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Chapter 417 The Unremarkable Final

On February 2, the Asian Cup final will be played between China and Qatar, but Qatar is troubled by other problems.

After losing to their opponents in the semi-finals, the UAE Football Association appealed to the AFC and submitted relevant evidence, accusing the two players of the Qatar team of being ineligible and requesting the cancellation of the Qatar team's results in this Asian Cup.

But the latest news is that the AFC officially rejected the UAE Football Association's appeal about Qatar's use of illegal players, which means that Qatar's No. 19 Moise and No. 15 Ravi can participate in today's championship and runner-up finals.

In the appeal, the UAE Football Association stated that the 22-year-old No. 19 Moise Ali was born in Sudan, and the 21-year-old No. 15 Wei Ravi was born in Baghdad.

Both of them have violated the relevant regulations of FIFA. They have not lived in Qatar for five consecutive years after they turned 18, so they are not eligible to represent the Qatar national team.

The UAE Football Association believes that the results of the Qatar team in this Asian Cup should be invalidated, and the UAE team should replace Qatar in the final of this Asian Cup.

Although Moise and Ravi claimed that their mothers were both born in Qatar, the UAE Football Federation has evidence that Ravi's mother was born in Baghdad and not Qatar.

The FIFA statute clearly stipulates that "after the player reaches the age of 18, he can only represent the representative team of his region to participate in the competition after he has lived in one place for five consecutive years." Since these two players are only 22 and 21 years old respectively, there is no Meet the relevant regulations of FIFA, so they are not eligible for the competition.

Moise started playing for the Qatar National Youth Team as early as 2013, and helped the Qatar team win the 2014 Myanmar Asian Youth Championship.

随后，莫伊兹还参加了2015年新西兰U20世青赛和亚足联主办的2016年、2018年两届U23亚锦赛，也曾参加了2017年底的海湾杯赛。

拉维也是同期就进入了卡塔尔国青队，虽然没有参加2014年缅甸亚青赛，但却代表卡塔尔队参加了2015年在新西兰进行的U20世青赛以及2016年、2018年两届U23亚锦赛，也同样代表卡塔尔队参加了2017年底的海湾杯赛。

Both Moise and Ravi are players trained in the Qatar Elite Academy, which is completely different from the previous "naturalized" players in Qatar.

The AFC submitted the matter to the Disciplinary and Ethics Committee to deal with the matter, and the final ruling was:
The appeal of the UAE Football Association was rejected, and the identities of Moise and Ravi were confirmed to be correct and they can represent the Qatar national team.

Because these two people began to represent Qatar's U19 National Youth Team and U23 National Football Team in the competition a few years ago, if the AFC confirms that there is a problem with the qualifications of the two, it means that all the results in the previous competitions will need to be invalidated, which will undoubtedly trigger A series of chain reactions.

It can be seen from this incident that the rise of the Gulf team that the Huaguo team will face in the final depends on "naturalization" and more on youth training, and the team's Europeanization has been thoroughly carried out.

The last Asian Cup group stage was defeated in all three games, and the top 2022 group stage was last in the group stage more than a year ago. As the host of the [-] World Cup, the Qatar team, which suddenly kicked off, has attracted the attention of the whole of Asia.

With 6 victories and no goals conceded, and reaching the final for the first time, a young and invincible Qatar team has risen strongly in this Asian Cup. They will compete with the flourishing Hua Guo team at the top of Asia.

There is a big man who knows the ball that makes people have to convince:

Before the start of the current Asian Cup, Barcelona star Harvey, who is currently playing for the Qatar Sadd team, accurately predicted the final match.

Now it seems that Harvey's conjecture may not be as simple as "flattering" the chiefs.

Ten years ago, Qatar's "naturalized" Uruguayan striker Sebastian caused [-] injuries to the national football team in the world preliminaries.

But in that era, the immediate combat power brought by the direct purchase of foreign guns from South America did not really bring a qualitative leap to the Qatar national team.

Once the "mercenaries" built with money as a bond get into trouble, they often quickly become a mess.

After a strategic adjustment, Qatar's "Naturalization 2.0" program has shifted its main target from "foreign aid" in South America to young talents from the Middle East and North Africa, which also belong to the Arab world.

Common beliefs and more similar cultural backgrounds are more likely to form a sense of identity with the country and nation, which in turn stimulates a powerful combat effectiveness that far exceeds that of the "non-branded army" of multinational troops.

In the young Qatar team in this Asian Cup, it has been difficult to find starters who can't sing the national anthem at all.

The 8-year-old striker Moez Ali, who has scored 22 goals and tied the record of Ali Dayi, is a descendant of Sudan;

Afif Jr., his striker partner of the same age and who sent 8 assists, is a descendant of Yemen;
In the round of 21, [-]-year-old centre-back Bassam Ravi scored his second direct free kick of the tournament to knock out his native Iraq.

They all have a common label --- made by Asbel.

The success of the Qatar team in this Asian Cup has made the Asbel Sports Academy famous.

In 2005, the Asbel Football Training Camp was officially completed. The Qatari government spent more than 200 billion U.S. dollars to turn a desert not far from the Khalifa Stadium into an oasis in two years. Since then, it has become the cradle of Qatari football youth training.

Asbel training camp has 8 standard 11-a-side football fields, including an indoor football field, and has established supporting schools, dormitories, scientific research centers and five-star hotels.

By holding youth football matches in places such as Asia, Africa and Latin America, the Qatari government selects and selects elite players from all over the world, and then sends them to the Asbel Academy for training. At present, a complete U-series echelon at all levels has been established to provide layer-by-layer support for the Qatar national team Football talents, and constantly cultivate reserve forces.

The last and most critical part of Asbel's plan is to send the elite players trained by the academy to the European League.

Unlike the Saudi Football Association, which sent national players to La Liga to watch drinking fountains half a year before the opening of the World Cup, Qatar has acquired many clubs in non-mainstream leagues such as Belgium and Austria. Asbel’s outstanding students use the "Qatar" team as their base. Fully accept the tempering and baptism of European football.

When the Hua Guo team, the strongest in Asia in the next ten years, meets Qatar in the final, then Wu Lei will enter La Liga alone with the blessings of the whole village.

At the same time, Ali, Afif and Bassam Ravi, who returned from studying in Europe, a group of friends in their early 20s teamed up to bring the Qatar national team to the final of the Asian Cup.

Regardless of whether they can defeat the Hua Guo team and win the cup, the first batch of youth training products created by Asbel has just launched.

At 2:1 on February 22, the final of the 2019 UAE Asian Cup will officially start. Qatar, which entered the Asian Cup final for the first time in history, will face the Chinese team.

In the semi-finals, the Qatar team eliminated the host UAE team with four goals, while the Hua Guo team defeated the previous favorite Japan team 4-3.

At present, the two teams are in good condition. It will be announced on the evening of February 2 whether the Qatar team won the first Asian Cup championship in history and became an upstart, or the Hua Guo team won its first Asian Cup championship and dominated Asia.

Throughout the history of the Asian Cup, neither of the two teams that entered the finals has won the Asian Cup. That is to say, no matter who wins or loses, a new champion will be born in this Asian Cup.

Compared with the traditional Asian team Huaguo with a strong record recently, although the Qatar team has not won the Asian Cup championship in the past, their performance in this tournament is impressive.

At present, Qatar has blasted 6 goals in 16 games without conceding a goal, and beheaded three Asian champions Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and South Korea.

Almoez Ali has tied the record created by Ali Daei with 8 goals, and the defense line has set a record of 6 consecutive games with zero seals to create an Asian Cup record and 540 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal to create a single Asian Cup record.

Regarding the upcoming finals, Lippi, coach of the Hua Guo team, said:
"I think Qatar is a very strong team. Tomorrow's game will be difficult, but we will treat tomorrow's match as a brand new game."

Qatar coach Sanchez said:
"The Huaguo team is more impactful than Iran. They play very offensively and can play fast counterattacks efficiently. If you want to beat them, you can't make any mistakes. This is a very critical game. If you can win this Playing Qatar will make history."

Looking at the historical confrontation between the two sides, the Huaguo team has been unbeaten in the past 5 games, 3 wins and 2 draws. The latest confrontation between the two sides was in the top 12 last year. The Qatar team lost twice to the Huaguo team with Zhang Mai.

The current Qatar team has been completely reborn and has the strength to counterattack the Huaguo team in the final.

……

Soon, the time to reveal the answer will come. At 2:1 on February 22, the 2019 UAE Asian Cup will start the final competition. At the Sayyed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the Qatar team and the Hua Guo team will meet for the final.

Uzbekistan referee Irmatov served as the referee for this game. FIFA President Infantino, senior officials from the AFC and Chinese football shoes all appeared on the stage at the opening stage. Former Korean international Park Ji-sung won the championship. Trophies are delivered to the field.

Seventy percent of the fans in the auditorium came from the two participating countries. Among them, there were more than 2 Chinese fans, accounting for more than [-]%, overwhelming half of the host Qatar fans.

The starting lineups of both sides were quickly played on the sidelines:

Hua Guo Team (4-3-3):
1-Yan Junling;
3-Cai Huikang, 5-Zhang Linfan, 4-Shi Ke, 19-Liu Yang;

10-Zheng Zhi, 13-Zhang Mai, 8-Hao Junmin;
11-Zhang Yulin, 9-Gao Lin, 20-Yu Dabao.

Qatar (5-4-1):
1 - Thad-Sheb;

3-阿卜杜勒卡里姆-哈桑、4-塔里克-萨勒曼、6-哈蒂姆、16-布阿莱姆、2-佩德罗-科雷亚；
11-Akram Afef, 10-Haydos, 23-Madibo, 15-Bassam-Ravi;

19- Almoez-Ali.

In this campaign, the Hua Guo team made only one adjustment to the starting lineup. Hao Junmin entered the game to replace Wu Xi, who was injured in his left thigh;

There were two changes in the Qatar team. Bassam Ravi and Khatim both lifted their bans and returned to the starting lineup. Hajiri and Budiaf sat on the bench at the beginning of the game.

At the beginning of the first half, the Hua Guo team had a dominant ball possession rate, and several players of the Qatar team, who were on the final stage for the first time, seemed a little nervous.

In the 3rd minute, after receiving Zhang Mai's pass, Zhang Yulin missed a long shot 25 meters away in the middle.

In the 12th minute, Akram Afef passed the ball from the left, and Almoez Ali, with his back to the goal, used Zhang Linfan to stick to the defense. After bumping the ball with his left foot and right foot at 12 meters, he finally Right-footed barb shot, the ball bounced into the net from the bottom right corner of the goal.

Qatar led 1-0, and Almoez Ali broke the original single-term scoring record of Ali Daei with 9 goals.

One minute later, Qatar struck while the iron was hot, and Almoez-Ali's shot from the right side of the penalty area was blocked by Zhang Linfan.

The Huaguo team fell behind, but the players on the field remained calm and took the lead in defending well.

In the 20th minute, Zheng Zhi shoveled Afef in the midfield and received a yellow card, but effectively prevented a fast break from Qatar.

In the 27th minute, Hatim received a pass from Afef on the right rib, made a slight adjustment and cut in 26 meters to shoot with his left foot. The ball drew a beautiful arc and entered the upper left corner of the goal.

The Qatar team led 2-0, and with two rare immortals in a century, the Huaguo team once again fell behind by two goals in the first half.

Before the paper towels were taken out, the science and education film was over, and the Huaguo players on the field were a little confused, and finally came to their senses under the roars of Zhang Mai and Lippi on the sidelines.

What can we do next?One word, do it!The Hua Guo team began to play offensive football desperately.

In the 31st minute, Zhang Mai was brought down by the opponent at the front of the penalty area. Hao Junmin shot a direct free kick from the outside and bounced off the wall.

In the 35th minute, Zhang Mai scored the ball in the middle. Gao Lin's shot from the right side of the penalty area was blocked and changed slightly.

Three minutes later, Zhang Yulin headed back in the center of the penalty area, and Hao Junmin, who followed him, fired an anti-aircraft gun angrily.

After a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, the Huaguo team finally pulled back a goal in stoppage time in the first half. This time, it was Zhang Mai's personal dribbling that attracted Qatar's defense in the middle and ran into the open space.
Zheng Zhi finally received a ground ball from Zhang Mai from between his legs, and a low shot broke through the goal of Qatar.

1-2!The old captain of the Huaguo team made great contributions and helped the team catch up with the score. This is also the first goal conceded by the Qatar team in this Asian Cup.

At the end of the first half, the Qatar team led the Huaguo team 2-1 and entered the halftime break.

During the half-time break, the atmosphere in the locker room of the Hua Guo team was tense, and they had already walked 99 steps. The last difficulty was naturally particularly overwhelming.

This time Lippi laughed the whole time, encouraging the whole team to continue to work hard in the second half, and at the same time warned the players to be mentally prepared for a protracted game.

At the beginning of the second half, the murderous Huaguo team deliberately pressed the formation forward, and several big men in the frontcourt also began to strengthen their fight and overwhelm others with momentum.

In the 49th minute, Zhang Linfan used a corner kick to assist, but unfortunately the final header was high.

Two minutes later, the Huaguo team made a comeback, Zhang Mai made a false shot in the penalty area, and finally Gao Lin's shot was blocked by the Qatari defender.

In the first 10 minutes of the second half, the Qatar team was completely suppressed by the Hua Guo team and could not hit the ball to the frontcourt at all.

In the end, Qatar simply shrunk the entire field and hoarded heavy defenses in the midfield, making it difficult for Hua Guo's offensive to be effective.

In the 56th minute, Hao Junmin conceded the ball in the frontcourt, and the Qatar team took the opportunity to play a quick counterattack. Afef made a pass from the left side of the penalty area.

Then when the two sides competed for a corner kick, Bualem was pushed to the right temple by Zhang Linfan and fell to the ground. Bualem was lifted off the field by a stretcher, and Hajri of Qatar came on as a substitute.

In the 62nd minute, the Huaguo team also made personnel adjustments, replacing midfielder Liu Jianye and the thin Hao Junmin.

After Liu Jianye came off the bench, he intercepted Qatar's pass and reception twice in a short period of time, which quickly improved the hardness of the Huaguo team's midfield.

In the 69th minute, the Huaguo team started to instigate from the right. After passing by many people, Zhang Yulin made the ball. Zhang Mai succeeded in turning offside.

2-2!The Hua Guo team finally equalized the score, and Zhang Mai also scored 12 goals in this Asian Cup.

Fans across the country breathed a sigh of relief, and Lippi on the sidelines was already raising his arms and shouting.

The game continued. In the 73rd minute, Zhang Yulin received a left pass from Dabao and leaped up to hit the goal with a header. After touching the defender, he flew out of the baseline. Hua Guo took the seventh corner kick of the game.

Captain Zheng Zhi sent a corner kick, Zhang Yulin grabbed the first point in front of the goal, and the header hit the Qatari defender and changed the line. Thad Sheb was caught off guard and had to watch the ball fly into the goal.

3-2!Zhang Yulin reappeared the true qualities of a killer in the penalty area, the Huaguo team finally overtook the score, and more than 10 billion people around the world fell into a carnival.

One minute later, seeing that the situation was not good, the Qatar team replaced the exhausted captain Haidos, and came up with the new force No. 1 Budiaf.

The confrontation on the field became more intense, and the Hua Guo team still firmly held the upper hand.

In the 78th minute, Zhang Mai knocked a pass in the penalty area after breaking through, and Gao Lin turned around and shot, which was directly blocked.

In the 79th minute, there was a sudden change on the field. Hatim's left-footed shot from inside the arc of the penalty area was blocked by Zheng Zhi's toe and flew out of the baseline...

Khatim took a corner kick from the right, Abdulkareem Hassan jumped up to head the ball, the ball hit Zhang Linfan's outstretched left hand, after the VAR referee prompted, Irmatov whistled to stop the game and awarded a penalty kick .

In the 83rd minute, Qatar's penalty kick, Afef tricked Yan Junling into making a contribution to the left side of the goal.

3-3!The Hua Guo team ushered in an unexpected disaster, and the two sides drew again. Zhang Linfan, the "penalty culprit", and Afef, who undressed and celebrated after scoring, both received yellow cards.

In the 84th minute, the Huaguo team made another substitution. No. 18 Yin Hongbo came on as a substitute for Gao Lin, and Zhang Mai was pushed to the right wing position.

Lippi's thinking is obvious. If the two sides draw, the Hua Guo team will bet that their world-class striker can score again, and Yu Dabao, who is not good at shooting, can also play well as a support.

In the 86th minute, Afef was kicked down by Shi Ke, who was also given a yellow card by the referee.

In the next 1 minute, the Hua Guo team used up the last substitution quota, and No. 14 Zheng Long replaced the exhausted captain Zheng Zhi.

In the 89th minute, the true fragrance law of "two pieces together, more than two pieces" came into play again. Zheng Long took a corner kick, Zhang Linfan nodded forward to ferry the ball, and Zhang Yulin scored a header from close range.

4-3!Zhang Yulin scored twice to help the Hua Guo team beat Qatar, and once again left the opponent with less than 6 minutes.

The Hua Guo team's bench exploded again, but Lippi didn't have time to take into account the reversal, and ran to the sidelines and yelled at the players on the field to guard against death.

In the 3rd minute of stoppage time, the impetuous Qatari player moved too much, and Pedro Correa received a yellow card.

In the end, as the referee blew the final whistle, the Hua Guo team defeated Qatar 4-3 to become the champion of the 2019 UAE Asian Cup and the ninth champion in the history of the event.

Zhang Mai won the Golden Boot with 12 goals and won the MVP of the final. The Qatar team, which entered the Asian Cup final for the first time, came in second.

After the game, the AFC held the award ceremony for the current Asian Cup. Huaguo player Zhang Mai scored 12 goals and won the top scorer of the event. He also won the award for the best player in the Asian Cup. Sheb won the Best Goalkeeper award after 7 clean sheets in 6 matches, and the Qatar team won the Fair Play Award after regretting losing the championship.

(End of this chapter)