Chapter 25: Club World Cup
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It's not that coincidental, is it......
When Xiang Bo said this word, Ling Feng and Si Yue were stunned together for three seconds, and then laughed out loud at the same time!
What a coincidence! What a fucking coincidence!
Ling Feng was worried about how to snatch the right to host the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and this ** pathogen came to him, so he could only say, God help!
I really want to thank Xu Yan, no matter what he did before, but he sent such an important thing over at the last moment, and this credit is not small.
It's just a pity that such an excellent talent is now more than lucky.
Xiang Bo was inexplicably laughed at by the two, but Ling Feng didn't explain anything, just said: "You wait for me to win the World Cup in 02 at home" and left, missing for so many days, I guess the media should be crazy, right?!
Indeed, Ling Feng disappeared for half a month and missed two rounds of the league, which made many reporters keenly aware of the problem, but the Perak Club did not express any opinion on this, Ling Feng just disappeared out of thin air, but came out out of thin air, except for grinning all day as if he had picked up money, there was nothing wrong with it......
At the end of the 2000 Asian Cup, the Chinese team won the championship with Ling Feng leading the team selected from the domestic league under the condition that the overseas players basically did not return.
And now, the 02 World Cup qualifiers have begun, and the Chinese team has begun a jaw-dropping large-scale employment.
There are a total of ten games in the warm-up matches and qualifiers, and the Chinese team has sent a total of 56 players to play, many of whom are entering the national team for the first time, which also makes the competition in the national team particularly fierce now.
Because everyone knows that Ling Feng said that he wanted to win the World Cup in 02, not to mention that this World Cup is at home - of course, others don't know Ling Feng's plans - but even in Japan and South Korea, for the Chinese team, it is equivalent to the home field.
So, there is still a lot of hope for the championship.
Because of this, everyone wants to be in the national team, everyone wants to be a part of the world championship, and the threshold for this national team is also very low now, as long as you perform well in the league, you definitely have a chance to be recruited, as for whether you can stay in the national team, it depends on your own ability.
Of course, some people don't have to worry about not having a place, Ling Feng is one, this guy is now lying in the leather sofa and is happy and crooked.
South Korea and Japan don't have to participate in the trials because of the identity of the host, Ling Feng doesn't mind, anyway, playing a few more games is also a kind of exercise for the players, as for **, the virus sample is already in hand, so don't worry about anything, go to poison now, it's inevitable that it's early, and wait until the spring of 02 to vote, at that time, South Korea and Japan didn't have time to react, and they will compete for the right to host the World Cup in an open and honest manner.
Think about it...... Cool!
Of course, Ling Feng is not idle now, because although there are no large-scale events this year, there is another thing that is very important, even the national leader personally called him and asked him to help.
A favor that only Ling Feng could help.
Lobby!
Lobbying for another world-class event!
2008, Beijing bids for the Olympic Games!
You must know that in the process of Beijing's bid for the Olympics in 93, almost all European countries did not vote for Beijing, and the direct consequence was that Beijing lost to Sydney.
Eight years later, Beijing regrouped and bid for the Olympics again, and at this time, whether it can not repeat the mistakes of the past has become the key.
China really doesn't have much to do with European sports, but apart from Ling Feng.
He's the one who's been in all the big five European leagues and won the championship!
Not to mention anything else, even if it is a doorway, Ling Feng has to go to a lot more, for example, he went to the officials of the German Olympic Committee, directly called Beckenbauer, and asked the boss of the German Football Association to help make an appointment.
The benefits of celebrities can be fully reflected at this time.
This time, among the five candidate cities, Paris is the most competitive, as eight years ago, European votes have flowed to Manchester, and after the final round of Manchester defeat, all European countries voted for Sydney.
Ling Feng's task is to let European countries transfer their votes from Paris to Beijing, but also to let them smash their votes at China after losing the election in Paris.
At this point, it is still not very difficult.
And Ling Feng still has a trump card in his hand, that is, FIFA.
You know, the biggest pain in the heart of the IOC is football and basketball, basketball is not to mention for the time being, the United States is dominant, but in terms of football, it is pressed by FIFA, and even the Olympics are about to become one of the four age groups they set up.
In order to keep football, the world's number one sport, from becoming the chicken side of the Olympic Games, the attitude of FIFA is very important.
If, if Ling Feng can relent, not to mention too much, even if he can expand the quota of three overage players by one or two, in this aspect alone, he can win a lot of favor from the Olympic Committee, and the chances of winning for Beijing have increased a lot.
In fact, Ling Feng was really too lazy to do these things, it was purely useless!
In 08, the Olympic bid was successful, others don't know, can he still not know? At that time, without Ling Feng, Chinese football was also a weak mess, wasn't it just as successful? Now let yourself run to Europe to lobby for votes, purely superfluous.
But if you think about it, you still have to go, God knows what has changed since you were reborn, if Beijing doesn't succeed, then you won't become a sinner?!
Of course, the place with the highest prestige, the first stop of his five major leagues, Paris, can't be dropped.
Cause? Paris is also a candidate city!
It can be said that if Paris did not enter the candidate city this time, with Ling Feng's prestige and his three-inch tongue, he didn't dare to coax all the European votes, and it was still very simple to get tickets from more than a dozen countries, but now it is more troublesome, after all, Paris is a European city, and if you want to canvass votes from next to him, it is no different from pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.
This thing, just do your best, anyway, this kind of thing, hehe, in private, the country doesn't know how many benefits it promised, how can it save trouble with the World Cup hosting right that you have chosen?
On July 13, 2001, Samaranch made a decision at the 112th meeting of the International Olympic Committee held in Moscow, and the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games was "the
cityofbeijing! ”
This is a historic moment, the whole of China is boiling, in recent years, the sports have given too many surprises to Chinese fans, from the rise of Chinese football to the 2000 Olympic Games, and now to the success of the Olympic bid, the Chinese people are almost happy fainting.
Of course, the best is yet to come......
It has been more than a year since Ling Feng returned to play in China, during which he led the Perak team to the first division, and during this year, Ling Feng also dealt with several match-fixing incidents.
Match-fixing, generally speaking, there will be no handle left in a small fight, a player takes an extra 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and secretly relaxes his defense during the game, which no one can see.
This kind of thing is really difficult to find evidence, even if it is the surveillance video at the scene, it may not be able to see that he deliberately released water.
But for Ling Feng, there was no need for evidence.
Funny! Ling Feng is not official, he is private! There are some things that everyone knows, but there is just a lack of the so-called official "evidence"!
For Ling Feng, all the people he came to the door were aware of the truth, which game, which people, how much money was charged, whose money was collected, he knew all these things, and there were special people to investigate for him.
For the first time, Ling Feng found a player who had secretly released water in the previous game, in order to let the opponent win so that he could get a favorable three points.
Ling Feng's first words when he entered the door were: "You honestly explained this matter clearly, I forgive you this time." ”
Generally, this kind of talk can't bluff people, who can explain what happened so honestly?
And the next action of Ling Feng was to raise his foot and kick directly in his stomach!
Ling Feng made a move, who would dare to fight back? What's more, with Ling Feng's foot strength, the player who was beaten directly squatted on the ground with his stomach in his arms, spitting out bitterness vigorously.
Then Ling Feng was as if he had been sentenced to death, and he made it clear which game this guy played, how much money he charged, and how many balls he put on, these things could not fall into substantive evidence, but they could not hide from Ling Feng's ears.
Then it depends on the remorse attitude of those people, if they admit it directly, they can expose it themselves, and they can get a tainted witness, if they still don't admit it, it won't be so polite.
Who is Ling Feng, what has he not seen?
Politely, that is just a superficial phenomenon, all the players who followed Ling Feng to participate in the Asian Cup in 96 can't forget how terrifying Ling Feng's crazy appearance was at that time!
There were two guys who were thrown into the hospital with their legs broken, although they only missed a goal in the game, and they only got a bribe of less than 20,000 yuan.
Ling Feng always remembered what the fat man Uncle Wang did when he helped him collect debts from that unscrupulous uncle in his previous life.
Official, can never be a perfect solution, at least in the initial stage of Chinese football, there needs to be a ruthless person, an iron fist to forcibly break this way forward on the right track!
"Some people think I'm a demon, but if I can achieve that great goal in my heart, if I really need a demon, I'm happy to take this position!" This is a sentence from Ling Feng's memoirs in the future, and the meaning of it can only be understood by people in this circle.
A total of five players were punished, as well as the clubs that engaged in bribery and bribery, and for a time this kind of culture, which was not much, disappeared, or went underground.
No one dared to touch Ling Feng's tiger whiskers, as long as Ling Feng was there, no one dared to play small moves.
Some people may not understand why a world-class player like Ling Feng would give up a high-level European top competition and return to China, but Ling Feng knows that it is a must.
Chinese football, started too late, it is impossible to clear all the dark phenomena in a short period of time, before a complete set of laws and regulations appear, before all the unspoken rules are eliminated, there must be a person in the country to suppress all the bad momentum.
This is a relatively long process, three years, five years, or even ten years, but once a good system is fully established, and this professional ethics is completely planted in the hearts of fans and players, then from now on, the so-called match-fixing, black whistle and a series of dark behaviors on the field will be resisted by everyone, which is a kind of spontaneous resistance from the bottom of the heart, not like now, afraid to be exposed and dare not do it!
This is a long-term goal, and it is also Ling Feng's real mission, if you want to completely bring Chinese football to the level of Brazil, you must sacrifice your opportunity to play in high-level competitions abroad, which is Ling Feng's fate after being reborn.
15 July 2001.
Two days after Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, the second Nuwa Cup was officially opened.
Two years later, the second Nuwa Cup, also known as the World Club Cup, was restarted, with a total of 16 teams participating in the competition, including seven from Europe, four from the Americas (including South America, Central and North America and the Caribbean), two from Africa, two from Asia, and one from Oceania.
The teams will be divided into four groups and will play a single round-robin group, and then the top two teams will be qualified for a one-month knockout tournament in eight cities in China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Dalian and Fushun.
Aside from the fact that there are half fewer teams participating, it's a club World Cup!
That's right! This is Ling Feng's real plan, to hold a top event that belongs to the World Club - the World Club Cup!
Like the first competition, this year's Club World Cup still adopted the principle of invitation, due to Ling Feng's face and generous remuneration, and at the same time there are many large business sponsorships, all the invited teams have sent the main force to come, the champions of the five major leagues and the winners of the Champions Cup and the League Cup have all arrived, and this competition can be described as unprecedented!
In the end, Barcelona won the championship of this Club World Cup, and Ling Feng sat in the stands to watch all the games, and he was also quite satisfied with the level and influence of this Cup.
China influences the world, and the world influences China.
Ling Feng's true goal was already very close......