Chapter 178 The Cowardly Prince

Although Atletico Madrid's performance in the first half of this season is indeed not very good, it does not mean that the strength of this team is not good. [..]

Atletico Madrid has always been a strong team in La Liga. Before this relegation, they had always been the third-ranked team in La Liga history, second only to Real Madrid and Barcelona.

If it weren't for the scandal of owner Hill that affected the team last season, maybe the team would not have been relegated.

Take a look at Atletico Madrid's lineup the season they were relegated.

Hasselbaink (mmy_nk), Kiko (). Big Juninho (_sta), Belleron (juan_valerón), Baraja (ruben_baraja_vegas) and Aguilera (lera). Gamarra (s_gamarra), Ayala (_rafael_ayala), Chamot (se_t) and Serena (michele_serena). Molina (sé_na). Jose Mari (sé_), Fortune (n_rtune), Solari (_), Panovic (_), Capdevila (an_la), Bejbl (bejbl), Tony Gimenez (__menez), Lardin (_n)...

These people are either the famous first-class stars in today's football, or they are quasi-first-class stars.

Hasselbaink played only one season at Atletico Madrid last season, but he became Atletico Madrid's team's top scorer with 24 goals that season, and also ranked second in the league scorer list , second only to Racing Santander's striker Salva (r_ballesta__salva).

One of the few bright spots in Atletico Madrid's failed season.

Of course, now that Hasselbaink has returned to England, he was taken away by Chelsea for 15 million euros, and when he came to Atletico Madrid from Leeds United a year ago, it cost Atletico Madrid Twelve million euros.

Chico is the number one star of Atletico Madrid, before Torres, he was the prince of Atletico Madrid.

Kiko has a very long name, the full name is Francisco. Like the Brazilians, they are good at substituting nicknames for their real names. Kiko is his nickname.

He hasn't left since arriving at Atletico Madrid from Cadiz (z) in 1993. Once the fourth-highest scoring player in the history of Atletico Madrid, he was later surpassed by Torres.

A true genius and an idol for Torres.

He was also the main contributor to Atletico Madrid's double crown.

It's a pity that heaven is jealous of prostitutes,

Due to two ankle injuries, he announced his retirement at the age of twenty-nine.

But at this time, he is still in Atletico Madrid.

Let alone Juninho, the core of the Brazilian team in the 1995 America's Cup, 1996 Olympics, and 1997 Confederations Cup, if it wasn't for the 1998 World Cup, he was seriously injured by Salgado. That year's Brazil would not be beaten helplessly by Zidane's France in the final.

However, Juninho left Atletico Madrid at the beginning of last season and went to Middlesbrough.

Although his personnel relationship is still at Atletico Madrid this season, he has been loaned to Vasco da Gama in Brazil.

Belleron, known as "Spain's Zidane", also played for Atletico Madrid for two seasons. Runia poached.

In the future, Baraja, the greatest midfielder in the history of the Valencia team, also played for Atletico Madrid before. He played for Atletico Madrid's b team for many years. He only became a regular in the first team in the first two seasons. The main force, unfortunately, Atletico Madrid was relegated. So 12.5 million euros, he also transferred to leave the shipwreck.

Gamara and Ayala, the two main defender partners of the Paraguayan national team, were both top defenders in the world at the time, and created the defensive era of the Paraguayan national team. Their performance in the 98 World Cup in France left a very deep impression on people, and their defense made the subsequent world champions despair.

But now, Gamara has transferred and left, and although Ayala has not completely left, he has also been loaned out.

Chamot is an Argentine international and a well-known defender. He only played one and a half seasons at Atletico Madrid, and went to Milan during the winter break last season.

Serena is a well-known full-back in Italy, who was brought to Atletico Madrid by Sacchi. When Atletico Madrid was relegated last season, he was the main force. Of course, they are gone now.

In addition, Jose Mari, Solari, Capdevila and others are also famous figures.

Jose Mari went to Milan, Solari went to Real Madrid, and Capdevila was Spain's main left-back who could win the European Cup in 2008.

But Atletico Madrid, which has so many strongmen, was relegated like this.

It was really unexpected at the time, and it broke the glasses all over the place.

The team is relegated, the tree falls and the hozen disperses.

Many main players have fled Atletico Madrid.

Those who are left are the substitutes who could not play the main force before.

But even so, the accumulation of Spain's third team is still very rich.

They shouldn't have been reduced to such a field...

After being relegated, a bunch of people ran away, but Atletico Madrid's Prince Kiko stayed.

The Getafe fans saw that the prince had slipped down, and they were not worried about anything.

They all said that other people just get out, get out, as long as Ji Ke stays, we will definitely be able to relegation!

Before the season, Atletico Madrid's tactics were also formulated around Kiko.

This is no problem, Kiko's strength and reputation are there, with him as the core of the team, no one has anything to say. And it is indeed a good way.

With a large number of main players leaving Atletico Madrid one after another, only Kiko has such popularity and prestige. With him as the core, it is natural to hope to maximize his advantages.

According to the Atletico Madrid coach Fernando Zambrano at the time, there was nothing wrong with this tactic. As long as Kiko played normally, it would not be a dream to return to the First Division in one season.

The plan was perfect, the fans were full of expectations, and the remaining Atletico Madrid players were confident.

But who would have thought that at the beginning of the league, the hope and pillar of everyone, the prince of Atletico Madrid, Kiko, was injured!

Yes, hurt!

It hurts for a month.

Finally came back, played a few games and got injured again...

This time it hurt for two months.

Then came back again, didn't play a few games and was injured for the third time!

This time the injury was relatively minor, and he only rested for two weeks.

But after that, Kiko kept getting injured, coming back, getting injured, and coming back.

The tragedy is that Atletico Madrid had been formulating tactics around Kiko throughout the summer, but after the season started, the core of their tactics did not play a few games at all due to injuries!

So the results of Atletico Madrid can be imagined...

Although he missed many games, Kiko still played in today's game.

Today, he just returned from injury.

Although Kiko did not provide much help to Atletico Madrid in the first half of the season, this did not affect his status in the hearts of Atletico Madrid fans. Every touch of the ball can attract the cheers of Atletico Madrid fans. Voice.

Although the cheers were not loud, it was only because Atletico Madrid was playing away, so not many fans came.

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Even if Kiko didn't have any outstanding performance in the first half of the season, Chang Sheng didn't dare to underestimate him.

It is not for nothing that he can become the banner figure of Atletico Madrid.

Therefore, Changsheng specifically told the players to pay attention to defending Kiko in this game, and not to treat him as a useless person with no condition.

Chang Sheng squatted on the sidelines, watching the field.

His players did follow his instructions and defended Kico very tightly.

And in keeping with his Getafe tradition, the players were big in defense.

This makes Kiko very uncomfortable.

Kiko has been injured frequently this season, all old injuries, that is, two ankles.

This paved the way for his future retirement.

After repeated injuries, the prince will also start to fear.

So now Kiko is very afraid of physical confrontation.

And Getafe's defense is the best and likes physical confrontation.

Ten minutes into the game, Chico's possession time was significantly reduced after he was knocked to the ground by Getafe's players three times in a row.

Chang Sheng, who saw this scene on the sidelines, couldn't help laughing.

He knew that Kiko was afraid of injury, so he repeatedly told the players in the pre-match training not to show mercy to Kiko.

What does the prince of Atletico Madrid have to do with himself?

Even without himself, the prince would retire at the age of twenty-nine due to frequent injuries to his feet and ankles.

My own appearance will not make this result worse.

So he has no psychological burden at all.

Anyway, he didn't let the players go directly to Kiko's ankle, so Kiko's treatment is much better than Reyes...

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Before the game, the fans of Atletico Madrid were full of confidence, thinking that Chico was back, and it would be no problem to play a little brother like Getafe.

I have to say that the sense of superiority and concepts of Atletico Madrid fans is really deep-rooted.

Even if Getafe has already ranked first in the league, they did not take Getafe seriously.

Perhaps for other teams that are not in the Madrid region, they will not feel this way. But facing Getafe, this sense of superiority is particularly obvious.

After all, Madrid is their territory. They are not even afraid of Real Madrid, but are they afraid of the mere country team Getafe?

But as the game progressed, their cheers gradually became smaller.

Then they started looking at each other.

Kiko, the prince of Atlético de Madrid retreated under the pressure of those hillbillies!

How can this be? !

Kiko is our only hope of upgrading, he can do anything, but why did he hold back? !

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