Chapter 324 West Asia Football
Despite the warm hospitality he received in Abizabu, Chang Sheng seldom saw a smile on his face.
He should try 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 more popular.
Because they think he is the top team and head coach in the world today, so he should have this style!
If you are always smiling and approachable, it will make Arabs feel that the other party has lowered their self-worth...
But this kind of ugly face is very useful to Arabia.
The more serious Chang Sheng's face was, the warmer the Arabs' reception was, and the more Sheng Sheng's smile would be on his face.
Chang Sheng naturally saw it, and he was really speechless about it.
In addition to making his team feel at ease to prepare for the game, he also has some personal emotions in it.
As a Chinese, 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 a real enmity between East Asia and West Asia.
Before the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, the closest China was to the World Cup finals was the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
At that time, the Chinese national team was definitely the strongest Chinese team in history, not one of them.
The progress of the World Cup qualifiers proved the excellence of the Chinese team. The Chinese team passed all the way in the group stage of the Asia-Pacific qualifiers, and finally joined Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and New Zealand in the final of the 1982 World Cup Asia-Pacific qualifiers in Spain. In the final stage of the competition, the Chinese team was still strong, with a record of three wins, one draw and two losses. The Chinese team who played all the games scored 10 points. It can be said that one foot has stepped into the World Cup finals, but the unreasonable schedule made the Chinese team dumb and eating Coptis chinensis afterwards-it is hard to say!
After all the matches of the Chinese team were completed, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and New Zealand still had two rounds of matches not played, which provided the basis for some abnormal phenomena in the following matches. Since then, the hopeless Saudi team first lost to Kuwait 0:2 and gave their opponent a ticket to the World Cup.
In the last round of the match, as long as Saudi Arabia does not lose to New Zealand by five goals or more, the Chinese team will definitely win the World Cup ticket, but something outrageous happened. In the case of a 2:2 draw with their opponents in the away game, the Saudi team actually "performed" a 0:5 loss to their opponents very talentedly at home.
As a result, the points and goal difference of the Chinese team and New Zealand are exactly the same. The two sides need to play a play-off to decide who will finally get the ticket for the 1982 World Cup.
In hindsight, that game wasn't normal from the start. The Saudi team had two chances to score in the first 15 minutes. One time, No. 6 Rifawi faced an empty goal about 12 meters away from the gate. Kicked the ball out of the bottom line indiscriminately; another time, No. 7 Naim was seven or eight meters away from the goal on the right side of the goal. rescue.
Then, even more outrageous things began, and the most shameless match-fixing performance of the last century was staged. In the 15 minutes from the 15th minute to the 30th minute, New Zealand, which is comparable in strength to Saudi Arabia, scored five goals in a row. Achieved enough goal difference to play the play-offs with the Chinese team. During this period, the defenders and goalkeepers of the Saudi team completely became the boosters of the New Zealand team's offense, and did not stop them at all. In the end, the score of 5:0 was maintained until the end of the game, and New Zealand was "lucky" to qualify for the play-offs with the Chinese team.
After witnessing 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 deal with 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, so the game had 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 bane for the subsequent defeat of the national football team. In the end, the national football team lost 1:2 to New Zealand. Missed the 1982 World Cup finals.
If you went to the Chinese team and broke into the World Cup, what would happen to Chinese football today?
Maybe it will be better than now?
But this is only if after all.
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. He explained afterwards that it was because the Chinese team had been eliminated by New Zealand, and he was talking about the 1981 World Cup qualifiers.
Because Australia and New Zealand belong to the Oceania team, so he also hates Australia.
In fact, this reason was very poorly found. The reason why he lost his composure was just because he had long commented on the Serie A league and had feelings for the Italian team.
If he really hated it, he should first hate Saudi Arabia, the instigator of match-fixing, followed by New Zealand, the other side's party, and secondly, West Asian football, which is good at match-fixing.
It has nothing to do with Australia. Some of the guns in Australia have been wronged.
West Asian football is indeed very good at match-fixing, and they have more than one record of match-fixing.
The people in this place are good at breaking the rules, such as Qatar's "naturalized players" incident, they found a few players who had played for other national teams, and quickly settled the matter before their own team was about to play. Several Brazilian naturalized players hope to play for their team.
In addition, China is also related to the 2006 World Cup qualifiers. In the top ten qualifiers played in November 2004, China and Hong Kong, as well as Kuwait and Malaysia, jointly directed a match-fixing drama.
The Chinese team beat Hong Kong 7:0, while Kuwait beat Malaysia 6:1.
There must have been problems in these two games, but in the end the Chinese team was eliminated by Kuwait.
It's very simple, because we can't even play match-fixing in West Asia. It's really a waste of playing A for so many years.
In the game, as long as the Chinese team scores a goal, Kuwait will follow suit.
And 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, at the end of the game, the Chinese team will end five minutes later than Kuwait. Everything is still under the control of the Chinese national team. When the situation is not good, the Chinese team can still score another goal.
As a result, Kuwait showed us their professional attitude in match-fixing. The net, which rarely causes problems in international competitions, even had a hole!
Be aware that an inspection of the net by the referee before each game is a must. A hole in the net is impossible...
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 compared with Kuwait, but the total number of goals was one less. So was eliminated. It's a pity that the Chinese Football Association didn't know this before, and simply thought that the goal difference would be enough to eliminate Kuwait.
The result was eliminated by Kuwait.
So Chang Sheng later said that the Football Association is too amateur?
Even for a match-fixing, I don't know how to study the rules carefully, and I don't know how to really beat my opponent.
Such a football association is extremely incompetent and amateurish.
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Chang Sheng doesn't like the West Asians, mainly because West Asian football is very black and dirty. Complete explosion of Chinese football.
He was suffocated by match-fixing by the West Asians twice, which also made him angry.
Although China also plays match-fixing, from the standpoint of Chinese fans, West Asian talents are heinous.
And even if you don't talk about match-fixing, West Asian football is always against East Asian football in the Asian Football Confederation, and there are many conflicts between the two sides.
As a senior fan, it is impossible not to know these things.
in football. The West Asians really don't attract Chang Sheng's liking.
So in the UAE, Chang Sheng always has a straight face, with a "cool, crazy, crazy and domineering" aura.
He didn't expect the West Asians to be very useful, which really made him dumbfounded.
He thought about it too. If he wasn't the head coach of the European champion Lazio, if he didn't have so many championship halos, would the West Asians still greet him with such a smile? I'm afraid I have to put a question mark...
Sure enough, in this world, the strong are still respected. The winner is king!
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Because the Club World Cup is an event that gathers champion teams from all continents in the world, plus a host. So there are a lot of teams participating in this competition.
There are seven teams in total, the host team is Al Wahda, the UAE League champions from the UAE, Hekari United from Oceania are the Oceania Champions League champions, and Mazembe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo are the African Champions Cup champions. , Pachuca from Mexico is the winner of the CONCACAF Champions Cup, Seongnam Ilhwa from South Korea is the winner of the Asian Champions League, the Brazil International from Brazil is the winner of the Copa Libertadores, and the Champions League winner from Italy Lazio.
All seven teams are champions.
However, there are too many participating teams and time is limited.
Therefore, a single elimination system is adopted.
The first is Al Wahda from the host and the winner of Ocean Week, Hekari from Papua New Guinea. The team that wins will enter the main match.
In the end, Al Wahda defeated Hekari United 3:0 and entered the quarter-finals.
In the quarter-finals, Al Wahda played against Seongnam and Mazembe played against Mexico's Pachuca.
After these two games, two teams will be determined to enter the semi-finals, and then they will fight against two teams from Europe and South America, and finally two teams will be determined to enter the finals.
Lazio only debuted at this time. In fact, when they were still in Europe, the Club World Cup had already begun.
In the past, the Club World Cup ended with South American teams and European teams basically competing for the championship, which can be regarded as evenly matched.
In fact, the Club World Cup organized after FIFA joined forces with the Toyota Cup originally intended to provide a stage for European and South American teams to compete. This is a continuation of the Toyota Cup's thinking.
It's just that, while the big family eats meat, the poor also have to drink soup.
So FIFA widely spread hero posts, so that champion teams from other continents can also participate, which can be regarded as a means of winning people's hearts.
In fact, everyone knows that teams from other continents come to accompany the prince to study. They just come for a cutscene, have a bottle of soy sauce, and then get some bonuses and symbolic honors. Speaking of it, it can be regarded as the world's top club. Walked around the arena.
But Chang Sheng knows very well that this year's situation is different.
He didn't know if the specific result would be different because of his time travel.
But he thinks that his influence should be in Europe, Africa and South America, he should still not be able to influence it?
So Chang Sheng set his sights on the African champion Mazembe.
He thought that if nothing else happened, his opponent in the final should be this team.
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