Chapter 710 Before the Finals

Huang Chu is a very traditional Chinese woman, and she has always been following some of the advantages of traditional women.

For example, in Ye Qiu's home, there are no hourly workers or servants. All housework is done by themselves, even the clothes are washed by themselves, and the hygiene of the house is always taken care of by themselves.

As a doctor, Huang Chu is actually very busy. Ye Qiu has repeatedly proposed to hire a servant, but she just refused and insisted on doing it herself. She always said that helping her husband and children wash clothes and cook, and taking care of housework is the happiest and most satisfying thing for a woman, especially watching her husband and children wear the clothes they washed and eat the meals they cooked with relish.

So she is very busy every morning, getting up early to wash clothes, then making breakfast, and cleaning up the house.

Ye Qiu also has a lot of work, for example, he is responsible for waking up two children who are lazy in bed.

The two little brats are already grown up. Little Huang Rong is better. She is a little smart and independent. But Ye Chen is the only child in the family. His grandparents and grandparents can't help but spoil him, so he is a little hypocritical. However, this kid knows how to read people's expressions. As long as Ye Qiu and Huang Chu's faces change slightly, he will immediately change his coquettish strategy.

After sending the two children to school with great difficulty, Huang Chu returned to the room and helped Ye Qiu pack his luggage in the locker room.

Every time Ye Qiu went to an away game, Huang Chu helped him pack his luggage. She knew what her husband needed to bring and his living habits very well. She would prepare everything for him.

When Ye Qiu returned to the room, Huang Chu was helping him fold his clothes.

"I heard that the temperature in Munich will be higher during the day, but it will be cooler at night, so I brought you an extra suit. If you feel cold, put it on. Don't be stubborn." Huang Chu put the folded clothes into the travel bag and said.

"Who told you?" Ye Qiu had not been to Munich in May. He had been there once before during the World Cup in Germany, but that was in June and July, when the weather was very hot.

Huang Chu knew that her husband was making fun of her, so she turned around and complained, "Anyway, just take it with you!"

Ye Qiu nodded. He had no say in this matter, and everything depended on his wife.

"We will arrive in Munich at noon tomorrow. Don't arrange for someone to pick us up. We will go to the hotel by ourselves. Just concentrate on preparing for your game. Anyway, it will be fine if you can see us at the Allianz Arena!" Huang Chu urged again.

I don't know if it's because of her age. Huang Chu is now in her thirties and is also the mother of two children. She always makes people feel that she is getting more and more nagging. Every time, she seems to treat Ye Qiu as a child and tells him all kinds of things.

If it were another man, he might be a little angry and think his wife is too nagging, but Ye Qiu wouldn't. On the contrary, he felt a very strong concern, a concern from the soul.

Some people say that marriage is the grave of love, especially when they have the fruit of love, their feelings for each other will fade. This is indeed true. After having a child, Huang Chu did give more energy and time to the child, but she did not forget her husband.

For her, her husband is the pillar of the family and everything to her.

"Then you have to be careful!" Ye Qiu was more assured of them. Although Munich was unfamiliar to them, Eliza, the smart girl, would not get lost wherever she went, and they could go directly to the hotel at that time. Ye Qiu had already booked a room for them.

Tottenham Hotspur did not stay in the hotel arranged by UEFA this time, but chose to rent a hotel outside. Finally, after the club's visit and review, they chose the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Munich.

The hotel is located in the city center of Munich, about 13 kilometers away from the Allianz Arena. There is an intercity highway that can directly reach the Allianz Arena. The transportation is very convenient, and this hotel also promises to provide Tottenham Hotspur with the most complete services, including confidentiality.

The reason why Peter Kenyon chose the Mandarin Oriental Hotel is not only because this five-star hotel has luxurious rooms, a rooftop swimming pool and a complete gym, but also because there is a Michelin-starred restaurant here. They promised to tailor-make meals for Tottenham Hotspur players during their stay.

The hotel is usually very expensive, with the lowest room price being more than 600 euros and the most expensive being as high as 2,000 to 3,000 euros, but the hotel gave Tottenham Hotspur the biggest discount in terms of price. The reason is very simple, that is, during Tottenham Hotspur's participation in the Champions League final, they can get huge advertising value from this team.

At least, now everyone in the world knows that Tottenham Hotspur will stay at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and all reporters are paying attention to this hotel chain, which has greatly improved the brand of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

In fact, today's Champions League final is not just a football match, because behind the football match, it also drives the interests of countless sponsors.

For example, the media broke the news these days that the original airfare from London to Munich was only 50 pounds, but after the semi-finals, because Tottenham Hotspur reached the Champions League final, the airfare from London to Munich soared tenfold overnight, and now the ticket price is as high as 500 pounds, and the cheapest short-distance airline is as high as 470 pounds.

The round-trip ticket price of British Airways has also soared to 700 pounds, and it is even hard to get a ticket.

Not only that, the price of hotel rooms in Munich has also skyrocketed. The original hostel that was only 20 pounds has now risen to more than 100 pounds, and it has been fully booked, and the price of hotel rooms is basically more than 350 pounds.

So there are some so-called Munich guides on the Internet from some fans. They compiled the timetables of some European air tickets, trains and buses on the day and night of the game, calculated the cheapest and fastest guide to Munich to watch the game and the route table back to the UK. The whole process took more than 48 hours, of which they only stayed in Munich for three hours, that is, just to watch a football game. It can be seen how rushed it is.

Tottenham Hotspur officials are actually doing everything they can to provide convenience for fans who are watching away games, because the tickets in the team's hands are given free to Tottenham Hotspur season ticket holders, so all fans holding tickets for the Champions League final can go to Qatar Airways to book tickets to Munich at the usual price.

This is also an initiative between Tottenham Hotspur and its sponsor Qatar Airways. The latter only provides services at the usual price and does not lose much. It just arranges some short-distance flights between London and Munich in those days, but this can win the favor of Tottenham Hotspur fans, and they are not at a loss.

As for Tottenham Hotspur, they will take a Qatar Airways flight to Munich at noon the day before the final.

In addition, there will be two planes tomorrow, which will carry club players, coaches and staff and their families to Munich. They will all cheer for the team in the stands!

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Football is a belief in Germany, and what Munich believes in is red and white.

Red and white are the colors of Bayern Munich. They are the pride and symbol of this city, but in this game, they have to face Tottenham Hotspur from the Premier League.

England and Germany are well-known feuds and mortal enemies in the field of football. The grievances between the two national teams can even be traced back to the beginning of the last century. Every game between the two important teams in the world football can make the fans of both countries deeply infected and crazy.

After decades of grievances and entanglements, from Germany's failure to win against England in the past sixty years to England's failure to win against Germany later, the grievances between the two sides have become deeper and deeper, and in the end, the fans of the two countries hate each other and oppose each other.

Because of this, this Champions League final between Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich caused a huge response from fans in Britain and Germany, because in the eyes of fans of the two countries, it is no longer just a club event, but has risen to national grievances.

Before the final, Bayern Munich kept promoting the game. They called on all German fans to support Bayern Munich. "This should be a unified action of the entire German football. People should forget the domestic grievances and unite to fight against foreign enemies. People should wear red and white jerseys and hang red and white flags to help us, help Bayern Munich!"

At the same time, Bayern Munich also arranged personnel to hang more than 2,000 large posters in Munich's subway stations and squares, almost all over the streets of Munich. All tourists who came to Munich could basically see the figures of Bayern Munich stars as long as they looked up.

All walks of life in Munich also responded to the call of football. In the days before and after the game, many buildings and skyscrapers in the city will hang red and white flag patterns to cheer for Bayern Munich's Champions League final. Many shops have also started a promotional war of discounts and price cuts.

The Munich Municipal Government also attaches great importance to this game, because this game will be watched live by 200 million people, will attract 140,000 tourists to Munich, and will have more than 50,000 people stay overnight here, which will bring great economic benefits to Munich.

To this end, the Munich police have also made full preparations and plan to mobilize 2,000 police officers, increase the frequency and staff of city buses and subways, because they know very well that such a large-scale influx of people into Munich will be a major test and challenge for the city's public transportation system.

Tottenham Hotspur has also made sufficient preparations in terms of business operations. More than 30 sponsors have mobilized, and many sponsors have even specially arranged representatives to enter Munich to play a prelude for Tottenham Hotspur.

An interesting situation is that Adidas, the jersey sponsor of Tottenham Hotspur, is also a sponsor of Bayern Munich. Therefore, before the final, all Adidas stores in Munich were selling Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich jerseys at the same time, as well as a T-shirt to cheer for the final. The latter only costs eight euros, which has attracted the welcome of countless fans.

After Tottenham Hotspur arrived in Munich, from the airport to the hotel, you could clearly feel the atmosphere of the Champions League final. The bus passed by and everyone you saw was wearing red and white. Clothing, or wearing the pure white color of Tottenham Hotspur, it is obvious that there are two groups of people.

There is no doubt that Bayern Munich has an advantage 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 selecting fans for this game, banning more than a hundred people with a history of violence football hooligans went to Munich, which almost set a new record and caused dissatisfaction among many fans.

However, the Munich police still dare not relax, and even then Munich will ban the sale of alcoholic beverages in glass bottles, and the sale of alcoholic beverages will be prohibited in the area around the Allianz Arena, just in case.

Hundreds of thousands of people have poured into the city, plus the original population. If something goes wrong, it will lead to great riots throughout Munich.

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. It was not until 18 o'clock in the evening that the team took the bus to the Allianz Stadium for the last meeting before the game. training sessions.

This training session is no different from some public training sessions in the past. Everything, including the training equipment, was brought from Theobald. There is nothing special about it. There are not even some so-called high-tech instruments. Show up and everything looks normal.

During the final team confrontation in training, Ye Qiu also directly disrupted and reorganized the players and formed two groups to compete, not allowing anyone to tell who would get the starting spot.

Of course, similar to the main core players such as Messi, Ribery and Cavani, they will definitely start.

The only change in the entire training session was that it rained in the last twenty minutes, but Tottenham Hotspur still conducted penalty kick and free kick training in the rain. This is also what Tottenham Hotspur does before every final. Regular training.

"This rain came just in time!" Ye Qiu stood in the rain. Although the rain was not heavy, he was in a good mood.

Mauro Tassotti and Roland Schepas laughed heartily as they listened.

"You are frightened by AC Milan!" Roland said.

When visiting the San Siro Stadium, AC Milan acted unscrupulously on the turf of the stadium, trying every possible means to prevent Tottenham Hotspur from displaying their level and strength. Ye Qiu was also very worried about this game. Will Bayern Munich do the same thing in the game?

But judging from the turf on site, Bayern Munich has maintained it well, and if it rains today, it will probably not be dry tomorrow. It is best to stop playing next night, and the game will happen tomorrow night.

"You will take the players back later, and remember to sign autographs and take photos for the fans who are waiting!" Ye Qiu specially told Roland. Many Tottenham Hotspur fans bought tickets to enter the Allianz Stadium to visit Tottenham Hotspur. At Tenham Hotspur's training, there are at least hundreds of people, and some of them will wait near the bus.

After the training session, Ye Qiu took Thiago Silva and Ribery to the press conference at the Allianz Stadium to participate in the pre-match press conference prepared by UEFA. This is also the case for every Champions League final. All head coaches were required to participate in the previous compulsory event.

Ye Qiu announced the team's eighteen-man roster at this press conference. Basically, there was no suspense. After all, this was the roster. The real suspense was the starting lineup. However, in today's information technology In the era of , many positions in Tottenham Hotspur's starting lineup have also been speculated by the outside world.

At the press conference, when Ye Qiu was questioned by reporters, he greatly praised Bayern Munich.

"They have many very good stars who are very competitive in the Bundesliga and European competitions, such as Thomas Muller, Lahm, Robben and Bastian Schweinsteiger. They are all very high-level players. And Neuer is undoubtedly one of the best goalkeepers now, so I think this game will be very difficult!”

"But my players and I are full of confidence in the game. We firmly believe that we can leave the Allianz Arena with a satisfactory result. We desire from the bottom of our hearts not to let all Tottenham fans down. We will fight for this."

Regarding the fact that one or two players from both sides missed the final, Ye Qiu also said that this was normal. Even when reporters asked whether Tottenham would feel it was unfair that the game was scheduled to be held at the Allianz Stadium.

Ye Qiu said jokingly, "When we haven't won the right to qualify for the Champions League final, we already know that the final will be played at the Allianz Arena, so this is not unfair to us, and we don't I feel that playing at home can give opponents an advantage because the pressure at home may make them collapse.”

The reporter also asked about another thing, that is, Bayern Munich's main midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger mentioned in an interview that Bayern Munich specially trained for penalty kicks in the last training game, and Schweinsteiger Weinsteiger also said that as long as it enters a penalty shootout, Bayern Munich will definitely win because Tottenham Hotspur lacks the experience of penalty kicks.

For this question, Ye Qiu also responded to Maimang, "I hope you can convey to Bayern Munich that I am not worried about them practicing penalties, because that is a lack of confidence, and I have full confidence in my players."

"Yes, we lack experience in penalty shootouts, because we always beat our opponents before the game enters the penalty shootout, so we don't need to enter the penalty shootout, so we naturally lack experience. If the players of Bayern Munich think that they can beat us Tottenham Hotspur by practicing penalties, I will find it funny."

"Because, in the game, they will not get a chance to shoot out penalties!"