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Volume 8, 2001 Volume 8, Chapter 455: A cycle of four years

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    Every year comes around, and it¡¯s time for another Big Ten game.

    The top ten competition four years ago was the first time that the professional league has entered the World Cup. After a very disappointing start, Benitez, who took office on the hotline, successfully led the team to achieve a great turnaround in six games.  With five wins and one draw, they went from being last in points to directly ranking first in the group, creating a not-so-big miracle.

    Four years have passed. Chinese football has achieved good results during these four years. It won its first victory in the World Cup in 1998, entered the Olympic finals for the second time in 1999 and won the Olympic runner-up. In 2001, it won the World Youth Championship.  Three [may not be anything, but for an Asian team, it is brilliant.

    Four years ago, the four opponents in the group were all top or second-tier teams in Asia. But this year, the only real opponent left is Iran, and the Chinese team's own strength has been greatly improved. The Chinese team  The hope of reaching a second consecutive World Cup is so great.

    After the league ended on August 5, national team head coach Milu announced the roster for this top ten tournament.

    Different from the group stage roster, this time the roster can really be considered an elite collection. In the preliminary thirty-man roster, in addition to those players who have played in the group stage, almost all overseas players are also included.  , Nie Fei, Yang Tian, ??Xie Hui, Hao Dong, Sun Chenghai, Li Jinyu, Li Gang, Li Wei and Zhang Xiaorui are all on the list - no team in Asia can use overseas players as nearly as the Chinese team  Form a main lineup!

    Among these overseas players, there are four forwards, plus Adriano, who is in extremely good condition. With so many people competing for the two main positions, it can be foreseen how fierce the competition will be!

    Of course, having many good players does not mean that the overall level is excellent.  Milu naturally understands this problem. Fortunately, he has recruited overseas players to participate in training camps some time ago. In addition, these overseas players are basically from the national football team and are no strangers to other domestic players, so they have a tacit understanding with the team.  There is not much of a problem in terms of extent.

    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 opponents.

    The Chinese Football Association has also done a good job in preparing for the top ten games. During this period, they arranged three warm-up games for the national team, against the North American team Costa Rica, the European team Denmark and the African team Tunisia.  ¨DFor these three games, winning or losing doesn¡¯t matter.  It was mainly for the players to find their form, but the fans also had a lot of interest in this game.

    During this period, another game also attracted a lot of attention. Serie A powerhouse Inter Milan came to China and had a warm-up match with the Yunjia Tianyu team. Although the two big-name forwards Vieri and Ronaldo were still recovering from injuries,  I was not able 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.  They also include Recoba and Materazzi who once played for Yunjia Tianyu - he just transferred to Inter Milan for 8 million euros some time ago.

    The commercial nature of this game is relatively strong - after all, Pei Wei paid an appearance fee of US$500,000 for this game, but he made all of this income back in ticket and advertising revenue - just the tickets Yunjia  Tianyu Club¡¯s revenue is nearly one million. In addition, CCTV broadcast the game live, and the advertising revenue is also quite large. This game is not a league, so the company that can place billboards in the stadium has another blood loss, but they  Go out willingly - a competition like this gives back a lot.

    This game was held at the Yunjia Fengyun Stadium, and this venue is also the home venue of the Chinese national team¡¯s top ten competition. With Yunjia Tianyu¡¯s excellent domestic performance, the Chinese Football Association is paying more and more attention to this venue.  The stadium - after all, this stadium is China's first professional football stadium without a track.  In terms of hardware facilities, it can be regarded as the best in the country, and the crazy atmosphere of Yunjia's home court also makes the Football Association excited - Iran's home stadium Azadi 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.

    Therefore, Yunjia Tianyu can play with all the main players in this commercial competition, and this game did not disappoint Yunjia fans and fans across the country.  They tied Inter Milan 3-3 in the 90-minute game. Adriano scored a goal in the second half, and the other two goals were scored by teenager Sun Bing and captain Zhu Guosheng, scoring for Inter Milan.  It was Recoba, Caron and midfielder Di Biagio. In the end, Yunjia Tianyu lost to the Serie A giants in a penalty kick after the game.

    This is already a quite remarkable result - you must know that although the two big-name stars Vieri and Ronaldo failed to participate in this game, the other main players of Inter Milan did not participate.?

    Their performance on the court is not just a perfunctory game, which is enough to prove that Yunti's strength can occupy a place even if it goes to Europe.

    However, this game has an extraordinary significance - after the commercial invitational tournament in 1994 and 1995, this is the first commercial competition with European giants organized by the club on its own initiative, and it is also the first Chinese club to pass the commercial competition.  Contest earned revenue contest!

    The club earns income through good operations.  European giants have gained appearance fees while increasing their popularity in China. Fans have watched the performances of powerful European teams up close after paying money, and TV stations have gained a lot of advertising revenue through broadcasts.  Advertisers have expanded their advertising effects through competitions - this is no longer a so-called "win-win", but a five-win situation!  Happy in every way!

    After this game, China set off a wave of business competition, but that is a story for another time.

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    Compared with Yunjia Tianyu's commercial game, the Chinese national team's three warm-up matches also generated good profits. Although the ticket prices are not high, at this moment, every move of the Chinese national team has attracted strong attention from fans across the country.  , so the Football Association has a lot of revenue from advertising - now the Football Association has not adopted the practice of contracting out all national team and other competitions to a certain company, but has specially set aside a department in the Football Association responsible for revenue, responsible for various  Income and expenses. The income mainly comes from the fees and luxury taxes collected in the league, and the income from national team competitions at all levels. Now the Chinese Football Association does not need financial allocations from superiors at all and can achieve its own revenue. Although this  It is easy for a department to breed corruption, but Xu also did very meticulous work to eliminate this phenomenon, and achieved good results.

    In these three warm-up matches, Milu did not come up with a fixed lineup. He used up all the substitutions in each game, allowing almost all the players to get a chance to play - obviously, he was doing this.  Confuse your opponent.

    For the Iranian team, the biggest opponent of the Chinese national team in the group, they have no secrets at all - the Iranian team's main right back Madavekiya has been playing in China for several years, and he is very interested in the Chinese national team playing in their home country.  The members are extremely familiar with each other, and the overseas players are the focus, so it is easy to get their information.

    Now the Chinese media have learned this well - precisely because they know this, it is easy for them to fill up the page during this period - introducing the technical characteristics, career history and some of the technical characteristics, career history and other information of each national team member throughout the day.  Little tidbits and stories, basically all Iranians know these things anyway, and fans also love to read them, but they didn¡¯t mention a word about Milou¡¯s training tactics.

    In fact, they couldn't mention it even if they wanted to. During this period, the national team's tactical training was completely closed. The open training contents were physical training, recovery training, tennis football and other types of things. It just depends on the situation.  There are no clues. As an old Jianghu, Milu knows the importance of confidentiality.

    And the players are also very tight-lipped. Now with the development of the media, many members of the national team have opened their own columns in some newspapers. In these columns, they will only write about some things that happened during training.  Fun fact, in short, if the other opponents in the group want to get something substantial, there is absolutely no way!

    On August 18, the top ten Asian World Cup qualifiers officially started. The Chinese national team quietly observed the other four opponents in the group in Yunjia. In Doha, Qatar drew zero-0 with Oman at home.  , neither team showed anything outstanding. 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 was not weak, 4-1. Based on their performance in this game, they are indeed the Chinese national team in this group.  The most powerful opponent.

    However, the Chinese national team is not the same national team that lacked confidence four years ago. The brilliant results in the past four years have already established strong confidence in the hearts of every Chinese national team player. They are not afraid of strong opponents and even desire to compete with them.  A strong fight.

    The schedule is also quite favorable to them. Facing Iran in the first game is a better result. They are at home and have been recuperating. Their opponents have traveled a long way from Tehran and they are full of energy after playing one game.  It has also consumed a lot, and with the right time, place and people, the Chinese national team has absolute confidence to defeat this most direct competitor in the first game and take advantage from the beginning!
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