Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 777 The Endless Game

one year later.

AOL Arena in Hamburg, Germany.

The Italian players embraced wildly and celebrated. They performed well in this game. Luca Toni, who scored twice, went to Nie Fei, who was sitting motionless on the court, and stretched out his hand to him.

"Luka, you don't need to come to comfort me." Nie Fei's eyes were flat: "Italy performed better and deserved to win."

"I'm not here to comfort you." Tony laughed: "I just want to ask you which stand the chairman is under. Ivan, Fabio, I and I want to thank him, because without him, the three of us would not Possibly on the field at the World Cup ... and Marco, although he is in the stands now, I think he feels the same as us."

Nie Fei laughed. Indeed, in this Italian national team, there are four players who have played for Yunjia Tianyu successively, and these four players are all the main players!
Toni, Gattuso and Grosso are all starters in this game, and if Materazzi hadn't received a red card in the last quarter-final against Australia, he should also have a place in this game ——After Nesta was absent due to injury, Materazzi became the No.1 choice for his partner Cannavaro.

"No, it's in the box on the stand." Nie Fei pointed to the stand near the studio.

Tony called Gattuso and Grosso to leave. Nie Fei sighed, turned around and pulled up Messi who was sitting on the ground: "Little Messi, don't be sad...you still have a future."

The quarter-finals of the World Cup, dubbed by the Chinese media as the "Yunjia Tianyu Civil War", ended with Italy beating China 1966-[-] and reaching the semi-finals. The Chinese team failed to replicate the miracle of four years ago and reached the semi-finals , but the results of the quarter-finals also tied the best result of the Asian team in other continents in the World Cup created by the North Korean team in [-].

The reason why it is called "Yunjiatianyu Civil War" by the Chinese media is because in this game, Italy and China, both sides of the match, have many players who have played for Yunjiatianyu.

Needless to say, the four players from Italy can almost form a Yunjiatianyu all-star team in the Chinese national team - two of the three goalkeepers are from Yunjiatianyu, and Chen Wei, who played for Yunjiatianyu, and the one who was Chu Ran, defenders Zhu Guosheng, Du Wei, Sun Chenghai, midfielders Zhang Yiming, Deke, Li Fang, Nie Fei, Ailin, and strikers Adriano and Messi all come from Yunjiatianyu, who are on loan from Inter Milan to Naples Players, just from this game, it can be seen that Yunjia Tianyu is the best club in Asia.

Whenever Chinese fans think of this, they will think of a person who, as the chairman of the club, has become the most important person in Chinese football.

That person is naturally the former chairman of Yunjiatianyu, the former honorary vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, the former FIFA Executive Committee, and the current Premier League Newcastle club chairman Pei Wei.

******************************************
"Oh, it's a pity to stop at the quarterfinals." In the box in the stands, Xu Bing smiled and said to Pei Wei who was sitting beside him.

Pei Wei shrugged his shoulders: "Those who can enter the quarter-finals will not be underdogs. We can't expect to always encounter less strong opponents like the last World Cup. To be honest, there is a difference between us and these world-class teams. There are still huge gaps that will take time to fill."

"Time..." Xu Bing smiled bitterly: "That's right, European football has developed for more than 100 years, and we have only developed for more than a dozen years. It's a pity. I don't know if I can see Chinese football become world-class in my lifetime."

"Old Xu, your health is very good now." Pei Wei smiled: "Besides, we are now second-rate if not world-class, and we are the absolute overlord in Asia. Look at how easily we qualified this time! As long as there is a good hope, that is enough. Besides, did those revolutionary martyrs expect to see the prosperity of the country with their own eyes? But they still did it... Although what we are doing now is not as good as the revolutionary martyrs The things we do are important, but someone has to do them... You should have a higher awareness than me about this."

"Haha, that's right, you're right." Xu Bing laughed loudly: "It seems that I need to work on this old bone for a few more years."

"That's true..." Pei Wei nodded: "The current Chinese Football Association still needs you to sit in charge... I can help you with some things outside, and how to coordinate internally and develop smoothly is up to you, old Xu." Mission."

One year is not long or short, but many things happened during this period.

After winning the league championship, Newcastle's performance in the season before the start of the World Cup was not very good. In the league, they were overtaken by Chelsea. In the Champions League, they were also eliminated by the final champion Barcelona after entering the quarterfinals. The only gain is Won an FA Cup that is better than nothing, but Newcastle fans seemed very happy about this championship.

There are many reasons for this result. The media and fans generally believe that the biggest reason for Newcastle's performance decline this season is that they lost the main striker Ibrahimovic before the start of the season.

Inter Milan, which is eager for talent, offered a high price of 5000 million euros to acquire Ibrahimovic before the start of this season, and Ibrahimovic also hopes to join the team Inter Milan, which he has loved since childhood, after he has won enough honors in Newcastle. After weighing the pros and cons, Pei Wei and Mourinho agreed to the acquisition, and the transfer income of 5000 million euros also made Ibrahimovic the largest transfer income in Newcastle's history.

After losing Ibrahimovic, Newcastle introduced Spanish striker Villa, and England midfielder Carrick also became a part of Newcastle. Loss.

However, Pei Wei is not dissatisfied with Newcastle's performance this season. He has always valued the long-term development of the team. For him, the honors of Newcastle in the first two seasons came too fast, and now it is time to increase the background when.

Newcastle has booked Messi, who became a Chinese national a year ago. During this year, Messi played a lot of games on behalf of the Chinese national team. , he will join Newcastle. Pei Wei believes that after having Drogba, Villa and Messi, Newcastle's forward line has enough ability to break through the gate of any team.

Shearer announced his retirement after the end of this season. After retiring, he became Mourinho's assistant coach. His main task was to assist Mourinho in managing the locker room. With Shearer's prestige, it is very easy to do this .

Newcastle has become an important giant in the Premier League, and Chinese football has also become a representative of Asian football. Pei Wei feels that his hard work over the past ten years has finally reaped great results.

Just thinking of this, there was a light knock on the door outside the box.

Pei Wei stood up and opened the door.

"Marco! Did you find this place? It's not easy." Seeing Materazzi with his three children at the door, Pei Wei couldn't help laughing, and then greeted Daniela next to him.

"I know you are here, so I came here to see you."

Materazzi, who was unable to play in this game after being sent off against Australia in the previous game, smiled.

"Come in." Pei Wei welcomed them in: "I only came to see me after the game... Are you afraid of what others will say? Marco, you have become so careful now."

Xu Bing stood up: "Talk slowly...I have to go to the locker room."

After Xu Dory left, Materazzi smiled embarrassedly: "I've wanted to visit you for a long time, and now I can finally come in a fair way... I think the three of them have the same thoughts as me." Matt Lacy pointed out the glass window of the box.

Pei Wei turned his head and saw Tony, Grosso and Gattuso running under the stands and waving towards the box.

Pei Wei waved to them happily: "Forget you haven't forgotten me... After the World Cup, I invite you to get together, and those in the Chinese national team, those who used to be teammates with you... In a blink of an eye , It's been 11 years since I first saw you."

"Yeah... 11 years..." Materazzi couldn't help feeling a little lost. At the beginning of 95, when Pei Wei came to him for the first time... At that time, he was just in his early 20s, and he was young age, but now, he is already a veteran-level figure.

After chatting for a few more words, Materazzi left with his wife and children, and he was going to join his national team—for the Chinese team, the World Cup is over, and for the Italian team, It's far from over.

Pei Wei was the only one left.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the box, Pei Wei took a deep breath with his hands behind his back.

Just two days ago, Su Mei gave birth to Pei Wei's second son, so she couldn't come to watch the game with Pei Wei. With a sense of spoof, Pei Wei gave the second son a nickname, "" more and more".

The eldest son Chuan Chuan, the second son Yue Yue, plus Pei Wei's legendary experience, it is hard to guarantee that no one will think of time-traveling. Now in Chinese online novels, the word "time-traveling" is not uncommon.

If this is a novel, is it time to end?

"It won't end." Pei Wei breathed out leisurely: "If this is a novel, it will never end...at least until my life is over, the ending will not come, even if my life is over, China The development of football will continue, it is a never-ending game."

(End of the book)

PS: A postscript will be uploaded in a few days. Lao Guo feels a little bit about it and wants to share it with everyone. In addition, he will announce the upload time of the next book.

(End of this chapter)