Frenzy [football]

[This is an unprecedented, grand Champions League]

[Championship teams from six continents around the world! 】

When Lei Yi clicked on the World Cup promotional video on FIFA's Facebook, he saw these two words that made his eyes light up.What immediately appeared in front of his eyes was his good friend Tigos and his own scoring clips in the UEFA Champions League last season!

[Europe, 12 seats.Champions League semi-finals that year, Champions League semi-finals the previous year] [South America, 6 seats.Libertadores Cup semi-finals, UEFA Cup champion and runner-up] In this promotional video, the six continents of the world appear in order according to the number of seats they get.Since the new year's Champions League has not yet started, the National Football Federation first edited the game screens of the top four teams in the Champions League last season into the "football power" from Europa.As the strongest supernova in Europe who jointly won the European Golden Boot this season, the Premier League Manchester United and Serie A Lazio, where Tigos and Lei Yi played respectively, are naturally leading the scene.

And then, of course, the team from South America!

Corinthians Brazil, Atletico Mineiro Brazil, River Plate Argentina, Boca Juniors Argentina, Olympia Paraguay, Tigers Mexico.These are South American powerhouses whose names you may have heard but not recognize.In the current five major European leagues, there are too many impressive players who come from there.

As the most intensive schedule in the world and naturally belongs to the soil of football, South America needs to make the biggest adjustments to match the World Cup.

Regardless of the domestic interstate championships, leagues and cups of various countries in South America, they will need to hold the Copa Libertadores, which symbolizes the highest honor of football in South America, from January to July every year.From August to December is the South American Club Cup with a lower gold content.More importantly, in South America, a team that is powerful enough will be able to win the championship trophies of the Libertadores Cup and the Club Cup at the same time!This means that these two separate events can be played at the same time!

And now, in order to allow those strong teams from South America to play a stronger and more determined force in the World Cup from March to July, the South American Football Confederation simply changed the schedule of the South American Libertadores Cup and the South American Club Cup. All fell.Starting from 2043, from January to May every year has become the competition time for the South American Club Cup, and the Libertadores Cup has been moved to June to December every year!

[Asia, 5 seats.AFC Champions League Final Four, AFC Cup]

[CONCACAF, 4 seats, CONCACAF Champions Cup semi-finals] [Africa, 4 seats, African Champions Cup semi-finals]

Asia, this is a soil that is still developing for football.People here are very late to football and don't have much tradition associated with modern football.But in the Club World Cup in recent years, Asia has always ranked well behind Europe and South America.

But Asia is too big, and the number of teams here will surely amaze people who don't know her well.So five seats may still be too little for this continent.

This is a short promotional video of just over two minutes, but in such a short period of time, it took people on a grand tour of the current football champions from six continents.

It wasn't just the wonderful performances those teams put on the pitch.In fact, there are also their respective home stadiums and the beautiful scenery of their cities in this short film.

It will of course be a continent-spanning clash of champions.

And it is likely to be between continents, a collision of football culture and ideas in various places.

Lei Yi, who was staring at the promotional video without blinking, certainly couldn't think of so much at this time.He just felt his blood boil while watching such a promotional video!When the final scene of the promotional video follows the sponsor of the World Cup, the Four Continents Superconducting Maglev train began to spin rapidly in the full vacuum tunnel, he stood up all of a sudden, and even the chair behind him was hit by him fall down!

But at this moment, Lei Yi didn't even have the patience to lift the chair up, so he wanted to take his ball and rush out for a couple of laps on a rainy day!

He had never been so eager to hope that a certain moment, which was still a long time away, would come soon!

Just like his good friend Tigos told him on the phone, they are going to play the World Cup!

Put on a hoodie with long and short legs, put the hood on, and run downstairs with a football in your hand and go out the door!

This is Rome in Italy, a city that often looks a bit dilapidated. Compared with Milan in the north, it is hard to believe that this is the capital of Rome.At the same time, this is also the city that Lei Yi liked very much when he first came here!

When Lei Yi finished watching the promotional video that made his blood boil and he couldn't wait, he ran down the street with the ball, juggling the ball, dribbling, and changing speed sharply, and saw the compact buildings in the classical He will feel that he likes this place even more if it shows that kind of condensed historical building again!

It's just that Lei Yi, who was carefree and running in the rain in this city where he wanted to stay longer and longer, didn't know that a huge change was about to rain down on his career.

"Gazzetta dello Sport: The chairman of Lazio is deeply involved in financial crisis and economic lawsuits, and the team may not be able to complete the registration for the new season." I called their police station and asked, it's true. Why don't you come back now...?"

This morning, when Lei Yi was out for a morning run, the music he was listening to was cut off because of a phone call from his mother.Then, Lei Yi, who was five kilometers away from home, heard such a sentence.

"The police...want to find me?"

Lei Yi who heard that sentence was taken aback for a moment, then he couldn't figure out what was going on and repeated like this.Then, he got an affirmative answer.So Lei Yi, who was very confused and kept muttering in his heart, could only stop a taxi on the road and rush home like that.

"Hi ha. Now there is an economic lawsuit that requires you to go back to the police station with us to assist in the investigation."

When Lei Yi felt a little nervous and opened the door of his house, two policemen were already sitting in the living room of their house waiting for him.However, the water his mother poured for the two policemen hadn't even touched a sip. The atmosphere was too serious, or it made Lei Yi feel a little uneasy.Obviously such a situation should never happen in his home in his opinion.

"I want to know what kind of economic lawsuit it is. If it doesn't really have something to do with me, I don't think I should go back to the police station with you."

Although he has been in football all the way, Lei Yi has always been a super genius who has been placed in a position that needs protection and care by his club coach and teammates.But when he saw the two policemen at his home, his wild intuition finally worked and made him ask such a sentence.

"The parent company that holds Lazio has a big problem with its accounts. It defaulted on a large loan to the bank, but in May this year, the parent company also injected a lot of money into Lazio. We now suspect you The president of the club is using the team to launder money and needs your assistance in our investigation."

The policeman who said this to Lei Yi raised his brows, with a look of "I'm sorry", but obviously he didn't have the kind of emotion commensurate with his expression.But at this moment Lei Yi has no time to think about those, his whole mind has gone blank because of that sentence.

His father couldn't understand such complicated Italian sentences, but after seeing Lei Yi's reaction, he tried to ask him something.But those were stopped by Lei Yi raising his hand.

Finally, Lei Yi asked: "Now, now?"

"Yes, now." The middle-aged policeman replied.

Just like that, Lei Yi left with the two policemen after telling his parents, "I won't come back for lunch."But on the way to the police station in the police car, sitting in the back seat with another policeman, he couldn't figure it out.He couldn't understand how the team he played for had financial problems, let alone how the chairman owed a large sum of money to the bank and didn't pay it out.He tried to ask the two policemen something, but only got an answer that they couldn't say a word more.

It was a morning full of joy and energy, but in just one hour, it felt like the sky was falling.And this feeling rose to Phoenix when Lei Yi entered the police station, and when he walked through a corridor, he saw Captain Gazola, who had arrived earlier than him, and was already taking notes.

"name."

"Leiy."

"age."

"21 is old."

The police officer in charge of Lei Yi didn't seem to have a good temper. The moment Lei Yi walked into the glass compartment, he made people feel unreasonably cold and looked at him uncomfortably.After two simple routine questions, the police officer began to look at the situation in his hands, and stared at Lei Yi to size him up.

After a while, he said in the tone of interrogating prisoners: "Do you remember the amount of bonuses that Lazio gave you at the end of last season?"

Although he had never experienced this kind of battle on the way here, Lei Yi, who was almost scared to death, had already thought a lot about it.But when he really heard this question, he still reacted slowly and froze for a while.

After a while, Lei Yi said: "I...don't remember that much."

The police officer sitting opposite him exhaled through his nose, then put down the booklet and asked, "Don't you even remember how much bonus you get from the club every year? Mr. Leiy."

"I, I don't really remember these things. I only care about playing football. I don't even have a contract with the club..."

"Mr. Leiy." When Lei Yi was about to say more, the police officer interrupted him, and said in a displeased manner: "I am seriously and very seriously inviting you Assist our investigation. Please don't deliberately change the subject at this time, and consciously cover up your club's behavior. Otherwise, we will feel very troubled."

As he spoke, the police officer raised his eyebrows to Lei Yi as a signal to Lei Yi, and asked him if he understood what he meant.In this regard, the long and short legs just nodded slowly after breathing anxiously.

"So let me ask you again, do you remember the amount of bonuses that Lazio gave you at the end of last season?"

"150 million euros... maybe."

"But according to our investigation of Lazio's financial situation, they give you much more money in the name of bonuses. It makes us very puzzled."

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