The road to godhood starting from Ligue 1

Chapter 119: The Anglo-French War
Not only is France in the same group as England.

And they will face off in the first round.

The four teams in Group D are: Ukraine, France, England and Sweden.

The most talked-about topic is the Anglo-French War.

When it comes to fanning the flames, the English media is second to none.

The Sun responded after Blanc's press conference.

Continuing to report a piece of gossip related to Ben Alfa who plays in Newcastle——

"Ben Arfa privately told friends that Blanc was unhappy with the fact that there were too many African and Arab players in the French national team. He was therefore more willing to use traditional French white players like Gaio, even though Gaio's ability wasn't very good."

But this kind of news.

French fans did not buy it, and instead criticized England for always liking to use off-field tactics.

The only championship they won was by taking advantage of their status as the host country, and they won the World Cup by relying on a goal line dispute in the final.

Still asking on the England fans forum, "Has football come home?"

Football's coming home. This sentence comes from the song "There Lions", which was written by the band "Lightning Seeds" to celebrate England hosting the 1996 European Cup.

There's a line in the lyrics that says "lt's coming home".

Since England is the birthplace of modern football, fans changed it to football's coming home, which means England is going to bring the championship home.

But as England's performance has not been good since the 21st century, fans have shouted this slogan less and less.

When French fans said this, they were mocking the English for not having won the European Cup.

The French team won the championship twice.

The endless arguments among fans outside were in stark contrast to the tranquility of Clairefontaine.

Clairefontaine.

French team training ground.

Blanco and the players explained the on-field positioning, movement and other tactical-related matters many times.

Gaio listened silently.

After listening to Zidane's words, he realized that he came to this European Cup to gain experience.

I feel more relaxed.

However, when he heard Blanco asking Benzema to retreat more and move to the side, Gaio was somewhat confused.

If Benzema, the center forward, moves to the wing, wouldn't this seriously squeeze the space on both flanks?
And the French team's midfield, Nasri, Cabaye and Ben Arfa are unable to connect the midfield together.

Everyone seems to have strong personal abilities and footwork, but when the time comes, no one is able to step up.

When Blanco was speaking, many players seemed absent-minded.

Gaio suddenly understood what Zidane said.

perhaps,

It’s not that Blanco doesn’t want to use himself, but Blanco doesn’t have much control in this European Cup.

Blanc's qualifications may really not be able to intimidate this French team, which is known as the "North African United Team" by the outside world.

They can only have cohesion if they meet a well-known name or a coach with the determination to cut off one's own arm.

The training is carried out in an orderly manner.

The external turmoil seemed to have left no impact on the French team.

Before the European Cup officially started, the French Football Association invited Serbia and Estonia to play friendly matches as pre-European Cup training.

The French team won both games.

France beat Serbia 2-0, which had Tadic, Matic and Ivanovic.

4-0 Estonia.

Blanc's strategy of focusing on solid defense seems to be working well. Gaio and Giroud may have played for ten minutes combined.

After the second game, Giroud said to Gaio in private, "Maybe we are just going on a tour this time."

Gaio smiled carefreely, "Don't worry, perhaps our time has not yet come."

Giroud said self-deprecatingly, "You are still young, but I am different. I am so much older than you. Maybe this is my last chance to play in a big competition."

"Don't worry, remember what I said, the French team's main center position will be yours for the next ten years."

Giroud smiled. "You're the only one who believes in me. Don't try to comfort me. Karim is much better than me. I know exactly what his strength is and what my strength is."

Gaio shook his head slightly, "No, if I had to choose, I would definitely choose you as my partner."

Giroud will indeed not have many opportunities to play in this European Cup. Although he is the top scorer in Ligue 1, Montpellier is definitely not as valuable as Real Madrid.

The title of the Four Little Swans also includes Blanco.

Giroud just smiled. He didn't take Gaio's words seriously. He still felt that Gaio was just comforting him.

However, Giroud thinks Gaio is not bad, and feels even more regretful that Gaio was unable to join Arsenal.

Giroud believes that under the coaching of the professor, Gaio will definitely become even more powerful.

At least, he was going for the title of professor.

Again, no French player can refuse Wenger.

But now there is a counterexample - Gaio.

After the match with Estonia.

The entire French team travels to Ukraine, where they will play three group matches in Donetsk, Ukraine.

soon.

The eyes of the world are on the European Cup in Poland and Ukraine.

6 p.m. local time on June 8th.

The opening match of the 14th European Cup kicked off on time at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland!
Poland, one of the hosts, faced Greece, where Greek mythology was once staged.

In the 2004 European Cup, Greece's performance was truly magical, needless to say. The head coach who led that Greek team was none other than Rehhagel, who created the famous "Kaiserslautern Miracle" in the Bundesliga.

However, Rehhagel stepped down as coach of the Greek national team in June 2010 after eight years.

The Portuguese player Fernando Santos will lead the team in this European Cup.

For this game, Blanco asked everyone to watch the game together in the reception room of the hotel where they were staying, but many people did not show up, such as Benzema.

Benzema's reason was, "These two teams will not qualify. I need to rest well and save my energy to play against England."

Blanco tolerated this obvious excuse.

With a big battle approaching, he didn't want to create chaos in the team.

Gaio watched the entire game.

The 23-year-old Dortmund striker Lewandowski helped Poland score the first goal, but Poland's strength is indeed relatively poor and they failed to defend it.

In the final opening match, Poland drew 1-1 with Greece.

After this game.

The European Cup has officially opened and the competition among 16 teams is about to begin.

The match between France and England will kick off in the afternoon of June 12th local time.

Gaio was originally planning to go back to the room with Giroud to rest.

But Blanco stopped him.

Blanco pulled Gaio aside and said, "Gaio, be ready to play in the group stage at any time. I hope you can show your aggressiveness, but you may only have a very short time."

Gaio was a little surprised.

Is the official debut of the national team coming soon?
(End of this chapter)