Chapter 722: Before the Final
Huang Chu is a very traditional Chinese woman, and she has always followed some of the advantages of traditional women.
For example, in Ye Qiu's house, there are no part-time workers and maids, all the housework is done by himself, even the clothes are washed by himself, and the hygiene of the house is always taken care of by himself.
As a doctor, Huang Chu is actually very busy, Ye Qiu has also proposed to hire a maid many times, but she just refuses, insists on doing it herself, she always says that helping her husband and children wash clothes, cook, and take care of housework is the happiest and most satisfying thing for a woman, especially watching her husband and children put on their own laundry and eat their own meals with relish.
So every morning she was very busy, getting up early to do the laundry, and then going to make breakfast and tidy up by the way.
Ye Qiu also has a lot of work, for example, he is responsible for waking up two children who are lying in bed.
These two little ghosts are already not small, Xiao Huang Rong is better, she is a big ghost, and she is relatively independent, but Ye Chen is the only son in the family, and his grandparents and grandparents are inevitably spoiled, so he is a bit hypocritical, but this kid knows how to observe words and feelings, as long as Ye Qiu and Huang Chu's faces change slightly, he will immediately change his coquettish strategy.
Finally sent the two children to school, Huang Chu returned to the room and helped Ye Qiu pack his luggage in the dressing room.
Every time Ye Qiu went to play an away game, it was Huang Chu who helped pack her luggage, she knew very well what her husband needed to bring, and she also knew Ye Qiu's living habits, everything would be prepared for him.
When Ye Qiu returned to the room, Huang Chu was helping him fold his clothes.
"I've heard that the temperature in Munich is higher during the day, but it gets cooler at night, so I brought you an extra suit, if you feel cold, wear it, don't be too strong." Huang Chu instructed while putting the folded clothes into his travel bag.
"Who told you?" Ye Qiu hadn't been to Munich in May, he had been there once during the World Cup in Germany before, but it was already June and July, and it was hot weather.
Huang Chu knew that her husband was laughing at herself, so she turned her head and smiled complainingly, "Anyway, you just bring it!" ”
Ye Qiu nodded, he had no say in this matter, everything went with his wife.
"We'll arrive in Munich tomorrow at noon, don't arrange for someone to pick us up at that time, we'll go to the hotel by ourselves, you can concentrate on preparing for your game, anyway, you can see us at the Allianz Arena then!" Huang Chu instructed again.
I don't know if it's because she's not young, Huang Chu is now in her thirties, and she is also the mother of two children, so it always makes people feel that she is getting more and more verbose, and every time she treats Ye Qiu as a child, she is explaining all kinds of big and small things.
If it were another man, he might be a little angry and think that his wife was too wordy, but Ye Qiu would not, on the contrary, what he felt was a very strong care, a kind of care from the soul.
Some people say that marriage is the grave of love, especially when they have the crystallization of love, their feelings for each other will fade, which is indeed true, after having children, Huang Chu did give more energy and time to the children, but she did not forget her husband.
For her, her husband is the pillar of the family, everything to her.
"Then you have to be careful!" Ye Qiu was more at ease with them, although Munich was unfamiliar to them, Eliza's ghost girl would not disappear and get lost wherever she went, and they could go directly to the hotel when the time came, Ye Qiu had already booked the room for them.
Tottenham Hotspur did not stay in the hotel arranged by UEFA this time, but chose to rent a hotel outside on their own, and finally chose the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Munich after being visited and reviewed by the club.
The hotel is conveniently located in the heart of Munich, about 13 kilometres from the Allianz Arena and directly accessible by the intercity motorway, and the hotel promises to provide Tottenham Hotspur with the best possible service, including secrecy.
Jean Peter? Kenyon chose Mandarin Oriental not only because of its luxurious rooms, rooftop swimming pool and well-equipped gym, but also because of a Michelin-starred restaurant that promised to tailor the diet for Tottenham players during their stay.
The usual cost of this hotel is very expensive, the lowest room price is more than 600 euros, and the most expensive is as high as two or three thousand, but the hotel gives Tottenham Hotspur the biggest discount on the price, and the reason is very simple, that is, during Tottenham Hotspur's Champions League final, they can get huge advertising value from this team.
At the very least, now that everyone in the world knows that Tottenham Hotspur is going to stay at the Mandarin Oriental, all the journalists are paying attention to this hotel chain, which has given the Mandarin Oriental brand a huge boost.
In fact, today's Champions League final is not just a football duel, because behind the football duel, it also drives the interests of countless sponsors.
For example, in the past two days, some media broke the news that the original ticket from London to Munich was only 50 pounds, but after the semi-finals, because Tottenham Hotspur reached the Champions League final, the ticket price from London to Munich skyrocketed tenfold overnight, and now the ticket price is as high as 500 pounds, and the cheapest short-haul airline is also as high as 470 pounds.
The price of a British Airways return ticket has skyrocketed to £700, and it is even hard to find a ticket.
Not only that, but the price of hotel rooms in Munich has skyrocketed, with hotels that used to be only £20 now rising to more than £100 and are all sold out, while hotel rooms are basically priced at more than £350.
As a result, there are some so-called Munich raiders of fans on the Internet, they have arranged the timetable of some air tickets, trains and buses in Europe on the day and night of the game, calculating the cheapest and fastest route to Munich and the route back to the UK, the whole process is more than 48 hours, of which only three hours in Munich are stayed, that is, after watching a football game, it can be seen how rushed.
Tottenham Hotspur officials are actually doing everything possible to provide convenience for fans watching away games, because the tickets in the team's hands are given to Tottenham Hotspur season ticket holders for free, so all fans who hold tickets for the Champions League final can book tickets to Munich at the usual price with Qatar Airways.
It was also a move between Tottenham Hotspur and its sponsor, Qatar Airways, which did not lose much money by simply arranging some short-haul flights between London and Munich in those days, but they could win the goodwill of Tottenham Hotspur fans, and they did not lose money.
As for Tottenham Hotspur, it was at noon the day before the final, flying to Munich on a Qatar Airways plane.
There will also be two planes tomorrow that will carry the club's players, coaches and staff and their families to Munich, all of whom will be cheering on the team from the stands!
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Football is a belief in Germany, but in Munich it is red and white.
Red and white are the colors of Bayern Munich, and they are the pride and symbol of the city, but in this game, they will face Tottenham Hotspur from the Premier League.
England and Germany are famous feuds and bitter enemies in the field of football, and the feud between the two national teams can be traced back to the beginning of the last century, and every match between two of the most important teams in world football can make fans in both countries deeply affected and crazy.
After decades of grievances, from 60 years of Germany not winning against England, to later England not winning against Germany, the grievances between each other are getting deeper and deeper, and in the end, the fans of the two countries hate each other and oppose each other.
Because of this, this Tottenham Hotspur vs. Bayern Munich Champions League final caused a huge fan reaction between the United Kingdom and Germany, because in the eyes of fans in the two countries, it is no longer just a club competition, but has risen to a national feud.
Before the final, Bayern Munich kept promoting, they called on all German fans to support Bayern Munich, "This should be a unified action for the entire German football, people should forget the grievances at home, unanimously face foreign enemies, people should wear red and white jerseys, hang red and white flags, help us, help Bayern Munich!" ”
At the same time, Bayern Munich also arranged manpower, and hung more than 2,000 large-scale promotional posters in Munich's subway stations and various squares, almost all over the streets of Munich.
In the days leading up to the game, many buildings and skyscrapers in the city will be decorated with red and white flags to cheer on Bayern Munich's Champions League final, and many shops will start a campaign to reduce prices.
The city of Munich also attaches great importance to this competition, because this game will be watched by 200 million people, will attract 140,000 tourists to Munich, and more than 50,000 people will spend the night here, which will bring great economic benefits to Munich.
To this end, the Munich police are also fully prepared, planning to touch 2,000 police officers and increase the frequency and staff of city buses and subways, because they know that such a large influx of people into Munich will be a major test and challenge for the city's public transport system.
Tottenham Hotspur has also made full preparations in terms of operation, more than 30 sponsors have been mobilized, and even many sponsors have specially arranged representatives to settle in Munich to play an outpost for Tottenham Hotspur in advance.
An interesting fact is that Adidas is also the sponsor of the Tottenham Hotspur jersey for Bayern Munich, so before the final, all Adidas stores in Munich were selling both Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich jerseys, as well as a T-shirt to cheer for the final, the latter only cost eight euros and attracted countless fans.
After Tottenham Hotspur arrived in Munich, from the airport to the hotel, you can feel the atmosphere of the Champions League final very clearly all the way, the bus drove by on the road, and everyone you saw was either wearing red and white clothes, or wearing Tottenham Hotspur's pure white clothes, it was obvious that there were two factions.
There is no doubt that Bayern Munich has the best position in this regard.
The London government also attaches great importance to this game, especially considering the century-old feud between England and Germany, so they are also very cautious in the selection of fans for this game, and banned more than 100 football hooligans with violent convictions from going to Munich, which also almost set a new record and caused dissatisfaction among many fans.
But the Munich police still did not dare to relax, and even at that time Munich will ban the sale of alcoholic beverages in glass bottles, and the area around the Allianz Arena will ban the sale of alcoholic beverages, just in case.
The influx of more than 100,000 people into the city, combined with the original population, would have led to a major riot throughout Munich if something went wrong.
After Tottenham Hotspur checked into the hotel, Ye Qiu and the coaching staff directly arranged for the players to go to their respective rooms to rest, and it was not until 18 o'clock in the evening that the team took the bus to the Allianz Stadium for the last training session before the game.
This training session was no different from some of the previous public training sessions, everything including the training equipment was brought from Theorebard, and there was nothing special, not even some supposedly high-tech equipment appeared, everything seemed normal.
And when training the final team confrontation, Ye Qiu also directly disrupted and reorganized the players, forming two groups to fight, so that no one could tell who would get the start.
Of course, similar to the main core players such as Messi, Ribery and Cavani, that is a must start.
The only thing that happened in the whole training session was that it rained in the last 20 minutes, but Tottenham still braved the rain to take penalties and free-kicks, which is the regular training session for Tottenham Hotspur before every final.
"This rain came at a good time!" Ye Qiu was standing in the rain, although the rain was not heavy, he was in a pretty good mood.
Mauro? Tasotti and Roland? Shepas laughed as he listened.
"You're scared of AC Milan!" Rowland said.
When visiting the San Siro Stadium, AC Milan was very undisciplined on the turf of the stadium, trying in every possible way to make Tottenham Hotspur unable to play his level and strength, and Ye Qiu was also worried that Bayern Munich would come to this game as well.
But judging from the turf on the spot, Bayern Munich is well maintained, and if it rains today, it will not be dry tomorrow, so it is better to stop the next night and play tomorrow night.
"Wait a minute, you take the players back, remember to sign autographs and take pictures of the fans who are waiting!" Ye Qiu specially told Roland that many Tottenham Hotspur fans have made a special trip to buy tickets to enter the Allianz Stadium to watch Tottenham Hotspur's training, and there are at least hundreds of people, compared to some of them will wait near the bus.
After the training session, Ye Qiu took Thiago with him? Silva and Franck Ribery travelled to the Allianz Arena for a pre-match press conference prepared by UEFA, which is a must for all managers before every Champions League final.
Ye Qiu announced the team's eighteen-man squad at this press conference, basically there is no suspense, after all, this is the squad, and the real suspense is the starting lineup, but in today's information era, many positions in Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup have also been speculated by the outside world.
At the press conference, when Ye Qiu was asked by reporters, he praised Bayern Munich a lot.
'They have a lot of really good players and are very competitive in the Bundesliga and in Europe, like Thomas? Muller, Lahm, Arjen Robben and Schweinsteiger are all very high-level players, and Neuer is undoubtedly one of the best goalkeepers at the moment, so I think it's going to be a tough game! ”
'But I and my players are confident in the game, we are confident that we can leave the Allianz Arena with a satisfactory result, and we want from the bottom of our hearts not to disappoint all the Tottenham fans and we will fight for it.'
As for one or two players from both sides who missed the final, Ye Qiu also said that this is normal, and even when the reporter asked if the game was scheduled to be held at the Allianz Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur would feel unfair.
Ye Qiu jokingly said, "When we haven't won the Champions League final, we already know that the final will be played at the Allianz Stadium, so there is nothing unfair about us, and we don't feel that the home field can give the opponent an advantage, because maybe the pressure of the home stadium will collapse them." ”
The reporter also asked about another thing, that is, Bayern Munich's main defender Schweinsteiger mentioned in an interview that Bayern Munich specially trained the penalty shootout in the last training game, and Schweinsteiger also said that as long as it enters the penalty shootout, Bayern Munich will undoubtedly win, because Tottenham Hotspur lacks experience in penalty shootouts.
Regarding this question, Ye Qiu also responded to Mai Mang's needle, "I hope you can convey it to Bayern Munich, I am not worried about them practicing penalties at all, because it is a lack of self-confidence, and I am full of confidence in my players." ”
'Yes, we lack experience in penalty shoot-outs because we always beat the game before it goes to a penalty shoot-out, so we don't need to go to a penalty shoot-out, so naturally we lack experience, and if the Bayern Munich players think they can beat us Tottenham Hotspur by training on penalties, I would be funny.
"Because, in the game, they won't get a penalty shoot-out!" Even when a reporter asked if Tottenham Hotspur would feel unfair if the game was scheduled to be held at the Allianz Arena.
Ye Qiu jokingly said, "When we haven't won the Champions League final, we already know that the final will be played at the Allianz Stadium, so there is nothing unfair about us, and we don't feel that the home field can give the opponent an advantage, because maybe the pressure of the home stadium will collapse them." ”
The reporter also asked about another thing, that is, Bayern Munich's main defender Schweinsteiger mentioned in an interview that Bayern Munich specially trained the penalty shootout in the last training game, and Schweinsteiger also said that as long as it enters the penalty shootout, Bayern Munich will undoubtedly win, because Tottenham Hotspur lacks experience in penalty shootouts.
Regarding this question, Ye Qiu also responded to Mai Mang's needle, "I hope you can convey it to Bayern Munich, I am not worried about them practicing penalties at all, because it is a lack of self-confidence, and I am full of confidence in my players." ”
'Yes, we lack experience in penalty shoot-outs because we always beat the game before it goes to a penalty shoot-out, so we don't need to go to a penalty shoot-out, so naturally we lack experience, and if the Bayern Munich players think they can beat us Tottenham Hotspur by training on penalties, I would be funny.
"Because, in the game, they won't get a penalty shoot-out!"