Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 267 Club World Cup (First Update Guaranteed)
Chapter 267 Club World Cup (first update guaranteed)
The Champions League draw passed quickly. Chen Yingxiong didn't give the media a chance to hype it up. The reporters didn't know his inner thoughts. ""
After returning home to play the home game against Fulham, they have to go to Japan. This is a long trip.
In the game against Fulham, Liverpool still rotated, this time the rotation was even greater, and even recruited a reserve player into the 18-man roster.
This lucky guy is Kaldo Cole who performed well in the second League Cup game.
After Chen Yingxiong named him for praise, he became famous. More and more media reported on him and paid attention to him. Scouts from many teams also flocked to the Melwood training base to observe the player up close. As a result, more and more people came to watch the reserve team's training and games.
Now that Martin O'Neal has recruited him into the 18-man roster, it is a signal. If the young wide player performs a little better, maybe he will officially enter the first team. He can train with Chen Yingxiong every day, instead of like when he was in the reserve team. He only had the opportunity to train with Chen Yingxiong before the League Cup and FA Cup.
This is undoubtedly an encouragement to the young Cole.
However, that one-goal-to-fame story did not happen to Cole in the end.
Cole sat on the bench for 90 minutes against Fulham and did not play a minute of the game. He only came here once and then returned to the reserve team.
When he was asked to return to the reserve team, Martin O'Neill encouraged him with a few words and then let him go back.
Before leaving, Chen Yingxiong saw that the boy was a little depressed, so he called out to him.
Cole turned around quickly when he heard his idol's voice.
Chen Yingxiong gave him a thumbs up, then smiled at him: "Come on, Carlton!"
Maybe Chen Yingxiong would forget about it the next day. church
But after Carlton heard what Chen Yingxiong said, a smile appeared on his originally depressed face, and then he gave Chen Yingxiong a thumbs up,
A few years later, when Kaldo Cole, who had become a first-class star, talked about the early days of his career, he was especially encouraged by the hero.
"...For me, a nineteen-year-old kid who has just entered the reserve team, it is such a joy to be encouraged and praised by heroes twice! After I went back, I couldn't do anything well the whole night. When I go to bed, I get excited whenever I think of Hero Jingran still remembering my name... I always feel that the reason why I was able to persist and finally kicked out had a lot to do with Hero's encouragement..."
Sometimes, just one sentence may change a person's destiny.
Destiny is so wonderful.
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In this game against Fulham, Liverpool defeated their opponent 1:0 at home.
This game was not a great game, and Liverpool's performance was not convincing enough, which is why the score was so small. Fulham had chances throughout.
It was precisely because the situation was dangerous that Cole did not get a chance to play. If Liverpool leads by three goals in the first half, maybe Cole will be able to complete his first first-team league appearance in more than 60 minutes.
Although the situation on the field was once critical, although Fulham never gave up its efforts to tie the score, although Liverpool's performance was not convincing enough.
but.
But Liverpool has Chen Yingxiong, which determines the final result of the game. (《》)
Chen Yingxiong scored the only goal of the game with a free kick.
In this way, Liverpool defeated Fulham unconvincingly 1:0 at home.
No matter what the process is, these three points are the most important.
Liverpool were able to maintain their seven-point lead over Manchester United.
The reason why Martin O'Neal rotates like this is because the team is about to make a long journey to Japan.
After the game against Fulham, the entire Liverpool team boarded a plane to Tokyo, Japan, at Liverpool's John Lennon Airport the next day.
They are going to the World Club Cup.
This is Chen Yingxiong’s first time participating in the Club World Cup.
The so-called Club World Cup is actually the Toyota Cup. It has always been an event sponsored by Japan's Toyota Company. The annual European Champions Cup champion plays against the South American Copa Libertadores champion.
The predecessor of the Club World Cup is the Toyota Cup, and the predecessor of the Toyota Cup is the Intercontinental Cup. The purpose of this cup is to pit the two most powerful teams in world football against each other to determine the true king of the world.
That's why there is a competition between the championship teams from two continents that represent the highest level of world football.
Later, after Toyota sponsored the event, the event became permanent in Japan and became the "Toyota Cup".
Chinese fans are familiar with the Toyota Cup as it was one of the earliest football events broadcast in mainland China. For Chinese fans whose entertainment was not yet developed at that time, a game representing the highest level in Europe and the highest level in South America could even be their expectation for a year.
It was in the process of watching the Toyota Cup broadcast that they gradually learned about world football and even more about European football.
Later, FIFA President Sepp Blatter was unwilling to accept that he had done nothing since taking office and was outclassed by his predecessor Havelange, so he decided to focus on the Toyota Cup and created a Club World Cup.
Starting from the first session in 2005, it replaced the original Toyota Cup.
But to be honest, although there are more teams participating in the current Club World Cup, and championship teams from all continents come to participate, it can be regarded as a veritable World Club Cup, but the gold content of the event has declined, and the appeal has also declined. , used to be an annual world football event, but now even after the game is over, not many people can still remember that such an event still exists.
In fact, this is normal. As long as the number of participating teams increases in any competition, such problems will arise. Just like when you open a window, fresh air will flow in, which will also bring a lot of flies and mosquitoes. This is inevitable.
When the European Champions Cup was still a competition that could only be participated by the defending champions and the champion teams of the major European leagues, it had a high gold content. However, with the many reforms of UEFA, especially after Platini came to power, in order to repay the second- and third-rate national football associations that voted for him in the past, many second- and third-rate league places were added, and the Champions League schedule was changed. Lazhang, many teams whose names you have never heard of appeared in the group stage, and many group stages even turned into useless games.
The gold content of the Champions League is also not as good as it used to be.
But you have to look at both sides of this matter. As Ma Zhe said well, everything has two sides. The increased number of participants will also help promote the event. After all, a competition that only allows a small number of elites to participate will eventually become a plaything for a few people, and then slowly be abandoned by the public. After all, no one would pay attention to a sport that they have no chance to participate in or the ability to participate in. No one wants to be excluded by others.
To maintain the vitality of this event, we need to involve more general public and make them more interested in participating. These people are the fresh blood. People will choose blood transfusions when they suffer heavy blood loss, let alone sports events. Without the constant input of new blood, this sport or event will die sooner or later, it just happens too early or too late.
It's just like the Olympics. Coubertin first advocated the establishment of a new Olympic Games. He positioned this event as an "elite sport", which can only be participated by the best and talented elites among mankind. This can be seen from the Olympic Games purpose of "Higher, Faster, Stronger". The original Olympic Games focused on breaking through oneself, transcending limits, and challenging records. But it’s not enough to enjoy yourself behind closed doors. If a sport or an event wants to survive and get better than others, it must be open. Attract more people to come in.
Hence the Olympic spirit of “emphasis on participation”. This is actually just a high-sounding reason and a good excuse for those who are not very strong but like to join in the fun. This way they are interested in participating. The more people participate, the more people pay attention, and the event will naturally develop.
"Participation is all that matters" is actually to trick people into participating. The more people come, the more people will pay attention. With the rise and development of television broadcasting, the Olympic Games has completely changed from a money-losing business to a profitable one. At this time, big cities all over the world are vying for the right to host the event, and they are fighting bloody battles. Isn’t this all because there are too many people?
This principle is actually easy to understand. For people who are not even pseudo-fans, they are not interested in the World Cup at all. No matter how influential the World Cup is, they will not pay attention. But what if their relatives, friends, or sons participate in the World Cup? That's different. Even if they are not fake fans, they will be very interested in the World Cup. As long as there is a game for their son, they will not miss every game. They will also collect news related to the World Cup and pay attention to the rules of football matches. ...and so on, so he naturally became a follower of the sport of football.
To get them interested, get them on board. This is the truth.
The same goes for the Club World Cup.
It's just that the level of this event is too low to compete with the negative impact caused by mud and sand. Perhaps the only role of today's Club World Cup is to allow European giants to brush up on statistics - there is a difference between winning six Grand Slams in one year and winning five Grand Slams just one short of completion.
For the Liverpool players who set off for Tokyo, none of them paid attention to the opponents they were about to face in the Club World Cup, not even the South American Libertadores Cup champion Boca Juniors. In eyes.
They are just here to win their pre-booked third championship this season.
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