Chapter 1046 stealing the show
Five or six minutes before the game started, players from both sides came out of the locker room.
Barcelona's defensive core Pique has played for Manchester United for three years. It can be said that he can become a world-class defender, and Manchester United contributed to his training.
Pique also has certain feelings for Manchester United. Seeing Manchester United players coming out of the locker room, Pique took the initiative to come over and shake hands with his original teammates one by one. Even Fabio, Valencia and Hernandez, who had never been teammates with him, shook hands, but they ignored Gao Xiaodong.
It would be fine if Pique did not shake hands with Fabio, Valencia and Hernandez, but he shook hands with these three people and ignored Gao Xiaodong, which would mean provocation.
At this time, everyone pretended not to see it, so they passed by, but Rooney was a straightforward boy. He thought Pique had forgotten, so he pulled Lapique, pointed to Gao Xiaodong, indicating that he had forgotten to shake hands with Gao Xiaodong.
However, Pique looked at Gao Xiaodong, but seemed to see a transparent man, and turned around to greet Ferguson.
Now Pique's hostility towards Gao Xiaodong is already very obvious.
Although Gao Xiaodong has fought with Barcelona in Porto and Inter Milan, there are no many grudges when they win or lose. Pique's obvious provocation is obviously to anger Gao Xiaodong, making Gao Xiaodong angry and unable to perform normally in the game.
If Gao Xiaodong was an old guy like Scholes, this kind of provocation would probably be useless, but Gao Xiaodong was only 22 years old and was at the time when the hormones were the most, so it would never be possible to ignore Pique's provocation.
Now Scholes, Giggs, and Nani are not on the court, and the entire Manchester United is Gao Xiaodong, an offensive organizer. If Gao Xiaodong performs poorly, it will be a fatal blow to Manchester United.
Other Manchester United players saw Pique's sinister intentions, but how could Ferguson not see it? He looked at Pique and directly scolded: "Gerard, how much hatred do you and Xiaodong have? Your behavior is too disrespectful to people and disappoints me too much. In Barcelona, have you learned these things? Go back and just pretend that you have never been my disciple."
Ferguson's words were really heartbreaking. Gao Xiaodong was already full of anger, but he couldn't vent it. Ferguson's words made it feel as if he had eaten an ice cream in the summer. It was so cool.
Manchester United players also felt that Pique was a bit too much, but seeing that Ferguson directly accuses Pique for Gao Xiaodong, they had to re-estimate Gao Xiaodong's position in Manchester United and Ferguson's minds.
Pique was embarrassed and could not explain it, because he had this purpose, and after Ferguson saw through and criticized in public, he had to go back in shame.
The youngest referee in the history of the UEFA Champions League final, Kaushoi, witnessed this scene, nodded secretly, remembering Pique and Gao Xiaodong, who believed that most of these two people would become unstable factors in the game.
With five minutes left before the game, Kaushoi led both players out of the mixed passage.
The stadium was already full, and many fans entered the stadium more than an hour in advance. Manchester United's hardcore fans and Barcelona's hardcore fans were separated at both ends of the stadium. Barcelona fans put on the yellow words "we love football", while Manchester United's poses spirit of 68 (68 was the year when Manchester United won the Champions League first after the Munich air crash).
Seeing the players appear, the fans were so anxious that they could not help but cheer and applaud.
“High high…”
"Messi Messi Messi..."
Manchester United fans are calling Gao Xiaodong, and Barcelona fans are calling Messi. Today's game is not only a contest between Barcelona and Manchester United, but also a contest between the two aces Messi and Gao Xiaodong. The fans of the two are not willing to show weakness when cheering.
After appearing, the players of both sides shook hands and took a photo. Gao Xiaodong was a person who didn't knead the sand in his eyes. In the mixing channel, Pique deliberately embarrassed him. Gao Xiaodong did not give Pique face this time. He shook hands all the way. When he arrived at Pique, Gao Xiaodong ignored Pique and shook hands with Harvey on Pique's left, making Pique blush.
The fans in the stands didn't know what was happening in the passage. Seeing Gao Xiaodong not shaking hands with Pique, they were both surprised and excited, and suddenly a blazing gossip fire ignited.
"What's wrong with Xiaodong and Pique?"
"When did the two have a conflict?"
"Is it possible that Xiaodong wants to compete with Pike for Shakira?"
"You're so clever."
"It must be jealous."
"Gao Xiaodong is a bit too much. He doesn't talk about the surface politeness in front of fans all over the world."
"What happened to Pique, Xiaodong? Xiaodong is not a person who is not particular about it."
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Not only the fans were confused, but even the commentators on the scene were speculating about what happened between Pique and Gao Xiaodong?
"It seems that something must have happened between Pique and Gao Xiaodong?"
"Maybe there was a conflict in the hybrid channel?"
"Neither Pique nor Gao Xiaodong are the ones who forgive others."
"I just want to know who is the one who is causing the trouble?"
"It's obviously a dispute between Messi and Gao Xiaodong, so Pique is stealing the show."
"It's worthy of being a big battle, and the game is about to start before the game starts."
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After shaking hands and taking a photo, the captains of both sides, Harvey and Van der Sar shook hands with each other and exchanged team flags and badges.
Today, neither Manchester United nor Barcelona are the real captains. Barcelona's real captain Puyol has recovered from injury and is difficult to play. Manchester United's captain has not been officially selected and is now on duty. However, because Van der Sar retired after the end of this season, in order to thank Van der Sar for his contribution to Manchester United over the years, Ferguson still let Van der Sar wear the captain's armband.
Van der Sar and Xavi received warm applause from fans when they exchanged team flags, especially Van der Sar.
Van der Sar made his fifth appearance in the Champions League final today. He has surpassed Maldini at the age of 40 and 211 days to become the oldest player in the Champions League final, and fans have expressed enough respect to him.
After picking the side, the players on both sides came to their own half and stood in place to wait for the referee Kaushoi to blew the whistle to start the game.
At this time, there was a riot among the fans of Manchester United fans, and then there was a thunderous applause. It turned out that Manchester United's club executives and young players came to the scene.
Today's game is very important. Glazer's five sons and a daughter all came to the scene. Her best friend Emma Watson was also walking with Darcy.
Glazer's children were very happy and felt that Manchester United fans gave them face, but soon they heard the fans shouting Emma Watson's name. Not only were Manchester United fans cheering, but Barcelona fans were also cheering. Only then did they realize that most Manchester United fans applaud Emma Watson.
However, the shouts of Manchester United fans quickly changed, and they began to shout "Emma, Gao, together! Emma, Gao, together! Emma, Gao, together..."
Emma felt a little embarrassed by this shouting, and she pulled Darcy into the VIP box quickly.
Chapter completed!