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Chapter 135 A Little Crazy

Chapter 135 A Little Crazy

Chapter 61 is a bit crazy

Guangzhou Evergrande took the African champions lightly, broke into the semi-finals of the Club World Cup, and qualified for the Champions League champion Bayern Munich.

The competition system of the Club World Cup is also very interesting. The champion of the Copa Libertadores and the champion of the Champions League directly occupy the two places in the semi-finals.

As the two regions with the most complete development and popularization of football, Europe and South America, the previous World Cup champions all came from these two regions. The status of UEFA and CONMEBOL in FIFA is also far higher than that of Asia, Central America, Continents such as Oceania and Africa are much higher.

Therefore, in order to gain the support of the teams in these two regions for the Club World Cup, which is a slightly tasteless event for Europe and South America, FIFA has arranged such a competition system.

Taking this Club World Cup as an example, there are a total of seven teams participating in five. First, the host Moroccan league champion and the Oceania champion will face off for a round. The winner will then form four teams with the champions of Asia, Africa and Central and North America. Determine two places to enter the semi-finals, and then face off against the European and South American champions who have directly entered the semi-finals, and the winners will join the finals.This competition system ensures that European and South American teams only need to play two games in the Club World Cup, and it is possible to win a considerable championship with only two games, which is also a great thing for them. A good deal, and the two strongest teams will not meet until they reach the final.

Of course, teams from other regions have no objection to such an arrangement. After all, their strength is difficult to compare with the European and South American champions.

Therefore, when Guangzhou Evergrande eliminated the African champion Al Ahli [-]-[-], their semi-final opponent Bayern Munich was still in Germany.

The semi-final match is on December 18th. According to the rhythm of European teams playing away games in the Champions League, they will usually come the day before the match, that is, December [-]th.

However, Bayern Munich still seem to attach great importance to the Club World Cup. In fact, after they played the game against Hamburg in the Bundesliga on the afternoon of NO.15, the entire Bayern Munich team took a flight overnight. Arrived in Morocco.

After Bayern won the Triple Crown last season, the meritorious coach Heix announced his retirement and is no longer coaching Bayern.And Guardiola, who single-handedly created the three dynasties of the Barcelona dream, took over the coaching seal of Bayern Munich from Hayx.

Taking over from a coach who has just won the Champions League, Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal for the team, even Guardiola will inevitably be compared.

Bayern Munich is participating in the Club World Cup for the first time, but they have won the Intercontinental Cup in [-] and the Toyota Cup in [-].For Guardiola, although he has won the Club World Cup twice in Barcelona, ​​he will never miss this opportunity to lead Bayern to win the Club World Cup, otherwise he will be used by the media to fight Hein Kex compared.

On the first day of Bayern's arrival in Morocco, they held their first public training session after their arrival at the Agadir Stadium.Under the spotlight of the media, the Hollywood stars of the Bundesliga looked very relaxed.

For them, coming to the Club World Cup, playing two games, and then winning the championship is a matter of course.After all, apart from South American teams that may threaten them, the strength gap between teams from other continents and the Champions League champions is too great.

Historically, from the resumption of the Club World Cup in [-] to last season, a total of eight Club World Cups, European teams won five times, and the remaining three were won by South American teams.It is worth mentioning that two of the three Club World Cup championships in South America were won in the first two years in [-] and [-]. At that time, European teams did not take this matter too seriously. Championship.In the last six Club World Cups, European teams have won the cup five times, except that Chelsea was defeated by Corinthians in the final last year.

Therefore, in the press conference after the game, Guardiola also said very frankly: "The game is very important, because only the champion of the Champions League is eligible to play against the champions of other continents. But it is not easy for the European champions. , just look at the list of Club World Cup champions, only half are from Europe, and the other half are from South America. I know that in South America, the weight of this championship is more important than in Europe, so South American players are very active in playing in the Club World Cup It is not easy for us to defeat them."

In addition to mentioning the South American team, there is no mention of their opponent Guangzhou Evergrande in the next game.

But no one feels that there is anything wrong, and no one is even bored enough to criticize Guardiola for belittling China, Bayern Munich for ignoring the Asian champions or something.

It would be abnormal for Guardiola to be serious when facing Guangzhou Evergrande.

Before the start of the semi-finals, as the first Chinese team to be able to appear in the Club World Cup, CCTV will naturally follow up to Morocco.The day before the start of the semi-finals, they specially produced a special program.

It is mainly about the preparation and training of Guangzhou Evergrande in Morocco, as well as interviews with some players.

When CCTV reporters entered Guangzhou Evergrande's training ground with cameras on their shoulders, the players were called out one by one from the training ground to accept their interviews.

It's an interview, but they all ask the same question: the outlook for Bayern's game.

The players of Guangzhou Evergrande usually only say a sentence or two. At that time, the TV station will edit their speeches and put them on TV before the semi-finals.

Most of the other players said "cherish the opportunity to play against the Champions League champion", "hope we can cause some trouble for our opponents", "find the gap between us and Bayern".

These reporters are not surprised. Anyway, when the time comes to broadcast the interviews of the players, if you don’t watch football, you won’t like it. But if you are fans, especially Guangzhou Evergrande fans, you can still attract them. .

When Li Qingshan walked into the interview room, he sat on a chair, and then the camera pointed at him, and the reporter holding the microphone sat opposite him.

"What do you expect to play against Bayern?"

After the reporter finished speaking, he passed the microphone to Li Qingshan.

Li Qingshan was sitting upright. After the reporter finished speaking, he stared at the camera and said, "Do I hope to beat my opponent in the game, make it to the final, and then win the Club World Cup!"

After Li Qingshan finished speaking, he felt that what he said was not in place, and was about to ask if he could say it again.He found that the reporter and the camera operator were staring at him.

Li Qingshan wiped his face subconsciously, and asked a little strangely: "What's wrong, is there something on my face?"

The reporter came back, looked at the master who was carrying the camera, and said, "Don't you think it's a bit too difficult to beat Bayern?"

"It's challenging only if it's difficult!" Li Qingshan waved his hand and said indifferently.

If it weren't for Li Qingshan's reputation in the domestic media circles is quite good, this reporter might still think that Li Qingshan is a young man who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.

Beat Bayern?Won the Club World Cup?Is this something an Asian team dares to imagine?

The value of a player on the other side is several times that of your entire team. Foreign players in the Guangzhou Evergrande team can't even serve as substitutes for Bayern. What capital do you have to beat your opponent.Saying such a thing is really a bit outrageous.

The reporter in charge of the interview opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.From his point of view, Li Qingshan just got his ambitions at a young age and got carried away in a moment.After he actually played against the opponent, he would experience what it means to be a European champion team.

Anyway, he is in charge of the interview. As for whether Li Qingshan's words can be broadcast, it depends on how the rear program crew edits.

The upright Li Qingshan didn't know how arrogant and ignorant his words seemed to these reporters.

(End of this chapter)