Chapter 148: How Much Is A Qualifier Spot Worth?
"Since you sincerely asked, I will tell you with great mercy, this is a comic sent to me by a Shanghai fan, very interesting, but unfortunately there is only one lone copy, you can't see it."
Of course, Wu Jie was reading Shen Lang's comics, and he was waiting for others to take the initiative to ask.
However, journalists are not interested in bullshit cartoons, who wants to see such mentally retarded things!
But this is no longer in Wu Jie's consideration, he just threw out such a thing to let everyone have a memory node after the release of the comics.
After the post-game press conference, Wu Jie immediately contacted Shen Lang, but the first call reached the Shanghai swimming team.
When this letter and comics were sent, Shen Lang had not yet entered the national team.
Of course, Wu Jie knew about these things, but he still called Shanghai first, and only after getting the phone number of the national swimming team did he contact Shen Lang.
It's a bit of a fart off your pants, but you have to do a full set to make a show, what if someone listens on his phone?
These details determine the success or failure of everything, and he will not let people perceive the loopholes that he and Shen Lang knew in advance.
The Japanese determined the approximate location of the Daqing Oilfield from a photo of Wang Jinxi standing next to the drilling rig from his clothing and clothing.
This incident made him always act very carefully, for fear of revealing any clues and being analyzed by this kind of intelligence agency to reveal some of his secrets.
Wu Jie expressed his love for this comic on the phone, and also hoped to meet and talk to Shen Lang, and he could pay to help him publish it.
Shen Lang naturally would not refuse this kindness, and the two played a full set of tricks on the phone.
But the two can't meet for the time being, Wu Jie will fly directly from Beijing to France in three days, and then transfer back to Munich, Germany, this matter can only be handed over to Ishii Shu.
Bayern are indeed pulling their hips now, and on the day of China's win over Kuwait, they were beaten 1-4 away by Hamburg.
Prior to this game, they were held to a draw at home by Eintracht Frankfurt and lost 4-0 to Cologne in their last game.
Hamburg and Cologne are direct rivals to Bayern this season, so the loss of these two games directly drops Bayern to 7th place.
When Wu Jie returned to Munich, it was already November 4th, and thousands of people came to pick him up at the airport, which really made him unimaginable.
Bayern fans were on the verge of crying when they were the kings of Europe three months ago, when the world was praising their treble.
At that time, the European and American media deliberately reduced the length of Wu Jie's article, especially because he did not participate in Bayern's championship celebration, which also caused dissatisfaction among some Bayern fans.
But now the European and American media have long since reversed course and began to collectively ridicule Bayern for all its achievements due to Wu Jie, and that Isabella even gave Wu Jie the nickname "orphanage director".
Wu Jie liked the nickname very much, even though he knew it was a pun, and at the same time it was a kind of killing and provoking.
But it doesn't matter, he doesn't care what the Bayern players think, the fact is that Bayern pulled his hips as soon as he didn't have him, and instantly changed from a European hegemon to a European laughing stock.
Now that he's back, it's time for Bayern to start again.
The next day, Wu Jie ignored the fatigue of the long journey and immediately joined the team for training.
"Wu, congratulations to your country on entering the World Cup, maybe we have a chance to get a group."
Although Breitner was enthusiastic, the embarrassment on his face could not be hidden.
"Wu, welcome back."
The rest of the Bayern players also stepped forward to say, but their faces were a little unnatural.
Wu Jie had a decent smile on his face, of course he knew why these guys were embarrassed, this was obviously influenced by the media.
That's why Wu Jie didn't let himself show a smug face, he didn't even mention the team's recent results, but pulled his teammates to give them gifts from China.
Those smug emotions are hidden in the heart, and it is easy to make the morale of the whole team and even self-confidence slip when they are revealed at this time, and even make him be excluded by the whole team.
Wu Jie brought back a lot of gifts from China this time, such as the Chinese-style "oil paper umbrella", "Suzhou embroidery", "Moutai", and the second-generation Chinese standing collar designed by him.
These gifts have alleviated the embarrassment of the Bayern players a lot, and Wu Jie has really put his heart into the gifts, especially the Chinese men's clothes tailored to the figure of each player, which immediately made the Bayern players feel that Wu Jie really regarded them as friends, otherwise how could they even be clear about their figures?
"That's the information you got from the system!"
Wu Jie looked at his teammates who were very moved, and quietly gestured a scissorhand in his heart, which seemed to be very successful in recruiting people's hearts.
But giving "China Standing Collar" to his teammates is not just about buying people's hearts, he also wants to use these teammates to promote because he is ready to set up his own clothing brand.
He left a foreshadowing when he signed a contract with Adidas, and that contract did not limit him to establish "non-sports" and "casual" clothing brands.
Wu Jie has instructed Ishii to set up a clothing company in Hong Kong, as well as an international trading company.
These gifts are all his favorite business, and with his prestige and connections in China, he can obtain a large supply of such Chinese characteristic products, which can then be sold all over the world through the operation of a trading company in Hong Kong.
These things are actually not worth much in China, but they have the potential to become luxury goods in Europe and the United States.
However, what he lacks most at the moment is helpers, so he can only ask Ishii to go to Hong Kong to see if he can help him hire some talents.
The next time he returns to China, he will also set up a behind-the-scenes team in the mainland.
He didn't want to leave it all to the MSM team, although he was sure he could pry it all behind him.
On November 7, Bayern played Duisburg at home.
Wu Jie participated in this game only three days after returning to Germany, and the "Munich Olympic Stadium" was full, and everyone had been waiting for this day for a long time.
He, the director of the Bayern orphanage, did not live up to the expectations of the fans, and almost played a 10-to-ten success in this game, facing the bottom-to-bottom Duisburg, and scored a hat-trick just after returning, helping Bayern get a long-awaited big victory, and the team also rose from 7th to 6th.
This made the Bayern fans at home excited as if they had won the Champions League, and the whole stadium reverberated Wu Jie's name from start to finish.
Wu Jie was secretly proud in his heart, he knew that Bayern's crotch pull this season was not only because of Rummenigge's poor form, but also because Chernaui changed tactics.
The core of Chernauy's 4-2-1-3 tactics is him, but he is not in the team, coupled with the run-in period of the new system, the overall strength of course has to be discounted.
In addition, the media factor cannot be ignored, they deliberately highlight the role of Wu Jie, which not only affected the atmosphere in Bayern's dressing room, but also hit the players' self-confidence.
In addition, Bayern is also somewhat similar to the Chinese team, and both sides suffer from serious "Wu Jie dependence".
This is Wu Jie's problem, who made him, a free man in the audience, too omnipotent.
When the Chinese team and Bayern have him, whenever the team lacks attacking power in the frontcourt, he can incarnate as a center forward to score goals for the team; Whenever the midfield control is not enough, he can also play the role of commander to change the situation; Even when the back line is shaky, he can turn into a defensive gate to make it difficult for the opponent to continue.
Any team with such a player will inevitably suffer from dependency, and once this soul is missing, it will feel uncomfortable in any link.
In this game, Wu Jie made Bayern's front, middle and backfield all very comfortable, and Bayern immediately turned into a European hegemon and slaughtered the bottom of its own league.
"Wu, as soon as you came back, you changed Bayern's decline, does this mean that Bayern is your one-man team?"
At the post-match press conference, a reporter raised a very unsatisfactory question.
"There are no winners in a failed team, and a successful team makes everyone!"
Wu Jie said "That's right" in his heart, and then replied with an answer that the reporter couldn't say.
A few days later, Bayern officially announced that they would abandon this year's "European Super Cup" due to lack of time to play against "Dynamo Tbilisi", but would participate in the "Toyota Cup" in December.
Wu Jie is also not interested in the Super Cup, which is played between the Champions League winner and the Cup Winners.
But the status of the tournament has always been awkward, and UEFA has not recognized it, so the big teams are generally reluctant to participate.
The "Toyota Cup" is different, although the event was embarrassing before, but Toyota gave a huge prize money of $1 million to stimulate the participation of the champion teams in Europe and South America.
Of course, Bayern chose the "Toyota Cup" with a million-dollar prize instead of the "Super Cup", which only has a prize of only $30,000.
Wu Jie did not forget to pay attention to the domestic situation after arriving in Germany, the match between the Chinese team and Saudi Arabia was held on November 14, this time in Singapore, and he watched the whole game from the perspective of Chen Haonan.
Before the game, it had just rained heavily in Singapore, leaving the venue slippery and muddy, and the air hot and humid.
This is a fatal blow to the Saudi team, which is not good at water wars!
After kick-off, the Saudi team continued to bear the shadow of the previous defeat, and the players' desire to fight was low.
The Chinese team soon dominated the field, and in the 20th minute, Chen Haonan opened the door of the Saudi team with a long-range shot 25 meters from the goal, and the score was 1-0.
But the most eye-catching thing about this goal was not the long-range shot, but his "croquette" breakthrough before the shot.
This action surprised the scouts on the scene, no one in Europe has made such a breakthrough in the competition, because Laudrup, who invented this action, has just played this game this year, and almost no one in the scouts on the scene knows this guy, Chen Haonan naturally became the inventor of "fried croquettes".
Today, Wu Jie was not there, and Chen Haonan played the role of commander in the middle lane.
Although he is a little younger, he has the style of a general in the eyes of the coaching staff, although he is a lot worse than Wu Jie, but the control rhythm is very old and spicy, and the long passes in the middle and back are also eye-catching enough, including the ability to break through in Asia.
Su Yongshun has always used his front waist, although this is not the position that Chen Haonan is best at, but it is still more suitable than other players.
Five minutes later, Koo Guangming also raised the evaluation of the European scouts on the scene again, only to see him perform acrobatics on the right side, connecting two people and then cutting into the penalty area to pass the ball to the back post.
Zhao Dayu seized the opportunity in front of the goal, and the Saudi goalkeeper was previously attracted to the close point by Gu Guangming, and at this moment he could only watch the football fly into the goal.
After the Saudi players lost the ball again, their faces were all unlucky, and they basically had no possibility of qualifying after three games and three defeats, and they had no desire to win today's game.
Before the end of the first half, Shen Xiangfu took a corner kick, and the football flew accurately to the top of Chen Jingang's head, who scored headlessly, and the score was fixed at 3-0 in the first half!
In the second half, the Chinese team was still offensive, especially Gu Guangming, who rode left and right, and completely regarded Saudi Arabia's backfield as a back garden.
In the 55th minute, Chen Haonan made a wonderful pass to Gu Guangming who was interspersed on the left side in the counterattack, who first passed the Saudi right-back and broke into the penalty area, and then shook the attacking goalkeeper with a feint, and scored an empty goal, with a score of 4:0.
The final score was another 5:0 victory, and the Chinese team scored another goal in the 82nd minute by Liu Lifu, who came on as a substitute, not only did not concede a goal in the two games, but also poured a full 14 goals into Saudi Arabia, completely beating the Saudis into an indelible psychological shadow.
But the most interesting thing at this time is the rankings, the Chinese team ranks first with five wins, Kuwait is 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, ranking second with 5 points, and the goal difference is -3; New Zealand 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses, 3 points in third place, goal difference -5; Saudi Arabia has never won at all, and it ranks first in the bottom of all 4 defeats.
Kuwait's next two opponents are China and New Zealand.
New Zealand's next two opponents are Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Then it is assumed that New Zealand can beat Saudi Arabia to get two points, and they need to beat Kuwait to get seven points.
But this still can't guarantee qualification, and it depends on whether China will release points.
Kuwait will be much simpler to qualify, as long as they can draw with New Zealand and China at the same time, they can qualify with one win and one draw, and they can also fight New Zealand on goal difference with one win and one loss.
New Zealand are in a much more passive situation, having to beat Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to have a chance at goal difference.
But if the Chinese team gives Kuwait a win, or even allows Kuwait to score two more goals, it will be difficult for New Zealand to qualify.
Of course, New Zealand knew that their lives were in the hands of the Chinese team, so after China defeated Saudi Arabia, they began to frantically kneel and lick the civilized courtesy and fair play that the Chinese team showed when they played against them.
Of course, this is to make the Chinese team embarrassed to play tacit ball with Kuwait, but even the New Zealanders themselves don't have much hope, because the Chinese team has already qualified ahead of schedule, and they can play how they want in the last game.
Kuwait also knows that the Chinese team is in control of their own destiny to qualify, and their next game against New Zealand is away, if they lose this game, then the Chinese team must release the water to have a chance to fight with New Zealand on goal difference.
Therefore, Prince Hamad and Prince Fahd have been relying on China to prepare for the use of money at critical moments.
Of course, they are nominally talking to the Football Association about the training camp.
Li Fenglou didn't have much interest, and almost knelt for two million dollars.
But the Ministry of Finance has already dealt with the Kuwaitis once, and the interest-free loan of 30 million US dollars has been received, and they have seen from this transaction that the Middle Eastern tyrants are really inhumane.
Especially recently, I heard that the Kuwaiti royal family has made a large amount of war money from Iraq, so I'm afraid it's not bad money, they must not look down on people!
Such a precious World Cup qualification spot can be worth at least 10 million US dollars, right?