"After friendly consultation, the Football Association agreed that I will not participate in the two World Cup qualifiers on September 3 and 8. Please continue to support the national team."

After the Chinese team won the East Asian Cup championship, Chen Hao announced such a news through his Weibo account.

In order to prevent the emergence of conspiracy theories, he also specially paired a photo of himself and Cai Zhenhua, the leader of the Football Association. In the photo, two big-name Chinese football figures, one old and one young, both smiled, and obviously had a harmonious relationship and had a good conversation.

After the news was released, the Chinese team's top 40 match against Hong Kong, China on September 3... Ticket reservations immediately dropped by 40% compared with the first round of the game, and the overseas gambling handicap immediately raised the probability of the Chinese team's victory.

Chen Hao's life assistant Mo Xiaohao even joked:

"If you don't give scalpers a way out like this... Be careful that they send you bullets!"

-

On August 14, Atletico Madrid, which ended its business tour, was finally able to leave this hot land - China in August is indeed very hot.

Leaving with them was a 10 million euro appearance fee and a commercial sponsorship worth nearly 300 million euros. This trip to China was a great reward.

Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Atletico Madrid arranged a total of four stops in this trip to China. The last stop was obviously specially arranged for Chen Hao. After all, it was his home court.

Four commercial games, against SIPG, TEDA, Evergrande, and Longfa, all of which were one-sided massacres without exception, but... Since this is just a commercial game, Chen Hao will be replaced by Simeone for 45 minutes in each game, and the score has not been further expanded. It is nothing more than a 6-0 game, a 7-0 game, 5-0 game, and a 11-1 game.

On the club's charter flight, Atletico Madrid CEO Miguel Angel lay comfortably on the soft sofa and said to Simeone with a comfortable face:

"Diego, I regret that the trip to China was too short. China is so big and the business opportunities are unlimited. If conditions permit, we should hold at least one commercial competition in every provincial capital city! A game starts at 3 million. I bet that even Real Madrid and Manchester United won't get such a high price!"

Simeone looked at the excited CEO, but couldn't be happy at all:

"Miguel, do you TMD know... when the La Liga starts?"

Angel was stunned for a moment:

“…Which day?”

Simeone gritted her teeth and spit out a few words:

"August 22! Just eight days later!"

Leave time for Atletico Madrid to prepare for training... only one last week is left!

-

The 2015-16 Spanish League One will be opened on August 22, but in contrast, the Premier League has already kicked off on August 8.

It's a bit strange to say that the Premier League started two weeks earlier than La Liga and there is no winter break to rest in winter, but the Premier League is called the most intense event...

——Of course, one of the reasons is the devil schedule deliberately arranged for business reasons, but anyone can see that for players, the Premier League schedule is definitely not reasonable.

Shortly after Atletico Madrid and his group arrived in Madrid, another major event happened in European football.

Real Madrid officially announced that the club signed Manchester United goalkeeper for 40 million euros... David De Gea!

In order to get this talented goalkeeper at the lowest price, Real Madrid has tried every effort, and De Gea's agent Mendes is a variety of tricks.

Manchester United's attitude from top to bottom is extremely tough, especially head coach Van Gaal, who even made a harsh statement that "I would rather let De Gea be in the reserve team than sell it to Real Madrid club"!

In the first two rounds of the new season, Van Gaal did fulfill his promise and did not let De Gea play for even a second!

Even... I didn't even enter the big list!

Both sides have completely torn their faces. If De Gea hadn't had some feelings for Manchester United, he might have fought with his teammates in daily training, thus showing his attitude to the club and putting pressure on him!

——Although this method is very low-level, it is always tried and tested, but it will consume a lot of character and reputation in a short period of time...

Originally, although Real Madrid wanted to sign De Gea, they were unwilling to pay out excessive transfer fees. After all, De Gea and Manchester United had only one year left for the contract. As long as they wait for another year, Real Madrid could buy the local genius without spending a penny (the news at the time was that Manchester United priced at 35 million, but Real Madrid was only willing to pay 17 million...).

But Chen Hao joined Atletico Madrid and pushed Real Madrid to the forefront. After a summer of negotiations, Florentino finally made up his mind to buy the top goalkeeper produced by Atletico Madrid!

Manchester United quickly made the goalkeeper's position: Van Gaal first introduced his fellow countryman, Dutch goalkeeper Cilesen for 10 million euros, and then signed Argentine national goalkeeper Romero for free. In addition, former Barcelona goalkeeper Valdes, who just joined a year ago, they are not particularly short of people in the goalkeeper position.

Of course, Romero is very strong, the main goalkeeper in the World Cup runner-up and the Copa America runner-up, but compared to De Gea, who has already proved his top strength in the Premier League and the Champions League, it is obviously unknown whether Romero can quickly integrate into Manchester United.

Chen Hao, the person who came unexpectedly, finally slowly leveraged the entire football world.

-

The Atletico Madrid soldiers who returned to the base did not immediately devote themselves to the intense and exciting training. The 12-day Chinese commercial performance exhausted everyone, and Simeone had to postpone the training date until two days later.

Chen Hao is the same, but his task seems to be heavier than everyone else. In addition to adjusting his work and rest time, he also has to accept Spanish courses to ensure that he adapts to the new environment as soon as possible.

The club is considerate. Among the 3.4 million permanent residents in Madrid, a Chinese teacher who works in a local school was found, and he tutored Chen Hao one-on-one language every afternoon.

Raiola once made a suggestion that as long as Chen Hao agreed, this powerful agent could immediately recruit him a real beautiful teacher. In addition to language tutoring, he might also provide other more considerate services...

However, Chen Hao was not only unmoved, but instead refused righteously.

With his current strong and rigid physical condition, if he really comes to a beautiful teacher every day, he would probably not be able to learn a Spanish sentence if he gave himself ten years...

No, maybe you can only learn certain specific words?

-

On August 16, Simeone finally gathered all the players on the training ground.

Although they had been resting for 40 hours, most players still had fatigue on their faces.

Simeone frowned:

"I know you are not easy, but you also know that there is only one week left for us to adjust. Our opponent in the first round was fourth in the second division last season, Las Palmas, and we have little knowledge of them. This summer, their personnel have changed significantly. Even if we study the video of last season, it will not be very useful, so this game will definitely not be so easy.

In the second round of the league, we will challenge Sevilla away. They won the UEFA Cup championship for two consecutive seasons and are already an opponent that cannot be underestimated.

As for the third round... Maybe no one underestimates the enemy, right? Because our opponent..."

Simeone paused for a moment, and then said word by word:

"It is the world's strongest cosmic team in 2015, Barcelona!"

Seeing the head coach's solemn expression on his face, Chen Hao couldn't help laughing.

Playing Barcelona in the third round?
Chapter completed!