Despite the warm hospitality he received at Abizab, there was rarely a smile on his face. For the enthusiasm of the Arabs, he also only kept a polite distance.

He wants to try to keep his team in a quiet preparation environment.

However, his attitude did not cause dissatisfaction among the Arabs, on the contrary, it only made him and Lazio more popular.

Because they think that the top team and manager in the world group today should have this style!

If you are always smiling and approachable, it will make the Arabs feel that the other party is underestimating......

But this kind of stinky face is very useful to Arabia.

The more serious Chang Sheng's face was, the more welcoming the Arabs became, and the more smiling they were.

Chang Sheng naturally saw it in his eyes, and he was really speechless about it.

In addition to his face to allow his team to prepare for the game with peace of mind, he also has some personal emotions in it.

As a Chinese, a Chinese fan, I don't have a good feeling for football in the Arab world, that's normal.

Because in the history of Chinese football, there is a real enmity between East Asia and West Asia.

Prior to the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the closest China came to qualifying for the World Cup finals was the 1982 World Cup in Spain.

At that time, the Chinese national team was definitely the strongest Chinese team in history, and there was no one.

The process of the World Cup qualifiers proved the excellence of the Chinese team. The Chinese team passed all the way in the group stage of the Asia-Pacific Qualifiers, and finally met Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and New Zealand in the final of the Asia-Pacific Qualifiers for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. In the final stage of the game, the Chinese team is still strong, with a record of three wins, one draw and two losses, and the Chinese team has accumulated ten points for all the games. It can be said that one foot has stepped into the World Cup finals, but the unreasonable schedule has made the Chinese team dumb and eat Coptis chinensis in the following - there is suffering!

While all the matches of the Chinese team have been completed, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand still have two rounds of matches that have not been played, which provides the basis for some abnormal phenomena in the following games. After that, the Saudi Arabian team, which had no hope of qualifying, first lost 0:2 to the Kuwait team and gave the opponent a ticket to the World Cup.

In the final round of matches, as long as Saudi Arabia does not lose to New Zealand by five goals or more, then the Chinese team will definitely get the ticket to the World Cup, but something outrageous happened. In the case of a 2:2 draw away from home, the Saudi team actually "performed" a 0:5 defeat at home. As a result, China and New Zealand have exactly the same number of points and goal difference, and a play-off will be required to decide who will qualify for the 1982 World Cup.

In hindsight, that game was not normal from the start. The Saudis had two chances to score in the first fifteen minutes, one of which was when No.6 Rifavi faced an empty goal from about 12 yards from the goal. Kicking the ball off the line indiscriminately; Another time, No. 7 Naim was seven or eight meters away from the goal on the right side of the goal, also facing the empty goal, but inexplicably gently pushed the ball and was easily cleared by the New Zealand defender who was in the position.

Then, something even more outrageous began, and what can be called the most shameless match-fixing performance of the last century was staged. In the fifteen minutes from the fifteenth minute to the thirtieth minute, New Zealand, whose strength is comparable to Saudi Arabia, actually scored five goals in a row. Achieved a goal difference of enough to play the play-offs with the Chinese team. During this period, the Saudi team's defenders and goalkeepers completely became the boosters of the New Zealand team's attack, and did not do anything to stop them. In the end, the score of 5:0 was maintained until the end of the game, and New Zealand was "lucky" to qualify for the play-offs with the Chinese team.

After witnessing blatant match-fixing by Saudi Arabia and New Zealand. The Chinese Football Association had no choice but to immediately recall the players who had gone home for the Spring Festival to deal with the play-offs. The competition was originally scheduled to take place in Kuala Lumpur on January 9, 1982, but the Malaysian government strongly opposed it, resulting in the competition having to be postponed to January 10 in Singapore. Such twists and turns caused the players and coaches of the Chinese team to be physically and mentally exhausted, which also laid the foundation for the subsequent defeat of the national football team. In the end, the national football team lost to New Zealand 1:2. Missed the 1982 World Cup finals.

If the Chinese team had entered the World Cup, what would happen to Chinese football today?

Maybe it's a little better than it is now, right?

But that's only if, after all.

Later, during the World Cup in Germany, during the match between Australia and Italy, CCTV commentator Huang Jianxiang yelled excitedly after Italy won a penalty. He later explained that it was because the Chinese team was eliminated by New Zealand, referring to the 1981 World Cup qualifiers.

Because Australia and New Zealand are both Oceanian teams, he also hates Australia.

In fact, this reason is very clumsy, and the reason why he is so out of shape is only because he has been commenting on Serie A for a long time and has feelings for the Italian team.

If he really hated it, he should first hate Saudi Arabia, the initiator of match-fixing, then New Zealand, the other party, and secondly, West Asian football, which is good at match-fixing.

It has nothing to do with Australia, and there is some wrongdoing in Australia's gun.

West Asian football is indeed very good at match-fixing, and they have a record of match-fixing more than once.

The people in this place are good at breaking the rules, such as the "naturalized players" incident in Qatar, they found a few players who had played for other national teams, and quickly got these Brazilian naturalized players before their own team was about to play, hoping to play for their own team.

Also relevant to China is the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, in which China and Hong Kong, as well as Kuwait and Malaysia, co-directed a match-fixing drama in the round of 10 qualifiers played in November 2004.

China beat Hong Kong 7-0, while Kuwait beat Malaysia 6-1.

Both games were definitely problematic, but in the end, the Chinese team was eliminated by Kuwait.

It's very simple, because we can't even play match-fixing, so it's really been a vacation for so many years.

In the game, as long as the Chinese team scores, the Kuwaiti side will follow.

And at the beginning of the second half, the Hong Kong team used substitutions to help the Chinese team win the opportunity to kick off five minutes later than the Kuwaiti side. In this way, by the end of the game, the Chinese team will finish five minutes later than Kuwait. Everything is still under the control of the Chinese national team, and when the situation is not good, the Chinese team can score another goal.

As a result, Kuwait showed us their professional approach to match-fixing, and the net that rarely has problems in international tournaments was actually broken!

It is essential to know that the net is checked by the referee before each match. It's impossible for a hole in the net to happen......

The net needs to be replaced, and the time to replace the net is no more, no less, but also five minutes!

In the end, the Chinese team equaled the goal difference compared with Kuwait, but the total number of goals was one less. So it was eliminated. It's a pity that the Chinese Football Association didn't know this before, and simply thought that the goal difference was enough to eliminate Kuwait.

As a result, it was eliminated by Kuwait.

So Chang Sheng later said that the Football Association was too amateurish?

I don't even know how to play match-fixing, I don't know how to study the rules carefully, and I don't know how to really get rid of the opponent.

Such a football association is incompetent and amateurish to the extreme.

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Chang Sheng doesn't have a good impression of West Asian people, mainly because West Asian football is very dark and dirty. Explode Chinese football.

was used by West Asians to get down with match-fixing twice, which also made him hold back his belly.

Although China also plays match-fixing, from the standpoint of Chinese fans, West Asia is a heinous crime.

And even if you don't talk about match-fixing, West Asian football is always against East Asian football in the Asian Football Confederation, and there are many contradictions between the two sides.

As a veteran fan, it's impossible not to know these things.

In football. West Asians really don't like Changsheng.

So in the United Arab Emirates, Chang Sheng always has a straight face, with an aura of "cool and crazy dragging".

I didn't expect the West Asian people to be very useful, which really made him cry and laugh.

He thought about it too. If he wasn't the head coach of the European champions Lazio, if he didn't have that much championship aura on him, would the West Asians still smile at him like this? I'm afraid I'll have to put a question mark......

Sure enough, in this world, the strong are still respected. The winner is king!

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Because the Club World Cup is a tournament that brings together champions from all continents in the world, plus a host. So there are a lot of teams participating in this competition.

There are seven teams in total, the host team is the UAE League champion Alwahda from the UAE, Hekari United from Oceania is the winner of the Oceania Champions League, Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of Congo is the winner of the African Champions Cup, Pachuca from Mexico is the winner of the BECACAF Champions Cup, Seongnam Ilhwa from South Korea is the winner of the Asian Champions League, Brazil International Team from Brazil is the winner of the Copa Libertadores, and the UEFA Champions League champion Lazio from Italy.

Seven teams, all champions.

However, there are too many teams participating in the competition, and the time is limited.

Therefore, a single-elimination system is adopted.

First up was Alwahda from the host country and the winner of Ocean Week, and Hekari United from Papua New Guinea played the qualifying round, and the winning team advanced to the main draw.

In the end, Alwahda defeated Hecari United 3-0 to reach the quarter-finals.

In the quarter-finals, Alwahda faced Seongnam Ichiwa and Mazembe faced Mexico's Pachuca.

After these two matches, the two teams will be selected to reach the semi-finals, and then two teams from Europe and South America will face off against each other to determine the two teams that will make it to the finals.

That's when Lazio came on the pitch, and in fact the Club World Cup had already started when they were still in Europe.

In the past, the Club World Cup was basically won by South American teams and European teams, which can be regarded as evenly matched.

In fact, the Club World Cup after FIFA took over the Toyota Cup was originally intended to provide a stage for European and South American teams to face off, which is a continuation of the idea of the Toyota Cup.

It's just that while the big families eat meat, they also have to let the poor people drink soup.

So FIFA spread the hero post so that the champion teams of other continents can also participate, which can be regarded as a means to win people's hearts.

In fact, everyone knows that teams from other continents are here to accompany the prince to study, that is, to walk through the motions, play a bottle of soy sauce, and then get some bonuses and symbolic honors, and to say it, it can be regarded as a trip to the world's top club.

But Chang Sheng is well aware that this year's situation is different.

He didn't know if the specific outcome would be different because of his crossing.

But he thinks that his influence should be in Europe, Africa and South America, and he should still not be able to influence, right?

So Chang Sheng set his sights on African champion Mazembe.

He thought to himself, if nothing else, his opponent in the final should be this team.