Chapter 858: The Western Super Arms Race
At this time, the mainstream media in Europe was completely focused on the upcoming World Cup final at the Johannesburg Football City Stadium, so Valencia did not hold a press conference to announce Elo's joining, but chose the team's new season training camp and then held a press conference to announce Elo's joining.
Of course, Valencia's hierarchy had to change the time because of the possibility of a cold game.
Neither Spain nor the Netherlands have won the World Cup in this World Cup final, which means that no matter which team wins, there will be an eighth new champion in the history of the World Cup, and in this case there is no news to compare with it, not even Elo......
It is worth mentioning that after Ailo successfully signed a contract with Valencia, FIFA President Blatter personally called him and invited him to come to the scene to watch the World Cup final, but unfortunately there was a conflict with Iro's personal schedule, and Blatter did not force it, after all, his original intention was just to hope that Ailo would come to the scene to receive the World Cup Golden Boot award.
Now in the four teams that have entered the final four of the World Cup, the top striker in Spain is David Villa, with six goals, followed by Klose and Sneijder with five goals, but it is still very difficult for them to overtake or equalize Elo's eight goals, especially Klose's recent recurrence of knee injuries, and he cannot force a comeback in order to look completely hopeless.
Sneijder's situation is a bit complicated, he is one of the biggest contributors to the Dutch team to qualify for the final in this World Cup, and his position is a midfielder, and the opportunity to face the goal directly is rare, plus Spain coach Bosque will definitely keep a strict watch on him, whether he can score will be a big question mark.
David Villa, who scored six goals, is the most promising, but the problem is that it is difficult to score big in the World Cup final, and if you want to score two or even three goals alone, you have to hehe......
And according to the scores of recent World Cup finals, except for the three goals in the World Cup final in France 12 years ago, only two goals appeared in the final from the 1990 World Cup in Italy to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, so many media have sufficient grounds to believe that Iello will win the World Cup Golden Boot.
Therefore, it is understandable why FIFA President Seppat Blatter personally invited Iello to South Africa to watch the final, but it has to be said that it is a pity, otherwise the Chinese fans in front of the TV will witness Iroh receive the World Cup Golden Boot.
However, you don't have to worry that the Golden Boot Award will not reach Elo, and after the World Cup, there will definitely be staff who will personally deliver the Golden Boot to Elo and take a group photo.
Closer to home, the day before the World Cup final, the third and fourth place finals were played.
As he was still looking for a suitable high-end villa in Valencia, Iello was on live TV at the Hilton Hotel in Valencia.
Originally, the third and fourth finals were not much to watch, but Germany and Argentina have a lot of grievances in the history of the World Cup, from the past West German era to the last World Cup in Germany, when the host Germany eliminated Argentina in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals.
After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, the German team, which was more evenly matched in overall strength, had the last laugh, and they defeated Messi's Argentina 3:2 to finish third in the World Cup.
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The next night, the World Cup final - Spain vs the Netherlands, which is watched by hundreds of millions of fans.
Ahead of the game, there was a lot of speculation in the media about which team was in better shape.
The Netherlands won all of their first six matches at the World Cup, while Spain won all five of their games except for a shock loss to Switzerland in their opening game......
The two sides have met a total of 8 times in their history, with the Netherlands holding a slight advantage with 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
The starting line-ups of both sides in this game are exactly the same as Ello's impression, and the referee is also England's Webber, but the penalty of the game is a little different from the impression.
In the 27th minute, the butcher de Jong kicked Xavi Alonso's chest, and the referee on duty Webb did not show a yellow card, but gave a red card directly!
Webber's penalty immediately caused confusion among the Dutch fans at the scene, but in fact, there was no mistake in this decision, it was a strict penalty in accordance with the rules of football, and according to the slow-motion replay, De Jong did not have the consciousness of closing his feet at all, and the referee Webber gave a red card very reasonably.
For Webber's decision, Ielloh, who was sitting in front of the TV, agreed with both hands and feet, and should not hesitate to give a red card to send him off in the face of this kind of butcher.
The Dutch sent off a man in less than 30 minutes and had to shrink their defence.
The Barcelona squad were sharp on the ball, and it became even easier against the Netherlands, who had the advantage of two goals in the second half through David Villa and substitute Cesc Fabregas, to beat the Netherlands 2-0 to become the eighth World Cup winner.
The sad Dutch team can only watch their opponents in the final reach the top podium again.
Confirmed the title of the uncrowned king.
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The World Cup final came to an end, and the dust settled on the awards, David Villa, who scored seven goals and three assists in seven games, became the World Cup Golden Ball winner, Iello became the World Cup Golden Boot with eight goals, Casillas won the Golden Glove, and Germany's Muller became the World Cup rookie king.
It is worth mentioning that the best assist king who was not included in the award belongs to Zhang Linpeng, who has four assists.
Subsequently, the best lineup updated on the official FIFA website made Chinese fans excited, because ...... China is the only team to be selected as the top eight team in the 19th World Cup team, and it is also two players - Ai Luo and Zhang Linpeng, who are excellent at the table.
The World Cup is over, and the whole country of Spain is excited to win the World Cup.
At this time, the major European leagues are in full swing to supplement the lineup.
However, these things had little to do with Elo, and his meeting time in Valencia was August 7th, which meant that he had three weeks to spare for a holiday.
Over the next 20 days, Iroh split it into two parts, two weeks with Taylor Swift in Miami and the remaining week with his parents, sister, Li Shiyin and son Li Ai to the resort Maldives for a week.
During this period, there have been frequent transfers in European football, and there have been several blockbuster signings.
The protagonists were the megapowers Manchester City and Real Madrid, with Manchester City signing 28 million pounds for 20-year-old Balotelli, England international James Milner for 26 million pounds and Serbia international Kolarov for 17 million pounds.
Compared to Manchester City's spending speed, Real Madrid is not slow, signing Di Maria for 25 million pounds, Khedira for 14 million pounds, and Ozil for 15 million euros......
Of course, just looking at the cost of the end of the World Cup, Real Madrid and Manchester City are naturally not enough to mention, but when you think of Cristiano Ronaldo's 80 million pounds transfer fee before the start of the World Cup, then Real Madrid's bits and pieces add up to more than 150 million pounds, more than Valencia, which currently spends 120 million pounds on transfers.
If you look at the amount of a single transfer, Valencia is undoubtedly the most dazzling football club this summer - 90 million pounds!
And in addition to investing a lot of money in Elo, they also have reinforcements in other positions, 18 million euros to bring in Spanish international Cazorla, 10 million euros to buy central defender Godin, 15 million euros to Porto to buy James Rodriguez......
Not surprisingly, the craziest part of this season's summer transfer window is La Liga.
According to the media, next season's Premier League highlights may not change much, but there will be a lot less starry, and La Liga will be broken down into La Liga and La Super League next season.
The so-called Western Super League is Real Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia......
Real Madrid and Valencia desperately bought people, Barcelona only bought the Argentine captain is obviously not enough, after the failure to buy David Villa, they had to pursue Athletic Bilbao center Llorente and Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas, spending them 20 million euros and 50 million euros respectively, which means that this season Barcelona under the double pressure of Real Madrid and Valencia, for the second consecutive season to buy players more than 100 million euros.
The three teams of the Spanish Super League are desperately fighting for the new season, which directly causes panic in the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1, especially the Premier League, they lost too many stars in the 2010-2011 season, and the departure of Iro, Cristiano Ronaldo, Cesc Fabregas and Mascherano is destined to make the Premier League much less enjoyable.
In August, France Football made a headline insinuating: "UEFA must speed up the implementation of the Financial Fair Play Act, and if it does not stop the big clubs from making big moves, then football in its purest form will be destroyed in the hands of all evil money, just look at Valencia, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester City who have gone crazy this summer...... They use a lot of money in their hands to call for wind and rain in the transfer market, disrupt the proper order of the transfer market, and in the long run will lead to the degradation of football, believe us, this is definitely not alarmist......"
For the opinion of "French football", Europe and the mainstream media still have a wait-and-see attitude, after all, modern football is inseparable from the support of money.
Again...... Isn't the transfer market just for clubs with a lot of money to buy people?
Otherwise, it is necessary to save zài in the summer and winter transfer windows?