From the man behind the football king to the football king

Manchester United's season has come to an end, but this season's European competition is not over yet, because the most watched game has not yet started.

That's the Champions League final!

This year’s Champions League final will be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on the evening of June 3rd local time.

Bruno did not go to the scene to watch the game, because on the same afternoon, the Portuguese national team had a warm-up match. This was also a warm-up match for the Portuguese national team to prepare for this year's Russian Confederations Cup.

However, when Bruno rushed back to Portugal from England, head coach Santos did not arrange for him to play in this game.

However, even without the three core players of Ronaldo, Bruno and Pepe, Portugal still swept the underdog Cyprus 4:0 at home. The veteran Moutinho, who replaced Bruno, performed well in the game and scored two free kicks. Spend.

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After the game, the Portuguese team returned to the hotel and watched the Champions League final between Real Madrid and Juventus in the hotel conference room.

Ronaldo performed very well in the game, scoring twice to help Real Madrid beat Juventus 4:1. Galacticos became the first team to defend the Champions League since its restructuring, and also won the 12th Champions League title in club history.

Ronaldo has become the seventh player in history to score twice in the Champions League final. The last one to do this was Bruno. He scored two goals in the Champions League final two years ago to help Udinese. Defeated Juventus 3:1.

Juventus can be called the most miserable team in the Champions League. This is the seventh time they have lost the Champions League final, ahead of Bayern Munich and Benfica who have lost five times in the Champions League final.

Ronaldo scored in three Champions League finals, the first player to do so after the Champions League was restructured. He has scored 4 goals in the Champions League final, second only to Di Stefano and Puskas who scored 7 goals in history.

Buffon is the player who has conceded the most goals in the finals in the history of the Champions League. He has conceded 10 goals and is the only goalkeeper in the history of the Champions League to concede double figures.

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When the Portuguese players were watching the game, many of them were watching Bruno's performance cautiously.

They all know that this season's World Footballer and European Ballon d'Or awards will still be between Bruno and Ronaldo.

As for the Argentinian, although his personal performance is good and not inferior to Bruno and Ronaldo, he has already been eliminated early in the competition with Bruno and Ronaldo.

This is all thanks to the honor of the team.

Bruno's Manchester United won four championships this season: the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League, achieving a Grand Slam of team honors + Grand Slam.

Cristiano Ronaldo's Real Madrid is not far behind. They beat Barcelona to win the La Liga championship in La Liga, and now they have won the Champions League championship.

As for Yosi's Barcelona, ​​they only won a Copa del Rey.

With little difference in personal performance, Barcelona's team honors are completely incomparable to those of Real Madrid and Manchester United, which doomed the Argentine to be eliminated early.

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Originally, after leading the team to win the four crowns, Bruno had already taken an advantage in the competition with Ronaldo, but now as Ronaldo helped Real Madrid win the Champions League, the competition between the two has reversed.

The impact of the Champions League is too great!

Especially this season, Cristiano Ronaldo performed very well in the Champions League, scoring 12 goals and winning the Champions League Golden Boot, including two goals in today's final.

But throughout the whole process, Bruno's performance was very natural. Whenever Ronaldo performs well, he cheers for him.

Especially when Ronaldo scores a goal, he is like a die-hard fan. People who don't know think he scored the goal himself.

Teammates are a little confused about the real relationship between Bruno and Ronaldo.

Looking at it like this, he doesn’t look like an opponent at all!

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A week later, Portugal played its last game before the Confederations Cup in Russia, challenging Latvia away from home.

This is the sixth group match of the World Cup qualifiers.

In this game, Bruno showed his prowess and scored another hat trick, helping Portugal slaughter Latvia 6:0 in the away game.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who just returned to the team, also performed very well in the game. The Portuguese captain scored twice.

After winning six consecutive games in the group stage, the Portuguese team rushed to Russia with the power of victory to prepare for the upcoming Russian Confederations Cup.

The predecessor of the Confederations Cup is the Intercontinental Cup. It was initiated in 1991 by the Football Confederation of Asia, Africa, South America and the North American Caribbean and hosted by FIFA. In 2005, it was changed to be held every four years. The participating teams were also Determined to be the host of next year's World Cup, the defending World Cup champion and the cup champion of six continents. If the World Cup champion and the cup champion of a certain continent are the same team, the runner-up of the cup of that continent will participate as a substitute.

For example, in the 2013 Brazilian Confederations Cup, since the winners of the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 European Cup were Spanish teams, the European Cup runner-up Italy also participated in the 2013 Brazilian Confederations Cup.

The Confederations Cup is also known as the Little World Cup. The trophy is made according to the shape of the World Cup. FIFA defines the Confederations Cup as an international event second only to the World Cup.

However, there has been news recently that FIFA intends to cancel this event. This also means that this eighth Confederations Cup is likely to become the swan song of this event.

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The eight participating teams in this Russian Confederations Cup are the host Russia, 2014 World Cup champion Germany, 2016 European Cup champion Portugal, 2015 Asian Cup champion Australia, 2015 America's Cup champion Chile, Mexico, the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup champion, New Zealand, the 2016 Oceania Cup of Nations champion, and Cameroon, the 2017 African Cup of Nations champion.

According to the draw ceremony held at the end of last year, the Portuguese team, the host Russia team, the Gold Cup champion Mexico team and the Oceania champion New Zealand team were drawn in Group A.

This is also considered a relatively weak group, and the media all said that the Portuguese team got a good draw.

In this group, the Portuguese team is undoubtedly the favorite to advance to the knockout rounds. After all, the Portuguese team with Bruno and Cristiano Ronaldo is significantly stronger than the Mexican team, the host Russian team and the New Zealand team. Qualification for another group will be between the host team Russia and Mexico.

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In Portugal's first group match, their opponent was Mexico, the strongest team. This was also considered a key battle for the two teams to compete for first place in the group.

Players from both sides stood in the tunnel, waiting to enter. The live broadcast outside was loudly introducing the participating players.

Bruno stood at the front of the team, next to Mexico's forward Javier Hernandez, but Manchester United fans prefer to call him Little Pea.

Before the game, the two sides could still be very friendly, and Bruno took the initiative to extend his hand to Little Pea. This forward was also a player that Bruno once liked very much. His ghostly movement in the penalty area was what Bruno learned from.

In the last few years of the Ferguson era and when Moyes was coaching Manchester United, Little Pea was an important chess piece on Manchester United's front line and made great contributions to Manchester United.

However, as Van Gaal took over at Old Trafford, Hernandez quickly lost his position. In 2014, he joined Real Madrid on loan for a season. Although his performance was pretty good, he still did not catch the eye of Louis van Gaal and joined the German Bundesliga team Wolfsburg at the buzzer of the summer transfer window.

Although there are many talents in Mexico's forward line, and "Little Pea" Hernandez's appearances in the Mexican national team are not stable, he will still be the most important killer in Mexico's forward line. Having scored 49 goals in 100 games for Mexico, Hernandez will undoubtedly be able to convert the team's offense into goals with such high efficiency.

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Bruno stretched out his hand and shook his hand with a smile.

"I wish you good luck." said Little Pea.

"Thank you." Bruno replied.

This is the exchange between the two before the game.

At this time, the Argentinian referee Pitana and his team of referees came out of the referee's lounge. He hugged the football, walked to the front, and said to the players on both sides: "It's time to go on the field, gentlemen."

Since this Confederations Cup will use video replay technology, the referee team is no longer the previous head referee plus two assistant referees and a fourth official, but a video assistant referee.

The captains of both teams turned around and slapped their teammates and shouted: "Get ready to play!!"

After a brief opening ceremony, the captains of both sides quickly gathered together to exchange team flags and pick sides. Ronaldo won the right to pick the side and Mexico got the right to kick off.

Players from both sides stood in their respective formations and waited for the kick-off.

The referee Pitana was checking with the fourth official. After getting the fourth official's reply, he blew his whistle.

"The game begins!"

"CCTV! CCTV! Audience friends, what you are watching now is the second game of Group A of the 2017 Russian Confederations Cup group stage. The Gold Cup champion Mexico team faces the European Championship champion Portugal team!"

At the beginning of the game, the Mexican team took advantage of having the ball in hand and launched a fierce attack on the Portuguese team.

Xiao Wandou kicked the football to Jimenez and then ran forward. After a series of passes, the football came to his feet again. By this time, he had moved to the edge of the penalty area.

Javier Hernandez, who received the football, didn't give the Portuguese defender time to pounce and volleyed directly!