Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Story of the Chaebol

It seemed that Longguo had paid a lot of precious foreign exchange funds this time, but the things they bought in Nanhua were completely beyond their own measurement.

After contentedly spending most of the reserved foreign exchange, the arms deal between Nanhua and Longguo came to an end.

Shortly after Long Guo and Hans's delegation left Nanhua, the quadrennial Nanhua Empire Cup Football Tournament arrived as scheduled.

Compared to the first Imperial Cup, this year's competition not only made changes to the competition system, but the organizing committee also opened up the eligibility of all states and special provinces.

There were only 48 teams participating in the first competition, but the number of participating teams in this competition reached .

The forty-eight teams are divided into eight groups. The top three in each group will advance to the next round, while the bottom three will be eliminated directly.

Today, there is still a big gap in football strength among the various states and special provinces in South China.

Strong countries like Nanhua, Xihua, Longhua, etc. have been able to enter the World Cup finals for a long time, while weaker ones like the Kingdom of Southern Thailand cannot even find a professional football club.

Precisely because of the large gap in strength among the participating teams, the strength gap between the groups in the first round of competition is still quite obvious.

With the end of the first round of the tournament, except for one or two occasional upsets, the results of most group matches were that the strong teams advanced and the weak teams were eliminated.

"Father, which team do you think has the best chance of winning the Empire Cup?"

"It's more likely to be South China or West China. The strength gap between the two national teams is not big now, so it's possible for either of them to win."

"Father, what you said makes sense, but I think the Kingdom of Ackerman and the Kingdom of Anhua also have a good chance of competing for the championship in this Empire Cup."

"I can understand you saying that Ackerman has a chance, but what's going on with Anwar?"

"Father, although you have abdicated now, you should also pay proper attention to the domestic situation. The Anhua Kingdom has developed very rapidly in the past few years. Now the GDP of the Anhua Kingdom has jumped from the original seventh place to the third place in the empire. In addition to the empire and the Xihua Kingdom, the next one is the Anhua Kingdom."

“What is Anwar’s GDP now?”

"3900 billion South Yuan."

"so tall?"

"In fact, even the Kingdom of South Africa did not expect that its perennial third place position would be snatched away by someone else. Since Anhua's economy caught up, Anhua has always attached great importance to investing in the sports industry. In the past two years, the performance of the South China national football team has been very good. Not long ago, in the Southern African Regional Invitational Tournament, the Anhua team defeated old and strong teams such as West China and South Africa to win the championship of the event."

"If you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't know. But even so, I'd still rather believe in the South China team and the West China team. Let's make a bet. If the South China or West China team wins the Empire Cup, you have to promise me that you won't bother me for a year because of trivial matters. If Ackerman and Anhua win, I'll give you something good."

"What good stuff?"

"I can't tell you now, but you just need to know that I have plenty of good stuff, and I will never let you suffer any loss when the time comes."

"Okay, then everything will be done as you say, Father."

The father and son made a bet as if it was a joke. Originally, both father and son were full of confidence in the team they supported, but who could have thought that a super dark horse would emerge in this Empire Cup.

As the competition continued, the originally popular seeded teams all made it to the quarterfinals. At this point, the strength gap between the teams was actually not that big.

It is precisely because of this that in the quarter-finals, the original favorites to win the championship, Ackerman, Xihua and Anhua, were all blocked from entering the semi-finals.

Regardless of whether the South China team can win the championship in the end, Sun Jingwen is bound to lose the bet made between Sun Tong and his father.

The teams that finally made it to the semi-finals were South China, Ceylon, Western Australia and the Singapore team of this tournament.

The first three teams are considered to be veteran powerhouses in South China, while the Xingjiapo team is relatively not that impressive.

The football industry in Singapore is very developed, which is all based on the domestic professional league. As for the Singapore team, it has always been very strong in various domestic competitions.

The reason why Xingjiaopo has been able to rise is mainly because they are rich. As one of the richest cities, they do not have football talents of their own, but they can recruit people from other places.

Isn't it just money?

Don’t worry that I don’t have money, I’m just worried that you won’t come!

This time, Singapore has demonstrated to other countries and regions the "golden dollar football". Since it is very convenient to transfer the household registration, it is conceivable that in the future, for the sake of domestic competitions, each team will definitely increase its efforts to attract talents.

This is definitely not what the royal family and the Football Association want to see, but there is no need to rush to deal with it for the time being. No matter what, it still depends on the attitude of local football afterwards. As long as it is not too excessive, it is better to let the local football associations compete with each other to prevent them from neglecting local football talents.