The gap between the giant team and the duck silk team is not only reflected in the hotels you live in away games, but also in the pre-season preparations.

When Real Madrid and Barcelona went to resorts such as Austria for pre-season training, Atletico Madrid could only stay in Mahada Enda sadly, stick to his own acre of three-point land, and train silently.

It’s not that the management is stingy and refuses to pay the money, but Gao Han feels it’s unnecessary.

Originally, the management suggested that the team go out for training and listed several good candidates, such as the resort Canary Islands, or the island of Mallorca in the south, which are all very good choices, and it is easy to arrange warm-up matches.

But after communicating with the management and coaching staff, Gao Han finally gave up this choice.

The main reason is that the budget is not sufficient.

The team has more than 20 players, plus the coaching staff, and a large number of people, going out for training for a month, and the expenses are also quite amazing.

Therefore, the team finally chose to stay in Madrid, and there were no too strong opponents arranged for the warm-up match.

In the five warm-up matches, three opponents came from Spain, and the other two were Parma from Serie A and Everton from the Premier League, both of which were typical Serie A and Premier League teams.

The reason for this arrangement is to help the team adapt to the style of playing in other European leagues.

The opponents in the warm-up match are not strong, and Atletico Madrid is relatively stable in terms of lineup and style of play, so the bed sheet army still performed well in the warm-up match after a period of training.

In all five games, the biggest score was 6-0 wins a team in the Spanish League Two.

Among them, they beat Everton three to one and Parma one to zero, both showed the team's stability and strength.

With the warm-up match winning streak, Atletico Madrid's new season's market is also bullish.

During the bed sheet army training, the UEFA Champions League qualifiers also started one after another since mid-July.

By mid-August, the qualifiers had already been held for two rounds.

After drawing lots, Real Madrid's opponent in the third round of qualifying match was the Donetsk miners, a powerful team from Ukraine.

The two sides have a two-round matchup, Real Madrid is away first and then host, and the schedule is good.

The opponent is not strong, but it is too troublesome to travel back and forth from Spain to Ukraine.

In addition to the results of the third round of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, UEFA has also announced the list of UEFA's best awards of the year.

The three players shortlisted for the best goalkeeper are Bayern Munich's Kahn, Juventus's Buffon, and Real Madrid's Casillas, all of whom are the top goalkeepers in football today.

The best defenders are Robert Carlos of Real Madrid, Cafo of Rome, and Hypia of Liverpool.

The best midfielder is competed by Manchester United's Roy Keane, Leverkusen's Barack and Arsenal's Vieira.

The best forward is between Juventus' Trezege, Manchester United's Van Nistruei and Real Madrid's Raul.

The three most valuable candidates are Real Madrid's Zidane and Raul, and Manchester United's Van Nistruei.

As the most popular team in European football last season, Atletico Madrid can be said to have won nothing in player awards.

But as the head coach, Gao Han was shortlisted for the coach of the year, competing with Real Madrid's Bosque, Manchester United's Ferguson, and Leverkusen's Top Mueller.

Newcastle's head coach Bobby Robson was awarded the Special Achievement Award.

…………

…………

"Unfair, it's absolutely unfair!"

When Gao Han got this list, he was completely unhappy.

"The status of the Champions League has been infinitely elevated, the UEFA Cup has been completely ignored, and the performance of the league has been seriously underestimated."

This is Gao Han’s opinion on this nomination.

"Karn and Buffon are different from us in the league. I won't say much about it. In La Liga, Cech won the best goalkeeper of the season and was selected for the best team. He conceded the fewest goals and performed the best. Why didn't he be shortlisted?"

The coaching staff members in the office were speechless.

In fact, everyone knows that although these UEFA awards depend on performance, fame is very important.

"We can't say the best defender, but what about the best midfielder? Kaka, Deco, Guardiola, they are definitely qualified to be shortlisted, especially Kaka."

"As for the best forward, by the same token, whether it is to compare the number of goals or performance, or even everyone will win the championship, Villa will lose to Trezege, Raul and Van Nistrui?"

At the end, Gao Han angrily slapped the fax in his hand on the table.

"This is Chi Lulu's discrimination!"

"There is no way, who can make people a wealthy family or a big-name superstar?" Cantalero was also very unwilling to give up, but he was helpless.

Sergio Garcia even patted Gao Han on the shoulder and smiled: "You are nominated for the Best Coach, and you represent the team and won this award."

Gao Han raised his eyebrows and said sarcastically, "Do you want to spend money?"

Everyone burst into laughter. This was too unreasonable. It seemed that UEFA awards were all bought with money.

But Gao Han really felt that it was like this.

However, this money is just spent on the player's transfer fee, which has made it famous.

Otherwise, in terms of performance, Atletico Madrid would not be so unbearable.

In 38 rounds of La Liga, the UEFA Cup, and the Spanish King's Cup, can't you win the best in Europe?

Without outstanding players, all the Atletico Madrid champions were bought with money?

"There's no way. Look at Sporting Lisbon, Jadel scored forty-two goals, but he still couldn't score in the best forward ranking."

Tony Munoz, who made a special trip to Sports City for this matter, also comforted him.

To be honest, he was also very unwilling to accept it, but there was no way. Who would let him be a wealthy family?

"UEFA also said that this list is not a simple data competition, but people are considering comprehensive performance evaluation."

Everyone listened to Tony Munos' sour words, and the more they heard them, the more they felt harsh.

After this guy retired, he started to do administrative work and his speech became more and more skillful.

"Oh, by the way, this big bag is all letters written to you by your fans."

Gao Han took a look and said, Oh my God, there is a big bag, I'm afraid there are thousands of seals.

"So much?" Gao Han had a headache.

When he first received a letter from the fans, he felt very excited and even replied in secret.

But later, as Atletico Madrid performed better and more fans wrote more and more, and he really couldn't stand it.

So, colleagues from the club's fan service department helped him screen, and most of them even helped him reply.

But there are also some letters that need to be handled by Gao Han himself.

For example, Emery was able to come to Atletico Madrid because he wrote several letters to Gao Han and applied to Atletico Madrid for an internship. Later, Gao Han gave him and several other people a chance.

But in the end, only Emery was valued by Gao Han and stayed.

"Most of our colleagues have seen it for you and returned it. Some fans even gave you gifts, and we have also helped you get a small gift from the club."

Gao Han nodded with satisfaction, which left a lot of effort for himself.

"However, there are a few letters that you still have to do, and one of them is particularly interesting."

As he said that, Tony Munoz took out a small bag from the bag containing the letters in the curious eyes, which contained about a dozen letters.

"These dozen letters were written by the same person, and the addresses were the same, and they were very regular, and they wrote one letter a week."

When everyone heard this, they immediately laughed.

"So he's a big fan."

“That’s interesting.”

"No, no, no, you don't understand, the key is not this." Tony Munos stopped quickly.

“What is the key?”

"Yes, let's hear it."

"Speak quickly, don't be too slow."

Gao Han had a dark face, "Why are you guys so gossiping?"

"The key is that this is a woman." Tony Munos looked at Gao Han ambiguously and smiled.

Everyone suddenly said oh.

Female fan? Write a letter a week?

Oh my god, this is too happy, right?

"How do you know it's a woman?" Gao Han was surprised.

"It's very simple, there are photos inside."

When everyone heard this, they were immediately excited and they were ready to ask for photos.

After Gao Han's permission, Tony Munoz took out one of the letters and took out a photo.

"Oh my god, I'm pretty."

"Yes, look, I'm wearing a bikini and I'm quite tall, but my figure is not very popular."
To be continued...