Lin Hai Ting Tao

Chapter 1080 Documentary

After the league, everyone's attention naturally turned to the Champions League.

The current situation is that the Bundesliga has ended, but there is one last round left in La Liga, and Real Madrid is already out of the running for the league title. So, in fact, they can also devote all their energy to preparing for the Champions League final.

The protagonists of the last round of La Liga are Atletico Madrid and Barcelona.

These two teams are currently ranked in the top two of the league, and the last round of the league is a direct match between these two teams.

Barcelona will face Atletico Madrid at home.

As long as Atletico Madrid doesn't lose to Barcelona, they will win the league title.

For those teams that are not participating in the Champions League final, they can go on vacation after the last round of the league.

However, since there is a World Cup this summer, those players who will participate in the World Cup cannot rest yet. They have to report directly from the club to the national team to participate in the final training camp.

This year's World Cup starts on June 12th, and the major European leagues basically end in mid-May, leaving less than a month for the national teams to prepare for the World Cup.

The Bundesliga and the Premier League ended the earliest, with the last round of the league ending on May 10th and 11th respectively.

For the Chinese team, Yang Muge, who plays for Schalke 04, has already left Germany and returned to China to report to the national team.

However, Zhou Yi and Yan Min will have to wait until May 25th at the earliest to return to the national team because Dortmund has reached the Champions League final.

This is not good news for the Chinese team.

When the team's absolute core returns to the team, there are only twenty days left before the start of the World Cup, which will have a very unfavorable impact on the entire Chinese team's preparation.

Yang Muge was the first overseas player to return.

Next to return to China was goalkeeper Sun Pan, who plays for Chelsea.

The Premier League ended one day later than the Bundesliga. Chelsea defeated Cardiff City 2-0 away. Chelsea this season failed to win the league title, but they eventually finished third in the league and still qualified for the Champions League next season.

A week later, La Liga, Ligue 1, and Serie A all ended.

In La Liga, Atletico Madrid drew 1-1 with Atletico Madrid away, winning the league title.

In Serie A, Guo Nu's Inter Milan lost to Chievo 1-2, and finally only finished fifth in the league, qualifying for the Europa League, still missing out on the Champions League.

Unless Guo Nu transfers to a team that can play in the Champions League, Guo Nu will still be the only Chinese overseas player who has not participated in the Champions League next season.

In the last round of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain defeated Montpellier 4-0 at home. This season, Paris Saint-Germain won the league title in advance, and they eventually led second-placed Monaco by as many as nine points.

He Ying has also won the Ligue 1 title for two consecutive seasons, but this season is his first full season at Paris Saint-Germain.

This season, he scored fifteen goals in Ligue 1, ranking seventh in the Ligue 1 scorer list. The Ligue 1 Golden Boot belongs to He Ying's teammate Ibrahimovic, who scored twenty-six goals, far ahead of everyone else.

The second place has as many as five people, they are tied for second, and they have all scored sixteen goals. They are Kalou from Lille, Yeder from Toulouse, Aboubakar from Lorient, Cavani from Paris Saint-Germain, and Gignac from Marseille.

He Ying and Lacazette from Lyon scored fifteen goals together, tied for third.

Although he did not win the Golden Boot, He Ying still scored fifteen goals while the team had two scoring weapons, Ibrahimovic and Cavani. His performance was already very outstanding, and this was the season with the most goals he has scored in the top league.

Moreover, he also has four goals in the Champions League, which is the second scorer in the Champions League in Paris Saint-Germain, second only to Ibrahimovic.

Such performance will help improve his status in the team, and I believe he will play a more important role in Paris Saint-Germain next season.

After He Ying and Guo Nu returned to the team, the Chinese national team was basically assembled, with only Zhou Yi and Yan Min missing.

Most of the attention of Chinese fans has also shifted to the national team.

The Champions League final is certainly very important, but Zhou Yi has already won it, and the difficulty of defending the Champions League is too great, and everyone does not have much hope.

The World Cup, on the other hand, is more important than the Champions League.

The last time the Chinese team participated in the World Cup was twelve years ago.

As the world's football event, the World Cup is of course more worthy of attention than the Champions League.

According to the announced preparation plan, the Chinese team's training is divided into three parts. The first is the domestic training part, which is mainly participated by players who play in China, and it has already started before the European leagues have ended. In order to make way for the national team's preparation, the domestic league has been temporarily suspended. Zheng Zhi, who had been highly vocal about returning to the national team before, has also entered the training list this time as he wished. Of course, it is not certain whether he will really be taken to Brazil in the end, it depends on his performance during the training period, but at least there is a chance.

Next, on May 15th, the domestic national team players will set off for Europe for training.

The reason for choosing to train in Europe is, on the one hand, to take care of the overseas players who participate in the European leagues, and on the other hand, it is convenient to arrange warm-up matches. They have two warm-up matches to play in Europe. Another reason is the consideration of the itinerary. Anyway, from China to Brazil, it is also necessary to transfer in Europe, so training in Europe can reduce the distance to fly to Brazil, save time, and reduce the Chinese players' energy consumption on the journey.

The third part is naturally to train in Brazil. There is still a warm-up match waiting for them there, and then they will continue to train until the World Cup begins.

Zhou Yi and Yan Min will go directly to Spain to join the national team after the Champions League final to participate in the national team training.

This summer will be very busy for Zhou Yi.

Only after the World Cup games will there be rest time.

If the Chinese team enters the knockout stage, then Zhou Yi and Yan Min will almost certainly miss Dortmund's new season training.

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Dortmund began preparing for the Champions League final on May 12th.

For Zhou Yi, in addition to preparing for the Champions League final, he also has one thing to participate in.

That is to shoot a documentary with him as the protagonist.

This project was actually proposed a year ago. At that time, he led Dortmund to win the Champions League. After that, in China, a company contacted Zhou Yi's agent Schulze through various channels and proposed to him the intention of shooting a documentary about Zhou Yi.

Schulze was quite interested in this proposal. After all, being able to let Zhou Yi appear on the big screen would also be very helpful for improving Zhou Yi's personal image.

However, at that time, it was just an intention. The company that was looking for Zhou Yi had nothing but intention. They hoped to get Zhou Yi's authorization and consent, so that they could carry out the follow-up work.

Zhou Yi was not opposed to filming a documentary, but he had his own things to do, so he handed over the matter to Schulze to do.

Later, Zhou Yi met with the other party several times, and each time the other party would bring different people.

Some were said to be investors, and some were said to be directors.

After meeting in Germany several times, the two sides negotiated countless times, there were differences and disputes, and there were several repeated negotiations. When Zhou Yi was about to forget about this matter, one day Schulze told him that the matter had actually been finalized.

It is said that this is an international team, not only with Chinese, but also with British and German teams.

This is also what Schulze requested. At the beginning, the Chinese domestic company only hoped to shoot a documentary and then broadcast it in China. However, Schulze felt that it would be a pity if it was only broadcast in China. He hoped that it could be released globally, of course, mainly in China, but the internationalization of the team was inevitable.

At the same time, this documentary also needs to record Zhou Yi's performance in the World Cup, which requires the approval of the Chinese Football Association to be able to follow the Chinese team to the World Cup as a accompanying photography team, from the training camp to the World Cup games.

At the same time, they will also be allowed to enter the Chinese team's dressing room to shoot the unknown scenes and stories inside the team.

The negotiation with the Chinese Football Association was very difficult, after all, there has never been such a thing in the history of Chinese football.

Even in the history of Chinese sports, it is also a precedent.

The producer used various public and private relations, and also used the outstanding sports documentaries in European and American sports history to persuade the Chinese Football Association.

For example, the documentary "A Summer Fairy Tale" about the German national team in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

In the end, the producer promised to shoot a documentary of the World Cup for the Chinese national team for free, which was granted the filming qualification.

At that time, they will participate in the training at all stages with the team, and the team coaching staff, dressing room, dormitory, and hotel will all open the green light to them. At the same time, the filming team must also promise not to privately disclose the filming content, and all filming activities must be carried out on the premise of not interfering with or affecting the team's preparation. If the coaching staff does not allow filming, then it cannot be filmed.

Originally, they only wanted to shoot a documentary about Zhou Yi, but now it has changed from one to two documentaries. The number of people needs to be increased, and the time and money investment are far beyond the initial expectations. They have to introduce more companies to participate.

Because of these reasons, the preparation work took more time than originally expected.

Fortunately, the documentary can finally start filming before the World Cup.

The crew in charge of the national team has entered the Chinese national team's domestic training base and started filming.

The crew in charge of Zhou Yi rushed to Germany. On the one hand, they filmed Zhou Yi's preparation for the Champions League final. On the other hand, they have another task - they will reveal the secrets of Zhou Yi's various magical performances on the field to the world in the documentary.