On the evening of July 5, 1998, in Paris, France, a hotel owned by the Panshi Group. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Because Long Zheng lived here during the French World Cup, in order to ensure the safety of Long Zheng, this hotel has been welcoming guests for half a month.

The hotel, which is guarded by the special forces Long Dun, is so impregnable that not even a fly can fly out, but at this moment, a black car with a special license plate drove straight into the hotel's underground parking garage after being strictly inspected by Long Dun.

Ten minutes later, Long Zheng warmly received four people in the conference room, led by the Minister of State of the French Government and the President of the French Football Association. Long Zheng already knew the purpose of the four of them here, and the negotiations between the two parties were also smooth. After the four of them had a dinner, the four people, led by the Minister of State of the French Government and the President of the French Football Association, left the hotel with a happy face.

At 8 p.m. on July 7, 1998, at the neutral stadium Velodrom Stadium, the match between the Brazilian national football team and the Dutch national football team started on time.

When you meet an opponent in chess, you will meet a good talent. Ninety minutes of play time, the two teams were tied 1-1, and the game went into extra time. Each missed a good chance to score, and extra time ended, forcing the two teams to engage in a brutal penalty shoot-out. The thrilling penalty shootout ended with the Brazilian national football team knocking out the Dutch national football team 5-3 on aggregate to advance to the final of the World Cup in France.

At 8 p.m. on July 8, 1998, the French national football team hosted the semi-final opponent Salwyn at the Stade de France in Paris.

The day before the game, Long Zheng suddenly felt unwell and urgently sought medical attention. According to the doctor's diagnosis, Ryuzheng was infected with a viral flu due to the hormone secretion disorder caused by continuous high-intensity competitions, which caused the body's resistance to plummet, and he was not adapted to the climate of Paris.

As the head of state, for the sake of his own health and not to spread the cold to others, Ryu-jeong was forced to accept a doctor's order to take a truce in the semi-finals the next day, and stay in the hotel to recuperate as soon as possible.

Without goalkeeper Long Zheng, the core of the defense, Salwyn's national football team was disrupted and collapsed. Four to zero, the first half ended, the French national football team led by four goals.

The Salween national football team's backline, which is constructed by amateur players, is helpless in the face of the continuous attack of the French national football team.

Without the need for other players, the three central midfielders of Zinedine Zidane, Stefan Givash and Yuri Djokaeff made it straight into the bus formation in front of the Salween national football team with unrivalled individual ability, scoring four goals in just half time.

It is also because the French national football team is involved in the attack only three midfielders, Zinedine Zidane, Stefan Givas and Yuri Djokaev, who have seven players involved in the team's defense. In the face of the tight sealing of the opponent's seven defenders, Adriano, Ronaldinho, Ballack, and Klose looked so insignificant.

With a four-goal lead, the opponent's offensive could not threaten their own goal, and in the second half of the game, the French national football team replaced a number of main teams including Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly, and Lilian Thuram, and faced Salwyn with a semi-main lineup. In the last 20 minutes of the game, seeing that there was no hope of chasing points, the coaching staff of the Salwyn national football team decisively removed Adriano, Ronaldinho, Ballack, and Klose, announcing that the team had completely abandoned the game. Fortunately, the victory and defeat have been decided, and the French national football team did not continue to strengthen the offensive after Adriano, Ronaldinho, Ballack, and Klose went off the field. In the midst of the constant backcourt inversion of the players of both teams, the minutes and seconds of the game passed slowly.

At the end of the game, the score of the two teams remained above 4-0, and the French national football team eliminated the Salween national football team, and after the Brazilian national football team, they entered the final of the World Cup in France.

Salwein's national football team, which returned from a big defeat, will face the Dutch national football team for the third place in the World Cup in France in the third-place match three days later.

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Said to be a neutral stadium, the Parc des Princes is also the home of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club. Just one day before the third-place match, the Paris City Government announced that Paris Saint-Germain Football Club completed the acquisition of the Parc des Princes Stadium for 200 million US dollars, that is to say, the Parc des Princes Stadium is not only the home of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club from now on, but also the property of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club. Salwyn's main goalkeeper, Long Zheng, is the owner of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, and Ronaldinho, the main striker of Salwyn's national football team, is the core of Paris Saint-Germain Football Club's midfield, which is why tens of thousands of spectators in the Parc des Princes stadium overwhelmingly support Salwyn's national football team. At this moment, the Parc des Princes is the home of the Salwyn national football team.

After suffering a one-sided defeat of 0-4 in the semi-finals, the morale of Salwein's national football team was inevitably low. In order to boost morale and attack the honor of the third place in the World Cup, Long Zheng issued a prize in his personal name for the first time since he set foot in professional sports.

$100 million, as long as the Salwyn national football team defeats the Dutch national football team in the third-place match and wins the third-place honor of the World Cup in France, the Salweyn national football team will receive a bonus of 100 million US dollars. In addition to Long Zheng, including the coaching staff, all members of the Salwyn national football team will share a huge prize of $100 million according to their contributions in the third-place match.

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, not to mention a huge prize of 100 million US dollars. According to the bonus distribution plan formulated by Long Zheng, the main body involved in the bonus distribution is the 21 players except Long Zheng, and several coaches in the player coaching staff. As long as the team wins and finishes third in the World Cup in France, even the team's fringe players can also receive a huge prize money of millions of dollars.

In the 22-member squad of Salwyn's national football team, in addition to goalkeeper Long Zheng, Adriano, Ronaldinho, Ballack, Klose, the other 17 players are all amateur players, and the huge prize money of millions of dollars is enough for these amateur players to ensure that they have a worry-free life for a lifetime. For the 17 amateur players, the match was a turning point in their lives, and they could not afford not to give it their all.

Cutting off someone's money is like killing one's parents. The Salween national football players knew that if the game itself was a little negligent, the decision would be hated for the rest of their lives, especially by the team's seventeen amateur players.

With Long Zheng in the goal, the players on the field of the Salwyn national football team were extremely relieved and played extraordinarily, coupled with the one-sided cheering of tens of thousands of spectators at the Parc des Princes Stadium, as well as the bias of the referee on duty, from the beginning, the Salwyn national football team firmly controlled the situation on the field and completely suppressed the Dutch national football team.

At the end of the match, the score was fixed at an astonishing 6-0, and the Salween national football team won the third place in the 1998 World Cup in France.

After the end of the ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― third-place match, the Ballon d'Or and the best team for the 1998 World Cup in France were also released.

Playing five games and conceding a clean sheet, Long Zheng won the 1998 World Cup d'Or in France with his perfect performance in the goalkeeper position.

When the best lineup was announced by the organizing committee of the competition, it was also unanimously recognized by the outside world.

Goalkeepers: Ryu Zheng (Salwyn national football team), Fabian Barthes (French national football team);

Defenders: Marcel Desailly (France national football team), Lilian Thuram (French national football team), Robert Carlos (Brazilian national football team), Frank de Boer (Dutch national football team), Carlos Alberto Gamara Pavon (Paraguay national football team);

Defenders: Edgar Steven Davies (Netherlands national football team), Carlos Caetano Bredorn Viri (Brazilian national football team), Rivaldo Vido Boba Ferreira (Brazilian national football team), Zinedine Zidane (French national football team), Michel Laudrup (Danish national football team);

Forwards: Ronaldo Luis Nazario da Lima (Brazil national football team), Denis Bergkamp (Netherlands national football team), Brian Laudrup (Denmark national football team), Davao Suker (Croatia national football team).

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Ajax FC in the Dutch Bundesliga has a free deal with midfielder Michel Laudrup, who is about to retire, and Glasgow Rangers FC in the Scottish Premier League has a free transfer of winger Brian Laudrup, who is leaving on a free transfer.

On the day of the end of the World Cup third-place match in France, Long Zheng took the two brothers Michel Laudrup and Brian Laudrup and ten amateur players from the Salwyn national football team on a private jet back to Asia.

There are a total of 17 amateur players in the Salwyn national football team, and Long Zheng successfully persuaded 10 of them to join the newly formed Rock Charity Football Club.

Ten amateur players, two brothers, Michel Laudrup and Brian Laudrup, as well as goalkeeper Igor Casillas Fernandez, left wing-back Roberto Carlos, central defender Fabio Cannavaro, central defender Alessandro Nesta, central defender Lusimal Ferreira da Silva, right wing-back Marcos Cafu six players, a total of 18 players are Rock Charity Football Club in the 1998-1999 season Salwyn Football League Division. A key member of the two major competitions of the Salween Cup.

At 8 o'clock in the evening of July 12, 1998, in the Stade de France, the French national football team, which was waiting for work, defeated the Brazilian national football team that was overused in the semifinals 3-0 with the perfect play of Zidane, the core of the midfield, and won the 1998 French World Cup.

At this point, the month-long World Cup finally came to an end, and the host country France won the final, becoming the seventh team in history to win the World Cup.

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Here, Long Zheng participated in the World Cup in France, and over there, because of the strong performance of the three teams under the Dragon Zheng family--- Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, and Washington Bullets, in the NBA, the other teams in the league actually joined forces to tie the league president David Stern to their chariots, and the league came forward to put pressure on Long Zheng and the three clubs.

A month later, when Ryuzheng left France after the World Cup, the NBA league's ultimatum had been delivered to Ryuzheng.

Faced with the combined pressure of more than a dozen teams, Long Zheng did not choose to confront it head-on. By selling the ownership of the Houston Rockets and the Chicago Bulls, Long Zheng got out of it on the premise of avoiding damage to his interests.

With tens of billions of dollars, the Morgan consortium has pocketed the Chicago Bulls, the symbol of American basketball and the eight-time NBA champion.

With a total of $8 billion, the Rockefeller consortium wholly acquired the Houston Rockets, another powerful player in the NBA in addition to the Chicago Bulls.

With the rapid development of the U.S. economy in the mid-to-late nineties, the Morgan consortium and the Rockefeller consortium, the top two U.S. consortia, had huge liquidity in their hands, and under the bridging of NBA commissioner David Stern, the two teams were successfully transferred.

Sure enough, as soon as the ownership of the two teams was transferred, the pressure on Long Zheng was swept away.

After all, compared with the Chicago Bulls and the Houston Rockets, the Washington Bullets, which are still under the Dragons, are a notch lower in terms of strength and influence. (To be continued.) )