It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 187 Chapter 185 Benzema's Bouillabaisse (Daily Transition)
Mourinho sat at his desk.

He was not very satisfied with yesterday's game, but the new game would not wait for him to find a satisfactory answer.

Although he gave the team a holiday, he was still studying in his study.

Noticing that it was getting darker around him, Mourinho finally raised his head and turned on the desk lamp.

The moment the light came on, the desk calendar next to the lamp also appeared.

Looking at the circled date on the calendar, Mourinho finally remembered that today was Guardiola's birthday.

Mourinho hurriedly searched for his mobile phone on the messy desk.

After checking the time, Mourinho finally opened the text message.

"Happy birthday, may you stay in Barcelona for many years, King of Camp Nou."

After sending the text message, Mourinho threw his phone directly into the drawer.

In football, there are countless kings.

The "King of Highbury" was once a role model for all Arsenal players;
The football played by the “King of Meazza” perfectly combines strength and beauty;

"King of the Bernabeu" is the best description of his loyalty.

What about the king of Camp Nou?

Mourinho doesn't understand.

Guardiola was the captain of Barcelona when he was a player, but he did not have a good ending in Barcelona when he was a player;

Now he is back at Camp Nou, leading his football tactics across Europe. Can he leave Barcelona perfectly this time?
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The next day, Charles, who had attended Guardiola's birthday party, came to the Joan Gamper Sports City for training as usual.

After this birthday, Guardiola, who is already 38 years old, still has not renewed his contract.

The entire training base was surrounded by reporters.

Knowing that Guardiola would eventually renew his contract, Charles was not overly worried.

The days always go by quickly during training and competitions.

There doesn’t seem to be any big news recently.

Just when Charles thought there would be no big news recently, he soon received a call from Benzema.

"Charles, check the news. The group draw will begin soon."

Benzema said somewhat excitedly.

Charles was unable to react for a moment. "What draw? Hasn't the Champions League draw already been done?"

At this moment, the sound of the TV came from the other end of the phone.

"Have you forgotten? It's the group draw for the European Cup qualifiers."

Hearing this, Charles finally remembered.

"Okay, I'll go watch it now. I thought it was about the World University Games."

The Universiade is hosted by the International University Sports Federation and includes the "Summer Games" and the "Winter Games".

Benzema just laughed out loud.

"Why, you're still going to the Universiade? Can you go?"

The Universiade is held every two years, with the most recent one being in 2009.

Anyone who is a college student or has graduated no more than 2 years ago (aged 17-28) can participate.

Ciel found the remote and started tuning the frequency. "I should be able to go, but the problem is that I may not have time to go."

Speaking of which, Benzema became interested.

"How are you going? Since you can't go to the U-19 World Championships or the World Youth Championships, do you want to go to the Universiade to fry fish?"

Charles thought for a moment, "The next one is the 2011 Universiade. We shouldn't have anything to do in August."

All the mandatory events of the Universiade are Olympic events. It is a world comprehensive sports event second only to the Olympic Games in scale and is known as the "Little Olympics".

There is also football in the Olympics, but there is an age limit. Charles is over the age limit for the next 2012 London Olympics, so he cannot go.

The 2011 Universiade was the 26th and was held in China.

Charles was really curious. It was said that the food during the Universiade was very good. He really wanted to know what kind of amazing food there was in the country known as the kingdom of food.

Is it the yogurt and red wine pasta, or the chocolate stewed tofu which is several times more delicious than the chocolate stewed sea duck?

"You've even thought of this? How about I go with you?"

Benzema said.

"Ah? I don't want to play football, I want to play golf."

Charles was shocked. He didn't expect that Benzema wanted to go fish frying with him just because he said it casually.

"It's okay, I can go play football."

Benzema said seriously.

Charles didn't know what to say for a moment.

If he really goes to the Universiade, he only hopes that there will be only Chinese reporters and no foreign media.

Otherwise, it would be fun if others really knew that French internationals Charles and Benzema went to the World University Games to fry fish.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this for now. Let's look at the European Cup group stage first."

Charles said helplessly.

This is the case with many large events.

Although the 2010 World Cup has not yet started, various preparations for the 2012 European Cup qualifiers have already begun.

This time there are a total of 51 teams participating in the 2012 European Cup qualifiers.

These teams were previously divided into six tiers.

Defending champion Spain, as well as nine teams including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, France and Russia became seeded teams.

根据预选赛的抽签规则，51支球队将分成9个组，其中6个组有6支球队，3个组有5支球队。

1-5档都是9支球队，而第6档的6支球队将被分进拥有6支球队的6个小组，每个档次的球队在预选赛时不会相遇。

That is to say, the French team will not encounter the same seeded teams as Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal and Russia in the qualifiers.

As for qualifying, it is the same as the World Cup qualifiers.

A total of 9 teams, including the top teams from the 2 groups and the best second-placed teams, will qualify directly.

The second-placed teams from the remaining eight groups will then be drawn into home and away play-offs to compete for the remaining four tickets to the European Cup finals.

"I'm a little nervous. Czech Republic, Sevilla and Serbia are not good draws. I hope we won't draw them."

Benzema said.

“Romania and Bosnia are not easy opponents either,” added Schar.

Although there are many teams participating in the European Cup, it does not mean that there will be many weak teams.

When facing a team with a tough style of play, you will often lose a lot of money even if you don't die.

But as the drawing ceremony continued, Charles' face became darker and darker.

England and Germany have the best draws and are basically guaranteed to qualify.

Spain faced the Czech Republic, Scotland, Lithuania and Liechtenstein.

It seems very deadly at first glance, but in fact, Scotland and the Czech Republic can pose no threat to Spain at all.

Although the Czech Republic sounds powerful, it is more of a wealthy family in decline.

With the aging of senior stars such as Nedved and Jan Koller, the Czech team is left with only Cech to hold the team together.

Like the Czech team, Scotland currently has a serious lack of young players, and the biggest star in the team is just Fletcher, who did the dirty work at Manchester United.

This is an easy game for Spain. Then there is Italy, with Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia and the Faroe Islands in the same group.

This is a medium draw, which is neither good nor bad. It can even be said to be a good draw compared to France, which faced Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

So, who drew the worst draw in the 2012 European Cup?

Of course it was taken away by France.

Among the third-tier teams, France drew the strongest team, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In the European qualifiers for the World Cup, Bosnia and Herzegovina beat Türkiye and Belgium to finish second in the group.

Under Dzeko's leadership, Bosnia and Herzegovina is just one step away from qualifying for the World Cup in South Africa.

At the same time, Romania, which is in the second tier, is also one of the victims of the French team.

In the 2008 European Cup, France and Romania played to a 0-0 draw.

By the time the 2011 qualifiers started, with Henry getting older and Ribery becoming more like Charles, France was the team most likely to fail in the qualifiers.

"It seems we didn't get a very good draw."

Benzema said sullenly.

Ciel nodded.

"Well, it's still early, so let's not talk about this for now. We still have the coach."

"His position as coach is almost untenable. If there hadn't been a particularly good candidate, he would have been fired long ago."

Benzema muttered.

Before Charles joined the national team last year, Domenegue was really close to being fired.

Benzema feels that even though his position as coach is secure now, it won't last long.

"Then let's talk about the Universiade?"

Charles didn't know what to say for a moment and could only change the subject.

After chatting about the Universiade for a while, Charles washed up early and went back to his room to sleep.

But just after Charles hung up the phone and prepared to rest, Benzema, who had been eliminated from the King's Cup early and was not troubled by the devilish schedule, had no plans to rest so early.

Putting his mobile phone in his pocket, Benzema took his fishing gear and prepared to go out fishing.

On his birthday, Charles was participating in the Club World Cup in the UAE, so he was unable to attend his birthday party.

Later, when Benzema was about to forget about this incident, he received a fresh food delivery from Barcelona: a super big fish.

There was also a photo inside the package.

The photo shows Charles, who is smiling very happily, holding a fishing rod in his hand, and there is a fish on the hook.

The key point is that this fish is exactly the same as the one that was sent over.

On the back of the photo, there was a sentence written by Charles: Karim, look at the fish I caught!
It was nothing.

Benzema was very happy when he received the fish sent by Charles, and he stewed it that night.

But when he ate it, he discovered that this fish was different.

too delicious.

So Benzema excitedly bought fishing gear and started learning how to fish.

But it’s been almost a month since he bought the fishing rod, and he can catch everything except fish!

Ciel's birthday is coming up soon, but he can't catch a single fish!

He changed his fishing spot several times, but got nothing except the conclusion that "there are no fish here".

Benzema, unwilling to give up, drove towards a new fishing spot he had found.

Soon, he arrived at the river.

The surface of the river was sparkling, the river was very wide and looked very deep. Benzema felt that he would definitely be able to catch fish today.

Benzema put the stool away, took out the fishing rod and tucked it under his armpit. He held the fishing rod in his right hand and shook it gently to shake out the head of the fishing rod.

After the fishing rod is ready, it is time to hang the float.

Cast the rod and press the water line.

Benzema slowly followed the instructions in the tutorial, and after everything was done, he sat patiently waiting for the fish to take the bait.

Time passes minute by minute.

Benzema has already recalled all the honors he has experienced since he was a child, as well as the names of his teammates in different periods, but still no fish has been hooked.

Benzema, who was a little annoyed, took out his mobile phone and looked at it slowly.

Although the team has a day off today and there are not many games recently, it is time to go to bed.

Thinking of this, Benzema reluctantly put away the fishing rod.

Sure enough, when people are angry, they can do anything except catch fish!
Benzema collected the fishing gear, but the more he collected, the angrier he became.

How abominable!

These days, he has been constantly making strategies and learning how to fish. He thought that he was not so diligent when he was in school.

As a result, he didn't catch any fish.

This is really too much.

Benzema became more and more angry the more he thought about it. He didn't even put away his fishing rod and just picked up his phone to start calling to order food.

"...Yes, I want to order a bowl of bouillabaisse. I don't want the soup or the cutlery. Just give me the fish."

"Yes, I want the fish rare and whole, which you can understand as alive."

With the help of money, the "Marseille fish soup" ordered by Benzema was delivered quickly.

After the delivery man left, Benzema opened the bag and carefully took out the fish.

This fish is very lively and jumps very vigorously in Benzema's hands.

After spending a long time finally catching the fish, Benzema just released one hand and was about to grab the fishhook.

But unexpectedly, the fish that was pretending to be dead suddenly became lively and jumped out of Benzema's hand.

"Damn it, don't run!"

Benzema immediately threw away the fishing rod in his hand and prepared to catch fish.

However, just when Benzema was about to grab his "Marseille Fish Soup", the Marseille Fish Soup jumped hard on the ground and jumped up again.

Benzema had no choice but to keep moving forward. “Don’t run, don’t run, damn it, I just want to take a picture.”

But the "Marseille Fish Soup" would not listen to his excuses and jumped directly into the river.

With a "plop", in Benzema's angry eyes, his rare "Marseille fish soup" fell directly into the river.

Now, his catch is no longer zero.

Instead, it was in January 2010 that a historic breakthrough was achieved.

From 0, to -1!

Benzema, frustrated, picked up the fishing rod and started fishing again.

He must catch this fish now.

Because he could no longer say there were no fish in the river.

This river has his bouillabaisse!
While fishing, a gust of night wind blew by and Benzema suddenly reacted.

Damn, was the fish Charles sent him also the "Marseille fish soup" he bought?
Otherwise, how can a fish weighing 6 or 7 kilograms be caught in that river in Barcelona?

May the deceased rest in peace. Perhaps Beckenbauer can work together with Cruyff in heaven to discuss a new football philosophy.

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