There are dark clouds outside the portholes of the plane, and now the sky over Asian football is also dark clouds, everything is ahead of schedule. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Guo remembers that West Asia's dissatisfaction with Australia should have occurred in early 2015, when many countries in West Asia demanded Australia's expulsion.

Of course, the reasons are superficial, the real reason is interests, the AFC has four and a half places in the World Cup, and the four places are direct, that is, the top two places in Group A and B of the top 10 competitions, and the other half of the places need to be PK with other continents.

Because the level of Asian football is not high, the half of the PK with other continents can basically only be seen, and the chance of really getting it is very small.

In the past, these four places were basically locked in East Asia (Japan, South Korea) and West Asia, but now everyone expects that all four places are likely to be occupied by East Asia - China, Japan, South Korea, Australia.

In the first three, West Asia has nothing to say, and they are Asian countries, so the focus of the contradiction is on Australia, an outsider.

Another point of contention is that AFC President Hammam has been hoping to move the AFC's headquarters from Kuala Lumpur to Doha, and in the face of strong resistance, the Middle East forces represented by the Qataris have not been able to do so.

So this time it was ostensibly caused by Australia, but in fact, the real cause was a general outbreak caused by the long-standing conflict of interests in Asian football.

"Li Guo, you said that if everyone quarrels at the meeting, then who will we help?"

"It's hard to say, it stands to reason that we should support the AFC to expel Australia, then we can have one less strong opponent in the top 20,"

Cai Hua nodded, "Yes, but I always feel that something is wrong!" ”

"Chairman, have you ever heard of the catfish effect?"

"Hmm,"

"For the West Asian team, expelling Australia, they can live more comfortably in the absence of competition, but for our Chinese team, we need a high-level opponent like Australia to help us become stronger."

"So we support Australia?" Cai Hua asked.

"But that offended the president of the AFC again, the snobbery of Middle Eastern tyrant football is very great,"

"What then? Neither side is offended? That's impossible. ”

"So what I mean is to let the Japanese first, the Koreans be the first birds, and we will act when the opportunity arises,"

"Good idea," Cai Hua thought to himself, but at the same time Cai Hua was thinking: "Can the Japanese and Koreans be so stupid?" ”

*****

Facts have proved that it is true, and the reason is very simple, Japan and South Korea have always regarded themselves as the banner of East Asian football, especially after the two countries jointly hosted the South Korea-Japan World Cup, so at the beginning of the meeting, South Korea and Japan firmly stood on the side of Australia and did not agree to kick Australia out of the AFC.

The representatives of the top 20 have their own plans, and the final opinions are almost five-five, so that China's attitude is the most critical, and which side China stands on can basically overwhelm the other side.

Before the meeting, China wanted to stay out of the situation, but unexpectedly, with the development of the situation, China became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Everyone was waiting for the Chinese representative to make a statement, Cai Hua looked at Li Guo, hoping that Li Guo would give an attitude, Li Guo suddenly stood up and said, "Can I tell me my opinion?" ”

After getting the agreement, Li Guo began to speak, and Li Guo's first sentence was earth-shattering.

"Asia is the biggest continent, but we only have four and a half World Cup places, do you know why?"

"Damn," everyone thought to themselves, "where is this Li Guo singing, it doesn't seem to be this topic being discussed now." ”

Li Guo continued: "Is it because the level of Asian football is too low? ”

The delegates looked at each other, no one agreed, no one objected, but it was true that everyone was unhappy.

"Everyone is human, why is the level of Asian football inferior? Because of the fight, because the level is already low, a few strong teams have to be kicked away. ”

"If Asian football continues like this, then I don't think it will be possible to increase the number of places in the World Cup, even the existing places will be difficult to keep."

Speaking of this, many representatives of West Asia lowered their heads, Li Guo's words went to their hearts, in fact, everyone said that it was for the World Cup quota, why not do a good job in Asian football and increase the quota of the AFC, but be jealous of the ability to squeeze out the few strong teams within the AFC?

"I think not only can't we expel Australia, but we should also win over strong teams such as Israel, Kazakhstan, and Turkey to the AFC," he said.

We know that Israel was in the AFC before, and later left Asia and joined Europe, Li Guo's words stirred up a thousand waves, and many representatives shook their heads and laughed.

"The more strong teams, the higher the level of Asian football, I think it will be possible for the AFC to win five or even six World Cup places in FIFA in the future, do you want Asia to always have a pitiful four and a half places?"

"Of course not," many thought to themselves, but no one said it.

Everyone also knows that Li Guo's words are right, but the problem is that the interests are current, and many people only care about the immediate interests, so the representative of the UAE said bluntly: "Don't say so much, just tell us who you support." ”

"I support Australia,"

The situation is obvious, the Chinese team's vote makes the situation no longer suspenseful, everyone broke up unhappily after the meeting, obviously Li Guo has not changed anything, the water in the football circle is too deep, this Li Guo understands very well, he is the person who has experienced the Harman, Blatter, Platini scandal.

It seems that the storm in world football in the future will not change anything because of Li Guo's crossing, but fortunately, those are all things in the future, the next game of the top 20 is in June, and August is the world-renowned Olympic Games, there is not much time left for Li Guo, he first has to solve the problem of strikers.

For this reason, Li Guo is ready to go to Brazil again, hoping to find a search in Brazil's leagues at all levels, but Li Guo knows that Brazil will lack good strikers in the future, so Li Guo does not have great expectations for this trip to Brazil.

The Brazilian city Li Guo came to this time was Rio, and I heard that Flamengo has a very good Chinese player.

Li Guo first came to Copacabana Beach, which is an excellent place to watch beautiful women relax, after watching the beauties for a while, basking in the sun for a while, Li Guo was a little thirsty, and beckoned to a vendor selling yerba mate, Li Guo asked for a refreshing cup of yerba mate.

Just when he was giving the money, Li Guo saw that the T-shirt on the vendor was very interesting, and there was a vague figure on it, which Brazilian star it was.

Unexpectedly, the next words of the hawker made Li Guo's eyes shine, and I saw the hawker pointing to his T-shirt, and then pointed to Li Guo, and said: "Chinese." ”