Chapter 1258 Club World Cup
Chapter 1258 Club World Cup
For Manchester City, the Club World Cup is really a vacation.
The players who go shopping in the evening are basically full of food and return with a full reward.
Only Rong Guang and Kaka looked a little lonely.
But they quickly vented this emotion on the court.
On December [-]th, the semi-finals of the Club World Cup began, and the European champion Manchester City made its debut. Their opponent was the Asian Champions Cup champion Al Sadd.
In this game, Benitez still gave FIFA face. He didn't use any second-tier team lineup to fool the audience and opponents.
Basically, Manchester City's main players have all started.
The most popular Rong Guang and Kaka all appeared on the stage, forming a trident with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Although the main players have all appeared on the field, it can be seen that the players' fighting spirit is not very high, coupled with exhaustion, so Manchester City's performance is not very good.
If you want to compare, their performance is not as active as Al Sadd's players.
Although before the game, Al Sadd's coach Forsetti once half-joked: "I really want to apply to FIFA to allow us to play fifteen or sixteen players when we play Manchester City, so that we have a chance to win."
But when the game started, it could still be seen that Al Sadd did not have as little fighting spirit as they said.
They are very positive and want to compete with Manchester City.
However, Arsa's efforts failed at No. 17 minutes.
No. 17 minutes, Rong Guang in the penalty area received a pass from Sneijder, padded the football with his chest, then turned around and swung his foot to volley!
The football rushed into the goal at an extremely fast speed, and Al Sadd's goalkeeper hadn't even reacted!
"Goal in! Beautiful turnaround volley! Beautiful!!"
CCTV, which was live broadcasting the whole process, also photographed He Ping coming to the scene to explain the game. After Rong Guang scored a goal, He Ping shouted excitedly.
The Japanese fans in the stands were more excited than him.
As a world-class star, Rong Guang also has many fans in Japan, although most of his fans are men...
Three minutes after Rongguang's goal, Kaka also scored.
This time it was a signature long-range shot. After dribbling past an Al-Sad player, Kaka took a long-range shot from the top of the penalty area.
In just 10 minutes, Manchester City has already led Al Sadd by two goals.
Sure enough, the gap between the European champion and the Asian champion is huge.
Manchester City defeated Al Sadd with only two players, making this semi-final lose suspense.
After the goals of Rongguang and Kaka, Manchester City still maintained their previous performance, casual and slightly tired.
But Al Sadd has nothing to do with such a Manchester City.
In the second half, their goalkeeper and defender even made a mistake themselves, allowing Ibrahimovic to pick up a leak and score easily.
3:0 already.
Then Benitez began to make substitutions. He replaced Kaka and Sneijder, as well as central defender Godin, and replaced Milner, Gareth Barry and Lucio.
For the rest of the time, Manchester City began to control the ball leisurely on the court.This team, which focuses on defensive counterattacks in the European arena, faced a team that was several orders of magnitude weaker than them. Naturally, there was no need to continue defensive counterattacks. They firmly controlled the football at their feet, passed it back and forth, and used passes to mobilize opponents.
Al Sadd's players can only run around with the football.
During such a transfer, there was a loophole in their defense, and at this time Manchester City quickly accelerated, seized their loophole and launched a fierce blow.
In the No.707 minute, Manchester City scored a goal from the bench Milner, 4:0.
The score was finally fixed here, and Manchester City defeated the Asian champion Al Sadd with a score of 4:0.
Into the Club World Cup final.
In fact, for the European championship teams, it is very normal for them to break into the finals. If they can't even make it to the finals, it will be big news.
Some people even think that it is unnecessary for the European champions to participate in the semi-finals, and it is enough to go directly to the finals. In the Club World Cup, let the champion teams from all continents of the world compete with the host to decide a place for the finals.
Letting the European champions go to the semi-finals is completely formalistic.
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Three days later, City will play another finalist, Copa Libertadores champions Santos, in the Club World Cup final at Yokohama Stadium.
Although the Club World Cup was held for the first time in 2000, it was held for the second time in 2005.
But this kind of match between European club champions and South American club champions has actually existed for a long time.
At the beginning, this kind of competition was called the Intercontinental Cup, and the full name was "Europe/South American Cup". In 1990, the first Intercontinental Cup was jointly organized by the South American Football Association and the European Football Association.The rules of the game are very simple, that is, the champion of the European Champions Cup against the champion of the Copa Libertadores.
At the very beginning, a home and away two-round system was implemented, and the winner was determined based on points.If the points are tied, another play-off will be held.
After 1968, the competition system canceled the play-offs. If the points are the same, the winner will be distinguished according to the goal difference.
However, this kind of competition system is not very acceptable to European teams, because many European teams are unwilling to travel across the ocean to play an away game in South America, and the fatigue of travel will greatly affect their performance in the domestic league.
European clubs began to frequently refuse to participate in the Intercontinental Cup.
Until 1980, Japan's Toyota Corporation put forward the request to host the game, and gave each participating team 500 million Spanish pesetas as an appearance fee, and obtained the naming right of the Intercontinental Cup.
Since then, the Intercontinental Cup has been renamed the "Toyota Cup" that Chinese fans are very familiar with.
The competition system has also changed from a two-round match to a one-off match, and the venue of the match has been fixed at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
In addition to the appearance fee, the best player of each Intercontinental Cup will also receive a Toyota car provided by Toyota.
It has to be said that the sponsorship of the Intercontinental Cup has greatly helped Toyota to increase their popularity around the world. At the same time, Toyota's sponsorship has also made European teams willing to go to Japan to play a game, which solved the problems they faced before the event.At the same time, due to the operation of the Japanese, the Toyota Cup has gradually become a very important event. It is the honor that both the European champion and the South American champion are willing to do their best to compete for victory.
Later, FIFA saw that South American Football Confederation, UEFA and the Japanese had done such an intercontinental cup so well, and it was well-known, and this was a new way of selling broadcasting fees.
So FIFA also intends to engage in a game similar to the Intercontinental Cup.
However, they decided to give full play to their advantages as FIFA, and make it big if they want to.
They don't engage in a duel between South American and European champions. They want to gather champion teams from all continents except Antarctica together for a vigorous World Club Cup!
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The venue is in Brazil.
But that tournament was not a success.The final winner was Brazil's host Corinthians.
The results of Manchester United and Real Madrid are not very good, Real Madrid took fourth and Manchester United fifth.
Aside from the intimidating name, there is nothing to praise about this tournament.
The chaotic organization, low-level competitions, and the reluctant participation of European teams...all led to the temporary abandonment of the Club World Cup plan by FIFA because of the lack of sponsors and other reasons after this Club World Cup.
Until 2005, FIFA and the organizers of the Toyota Cup reached an agreement to combine the Toyota Cup and the Club World Cup into one. The Toyota Cup disappeared and the Club World Cup replaced it, becoming the only worldwide club event.
The second Club World Cup in 2005 was held in Japan.This time, all the champions from all continents participated. It was no longer like the first one, where even domestic league champions and Toyota Cup champions were able to participate.
In the end, Sao Paulo, the South American Copa Libertadores champion from Brazil, won the final championship.
The 2006 Club World Cup was still held in Japan, and the winning team was the Brazilian international team.The "Dream Second Team" Barcelona, which had just won the Champions League, lost to Brazil Internacional in the final, which was an upset.
So the Club World Cup has been held three times, but the European teams have not won the championship even once...
Even if the European teams feel that the Club World Cup is tasteless, if they can't even win the tasteless championship, doesn't it mean that they are incompetent?
Now that European football is developed, people may think that European teams are better than South American teams.But historically this has not been the case.
If only the number of championships in the Intercontinental Cup and Toyota Cup is counted, then the South American team has a slight upper hand.
They have won 22 titles, ahead of European teams with 21.
If only the Toyota Cup is counted, the European teams have no obvious advantage, and they are basically evenly matched with the South American teams.European teams have won the title thirteen times, while South American teams have won it twelve times.
However, with the development of professional football in Europe, European teams began to show their strong strength in the main line. Those outstanding South American players also left the American continent one after another, came to Europe to play for gold, and they represented European teams against South American teams, helped European teams beat South American teams, and won the Toyota Cup.
Since the Toyota Cup in 1995, European teams have had the absolute upper hand. They have won eight championships, while South American teams have only won two championships.The gap has widened.
The Club World Cup organized by FIFA has become an opportunity for South American teams to regain their dignity.The Club World Cup is equivalent to a vacation for European teams, but South American teams are very concerned about it and work hard in the game.
This also helped them win the first three Club World Cups.
However, when the European teams felt that it was too shameful to lose the Club World Cup in a row, the advantage of the South American teams was gone.
From 2007 to 2010, the four Club World Cups were won by European teams.Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Barcelona and Inter Milan.
Now in 2011, Santos from South America shoulders the important task of rectifying the name of South American football.
Their fighting spirit is very strong.
Facing Manchester City, which treats the Club World Cup as a vacation, maybe they really have a chance?
(End of this chapter)