for him to continue to enter the 18-man squad for the game.

Next, is the starting eleven.

All the players who made the 18-man squad held their breath and focused on Diego Simeone.

Because the next game is not an ordinary game, everyone dare not neglect.

Although Tang Zheng knew that he was unlikely to be included in the starting eleven, deep down in his heart he still very much hoped to be selected.

A professional player who does not want to start the game is not a qualified professional player.

The goalkeeper is not Mario Daniel Vega, who has always started, but Juan Carrizo, who has been promoted all the way from the youth team.

This change is not a big problem. Judging from the quality of training in the past three days, Juan Carrizo is in better condition.

Four defenders In addition to Tuccio replacing Nicolas Sanchez, Ferrari, Cabral and Christian Bele still occupy the other three starting places.

Next came the midfield starting lineup, Tang Zheng became nervous, but more eager.

"Mauro Rosales, Leonardo Ponceo..." Diego Simeone paused consciously, and glanced at the midfielders. He made his debut in the national derby that came down.

Tang Zheng slowly held his breath following the rhythm of Diego Simeone, his heart was in his throat.

When Diego Simeone put his eyes on Tang Zheng, the latter's expression was a bit dull, but it was hard to hide the trace of longing in those eyes.

Good boy!

Sure enough, I saw the right person!

"-Don!!"

Diego Simeone locked his eyes on Tang Zheng, and then said calmly.

Almost all the team members looked at Tang Zheng with complicated expressions, including disgust, jealousy, but more envy.

Indeed, it has been less than a month since Tang Zheng was promoted from the youth team to the first team, and now he has entered the starting list of the Argentine national derby, it is unbelievable!

And Tang Zheng's expression was a bit funny, his mouth was half open, and he didn't close it for a long time. It was Falcao's quick reaction, pushing his elbow against Tang Zheng's lower back muscles, and the latter realized his gaffe.

Diego Simeone went on to report the remaining three starting positions: "Diego Bonannot, Romedal Falcao, Sebastian Abreu."

After the starting roster was complete, assistant coach Jorge Gortillo declared practice over, and the team assembled an hour later to head to their hotel.

"congratulations."

Falcao, Sanchez, and Bonanault who had a good relationship with Tang Zheng expressed their congratulations.

After complimenting each other, Tang Zheng was going to follow the team to the locker room.

But he was called out by assistant coach Jorge Gortillo and stayed.

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