Young Football Player

The match day for the quarter-finals of the Champions League is coming, and the most valuable top club competition in world football is about to begin again.

On the morning of April 1st, the entire Schalke team left Dusseldorf Airport and flew to Paris, the capital of France, where they will challenge Paris Saint-Germain, a newly promoted local tycoon in Europe who has gained fame in the past two years.

The name of the Saint-Germain team first reminds people of the Germans.

Speaking of Germans, many people think of Germans, that is, Germans. Many people naturally equate Germans with Germans.

Therefore, the team name Paris Saint-Germain really makes many people feel strange.

If there is a team in Berlin called Saint-Germain, everyone will think it is normal, but the Paris team is named Saint-Germain, which is really confusing.

In fact, the Germanic people themselves were very early European aborigines. They were once called the three major barbarians in Europe together with the Celts and Slavs. The Germanic people are not limited to Germans.

In today's Europe, including the Germans, Austrians, English, Dutch, Swiss, Swedes, Norwegians, etc., all belong to the descendants of the Germanic people.

Speaking of it, the reason why Britain has always been severely divided in the country is that the English are of Germanic descent, while the Scots, Irish, etc. are of Celtic descent, and they are not of the same race.

Moreover, the reason why the Celts have become so sparsely populated is because they have been slaughtered by the Germans for many years. The history of the rise of the Germans is the history of blood and tears of the Celts.

However, although there are many Germanic people in Europe, the French are not included.

The French themselves are also natives of Europe. Strictly speaking, they are Gauls who have been severely Romanized and should be classified as Latins.

But in the French capital, their most popular team is called Saint-Germain, which is indeed a bit strange.

In fact, the name Saint-Germain was named after a local neighborhood in Paris.

When Paris was established, there was already a team called Paris FC in Paris, so they named it Paris Saint-Germain according to the Saint-Germain district where the team is located in order to distinguish it.

This is the same as the London team, some called Chelsea, some called Fulham, some called Tottenham, all named after the local neighborhood.

Moreover, the reason why the Saint-Germain block is called Saint-Germain has nothing to do with the Germans. The name of the Saint-Germain block is only to commemorate an archbishop named German Dalton, so it was named Saint-Germain.

Saint-Germain's Saint refers to the meaning of a saint, and a block related to Saint-Germain.

As an analogy, if there is a famous person surnamed Han in a certain place in China, and the local people change the place name to Hancheng, Hanzhen or Hancun in memory of him, it does not mean that this place belongs to Korea from now on. people.

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On the night of April 1st, the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals played two games first. The final result was that Barcelona drew 1:1 at home with Atletico Madrid and Manchester United drew 1:1 with Bayern at home. And the scores are all exactly the same.

At 8:45 pm on April 2nd, French time, the other two matches of the Champions League quarter-finals will start at the same time.

At the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, the two sides of the game are ready to go.

Paris arranged a 433 formation at home,

Goalkeeper: Sirigu;

Defenders: Maxwell, Thiago Silva, Alex, Christopher Jalay;

Midfielders: Motta, Matuidi, Verratti;

Forwards: Lavezzi, Ibrahimovic, Cavani.

Schalke 04 is a 442 formation arranged,

Goalkeeper: Keylor Navas;

Defenders: Kolasinac, Matip, Höwedes, Uchida Atsuto;

Midfielders: Kante, Neustedt, Kevin Boateng, Draxler;

Forwards: Jackie Lee, Huntelaar.

For an important match like the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Stevens no longer arranged for the young player Gretzka to start, but let a more stable veteran play.

"This is the first time the two teams have played against each other in the history of the European war, so we don't have historical combat records to compare." The commentators of various countries also talked about this game.

"However, if we simply compare the experience of the Champions League, Schalke 04 is the better side."

"The best results of the two teams in the Champions League are the semi-finals, but Paris Saint-Germain only achieved it once, and it was in the 1990s, while Schalke 04, in the last four seasons, they have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League twice gone."

"However, the two teams are currently in the domestic league with stable results. Paris Saint-Germain is the first place in the Ligue 1, and Schalke 04 is the second place in the Bundesliga, so they don't need to be too distracted by the domestic league. It was rotated during the league weekend."

Although Paris Saint-Germain became famous in the world after the local tyrants of Qatar took over in the past two years, in France, they have long been one of the two most successful teams in Ligue 1 and have many fans.

The Ligue 1 team has always had poor results in the European war. In the decades of European war history, they have only won two championships. One is Marseille's Champions League in 1993, and the other is Paris Saint-Germain in 1996. Champions of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

It's sad to say that, as one of the five major leagues, they haven't even managed to gather the three major cup championships.

So Saint-Germain, who has won the Cup Winners Cup once, is also located in Paris, the capital of France, a famous big city in the world, and naturally has a large number of fans in China.

The national derby of the Ligue 1 is played between Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain.

Now that Paris is rich, the goal is naturally not limited to dominating Ligue 1.

What they want more is the Champions League, the highest honor for a European club.

But what they need to do now is to try to tie the team's historical record first, and then strive to achieve the semi-finals of the Champions League that George Weah led the team to achieve.

In the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season, they were unlucky to meet Real Madrid, but it was normal if they couldn't beat them, because Real Madrid was obviously stronger than Paris.

But this time they met Schalke 04 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. This is their chance, at least everyone in Paris thinks so.

They are the dominant side. As long as they play their due strength, they can eliminate Schalke and enter the Champions League semi-finals after many years.

In this game, many celebrities came to the stands of the Parc des Princes, former French President Sarkozy and a group of French dignitaries, as well as many French celebrities and stars.

In addition, Brazil national team coach Scolari and French national team coach Didier Deschamps also inspected players in the stands to prepare for the upcoming World Cup.

With Serbian referee Marzic's whistle, Paris Saint-Germain's home game against Schalke 04 in the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals officially started.