On the training ground, the players' shouts were the main theme, occasionally mixed with crisp whistles.
These shouts are extremely pleasant to the ears of the coaches.
Because it represents a good state...
That is, the players are focused during training and their fighting spirit is relatively high.
This is a good thing during preparation for war.
While the team was training, there were several reporters outside the training ground, setting up machines and taking pictures of the training.
Behind the camera, slightly further away, is the text reporter.
They are also observing training and preparing for writing.
A group match is taking place on the training ground.
Tan Yunlong, who plays the center role, was pulled to the wing to respond. As soon as he received the ball, he was tackled to the ground by center back Liu Yan, who was also pulled to the wing to defend him. Naturally, he lost the ball.
But this was not a foul. Liu Yan's tackle was very clean. He got the ball first and then brought down Tan Yunlong.
Therefore, the coach who was the referee on the field did not blow the whistle.
Tan Yunlong didn't lie down on the ground and raise his hands to complain. He got up from the ground and chased after him, trying to get the ball back.
But Liu Yan had already passed the football before him.
After witnessing this entire offensive and defensive battle, the reporters standing behind the cameras whispered in low voices:
"Do the players work so hard in training?"
"The South China Tigers are in good training! Liu Yan dared to tackle the ball without hurting anyone, which shows that both he and Tan Yunlong are very focused and in good physical condition..."
"What else? After all, they are preparing for the Club World Cup!"
"Oh, don't talk about the players, even I feel excited just thinking about it... It's the first Club World Cup held in China and it's time to catch up with Hu Lai's return to China. It's perfect!"
"That's right, Hu Lai and Qin Lin were teammates of Flash Star back then. Now one is visiting as a European champion, and the other has become the head coach... Oh, it really feels like the world has changed!"
The 2029 Club World Cup will be held in China for the first time. This is an event of great significance to Chinese football.
The Club World Cup, whose full name is the FIFA Club World Cup, is a competition between major continental champions around the world.
In terms of technical and tactical level and gold content, the Champions League championship is the highest honor for a club team.
Then the Club World Cup is nominally the club's highest honor.
After all, those participating in this event represent the top football teams from all continents.
The champions of the top competitions under the six continental football associations in the world are the Champions League champion team representing UEFA, the African Champions League champion team representing Africa, the Copa Libertadores champion representing South America, and CONCACAF representing North America.
And the Caribbean Champions League champion team, the AFC Champions League champion team representing Asia, and the Champions League champion team representing Oceania.
Plus a host team.
The host team is the champion of the host country's national league.
And the final winner is naturally the champion among champions.
So although the gold content of the event is not high, the gold content of this championship honor is still full.
After all, any team that can participate in this tournament must first fight its way through all the club teams on its own continent before it can reach the stage of the Club World Cup?
So it's absolutely fine that they represent the highest level of club teams in their respective continents.
Defeating these representatives from each continent is equivalent to defeating all the teams from the continents they represent.
In the end, if this champion is not the strongest in the world, then what is he?
Therefore, even European teams attach great importance to this honor.
In European football, there is a common saying of "Six Crowns", which represents the six important championships that a club team can win in a season, namely:
Champions League Champions, League Champions, Domestic Cup Champions, Domestic Super Cup Champions, European Super Cup Champions, and Club World Cup Champions.
If a team can win these six honors at the same time in one season, it can be called a "six-time champion."
This shows the status of the "Club World Cup".
Originally, important competitions such as the Club World Cup have been held in Japan and the Middle East. This year is the first time it has been moved to China.
This is what the Chinese Football Association has worked hard to achieve - they signed a five-year long-term contract with FIFA.
The contract stipulates that the Club World Cup will be held in China for the next five years. The two parties will continue to negotiate and strive to renew the contract after the five-year contract expires so that the Club World Cup can continue to be held in China.
The most important reason why FIFA chose to host the Club World Cup in China is of course China’s huge market, especially after the Chinese overseas players performed well in Europe, and the huge enthusiasm burst out from the fans in this land. An amount of passion often means an equal amount of money.
For the Chinese Football Association, which is striving for the Club World Cup to be settled in China, China's hosting of the Club World Cup can bring the world's top teams together at home, bring advanced football events to Chinese fans, and at the same time allow China's domestic fans to Players, coaches and other football practitioners can have close contact with and learn from the world's advanced football.
This is equivalent to bringing the teacher in.
As for how much you can learn, it depends on your abilities.
As a service-oriented department, the Chinese Football Association has done everything they can.
The Club World Cup is settled in China, and the world's football world will focus on it at the end of every year.
They not only pay attention to the game, but also the participating teams.
They will also pay attention to the development and progress of Chinese football.
This is actually an excellent opportunity to promote Chinese players to the world, allowing more Chinese players to have the opportunity to go abroad.
In short, we need to integrate Chinese football with world football in all directions and without blind spots!
What is particularly coincidental is that when the Chinese Football Association and FIFA started discussing the settlement of the Club World Cup in China, last season's Champions League final was far from being played.
So at that time, the Chinese Football Association did not know that the team representing Europe in the first Club World Cup held in China would be the Madrid Pirates with Hulay...
Hu Lai, the hero of Chinese football, returned to Chinese football in a way that no one expected.
What everyone didn't expect was that about half a year after Hu Lai won the Champions League, the Nanling South China Tigers, who had performed poorly at the beginning of the season, under the leadership of young coach Qin Lin, actually bucked the trend and finally succeeded in winning the championship this season.
Chinese Super League champion!
He allowed the South China tiger to win the "Dragon Cup" again after three years.
In his second season as head coach, he led the team to win the country's highest football honor.
Thus, the former Flash Star teammates reunited in such a wonderful way...
After winning the Chinese Super League championship, everyone knew that Nanling South China Tigers would represent the host country in the Club World Cup and might meet Hu Lai.
A reporter asked Qin Lin what he thought about this matter, but Qin Lin seemed very cautious:
"We still have to play a qualifying match before we have a chance to truly participate in the Club World Cup. At the same time, if we want to have a chance to compete with Pirates, we have to reach the semi-finals... So it's too early to talk about reuniting with Hu Lai.
It’s early. I won’t think about this at the moment, we will finish the first round first..."
The first round of the Club World Cup is now very close - the day after tomorrow, the Nanling South China Tigers, a team representing the host country China, will compete against Papeete Athletic, representing Oceania, in the first round.
The two teams will compete for a spot in the second round.
Since there are seven participating teams, there is no way to directly compete against each other, so a qualifying match must be played first.
The Oceania champion, the weakest among the six continental championship teams, can only compete with the host country for the main game tickets.
If Qin Lin wants to reconnect with Hu Lai in the Club World Cup, he must first eliminate the Oceania champion, and then play another game with the African or North American champion team. If he wins, he can advance to the semi-finals.
At this point, it depends on the result of the draw, because it is possible to draw the European champion or meet the South American champion team.
Considering the strength of the host team, it is almost impossible to advance to the finals, so everyone hopes that if the South China Tigers really reach the semi-finals, they will win the European championship in the semi-finals.
And regardless of winning or losing, that game alone is enough to become a "classic".
No matter what, you must meet this side.
The hero of Chinese football stands in front of the Chinese team as an opponent.
Just this encounter may inspire countless young people to devote themselves to football.
