Fox in the Penalty Area

Chapter 1766 Club World Cup

"Pass! Pass!"

"Here! This... Hey! Hey!"

"mine!"

On the training ground, the shouts of the players are the main theme, occasionally mixed with crisp whistles.

To the coaches' ears, these yells were extremely pleasant.

Because it represents a very good state...

That is, the players are focused during training, and the players' fighting spirit is relatively high.

This is a very good thing during the preparation period.

While the team was training, there were several reporters outside the training ground, who were holding machines and taking pictures of the training.

Behind the camera, and a little farther away, is a text reporter.

They are also observing training and preparing for writing.

A group match is going on on the training ground.

Tan Yunlong, who was the center forward, pulled to the side to meet him. As soon as he received the ball, he was shoved to the ground by the center back Liu Yan, who was also pulled to the side to defend him. Naturally, he lost the ball.

But it wasn't a foul. Liu Yan's tackle was very clean. He tackled the ball first, and then brought Tan Yunlong down.

Therefore, the coach who served as the referee did not blow his whistle.

And Tan Yunlong didn't lie on the ground and raise his hands to complain, he just turned over from the ground and got up, chasing after him, trying to grab the ball back.

It's just that Liu Yan has already passed the football before him.

After completely seeing this offensive and defensive contest, the journalists standing outside the field behind the cameras discussed in low voices:

"Are the players working so hard in training?"

"The South China Tigers are in a good training state! Liu Yan dared to shovel the ball, and he didn't hurt anyone, which shows that he and Tan Yunlong are both focused and in good physical condition..."

"Or else? After all, they are preparing for the Club World Cup!"

"Oh, don't talk about the players, even I feel excited when I think about it... The first time the Club World Cup was held in China, it caught up with Hu Lai and returned to China. It was perfect!"

"That's right, Hu Lai and Qin Lin were teammates of Shining Star back then, but now one is visiting as a European champion, and the other has become the head coach... Oh, it really feels like the sea has changed!"

The 2029 Club World Cup will be held in China for the first time, which is a significant event for Chinese football.

The Club World Cup, the full name of the FIFA Club World Cup, is a contest between the world's major continental champions.

In terms of technical and tactical level and gold content, the Champions League championship is the club's highest honor.

Then the Club World Cup is the highest honor of the club in name.

After all, the players participating in this event represent the top players in football from all continents.

The champions of the top competitions of the six continental football associations in the world are the Champions League champions representing UEFA, the African Champions League champions representing Africa, the Libertadores Cup champions representing South America, and Central and North America representing North America. and the champion team of the Caribbean Champions League, the champion team of the AFC Champions League representing Asia, and the champion team of the Champions League representing Oceania.

Plus a host team.

The host team is the champion of the host country 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, which team can participate in this competition, which one does not have to kill a **** path from all club teams in its own continent before it can come to the stage of the Club World Cup?

So they represent the highest level of club teams in their respective continents, no problem at all.

Defeating representatives of these continents is equivalent to defeating all the teams on the continents they represent.

The last champion, if not the strongest in the world, what is it?

Therefore, even European teams attach great importance to this honor.

In European football, there is a saying of "six crowns", which represents the six important championships that a club team can win in a season, which are:

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 the "six crowns".

This shows the status of the "Club World Cup".

Originally, important competitions such as the Club World Cup have always been held in Japan and the Middle East. This year is the first time they have moved to China.

This is what the Chinese Football Association has worked hard to win-they signed a five-year long-term contract with FIFA.

The contract stipulates that in the next five years, the Club World Cup will be held in China. 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 will continue to be held in China.

The most important reason why FIFA chose to settle the Club World Cup in China is of course because of China's huge market, especially after Chinese overseas players performed well in Europe, the fans in this land burst out with great enthusiasm. An equal amount of enthusiasm often means an equal amount of money.

For the Chinese Football Association, which is striving to settle the Club World Cup in China, China's hosting of the Club World Cup will allow the world's top teams to gather in the country, bring advanced football matches to Chinese fans, and at the same time allow China's domestic players Players, coaches and other football practitioners can get close contact with and learn the world's advanced level of football.

This is tantamount to leading the teacher in the door.

As for how much you can learn, it depends on your own ability.

As a service-oriented department, the Chinese Football Association has done everything they can.

The Club World Cup is settled in China, and the eyes of world football will focus on it at the end of each year.

They not only pay attention to the game, but also to 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 out.

In short, we must integrate Chinese football with world football in an all-round and seamless manner!

What is particularly coincidental is that when the Chinese Football Association and FIFA began to discuss 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 first Club World Cup held in China, the team representing Europe would be the Madrid Pirates with Hu Lai...

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 UEFA Champions League, the Nanling South China Tigers, who performed poorly at the beginning of the season, went against the trend under the leadership of the young marshal Qin Lin, and finally succeeded in winning this season's championship. Chinese Super League champion!

He made the South China Tiger win the "Dragon Cup" again after three years.

In the second season of his coaching career, he led the team to the highest honor in the country's football.

So, the former teammates of Shining Star reunited in such a wonderful way...

After winning the Chinese Super League championship, everyone knew that the 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 of this matter, but Qin Lin seemed very cautious:

"We have to play a qualifying match before we have a chance to really participate in the Club World Cup. At the same time, if we want to have the possibility of confronting the pirates, we have to reach the semi-finals all the way... So it is too early to talk about the reunion with Hu Lai I'm not going to think about it at the moment, we'll get the first round going..."

Now the first round of the Club World Cup is just around the corner—the day after tomorrow, the Nanling South China Tigers, representing the host country China, will face Papeete Athletic, representing Oceania, in the first round.

The two teams will compete for a place to enter the second round~www.novelmt.com~ Since there are a total of seven participating teams, there is no way to directly fight each other, so a qualifying match must be played first.

The Oceania champion, the weakest of the six intercontinental champion teams, can only compete with the host for the main match ticket first.

Qin Lin wanted to reminisce with Hu Lai in the Club World Cup. He had to eliminate the Oceania champion first, and then play another match against the champion team in Africa or North America. If he won, he could 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, and it is also possible to meet the South American champion team.

Considering the strength of the host team, it is almost impossible to advance to the final, so everyone hopes that if the South China Tigers really reach the semi-final, they will draw the European champion in the semi-final.

Regardless of winning or losing, that game alone is enough to become a "classic".

Anyway, be sure to meet this side.

The hero of Chinese football stands in front of the Chinese team as an opponent.

Just this encounter may inspire countless teenagers to devote themselves to football.

(end of this chapter)