287 The game starts
When Atletico Madrid was conducting field adaptive training with the team, Mark did not notice Contra at this time, and Mark was still a little puzzled in his heart.
"Is Contra drunk too much? She didn't get up?" Mark asked Torres beside him at this time.
Torres obviously did not notice Contra's arrival at this time. Torres must have discovered something wrong at this time. He looked at his teammates next to him and did not find Contra's figure.
At this moment, Mark also paid attention to Cooper's facial expression, but Cooper's expression was very good and there was no expression at all. Mark could not find anything more in Cooper's expression at this time.
At this time, Cooper was standing in the middle of the field and watching the players train. From time to time, Cooper would point out the wrong things in the training of these players.
In this training, Atletico Madrid mainly allows players to adapt to the field. After all, Atletico Madrid players rarely come to Bucharest to play.
They should be extremely unfamiliar with the environment here, and the Bucharest Stars team is also very mysterious, at least very mysterious to Atletico Madrid.
Although Cooper sent professional scouts to investigate the Bucharest Stars, it was obvious that these scouts brought back to Cooper only some videos of the game.
Although the Bucharest Stars is a relatively mysterious team, they still unexpectedly defeated Valencia in the last round of the League Cup, which was a very impressive result.
Cooper asked the team to train to adapt to the field two days in advance, which shows how much Cooper attaches importance to this game.
However, at this time, there were really players who were not very good at seeing each other. They were late at Cooper’s training ground. This person was Contra. After Contra had trained for an hour at Atletico Madrid players, he hurried to the Bucharest Planet Stadium.
"Coach, sorry, I'm late." Contra still smelled a lot of alcohol on his body at this time. When he talked to Cooper, Cooper could clearly smell his body.
"You don't need to train, go back to the hotel now." At this time, Cooper didn't look at Contra at all, and then said casually.
Contra also understood what Cooper meant at this time. It seemed that Cooper was really angry. Contra really wouldn't have anything to do with this training.
Contra did not continue to argue with Cooper at this time, but returned to the hotel obediently. He also felt a little regretful at this time. What he regretted was why did he drink a little wine yesterday? If he could drink less, he would definitely be able to get up early.
And now the defender is too late. Contra should have been blacklisted by head coach Cooper. It can be imagined that Cooper would not give Contra a chance to play in such a situation.
Contra originally thought that when he came to Bucharest, the head coach would give him some chance, but this opportunity was cancelled because of his drinking.
Contra is not Ronaldinho, and Cooper is not Rijcard. Ronaldinho can train in the club with alcohol, and Rijcardo can also forgive Ronaldinho.
It is entirely because Barcelona's tactical style relies on Ronaldinho as the core to operate. In Barcelona's tactics, players like Ronaldinho are naturally indispensable.
But it is obvious that Contra did not have such treatment at Atletico Madrid. Contra was not the main player, and he was not even considered a rotation lineup. He was just a ten thousand-year substitute for Atletico Madrid.
So Contra's personal life has affected his normal training every day, which is something that head coach Cooper cannot tolerate, but Cooper also knows the importance of this game. After he was not angry, he sent Contra back to Madrid.
This is because Cooper brought these players to Bucharest this time, and there were only eighteen players. Except for the eleven starting players, only seven substitutes were left.
If Cooper sends Contra back to Madrid, he must call another player from Madrid to replace him. Cooper has no better candidate at this time, and Atletico Madrid's bench depth is not very thick.
Cooper mainly relies on those main players to play games. As for the substitutes, Cooper does not trust them very much. Cooper should be a very superstitious coach.
He is still willing to trust the players he trusts, and rarely is willing to make big rotations in the lineup. This should be said to be a tactical style of Cooper. Cooper always rotates among the eighteen and twenty players.
The remaining players basically cannot get even one game of opportunity, so the players of Atletico Madrid are still very tired in their physical condition.
"It seems that Contra is over. He must have been on the coach's blacklist. Fortunately, we came back early yesterday, otherwise we would have ended like him." After Mark saw Contra's lonely back at this time, he said to Torres with some gratitude.
"Yes, we are indeed lucky," Torres also stuck out his tongue at this time.
Atletico Madrid quickly finished training to adapt to the venue, and then returned to the hotel in the afternoon, because training to adapt to the venue was carried out in the morning.
This is not what Atletico Madrid requires, but is arranged by Bucharest Stars for Atletico Madrid, and Atletico Madrid naturally has to accept the arrangements of Bucharest Stars.
Because they are playing away, they naturally need to follow the arrangements of the home team, and there is no problem with the arrangements of the Bucharest Stars.
In the afternoon, Atletico Madrid will continue to train. Of course, the training ground is not provided by Bucharest Stars, because they only have one training base. If Atletico Madrid players have their training ground, Atletico Madrid can directly observe the training of Bucharest Stars.
This is what the Bucharest Stars don't want to see, because compared with Atletico Madrid, their strength is still not as good as Atletico Madrid, and their advantage is their sense of mystery.
As for this mystery, the Bucharest Stars naturally had to maintain it, but Atletico Madrid obviously had another way. The team leader had already contacted the training ground of another club.
This is naturally the city rival of Bucharest Stars, the training stadium of Bucharest Dinamo, and Dynamo is obviously willing to provide their stadium for Atletico Madrid to train.
Because Atletico Madrid is here to play the League Cup, if Atletico Madrid can defeat the Bucharest Stars, Dynamo will definitely be very happy.
Because the enemy is friends, they are willing to make friends with wealthy teams like Atletico Madrid, so the board of directors of Dynamo is also very enthusiastic.
Their officials took Atletico Madrid players to visit Dynamo's training facilities and honor room, as if they regarded Atletico Madrid as a VIP.
Such a move surprised the Atletico Madrid players because they had not received such treatment abroad, but they were also very happy to receive special treatment.
Dynamo also played a short friendly match with Atletico Madrid, which was of course not a full game, but a half-court football training game.
The players on both sides also seemed very friendly, basically without particularly big fouls, which was also a friendly match proposed by Cooper in order to understand Bucharest's football style.
Although Cooper is not sure whether the style of Bucharest Dinamo will be the same as that of Bucharest Stars, Cooper feels that both teams should be representative teams of Romanian technical football, and there should be no gap.
In addition, Cooper also knows that the Bucharest Stars have strong offensive ability, and their defensive ability seems to be very average, because in the last round of the Bucharest Stars' game against Valencia, they allowed Valencia to score two goals at home, losing at home 2-0.
After Bucharest went to the away game, he actually scored two goals in a row at Valencia's home court and then finally got the chance to advance. This is simply unimaginable.
You should know that Bucharest's opponent is not Acamao and Dog, it is one of the best teams in La Liga. Valencia, who won the double championship of the league championship and the League Cup last season with defensive counterattack.
Therefore, their team's offensive ability should not be underestimated, and Cooper just wants to see if Atletico Madrid can withstand the attack of the Bucharest Stars.
So Cooper still asked Atletico Madrid to defend with all his strength during training games, so that he could test Atletico Madrid's defensive ability. Although his opponent is Dynamo, he is also one of the strong teams in the Romanian League and has strong strength.
You should know that this season's Dynamo is only one point behind the Bucharest Stars in points, and it is very likely to win the championship of the Romanian League this season.
After the training match between the two sides began, Mark was sent by head coach Cooper to the right forward position this time, and of course it was still a position that Mark was very familiar with.
In Atletico Madrid's formation, Atletico Madrid is a two-forward formation, Torres is still resting off the court, Salva and Portillo appear in the starting lineup.
In fact, this is just a confrontation game after all, and it doesn't require much seriousness at all. Although Cooper did not send Torres to the court, it is also because during the training game, Cooper saw that many people around him were waiting and watching.
As a professional football coach, Cooper naturally saw that there were a few people who didn't look like fans. If Cooper's guess was not wrong, those waiting and watching should be scouts.
Because only the scouts look around and don't pay attention to the game itself, Cooper actually is confusing his opponents and then preventing his opponent from making a reasonable judgment.
If Torres does not play, the Bucharest Stars will not be able to take effective measures to respond. Only such things will cause headaches for the Bucharest Stars coaching staff.
Of course, Cooper hopes that the coaching staff of the Bucharest Stars will be more and more troublesome. In that case, Atletico Madrid will have a better advantage. Only when the Bucharest Stars respond more quickly can Cooper be confident that he can defeat his opponent in the next game.
In fact, it was Cooper who did not send Torres to the court on purpose, because Cooper sent almost all the players and then did not send Torres to the court alone. This makes people a little doubtful. Will Torres not play in the next game?
If the main players were allowed to rest, then Mark, who played almost every game, would not rest, but let the forwards rest, obviously, this was not in line with people's understanding of the players' bodies.
This is also a process of the battle between the head coaches of both sides. Cooper also sent scouts to observe the game training of the Bucharest Stars, and then he also needed the scouts to report to him after they came back.
Then Cooper then summarized and sorted out some of the information reported by these scouts, and then tried to come up with a relatively perfect tactical plan.
This can also be said to be something that an excellent head coach must have. Otherwise, the scouts around the head coach will not be a waste of money, and they all have their jobs to do.
Soon at the training ground of Dinamo Bucharest, Atletico Madrid quickly ended the day of training, and Cooper also announced that the players would be given holidays and the players could freely move in Bucharest.
This is also because Atletico Madrid had been training in Madrid before, so after the training, these players were already used to this method.
After the training, the players need to relax. They went home or went to play with friends, but this time Atletico Madrid played away games.
If these players want to go home, it is probably impossible, so these players must adapt to their life in Bucharest, at least in the short term.
However, these Atletico Madrid players are really adaptable, and professional players can easily adapt to the surrounding environment.
At this time, Mark and Torres also went to the streets of Bucharest with their teammates and then played. Although the two of them had already come out to see it for a while yesterday, both of them were in the car at that time, so they didn't see it very clearly.
This time, the two of them really saw the nightly style of Bucharest, especially the most famous square in Bucharest.
In 1992, Michaeljackson held the tour that was hailed as the largest in the world at that time. No matter which concert is related to Michael, its scale will definitely not be small. Of course, the dangerous journey is no exception.
It takes 3 days to install stage props, lighting, audio equipment and laser systems for concerts. There are as many as 20 trucks used to transport these facilities.
On its scale, the Dangerous Journey surpassed the awesome tour of Michael from September 1987 to January 1989. The Dangerous Journey, which started in June 1992 and ended in November 1993, had a total of 69 performances, with a total audience of 3.5 million.
Bucharest Concert. This concert is the most classic concert in MJ. There are more than 70,000 people in the audience. The entire sports field is covered with dark people. There are still many fans listening at the stadium without entering. The traffic nearest the stadium is all from the army to maintain the order. A total of 5,000 people fainted on the spot and lost control of their emotions. The medical team has a total of 2,000 people. All the fainted people are lifted by the fans.
The staff were handed over to the medical team. A total of 6 people died, four of whom were excessively stimulated and caused myocardial infarction. They were already dead when they were sent for treatment. There was also two people who accidentally fell and trampled to death in the crowd. There is a noteworthy clip that by 112 minutes, an uncle in a wheelchair carried the crowd out of the crowd for fans. The uncle who was already tilted and so obsessed also came to such an exciting place to watch the concert. The level of admiration was average!
Fans who did not have tickets watched Michael Jackson's performance in this square, and Mark was also a fan of Michael Jackson.
Mark also imitated Michael Jackson's space dance moves, but because he was not imitated properly, he was often ridiculed.
And among Atletico Madrid, there are also many players who are Mark's fellow players, and many of them are Michael Jackson's fans.
So after they saw this square that is regarded as a classic, they seemed a little excited. The players were good at running around the world and traveling for public expenses.
This is something that others cannot match. Everyone bought some souvenirs on the streets of Bucharest and then prepared to return to Madrid to give them to their friends.
This is also something Mark likes to do. Mark likes to collect local specialties in every city, either eating or souvenirs.
Then when Mark got these things home, every time Mark saw these things, he could think of Mark's visits to these cities.
It can be said that Mark is a collector among Atletico Madrid, and no one can compare to Mark's hobby of collecting things.
In this way, Atletico Madrid players train during the day and go shopping at night, and it soon became the day to compete with the Bucharest Stars.
Chapter completed!