Chapter 144: Olympic Football Competition Group Draw! (Two shifts and two shifts)
After Lu Zhuhu's deal from Real Madrid to Arsenal was reached, it sparked heated discussions internationally, and The Sun also specially interviewed the famous fan of the Gunners, El Shaun, who is almost 90 years old - in addition to another 100-year-old gun fan, who is older, and still insists on going to the home stadium every game when tickets are getting more and more expensive, and brings his son, grandson, and great-grandson in his arms.
"What do you think of this recent deal?"
'I think it's a good deal and there is a reason for the team to invest more in order to get better results, rather than holding on to the financial statements and saying 'this is another successful season' and the team needs reinforcements to keep players like Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez who still have the best to win.'
"So what do you think of Lu? Is 60 million plus floating too expensive? Especially if Lu is just an Asian player? You know, Tottenham's Son Xingmin is only 30 million, less than half of Lu's? ”
"It's an insult to compare Sun to Lu, who is a La Liga winner, a Champions League and a World Cup player, and it's not the 30s when we could sign the best centre-forward Charlie Buchan for £5,000 – even though the player was only £6 a week at the time. Arsene Wenger needs to learn how to spend money. After all, we fans have already paid quite expensive tickets for the team. When I watched in the '30s, I only had to pay 6p for a child's ticket, and 1 shilling for an adult – and 20 for a pound. Now we have to pay £62 to get a ticket for our match against Manchester City, and our home fans have to pay £120! My son and grandson spent too much money on this! Arsene Wenger needs to explain his current results. I don't think it's too expensive to spend £60 million on Lu and his performance is worth his price. ”
"But no matter how Lu performed in the national team and Real Madrid before, he is an Asian after all!"
Sean smiled: "What's wrong with Asians?" In fact, when I was younger, I knew an Asian man who was as good as Lu is today. Back then we didn't need top players as much as we do today, after all, in the 30s we were synonymous with European clubs. Arsenal first, Aston Villa second, who knows what Manchester United and Liverpool are? ”
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When Lu Zhuhu started the first round of the league against Liverpool and saw El Shawn on the sidelines, he was almost scared to pee - he was not scared to pee by an old man, but by the kettle in the old man's hand!
it! The British ** water bottle during the First World War that he engraved "u"!
This old brother, you are not dead yet, and you are still watching the game on the front line!
I thought that there would really be a day when I joined Arsenal, and I couldn't play anymore - who knows, I really came on this day, not that I couldn't play, but that you couldn't watch it, brother!
Looking at the old gun fans who had been waiting for him for 80 years in order to wait for his arrival, Lu Zhuhu almost burst into tears on the spot, and he made up his mind to lead this team to take off! Mesut Ozil, Sanchez: Hey, hey! Chinese, recognize your position! The team bought you to give us a hand! Author's note: The 90-year-old gun fan is actually based on the experience of Norman Duncan, a former 100-year-old fan of Arsenal, and I don't know if this old brother is still alive. As for this Brother Sean, he naturally wants to fulfill his promise to water every time Lu Zhuhu, hahaha! Wait for the official serialization of the story of the Land Chase Modern League!
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The pointer was turned back to July 19, 1936, on this day, Lu Zhuhu not only met his future "lucky star" at Arsenal, but also the big day of the draw for the Olympic football competition!
The rules for the selection of football teams in this Olympic Games are that "strong teams will be promoted directly to the official competition, and the weaker teams will be able to go to Berlin to participate in the main competition after winning the preliminary round". That is to say, the team participating in the Olympic Games is to be selected, but fortunately, it is actually relying on strength, as the "Far East hegemon" of the Chinese team directly qualified for the Olympic Games, the neighboring Japan is not so high-grade, they are after a fierce qualifier to successfully "rush out of Asia, to the world", become another team in Asia. The Philippines and India, which are equally strong, can only regret to be out of the tournament.
After the direct promotion of the seeded teams and the winner of the qualifiers, a total of 16 teams in the main tournament will participate in a single-elimination tournament, which is a decisive match until the championship final. According to the international record of the participating teams at that time, the Berlin Olympic Organizing Committee divided the teams into two grades: A and B, and the teams in Group A are naturally old and strong teams, respectively: Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway, Peru, Poland, Sweden, Egypt Don't wonder why Group A seems to be mixed with something strange, first of all, although Egypt does not have Salah at this time, they have always been the team that has won the most championships in the Africa Cup of Nations; Peru is also from the South American strong team in the qualifiers out of Group B is naturally a relatively weak team, respectively, Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Luxembourg, Turkey, the United States In fact, Austria has fast and Admira These two strong teams, should not be divided into Group B, the Chinese team also has no experience with European teams, and the points are at a loss, so although it belongs to Group B with Japan, it should actually be much higher than Japan's. The first round of matches is after the draw between the teams in Group A and Group B.
Of course, Lu Zhuhu from later generations naturally knew that the Chinese team was very unlucky after a long journey, and it was Europe that met the "European seed team" England in the first round. Of course, the "Great Britain team" is really participating in this Olympic Games, after all, in addition to England, there are not many players from Scotland and Wales. Although he complained that this Britain is not the strongest lineup at all, objectively speaking, it is still much stronger than Sweden, which Japan is about to draw, which makes it possible to cause an upset.
Lu Zhuhu is also not envious of Japan's good luck, knowing what kind of opponent is facing the team, whether it is a real Great Britain, a fake Great Britain, really strong or a strong outside, he is fully prepared to deal with all possibilities - he has also witnessed the strength of the strongest team in League One, the strength of the League One promoted polo team and the League Two level team After knowing the historical truth, he has classified Tottenham without Poluk as "only the level of League Two", it is so miserable! At this time, there is already a certain understanding of the gap between the levels of the British teams.
If you should come, let him come!
It's just that I don't know, the teammates who are still on the road now know what the Chinese team will do when they are about to draw Great Britain, although he has hinted to his teammates along the way that he may draw the most difficult teams in Group A......
He now lies on the London bus and sleeps through the streets of London as a final relaxation, and then it is time to greet his teammates who have been separated for most of the month......