I AM the Football Star

Chapter 873 - 211: Is It a Reign for All or a Final Flicker? (Part 4)

This is the truth of Barça.

Except for Mateo, no one can enjoy privileges.

But if someone who doesn’t understand, doesn’t get, or doesn’t agree with Barça’s truth heard this, it would seem boastful without bounds.

Praxedes immediately retorted: "Oh really? The thing is, according to AC Milan’s selection standards, perhaps only Moreira might barely catch our eye from this Barça team."

"Considering the results, with AC Milan thrashing Barça in this year’s Champions League, perhaps... our vision is better?"

"A bunch of talentless mediocre players, what gives them the right to make such excessive evaluations of our players?"

"No matter which veteran from our team, you ought to look upon them with reverence!"

Even the usually zen Bernulin responded: "The ones climbing up should hold reverence for those coming down. It’s not because you’ll one day be descending the mountain, but because you’ll never know that those people once reached the high summit!"

"Perhaps someone in this Spanish team will become a historical-level superstar in the future, but trust me, most of them won’t achieve more than Ancelotti, Perrotta, Praxedes."

Barça’s defender Mebarak commented with: "Give me a break! Are you talking about Ancelotti, who recently played eight matches for the national team, scoring only one goal and assist? I’m laughing!"

From blasting a group to personal attacks.

Ancelotti became the breakthrough point for Spanish fans.

Because Ancelotti’s performance has indeed been uninspiring lately.

Finally, the Spanish fans labeled this Italian team with just four words... final spark!

Nothing to worry about!

...

On August 7, the first semi-final kicked off.

France VS Germany.

This match, the score doesn’t reflect the situation.

France team won four to two, a bloodbath against the German team!

It’s called a bloodbath because the entire German team’s performance was nothing short of disastrous.

Besides the big central forward Stiepelman scoring a goal, the other goal was even an own goal from the France team.

If not for the young German goalkeeper Manuel Bauer displaying divine-level saving ability, it would have been quite normal for France to score six or seven goals in this match.

From this perspective, Bayern made a good deal, signing a world-class goalkeeper at a bargain price.

Bauer’s performance almost secured the best goalkeeper position of this European Cup in advance.

His saves were too powerful.

But in stark contrast was the performance of the other German team players.

If one or two players don’t perform well, it’s a player’s issue, but when ten players perform poorly, that’s clearly a big problem.

So, what exactly is the problem?

The Germans gave an answer.

After the game, they announced that Bayern player Tony Collette was expelled from this national team!

The reason being he affected the harmonious atmosphere within the team and caused off-field troubles, thereby dragging down the team.

This penalty, once announced, shocked world football.

Because Germany was already knocked out of the European Cup.

Firstly, reaching the semi-finals isn’t bad, at least it meets the benchmark, with no reason for such drastic action.

To claim every team should hold a champion’s heart, refers to their spirit.

And not really treating themselves as true champions; if they’re not destined for the championship, they end up catching the champion’s disease.

Secondly, with the team already eliminated, there’s no need to expel Collette, he would leave anyway.

What other purpose does this serve besides purely disgusting people and shifting blame?

No one understood the German National Team’s reason for this action.

Until someone leaked: the assistant coach who shifted the blame to Collette at Bayern, is a relative of the current German national team head coach. The former is the latter’s brother-in-law!

It’s clear now!

No wonder when Bayern was shifting blame previously, no one from the Bayern top brass or the German National Team spoke up to refute.

Turns out they’re family.

If not lending a hand to family, who else will they help?

Moreover, using such a scapegoating method is indeed very effective. Those adept at this can cause countless troubles without a scratch as everyone around them falls.

And players, in club relations, are originally mid to low-level, making them easy targets to be pushed against the wall or used as shields.

The Collette incident even overshadowed the heat of France advancing to the finals!