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In previous years, Arthur, as the chairman of the Blue Devils, would appear in the stands to watch the games at the home games at the beginning of the season, but in the first three rounds of this season, Arthur was not seen in the chairman's box of the Rose Theater or in the Jack Walker stands, but no one was surprised, because Arthur was on the other side of the ocean in Beijing, watching the Beijing Olympics.

At 12 o'clock on August 23, 2008, Beijing time, the men's football final of the Beijing Olympic Games was held in the Bird's Nest, the main stadium of the Olympic Games, which was the first football match since the establishment of the Bird's Nest.

After 90 minutes of fierce battle, Argentina defeated Nigeria 1-0 with Di Maria's goal to win the gold medal in men's football at this Olympic Games, successfully defending the title, and Nigeria, the African eagle, was relegated to second. In the 58th minute, Messi assisted, and Di Maria scored the only goal of the game with a single knife.

The Olympic football competition has ended, and Argentina and the United States have become the new leaders of the men's and women's alliances. Determined to make a historic breakthrough at the Olympics, Chinese football has once again fallen into the sand, and the samba kingdom of Brazil has the same fate, although Brazil has such unborn talents as Ronaldinho and Marta, but still cannot touch the Olympic football gold medal.

Chinese football has never had a history of men's and women's football teams participating in the Olympics at the same time, and the Football Association hopes to take advantage of the host's east wind to create a best record in history, and they set a rather ambitious goal before the game: the women's football semi-finals, the men's football football quarter-finals.

However, in the end, Chinese fans were disappointed again, and the women's football team advanced to the top 8. The men's football team only scored 2 goals and swallowed 6 bombs, which is the worst record of the host country in history.

China's Olympic Games once brought endless expectations, but when the turn was transferred to 2008, the team suddenly faded, with the national team in the World Cup qualifiers, the team also quickly completed the transformation, the fate between the head coach Du Yi and the Football Association also came to an end, just a month before the start of the Olympic Games he was the Football Association "cup of wine released military power", the local marshal Yin Tiesheng came to the forefront.

A month later, the team drew 1-1 with New Zealand, lost 2-1 to Belgium and lost 3-0 to Brazil. At the same time, they also shamefully received two red cards from Tan Wangsong and Zheng Zhi. This result is the worst record among the previous Olympic hosts.

The women's team once gave hope as they topped their group and faced their opponents Japan in the Asian Cup in the quarter-finals, but they were helpless against the technically excellent Japan, and they lost 2-0. Although the Chinese women's football team entered the knockout round of the Olympic Games again after 12 years, it was unable to complete the goal of entering the top 4.

Xie Yalong quickly became popular in the Olympic football field, whether it was a game of the Chinese team or a game of a foreign team, the voice of "Xie Yalong is out of class" will be loud in the stadium.

In the dream duel between Brazil and Argentina in the Workers' Stadium, the voice of "Xie Yalong is out of class" reached its peak, and Xie Yalong, the head of the Football Association, also "famous" the world.

To Arthur's embarrassment, because the news of his Chinese proficiency was almost known to his friends, many of his friends who watched the Olympic men's football games with him would ask him what "xie_ya_long_xia_ke" meant.

Although he was a white-skinned Englishman in this life, whenever this question was asked, Arthur still had a depression that hated iron and steel.

The Chinese men's football team in this life is definitely much stronger than in the previous life, because Li Weifeng, who is one of the overage players in the Chinese Olympic team, has been training in Mourinho for more than a year in this life, and the level is much higher than that of the same period in the previous life, and more importantly, this national team has the presence of Blackburn player Chen Tao.

The funny thing is that Chen Tao, who was the main midfielder of Belshot, the runner-up of the Bel Shot last season, as the strongest midfielder in China, could not play the absolute main force in the Chinese Olympic team.

However, Rao is like this, in the extremely limited playing time, Chen Tao still contributed a goal and an assist.

Seeing Chen Tao's experience of the national Olympic team, Arthur finally understood why the Chinese national youth team was able to shine at the Dutch national youth championship in 2005, but three years later, the national Olympic team composed of players of the same age group was blown into scum on his home stadium.

For Chinese football, Arthur can only "hehe".

In the future, a certain person who talks about "governing the country" can set off a storm of gold in the Chinese Football League, but it cannot make the Chinese men's football team have any improvement.

Even such a big man is helpless, will Arthur still think he is a savior to help the Chinese men's football team?

This may be a reincarnation, 20 years ago, when China entered the Olympics for the first time, the Chinese Olympic Games, which had a net of nine bombs, were once called "the most unenterprising team", and now it seems to be another reincarnation.

Just as after 1970, Brazilians have not been able to win a World Cup in 24 years, although they have talents such as Ronaldinho, such as Marta, such as Diego, such as Cristiana Anne...... But they just couldn't win a gold medal in Olympic football.

This fate continued in Beijing, with Ronaldinho falling to Tango Knight Argentina in the semi-finals and Marta tragically falling in extra-time in the final.

The Brazilians have done their homework this time around, and both men's and women's teams are a fantasy team. Dunga's men's team was invincible in the group stage, beating Belgium 1-0, New Zealand 5-0 and beating the host China 3-0.

Brazil had a bit of trouble in the knockout round, with the African Lions Cameroon holding off for 90 minutes, but they were still 2-0 in extra time as a stepping stone for the Brazilians.

In the semi-finals, they faced Argentina, the Brazilian's innate opponent on the football pitch.

Opposite Ronaldo, Diego, and Pato, stood Riquelme, Messi, and Aguero, all starry and dreamy.

In the Argentine's tango, the Brazilian samba was lost, two red cards, and a 0:3 rout......

Ronaldo Diño's tearful eyes touched the world, but he couldn't move the God of the football world.

The women's soccer team gave hope to the Brazilians, with Marta's sisters beating the world's best Germany 4-1, but in the final against the spicy United States, Marta's youthfulness was on full display, and she could continue her Lotus Foot performance, but she could not bring victory, and the practical USA team sealed their throats in extra time.

Atlanta 1996 was perhaps the most classic Olympic men's football match in history, and it was also a match for the African eagles Nigeria. They beat Brazil and Argentina to win the first Olympic football gold medal in African history, and also won the most gold medal in history.

Now that the Kanu are gone, their juniors are still fierce, and after reaching the Olympic final again, the Argentines are standing in front of them as promised, and the feud of 12 years ago can be put to an end.

This time the Argentines had the last laugh, with the talented teenager Messi, the master Riquelme, and the Argentine with Aguero proving that they are invincible. Nigeria is no longer the era of the wind-chasing teenager Kanu, who is powerless to fight back in the face of Argentina's sword, and the gold medal they snatched from Argentina 12 years ago is now back in the hands of the Argentine.

There is a new grudge in this Olympics, Brazil: Argentina, the Samba people's Olympic dream was shattered by Argentina, and if they can get revenge in a few years the way the Argentines are now, it will be a new legend in the history of the Olympic Games.

The World Cup belongs to Europe, but they are not the protagonists of the football competition of the Beijing Olympics. The only team in the top four is Belgium, a second-rate European team, and traditional powerhouses such as Italy and the Netherlands are all excluded from the semi-finals.

What happened to the European Football Corps?

Why are they so vulnerable at the Olympics?

Europe has come to pay little attention to the Olympic football competition, mainly because the Olympic football competition is in conflict with the five major European leagues, and the Premier League has already kicked off when the Olympics begin.

Europe, which has a history of 100 years of professional football, attaches more importance to its own leagues, and they have never been interested in the Olympic football competitions of the nature of youth competitions.

As a result, their best young players have all stayed in the country, and only those who have not played for the time being will come to the Olympics in search of opportunities.

The decline of European teams at the Olympics does not mean that their football is in decline, they just don't pay enough attention to such competitions, and in two years from now in the World Cup in South Africa, European teams will still be the protagonists.

As one of the most important players of the Argentine team, Messi successfully led the team to defend the title and once again made himself the brightest star of this Olympic Games. Italy's Giuseppe Rossi became the top scorer of the men's team at the Olympics with four goals.

The Belgians have earned respect for their excellent defence and meticulous counter-attacking tactics, and a bronze medal heralds the Red Devils on the verge of roaring again.

When Belgium won the bronze medal, they also thanked Arthur, because in this Belgian Olympic team, including Kompany, Vermaelen, Dembele and Vertonghen, the absolute main team is not in Blackburn, or in Belshot, anyway, they are all players of Arthur's club.

Faced with their application to participate in the Beijing Olympics, after the club's top management expressed opposition, Arthur gave a supportive reply and promised that it would not affect their position at the club.

It was with Arthur's full support that Kompany was able to perform well in the national Olympic team and secure an Olympic medal.

As for the host Chinese team?

Well, it's better not to mention it. (To be continued.) )