Chapter 1040: The Storm Rises Again (7)

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At the moment when Cesari blew the final whistle, the German players sitting on the bench rushed onto the pitch and hugged their teammates warmly on the pitch to express their excitement at the moment!

After all, although Germany reached the World Cup finals three times in a row during the eighties and nineties of the last century, and is one of the top teams in international football, from the mid-to-late nineties, German football, which has always been full of talent, suddenly fell into an embarrassing situation. With the lack of fresh blood and the aging of the meritorious players, the German national team's performance in international competitions has also deteriorated in recent years, from the European Championship in '96 to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in '98, and then to the group stage of the Euro 2000 to return home, the German tank, which once caused headaches for all the giants, has degenerated into a second-rate team that everyone is bullying at a surprising rate.

Especially in the World Cup qualifiers, Germany, which has a full lineup, actually lost 1-5 to its archrival England away from home, which made fans feel unprecedented disappointment with the German team!

It is for this reason that most fans and media are pessimistic about the prospects of the German team in the World Cup before the start of this World Cup. They believe that with Germany's current configuration, it should not be a problem to qualify for a group surrounded by Ireland, Cameroon and Saudi Arabia, but at most it is a mix of quarterfinals, and if you are unlucky, you may even kneel directly in the group stage, which is not comparable to Italy, France and Argentina, the favorites to win the championship, let alone reach the World Cup final.

And now, under the leadership of the two souls of Ballack and Kahn, the almost undesirable German team has handed over a shocking report card, this team that was ridiculed by the English media as a rigid style of play and no star taste, actually passed all the way in the knockout stage, and won three consecutive games 1-0 against Paraguay, the United States and South Korea, and successfully entered the final!

As the German team's results in the World Cup continue to rise, Oliver Kahn, who kept the door open in the game, and Ballack, who scored the winning goal in both the quarter-finals and semi-finals, have naturally become the biggest contributors to the German team's ability to reach the World Cup final this time, and their value and attention have also risen.

Kahn is a little better, he has been with Bayern for many years and is already a 33-year-old veteran at this time, and there is basically no shortage of good goalkeepers in the major clubs now, so there are basically not too many clubs that will be interested in him. If nothing else, the veteran goalkeeper who has made a lot of contributions to Bayern Munich is likely to end his career in Hollywood.

Ballack's situation is very different from Kahn's, although he is a well-deserved leader and team core in Vicenza, and has also won the Cup Winners' Cup here, but Vicenza is only a small club after all, and it is already its limit to wander around the European arena from time to time to show its face, and the stage it can provide for Ballack is bound to be limited, even with the support of Fiorentina's big brother. So, after seeing Ballack almost single-handedly bring the German team to the final, those general managers couldn't sit still anymore and packed up their checks to Vicenza, ready to bring the midfielder to their team!

As for Klose, who has failed to score in three consecutive knockout games and has a mediocre appearance, there is almost no one in the transfer market at this time - the giants who are not bad for money are chasing Diouf and Ronaldo, who are better at the table, and the club that is one level worse is interested in Klose, but they don't want to pay so much real money for a header striker who can only abuse vegetables.

The situation was a headache for Kaiserslautern FC, and with the collapse of Bundesliga TV broadcaster Kilsch pushing them to the brink of bankruptcy, selling Klose for a large transfer fee was a lifesaver. So

In addition to South Korean fans who complained about the referee's unfairness and FIFA's shady performance, fans from other countries – especially supporters in Spain and Italy – applauded Germany's progress to the final. To be honest, the shameless behavior of the South Koreans in this World Cup has disgusted them, especially the innocent expressions and boastful behavior of the South Korean players after the game. As a result, there is a general attitude of praise and surprise for Germany's victory.

Just when South Korean fans were saddened by their national team's farewell to the World Cup championship battle, Zhuang Mingge, who had been planning for a long time, also quietly started to act at this moment!

Early in the morning of June 26, because most South Koreans were still haunted by the loss of the national team, they did not discover in time that the exchange rate of the Korean won, which had been stabilized by the government's efforts for nearly five years, actually began to depreciate sharply today!

In just one day, the exchange rate of the Korean won fell by 10% against the US dollar, which means that in this short one day, the wealth that Koreans have worked hard to accumulate over the years has evaporated a full tenth of it out of thin air with the sudden depreciation of the Korean won in the foreign exchange market!

You must know that the decline in the exchange rate of the Korean won, although it can give the products exported by South Korea a certain price advantage in the international market, but it also means that when they import necessities from abroad, they have to spend more won to buy the materials they need, which invisibly greatly increases the operating costs of Korean enterprises and the living burden of Koreans.

After all, like many small, densely populated countries, South Korea is small and resource-poor, and it needs to import a lot of industrial materials and means of subsistence to meet its domestic needs. If the won continues to depreciate, the cost of this will naturally rise sharply, which will put heavier financial pressure on all sectors of the country, and eventually force them to sell their assets in exchange for a better dollar or pound sterling that can be better preserved, and foreign capital can take advantage of this opportunity to buy the assets of Koreans at a cheaper price.

Although South Korea has experienced a severe financial crisis and is very familiar with this method of international capital, the problem is that the South Korean government has patronized the domestic economy that has been damaged by the Asian financial crisis for five years, and its foreign exchange reserves are still very weak. Therefore, although the South Korean government tried to use the dollars in their hands to stabilize the foreign exchange market for the first time, that amount of money can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket in the eyes of Zhuang Mingge, who has deep pockets.

What's more, in addition to Zhuang Mingge and their masterminds, there is also a large wave of international travel capital that is eyeing the periphery, waiting for the opportunity to rush up and share a sip of soup to drink. In the face of such a huge amount of capital, the little foreign exchange reserves accumulated by the South Korean government alone are really not enough.

It is foreseeable that a financial turmoil is gradually taking shape in the skies over South Korea.