What Wu Jie means by not being ashamed is that he is not ashamed to cry after being eliminated.

After so many World Cups, I don’t know how many superstars have shed tears on the court here. It can even be said that most stars in the world have had this sad experience.

But as the top 10th team in the world, the French team was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup. How could this not be embarrassing?

"Wu, you personally saw off the French people today. Do you have anything to say to them about this?"

Isabella started to make trouble again. She completely forgot that the England team also had a chance of being eliminated.

"Their performance today deserves a victory, but the strong may not necessarily win, and the winner must be the strong."

Wu Jie's answer not only gave the Frenchman face, but also gave him a lot of praise.

The French media didn't have much of a reaction. They thought Wu Jie would continue to spread salt after the victory, which would be considered a loss of face.

"The Chinese team participated in the World Cup for the first time and successfully entered the second round of the group stage. Has this exceeded the goal set by your country before the game? What is the goal for the next stage? Can you reveal it?"

This is a question from a Japanese reporter. This country has completely worshiped China in the field of football. Even South Korea cannot think of continuing to challenge.

"The first question, I wonder if you have noticed our slogan, that is our goal - life is endless, charge is endless! Forward! Forward! Forward!"

"The second question is, no matter what stage we are at, we all have one belief: persistence will lead to victory. Victory requires hard work, and hard work continues."

Wu Jie's matryoshka performance made the Japanese reporter bow down fiercely. It sounded so exciting!

"Wu Jie, you have scored five goals and are currently far ahead in the scorer list. Have you set a goal for yourself in this regard?"

This is a question from a Chinese reporter. Now everyone in China is looking forward to a World Cup Golden Boot from China.

"Of course, we need victory and such honor!"

Naturally, Wu Jie will not deal with this issue in a low-key manner. The "Golden Boot" is one of his two major goals for this World Cup, because it represents a huge reward!

"Wu, did you know that the Chinese team's world ranking has improved by two places today?"

The reporter from Germany's "Kicker" magazine looked at Wu Jie with mixed emotions. Such a leader is what every country dreams of. This year's German team lacks such a true leader.

Under the leadership of Wu Jie, the Chinese team unexpectedly advanced.

The form of West Germany is very bad. Only by defeating Austria in the last game can they be sure to qualify. But who can say that they will definitely win the World Cup?

Austria is not a soft persimmon. They are ranked first in Group B and have two consecutive victories. Their qualifying situation is much better than that of the German team.

Wu Jie had an uncontrollable smile on his face after hearing this. The FIFA ranking is an honor for every national team, just like the ladder points decades later.

He happens to be a sub-slave, so he always pays special attention to this ranking.

"Of course I know, we are lucky enough to be in the top 40 tonight, but that is far from the end!"

Wu Jie received a system prompt after the game. After this game, the Chinese team's international ranking rose to 39th.

For him, this ranking is not only a symbol of honor, but also closely related to his income.

The system will give very high continuous rewards for this ranking. As long as he can reach the top 32 in the international ranking, he can get 100 Olympic points every day; for the top 16, he will get 200 points every day.

For the top 10, the rewards for each ranking are calculated separately. The tenth is 500 points per day. After that, every time you move up one place, the daily reward will be increased by 100 points.

That is to say, if you rank first, you can have a continuous income of 1,400 Olympic coins every day, which is a huge profit of 500,000 points in a year.

So as long as it can help the Chinese team enter the top ten, it can form a virtuous cycle and there will no longer be a need to subsidize football from other sports.

But this task is not easy to achieve. Take now, for example, they defeated England and France, which were ranked in the top ten, and tied with Czechoslovakia, which was ranked in the top 20, and finally entered the top 40.

There are many reasons here, the main one is missing too many classes.

The current FIFA re-calculates points every eight years, and the last re-calculation was in 1977. The Chinese team only rejoined FIFA in 1979. It was not until after he was born that it began to gain a large number of points, so until now

Only then rose to 39th place.

At this time, many people may ask, what are FIFA's points rules?

It's hard to say, because FIFA has been revising the rules, and the rules of this era are quite different from those of a few decades later.

The biggest difference is the recalculation period. In the 21st century, it would be recalculated every four years, but now it is recalculated every eight years.

The current points calculation formula for each game is: game outcome (win 2 draws 1 lose 0) x game coefficient (intercontinental qualifiers 2 intercontinental championships 3 World Cup 5) x opponent coefficient (200 first subtract the opponent's ranking, then divide by 100

) x regional coefficient (South America and Europe 1, Africa and North and Central America 0.9, Asia and Oceania 0.85), these are all multiplied together to get the points that can be obtained in each game.

In this era, since "goals scored" and "goals conceded" are not counted, the winning score is only 2 points, so everyone is more inclined to use conservative tactics in competitions.

In this match against France, the Chinese team can use this formula to calculate the points gained - 2x5x1.9x1, and the final score is 19 points.

The French team is in tragedy. According to the calculation formula: 0x5x1.59x0.85, the final score can only be 0 points no matter how it is calculated.

But even if the French team wins the game, it will actually only get 13.5 points because the Chinese team's ranking and regional coefficient are very low.

In this World Cup group match, the Chinese team won two and drew one. Two of its opponents were among the top ten in the world and one was among the top twenty. After three games, the Chinese team gained nearly fifty points, directly rising from 48th to 39th.

There are several teams whose points are not much higher than theirs.

This means that as long as the Chinese team wins or draws one or two games in the future, it is likely that the Chinese team will use this World Cup to impact the top 32 rankings.

At this time, many people are asking again, what is the so-called 8-year recalculation?

This is also simple. This kind of recalculation is not a reset, but a re-calculation of the points in the previous eight years. The formula is: the points in the first two years are counted as 25%, and the points in three to four years are counted as 50%.

Points earned in the past five to six years count as 75%, and points earned in the last two years count as 100%.

To give a simple example, if the Chinese team’s points in these four stages are all 100 points, then the initial points after recalculation are: (100x25%) + (100x50%) + (100x75%) + (100x100%) = 250

point.

Now the Chinese team has won consecutive victories but still failed to enter the top 32. One of the reasons is this inheritance of points.

The Chinese football team withdrew from FIFA in 1958 and only rejoined in 1979. This means that in the latest ranking cycle, they not only started two years later than others, but also did not have any inheritance points. Now they can enter the top

Being forty is already very difficult.

In addition, this ranking has another advantage. When a continent has multiple top-ranked teams, the number of places in each World Cup will increase accordingly.

If the Chinese team can enter the top ten, then the quota for each World Cup in the Asian division will probably be increased by half.

After the Chinese team returned to the hotel, they naturally held a grand celebration banquet and invited many supporters, such as the Huo family, the Rong family, the Guo family (Sugar King) from Hong Kong, the Ma family from Macau, and the Chen family from Singapore.

These patriotic families were invited.

These families have already sent their descendants to follow and manage, and they are among the thousands of supporters in every game.

Of course, if we only look at whether they donate money, then many families, such as the Li family in Hong Kong and the He family in Macau, have also donated a lot of money to China's three major sports in the past year.

But is donating money considered patriotic?

Wu Jie was very unfazed by this. Why did you go there before we came out?

What is patriotism?

When you are in urgent need of help, he helps you at a cost that involves risks much higher than the benefits. This is what a patriotic businessman is.

I'm already getting better, and if you come to donate money to help me again, no matter how big the number is, I will still treat you as a profit. This is just a business at most, so how can I accept your favor?

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The next day, Chinese players collectively watched the match between England and Czechoslovakia on TV.

But in fact, this game has nothing to do with them, because the second stage of the group stage will be redrawn, and the teams in the same group will not meet again.

That means that no matter who of these two teams advances, neither side will meet again before the semi-finals.

In addition, there is actually no difference between the first place in the group qualifying and the second place in the group.

The second stage of the group stage is divided into four groups, with three teams in each group.

The rules of this draw are to first draw four out of the six first-round teams, then draw four more out of the six second-placed teams in the first round, and finally randomly place the remaining four teams.

In four groups.

Then it is obvious that no matter how you divide the teams, there will be two groups that will become the death groups.

"Believe it or not, no matter whether we are first in the group or second in the group, we will definitely be assigned to the death group in the end."

After England was scored by Czechoslovakia in the first ten minutes, Lin Yaodong said something that many players could not understand.

Wu Jie smiled, of course he knew this and there was no need to doubt it.

If the Chinese team is not assigned to the death group, it means that their strength is vulnerable, otherwise they will definitely embark on the most thorny route.

The English players on TV were already panicking. After Czechoslovakia took the lead, they actually used the Chinese team's shrinking tactics to deal with them.

After watching the first half, Wu Jie knew that England was 80% going to GG, because Czechoslovakia's defense was no worse than them in terms of tacit understanding, but in terms of defensive ability and experience, they were much higher than the Chinese players.

In the second half, the English were under heavy attack and were accidentally scored by Czechoslovakia through a counterattack.

This time, Czechoslovakia, which was leading by two goals, once again imitated the Chinese team and returned to defense across the board.

In the end, the England team could only chase the score to 1:2 before the end, which meant that they followed closely behind their French partners and were eliminated in the first round of the group stage!!!

But the happiest person at this meeting was not the Czechoslovak team. The French team had already knelt down collectively in the hotel lobby to celebrate, and even had the urge to buy a flight home for the English.
Chapter completed!