Chapter 823
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Real Madrid left San Siro with their heads held high and their chests puffed out as winners.
In this season's knockout stage, they had defeated the Champions League champions of the past two years. This was enough to give Real Madrid enough confidence to challenge for the Champions League title this season!
After the game, Ancelotti admitted that AC Milan's skills were not as good as theirs. At the same time, he also implied his dissatisfaction with the club's top management. He believed that the team needed a new generation and needed financial investment to build a new generation of AC Milan. Otherwise, it would be difficult for AC Milan to restore its strength at the beginning of the new century.
Bosque said after the game that Real Madrid's performance in the Champions League was worthy of advancing to the semifinals. When looking forward to their semifinal opponents, he appeared calm and said that it was the same no matter who they faced. Real Madrid just had to play to their true level.
The Real Madrid team returned to Madrid. Qin Xiong could not wait to go home to accompany Sylvia. The other teammates also went home to rest.
Bosque had already informed everyone in advance on the flight back that there would be a substitute lineup for the weekend's league tournament. The main lineup was conserving their energy for the Copa del Rey final in a week's time!
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The next day, the Spanish media reported on Real Madrid's brilliant promotion. They believed that consecutive double victories over Arsenal and AC Milan proved that Real Madrid had returned to the top of Europe. At the same time, Raúl's goal broke his personal record. Qin Xiong's consecutive goals in the Champions League also broke the record.
The other three games of the Champions League 14 finals were also all over.
The Champions League semifinals were out.
Real Madrid.
Manchester United.
Chelsea.
Liverpool.
After last year's semifinals, where three teams from England surrounded AC Milan, there were also three teams from England in this season's semifinals.
In this period, the strength of the Premier League teams was obvious to all.
Whether Real Madrid could break out of the encirclement was the focus of the outside world.
The next day, the UEFA Europa League 14 finals ended and the semifinals were drawn together with the Champions League semifinals.
The Real Madrid players had dinner together in the evening. They watched the live broadcast of the draw in the restaurant's private room.
When Real Madrid's semi-final opponent was announced, the Real Madrid players just raised their glasses and drank together, appearing to be relatively calm.
They were only looking to see who their opponents would be. They were not looking forward to fighting with anyone, nor were they afraid of drawing any opponents.
Everyone continued to talk about everything under the sun, preparing for the Copa del Rey finals in the middle of next week in a relaxed environment!
On the big TV screen in the private room of the restaurant.
The Champions League semi-final matchups were displayed there.
Liverpool v Real Madrid
Chelsea VS Manchester United
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Just as Real Madrid was preparing for the weekend league, a piece of news made Real Madrid's top management furious!
AS announced the cause and effect of the incident to the outside world.
"Robinho's recruitment of prostitutes has infuriated Real Madrid's higher-ups. The future core that they have painstakingly cultivated is actually so indulgent!"
Would he become the next Ronaldo, the next Cassano, or the same as Ronaldinho in Barcelona's formation? No matter which of the three players Robinho ended up becoming, it would be a nightmare for Real Madrid.
Unfortunately, this nightmare was now slowly becoming a reality. The young Robinho was developing step by step in the direction of his seniors.
The latest trouble that Robinho brought to the club originated from a set of photos taken by a paparazzi magazine in Spain. The extremely dedicated photographer, after the Brazilian national team's match against Sweden last month, waited at the entrance of the hotel where the Brazilian team was staying until six o 'clock in the morning.
His efforts were not in vain because the photographer used his camera to take pictures of four Brazilian players calling for prostitutes.
Among the four players, one was Robinho, the other was Baptista.
What made people speechless was that the other person was Alves of Seville. And just four days after this international match, Real Madrid and Seville would be engaged in a life and death battle.
The photo of Robinho and a woman in a light-colored trench coat walking into the hotel together quickly reminded people of not long ago when he was holding a bottle of wine and staggering around the streets of Brazil looking for condoms. This was not the first time he had engaged in such a blatant act.
For a Brazilian player, it was one thing to have a debauched private life, but it was another thing to be caught by the media.
This set of photos in the gossip magazine quickly made Real Madrid fall into a state of shame.
At the beginning of the season, the club's chairman, Calderón, had just arranged for an official to be in charge of coordinating the behavior of the players when they were away for matches. This official's job was to communicate with the players participating in the national team's training and prevent them from delaying their return to the team and behaving indecently.
Now it seemed that the establishment of this position had no effect at all. A Brazilian player like Robinho was still doing things his own way.
Real Madrid was obviously very angry about the photos that appeared in the gossip magazine. As soon as Robinho and Baptista returned to the team, they were immediately called into the office for a scolding. The most difficult thing for the club to deal with was the pressure from the media.
Just as all the reporters were waiting at the door of the locker room, hoping that the Brazilian would explain the incident, Robinho actually wanted to climb out of the only window in the locker room.
This was a ventilation window with an area of only 40 square centimeters. It was originally used to ventilate the locker room, but Robinho would rather climb through the window to leave the locker room than face the media. It was obvious that he was very guilty this time.
Robinho wasn't the one who came up with the idea of escaping through the window. Cassano was the one who came up with the idea.
Before the Italian left Real Madrid, he often used this window to avoid the media's harassment. The young Robinho saw all of this and remembered it in his heart. He did not expect that he would soon follow this undignified method, and this was what hurt the club the most.
Robinho was just 24 years old. He still had a long career ahead of him. Now that he had learned all the bad ways of some bad players at such a young age, how could he maintain the good style of a professional player for at least the next six or seven years?
Both of them went out to visit prostitutes, but the club was far less nervous about Baptista than Robinho. The reason was simple. Baptista was seen as a dispensable person, while Robinho was once the future core of Real Madrid's development.
Robinho continued to cause trouble for the club, so Real Madrid's top management had to reconsider the development plan for him.
Before this, Calderón had already acquired Qin Xiong, the superstar who competed with Ronaldinho, and completed the task beyond expectations. Calderón thought that Robinho would be the candidate to compete with Messi, but the latter was now more and more likely to be a hopeless Ah Dou.
However, at least the manager, Bosque, still had a little hope for Robinho.
Even if Robinho had once made a fuss about asking for 40 condoms in a hotel, which was known as the infamous "40 Condoms Incident," Bosque still showed a generous side to Robinho. However, the old manager might have done this just to keep the locker room calm and not to have players start to throw tantrums. Real Madrid was on the road to the championship at the end of the season. The stability of the locker room was more important than anything else!
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