After a 10-hour flight, the Chinese team arrived in Doha the next morning and was warmly welcomed by hundreds of Chinese journalists, fans, and local Chinese and overseas Chinese.

Among them, the cheers for Lu Wenbin were the loudest.

Countless people are looking forward to Lu Wenbin, as the world's No. 1 superstar, leading the Chinese team to achieve a historic breakthrough in Chinese football!

Of course, Lu Wenbin's current fame is not only sought after and loved by Chinese fans, but also Qatar, which is the opponent in the group stage, there are many people who are his fans.

Although everyone was opponents during the game, Lu Wenbin had just arrived in Doha at this time, and he was still welcomed by many local Qatari fans.

The officials of the Qatar Football Association who greeted the Chinese team were also very enthusiastic and full of smiles at Lu Wenbin's arrival.

The enthusiasm of Qataris for football is quite high.

The Qatari consortium, which is not short of money, is buying Paris Saint-Germain and is preparing to make football a national business card as a means to introduce itself to the world and increase its influence.

Qatar's continuous struggle to host the Asian Cup and the World Cup is also based on this consideration.

The 2011 Asian Cup is a preview of the 2022 World Cup, and it is an opportunity to test the level of Qatar's competition.

Therefore, as the host, the arrival of Lu Wenbin, the world's No. 1 superstar, can enhance the attention of the Qatar Asian Cup in the world, and the Qataris are naturally warmly welcomed.

After a morning rest in the hotel and jet lag, the first training session in the afternoon began with light recovery training.

The next day, New Year's Day, entered 2011.

On January 2, the Chinese team played a warm-up match with Iraq, the last champion of the Asian Cup, and finally the Chinese team won 5-2.

Although the back line was still like a colander and Iraq scored two goals, the attacking line in the front court with Lu Wenbin as the arrow still poured five goals into the defending champions.

Lu Wenbin scored a hat-trick and assisted Zheng Zhi and fellow Guizhou villager Wang Song to score a goal respectively.

Lu Wenbin single-handedly produced all five goals for the Chinese team, much to the excitement of Chinese reporters and fans who were covering the game.

The defending champions were beaten so badly, the Chinese team can really imagine winning the Asian Cup for the first time!

With the arrival of the participating teams, the atmosphere of the Asian Cup is getting stronger and stronger, and many Asian stars have appeared.

In addition to Lu Wenbin, the world's No. 1 superstar who booked the FIFA Ballon d'Or, there are also Australia's number one star Cahill, South Korean star Park Ji-sung, known as the three lungs, Japan's Shinji Kagawa, Keisuke Nakata and so on.

Of course, in terms of fame and prestige around the world, all the players of all Asian teams are not as good as Lu Wenbin alone.

While many teams don't see a single non-Asian reporter on the sidelines of the stadium during training, the sidelines of the Chinese team are crowded with European and American reporters and visiting fans.

In the eyes of European and American media and fans, the previous Asian Cup is not worth paying attention to, and this Asian Cup only needs to pay attention to Lu Wenbin alone.

On January 6, the Asian Cup has not yet started, and the Serie A league in the second half of the season after the winter break will start first.

Juventus lost 4-1 at home to Parma, causing the biggest upset in Serie A this round.

Then, without Lu Wenbin, Inter Milan beat Udinese 3-1 at home to continue to lead the standings.

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Returning to the Asian Cup, the opening ceremony of the 15th Qatar Asian Cup 2011 kicked off at the 50,000-capacity Harifa Stadium in Doh, at 6 p.m. on the evening of January 7.

The Emir of King Emir of Qatar attended the opening ceremony along with FIFA President Seppat and UEFA President Michel Platini.

After the performance of the national anthem of Qatar, the Emir delivered a speech, greeting the other 15 teams who came to Doha and wishing everyone a good memory here.

Of course, these are clichés, there is only one champion, and it is impossible for every team to leave a good memory.

After the Emir's speech, the flags of the 16 participating teams entered the stadium and entered the singing and dancing fireworks display.

After about half an hour of opening ceremony, the Emir announced the official start of the 15th Asian Cup in Qatar in 2011.

Then, start cleaning up the pitch and preparing for the opener.

At 19:15 local time on the evening of January 7, with the referee from Japan, Yui Nishimura, the opening match of the 2011 Qatar Asian Cup against Uzbekistan officially kicked off.

It may be that the status of the hosts put too much pressure on the Qatari players, and in the first half, Qatar made a lot of mistakes, and although they kept the score 0-0 until halftime, they were far behind Uzbekistan in the number of shots on goal.

If this situation continues, they are very dangerous.

Sure enough, in the 58th minute of the second half, Uzbekistan scored the opening goal through their No. 9 Akhmedov.

Akhmedov became the first player to score in this Asian Cup.

After falling behind in the score, the host Qatar was even more at a loss.

In the 77th minute, Qatar's No. 14 Ibrahim, who came on as a substitute, made a mistake in the backfield pass, and Uzbekistan's No. 8 Jeparov directly counterattacked after breaking the ball in the front, and shot low before the opponent's defender reacted.

Uzbekistan sealed the win with a 2-0 lead over Qatar.

In the remaining ten minutes, Qatar did its best to equalize, but did not score a goal.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, Yuichi Nishimura blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the host Qatar lost 0-2 to Uzbekistan in the opening game, which was off to a bad start, casting a shadow on Qatar's qualifying situation, and also making Qatar's next opponents China and Kuwait nervous.

Including the 13th Asian Cup held in China in 2004, the hosts of the previous Asian Cups will receive a lot of extra convenience and care, and the hosts have been much more biased by referees than the World Cup and the European Cup.

On the one hand, Asian football is relatively backward and there are more shady tricks, and on the other hand, it is for the sake of ticket revenue.

If the host country can't even qualify, who will sell tickets for the next matches?

After all, there are only a few foreign fans who have the money to travel thousands of miles to watch the game, and the Asian Cup is not as attractive as the World Cup.

The ticket revenue of the Asian Cup still depends on the local fans of the host country to support it.

If the hosts are out of the tournament too early, it will be extremely bad for ticket sales for the knockout rounds, and the AFC, and even FIFA, know about it and turn a blind eye.

As long as it is not done too much, there is no evidence, and no one cares.

What's more, even if it's excessive?

South Koreans dare to be so blatant in front of the whole world at the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, how about the host of the Asian Cup enjoy the convenience of the host?

The most nervous thing is that the current president of the AFC is the Qatari Hammam.

Qatar lost its first group game, and its next opponents, China and Kuwait, will definitely receive a lot of "extra" treatment, there is no doubt about it.

This is the unspoken rule of the Asian Cup, and it is also an open secret.

It is no wonder that the coaches and leaders of these two teams became nervous after watching the opening game. (Ask for a commuter pass)

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