Chapter 132: The Champion Is a Good Thing (26/136)

Valencia, who won the Copa del Rey, returned to Valencia early the next morning and were greeted by the Valencia fans from the moment they stepped off the plane.

The Copa del Rey is the lightest of the championships, but it is also the champion.

The last time they won the Copa del Rey was in 1999.

This is the seventh time in the club's history that they have won the title.

For Valencia fans, they don't have much ambition either.

Of course, the league title is wanted, and it is a great thing to be able to reach the Champions League final, and the Copa del Rey is also a very important honour.

You have to know that Valencia doesn't have many accolades in total, although it is very well-known.

They have only four league titles, and the Copa del Rey has only six before that.

Unlike England and Italy, Spanish football has been very polarized since ancient times.

Real Madrid and Barcelona are supergiants, with Real Madrid benefiting from the support of the Madrid region and Barcelona being backed by the affluent Catalonia region. Teams in other regions are more or less affected by the economic situation in their respective regions.

The economic base determines the superstructure.

A local team like Valencia can win so many titles, which is already considered a strong team in Spanish football......

The whole Valencia team, known as a double-decker open-top bus, came out of the airport and was accompanied by enthusiastic Valencia fans along the way.

By the time the bus entered the city, the streets were already crowded with people.

Valencia fans cheered and sang the Valencia anthem.

Valencia's players showed the trophies to the fans one by one.

Each of them was cheered on by the fans.

The goal shouted the name of every player, whether it was a newcomer to the team or a player who had been with the team for many years.

Mendieta received the loudest cheers when he held the trophy aloft to show off to the fans. After all, he is the captain of the team, the spiritual leader, and secondly, in yesterday's final, he played well, scored twice, and is considered the team's number one contributor to the Copa del Rey.

Chang Sheng watched Mendieta interact with the fans enthusiastically, and thought to himself, I wonder if such a Copa del Rey can change his mind and let him finally stay. After all, in his own tactics, a player like Mendieta is still very useful.

If a Copa del Rey isn't enough, there's a league title. It was a trophy that Valencia had not been able to win after 30 years of hard work.

He is twenty-nine years old, the golden age of a professional footballer, and it is time to make a big career.

So he actually understands why Mendieta moved to Lazio in the first place. Because Valencia reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years, but they fell short, it is a good indication of where Valencia's level bottleneck is, and if he continues to stay in this team, he will not get the honor he desires.

But now it's different, I've proven the team's future with the title, and I believe it's enough to impress Mendieta.

Mendieta is a system player, he can be like a fish in water in Valencia, but he may not be able to perform so well in other teams.

In his Mad Dog play, Mendieta, a free man up front, is an important player, because of his excellent running ability and ability to control the tempo of the pass, he can bring a lot of changes to the team, and is also an important part of the team's passing and possession strategy.

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The team's bus eventually arrived at the Plaza de Ville, where the entire team was received by the Mayor of Valencia.

The mayor of Valencia pulled Chang Sheng to talk for several minutes, expressing his gratitude to Chang Sheng.

Before the perennial victory, although Valencia reached the Champions League final for two consecutive years, they did not win anything, and even lost the Champions League qualification last season.

Just one season after the winning season brought about such a sea change in the team. He was far ahead of his opponents in the league, and in the Copa del Rey, he defeated Real Madrid, won the Copa del Rey, and returned with honor.

The crowd then went to the balcony of the town hall to celebrate the championship and give a speech with the Valencia fans gathered in the square.

As the captain, Mendieta promised everyone in advance on behalf of the team: "It won't be long before we come here again to celebrate the league championship!" ”

His appeal was echoed by a loud chorus of fans across the stadium.

With a fifteen-point lead in the league, it's no surprise that such a result is now a celebration of the title.

Chang Sheng did not go up to make any speeches, he stood behind the players, and next to the club's general manager, Pitacci.

"The renewal contract has been drawn up and all the requirements have been met. When do we sign? Amid the loud cheers, Pitage leaned into Chang Sheng's ear and asked.

With a smile on his face, Chang Sheng applauded and replied, "Anytime." ”

His heart was filled with a great sense of accomplishment.

Champion, it's a good thing!

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From the night of the match, the media began to report intensively on this final.

There were so many things to watch in this final, Real Madrid collapsed at home, Valencia really became a smash as their manager said, and the tactics that Valencia showed in the game, including the strange adjustment at the last moment, whether it was a premeditated new tactic, or an accident, and finally a battle of words with the reporters.

These are the highlights, enough for the media to hype for several days.

Valencia's media gloated over Real Madrid's embarrassment of losing even their underwear at their home stadium, focusing on Florentino. The dark expression on Perez's face depicts Real Madrid fans crying after seeing their team lose at their home stadium, and it also uses an exaggerated portrayal of Real Madrid's superstars in the final moments of the game......

As long as they can hit Real Madrid, they don't mind using any means.

The media in Madrid, on the other hand, were full of mourning, with the newspapers Marca and As, criticising the team's performance in the game.

In fact, there is really nothing to criticize, Valencia's tactics completely restrained Real Madrid's tactics, who would have thought that the real form of mad dog tactics was so sharp? Who would have thought that Chang Sheng would try to play without a blade in a match? Who would have thought that Tsuneki would really be so shameless as to defend with tiki-taka?

According to the statistics after the game, Valencia's technical statistics have an overall advantage, especially the ball possession rate, which is as high as 70%!

This kind of possession is basically used to brush back and forth when controlling the defense.

It doesn't make any practical sense, but it looks good.

Speaking of which, Valencia had 70 percent possession and comprehensively suppressed Real Madrid...... How nice it sounds!

Florentino became the target of ridicule in the national media. Because he had to force the final at the Bernabeu before the match and brought it forward to March 6, the media criticized him for his arrogance.

But they can only talk about it. Unexpectedly, Chang Sheng helped them achieve this goal, and demolished Florentino's stage in public, so that he couldn't get down.

So the media fired at Florentino on this basis and scolded Florentino to the ground.

Because of this, it is conceivable what Florentino's attitude towards Chang Sheng secretly was......

For Real Madrid, the strength of the Copa del Rey final has put pressure on them.

This year marks the centenary of Real Madrid's birth, and in this year, Real Madrid has prepared many great celebrations. But these celebrations would be a little less flavorful without the champions.

The Copa del Rey title has already been snatched, and the league title now looks like it's no fun.

There is only one Champions League title left.

But the Champions League is definitely much more difficult to win than the Copa del Rey and the league.

Real Madrid can only put aside other ideas now, no matter how difficult the Champions League is, and win the Champions League in one game to celebrate the club's centenary.

For this reason, they may abandon the domestic league and only ask to stay in the top four of the league.

But it doesn't have much to do with Valencia, as the two teams won't meet again until the end of the season......

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The media is also debating whether the success of the winning season has made Real Madrid regret it.

Real Madrid lost the Copa del Rey at home to a Perennial Valencia, turning their centenary celebrations into a joke and a farce that they should have regretted.

But this is not the case.

Florentino did not come forward, but someone from his staff came forward to express his opinion.

"It's often said that Real Madrid doesn't regret it for anyone. We congratulate his team on winning the Copa del Rey, but Real Madrid have no regrets. ”

It's just such a simple sentence, people don't talk about it, and the cold and noble style of the wealthy family is fully reflected.

is really one of the biggest names in international football, what is a Copa del Rey? We at Real Madrid haven't won the Copa del Rey for eight years, so it's not one more year. How can we look at the Copa del Rey? We've got eight Champions Leagues!

Although the media in Madrid criticized Real Madrid's performance in the game, they also helped to refute the "regret theory" of Chang Sheng, saying that how could Real Madrid regret a person? There has never been anything like this in the 100-year history of Real Madrid, and there will never be one in the future!

Regarding the official response of Real Madrid Club, as well as the words of those Madrid media, Chang Sheng only laughed when he heard it, and did not make any public response.

It felt as if he was scared, or realised how impossible it was for him to make Real Madrid regret it.

But no one knows what Chang Sheng really thinks in his heart.

He knows the development path of Real Madrid in the future, and he thinks that he still has a chance to make Real Madrid regret it, right in the Champions League! (To be continued)