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Chapter 24 The chance to go home

After the day's holiday, Arsenal's training returned to normal.

This time, before the next round of the league comes, there is one more matter, that is, the 2010-2011 Champions League draw ceremony. After three days of resuming training, Wenger, as the team's representative, will take a player to the draw ceremony.

As a striking figure in the team over the past half month, Liu Feng naturally became a player who followed Wenger to the lottery site.

On the evening of August 25, 2010, the Champions League draw ceremony officially began. Here Liu Feng once again saw two familiar faces, former coach Conte and teammate Girardino.

After the three met, there was a greeting. Girardino has recovered from injury now. If nothing unexpected happens, he will become an indispensable part of the team's forward line in the new season.

Conte became more and more mature. When he shook hands with Wenger, his body had already burst out with the momentum of an old senior who had already achieved success.

Everyone is growing up, and Liu Feng is the same. Unlike the first time he came to the Champions League draw with Conte, he seemed polite and gentlemanly to greet the media at the venue.

Soon, after everyone took the seat, the host in charge of the lottery did not talk much. After briefly introducing the lottery rules, he directly invited the guests in charge of the lottery.

The tense group draw ceremony was tense as the guests took out small balls representing each team. The first to determine the group was naturally the defending champion Inter Milan. They were assigned to Group A and then they learned the name of the first opponent - Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham has almost never had any special results in the Champions League. As the second-tier team, they were assigned to Inter Milan, which is definitely a very wonderful thing for the defending champion. The new Inter Milan coach Benitez is very satisfied with this.

Another dramatic thing is that since he was assigned to the same group with Real Madrid last season, AC Milan has once again been separated from Real Madrid this season. Two teams with the highest number of Champions League are destined to continue to fall in love and fight each other.

Former Golden Baller Mr. Kaka, who has had a not-so-great World Cup experience this season, has to face the situation of facing his old owner again.

As for Arsenal, after a series of groups came to an end, the team's name was finally drawn out. It happened that the Gunners were assigned to Group H, which was consistent with the Champions League last season.

Their first opponent was quickly drawn out, and it was the Donetzk miners from the Russian Premier League.

Soon, two teams had already existed in each group, and the lottery guests finally began to draw small balls representing the team from the third and fourth echelons.

There are no weak teams in the Champions League. Among these third and fourth echelon teams, there are still many teams that are in the limelight in recent years, such as Werder Bremen, which has risen rapidly in the Bundesliga, and Piacenza, whose dark horse emerged last season and almost reached the Champions League final.

The ownership of these tricky teams almost determines which group they are assigned to, which group will become the death group.

Although he had left Piacenza, Liu Feng's heart was still concerned about the team at this moment. He quickly browsed the distribution of teams in various groups and thought about which group Piacenza was assigned to make it easier to break through.

Time did not give him the chance to draw a conclusion, and soon a small ball representing the name of Piacenza appeared in the hands of the guests.

So, the second topic that caused heated discussion in this lottery ceremony emerged.

"The third team in Group H, Piacenza."

When the lottery guest smiled and announced the results, Liu Feng's eyes were complicated in the direction where Conte and Girardino were sitting, but what he got was Conte's smiling eyes.

Obviously, compared to Liu Feng's nervousness and discomfort when he met his old master, Conte, as the head coach, did not care too much. He had experienced countless storms in his career, and had long learned to treat such things with a normal mind.

The subsequent draw has nothing to do with Liu Feng, and the quota of the last team in Group H was finally determined. The Belgrade guerrillas from the Serbian League were hit into Group H, which had an extremely unclear promotion situation.

Soon, the lottery guest walked off the stage with the polite request of the host. After a few simple words, the head of UEFA completed his final summary speech.

When the host announced the end of the lottery ceremony, Wenger and Liu Feng met Conte and Girardino again. Wenger and Conte looked at each other and smiled and said nothing more. They just shook hands and wished each other good performance.

Girardino stood side by side with Liu Feng and got idle with him.

"Feng, don't be nervous. After you leave, the fans miss you so much. It's a good idea to have a chance to go home and have a look."

“Uh, but…”

"Haha, Feng, have you forgotten what our most basic identity is?" He smiled and patted Liu Feng on the shoulder. Girardino, who was almost thirty years old, looked like an elder at this moment: "We are players."

"..." After hearing Gilardino's words, Liu Feng had nothing to say. As a player, his most fundamental professional quality is to play for the current team wholeheartedly. It is not a good thing that he has so many concerns: "I understand."

On that day, the Champions League draw result was quickly spread to all parts of the world through various media. The fact that Kaka met his old master twice and Liu Feng met his old master made people wonder if the stars who left Serie A had to go through this stage.

Of course, this is just a chat after dinner.

More people's attention is still focused on the intensity and possibility of qualifying in the groupings of each team. At this point, the fans of each team are naturally concerned about their own teams.

For Arsenal and Liu Feng fans, Group H is not the death group mentioned by the media at least for the Gunners.

The Arsenal has not had many years of experience in going home in the Champions League group stage. For those who now have Liu Feng, it is even more impossible for them to be unable to even get out of the group stage.

In other words, the Gunners are determined to occupy a qualifying place, so the pressure will come to other teams.

Last season's dark horse Piacenza, after losing its core soul this season, can break out under the attack of Russian Super League powerhouses and Serie A giants? It has become the most concerned thing for Chinese and Piacenza fans.

Yes, even after Liu Feng left, Piacenza of Serie A still became one of the clubs with the largest number of Chinese fans.

Who is ruthless without a plant? This small club has retained the hearts of these fans who have been following this team for three years with their very humane transfer operations.

Although they lost nearly 20 million euros in transfer income, they gained a lot of other things.
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