The 2017 Club World Cup came to an end at the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where Real Madrid defeated Gremio 1-0 with a direct free-kick from Tang Zheng in the second half to win the Club World Cup, thus achieving a magical record of six championships in a calendar year and setting a new team record.

In 2014, Carlo Ancelotti's Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey, the Champions League, the Spanish Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup, for a total of five titles.

Although Real Madrid won the treble in the 2014-2015 season, due to the contradiction between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo, he missed the next Spanish Super Cup and European Super Cup, and only won the Club World Cup at the end of the year, adding up to four championships.

Six titles in a calendar year means that Real Madrid ruled the whole of 2017.

And the reason why Real Madrid was able to win six titles in 2017 is known to everyone.

Tang Zheng!

A young man from the East, the beginning of his career meant champions and glory.

In River Plate, in Borussia Dortmund, in Real Madrid.

He proved himself in the first team of River Plate for a year and a half, and thus gained a kinship from Europe, the heart of world football.

During his four years at Borussia Dortmund, Tang Zheng gained worldwide recognition and stepped into the ranks of the world's top stars.

In Real Madrid, Tang Zheng really became the top of the world's top stars, to the top of the pyramid.

Real Madrid President Florentino, who was interviewed by the media after the game, highly praised Tang Zheng, and even said bluntly without embellishment: "Tang is the kind of player who can lead the whole team to improve, his goals and assists can help the team get out of trouble, anyone who doubts Tang is questioning Real Madrid, that is, questioning football, he is great, he is the best player in the world!"

At this time, there are good media reporters talking about giving up Cristiano Ronaldo and choosing Tang Zheng.

Florentino was cunning and cunning, and as soon as his voice changed, he smiled: "This is the development trend of football, we have all chosen the best path, haven't we?"

Cristiano Ronaldo, who returned to Manchester United, failed to help his side finish in the top four in his first season, but won the Europa League and secured a ticket to the 2017-2018 Champions League.

If it weren't for the injury, Cristiano Ronaldo could have appeared in the European Super Cup and confronted Tang Zheng head-on.

After an inconsistent 2016-2017 season, the 32-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo put up a very high standard of competition in 2017-2018 to help Manchester United clinch Manchester City at the top of the league.

To get back to the point, without Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid's strength has risen instead of falling, as evidenced by the six titles in 2017.

So Florentino's remarks are correct, Cristiano Ronaldo's departure is a good choice for all three, and there is nothing right or wrong.

After the end of the Club World Cup, La Liga ushered in a two-week winter break, and the draw ceremony for the 2018 World Cup in Russia was held at the Skokremlin Palace, witnessed and witnessed by more than 2,100 journalists, representatives of 32 national teams and more than 1,400 VIPs.

Of course, Tang Zheng was sitting in front of the TV watching the live broadcast.

China's draw in Group C, along with France, Peru and Denmark, was a very good draw, especially against the other four Asian teams representing the World Cup, Japan, Iran, Australia and South Korea.

Australia are drawn in Group A with hosts Russia, Egypt and Uruguay, while Iran are drawn in Group B with Portugal, Spain and Morocco.

The draw for South Korea and Japan was similarly discouraged, with South Korea in Group F featuring Germany, Mexico and Sweden.

Japan were drawn in Group H with Poland, Senegal and Colombia.

At the end of the group draw, although the eight groups did not have a group of death on the surface, almost every group had the potential to become a group of death.

However, there will be no pressure on the Chinese team to qualify, as long as they play normally against Peru and Denmark, even if they lose to seeded teams, France will be able to emerge from Group C.

Australia, Japan, South Korea and Iran are not optimistic about qualifying, unless they play extraordinarily, it will be difficult to qualify from the group, so the Chinese team, which has drawn a lot of lots, shoulders the responsibility of defending the glory of Asian football.

But the domestic media in Australia, Japan, South Korea and Iran do not believe that their national teams will miss out on the group, and the onus is on their national team and not the Chinese team to defend the glory of Asian football, even if Chinese football has grown wildly in recent years.

The current Chinese media naturally disdain to talk to the media of the other four countries, and the overall strength of the Chinese men's football team is needless to say, whether they admit it or not, the Chinese team is now the first brother of Asian football.

In the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Tang Zheng was twenty-five years old, and he led the Chinese team to the quarterfinals of the World Cup before he was at his peak, and Tang Zheng in the 2018 World Cup in Russia was twenty-nine years old, so the Chinese media firmly believe that the Chinese men's football team will go further in the World Cup in Russia and create the best results of Asian teams in the World Cup.

Tang Zheng didn't pay attention to the domestic media reports, and all his thoughts are now focused on taking care of the children.

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With the two-week winter break coming to an end, Tang Zheng took a flight back to Madrid to prepare for the second half of the race.

It is worth mentioning that the European winter transfer market is quite crazy, Barcelona sold Neymar last summer to get a lot of money, and successfully reached an agreement with Liverpool, and Coutinho transferred to Barcelona for 160 million euros.

Liverpool, who peddled Coutinho, had a lot of money on hand, with Jurgen Klopp first complementing the defence, with Dutch international Virgil van Dijk moving from Southampton to Liverpool for £75 million.

In addition to this, Manchester City and Arsenal also have blockbuster deals.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang moved from Borussia Dortmund to Arsenal for €63 million, while Aymeric Laporte moved from Athletic Bilbao to Manchester City for €65 million.

Manchester United, meanwhile, have a direct deal with Arsenal, with Tang Zheng's friends Alexis Sanchez and Mkhitaryan swapping owners.

Chinese Super League side Beijing Guoan also missed a face in this winter transfer window, with Villarreal striker Bakambu moving to Beijing Guoan for 35 million euros.

Tang Zheng's hope to see the club's winter transfer has not been seen for a long time, so he has some dissatisfaction with the club and suspended contract renewal negotiations with the club.

Real Madrid has won a lot of championships in the past few seasons since Tang Zheng joined, and it was carried out without continuous reinforcements, so that Florentino had the idea that there was no need for reinforcements.

Since you can win all competitions without bringing in strong reinforcements, why buy stars?

Looking at Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Paris Saint-Germain, who have been crazy in recent seasons, have they won a lot of glory?

Not much!

It doesn't even add up to as much as Real Madrid.

Rodrygo, who negotiated with Real Madrid on behalf of Tang Zheng, suspended the contract renewal negotiations, and Real Madrid President Florentino felt something inappropriate, but considering that Tang Zheng still had a two-and-a-half-year contract with the club, and 2018 was a World Cup year, the second half of the tournament followed, so he did not deliberately ask for the specific details of the renewal negotiations.

Real Madrid have built up some advantage in the first half of the league, but the second half of the season should not be underestimated.

So Tang Zheng, who returned to the Valdebebas training base, worked very hard to prepare for the upcoming league and Copa del Rey matches.

In addition to the World Cup championship in his career, Tang Zheng can be regarded as winning a Grand Slam, but it is far from enough for the ambitious Tang Zheng, he wants to win more championships before retiring and create a legendary story.

In January and early February, Real Madrid lost to Villarreal in the league, and won eight and drew two of their remaining five league games and six Copa del Rey matches, topping the league table and reaching the final of the Copa del Rey.

In the first leg of the 2017-2018 Champions League 1/8 finals, Real Madrid challenged Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes, and defeated Neymar's Paris Saint-Germain 3:1 away with Tang Zheng's shot and two passes.

The victory in this game also allowed Tang Zheng to prove that Neymar, who transferred to Paris Saint-Germain, is not worth 222 million euros, or if Neymar is worth 222 million euros, then Tang Zheng is worth 500 million euros.

Half a month later, in the second leg of the 1/8 finals, Tang Zheng once again showed amazing data, and he led Real Madrid to defeat Paris Saint-Germain 2:0 with a total score of 5:1 to advance to the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League.

The second day of the quarter-final at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, was an interesting one, with Manchester United, who eliminated Sevilla with a late goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, draw Real Madrid......

The other three quarter-finals are Manchester City vs Liverpool, Barcelona vs Roma, and Bayern Munich vs Juventus.

When the draw results came out, the mainstream media in Europe was in an uproar, except for Barcelona who drew a gift package for Roma, the other three quarter-finals were strong conversations.

Among them, the draw between Manchester United and Real Madrid attracted the most attention, and the European Super Cup held at the Philippe II National Stadium in Macedonia last year did not register for the competition due to Cristiano Ronaldo's injury, and Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo's first game after the break had to be postponed.

Manchester United's ability to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League is entirely a testament to Cristiano Ronaldo's multi-talented ability, and if it weren't for his injury-time goal, United would have been knocked out of the tournament by Sevilla.

In other words, Cristiano Ronaldo is healthy and in full condition, and the two Champions League quarter-finals in half a month are expected to be ......

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In the blink of an eye, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals is approaching, and the first legs of the two Champions League quarter-finals on the first Champions League matchday are Manchester United vs Real Madrid and Juventus vs Bayern Munich.

Undoubtedly, the most closely watched contest was the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final between Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Why?

The reason is simple.

First it was former Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho who re-managed Manchester United to face his old club, and then Cristiano Ronaldo, who set a transfer record in world football in the summer of 2009, faced Real Madrid after returning to Manchester United.

Finally, there was the much-boiling break between Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2015-2016 season.

Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid to return to Manchester United, and the biggest reason is that he did not contribute as much as Tang Zheng in the team.

Now that they met in the quarterfinals of the Champions League knockout round, the attention they attracted was naturally unparalleled.

Although Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo have different positions on the pitch, in a belligerent sense, whose team ends up in the Champions League semi-finals will mean who is more valuable.

Before the game, the two were very low-key, not affected by public opinion, and their attention was focused on the first leg of the Champions League 1/4 finals.

At 8:45 p.m. local time in Europe, Manchester United took on Real Madrid at Old Trafford.

The starting line-up of both sides is the strongest squad at the moment, Manchester United goalkeeper is David De Gea, four defenders Ashley Young, Smalling, Bailly, Valencia, two back Pogba partners Nemanja Matic, three forward defenders Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesse Lingard and Alexis Sanchez, and the little monster Lukaku is at the front.

Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas, four defenders Marcelo, Ramos, Varane and Carvajal, three midfielders Luka Modric, Tang Zheng and Casemiro, three forwards Bale, Benzema and Isco.

It is worth mentioning that before the start of the game, the on-site director deliberately gave the players a passage and gave Tang Zheng and Cristiano Ronaldo a close-up respectively.

Standing at the end of their respective lines, they didn't communicate at all, only hugging, shaking hands, and talking to their own people.

Tang Zheng and his old friend Sanchez shushed and greeted each other, while Cristiano Ronaldo shook hands with former teammates such as Tang Zheng and Bale when the other party did not exist.

As a result, the commentators in the commentary seats concluded that the next game would be very exciting.

Sure enough!

The race started from the first second, and it was spectacular.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the heart of Manchester United's attack and has a lot of balls, so he has plenty of opportunities to go head-to-head with Tang Zheng.

However, Cristiano Ronaldo, who is already 33 years old, has declined in terms of breakthroughs, so he is at a disadvantage in terms of direct confrontation with Tang Zheng.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who has failed to break through in a row, feels very aggrieved, and he gets the ball like opening a gap from Tang Zheng's side to help Manchester United beat Real Madrid at home, so much so that he forgets that his current ability is reflected in scoring goals, which means that the current Cristiano Ronaldo is quite self-defeating.

Mourinho, who was standing in the coaching area of the home team, frowned, and it was clear that he was very unhappy with Cristiano Ronaldo's choice, but he had nothing to do, Cristiano Ronaldo's influence at Manchester United was extremely high, even higher than that of him as a manager.

However, Mourinho did not show it directly, this season is his second season in charge of Manchester United, Cristiano Ronaldo is now Chinese New Year's Eve, the decline in competitive form is inevitable, as long as the rest of the second half of the season is not good, he will slowly take Cristiano Ronaldo from the starting line-up.