Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 467
The four-year cycle is another top ten match.

The top ten match four years ago was the first time to hit the World Cup since the launch of the professional league. After a very disappointing start, Benitez, who took office on the fire line, successfully led the team to achieve a major reversal. Six games Five wins and one tie, from the bottom of the points to the first place in the group, created a miracle of no small size.

Four years have passed, and Chinese football has achieved good results in these four years. It won the first victory in the World Cup in 98, entered the Olympic finals for the second time in 99, won the Olympic runner-up in 2000, and won the World Cup in 2001. Youth Championship No.3... These results may not be a big deal for the world's top teams, but for an Asian team, they are brilliant.

Four years ago, the four opponents in the group were all first-rate or second-rate teams in Asia, but this year, Iran is the only real opponent left, and the strength of the Chinese team itself has been greatly improved. The hopes of reaching the World Cup for the second time in a row are so great.

After the end of the league on August [-], the national team coach Milu announced the squad for the top ten competition.

Different from the squad for the group stage, this squad is truly an elite collection. In the initial 30-man squad, apart from those players who have played in the group stage, almost all overseas players are in it. Nie Fei, Yang Tian, ​​Xie Hui, Hao Dong, Sun Chenghai, Li Jinyu, Li Gang, Li Wei, Zhang Xiaorui, etc. are all on the list - in Asia, there is no team that can almost use overseas players like the Chinese team A main lineup!
Among these overseas players, forwards account for four, plus Adriano, who is in excellent form, so many people compete for the two main positions, it can be foreseen how fierce the competition will be!
Of course, having more good players does not mean that the overall level is excellent. Milu naturally understands this problem. Domestic players are no strangers, so there is no big problem with the tacit understanding of the team.

The Chinese national team had a bye in the first round, which also allowed Milu to make full use of this time to knead the team and observe the opponent.

The Chinese Football Association has also done a good job of preparing for the top ten matches. During this period, they arranged three warm-up games for the national team, against Costa Rica in North America, Denmark in Europe and Tunisia in Africa— —For these three games, the outcome is irrelevant, the main purpose is to let the players find their status, but the fans also have a lot of interest in this game.

During this period, another game also attracted a lot of attention. The Serie A powerhouse Inter Milan came to China and had a warm-up match with Yunjia Tianyu. I was unable to participate in this game, but it still aroused strong interest from local and national fans in Yunjia - all the other main players of Inter Milan came, including Recoba who once played for Yunjia Tianyu And Materac—he just transferred to Inter Milan for 800 million euros some time ago.

The commercial nature of this game is relatively strong - after all, Pei Wei paid 50 US dollars for the appearance fee of this game, but he got all the money back in the ticket and advertising revenue - just the ticket Yunjiatianyu The club's income is close to one million, plus CCTV broadcast the game live, and the advertising revenue is also quite a lot. This game is not a league game, so the company that can place billboards in the stadium has another blood loss, but they did not. Be willing - there's so much to give back from a game like this.

This game was held at Yunjia Fengyun Stadium, and this venue is also the home field of the Chinese national team's top ten match. With Yunjia Tianyu's outstanding performance in China, the Chinese Football Association is also paying more and more attention to this field It’s the stadium—after all, this stadium is China’s first professional football field without a runway, and it can be regarded as the first in the country in terms of hardware facilities, and the crazy atmosphere of Yunjia’s home stadium also makes the Football Association’s heart beat—Iran’s home stadium Zadi is Asia's leading devil's home stadium, and the Football Association also wants to use the most fanatical Yunjia fans in the country to give the Iranians a good look.

That's why Yunjia Tianyu was able to play with all the main players in this commercial game, and this game did not disappoint Yunjia fans and fans all over the country. They tied Inter Milan 10-[-] in [-] minutes. Adriano scored one goal, the other two goals were scored by teenager Sun Bing and captain Zhu Guosheng, and Recoba, Caron and midfielder Di Biagio scored goals for Inter Milan , Yunjia Tianyu finally lost to the Serie A giants in the penalty kick after the game.

This is already quite a remarkable achievement-you must know that although Vieri and Ronaldo failed to participate in this game, the other main players of Inter Milan did not pull all of them, and look at their performance on the field. The performance is not a perfunctory game, which is enough to prove that Yunjiatianyu's overall strength can occupy a place even if it is taken to Europe.

However, this game has an extraordinary meaning-after the two-year commercial invitational tournament in 94 and 95, this is the first commercial game with European giants initiated by the club, and it is also the first Chinese club to pass the competition. Business competitions get paid competitions!

The club has gained income through good operations. European giants have increased their popularity in China while receiving appearance fees. Fans have paid a lot of money to watch the performances of European strong teams at close range. TV stations have obtained a lot of money through broadcast Income, advertisers have expanded their advertising effects through competitions - this is no longer the so-called "win-win", but five wins!Congratulations in every way!

After this game, there was another frenzy of commercial competitions in China, but that is already a story.

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Compared with Yunjia Tianyu's commercial match, the Chinese national team's three warm-up matches are not bad. Although the ticket prices are not high, at this moment, every move of the Chinese national team is closely watched by fans across the country. , so the Football Association also earns a lot of income from advertising-now the Football Association has not adopted the practice of contracting all the national team and other games to a certain company, but has set aside a department in charge of revenue in the Football Association. Income and expenditure, the income is mainly the fees collected in the league and the luxury tax, and the income from the national team competitions at all levels. Now the Chinese Football Association does not need financial appropriations from the superiors at all, and can achieve self-financing. Although this It is easy for a department to breed corruption, but Xu Bing has also done a very meticulous work to prevent this phenomenon, which is considered a good result.

In these three warm-up games, Milu did not come up with a fixed lineup, and used up all the substitutions in each game, so that almost all the players got a chance to play-obviously, he was doing this. Confuse opponents.

For the Iranian team, the biggest opponent in the Chinese national team group, they have no secrets at all-the main right back of the Iranian team, Madavikia, has been playing in China for several years. The members are extremely familiar, and overseas players are the focus, so it is easy to get their information.

Now the Chinese media have learned how to behave—it is precisely because they know the above that it is very easy for them to fill the pages during this period—introducing the technical characteristics, career history and some information of each national team member all day long. A little tidbit, anyway, the Iranians basically know these things, and the fans also like to watch them, but they don't mention Milou's training tactics.

In fact, they can’t mention it even if they want to. During this period of time, the national team’s tactical training is completely closed. The open training content is all about physical training, recovery training, and net football. No clues came out, as an old Jianghu, Milu knew the importance of keeping secrets.

And the mouths of the players are also very tight. Now with the development of the media, many members of the national team have set up their own columns in some newspapers. In these columns, they will only write about what happened during training. Interesting thing, in short, if the other opponents in the group want to get something substantial, there is absolutely no way!

On August [-]th, the World Cup qualifiers for the top ten in the Asian region officially started. The Chinese national team quietly observed the four other opponents in the group in Yunjia. In Doha, Qatar drew [-]-[-] with Oman at home. However, neither team has shown anything extraordinary. Compared with four years ago, the strength of the Qatar team, which once caused headaches for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and China, has dropped a lot.

In Tehran, the Iranian team showed superior strength. At home, they slaughtered Uzbekistan, which is not weak, [-]-[-]. Judging from the performance of this game, they are indeed the Chinese national team in this group. The most powerful opponent.

However, the Chinese national team is not the national team that lacked confidence four years ago. The brilliant achievements of these four years have already established strong confidence in the hearts of every Chinese national team player. A strong fight.

The schedule is also quite favorable for them. The first match against Iran was the best result. They are at home and have been recharging their energy. The opponent has traveled a long distance from Tehran, and they have played one game. It also consumed a lot, taking advantage of the right time, place and people, the Chinese national team has absolute confidence in defeating this most direct competitor in the first game, and has an advantage from the very beginning!

(End of this chapter)