Originally, this Club World Cup was actually a failure, because the participating teams were mixed, and the champions of the three continents were judged to be similar in terms of the strength of the representatives of Europe and South America.

But the most important thing is that Liverpool's market appeal is too poor, even if FIFA has attracted a lot of sponsorship by drawing a pie, but with less than 30% of the attendance in the first round, the semifinals are just over half of the attendance, and even the final is only 70% of the embarrassing situation of attendance, most of the sponsors directly announced their withdrawal after the game.

It's no wonder that as long as it is a commercially successful event, it will spare no effort to create stars and even build a dream team after the 21st century, otherwise it really won't make money!

The first Club World Cup, which originally lacked superstars and super teams, disappointed the bosses who invested money, resulting in the next few consecutive Club World Cups with far less prize money than the first one (the original plane champion was 4.5 million, and this plane was 6 million US dollars).

Zhang Desheng's butterfly obviously changed history again, and his Barcelona was eye-catching enough, not only did the semi-finals and finals sell out early, but even the first round was sold out because of the appearance of the Zhuhai team, so that a large number of Chinese fans also sold out the tickets for this game.

On December 22, in the second match of the first round of the first Club World Cup, the Asian champion from the Chinese Super League's Zhuhai team, and Costa Rica's Saprisa match, the attendance was full!

This naturally makes all the sponsors smile, because this game will definitely be watched by many Chinese viewers, which means that their sponsorship ads will be seen by tens of millions of Chinese viewers, and the money is well spent!

Saprisa also suffered some penalty injustices as a result of a goal they scored in the first half that was disallowed!

But judging from the replay afterwards, it was actually an ambiguous decision.

However, it can't be helped, don't look at the full attendance of this game, but yesterday's game in Africa and Oceania, the attendance was less than 30%.

The empty scene of yesterday's game made the camera dare not be shown to the audience at all.

If it weren't for the explosive attendance and ratings of this game, the sponsors would probably have to run away more than half!

So you are the organizer, and you must also hope to try to make the Zhuhai team into the semi-finals without going too far, and don't forget that there is also a third or fourth place final.

This is actually the biggest reliance of Chinese football, the devil knows why there is such a big innate advantage, Chinese football always encounters injustice, which in itself is extremely unreasonable!

However, when I think of the Chinese tourists who bought and bought when they came to the original plane, many countries did not know how to cherish them, but instead discriminated against these real guests.

Then, when the Chinese tourists don't come, and then the Indian tourists who don't spend pennies and have to find a way to take advantage of you, these people will know how precious Chinese tourists are!

Zhuhai didn't just bring attendance and ratings, the Asian champions narrowly escaped in the first half and quickly managed to take the lead in the second half thanks to Li Weifeng's header.

The strength of this Saprasa team cannot be compared with the champions of Europe and South America, but the overall strength is still slightly higher than the Zhuhai team, and their backward counterattack made the Zhuhai team have to hold on to all their strength for a while.

At this time, I have to mention the outstanding performance of several young players -

Wang Qiang, who was born in 1985, although he is a little incompatible with the backline combination of the Macau team, his personal ability is only higher than that of Ma Zhenguo and Zhu Biao.

The effect of his partnership with Li Weifeng today actually surprised and even frightened the teams all over Asia, because the Zhuhai team faced the North and Central American champions whose overall strength was only stronger than that of Japan and South Korea.

However, the two defenders, one big and one small, despite some struggles defensively, still resisted and did not concede the goal.

They were also shocked by Feng Shicai in 1987 and Xiao Tianci in 1984!

Xiao Tianci can play not only two fullbacks, but even central defenders, and his combat power will not decline, which is simply a panacea for the back line.

But the most eye-catching thing is the young player who became the starting goalkeeper of the Asian Champions Club at the age of 18, Feng Shicai really makes European teams feel a bit of a genius.

Feng Shicai's excellent prediction and position selection in front of the goal are very mature, and if you evaluate it at this age, it is rare even in Europe.

In particular, his superb reflexes saved two close-range shots on the goal-line today.

If it weren't for his amazing performance in front of the goal, the Zhuhai team would really not be able to defend Saprisa's onslaught!

But these third-generation new stars of the Macau team, Zhang Desheng didn't plan to send them to Europe too early, because these people's personalities were too introverted, except for Feng Shicai, who was a little sullen, the other Shuangshang was honestly not very high.

This kind of player is not suitable for going to a foreign country too early and too unfamiliar, let alone going to a team that is too strong too early, otherwise he will definitely not be able to play because of himself and the environment, and then most of his talent will be lost after a few years of delay.

It's best for them to go to Portugal, Belgium, and the weak teams in the Eredivisie first, to ensure that they can occupy a main position, so that they can play for a year or two to gradually adapt to European football, and become the core members of the team, and then use this as a springboard to a higher stage.

The first batch of F4 of the Macao team, as well as a group of subsequent Macau youngsters, actually took this path.

But now the Zhuhai team can form a certain dominance in the Chinese Super League, and can participate in the Champions League stably, and even participate in the Club World Cup as the Champions League champion.

Then he is not prepared to let these little geniuses who are not enough double merchants and have poor personalities go to these minor leagues too early to experience.

After all, half of Zhuhai's youth coaches and first-team coaches are hired from Europe with high salaries, plus they can play in the AFC Champions League every year, and can play against champion teams from Asian countries and even continents, so the intensity of training is actually just right.

These top Asian goblins mostly play in Asia for a few years, and when their minds begin to mature after the age of 20, it is better to wait until the age of 22 before going to Europe to exercise, which will be more suitable.

If you really have a real genius who can be regarded as a top demon in Europe, and at the same time your mind is relatively mature, then you can naturally go to Europe earlier.

Today's outstanding performance of these people on the defensive end has attracted a lot of attention from European scouts, the only forward genius Jiang Chongyi in Saprisa after a long time of fruitless attack, through a counterattack to help Zhuhai expand the score to 2:0, after completely killing the game, also attracted the attention of some scouts.

This Jiang Chongyi is also a little demon dug by the Macau team from the mainland, but unfortunately there are several big brothers on his head, and he has not played a real A-level game on behalf of the Macau team before, and he is actually in the middle of being dug up by the national football team.

This is also quite interesting, in fact, Wang Qiang and others are also the targets of the first team's reverse digging of the wall.

These four new F4 of the Macau team are basically all Fan Zhiyi, Li Weifeng, Wu Lei's level of talent, Feng Shicai is faintly more than the current top talent of the Asian level, he has really reached the talent level of the top demon in Europe.

If these four people are trained well, it will really be enough for a team to break out of Asia.

This is not a joke, Fan Zhiyi, Li Weifeng, Wu Lei, that is not a player of an era.

But all four of them are about the same age, and their peak is also in a period of time, and another four or five years will be enough to support the skeleton of a top team in Asia.

This surprised Zhang Desheng, because the Macau team can now make up a group of Asia's top team building skeletons in two years, and there are even two native European-level talents.

Tu Guangri and Feng Shicai, these two have been cultivated to be seedlings of real world-class stars who can impact the 9 series.

Even the first team can see one or two of their talents.

The Macau team will naturally not be dug back by the first team, and several of them have officially played in this quarterfinals, especially the last inconsequential game, which can be regarded as an identity imprint.

Otherwise, after a long time, it is really possible to be pried away by a team.

In the end, in the first round of the Club World Cup, the Zhuhai team defeated the Central and American Champions Cup champion team Saprisa 2-0, and reached the semi-finals quite unexpectedly!

The other matchup that decided yesterday was the winner of the African Champions Cup, Egypt's Cairo Nationals.

The Egyptian club actually arrived in Asia half a month ago, but not from Japan, which arrived first, but from China.

They were very witty, because they felt that there was a probability of drawing the Zhuhai team in the first round, so they also deliberately played a friendly match with the second place in the Chinese Super League last season, that is, Shandong Luneng.

In that game, Cairo Nationals defeated Luneng 3:2, and the domestic media reported after the game: Cairo Nationals are as fierce as wolves!

Then, 4 days later, this wolf-like team was a sheep to be slaughtered in front of St. Paul!

That's right, Zhang Desheng had already guessed the script.

If Zhuhai advances, they will definitely meet Barcelona in the semi-finals.

Then Sao Paulo, of course, will play against Cairo Nationals.

The first match of the semi-finals was played by Sao Paulo against Cairo Nacional on the 25th, with Barcelona on the second day.

And the result is that the Cairo nationals, who are as fierce as wolf dogs, have directly become little milk dogs in front of Sao Paulo, and their offensive has become a futile struggle in the face of the former's lightheartedness, and the whole game not only did not bring fans pleasure to watch, but gave people a sense of cruelty, because it was a complete crushing game!

In the end, a one-sided ravaged 4:0 fully illustrates the uneven development of football on all continents.

But this is not the case in the next semi-final, Zhuhai's previous play of Saprisa was not easy, and even took advantage of the whistle a little.

Although Zhuhai plays Luneng in China, although it is more wins and fewer losses, every game will not be easy.

Therefore, it is not easy to refer to Cairo National's victory over Luneng, so in addition to the European championship and the South American championship, the strength of the other four teams is actually in the middle of the middle, and they will be the same as Sao Paulo and Barcelona.

But even if they knew that the Zhuhai team could not create a miracle, the Chinese fans still made the scene and ratings on the day of the game both explosive!

This is the allure of the Chinese market, even if the attendance of the rest of the games is only three or four percent, as long as Zhuhai and Zhang Gongzi's Barcelona stadium is full, then the sponsorship fee for the next tournament can be increased a lot.

The next day, the semi-finals between Barcelona and Zhuhai were ready to start at the Yokohama International Arena, which can accommodate more than 70,000 people.

This match is the real highlight of this "Club World Cup", even more attention than the final between Barcelona and Sao Paulo.

Therefore, today not only Chinese fans poured in more than 30,000 people, but also Catalan fans came today with nearly 10,000 people, despite the long distance.

In addition, the previous game was not too lazy to get the Japanese fans on the spot, and nearly 20,000 people poured into the stadium today, of course, they all came to see Zhang Gongzi.

The most outrageous thing is that the remaining 10,000 fans are actually Zhang Gongzi fans from all over Asia.

This can see the appeal of a real superstar, and a team like Liverpool is not as good as Zhang Gongzi to pull the whole team up!

"The third place also has 1.5 million US dollars, but Boss Zhao said that as long as we have the ability to get the bonus back, no matter how much we get back, he will add another one!"

Li Weifeng now feels that the most correct decision he has made in his career is to join the Zhuhai team.

It is impossible for him to go to Europe at this age, but to win the AFC Champions League and reach the semi-finals in the Club World Cup is also considered fame and fortune.

"Boss Zhao has always been generous, but it's a pity that he played Zhang Gongzi's Barcelona in the semifinals...... Alas...... Even if I meet São Paulo, I dare to fight! ”

Zheng Zhi also felt that his decision to come to Zhuhai was very wise, and his performance in the Club World Cup was also good, and the second goal he scored in the last game was the attack he instigated in the middle.

He is too old to be different from Li Weifeng, and at the age of 25, he still has the opportunity to make a splash in Europe, and the Club World Cup is the best way to officially get into the eyes of European teams, and many South American players have also played well in the Toyota Cup, so they have entered the scouting of European scouts.

"As long as we kill the Egyptian club in the third or fourth place finals, counting Boss Zhao's double, it will be 3 million US dollars."

Li Weifeng was even more excited when he thought of this number, his salary in the Super League was already in the first echelon, but the biggest Super Star in this era could not earn an annual salary of tens of millions, not even five million annual salaries.

So three million US dollars, that is, almost 25 million yuan, although it is a share of the whole team + the coaching staff, their main forces must be more, and everyone has almost more than one million.

But he and Zheng Zhi both have a regret that they can't say, that is, what they want to join the most is not the Zhuhai team, but the Macau team.

The two of them can be regarded as the current and future football bully roles in the national football team, but they would rather not be this ball bully, and they also want to follow Zhang Gongzi to the World Cup in the Macau team!

They are even willing to accept the competition mechanism of the Macao team, "the capable go up, the mediocre go down", as long as this environment has a certain degree of fairness, then it is not unbearable to be tired and hard.

But I'm afraid that I've paid enough blood and sweat, and I'm going to be pressed by old seniority and colons, and I even have to beware of someone plotting against me at all times.

If it is in that environment, then they can only find a way to make themselves the ball bully who can oppress others, or even become a colon who makes far more money than them.

This is the big environment, a good environment turns ghosts into people, but a bad environment turns people into ghosts!

They can actually feel what kind of environment the Macau team is like in the Zhuhai team, so when they know that Wang Qiang, Jiang Chongyi and others have considered whether to join the first team, they would even rather be two or five boys, and they have to tell these little guys bitterly - don't be in the midst of happiness and not know the blessing!

Now in the first team, everyone who has a little pursuit, who doesn't dream of going to the Macau team!

That's not just for money, it's really for honor, who doesn't want to be a person who can really win glory for the country!

But at this time, not only the players of the Zhuhai team are discussing the huge prize money, but in the Barcelona dressing room, everyone is also discussing the 6 million bonus of the champion team, which is US dollars!

As long as Barcelona wins the championship, each starter can almost get more than 300,000 US dollars, and even the substitutes have more than 100,000 US dollars.

In this era, the salary of Barcelona players is not as high as in the future, Puyol's last contract two years ago was less than $1 million a year, his contract this year is only $2 million a year, and his next contract is only expected to get 4 million euros to be very satisfied, which can know that the $6 million championship bonus is indeed not low.

But when the two teams played, there was no hostility in their eyes when they looked at each other, and even the Barcelona players would take the initiative to cast a kind gaze.

In addition to being confident that the Zhuhai team will not pose a threat to their $6 million, the main thing is to give face to their boss!

So even a few players in the team who are not interested in the flower planter have a Western-style smile on their faces, focusing on hypocrisy!

But this made many people in front of the TV inexplicably moved, and they were almost moved to tears by the friendliness of the Barcelona players.

I don't know if it's luck or misfortune!

The biggest butterfly effect of Zhang Gongzi may be that no one will play big names in China in football in the future, at least not dare to have a Western-style arrogant boycott.

After the players from both sides came out, Zhang Desheng naturally stepped forward to greet his teammates of the Macau team.

It's also a lot of fun because his real teammates are on the other side!

"Boss, you have to be merciful, don't feed us five or six balls!"

"Boss, you are so face-saving, how do you feel that the whole audience is your fans?"

"Look at the big screen, isn't that Namie Amuro?"

"Damn, Ayumi Hamasaki is wearing the boss's jersey?"

"Haven't you watched the news, three of Japan's four major singers have publicly said that they want to watch our boss's game!"

“……”

Before Zhang Desheng could chat with his teammates, he was overwhelmed by the overwhelming sycophants.

This made him a little speechless, mainly because the sycophants of these people are more unnatural than the original generation F4!

"Yo Xi, go get me a bottle of water!"

Zhang Desheng greeted Messi, who happened to be nearby, and the latter immediately responded with a smile, and then ran to the sidelines to get water.

"Boss, I remember this kid's name is Messi, right? How do you call him Yoxi? ”

The people in the Zhuhai team all know this Messi, after all, he is the most talented star in the Barcelona team, and no matter how talented Zhang Gongzi is, he is indeed not from Barcelona's lineage.

"This is the nickname I gave him, how smooth the name Yo Xi sounds!"

Zhang Desheng smiled, but this malicious nickname has indeed been loved and recognized by Messi himself.

Who asked him to tell Messi: this is the Japanese word for "good" or "fantastic", which happens to be the same as his Chinese name.

So Messi didn't think there was anything wrong with this Japanese name at all, and even took this Japanese name rewarded by Zhang Gongzi as an honor in the interview, and was ready to advertise it on his YouTube account, which was almost like a mustache.

(End of chapter)