Chapter 154: Joke
On this afternoon, the gate of the "Wind Thunder Stadium" was full of friends, and the big names of international football led by FIFA President Seppat and UEFA President Platini came to Gosho to cheer for the unveiling ceremony of Gosau's new home stadium. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info They were all personally invited by Xiao Yang, because the headquarters of FIFA and UEFA are located in Switzerland, so it is also convenient and fast for them to come to Gosau, in this regard, Gosau team can be regarded as the first month of the month.
At the opening ceremony, tens of thousands of fans visited the opening ceremony of the Thunder Stadium, and they all bought tickets for the first match of the new stadium, Gossau vs. Zurich. The game started at 4 p.m., and tens of thousands of fans are still rushing to the Storm Stadium to watch the grand stadium's inaugural game. Outside the stadium, hundreds of local police officers and security personnel brought in by the club Gosho are maintaining order.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the host of the unveiling ceremony announced that the unveiling ceremony had officially begun. Music sounded, fireworks were put off, and the fans gave warm applause. Xiao Yang smiled and extended his hand to invite Blatter and Platini to join him in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new stadium.
The three of them walked together in front of a red ribbon that had been prepared long ago, with Blatter in the center, Platini on his right, and Xiao Yang on the left.
Blatter said loudly: "I announce that the Wind Thunder Stadium has officially opened!" The guests and fans at the scene immediately applauded and cheered.
Then the three of them took the three golden scissors handed by Miss Manners, and after gesturing to each other, they cut the red ribbon at the same time under countless flashlights, and after handing the scissors back to Miss Manners, Blatter and Platini shook hands with Xiao Yang to congratulate the Club Gosau. This was the end of the short ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Xiao Yang led Blatter, Platini and all the guests into the stadium first, and after arranging them into the best boxes, the police and security personnel began to open the stadium for fans to enter.
After everyone entered the Wind Thunder Stadium, their first reaction was "Wow! It's so beautiful! Indeed, the new Wind Thunder Stadium is magnificent in scale and very modern, and it is not inferior to any famous football stadium in the world.
Many fans were delighted to be able to buy tickets for the first match of the club after the opening of their new home stadium, and they were determined to treasure up their tickets for today's game.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the first match of the first "Wind Thunder Cup", which was also the first game after the completion of the Wind Thunder Stadium, the match between Gossau and Zurich started as scheduled. Although it was only a friendly match, it attracted the attention of many media outlets, and the media in many countries bought the rights to broadcast the match, including CTV.
After Blatter held a kick-off ceremony for both sides, the game officially began. Both sides fielded their main line-ups for today's game, with Xiao Yang fielding a more attacking combination of Branislav Ivanovic and Lima in midfield, and it seemed that he was looking to get his first game at the Estadio Thunder off to a good start.
The head coach of the Zurich team, Char Landers, also sent all the main players without reservation, although the personal relationship with Xiao Yang is not bad, but he is after all the coach of Zurich, the biggest rival of the Gosau team in the league, and he is also very competitive. Zurich have had a dismal run of results in direct conversations with Gossau in recent years, so Charlanders does not want to be beaten again by Gossau, even if this is only a friendly.
In fact, Zurich have been doing well in the league and in Europe, with the exception of a number of deflated games against Gosau, where they are still second in the league, third in the Champions League group stage, eligible for the Europa League knockout rounds, and semi-finals in the cup.
Zurich's consistent results have also been due to the excellent performances of several of their new signings this season. Bijerica has now become Lewandowski's best striker, with the pair tally tally in all competitions in the first half of the season to 45, a tally second only to Gosau's Eggman and Cottingho.
After a brief run-in at the beginning of the season, Shaqiri has now become the main force on the right side of the Zurich midfield, and has repeatedly performed well. Charlanders is also very dependent on him now.
All of these players also started the game, and Charlanders will be hoping to use their attacking prowess to take on Gosau.
After the start of the game, the two teams who knew each other well began to fight fiercely without any temptation. Since it was not an official game, they did not have such a huge pressure, so they were all relatively open, and the wonderful scenes were endless, which also made the fans who came to the scene addicted.
Six minutes into the game, new Ballon d'Or winner Eggman opened the scoring for Gossau with a powerful header from Avandzini's low cross. The header left Zurich centre-back Balmetler helpless, and he lost completely to Egermann in a physical confrontation. This ball also shows the strength of the Ballon d'Or winner.
In the 13th minute, Horensten took the ball to the front field on the right side and cut inside, and then sent a straight stopper, Kautingho was successful in the penalty area, but his shot was blocked by the goalkeeper Miller of the Zurich team out of the penalty area, Gossau's forward Lima followed up and then kept the ball and directly blasted out a world wave, the ball flew straight into the upper right corner of the Zurich team's goal, Miller was still on the ground at this time did not get up, and could only watch the ball into the net.
In the 25th minute, the Zurich team, which had fallen behind by two goals, played a wonderful team cooperation, left midfielder Vasquiz crossed with the ball, Bijerica near the penalty area line headed back to the point, and gave the ball to the midfielder Elgert who inserted the assist, Elgert immediately knocked the ball to Shaqiri at the front of the penalty area, Shaqiri raised his foot to shoot the goal, and when the defenders of the Gosau team subconsciously wanted to block his shot, he sent a precise through ball, Lewandowski inserted into the penalty area and faced the attacking Checarelli, Shoot low into the far corner and the ball goes into the net as Zurich pull one back.
In the 34th minute, Coutingho received a direct pass from Lima and shook off the central defender Chacuri who defended him, burst into the penalty area and crossed the bottom, Egerman outflanked in front of the goal, easily pushed the pass into the empty goal, scored twice in this game, and also extended the score to 3:1 for the Gossau team.
In the remaining ten minutes of the first half, both sides had a few good chances, but neither side scored again, and the first half ended 3-1.
In the second half, Xiao Yang first made several changes to the starters, he replaced Ivanovic with Antunovic, Eggman with Esposito, Salihovic with Silva, Avandzini with Tobinski and Gugelmann with Sampedro. As this is only a friendly match, there is no limit to the number of substitutions.
Charlanders also made two changes, but the players he relied on the most remained on the field, which also shows that Charlanders still has a lot of ideas about this game.
In the 58th minute of the second half, Zurich striker Bijerica received Lewandowski's low cross and scored with a header to make the score 2:3 for Zurich.
However, just 5 minutes after the Zurich team's goal, Lima used his personal ability to dribble past three defenders of the Zurich team in a row in the front field and then passed directly into the penalty area.
After Kautinho scored, Xiao Yang immediately replaced Kautinho with Chinese player Zhou Guodong, replaced Lima with Hodel, replaced Ribeiro with Checaroni, and replaced Checarelli with Reiter, so that the starting lineup of the Gosho team was almost changed, and only the starting central defender Chevali was still on the field.
Charlanders also made a few changes, after all, this is a warm-up before the start of the second half of the season, and he also needs to check the form of the players.
In the following match, Shaqiri and Esposito scored one goal each, and the final score was 5:3, and Gossau beat Zurich at home, which also made a good start for Gosau's first game at the new home stadium of the Estadio Windlei.
When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Charlanders walked up to Xiao Yang with a smile, stretched out his right hand to shake Xiao Yang's hand, and congratulated him on the good start of the Gosho team at the Wind Thunder Stadium. Although losing to the Gosho team again made Char Landers a little unhappy, but after all, he has a very good personal relationship with Xiao Yang, and this is the first game of the Gosho team in the new home, so he still has this bearing.
In the second match of the "Wind and Thunder Cup" at 7 p.m., Basel and the youth team also played a wonderful offensive battle, and the goals of both sides were like plum blossoms, and the two teams finally drew 3:3.
As a result, after the first round of matches, Gossau is in first place with three points, Basel and Juniors are tied for second with one point, and Zurich is at the bottom with 0 points. Three days later, on January 18, these four teams will also play each other for the second round of the "Wind and Thunder Cup".
The inauguration of the "Wind Thunder Stadium" has attracted a lot of attention in Europe, the old home stadium of the former Gosho team is too small, and the facilities are very old, which is really not in line with the identity of the European champion of the Gosho team, so the completion of the new home stadium of the Gosho team is what many people want to see.
The unveiling ceremony of the "Wind Thunder Stadium" invited many international football bigwigs to the scene to cheer, FIFA President Blatter and UEFA President Platini also personally cut the ribbon for the "Wind Thunder Stadium", such a grand occasion of course also attracted the attention of countless reporters, coupled with Smith's intentional promotion behind the scenes, the unveiling ceremony of the "Wind Thunder Stadium" has become the hottest event in world football in the past few days.
The "Wind Thunder Cup" was broadcast live in many countries around the world, allowing fans around the world to see the magnificence of the "Wind Thunder Stadium", plus many on-site reporters randomly interviewed fans who watched the game at the scene, almost all fans praised the new stadium of the Gosho team as the best stadium they have ever visited, and the Gosho club has done a very good job in terms of user experience, and it is really a pleasure to watch the game here.
Of course, the main people who came to watch the game were the fans of the Gosho team, and they praised the "Wind Thunder Stadium" so much, of course, they had the psychology of loving the house and the Wu, but it is also an indisputable fact that the "Wind Thunder Stadium" is a modern stadium with advanced facilities and has reached the five-star standard, and this is also the news that this reporter got after interviewing UEFA officials on the spot -- now UEFA has begun to conduct an on-site inspection of the "Wind Thunder Stadium" to declare a five-star stadium, and it is not surprising that the "Wind Thunder Stadium" will be next season at the latest It will be the newest five-star stadium in Europe.
The reporter also interviewed the players of the four teams who played in this stadium first, and they all praised the quality of the turf of the "Wind Thunder Stadium" as very good, and it is very comfortable to play on it, because of the advanced geothermal system, even if it is winter to play on this stadium, it is very comfortable, and the ground is not hard at all.
Through the information obtained from watching the live broadcast and on-site interviews with reporters, the newly completed "Wind Thunder Stadium" has become another top-level stadium in the minds of fans around the world, which has also met the psychological expectations of Xiao Yang and Smith.
On January 18th, the second round of the "Thunder Cup" was played at the "Thunder Stadium", and the first match of the second round was played by Zurich against Basel, which resulted in a narrow 2-1 victory for Zurich to achieve their first victory in this invitational tournament.
In the second match at 7 p.m., Gossau faced the youngsters and thanks to goals from Avandzini, Eggman, Kaudinjo and Tobinski, Gossau won 4-2 against the youngsters to make it two wins in a row in this competition. Of course, Xiao Yang also sent many substitutes in this game.
Thus, after the second round of matches, Gossau is still in first place with 6 points, Zurich is second with 3 points, and Basel and Juniors are in third and fourth place with 1 point. The Gosau team has already entered the final championship and runner-up battle one round ahead of schedule.
At the same time as the "Wind and Thunder Cup" was held, world football was also not idle. It's the winter transfer season in European football, so teams that weren't happy with their performances in the first half of the season are busy recruiting.
The most high-profile team in the winter transfer market is Paris Saint-Germain, who were knocked out of the Champions League group stage when their Qatari boss was said to be so furious that he almost sacked coach Carlo Ancelotti, who was later persuaded by the club's general manager to survive.
However, PSG's boss then threw a blank cheque book in front of the general manager, asking him to bring a few more superstars to PSG as soon as possible.
Of course, this is just a rumor, but then, Paris Saint-Germain is attacking everywhere in the transfer market, and their purchase targets are all famous superstars, basically the pillars of various giant teams, like Ronaldo, Messi, Rooney and others have been quoted by Paris Saint-Germain, Gosau team is of course not spared, many of the main players of the Gosau team led by the new Ballon d'Or winner Eggman have received offers from Paris Saint-Germain, of which Eggman's offer has risen from 50 million euros to 100 million euros, In the end, Paris Saint-Germain simply let Gossau make their own offers, and of course, these offers were rejected by Gossau without exception.
Other giants have also rejected Paris Saint-Germain's poaching behavior without exception, just kidding, Paris Saint-Germain is now digging the pillars of each team, these giants still want to fight for honor in the second half of the season, what kind of honor can they get if they sell the pillars at this time?
Paris Saint-Germain has repeatedly hit a wall in the transfer market, they can't catch the big fish now, and they can't look down on the small fish, so they can only stop and wait for the summer transfer market to come and do a big job.
At this stage, they can see that most of the players who have supplemented the team lineup are in other teams with European competitions, and they are the main force of the team, not to mention whether they can buy it or not, even if they can buy it, because they have played in European competitions in the first half of the season, it is impossible to play European games for the new club in the second half of the season, so it is not cost-effective to spend a lot of money to buy these players now.
For the above reasons, now that the winter transfer period has passed the halfway point, there has not been a single blockbuster deal in world football, at most only some giants are hoarding Maverick demons, or making some small knocks on the bench position.
Xiao Yang is not ready to buy people during the winter break, first, the personnel composition and age structure of the Gosho club are very reasonable, and now there is no need to buy any stars to strengthen the main lineup, and there is no shortage of good seedlings in the Gosho youth team, and he is not ready to buy some young players to sit on the cold bench in the team, which will be a great waste.
Putting aside the transfer market for the time being, on January 21, the third round of the "Wind and Thunder Cup" was held as scheduled. In the third round of the game against Basel, Xiao Yang made a significant change to the starters in the first two games when he had already entered the final in advance, and the two sides still fought against each other, and finally the two sides played a high score of 4:4.
In the other game, the Zurich team and the youth team played some real guns, and the two sides ended up with a 1:1 draw.
In this way, Gossau ranks first with 7 points from two wins and one draw in three games, Zurich ranks second with 4 points from one win, one draw and one loss in three games, and Basel and the youth team also have one loss, two draws and two points, but because Basel has one more goal difference than the young team, Basel ranks third and the young team is at the bottom. Gossau and Zurich will play the final of the "Thunder Cup" on January 24 at the Thunder Stadium.
After a three-day break, the two teams met again at 7 p.m. on January 24 at the "Wind Thunder Stadium" to compete for the championship of the "Wind Thunder Cup".
Although this is only an invitational tournament, the two teams still show a strong desire to win, and they are much more cautious in their tactical arrangements than in the first match, and pay more attention to defense. After all, the two teams will compete for a long time in the future, and even a victory in a friendly can bring some psychological advantages.
Shaw Yang formed a midfield combination with Antunovic and Branislav Ivanovic, while Charlanders also fielded two defensive players in midfield.
In the 31st minute of the game, Ivanovic transferred the ball at the back, he sent a pass 40 meters away, the ball accurately fell on the right rib of the Zurich team's weak defense, that is, the left side of the Gosau team's attack, Avanzini had already started at the same time as Ivanovic passed, and received the pass in front of all Zurich defenders, after shaking off the Zurich team's right-back Stachel, Avazini had already dribbled into the penalty area, and Egerman also retreated to the outside of the penalty area, Brought away the right central defender Balmetler, who was defending him, and now Avandzini is unguarded, facing the goalkeeper Miller of the Zurich team, Avandzini pulled out his foot and shot angrily, and the ball flew into the upper left corner of the goal like a cannonball, and the Gossau team led 1:0.
It was also the only goal for both teams in the first half, with Gossau leading Zurich 1-0 at the end of the first half.
After entering the second half of the game, both teams did not make large-scale substitutions like the first game, and the game was also carried out in all directions, and the fouls with relatively large actions appeared frequently, fortunately, the relationship between the two teams was not bad, so the fouls were mostly rushing to the ball, and there were no intentional fouls, plus the field conditions of the "Wind and Thunder Stadium" were good, so there were no players injured.
In the 76th minute, Eggman received Avandzini's low cross and scored with a header from close range to extend the score to 2:0 for Gosau, which also sealed the game.
In the end, the Gossau team defeated the Zurich team with a score of 2:0, won the final, and also won the championship of the first "Wind and Thunder Cup".
The President of the Swiss Football Federation, Newman, was invited to present medals and trophies to the runners-up Zurich and the champion Gosau. Newman also came to the scene at the unveiling ceremony of the "Wind Thunder Stadium", but because there were too many football bigwigs who came to the scene that day, he did not get the ribbon-cutting errand, but now he is also very satisfied with the award for the Gossau team, and he happily came to Gossau after receiving Xiao Yang's invitation, after all, the Gosau team is now the biggest contributor to the rise of Swiss football, which is related to his political achievements, so he must give the face of the Gosau team.
After playing the Thunder Cup, the Gosho team did not invite any more teams to play warm-up matches, and before the start of the second half of the season on February 9, the team only trained, and then the first and second teams played two training matches before they were ready to enter the official competition.
Due to the fact that other coaches are responsible for arranging the training, the Gosho club has closed the door to the transfer, and other affairs are also in charge of other affairs, and now Xiao Yang is the most idle.
On this day, the gentle mother Zhang Shuping reminded Xiao Yang that the 30th of this month is the traditional Chinese New Year's Eve. Xiao Yang patted his head and forgot about it.
A few years ago, because Xiao Yang was alone in Gosau, and there was no Spring Festival in Switzerland, he didn't have a good Spring Festival every year, and he was generally still working. But this year is different, this year's gentle family members have all come to Geshao, and the second half of the season has not yet started, so Xiao Yang can finally have a lively Spring Festival.
Xiao Yang thought for a while and said to Zhang Shuping: "Mom, what are you missing in the family after seeing the New Year?" If you can't buy it in Switzerland, I'll have someone bring it from Huaxia, anyway, there are still a few days before the Chinese New Year, so it's too late. ”
Zhang Shuping said: "There are some ingredients that cannot be bought in Switzerland, and it is best to bring them from Huaxia if it is convenient." It's nothing else, he can write couplets or something by himself, he can write well, he used to write the Spring Festival couplets of their unit. ”
Xiao Yang said with a smile: "I knew that Dad's handwriting was good, and the name of our new stadium should be inscribed by him." ”