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Chapter 645: The Golden Generation of the Chinese Team

Many years later, everyone agrees that the victory of this Asian Cup is a milestone event for the complete take-off of Chinese football.

This year, Arsenal, who were ambitious and wanted to win the league, finally failed to follow through and lost to their rivals in the same city, Chelsea.When Li Zihan left Arsenal at the end of December, Arsenal was seven points ahead of No.2 Chelsea and five points ahead of No.3 Manchester City.

But after he returned to Arsenal, it was already the beginning of February of the second year, and by this time Chelsea had already caught up.They led Arsenal by three points and maintained that gap until the end of the season.

Arsenal missed a good chance to win the league title because of the Asian Cup incident.But Arsenal, who lost in the league, put their determination in the cup. They defended the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League!
This is the first team that can defend the championship since the restructuring of the Champions League!

Although they did not win the league championship this season, Arsenal is undoubtedly the team that is in the limelight this summer.Especially Li Zihan, this time Real Madrid really made a direct move.

Li Zihan made a direct offer of 2000 million pounds, but was directly rejected by Arsenal, and then offered another price of [-] million pounds plus a German all-around Khedira.

Real Madrid knew that Arsenal had tried Khedira for more than a day or two, so this time the German was also added to the deal.

In the end, Arsenal still refused. Not only Wenger, but even the owner and chairman of Arsenal knew what Li Zihan could bring them.In addition to the championship, Li Zihan can also bring Arsenal very considerable economic income.

8000 million pounds?Li Zihan came to Arsenal for two seasons, and now he has directly earned [-] million pounds in bonuses and commercial endorsements for Arsenal, plus some indirect and invisible income. With so much money earned in just one season, what reason do they have to sell Li Zihan?

Then Wenger directly stated that he didn't even look at Li Zihan's offer, and threw them all directly into the trash can, and Li Zihan renewed his contract with Arsenal again this summer.

This is a five-year contract, and Li Zihan's annual salary in the new contract is about 1000 million euros after tax.This can undoubtedly rank among the top five or top six in the salary rankings of football players in the world.

This also completely broke the record for the highest salary in Arsenal's history, and thus also broke the current salary structure of Arsenal.

But now that Arsenal are rich and powerful, Wenger simply re-established new standards.Li Zihan is undoubtedly the top salary standard, followed by Sanchez, Ozil and Pogba, their after-tax annual salary is the first, Wilshere, Ramsey, Hewedes, etc. People are second gear.
Li Zihan's renewed contract means that the possibility of a transfer is unlikely. Although the staff of Real Madrid contacted Li Zihan privately and offered many tempting conditions, Li Zihan finally refused.

Arsenal can give him a top-five salary in the world, and can give him a championship. When money and honors can satisfy Arsenal, why does Li Zihan go to a strange place to take risks?

Um. Perhaps it is more appropriate to use Li Zihan to bring Arsenal the championship.

Therefore, Li Zihan made it clear through the media that it is impossible for him to leave Arsenal.

Real Madrid can't buy Li Zihan and can only buy other players. In fact, Real Madrid has no shortage of frontcourt players. They already have Benzema, Ronaldo, Bale, James Rodriguez (J Ronaldo) and Isco.
But Florentino, everyone understands.

Wenger has money in his hands now, so he also wants to add to the lineup, especially this season when Chelsea robbed the league title, which led to the shattering of the chance of the Triple Crown.And tasted the sweetness in making up for the shortcomings of the team last season, so this season Wenger wants to make up for the team's lineup again.

Now Arsenal's shortcomings lie in two points, one is the right back and the other is the goalkeeper.

It hasn't been a day or two since Wenger took a fancy to Cech, the old goalkeeper who has no chance to play in his rival Chelsea. There have been scandals since last season, but in the end Chelsea finally kept Cech.

But Wenger did not give up and continued to attack Cech this season.

But on the full-back, Wenger started to act. He valued the Brazilian right-back Danilo Luiz in Porto. Rotation is more or less the same.

After a long period of haggling, Wenger packed Porto's main left and right full-backs Danilo Luiz and Alex Sandro, both Brazilian players, for a total of 500 million euros.

Among them, the price of Danilo Luis alone reached 3000 to two million euros.

But it also caused problems for Wenger, because neither of them have labor certification.The two defenders of the Brazilian team have basically been occupied by Marcelo and Alves in recent years, and other young players basically have no chance.

In the end, Wenger decided to use the "special talent clause" to first introduce Arsenal's shortage of right back Danilo Luiz, and then for Alex Sandro, Wenger decided to buy it and loan it to Porto for a season.

The latter also agreed very happily, because the sudden sale of the two main full-backs made Porto very tight in this position, so a buffer period of one season is still very good for Porto.

And after playing the next season, Alex Sandro has been in Portugal for six years, and he will be able to obtain a second Portuguese nationality at that time, and there will be no labor certification problem at that time.

As everyone knows, a few days later, Real Madrid fired the current coach Ancelotti on the grounds that Ancelotti did not bring Real Madrid a championship, and then the Spanish local tactician Benitez took office.

And Fatty Bei complained that Wenger took away his Danilo Luis as soon as he came up.
This summer's transfer market is destined to be lively, and even Real Madrid's head star Cristiano Ronaldo has a scandal with his old club Manchester United.And Manchester United, which has successfully grabbed the Champions League seat, really has to consider recruiting this season, but Van Gaal is more inclined to his Dutch fellows.

The club formed by Li Zihan in Chengdu also successfully avoided relegation. After the team changed its name to Sichuan Quanxing Team, it continued to use the traditional yellow jersey, but the logo of the team logo was redesigned.The team's stadium has also moved into the Chengdu Sports Center, and Red Bull, Huawei, Puma and other groups have become partners.

After the relegation of the Sichuan Quanxing team last season, the famous South Korean coach Lee Jang-soo was fired, and the former Arsenal coaching staff member Banfield led the team to continue to compete in the Chinese League. At present, the team ranks third in the standings for more than half of the season. Fight for upgrades.

In the end, the team finally went deep into the Chinese Super League, and then Li Zihan increased investment, refurbished the stadium, and established a first-class youth training camp in Asia.

Then they cooperated with Guangzhou Real Madrid Evergrande Football School and Shanghai Genbao Football School to carry the banner of China's youth training.

These three youth training centers completely use the European youth training system and training programs. Over the years, they have trained many players for Chinese football. Most of these players play in domestic leagues, and some play in European leagues.

Relying on Li Zihan's network and the wealthy Evergrande teaming up with Xu Genbao, who has extensive connections in China, these players were transported to the top and secondary leagues in Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and other countries.

And Li Zihan owns shares in the La Liga team Eibar Club, and he simply bought the club directly and wholly.Then cooperate with the Wanda Group, which has invested in Atletico Madrid, to gather the best of these players and then sell them to other European mid-upstream teams after becoming famous.

Such a virtuous circle, rather than the famous "export to domestic sales".With the efforts of several parties, they and Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, Fiorentina in the Serie A, Reims and Bordeaux in the Ligue [-], Arsenal in the Premier League, Leeds United and Middlesbrough in the English Championship, Benfica in Portugal, Alkmaar in the Eredivisie After the teams have established a good cooperation agreement, many Chinese players will go to these teams to play.

The low price and high cost performance of Chinese players are also very popular with them. The only thing that makes them a headache is labor certification and foreign aid qualifications.

At the same time in South America, Boca Juniors in Argentina, Corinthians in Brazil and some African clubs have cooperated.

After 20 years of operation, these clubs have formed a community of interests, not only in player transactions, but also in cultural exchanges, peace, charity, and people's livelihood. They have deep cooperation.

Even the United Nations awarded Li Zihan the World Peace Unity and Cultural Charity Exchange, and the Queen of England also awarded Li Zihan a knighthood and a knighthood, which almost compares him with Ferguson.

In the construction led by Li Zihan, the results of the Chinese team are getting better and better.

In the [-] World Cup in Russia, the Chinese team successfully entered the group stage. The only regret is that China still lost to the defending German team and the South American Colombian team. In terms of overall strength, Colombia is obviously better.

In the 28 World Cup, the Chinese team successfully qualified in the pinch of England, Côte d'Ivoire, and Honduras and advanced to the knockout round with the second place in the group.Côte d'Ivoire has not improved after Drogba and Touré brothers and old age, and Boni, Gervinho and Traore in the Mesozoic generation are also in their thirties, so naturally they cannot compete with the golden generation of the Chinese team.At this time, the Chinese team has Li Zihan who scored a Golden Globe hat-trick, Wu Lei, the main player of Atletico Madrid in La Liga, and Wang Shangyuan, the main player of Dortmund in Bundesliga. At this time, Li Zihan is [-] years old. Li Zihan is older.

This year's Chinese team is also known as the golden generation of modern Chinese football. In addition to the main lineup that led the Chinese team to win the [-] and [-] Asian Cup championships, there are also new players. Many young talents of the new generation.The post-[-]s who were selected for the national team all have Li Zihan's brand on them. They are either members of Li Zihan's clubs or Li Zihan's professional football school. The beneficiaries of the Chinese Football Youth Training Program.For example, Li Wenzhe, the goalkeeper from the Guangzhou Evergrande youth training team who is currently playing for La Liga club Elche, and Wang Meng, an all-around midfielder from the Genbao Football School youth training team of the Shanghai East Asia team, is now the core midfielder of Eredivisie Eindhoven.

In the end, the Chinese team lived up to expectations. They qualified No.2 in the group stage, but defeated another No.1 Greek team in the knockout round. The group where the Greek team is located has almost no traditional strong teams, so they rely on defense and counterattack. The well-known Greek mythology finally got the tickets to the top [-] of the World Cup with the first place in the group, but their World Cup journey ended here.

After China broke into the quarter-finals, the whole country celebrated with joy. It is said that the level of excitement surpassed that of New Year's Eve during the Spring Festival in the past five years.

In the quarter-finals they met the Chilean team. This year's Chilean team also passed all the way. It is also surprising that the Chilean team can break into the quarterfinals without Vidal and Sanchez.

In the end, the two sides maintained a one-to-one score until the end of the regular game time of 10 minutes, and the two sides entered overtime. Finally, at 110 and [-] minutes of overtime, Li Zihan scored the key to the final through a very beautiful personal performance a ball.

The Chinese team broke the record and entered the top four of the World Cup, and the whole country was jubilant. At that time, some people even hung Li Zihan's poster in the living room to worship.

In the semi-finals, the Chinese team met the world-class team Brazil.This game is not known as a direct confrontation between Neymar and Li Zihan in the national team.After Ronaldo and Messi are getting old, Li Zihan is the only one in European football. Only two geniuses, Neymar and Hazard, can create some troubles for Li Zihan, but the intensity of competition is not as intense as that of C Strong between Ronaldo and Messi.

After 120 minutes of overtime, the score was still 22-[-].The two teams playing offensive football gave a visual feast to the fans.The two sides entered a penalty shootout. At this time, the main goalkeeper of the Chinese team was Li Wenzhe of Elche.Although Li Wenzhe is young and has outstanding strength, he also won the Golden Glove Award for the best goalkeeper in La Liga last season, but he is still young after all, he is only [-] years old!In the end, the Chinese team narrowly defeated the Brazilian team with a score of [-] to [-] in the penalty shootout.

When the penalty shootout ended, Li Zihan even fell to the ground with his legs cramp. After a simple treatment, Li Zihan, as the captain, immediately went to comfort the crying little players.

Li Zihan said in an interview with the media: "This is not the end. After four years, the Chinese team will make a comeback! Create the best result in the history of the Chinese team? Compared with that, I hope to get a ticket to the final!"

Although the Chinese team lost the game, the outside media and fans still gave the Chinese team unanimous praise.Their ability to set a record and reach the semi-finals is enough to explain everything. What kind of teams are the semi-finals?Germany, Belgium and Brazil!And this World Cup has also been regarded as the last chance of Belgium's golden generation.

And they also forced the mighty soccer kingdom Brazil to a penalty shootout