Before the Olympics, the first football frenzy to be set off this summer was the European Championship.

This year's European Championship is no longer limited to a certain host country, but in the whole of Europe, 13 cities will be selected to hold all the matches of the European Cup finals.

Among them, the two semi-finals, as well as the final final, were played at Wembley Stadium in London, England.

The other 12 cities are hosting the tournament: Baku in Azerbaijan, Munich in Germany, Rome in Italy, St. Petersburg in Russia, Brussels in Belgium, Copenhagen in Denmark, Budapest in Hungary, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Dublin in Ireland, Bucharest in Romania, Glasgow in Scotland, and Bilbao in Spain.

This year's European Championship will be held from June 13 to July 13, and in this month's time, 24 teams will contribute 52 exciting games to fans around the world.

Compared with the Asian Cup, which also has 24 teams, the level of competition in the European Cup is more than one notch higher!

Europe, as the stronghold of international football, is significantly better than other continents in terms of overall strength.

In the World Cup, which is expanded to 48 teams, Europe can get 17 quota places, which means that if it is expanded to 24 teams, all 16 teams participating in the European Championship will be able to participate in the World Cup!

Even if the army is expanded to 24 teams, due to the level of football development in Europe, it will be significantly ahead of other continents, and the level of competition in the European Cup will be significantly higher than that of other continents.

After the expansion to 48 teams, the World Cup will inevitably have more teams with inferior strength, which will inevitably have some impact on the viewing of the event.

In this way, the gap between the World Cup and the European Championship will be further narrowed.

Fortunately, the World Cup and the European Championship are held in separate years, otherwise FIFA and UEFA are bound to have even more trouble.

Before the assembly of the Longguo National Olympic team, Shen Feng had more than 20 days of vacation, this rare vacation, he did not choose to go on vacation, but spent it in Shangdu, returned to the training base of Jianye Club, and would train with the Jianye team every day.

Originally, Shen Feng had plans to go on vacation, and he had already chartered a small island in the South Pacific through an intermediary, and was ready to enjoy the world of the two of them there with Zhang Zifeng.

However, this plan was shelved because of Zhang Zifeng's temporary work arrangement.

Shen Feng and Zhang Zifeng have now entered a new stage of life, and they have usually gathered less and separated more, but now they finally wait until Shen Feng has a rare vacation, and they still can't be together, Shen Feng will naturally feel depressed.

However, since she chose to be with Zhang Zifeng, it means that Shen Feng has accepted the nature of her work, so she is not angry because the long-planned plan has run aground.

Shen Feng decided to stay in an apartment in the capital and have a secret meeting with Zhang Zifeng for a few days, just like the international match week holiday.

However, even this wish failed to come true, because Zhang Zifeng happened to have a shooting task, and he couldn't adjust the time.

Shen Feng's enthusiasm was poured with a basin of cold water on his head, and Zhang Zifeng repeatedly apologized on the phone, but it couldn't warm his cold heart.

Shen Feng returned to Shangdu from the capital in anger and immersed himself in training, firstly, to reserve physical energy and maintain his condition, and secondly, to vent his energy that had nowhere to put it.

There is another reason for returning to Shangdu, Shen Feng wants to take advantage of this holiday to personally participate in the preparation of some "National Youth Football Training Camp".

Last year's first session of the "National Youth Football Training Camp" was held very successfully, and this year's second session will naturally be held as scheduled.

This year, the scale of the training camp has been expanded compared with last year, and instead of concentrating the children who signed up for the training camp from all over the country, the commercial capital has opened up three bases, dividing the country into three areas.

Northeast, Northwest, North China, the registered young players in these three regions were arranged to a training base in Hebei Province; The young players from some provinces in southwest and south China and southeast China were arranged in a training base in Hubei Province; The young players from some provinces in Central China and Northeast China were arranged in the commercial city of Henan Province.

The three bases opened at the same time, and the number of young players received was equal, which was equivalent to the scale of the entire "National Youth Football Training Camp", which was three times larger than the first phase!

As the scale increases, the cost will naturally increase, but the sponsorship received will also increase, and the sponsorship alone is enough to support the entire cost of the three training camps, and there is still a lot of surplus!

In other words, the public welfare football training camp led by Shen Feng has not only not cost him money, but also made money for him!

Of course, Shen Feng will not ask for this money, this year, and all the profits from the training camp in the future, plus the principal that Shen Feng invested in the training camp - the transfer fee of 35 million euros he received when he transferred to Inter Milan has been an additional investment of 10 million euros per year since then - Shen Feng has set up a fund to help Longguo develop youth football.

After learning that the training camp would not only cost money, but also make money, Shen Feng further expanded the scale of the training camp on the original basis, expanding the benefits of young players from boys to girls, and doing his part for the development of women's football in the Dragon Kingdom.

In the 2003 Women's World Cup, the women's national football team won the runner-up, far ahead of the men's football team in the same period.

However, all over the world, women's football is far less concerned than men's football, and in Europe and North America, where competitive sports are better developed, there are also professional women's football leagues, and in Dragon Country, there is not even a women's football league.

Women's football is still a project within the system in the current Dragon Country, and it has not been initially marketized like men's football.

When Shen Feng was in the Dragon Kingdom before, he didn't know anything about women's football, and he didn't get in touch with women's football until he transferred to Inter Milan.

Shortly before Shen Feng joined the Inter Milan team, the Inter Milan club officially established the women's first team and officially incorporated women's football affairs into the club's development map.

After Shen Feng gained a firm foothold in the Inter Milan team and became the most dazzling superstar in the team, he also responded to the club's call to cheer for the club's women's football team.

It just so happened that Jia Xiuquan, who had served as the head coach of the Dragon Country Women's National Football Team, also proposed to Shen Feng to pay attention to the women's football team, which coincided with Shen Feng, so he naturally hit it off.