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Chinese team playing match-fixing?

When Zhao Yaning heard the news, he was a little confused. Where did he start?

Soon, he understood the ins and outs of the matter.

After the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team 2-0, Saudi Arabia blatantly played a match-fixing: they also lost to Uzbekistan, making Uzbekistan and South Korea with seven points, with a goal difference advantage, ranked No. [-] in the group Third, they are qualified to compete with the Bahrain team, and then go to compete with the North American teams for the right to qualify, and this result also makes South Korea squeezed out of the World Cup finals.

Such things are naturally unacceptable to Koreans.After the AFC clamored several times, in October, seeing the match day between Bahrain and Uzbekistan approaching, to decide who got the half of the quota, the Koreans used a method that normal humans could hardly imagine: Millions of South Koreans wrote emails to FIFA at the same time, requesting that South Koreans and Bahrain and Uzbekistan play a play-off match to win the World Cup places. The volume of their emails literally exploded the mailboxes of FIFA.In order not to cause problems, FIFA even had to close the public mailbox at one point to avoid such explosions from happening. [

Relying on this method, the Koreans have attracted sufficient attention from FIFA.They clamored for a rematch.In their view, it is impossible for Koreans to fail to enter the World Cup finals. This must be caused by China and Saudi Arabia playing match-fixing. Otherwise, how could they lose?You know, South Korea was the top four team in the last World Cup, how could it fail to enter the finals?

However, everyone knows that such a thing is impossible—once it is admitted that there was match-fixing in the group stage, how much will the reputation of the World Cup decline in the future?The World Cup is FIFA's biggest cash cow. No matter what, this kind of nonsense can't happen. Don't they all admit to the misjudgment of extra-long stoppage time in Africa and South America that caused bloodshed?Naturally, Asia can no longer play a rematch.And let's talk about it again: there are as many as six games in the group stage. After the rematch, how much work is that?Which club would agree that its players have nothing to do and play six more national team games?And the World Cup is coming, who has time to play so many games?

Moreover, what's more, the words of the Koreans themselves are unreasonable.The competition is not based on the result, but on your performance in the last competition?If that's the case, what's the point of competing? Let's see who won the championship last time. Why don't you just give it to someone?

After shouting about the results many times, the South Koreans once again threw out a new argument: they believed that Saudi Arabia and China lost the game to Uzbekistan, it was a match-fixing, and it was a deliberate loss to crowd out the Koreans. Full text read.Otherwise, their two national teams can win even South Korea, how could they lose to a team like Uzbekistan?

It was precisely because of this accusation from South Korea that Zhao Yaning suddenly had to face the accusation of match-fixing.Although he didn't play at all in that game, this is exactly what the Koreans accused: they accused the Chinese of deliberately not sending top players in order to lose to Uzbekistan and squeeze the Koreans out of the finals.

What Benitez is worried about is that Zhao Yaning will go back to China to explain to the Football Association.But for this kind of problem, Zhao Yaning will not go back-not to mention that Zhang Yuan will handle it for him, even if there is no Zhang Yuan, the Football Association will not be stupid enough to blame this problem on him.

As for this problem, Zhao Yaning didn't think it was a big deal.He specially invited the media and wanted to explain.

And his explanation, the more he explained, the more confused he became.

"You mean, you weren't there when the Chinese team lost to Uzbekistan in an away game, so you don't know if the Chinese team played match-fixing in that game, did you?"

After Zhao Yaning finished explaining that he was absent from the game, the reporter immediately put forward his own argument.

"No, it wasn't match-fixing. I asked my teammates, and after watching the game, I knew that it wasn't match-fixing that caused the team to lose." Zhao Yaning explained, "We had a lot of problems in that game. Neither I nor Sun Jihe of Manchester City could go back in time, and our main striker was absent due to injury, and the main central defender was also suspended by the Chinese Football Association. Not many main players were present, which made the team lose."

"However, if the best players are not recalled for the World Preliminaries, isn't that in itself an act of match-fixing?"

"Of course not." Zhao Yaning shook his head, "Sun Jihe is injured, you know this, right? The injury caused by Gudjohnsen. Our main striker is in his 30s and has played more than 100 games for the national team. Is it normal for him to suffer from injuries at his age? I returned to China to participate in the competition because of other things. Our main central defender was suspended for malicious fouls in the AFC Champions League. There are reasons for these .”

Zhao Yaning's explanation was soon published in the newspaper.But no matter how his explanation is, it is useless, because at this time, in order to appease the emotions of the Koreans—or in other words, FIFA decided to deal with this incident in order to prevent its own mailbox from being flooded with spam. Things are coordinated.

And the result of their coordination is also very simple: after negotiations, the AFC announced that the playoffs between Bahrain and Uzbekistan, which had ended, were not counted due to the referee's enforcement problems, and a rematch would be held.With South Korea's efforts, Uzbekistan 'voluntarily' withdrew from the competition for the World Preliminaries. Since they withdrew, someone had to make up for it, and South Korea, as the third place in the group, naturally took the place.

Everyone can see that this is simply opening the back door for Koreans: everyone knows that Koreans cannot be kicked out of the World Cup just because Hyundai Group is a big sponsor of FIFA.It's the same reason as the Japanese who arranged half of the expenses of the AFC are always taken care of by the AFC.

Such a thing is not a big deal, but at this time, FIFA made this decision, which still put Zhao Yaning in huge trouble: the selection of the Golden Globe Award is about to begin, and Zhao Yaning, as the most powerful competitor, unexpectedly There was a match-fixing scandal, even if such a thing was finally proved to be untrue, it would cause Zhao Yaning's reputation to be greatly damaged!

After all, the Golden Globe is a competition, and impression points are very important.As a player, malicious fouls, lying and denying, and lighter flops are all hated by people.And match-fixing is the top priority of all problems.

If he is really involved in the match-fixing case, then even if he is full of mouths, Zhao Yaning can't tell clearly. [

But what is more gratifying is that because South Korea was hacked, most of the European media still didn't say anything.Italians and Spaniards have the same thoughts on this: Is it the so-called match-fixing? Such a result is regrettable anyway... In fact, it would be good if it was match-fixing. Koreans dare to hack Spain and Spain. Italy, they deserve to be hacked.

I mean, the Western media all support Zhao Yaning, and the French media also support Zhao Yaning’s Peerless Tang Sect.But only the media in England did not hesitate to delve into this, carefully looking through the records of every match, trying to prove the match-fixing case that happened far away in Asia.It proves that Liverpool's Zhao Yaning and Manchester United's Park Ji-sung have grievances with the national team, so that the double reds will have new meanings and add new content to this hatred.

Although many people have criticized these media, what is impossible for the English media who can still excavate the scandals of their own national players on the eve of the World Cup?They never feel that they are on the same side as the players.Moreover, thanks to their efforts, the Italians have also started to boo. Some Italian media have begun to break the news, saying that it is a matter of Istanbul, and that it is a match-fixing caused by someone injecting funds.

A game like match-fixing, easy to explain.But under the hype of the media, such a thing, no matter how clearly it is explained, will affect the player's image.Although Zhao Yaning himself feels ashamed, but now, many people are still beginning to doubt whether Zhao Yaning’s championship is true, and whether the evaluation of him in international football is right.Spanish football is the most quarrelsome, they are thinking about winning votes for the La Liga player, and the Germans are also making sarcastic remarks because of Germany's loss in the Confederations Cup. Some people have thrown out the UEFA conspiracy theory, thinking that Zhao Yaning's ability to win the Champions League consecutively is the result of UEFA trying to attract the Asian market and let Asians watch the Champions League more.

"UEFA also has its own interests." In this regard, although some media doubts are subtle, they are very sharp. After all, if a huge market can be obtained, the interests of UEFA will be quite large. Under such circumstances, should the player's honor be further considered before considering whether to Granted? Especially when the player's country is a big country with frequent sports violations in the world."

At the beginning, although I didn’t say anything clearly, I was very clear: Except for European countries, the Chinese two played the most in the sports ban incident, and no one in the United States played in the Champions League. Who else could they refer to? ?

The headline "Maybe Football's Biggest Liar" was finally put forward on the Catalan "News of the World", and soon, such an article was widely circulated among journalists from various countries .Things like getting second place in the Ballon d'Or by kick-fixing are almost becoming a fact.

Under repeated investigations by the English media, there was a new breakthrough in the matter: after Kubis's matter was revealed, this matter seemed to be further confirmed.Zhao Yaning’s enlightenment coaches were all deprived of their coaching qualifications for alleged match-fixing cases. What good things can Zhao Yaning learn from following such a coach?

"Mr. Kubis is still a good coach, and the rumors are wrong." When the media asked this question, Zhao Yaning was also irritated, "I don't care what you think, anyway, I didn't play match-fixing!"

Zhao Yaning's temper has always been very gentle, but for some people, he cannot allow the media to insult them casually.Coach Kubis brought him to Ajaccio and gave him the main position, allowing him to play in the most difficult times, which also made Zhao Yaning always grateful to him.And now, someone made insulting remarks to Kubis, and finally made Zhao Yaning, who had always seemed gentle, angry.

"You should control your emotions a little bit." After entering the team, Benitez said to him.

"I know." Zhao Yaning knew that his attitude was indeed a little out of control. He didn't care about the Golden Globe Award. In fact, if it was really just a selection in a general sense, he would lose if he lost.Last year, he lost to Sheva, and he didn't show any loss of control.However, such a notoriety imposed on him, and then used as a reason to accuse him, saying that he is not worthy of the Golden Globe, it is difficult for him to accept it.He may not have that award, but being accused of match-fixing made him a little unbearable: he had never done that kind of thing in the national team.

"Maybe, you should talk to someone." The club, Morrow stopped him after he finished training, "Come on, have a drink, let's talk."

ps: The incident of South Koreans writing a letter to explode their mailboxes is a real event. It happened after the 2006 World Cup group match. They wrote a letter asking for a rematch with Switzerland, because they were the fourth in the last session and should not be eliminated by the group... Because too many letters caused trouble, FIFA was forced to close the mailbox and refused the request.In addition, Bahrain and Uzbekistan did have a rematch that year.