Heroes of the Restricted Zone

Chapter 1454 Club World Cup
The draw for the UEFA Champions League passed quickly, and Chen Yingxiong didn't give the media a chance to hype. The reporters didn't know what was going on in his heart.

After returning home to play the home game against Fulham, they have to go to Japan.This is a long trip.

In the match against Fulham, Liverpool still carried out a rotation, this time the rotation was even bigger, and even recruited a reserve team player into the 18-man squad.

This lucky guy is Kardo Kerr who performed well in the second League Cup.

After he was named and praised by Chen Yingxiong, his reputation was greatly shaken. More and more media reported on him and paid attention to him. Many team scouts also flocked to the Melwood training base to observe the player's performance up close. As a result, more people came to watch the training and games of the reserve team.

Now Martin O'Neill has recruited him into the 18-man squad, which is a signal.If the young winger performs better, maybe he will officially enter the first team.He can train with Chen Yingxiong every day, instead of being in the reserve team, he only has the opportunity to train with Chen Yingxiong before the League Cup and the FA Cup.

This is undoubtedly an encouragement for the young Cole.

However, the story of becoming famous with one goal did not happen to Cole in the end.

Cole sat on the bench for nine and 10 minutes in the game against Fulham and missed a minute of the game.He just came here for a while, and then returned to the reserve team.

When letting him return to the reserve team, Martin O'Neill encouraged him a few words and let him go back.

Before leaving, Chen Yingxiong saw that the boy was feeling depressed, so he stopped him.

Hearing the idol's voice, Cole turned around quickly.

Chen Yingxiong gave him a thumbs up, and then smiled at him: "Come on, Carlton!"

Maybe Chen Yingxiong will forget about it the next day.

But after hearing what Chen Yingxiong said, a smile appeared on Carlton's depressed face, and then he also gave Chen Yingxiong a thumbs up,
A few years later, when Caldo Kerr, who has become a first-class star, talked about the early days of his career, he was especially encouraged by the hero.

"...for me, a 19-year-old boy who has just entered the reserve team, how happy I was to be encouraged and praised by heroes twice! After I went back, I couldn't sleep well for a whole night , As long as I think that the hero still remembers my name, I will be very excited... I always feel that the reason why I can persevere and finally kick out has a lot to do with the encouragement of the hero..."

Sometimes, just one sentence may change a person's fate.

Fate is so wonderful.

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In this game against Fulham, Liverpool beat their opponents 1-0 at home.

This game is not really exciting, and Liverpool's performance is not convincing enough, so the score is so small.Fulham had chances throughout.

It is precisely because the situation is more dangerous that Cole did not get the chance to play.If Liverpool lead their opponents by three goals in the first half, maybe Cole will be able to complete his first first-team league appearance record in more than 60 minutes.

Although the situation on the court 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 beat Fulham 1-0 at home convincingly enough.

Regardless of the process, these three points are the most important.

Liverpool were able to maintain their seven-point lead over Manchester United.

The reason why Martin O'Neill rotated like this is because the team is about to make a long trek to Japan.

After the match against Fulham, the whole Liverpool team boarded a plane to Tokyo, Japan at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool the next day.

They're going to the Club World 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 Toyota of Japan. The annual European Champions Cup champions face the South American Libertadores Cup champions.

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 hope that the two most powerful teams in world football will meet to determine the real king of the world.

That's why there is a contest between champion teams from two continents representing the highest level in world football.

Later, after being sponsored by Toyota, the event became permanent in Japan and became the "Toyota Cup".

Chinese football fans are familiar with the Toyota Cup, as it is one of the earliest football matches broadcast in mainland China.For Chinese fans whose entertainment was not well developed at that time, a game representing the highest level in Europe and the highest level in South America could even be their yearly expectation.

It was in the process of watching the broadcast of the Toyota Cup that they gradually learned about world football and European football.

Later, FIFA President Blatter was unwilling to do nothing after taking office, and was downplayed by his predecessor Havelang, so he put his idea 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 participating teams in the Club World Cup today, and champion 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 its attractiveness has also declined. , used to be an annual world football event, and now even after the game is over, not many people can still remember that such an event exists.

In fact, this is also very normal. As long as there are more teams participating in any competition, such problems will appear.Just like when you open a window, fresh air will flood in, and it will also bring a lot of flies and mosquitoes.This is unavoidable.

When the European Champions Cup was still a competition that only the defending champions and champions of major European leagues could participate in, it had a high gold content.However, with UEFA's many reforms, especially after Platini came to power, in order to repay the second and third-tier national football associations that voted for him at the beginning, after adding a lot of places in the second- and third-tier leagues, the Champions League schedule was eliminated. Over time, many teams with names that you have never heard of appeared in the group stage, and many group stages even turned into tasteless games.

The gold content of the Champions League is not as good as it used to be.

But there are two sides to this matter. As Ma Zhe said well, everything has two sides.The increase in the number of participants is also conducive to promoting the event.After all, a game that only allows a small number of elites to join can only be reduced to a few people's playthings, and then slowly abandoned by the public.After all, no one pays attention to sports that they don't have the opportunity to participate in or the ability to participate in.No one wants to be excluded by others.

To maintain the vigor and vitality of this event, it is necessary to involve more general public and make them more interested in participating. These people are fresh blood, and people will choose blood transfusion when they lose a lot of blood, not to mention sports.Without the continuous infusion of fresh blood, this sport or competition will die sooner or later, it's just that it dies sooner or later.

It's like the Olympics.Coubertin first advocated the establishment of a new Olympic Games. He positioned this event as an "elite sport", that is, only the best of mankind and gifted elites can participate.This can be seen from the Olympic motto of "higher, faster and stronger".The original Olympic Games focused on breaking through oneself, surpassing limits, and challenging records.But it’s not enough to be self-admired behind closed doors. If a sport or a competition wants to survive and achieve better results than others, it must be open.Get more people in.

So there is the Olympic spirit of "emphasis on participation".This is actually a high-sounding reason and a nice excuse for those who are not very strong but like to join in the fun.That way they're interested in getting involved.The more people participated, the more people followed, and the event naturally developed.

"Participation is the most important thing" is to deceive people to participate. The more people come, the more people pay attention. With the rise and development of TV broadcasting, the Olympic Games has completely changed from a money-losing business to a profitable one. Now, the big cities all over the world are scrambling for the right to host the event.Isn't all this because of the large number of people?

This principle is actually very easy to understand.For those 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 participated 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 son's game, they will keep up every game. They will also collect news related to the World Cup and pay attention to the rules of football games. ...Wait, so you will naturally become 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 because the level of this event is too low to compete with the negative impact brought by mud and sand.Perhaps the only function of today's Club World Cup is to allow the European giants to collect data-there is still a difference between the six-time Grand Slam in a year and the five-time champion.

For the Liverpool players who set off for Tokyo, none of them paid attention to the opponents they were about to meet in the Club World Cup, not even Boca Juniors, the champion of the Copa Libertadores. in the eyes.

They're only here this time to get their third title of the season that they've booked.

(End of this chapter)