Chapter 109: Chairman
In order to enrich the entertainment of the workers, all of Downing's enterprises have football clubs, and finally, these clubs feel that playing football only inside is not enjoyable, and strongly demand that the games between clubs be held, and the big bosses are also asked to get some bonuses to encourage everyone, of course, during the game to enlarge the family leave is a must.
Although Downing gave the workers a place to exercise, he played very few times by himself, and now he knows that there is no uniform football rules in the whole of England! Well, before the club fights, let's have a meeting to unify the rules.
In order to make the whole of England use the same rules, in addition to their own clubs, the meeting to set the rules of the game also invited the participation of the more famous universities and private clubs such as Cambridge University and Sheffield Club. Later, clubs in Scotland, Ireland, and even Belgium, France, Bavaria, and Switzerland asked to participate in the convention. Anyway, there is no shortage of this money, everyone come. In the end, it evolved into an international football conference, a trip that didn't cost money, and small clubs from all over Europe came to London to join in the fun.
Not only was the funding for this international conference funded by Downing, but more than half of the clubs were owned by Downing, so the meeting unanimously elected Downing as the first president of the "International Football Federation" (FIFA). These guys are chicken thieves, and the chairman is always embarrassed to give some money to hold a competition for his organization, right?
They thought that the chairman would lose some money, but they didn't know that the chairman was advertising the sponsor's idea, and maybe they could make some pocket money.
British steel employees are worthy of being steely men, after more than a month of fighting, won the first European club league championship with a large advantage, of course, this is because football has not yet spread to the continent, only continental steel, Belgian red and black phonograph companies and a few other European clubs to participate in the competition, due to geographical restrictions, all the games are held in England, and the British steel company Birmingham is the mainstay, the so-called European champion, a bit of a misname.
FIFA President Mr. Windsor cordially presented the trophy and commemorative medal to the champion team at the venue of the last Sheffield match, and said that the club can support the birth of professional athletes, and since there is this craft, it is also possible to play football exclusively! The hundreds of fans present cheered "Long live the Grand Duke!" ”
The Italian peninsula is indeed an earthquake-prone zone, with a major earthquake in the Mediterranean city of Naples, killing tens of thousands of people, and all the pocket money earned in the European club league was donated to Italian refugees. The International Organization for Natural Disaster Relief is busy again.
The joyful football game did not affect the war clouds in Asia, the British and French coalition forces have launched an attack on Guangzhou, the Taiping army is called the Cantonese bandits in Zeng Guofan's conquest text, the Liangguang region is one of the most violent places for the Taiping army, the governor of Liangguang Ye Mingchen did not have a decent army against the British and French coalition forces, so he had to resign himself to fate, and finally at the end of December was captured alive by the coalition forces that broke into the city, at that time he was still indignant and shouted to reason with the British king, poor old man, even the British are the hypocrite of the head of state can not figure out.
Now, Ye Mingchen is praised as a national hero by Emperor Xianfeng, but soon he will become a national scum, because his foreign policy in Nanyang blocked the way for the British to communicate with the emperor in state affairs.
The Anglo-French forces are ready to go north! Some of the ships were from the East India Company, so Downing was well aware of the movements of the Anglo-French forces. Dissatisfied with the British government's opium trade, Downing had thought about withdrawing the East India Company from the British army, but he abandoned this plan in order to obtain reliable military information.
Because the Qing Kingdom was about to suffer and didn't know what to do, the Grand Duke walked out of the castle in a depressed mood, and went to the green field of the International School Park to watch the children play football.
The oldest of the children adopted 5 years ago was 15 years old, and after 5 years of study, they have become excellent talents in the International Academy, and several of them have entered the various institutions under the Grand Duke a year ago, and the table is quite outstanding. The enrollment of the International School Park has also reached its peak, exceeding 10,000 people. Of course, there is still a considerable gap from the 100,000 people that Downing originally promised, but it doesn't matter, he still has five years to fulfill his promise, because growth is accelerating, and these 100,000 people are not empty words. Hehe, 100,000 outstanding talents surnamed Windsor are more than enough to rule India and a big country like the Qing Dynasty.
Children from various countries naturally get together to play according to their skin color in today's era of strict racism, for example, the dozen or so children in front of me are all from the Greater Chinese cultural circle, 8 from the Qing Dynasty, 3 from Japan, 2 from South Korea, 1 from Siam, 1 from Vietnam, and 1 from the Ryukyus. Siam was Thailand, and the Ryukyus were still "part of the Qing Dynasty", but because the Satsuma Domain had invaded and exiled their leaders to Edo, the Ryukyus were now vassals to both the Qing Dynasty and Japan.
Alas, how powerful I used to be in the Qing Dynasty.
Among the 15 children, there were two beautiful figures, two girls, one from each of the two teams, and the most daring one, Linfield, saw the figure of the Grand Duke, and mischievously kicked the ball and flew towards the Grand Duke.
Downing was worried about the world first, and he didn't notice the danger for a while, and the FIFA president was unfortunately hit by a football and became a laughing stock for the ages.
The Grand Duke used to be approachable, but the recent confrontation with Prussia made him a hero, and the children were very scared when they saw him hit by football, but Linfell, the perpetrator, did not pay attention to it, and laughed and laughed at him for not being worthy of the name of FIFA president. (http://.)。
The children can't help but sigh, the queen is mighty! Lin Fei is now 11 years old, more and more glamorous, quite half a beauty, the queen of the international school park, and her personality is fierce and uninhibited, not to mention that in the Greater China circle, she is the most eye-catching among all girls.
It's naughty, but I love it! Downing gave them back the football and said to Linfield, "Call your daddy and mommy to me for dinner in the evening!" ”
Linfield agreed, but shouted again, "You can play with us and relieve your troubles." ”
Downing: "Hey, how can you tell I'm troubled?" ”
Linfield: "Don't I see it? We all know it here! Come here! The little queen clapped her hands, and all the little subjects gathered around.
The little queen said, "Which of you will tell me the conclusion we have discussed yesterday!" ”
What children understand, it is nothing more than a very naïve idea in the eyes of adults, and no one wants to expose their innocence in front of the Grand Duke, so they all look at each other.
Finally, a captain who was very good at playing football weakly said to Linfield: "It's better for you to talk about it." ”
Although he was still young, since he was pushed to the forefront, Lin Fei still took it and said: "Lord Dagong, we hope that you will lead us to overthrow the current court of the Great Qing Dynasty and let us go back to build the motherland!" ”
Yo, I'm quite conscious!
Tang Ning looked at them for a long time with a smile and said nothing, and finally said, "Tonight's dinner, you all come!" Phil's parents won't come here for a while, and I'll listen carefully to your thoughts. ”