The Tokyo National Stadium is the largest course in Japan, but the most famous course in Japan is the Yokohama General Stadium, which is currently the home of the Yokohama Mariners.

The Yokohama Stadium was built specifically for the World Cup, and it was here that Brazil defeated Germany 2-0 in the '02 World Cup final, which also made the stadium famous, and the 2012 J-League award ceremony will be held here.

In addition, the upcoming Club World Cup, where many important matches will also be held.

Yokohama, Japan's third-largest city after Tokyo and Osaka, is located in Kanagawa Prefecture in the Kanto region, close enough to Tokyo, otherwise the World Cup final would not have been held here.

On the afternoon of December 3, Ringer, coach Bobovic and several teammates rushed to Yokohama to participate in this year's J-League awards ceremony.

No matter where the award is awarded, it is the same, the lazy woman's feet are stinky and long.

Waiting for the leaders of the Japanese Football Association, the senior management of the J-League, etc., finished speaking one after another, and then began to present the awards.

Ringer was undoubtedly the biggest winner of the awards, having won the Golden Boot and Player of the Year, two of the most prestigious awards. Toshito Sato, who was suppressed by Ringer, could only get a fair play player to talk about comfort.

Generally speaking, if you hear about a fair play prize or something, you should know that it is a consolation prize.

Oh, and maybe it's the icing on the cake.

However, it is worth mentioning that the best newcomer was awarded to Takeshi Shibasaki, not Ringer.

Ringer didn't care, the best rookie was not a great award, and the J-League sent someone to explain it to him.

Probably because he was afraid that Ringer alone would cover all the awards with slightly higher gold content, so the J-League made some adjustments, thinking that Ringer was already a famous star in Asia and was not suitable to run for awards like Best Newcomer, so he was not shortlisted.

For this reason, the J-League official also sent someone to communicate with Ringer.

Ringer can understand that no matter where the award is awarded, taking care of one's own people is the norm. Shibasaki has also improved rapidly this season, and despite his poor league record, he still led the team to a League Cup title.

In addition, Bobovic won the best coach award, which is also an award that cannot be run, and it would be really shady if the AFC Champions League double could not win the best coach.

Ringer was also named to the Team of the Season along with teammates Hasegawa, Hideto Takahashi and Masato Morishige.

In the best team, Tokyo FC and Sanfrecce Hiroshima each took four spots, while the other teams only got three. It is realistic that the core of the midfield of the relegated team Gamba Osaka, Yasuto Endo, was also selected for the best team, and was selected as the best team of the J-League for the tenth consecutive year.

I don't know if he can be re-elected next year, because Osaka Gamba was relegated, and there are many transfer scandals about Endo Baoren, and Hangzhou Greentown in the Chinese Super League is one of the scandal teams. Former head coach of the Japanese national team, Takeshi Okada, the mentor of Baoto Endo, is currently the head coach of Hangzhou Greentown.

In the 10 World Cup, Takeshi Okada built the team with Endo Hoto as the core, and finally led the Japanese team to the knockout round, and the round of 16 was only a penalty shootout, which established Endo's status as Japan's No. 1 star in one fell swoop.

But now Japan's No. 1 star should be Kagawa, and Endo Hoto is a thing of the past.

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After the J-League awards ceremony, Ringer and other key players returned to Tokyo to prepare for the upcoming Club World Cup.

The Club World Cup is an international football tournament hosted by FIFA and attended by football clubs from six continents.

In 1960, the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and UEFA (UEFA) jointly organized an international football tournament in which the strongest football clubs in Europe and South America competed against each other in a match called the Intercontinental Cup, in which they won the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores.

This Intercontinental Cup is the predecessor of the Club World Cup.

At that time, Boseman was not even born, let alone the Boseman Act, and the exchange of talents in international football was quite poor, and this Intercontinental Cup could provide a platform for South American football and European football exchanges, which still looked very promising on the surface.

But soon the problem arose, the Intercontinental Cup itself did not have much gold content and no huge prize money, and it was still a home-and-away system, and the European powerhouses had to fly to South America every year to play an inconsequential game, or in the middle of the busy season, they were quite unhappy.

So the Intercontinental Cup began to fall into trouble, and in the 70s there was a situation where the Champions League champions were reluctant to participate in this competition. European champions such as Ajax, Bayern Munich and Liverpool have refused to participate, and even if other European champions send people to participate, they generally send a bunch of fringe players or even youth teams to go through the motions, and the Intercontinental Cup is considered to exist in name only.

Because the European champions did not attach importance to the Intercontinental Cup, most of the Intercontinental Cup winners in the early years were South American clubs.

It was only in the 80s that the competition took a turn.

Japan's economy grew by leaps and bounds, and then it was dedicated to improving the level of football, and it can be said that the whole of Japan was mobilized.

In this context, in order to support the national football policy, Japan's Toyota Group expressed its willingness to sponsor the Intercontinental Cup at a large cost. With the appearance of the unjust boss, this almost stiff Intercontinental Cup was finally resurrected with full blood and became the Toyota Cup.

Since then, the venue of the Toyota Cup has been set in Japan, helping to improve the atmosphere of football in Japan and expand the football market. Every year, the European and South American champions receive a large appearance fee, and there are also a lot of prize money for winning the championship.

Later, with the implementation of the Bosman Act, the internationalization of football became more and more obvious, and the Toyota Cup, which was played against the European champion and the South American champion, began to be valued and became more and more influential.

In this context, FIFA expressed dissatisfaction and said that it would adopt this competition.

Of course, the Toyota Group, which has sponsored the competition for many years, is unwilling to give up this good thing, so FIFA directly established the World Club Champions Cup, that is, the Club World Cup.

However, the Club World Cup was not influential enough when it was first established, and it was held for one year in 2000, then in 2001, and it was suspended for the next three consecutive years, while the Toyota Cup was still going on as usual.

FIFA has no choice, it seems that it still has to find a way to pick the ripe peaches.

After several years of tugging, the two sides finally couldn't reach their thighs with their arms and finally reached an agreement.

In 2005, the Toyota Cup and the Club World Cup merged to form the Club World Cup, which is still sponsored by the Toyota Group. In order to increase their influence, the participating teams have also changed from the previous simple South American champions and European champions to the champions of six continents plus the participation of the host team, which is now the Club World Cup.

The current FIFA Club World Cup final MVP, also known as the FIFA Club World Cup Ballon d'Or winner, receives a Toyota car as a prize, which is also a tradition left over from the Toyota Cup era.

It is worth mentioning that since 2015, the main sponsor of the Club World Cup has become Papa Ma's Ali Bar, which is all a later story.

The current Club World Cup is the champion of six continents, the European champion, the South American champion, the North American champion, the Asian champion, the African champion, the Oceanian champion, plus the host team, and seven teams compete together to determine a world club champion.

It sounds high-end and high-grade, but in fact, the gold content is still not high.

However, with the advent of the information age, the Club World Cup has also begun to attract attention, after all, there are teams from every continent to participate. European giants have also begun to pay more and more attention to this Club World Cup, first, it can spread the team's global influence well, and secondly, there is also a bonus to be won after winning the championship, so why not.

Since the new establishment of the Club World Cup, it has been held eight times as of last year, except for the first three editions won by the South American champions, and the next five editions have all been won by European champions.