Chapter 102 Final Circle Group

Gareth Bale played all the qualifiers with the belief that he must go to Spain. Wales withstood the pressure of pursuing soldiers behind him in the last two rounds of the game and was qualified to directly advance to the European Cup finals as the second in the group.

This result caused a huge response in Wales. They finally entered the European Cup finals again after 1976. Their score in that European Cup was in the quarterfinals. The Welsh media hope that this time, under the leadership of Bale and Ramsey, the team can tie the best results in history at least.

On the night of qualifying, Bell called Tang En. The other end of the phone was very noisy, but Tang En could still hear Bell's roar at the top of his lungs: "Boss! We're going to Spain! We're going to Spain!"

There seemed to be someone beating next to him: "Spain! Spain!!"

Tang En knew that they were celebrating this rare victory, so he didn't disturb him much. Besides, with Bell's current situation, he might not be able to hear anything he said. He simply congratulated and hung up the phone.

Although Wales can enter the European Cup finals this time, it is also due to the expansion of the European Cup, from sixteen teams to twenty-four teams. Despite this, the Welsh people also have reason to roam.

It is completely different from Wales' national carnival. England is relatively calm about being able to qualify. After all, they are regular visitors to the European Cup. If they can't go to Spain, they should make the front page of the media. Tang En was able to lead the team to qualify two rounds in advance, which was only considered as completing the first task.

The next European Cup finals are the real test.

At the end of November, the six best-achieved teams played a two-round playoff between the third place in the home and away game, and the last three teams advanced were decided.

Then in Nyon, Switzerland, the head coaches of twenty-four teams gathered together to participate in the lottery grouping ceremony held by UEFA.

Tang En participated in the lottery ceremony more, and even the draw ceremony for the national team was no different. At most, he met a few more coaches coached in the national team. He himself was still the focus of media attention.

Two days before the lottery, a European Cup grouping list that was said to have been leaked from within UEFA appeared on the Internet. Regardless of the authenticity of this list, it quickly attracted the attention of the media, and the news on the Internet immediately became the voice of the mainstream media.

The reporters who came to interview also asked Donn about this question because the grouping situation in England on this list is not good - they were assigned to a group with strong hands.

The grouping of the European Cup final stage must first determine the seed teams, and divide all participating teams into four levels according to their previous World Cup qualifiers, previous and current European Cup qualifiers by the number of participating games. The host and defending champion can directly obtain seed team qualifications, while the remaining seed teams will be generated from the first-level teams.

In this group list that is rumored to be an "internal leaked version". England was assigned to Group D as a seed team, with Sweden, Germany and Denmark in the same group.

Germany is not surprising as a second-level team, because they performed poorly in the qualifiers of the European Cup jointly organized by Poland and Ukraine in the last time, and they were able to advance to the finals through the play-offs at the end. However, as the few traditional strong teams in the second-level team, it was really England's "luck" to meet England.

The reporters really want to hear what Donn thought of this leaked version of the grouping list. They had interviewed German head coach Summer before, and Summer believed that the list was fabricated by the reporters. They would not comment. Then they interviewed Swedish head coach Roland Anderson, and Anderson's answer was exactly the same as Summer.

But this is common sense.

Group draws lots are very important. Now, a "leak version" has been circulated before the lottery ceremony begins. Which head coach dares to comment on it at will? They don’t even know the authenticity, so how can they comment on this list?

But the reporters know who Tony Tangen is. His big mouth has been silent for more than a year, and it is time to shine.

Don Eun didn't disappoint them either.

He seemed to have no doubt about the authenticity of this list, and then he commented on his "group opponents".

"Germany is a strong team, I know the feud between England and Germany... There is nothing to be boast about the historical record of England and Sweden. We need to deal with it carefully... Denmark is a very tough team. I have played against them in the qualifiers, but I didn't expect to meet again this time. They are a team that is difficult to deal with. Just look at the results of our matches in the qualifiers. One wins and one draw, be careful..."

A reporter finally couldn't help but asked straightforwardly: "Mr. Tang En. Are you not going to express your opinion on this list itself?"

Tang En pretended to be surprised: "Is there anything wrong with this list?"

"It is said that this is a leaked version..."

Tang Endi interrupted the reporter's words: "Whether it is the European Champions League or the European Cup, there was no 'leak version' before the game? And we always find that the leaked versions are always a bit similar to the official version of the last draw..."

"Mr. Done, do you mean that the lottery result has been decided by UEFA long ago?"

The reporters shouted excitedly, and they finally heard the sound they wanted to hear the most.

Tang En's face was immediately pulled down, and he stared at the reporter who asked: "I have never said that. If you think I said it in the report, I will keep accusing you of slandering me. Mr. Reporter."

The atmosphere on the scene immediately became cold.

Tang En took this opportunity to get out of the reporters' encirclement and walked into the conference scene.

There he met with his immediate boss, FA CEO Sean Barclays.

"So many reporters are surrounding you. What are you asking?" He glanced at the excited reporters at the door with some vigilance. He was worried that Tang En would be making a fuss again.

"The result of the leaked version of the lottery, what else can it be?" Tang En asked back as if nothing had happened.

"You didn't say anything, did you? Mr. Tang. "Mr. Barclay became obviously nervous.

Donn grinned: "What are you worried about, Mr. Barclay?"

Barclay was not good at speaking. He frowned and patted Tang En's shoulder: "Let's go. Mr. Tang En. The lottery ceremony is about to begin."

Unlike the leaked version, England was not assigned to Group D, but to Group C. This made many people even believe that the results of the leaked version of the group draw were fabricated, because there will be more or less similar rumors before each competition, and everyone is used to it.

After all the seed teams are arranged, they will start to draw the second-level team.

When it was Group C's turn, the guest draws the lottery, Raul Gonzalez, a former Madrid flag from Spain, raised the ping-pong ball in his hand. He pulled out the note in the ball and pronounced the name on it. At the same time, the note in his hand also appeared on the big screen behind him.

"Germany. "

A boo suddenly rang out at the scene.

The camera scanned the positions the coaches did and found Tony Don accurately, but found that he put his fingers in his mouth, shushing.

If it weren't for everyone's familiarity with Tony Tang's image, I'm afraid that now would think that he was a passerby who was busy joining in the fun. Instead of one of the parties involved...

"Mr. Tangen!" Barclay, who was sitting next to him, was waiting for Tangen with an unhappy look on his face.

Tang En glanced at him and shrewd a few more times. His sharp booed sounds could be clearly heard during the TV broadcast.

After doing this, he took his hands out of his mouth and wiped his suit without any image. "What's the matter, Mr. Barclay?"

"Pay attention to your image..." Barclay said powerlessly.

Don Eun smiled: "Okay, Mr. Barclay."

The commotion caused by this draw lasted for a while before it disappeared. Someone looked back to see what the England head coach had to say about the result and saw him booing. Who knew whether he was an excited booing or a dissatisfied booing... But it doesn't matter, the media will arrange lines for him.

I believe that the UEFA senior officials sitting on the rostrum must have seen this scene. There is no way, who told Tony and Don Eun to be the focus of the venue at that moment?

The German Summer was a little dissatisfied with the result. He frowned and looked solemn. Perhaps, he was a little unhappy with Don Eun's attitude - this Englishman was too frivolous!

The Englishman who caressed her gently sat in his position at this time, looking at the German football legend Beckenbauer who walked up to draw lots with a smile.

What he is going to draw is the third-level Earth team in Group C.

The result he pulled out disappointed the excited media, because it was not the expected Sweden, but Portugal.

Don En laughed below. Portugal is stronger than Sweden. If it weren't for their poor performance in this qualifier and their failure to enter the Brazil World Cup, how could it be ranked third...

The team that appeared in the fourth level gave Tang En a look of surprise for the first time.

"Welsh." The host read this somewhat boring name.

Tang En's brow jumped.

He didn't expect that he and the little monkey would meet again so soon.

Due to the expansion of the European Cup, the group stage has been increased from four groups to six, so the possibility of "strong dialogue" in the group stage in the past is much lower. So England formed the veritable "death group" in this small group.

It's almost the same as the previous "leak version". At least, England and Germany are indeed separated.

As soon as the lottery ceremony ended, the media surrounded Tang En again.

Seeing that he was about to be squeezed out by the reporters who rushed forward, Barclay quickly spoke in Tang En's ear: "Don't talk nonsense, Mr. Tang En!"

The phone number is very simple, Platini reminded Barclay as a personal friend.                                                                                                                     �

The new FA CEO is different from his previous posts. He is trying to fix the relationship between FA and UEFA, because UEFA always targets England and has made many messy policies in recent years.

He naturally did not want Don't have a big mouth to affect his "friendship" with Platini, and also to destroy the relationship between the FA and UEFA.

A few months ago, he proudly expressed in Denmark how successful his control over Don En was. Now he has realized how troublesome it is to have such a rebellious head coach.
Chapter completed!