August 28 – UEFA held the draw for the Champions League League phase last night and there was no politician in sight. Outside the stage there was noise from the political elite of Europe of the threat to the European sports model of playing competition matches abroad, but this draw was about football. FIFA Note.
On the stage on the Grimaldi Forum on Monte Carlo, the international club seasons of the world’s largest clubs in the largest club competition were unveiled when the Continent warmed up for the largest prize in club football.
Top line stories from the draw were Real Madrid who played Liverpool for the second Champions League season successively. Alexander Arnold, a fixed term, played for Liverpool, this year he returns to Anfield in the colors of Real Madrid.
Real Madrid will also be confronted with another old English enemy in the form of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. Old rivalry renewed and new scripts scream to be written.
One of them is the return of another of the superstars of the game to a former house where he had left an indelible stamp. Kevin De Bryune will be in the colors of Napoli for their visit to Manchester.
While the draw merging the early storylines of the 71stem Edition of Uefa’s Blue Riband Club Competition, the anticipation and excitement of watching the gigantic clubs of the modern game that matched was felt.
The comparison with the debacle of FIFA’s ridiculous club World Cup – similar game was Stark – the tournament itself was not much better than the ridiculousness of the opening proposition.
The football world was then forced to embrace the recurring theme of the Trump-Infantino Love-in that was played throughout the summer in a much-promoted league that was financed by a Saudi-Arab Rescue that will ultimately not do anyone and certainly not this version of FIFA-An-An-An-An-An-angled football grades.
Football sometimes did not seem to be important because the global wannabees celebrated their own celebrity at the expense of world game. Rarely, football is so badly lost.
In an hour and 15 minutes, UEFA turned that round and delivered a master class memory that Top Tier International Football and the drama of the draw itself are still about football. These were football people who did what they do most days of the year – deliver football.
From the moment the choir opened the draw with the immediate recognizable and iconic UCL people’s song, the mood and tone was set. Serious football in a meaningful, proven, tested, reworked and successful environment.
Before the draw was carried out, there was time for a special presentation to Chelsea who, with their victory in the Conference League last season, became the first club to all won the UEFA club matches. Chelsea has not been reported of their club world cup and even has photos of Trump on the Team Trophy (Read Check) Lift. UEFA has airbrushed it from history.
The Swedish attacker Zlatan Ibrahimovic received the president of the president who started with a video segment that demonstrated that even the strict outer face of UEFA has a sense of humor. The punchline came at the end with Ibrahimovic received the prize from Ceferin. He kept on stage to draw balls, press buttons and bring more human interaction to what is now a digital process.
This was the second time that UEFA has run the competition for its competition.
The 36 teams were placed in four pots. Pot 1 had PSG upside down as the reigning champion and the next 8 qualified teams arranged by their UEFA ranking order -Cefficient. The draw saw two random teams of each pot. Teams from the same federation could not be pulled against each other and they could only be confronted with a maximum of two teams from another national association.
Current psg champions, which was only completed 15one In the competition phase, they were forced last season in a play-off qualification for the last 16, one of the toughest competitions in the competition.
They will have to overcome a fired Bayern Munich, a bloodthirsty Barcelona, ​​Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen, as well as a reinvented track and a full Newcastle in an away game to the St James Cajdron of emotion.
Bayern Munich will also be confronted with early Premier League leaders Chelsea and Arsenal.
Real Madrid, who regards himself as the royalty in the European competition, will be confronted with Liverpool and Manchester City, as well as difficult opponents in Benfica and Marseilles. They also have a long journey to Kazhakstan ‘Kairat Almaty.
Kairat Almaty was the lower ranked team in the UEFA Club -Coefficient and confronted with a baptism of fire in their Champions League debut. In addition to Real Madrid, they will play Inter Milan, Arsenal, Olympiacos and Sporting. Playing Pafos and Copenhagen can offer some lighting for what a season will be to remember for their fans.
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