The second warm-up match of the Chinese team against Honduras was still played in Wuhan.

This is also good, lest the fans of the Chinese team follow the team to the north and south of the country, and they will have to change two cities in two games, and the accommodation and travel expenses will be doubled.

In fact, it used to be like this, and you had to change places every game.

Although on the surface, it is stipulated that there are only seven stadiums for the Chinese team, namely the Workers' Stadium in Beijing, the Hongkou Football Stadium in Shanghai, the Wuhan Sports Center, the Tianjin Olympic Sports Center, the Changsha Helong Stadium, the Shaanxi Provincial Sports Center and the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center.

But in fact, in the past few years, the footprint of the Chinese team's warm-up matches has been almost all over the country.

This is because to host the Chinese team's game, the organizer has to pay for the hosting fee, security, venue rent, hotel accommodation and local football association management fees, etc., if it is a pure market behavior, cost recovery can only be through guò two major rights: the box office and part of the on-site advertising investment, among the two rights and interests, the box office is the lifeline. According to the current market, the cost of an ordinary international A-level warm-up match (non-European and American traditional strong teams) is about 2 million yuan, excluding all kinds of free tickets, the number of real ticket buyers needs to reach about 20,000, plus some on-site advertising rights, the organizer can recover the cost. But in the first two years, with the situation of the Chinese team, it is not easy for the ball market to really sell 20,000 tickets, there has been an example before, a city hosted a friendly match, the organizer invested ~ 2.2 million yuan, and more than 33,000 people were seated to barely save the capital.

Because the results of the Chinese team are so poor, and they have not even scored in the top ten matches in the two consecutive World Cup qualifiers, the expectations of Chinese fans for the national football team have dropped to the lowest, and many people don't watch the national team's games at all.

None of the cities where these seven stadiums are located are willing to host the Chinese team's matches, and the Chinese team can only move to second- and third-tier cities.

To be precise, 2008 was a turning point, when the Chinese team was eliminated from the top 20 of the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa in 2008, and the Chinese Olympic team's humiliating loss and loss in the same Olympic Games made Chinese football completely stink.

Since then, the Chinese team has been living a life of displacement. Every time the national team plays, FordBao, which is in charge of the business of the Chinese team, needs to look around for a place willing to take over the Chinese team's competition. It is often a matter of making countless phone calls, and others are hitting soft nails for the Chinese team, and at that time, there is no longer any hosting fee, and it is a victory to find a place willing to take over the national team competition.

Just from the fact of hosting venues, we can see the development trajectory of Chinese football over the years.

In the hottest era of Chinese football, cities around the country want to host the national team's games, it is necessary to break the head, the Football Association and the staff of the Ford Bao Company are not worried about no one to do it, they only need to choose the highest bidder.

But then they went everywhere to beg people, begging grandpa to tell grandma, hoping that there would be a city to host the Chinese team's game.

This kind of disparity is really hard to accept.

Now the situation is getting better again. Because after the return of glory, the results of the Chinese team have fundamentally improved, and Gao Hongbo's team not only plays well, but also wins. Winning the Asian Cup was a turning point, and since then, the Chinese team's competition has become a sweet and sweet spot, with various cities vying to host it.

Even the seven major cities that were previously designated are now rushing to host national competitions. You must know that among these seven cities, only Xi'an in Shaanxi Province and Changsha in Hunan Province were the most positive, and Shanghai and Beijing were the least active.

Nowadays, the Chinese team's ball market is hot, and every game is full of popularity, and several warm-up matches in Kunming before the Asian Cup have already shown such signs.

Each warm-up match attracts fans from all over the country, and although the influx of these people will bring some pressure on the security and transportation of the host city, it can greatly promote the prosperity of local hotel accommodation and catering in the host city.

The grandstands of the stadium were full and the box office revenue surged, which also brought the enthusiasm of the merchants for the on-site billboards, so the investment promotion work of the on-site billboards was also carried out very smoothly, and even for a well-located billboard, several companies would throw money at each other to raise the price......

So now the undertaking fee of two million yuan is not a problem at all.

Box office revenue and advertising revenue can make the organizer make a lot of money. Not to mention the city's other revenues after the influx of fans.

This time, Wuhan grabbed the right to host two warm-up games.

The 60,000-capacity sports center was packed for the first game, and the ticket revenue alone was enough for Wuhan to recoup its costs.

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The second game against Honduras was still a full house.

Debora and Wanda's Wang watched the game in the VIP box.

Although Rongguang did not score in this game, he assisted two goals to help China beat Honduras 4-1.

Got two consecutive wins in the warm-up game.

After the game, the excited Chinese fans refused to leave, and they sang the national anthem and the motherland outside the stadium to express their love for the national team.

Rongguang left Wuhan with Debora and Sun Hai and flew back to Manchester from Beijing.

Chinese fans are looking forward to the next national team break, and they can have another festival – the current national team match day is almost like the New Year for Chinese fans.

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Just two days after returning to Manchester, Glory was in action in the 31st round of the league at home to Sunderland.

If Manchester City can win this game, they will complete their unbeaten run in the 48th round of the league.

The only thing that can stop them is not Sunderland, but perhaps the FIFA virus.

After just playing for the national team, Manchester City's internationals are bound to get tired as they fly back from all over the world. Playing directly in the league without enough rest, you can imagine how you are in shape.

However, what was surprising was that Manchester City beat Sunderland 5-0 at their home stadium and the game was out of suspense in the 15th minute, because by then Glory had already scored a brace......

In the end, the glory scored twice again, with David Silva, Gareth Barry and Barnes scoring a goal each.

They are just one game away from Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run in the league.

In the next round, a week later, Manchester City travels to Liverpool.

All eyes on you.

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“…… In the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Real Madrid will face Manchester City, a team in perfect form who have not lost in 48 consecutive league games in the league. If they are unbeaten in the next round of the league, they can equal Arsenal's record of 49 league games unbeaten. The table in the league may affect the Champions League...... Because Manchester City's next league game is against Liverpool, a team bent on qualifying for next season's Champions League, they will not let Manchester City go lightly. So is it more important to make sure you don't lose to Liverpool in the league, or is it more important to fight Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League? ”

A preview of the Champions League is being played on the TV, and guests invited by the TV station are analysing Real Madrid's Champions League quarter-final opponents, Manchester City.

Every Real Madrid fan will be familiar with this team.

They were in a group with Manchester City last season, and they thought they were a team to bully, but they ended up making them unforgettable.

Real Madrid were beaten home and away by Manchester City, and did not even make it out of the group stage......

Manchester City were genuine and unrelenting when facing Real Madrid.

It has also accumulated the hatred of many Real Madrid fans.

So this time Real Madrid met Manchester City in the quarterfinals, which is the game that all Real Madrid fans are most concerned about.

This season, Real Madrid brought in Jose Mourinho, the coach who led Inter Milan to the treble last season, and the team's results have changed dramatically.

Not only led Real Madrid to qualify for the Champions League group stage, but also broke the "fate of sixteen langs" for many years, and in the quarterfinals, Real Madrid eliminated their long-time bitter opponent Lyon, 1:1 away in the first leg, and 3:0 at home in the second leg.

In the league, Mourinho's Real Madrid is also excellent, after 31 rounds of league games, with 81 points in the league, but in the league, Mourinho's Real Madrid table is average, after 30 rounds of league games, they are in second place, with 73 points, and 8 points away from the first Barcelona. With only eight rounds left in the league, the difference of eight points is the same as that of Manchester City and Manchester United in the Premier League, and almost no one is optimistic that Real Madrid will be able to win the league title.

In this case, the Champions League has become Real Madrid's final battleground.

Real Madrid have won nine European Champions Leagues and are just one step away from 10th, but this step has kept them from reaching for nine years, and Mourinho's Real Madrid is expected to lead Real Madrid to this final step.

So Real Madrid's desire to fight in the Champions League is strong.

That's what City will face in the quarter-finals.

An opponent bent on seeking revenge on Manchester City.

'The league game against Liverpool will definitely affect the Champions League game against Real Madrid and that's the chance for Real Madrid...... Now there is a survey in the newspaper "Marca", more than seventy percent of Real Madrid fans are optimistic about Mourinho's team beating Manchester City at home and taking revenge! ”

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The North London Clarion cares more about the match between Manchester City and Real Madrid than it does about Arsenal.

Because they realise that this may be the last chance to stop Manchester City from catching Arsenal.

Manchester City have to travel to Real Madrid before playing Liverpool.

Real Madrid are furious and want revenge on Manchester City, so this game is sure to be a tough one. But the North London Clarion doesn't want Real Madrid to win too easily, and he wants the two teams to be inseparable, preferably lose-lose.

So whether City win the game or lose the game, it will pay a heavy price, and it will be better if someone gets injured or something.

As a result, Manchester City, exhausted by the Champions League and Real Madrid, may not even be able to secure a draw at Anfield against Liverpool, who are hell-bent on winning and trying to qualify for next season's Champions League.

Arsenal's unbeaten run in 49 league games was preserved, and Manchester City fell before the finish line again, when the North London Clarion will prepare a whole special issue dedicated to mocking the self-defeating Manchester City! I1292