The "Toyota Cup" was originally called the "Intercontinental Cup", which is an international football competition jointly organized by the "Union of European Football Associations" and the "South American Football Federation", and the Champions League winner and the Copa Libertadores champion compete every year.

After Toyota's sponsorship, the name was changed, and the format was changed from a two-legged home-and-away system to a one-game match, and the venue of the match was fixed at the Tokyo National Stadium in Japan.

It was already the 25th when Wu Jie got off the plane, and the game was scheduled for the evening of the 31st, when it was already Japan's national holiday.

In this case, they do have to give a million dollars as a prize for the champion.

Because of this kind of game, the Bayern players can't even have a good Christmas.

In addition, the West also has to celebrate the New Year, and in this case, the expedition to play a competition, who will come if the money is less.

The Bayern players came to Japan two days earlier than Wu Jie, and they were indeed unhappy that they could not spend Christmas with their families, but fortunately, Toyota was very humane and offered to reimburse the accommodation expenses for the players' families, so that they could spend Christmas in Japan.

So when Wu Jie came to Tokyo, Bayern and the coaching staff of more than 30 people, counting the family, nearly 200 people lived in the same hotel, and they really brought their families to Japan for a tour.

This can only be said that the Japanese still have money, and the two teams together will have to reimburse the accommodation and travel expenses of four or five hundred people, which adds up to five or six hundred thousand US dollars, right?

Wu Jie also took the newly formed business team to walk around Tokyo, and Toyota also sent a special guide, as well as two Toyota Century as a means of transportation for the group.

"When will there be a car company like Toyota in China?"

Wu Jie felt sour, Toyota had already shipped a Supra that had just been launched and a Toyota Century to Germany, and designated the Supra as his daily car, and the Toyota Century, which was the same model as the Japanese royal family, must be used as a car for business activities.

He was very satisfied with these two cars, but he was inevitably a little unhappy, not only for the Japanese to use their global influence to promote sales in the next few years, but also for the lack of an excellent car company in China!

The next day, Wu Jie was picked up by someone from the Mitsui Group.

In addition to being the global spokesperson of Toyota, he is also the global spokesperson of Toshiba, Nippon Life Insurance and Mitsukoshi Department Store.

He has already got the "money", although there are not too many publicity and advertising tasks on the contract, but he can't do nothing, otherwise the endorsement fee of 12 million US dollars a year, and the 220-square-meter duplex apartment in Minato-ku, Tokyo, is too easy to earn, which is considered a practical area.

Mitsui didn't bother him too much, after all, it was a game in a few days.

In the next three days, he was just asked to record a few Japanese national variety shows and talk shows, and it was too late to shoot commercials after the game.

But even so, Wu Jie also felt very tired, fortunately he had a card to speed up his physical recovery, otherwise he would not have the energy to play the game in a few days!

It wasn't until the on-the-field training on the 29th of the game that Wu Jie officially returned to the team, but this was just a warm-up training.

Bayern has been dissatisfied with his recent performance of always leaving the team, but Wu Jie really has no choice, he has too many things to do.

After everyone got used to the venue, they naturally talked about the game the day after tomorrow.

"Wu, this game is not easy to play!"

Breitner has already seen footage of Flamengo's match and it is definitely not an easy opponent to deal with.

"The South American team has always been good, but we are the king of Europe!"

Wu Jie's words are very insincere, of course he knows that in this era, European football has some advantages over South American football at the national team level, but it is at a disadvantage in terms of clubs.

Originally, except for the Italian clubs due to the style of play, so the South American clubs had a higher winning rate, even after the introduction of the Boseman Act, the teams of Germany and Spain did not have an advantage in the face of South American teams before 07, and England, a European shame, was the biggest star slave of South American teams.

If Bayern hadn't won the last Champions League, England, which had been on the plane, would have staged an embarrassing record of being killed five times by South American teams.

Wu Jie watched the match between Liverpool and Flamengo in the original plane, and found that the Brazilian club was playing Liverpool as a monkey all over the field.

Liverpool even have a handful of decent attacks, and it's basically Flamengo singing a one-man show.

Zico, in particular, was world-class, with the assist of the three goals of the game, and he was also voted Player of the Match.

It was in this game that Udinese impressed Zico and bought the Brazilian superstar two years later.

After watching it, Wu Jie always felt that this game was very familiar, and finally thought about it for a long time before he realized that this TM is not a copy of the game between the Chinese team and Syria?

But it's not that Syria plays like Flamengo, but Liverpool is like the Chinese team.

"Gentlemen, the style of Brazilian football should be familiar to everyone, technically they are better than us, but physically we are superior, defensively we are superior, and even if we really compete in attack, we are not necessarily much worse than them. But it's obviously not a good idea to play hard against your opponent's strengths, and we have to be smart enough to use our strengths to beat them. We are not here for sightseeing. We are bound to win this championship, and we will not give up that million dollars to the Brazilians! ”

Chernaui didn't know much about Flamengo, so what he said in the last tactical lesson before the game was somewhat conjectural, but more morale-boosting.

The Bayern players were very useful, especially when they mentioned the bonuses.

Bayern's top brass is ready to participate in some business events of Japanese television and major companies after the game, and even play an exchange match with the Japanese national team.

These activities add up to more than a million dollars, but only if Bayern can win the championship, otherwise the appearance fee difference between the champion and the runner-up will be doubled.

Therefore, in order to motivate the players to go all out, Bayern's senior management rarely and generously gave the championship bonuses to the players.

Wu Jie is naturally not interested in this bonus, Bayern can receive these business activities is actually stained with his light, those financiers are all coming for his Wu Shao's face, otherwise the appearance fee will be at least a big reduction.

In fact, including this game, if it weren't for Wu Jie in the Bayern team, the impact of this game would also be several times smaller.

The day before the game, the whole Bayern team watched the FIFA draw together before going to bed.

At this time, the World Cup has not yet expanded, with only 24 teams divided into four pots, with the host Spain joining Argentina, Brazil, England, Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany as the first seeded teams, and the rest of the teams will be divided according to the FIFA rankings.

These 4 teams will be divided into 6 groups according to the principle of 6 seeded teams avoiding each other, except for the European zone, and teams from other continents.

Unsurprisingly, the Chinese team was placed in the Group of Death, where they were in Group D, with England, France, and Czechoslovakia.

"Haha, it's good that I didn't get into a group with Wu's country."

"yes, I don't want to meet Wu Tai early!"

"It's better to meet in the finals!"

"Well said, cheers!"

The Bayern players were very happy to see the results of the group, they are not in Group B, and there should be no problem in qualifying from the group.

But if you look at Group D where the Chinese team is located, it is really the Group of Death.

Wu Jie could only smile bitterly, this grouping is really not good!

But who made the rise of Chinese football too short, and only gained some points in the Asian Cup and the World Preliminary Tournament in the past year and a half.

However, the level of the Asian competition is not high, the points that can be obtained are limited, and it is still in the fourth pot at the moment, which means that which group the Chinese team is divided into, which group is likely to be the group of death.

The British and French will also have a lot of pain, although it is difficult for them to have an accurate estimate of the strength of the mysterious Chinese team.

But as long as you think about the existence of Wu Jie in that team, you know that it will definitely not be easy to deal with.

Including Czechoslovakia, they are also teams that have just fallen to the third pot, and in terms of strength, they should be regarded as the best existence among the teams in the third pot.

This means that Group D will consist of the two teams in Pot 1 and Pot 2, plus a team in Pot 3 that is the strongest, and possibly also in Pot 3.

Such a group can certainly be called the group of death, even Britain and France are not without the possibility of overturning, on the contrary, this possibility is still very large.

All six groups of this World Cup are-

Group A: Italy, Poland, Peru, Cameroon.

Group B: Federal Republic of Germany, Algeria, Chile, Austria.

Group C: Argentina, Belgium, Hungary, El Salvador.

Group D: England, France, Czechoslovakia, China.

Group E: Spain, Honduras, Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland.

Group F: Brazil, Soviet Union, Scotland, Kuwait.

This World Cup is also different from the later in terms of format, divided into the first round of the group stage and the second round of the group stage, and the second round of the group is directly the semi-final knockout round.

The first round of group stage points is as follows: 2 points for wins, 1 point for draws, and 0 points for losses, and the top two teams in each group advance to the second round of the group stage.

The second round of the group stage will be regrouped according to the points of each team in the first round of the group stage, but divided into upper and lower halves, and finally form a total of four groups, each group of three teams, after playing each other, the first group points will qualify, and the other two teams will be eliminated.

This kind of competition system makes Wu Jie feel very painful, because there is no quarterfinals, and after two rounds of group stage, it will be the semifinals, which is very awkward.

"NEW!"

"Get a new mission!"

Main Quest (2) [World Cup Journey]——

"In the 1982 World Cup, please help the Chinese men's football team score a goal, and the task reward: 10,000 Olympic points!"

"In the 1982 World Cup, please help the Chinese men's football team achieve a victory, and the task reward: 30,000 Olympic points!"

"In the 1982 World Cup, please help the Chinese men's football team qualify for the first round of the group, and the task reward: 50,000 Olympic points + any four-star physical talent + any four-star special talent + a diamond-level card!"

"In the 1982 World Cup, please help the Chinese men's football team qualify for the second round of the group, and the task reward: 100,000 Olympic points + any five-star physical talent + any five-star special talent + a legendary card!"

"Additional Rewards: 20,000 Olympic Dollars per win, 10,000 Olympic Dollars per draw, and 5,000 Olympic Dollars per goal."