Although he received warm hospitality in Abizab, Chang Sheng rarely saw a smile on his face. In response to the enthusiasm of the Arabs, he only maintained a polite distance.
He should try his best to keep his team in a quiet preparation environment.
However, his attitude did not cause dissatisfaction among the Arabs. On the contrary, it made him and Lazio even more popular.
Because they feel that the top team and head coach in the world today should have this style!
If you always smile and are approachable, it will actually make the Arabs feel that the other person has lowered his worth...
But this kind of stinky look is very useful to Arabs.
The more serious Chang Sheng's face is, the more enthusiastic the Arabs will entertain him, and the more smile he will have on his face.
Chang Sheng naturally saw it, and he was really speechless about it.
In addition to letting his team prepare for the game with peace of mind, he also had some personal emotions in it.
As a Chinese and a Chinese fan, I don't have a good impression of football in the Arab world. That's normal.
Because in the history of Chinese football, there is real hatred between East Asia and West Asia.
Before the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the closest China came to the World Cup finals was the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
The Chinese national team at that time was definitely the strongest Chinese team in history, bar none.
The progress of the World Cup qualifiers proved the excellence of the Chinese team. The Chinese team passed all the way through the Asia-Pacific qualifiers group stage, and finally joined Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and New Zealand in the 1982 Spain World Cup Asia-Pacific qualifiers finals. In the final stage of the game
, the Chinese team is still strong, with a record of three wins, one draw and two losses. The Chinese team, which played all the games, has ten points. It can be said that it has already entered the World Cup finals with one foot, but the unreasonable schedule made the Chinese team dumb afterwards.
Eating Coptis chinensis - there are hardships!
After all the games of the Chinese team were completed, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand still had two rounds of games that were not played, which provided the basis for some abnormal phenomena in the subsequent games. After that, the Saudi team, which had no hope of qualifying, first lost 0
:2 lost to the Kuwait team and gave the opponent a World Cup ticket.
In the last round of the match, as long as Saudi Arabia did not lose to New Zealand by five goals or more, the Chinese team would definitely get a ticket to the World Cup, but something outrageous happened. The Saudi team was able to draw with its opponent 2:2 in the away game.
Under such circumstances, they actually "performed" a 0:5 loss to their opponents at home very talentedly. As a result, the Chinese team and New Zealand had exactly the same points and goal difference, and the two sides needed to play a play-off to decide who would win.
Will finally get a ticket to the 1982 World Cup.
In hindsight, that game was abnormal from the beginning. The Saudi team had two must-goal opportunities in the first fifteen minutes. One was when No. 6 al-Fawi faced an empty goal about twelve meters away from the goal.
. Kicked the ball out of the baseline indiscriminately; another time No. 7 Naim was seven or eight meters away from the goal on the right side of the goal, also facing an empty goal, but inexplicably pushed a ground ball, and the New Zealand defender was replaced
Easy relief.
Then, something even more outrageous began. What can be called the most shameless match-fixing show of the last century was staged. In the fifteen minutes from the fifteenth to the thirty-first minute, New Zealand, whose strength was comparable to that of Saudi Arabia, actually scored consecutively.
Five goals. The goal difference was enough to qualify for the play-offs with the Chinese team. During this period, the Saudi team's defenders and goalkeepers completely became the facilitators of the New Zealand team's offense and did not make any obstructions at all. The final score was 5:0.
The score remained until the end of the game, and New Zealand was "lucky" to qualify for the play-offs with the Chinese team.
After witnessing the blatant match-fixing by Saudi Arabia and New Zealand, the Chinese Football Association had no choice but to immediately recall the players who had gone home for the Spring Festival to prepare for the play-offs. The game was originally scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur on January 9, 1982, but the Malaysian government strongly opposed it.
, causing the game to be postponed to January 10 in Singapore. Such twists and turns caused the Chinese team players and coaches to be physically and mentally exhausted, which also laid the foundation for the subsequent defeat of the national football team. In the end, the national football team lost to New Zealand 1:2. They missed the 1982
2018 World Cup finals.
If the Chinese team had made it to the World Cup, what would Chinese football be like today?
Maybe it will be better than now?
But this is just what if.
Later, during the World Cup in Germany, during the match between Australia and Italy, CCTV commentator Huang Jianxiang yelled excitedly after Italy won a penalty kick. He later explained that it was because the Chinese team had been eliminated by New Zealand in 1981.
It’s about the World Cup qualifiers.
Because Australia and New Zealand are both Oceania teams, he also hates Australia.
In fact, this reason was very poor. The reason why he was so rude was just because he had been commentating on Serie A for a long time and had feelings for the Italian team.
If he really hates it, he should first hate Saudi Arabia, the originator of match-fixing, then New Zealand, the other party involved, and then West Asian football, which is good at match-fixing.
It has nothing to do with Australia, and Australia’s shot was somewhat unfair.
West Asian football is indeed very good at match-fixing, and they have records of match-fixing more than once.
People in this place are good at breaking the rules. For example, in the "naturalized player" incident in Qatar, they found a few players who had played for other national teams and quickly solved the problem before their own team was about to compete.
Several Brazilian naturalized players hope to play for their own teams.
Also related to China is the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. In the top ten qualifiers played in November 2004, China and Hong Kong, as well as Kuwait and Malaysia, co-directed a match-fixing drama.
The Chinese team defeated Hong Kong 7:0, while Kuwait defeated Malaysia 6:1.
There were definitely problems in both games, but in the end the Chinese team was eliminated by Kuwait.
It's very simple, because we can't even match match-fixing in West Asia, so all those years of playing match-fixing have been in vain.
In the game, as long as the Chinese team scores a goal, the Kuwaiti team will follow suit.
Moreover, at the beginning of the second half, the Hong Kong team used substitutions to help the Chinese team win the opportunity to kick off five minutes later than Kuwait. In this way, by the end of the game, the Chinese team will end five minutes later than Kuwait. Everything will be fine.
Under the control of the Chinese national team, if things go bad when the time comes, the Chinese team can still score another goal.
As a result, Kuwait showed us their professional attitude in fighting match-fixing. The net, which rarely causes problems in international competitions, actually had a hole!
You know, it is necessary for the referee to check the net before every game. It is impossible for the net to have holes...
The net needs to be replaced, and the time to replace the net is no more than five minutes!
In the end, the Chinese team tied the goal difference with Kuwait, but the total number of goals was one less. So it was eliminated. Unfortunately, the Chinese Football Association did not know this before, and simply thought that the goal difference was enough to eliminate Kuwait.
As a result, they were eliminated by Kuwait.
So Chang Sheng later said that the Football Association was too amateurish?
Even when playing match-fixing, I don't know how to study the rules carefully and how to really defeat my opponent.
This Football Association is incompetent and amateurish to the extreme.
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Chang Sheng doesn't have a good impression of West Asians, mainly because West Asian football is very dark and dirty. It completely destroys Chinese football.
He was made angry twice by West Asians for match-fixing.
Although China also engages in match-fixing, from the perspective of Chinese fans, the West Asians are the heinous offenders.
And even if we don’t talk about match-fixing, West Asian football is always at odds with East Asian football in the Asian Football Confederation, and there are many conflicts between the two sides.
As a senior football fan, it is impossible not to know these things.
In the field of football, West Asians really don't like winning games.
So in the United Arab Emirates, Chang Sheng always had a straight face and a "cool, crazy and domineering" aura.
Unexpectedly, the West Asians were very useful, which really made him dumbfounded.
He also thought about it. If he were not the head coach of European champion Lazio, if he did not have so much championship aura, would the West Asians still greet him with such a smile? I'm afraid he would have to raise a question mark...
Sure enough, in this world, the strong is still respected. The winner is the king!
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Because the Club World Cup is an event that brings together championship-level teams from all continents in the world, plus a host. Therefore, there are quite a few teams participating in this competition.
There are seven teams in total. The host team is Emirates League champion Al Wahda from the United Arab Emirates, Hekari United from Oceania is the champion of the Oceania Champions League, and Mazembe team from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the champion of the African Champions League.
, Pachuca from Mexico is the champion of the CONCACAF Champions League, Seongnam Ilhwa from South Korea is the champion of the Asian Champions League, Internacional from Brazil is the champion of the South American Libertadores Cup, and the UEFA Champions League champion from Italy
Lazio.
Seven teams, all champions.
However, there are too many participating teams and time is limited.
Therefore, a single knockout format is adopted.
First, Al Wahda from the host country and the Ocean Week champion Hekari United from Papua New Guinea will play in the qualifying round. The winning team will enter the main draw.
In the end, Al Wahda defeated Hekari United 3:0 and entered the quarter-finals.
In the quarter-finals, Al Wahda faced Seongnam Yihe, and Mazembe faced Pachuca of Mexico.
After these two games, the two teams that advance to the semifinals will be determined, and then they will compete against two teams from Europe and South America, and finally the two teams that will advance to the finals will be determined.
Lazio only debuted at this time. In fact, while they were still in Europe, the Club World Cup had already begun.
In previous Club World Cups, South American teams and European teams basically competed for the championship, which can be considered evenly matched.
In fact, the Club World Cup created after FIFA took over the Toyota Cup was originally intended to provide a stage for European and South American teams to compete. In this regard, it continued the idea of the Toyota Cup.
It's just that while the rich eat meat, the poor must also drink soup.
So FIFA spread the hero posts widely, allowing championship teams from other continents to participate. This can be regarded as a means to win people's hearts.
In fact, everyone knows that teams from other continents come to accompany the prince to study. They just come for a walk, drink a bottle of soy sauce, and get some bonuses and symbolic honors. After all, it is considered to be coming to the top club in the world.
I've been on the field for a while.
But Chang Sheng knows very well that this year's situation is different.
He didn't know if the specific results would be different because of his time travel.
But he thinks that his influence should only be in Europe, Africa and South America, so he shouldn't be able to influence it, right?
So Chang Sheng set his sights on African champion Mazembe.
He thought that if nothing unexpected happened, his opponent in the final should be this team. (To be continued)
