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Chapter 392 Totti's Premonition

"Hey, here, look! Come on, Philip!"

"It's almost there, give me, give me!"

"Look at me, oh, it's so handsome!"

On the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the Italian players are divided into several groups to play and grab the ring leisurely.As the name of this game suggests, the players surround a hapless ghost in a circle. The task of this hapless ghost is to find a way to break the ball. At the same time, the rest of the players can only pass the ball with one foot to avoid being robbed by the opponent. arrive.It's a game that players often play on the training ground or during warm-ups, but it's not a friendly game for some.

The unlucky ghost being walked in the middle by the players right now is our protagonist Kenny, but after repeated attempts failed, he shouted angrily: "God! How could I be with you! Dear captain accept me Bar!"

"Hahaha Loris, you don't look like a Champions League champion! Hurry up, keep moving! Otherwise there will be no dinner tonight, don't you see Mr. Zoff standing on the sidelines!?"

Hearing Kenny's feigned grievance protest, Totti and the others all laughed, while Maldini and the others in the other group gloated at Kenny.The current Italian players are divided into two groups except for the goalkeeper who is training separately and a few people who are still running in the circle. One group is Maldini and a group of defenders mixed with several forwards, while the other group is composed of Tortoise. Tee led the midfield mixed with Kenny and Inzaghi.

It is conceivable that this kind of grouping made the two of Kenny miserable, especially Kenny. Compared with the midfielder who relies on his feet and pressing for food, he can catch the ball and deliver the ball, but he wants to steal. But it was far below the average level of the group of "beasts" around him, so even though he had already robbed for 5 minutes, he still didn't make any progress.But Kenny didn't worry about it for long, because the coach Zoff came over quickly, warm-up and open training like this are usually the best choice to relax the body, after several days of targeted training and actual combat simulation The reason for the coaching staff to give the players time to relax afterwards is already obvious.

"Gentlemen, we will take a special flight to South Korea at 6 o'clock tonight, which also means that if you want to try Korean food on an empty stomach, the coaching staff does not have any opinions."

Speaking of this, coach Zoff also looked at the disciples maliciously and laughed, obviously he doesn't like Korean and Japanese "food" very much.

In fact, at this time, the European and American teams are very reluctant to go to Asia to play games, because the climate and environment there are undoubtedly very strange to them.Before this, the World Cup had always been under the monopoly of Europe and South America, but this World Cup was moved to Asia for various reasons, but even so, there were some bad news during the initial bidding process, which is also true. This made the current World Cup cast a shadow even before the opening.

Hearing coach Zoff's words full of malice, all the players couldn't help feeling chills all over their bodies, and Kenny's neck felt even colder.But just when he wanted to continue to participate in the ring grabbing session, Totti was not very interested. I saw him throwing away the ball and walking towards the sidelines with Kenny in his arms, saying in his mouth: "Loris, can it be Are you not thirsty?"

thirsty?I'm not thirsty! Kenny felt a little regretful, but he didn't refuse when he saw Totti's depression. He walked towards the sidelines together with Totti, wondering if this kid had a conflict with his wife?

Now the prince of the city of Rome, Italy's darling has become a good man in people's eyes. He fell in love with Italian model and actress Ilari Brasi earlier this year, and it has been out of control ever since.In the 3th round of Serie A derby on March 10 this year, Roma swept Lazio 26-5. After teasing Lazio's old goalkeeper Peruzzi with a spoon lob, Totti took off his jersey when he came to the sidelines to celebrate. And the words "1 Unica!" were exposed on his T-shirt. This sentence can be translated as you are my only one, so Totti can be said to have expressed his love for Blasey in front of everyone. For this reason, Kenny, who learned about this at the time, teased Totti well.

Therefore, when he saw Totti who was suddenly sullen, Kenny's first reaction was that the young couple had a quarrel.

But what he didn't expect was that after taking a sip of water, Totti turned his head to Kenny and said, "Lori, I don't know why, I have a bad feeling about this World Cup."

Hearing this sentence, Kenny's heart suddenly jumped. After a season of exhausting battles, if Totti hadn't mentioned it today, he would have almost forgotten about it.

Although he was not able to enter the national team to compete in this year's World Cup in his previous life, he still has fresh memories of this World Cup, which is known as the darkest in history.

Of course, all of this has to start from the beginning. At the beginning, Joao Havelange, then the president of FIFA, had basically determined that Japan would host the 2002 World Cup. The thing is to propose that South Korea will bid to host the 2002 World Cup and firmly oppose Japan's sole hosting.According to Zheng Mengzhun himself, Koreans cannot lose to Japan in football.However, the South Korean government at the time believed that Japan had been preparing for many years, and the international chairman Havelange tried his best to expand the influence of the World Cup in Asia. He was very optimistic about Japan. No matter how South Korea looked at it, it was impossible to have a chance. The government has been lukewarm about Chung's proposal.

However, everything after that confirmed the saying that outstanding politicians not only need to assess the situation but also need to create the situation.Ambitious Chung Mong-joon believes that Japan's success in hosting the event is only due to the support of Chairman Havelange, but in fact the right to host is jointly decided by the 21 Chairman and Vice-Chairmen.Therefore, Chung Mong-joon simply went to directly run for the vice president of FIFA representing Asia, with the intention of winning another 10 votes at that time, and the South Korean hosting matter will have a turning point.

So in the case that even the South Korean government did not support it, Chung Mong-joon started his own election campaign in 1994. At that time, his competitors were people from Kuwait, Japan, and Qatar.In order to be successful, he visited 32 member countries and regions of the Asian Football Association, canvassing votes for 5 consecutive months and tried his best to win over China, hoping to get China's support, because China can influence the votes of North Korea, Macau, and Hong Kong, and he is the host together with Japan Isn't it bad?
At the same time, he also publicly stated that the Korea-Japan World Cup will become the most successful match in history, and China, as the birthplace of football, will be the most suitable candidate for another World Cup in Asia.

In this way, Chung Mong-joon was elected vice-president of FIFA in 1994, defeating four candidates including Japan Football Association Chairman Tadao Murata.This success enabled Chung Mong-joon to find out the internal political context of FIFA. Chung Mong-joon, who successfully became the vice president, quickly got involved in and took advantage of FIFA's political struggles with his unique Asian sensitivity. In 4, under the vigorous promotion of Havelange, the hosting of the 1996 World Cup by Japan was almost a foregone conclusion, only the final announcement was made.At this time, Zheng Mengzhun jumped out, and he said sharply: "Football is the national skill of South Korea. The South Korean team has participated in the World Cup 2002 times, but the Japanese team has not qualified for the competition once. How can such a country represent Asia alone? What about the World Cup? In addition, Asian countries still have fresh memories of Japan’s aggression during World War II. If Japan becomes the first Asian country to host the World Cup, the Asian people will never agree.”

After showing his position with a strong attitude, Chung Mong-joon launched a money offensive. He promised that if South Korea wins the right to host the 2002 World Cup, the Korean Football Association will allocate 600 billion won (about 78 billion yen) from the game revenue to donate to the international football team. Federation and national football associations.In addition, Chung Mong-joon also stated that if South Korea obtains more than US$20 billion in revenue from the sales of TV broadcast rights for World Cup games, the Korean Football Association will donate US$4.22 million of it to the development of global football, and this amount will be equally distributed by national football associations , and Zheng Mengzhun also specifically added: "As long as it is related to football, this money can be used in any way."

As we all know, FIFA is not a clean place as people imagined. Chairman Havelange has been in power for a long time, and many people are very dissatisfied with him, because Havelange is the first non-European country since the establishment of FIFA. The president, his election, and the promotion of Asian countries to host the World Cup have created a sense of crisis in European countries that have dominated FIFA for many years.

Therefore, the struggle began. First, at the Zurich Football Federation meeting in Switzerland in May 1995, the chairman of CONCACAF raised objections to the early decision of the bidding country and won a year for the Koreans.At the same time, UEFA President Johnson and African Football Federation President Hayatou also publicly challenged Havelange to ask for the reform of the FIFA. At this time, Chung Mong-joon, one of the vice-presidents of FIFA, also joined the anti-Arab faction and participated in Johnson The advantage of the alliance with Hayatu is that the alliance supports South Korea and Japan to co-host the World Cup.

Chung Mong-joon took advantage of this mentality of the Europeans and preached to them that if Japan were to host the 2002 World Cup, wouldn't it fuel Havelange's arrogance?UEFA is worried that it will not find an opportunity to attack Havelange, and this remark hits the target.Kissinger, an expert on international issues, once said that the politics of FIFA is as complicated as that of the Middle East.It was under the alliance of the anti-Arab faction that Havelange was finally forced to support South Korea and Japan to jointly host the World Cup, and on June 1996, 6, FIFA unanimously approved the joint hosting of the World Cup by South Korea and Japan.

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