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The mainstream European leagues are all over, and the national teams of various countries have also begun to announce the World Cup roster, and start preparing for the Brazil World Cup ahead of schedule.

But before the World Cup, there is still a very important Champions League final to be played.

The annual football feast, the UEFA Champions League final, naturally cannot do without the hype of the media.

Recently, the media from various European countries have been talking about the Champions League final, especially the Spanish media and the German media.

And the famous German tabloid Bild specially made a preview of the UEFA Champions League final, discussing the upcoming UEFA Champions League final.

This year's Champions League final, this is only the first trip to the Champions League final in the history of the Schalke 04 team, but it is already the thirteenth time that Real Madrid has participated in the Champions League final, and among the previous twelve Champions League finals, Real Madrid won the Champions League final. Won nine of them.

If it is expanded to all European finals, this is only the second time in the history of Schalke 04 to participate in the European finals, while Real Madrid has already participated in the European finals for the twentieth time.

Since they have only participated in the European final once before and successfully won it, which was the UEFA Cup final in the 9697 season, Schalke 04 has a 100% chance of winning the European final.

As far as Real Madrid is concerned, they have only won 12 of the 19 previous European finals, and the success rate of winning the finals is only 63%. starter

In this year's Champions League final, Schalke 04 became the 40th finalist team in the history of the Champions League. It is also another new team in the Champions League final since Chelsea in 2008.

However, the last five new teams in the Champions League final failed to win the final, namely Valencia in 2000, Leverkusen in 2002, Monaco in 2004, Arsenal in 2006 and Chelsea in 2008. , and both Valencia and Leverkusen happened to lose to Real Madrid in the final.

The last team that was able to reach the final for the first time and successfully won the championship was Dortmund in 1997, which happened to be Schalke 04's rival in the Ruhr area.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

Even more coincidentally, that time Dortmund won the championship for the first time in the final. The final was also held in Germany at that time, but it was not Berlin, but the Olympiastadion in Munich, Bayern's old home court.

The encounter between Schalke and Real Madrid in the Champions League final this time is the fourth time in the history of the Champions League final that the Bundesliga has played against La Liga. In the previous three finals against West Germany, Real Madrid defeated Frankfurt, Bayern defeated Atletico Madrid, and Real Madrid defeated Lever cuson.

In other words, Real Madrid met the Bundesliga team in the Champions League final twice, and they both successfully won the championship.

In the previous history of the Champions League final, there have only been two times when they won the championship at home, namely Real Madrid in 1957 and Inter Milan in 1965.

However, in addition to winning the championship at their own home stadium, winning the championship at their own domestic stadium can be regarded as half of the home championship. Manchester United won the championship in London in 1968, Ajax won the championship in Rotterdam in 1972, and Liverpool won the championship in London in 1978. Juventus won in Rome in 1996 and Dortmund in Munich in 1997.

If Schalke 04 can win the championship in Berlin this time, it will be the sixth team to win the championship in its own domestic stadium.

As of this year, the UEFA Champions League has been held for 59 sessions, and a total of 22 championship teams have been produced before. If Schalke 04 can successfully win the championship this year, it will be the 23rd champion team in the history of the UEFA Champions League.

This year's Champions League final

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 16 goals in the Real Madrid team, and Jackie Chan scored 12 goals in the Schalke 04 team. This is the first time that both sides in the final have scored double figures in the Champions League.

Moreover, Jackie Chan and Ronaldo are both masters of free kicks, so this year's Champions League final is likely to result in direct goals from free kicks.

In the history of the previous Champions League finals, there were only two direct free kicks. One was Aragones in 1974, the Spanish coach who just passed away at the beginning of this year. He once led Spain to win the European Cup in 2008. cup champion.

The other is Basler in 1999, who was made into a world-class former talent below the neck by Beckenbauer.

It is worth mentioning that the two players who scored direct free kicks in the Champions League final both successfully helped their teams open the scoring, but in the end their teams both lost the championship.

Aragones gave Atletico Madrid the lead in 1974, only to be leveled by Bayern before a four-goal defeat in a replay.

In 1999, Basler helped Bayern score in the opening game, but was reversed by Manchester United with two goals in stoppage time, achieving Manchester United's Triple Crown.

Judging from the European media's preview of the Champions League final, Real Madrid is in the dominant side in almost all aspects, which is one of the reasons why the media are generally optimistic about Real Madrid's victory.

The only small problem for Real Madrid is that their central midfielder Xabi Alonso received a yellow card in the Champions League semi-final second leg and had to be suspended for the final, which is rare in Schalke's favour. news.

On May 21st, three days before the Champions League final, Schalke announced the 18-man roster for this season's Champions League final, and Zhang Xizhe's name successfully appeared on the list.

For the European media, this is just a small news. After all, a small team like Schalke has simple personnel, and it is not uncommon for one or two fringe players to make up the number of players in the final squad.

But for the Chinese media, this is really big news. The first Chinese player to participate in the Champions League final appeared.

As long as you enter the big list, you will be considered to have participated in the finals.

And Zhang Xizhe is not only the first in China, but also the third in Asia.

In the previous history of the Champions League, only two Asian players, South Korea's Park Ji-sung and Japan's Usami Takashi, participated in the Champions League final.

Park Ji-sung was a key player in Ferguson's late stage and won the 2008 Champions League with the team.

However, in the 2008 final, Ferguson did not allow Park Ji-sung to enter the final squad due to tactical considerations, but Park Ji-sung contributed a lot in the Champions League that season, and finally won the championship gold medal, but he did not get the opportunity to present awards on the spot in the final.

But immediately after the 2009 and 2011 Champions League finals, Park Ji-sung played directly on behalf of Manchester United, but Manchester United lost the finals both times.

Usami Takashi represented Bayern in the 2012 Champions League final, but he sat on the bench throughout the game and never got a chance to play.

Now Zhang Xizhe has become the third Asian player to participate in the Champions League final, which of course has attracted a lot of attention from the Chinese media.

Although everyone knows that Zhang Xizhe's entry into the squad this time is a bit strange, and even if he enters the squad, it is basically impossible to get a chance to play in the finals, but everyone doesn't care.

Just like Takashi Usami at the beginning, he only represented Bayern 5 times in all competitions in the 2011-12 season, but he entered the squad inexplicably in the Champions League final. If you say that it is not tricky, who will believe it.

But no matter how he entered the squad, Zhang Xizhe has always become the first Chinese player in the Champions League final, which is enough for the Chinese media to brag about for a while.

In recent days, more Chinese journalists have come to Germany to report on the UEFA Champions League final.

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