For Manchester City, the Club World Cup is really a vacation.

?The players go out shopping at night and basically return with a lot of money.

Only Glory and Kaka seem a little lonely.

But they quickly vented this emotion on the court.

On December 15, the semi-finals of the Club World Cup began, and European champion Manchester City made their debut. Their opponent was the Asian Champions League champion Alsade.

In this game, Benitez still gave FIFA a good face. He did not use any second-team lineup to fool the audience and opponents.

Basically, Manchester City's main players started.

The most popular Glory and Kaka all appeared, forming a trident with Ibrahimovic.

Although the main players have all made it, it can be seen that the players are not very motivated and exhausted, so Manchester City's performance is not very good.

To compare, their performance is not as positive as the Alsade's players.

Although before the game, Alsade's head coach Fausetti once half-joked: "I really want to apply to FIFA to allow us to play 15 or 16 players when playing in Manchester City, so that we have a chance to win."

However, after the game started, it was still obvious that Alsade did not have as much fighting spirit as they said.

They are very active and want to compete with Manchester City.

However, Alsa's efforts failed in the 17th minute.

In the 17th minute, Rong Guang in the penalty area received a pick pass from Sneider, paddled the football with his chest, and then turned around and volleyed!

The football rushed into the goal at a very fast speed, and the goalkeeper of Alsad still didn't react at all!

"The ball has entered! Beautiful turn and volley! Beautiful!!"

CCTV, which broadcast the whole live broadcast, also filmed He Ping coming to the scene to explain the game. After Rong Guang scored a goal, He Ping shouted excitedly.

The Japanese fans in the stands were more excited than him.

As a world-class star, Rongguang also has many fans in Japan, although most of his fans are male...

Three minutes after Glory scored, Kaka also scored.

This time it was a signature long shot. After dribbling the ball and passing an Alsade player, Kaka shot a long shot in the penalty area. His long shot drew an arc in the air, bypassed the goalkeeper's ten fingers and broke into the goal.

In just twenty minutes, Manchester City has led Alsade two goals.

Sure enough, the gap between European champions and Asian champions is huge.

Manchester City defeated Alsade with just two people, making the semi-final lose its suspense.

After Glory and Kaka scored goals, Manchester City still maintained their previous performance, careless and slightly tired.

But Alsade has no choice but to get such a Manchester City team.

In the second half, their goalkeeper and the defender even made a mistake, allowing Ibrahimovic to get a hole and easily scored.

It's 3:0.

Next, Benitez started to substitution, he replaced Kaka and Sneider, as well as central defender Godin, replaced Milner, Gareth Barrie and Lucio.

In the remaining time, Manchester City began to play the control ball leisurely on the court. When this team that focuses on defensive counterattack in the European arena faces a team that is several orders of magnitude weaker than them, there is no need to continue to defend and counterattack. They firmly control the football under their feet, pass it back and forth, and use the pass to mobilize the opponent's players.

Alsade's players can only run around with football.

During such a transfer, there was a loophole in their defense line, and at this time Manchester City quickly accelerated, seizing their loopholes and launching a fierce blow.

In the 77th minute, Manchester City scored a goal by Milner, who came on as a substitute, 4:0.

The score was finally frozen here, and Manchester City defeated Asian champion Alsade with a score of 4:0.

Entering the Club World Cup final.

In fact, for European champion teams, it is very normal for them to enter the finals. If they can't even enter the finals, that's big news.

Some people even think that it is unnecessary to let the European champions participate in the semi-finals, just play the finals directly. The Club World Cup will first let the champion teams from all continents of the world fight with the hosts, and decide a final place.

Letting the European champion play in the semi-finals is completely formalism.

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Three days later, Manchester City will hold the finals of the Club World Cup with another team that has reached the finals, Santos, the South American Liberators Cup champion, at Yokohama Stadium.

Although the Club World Cup was held for the first time in 2000, the second session was held in 2005.

However, this kind of European club champion vs South American club champion actually exists for a long time.

At the beginning, this kind of competition was called the Intercontinental Cup, with its full name "Europe/South America Copa". In 1990, the South American Football Association and the European Football Association jointly held the first Intercontinental Cup. The rules of the competition are very simple, which is the European Champions League champion against the South American Liberators Cup.

At the beginning, the two-round system of home and away games is implemented, and the winner is determined based on the points. If the points are the same, another play-off will be held.

After 1968, the playoffs were cancelled. If the points are the same, the winners and losses will be distinguished by the goal difference.

However, this competition system is not very acceptable to European teams, because many European teams are unwilling to travel across the ocean to play a away game in South America. The hard work of traveling will greatly affect their performance in the domestic league.

European clubs have frequently refused to participate in the InterContinental Cup.

Until 1980, Japan's Toyota made a request to host the competition and gave each participating team 15 million Spanish Pesetta's appearance fee, and obtained the naming rights for the InterContinental Cup.

Since then, the Intercontinental Cup has been renamed as the "Toyota Cup" that Chinese fans are very familiar with.

The competition system also changed from a two-round match to a final victory, and the competition location was fixed at the National Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

In addition to the appearance fee, the best player in each Intercontinental Cup will also receive a Toyota car provided by Toyota.

It has to be said that sponsoring the Intercontinental Cup has greatly helped Toyota to increase their popularity worldwide. At the same time, Toyota's sponsorship has also made European teams willing to go to Japan to play a game, solving the problems faced by the event. At the same time, due to the Japanese's operations, the Toyota Cup has gradually become a very important event, which is the honor that both European and South American champions are willing to do their best to compete for victory.

Later, FIFA saw that South American Football Federation and UEFA combined with the Japanese made this Intercontinental Cup so well and well-known, and this was a new idea of ​​selling broadcast fees.

So FIFA also plans to play a match similar to the Intercontinental Cup.

However, they decided to give full play to their advantages as FIFA and make big deals if they want to do it.

They don’t have a match between South America and Europe’s champions. They want to bring together the champion teams from all continents except Antarctica to have a grand World Club Cup!

In 2000, they held their first session, inviting Manchester United, who won the 1999 European Champions League championship, Real Madrid, Toyota Cup champion in 1998, Brazil League champion in 1998, and also the host Corinthians, Vascoda Gama, 1998 South American Liberators Cup champion, Necasa of Mexico, 1999 Asian Super Cup champion Arnaser of Saudi Arabia, Casablanca of Africa Champions League champion in 1999, and South Melbourne of Australia in 1999.

The venue is held in Brazil.

However, that Cup was not a success. The final winner was Brazil's host Corinthian.

Manchester United and Real Madrid have not performed well, with Real Madrid finishing fourth and Manchester United fifth.

Apart from being so famous, there is nothing worthy of praise for this Cup.

The chaotic organizational work, low-level events, and the barely participating European teams... all led to the fact that after this Club World Cup, FIFA temporarily gave up the Club World Cup plan because of the inability to find a sponsor.

Until 2005, FIFA and the organizers of the Toyota Cup reached an agreement to combine the Toyota Cup and the World Cup into one. The Toyota Cup disappeared and the World Cup replaced it and became the only world-wide club event.

The second Club World Cup in 2005 was held in Japan. This time, all the champions from all continents were won. They were no longer able to participate in domestic league championships and Toyota Cup championships like the first one.

In the end, Sao Paulo, the South American Cup Cup champion from Brazil, won the final championship.

The 2006 Club World Cup is still held in Japan, and the team that won the championship was Brazil International. Barcelona, ​​the "Dream Second Team" who just won the Champions League championship, lost to Brazil International in the final, which was a dislike.

So the Club World Cup was held for three sessions, but European teams have not won the championship once...

Even if European teams think that the Club World Cup is useless, if they can’t even win the free championship, doesn’t that mean they are incompetent?

Now that European football is developed, it may make people think that European teams are better than South American teams. But this is not the case in history.

If we only count the number of championships in the InterContinental Cup and Toyota Cup, then South American teams will still have a slight advantage.

They won the championship with twenty-two times, leading the European team's twenty-one championships.

If it is only counted as Toyota Cup, European teams have no obvious advantages and are basically evenly matched with South American teams. European teams have won the championship thirteen times, while South American teams have twelve times.

However, with the development of European football professionalism, European teams began to show their strong strength on the main line. Those South American players with outstanding strength also left the American continent and came to Europe to play football to make gold. They represented the European team to face South American teams, helped European teams defeat South American teams and won the Toyota Cup.

Since the Toyota Cup in 1995, European teams have gained an absolute advantage. They have won eight championships and South American teams have only won two championships. The gap has been widened.

The Club World Cup held by FIFA has become an opportunity for South American teams to regain their dignity. The Club World Cup is equivalent to vacation for European teams, but South American teams care very much and work hard in the game.

This also helped them win the first three Club World Cup championships.

However, when European teams felt it was too embarrassing to lose the Club World Cup in a row, the South American team's advantage was gone.

From 2007 to the four Club World Cups in 2010, the final winners were all European teams, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Barcelona and Inter Milan.

Now in 2011, Santos from South America is responsible for the important task of rectifying South American football.

Their fighting spirit is very strong.

Facing Manchester City, who treats the Club World Cup as a vacation, maybe they really have a chance?
Chapter completed!