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Chapter 530 The Spring of Chinese Football

The Chinese team has advanced to the World Cup finals for two consecutive times, which has excited countless fans.They very much hope to celebrate such an important event with the team, but after they learned about the itinerary of the Chinese team, they were disappointed to find that after the away game against Iran, the national team will not return home, but transfer to China. Dow travels to Germany for the upcoming FIFA Confederations Cup in mid-June.

The prototype of the Confederations Cup can be traced back to 1980. In 1980, it coincided with the 1930th anniversary of the first World Cup held in 50. At that time, all the six national teams that had won the World Cup (the England team, the winner of the World Cup in 6, refused to participate, so they invited the Netherlands, the runner-up of the World Cup in 1966 and 1974) to borrow On this occasion, we gathered in Uruguay, which hosted the first World Cup, and played a "Little World Cup" together. The host team Uruguay took away the final championship.

It was inspired by this game that FIFA has gained good inspiration, hoping to arrange a tournament with champion teams from all continents to resolve the fans' lovesickness for the World Cup.

The true predecessor of the Confederations Cup is the King Fahd Cup, which was held in Saudi Arabia in 1992. The event is held every two years and teams from several continents are invited to compete.

FIFA officially took over the event in 1997 and named it the Confederations Cup. It is an international event that only champion teams from all continents can participate in.This event has also been strongly supported and promoted by Blatter, the former president of FIFA.

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The 2005th Confederations Cup will be held in Germany in 5.Starting from this competition, the Confederations Cup has undergone two important reforms. First, the competition system of the Confederations Cup has been changed to every four years; The "World Cup Test Match" attribute is also activated.

The teams participating in this Confederations Cup are the host team Germany, the 2002 World Cup and 2004 America's Cup champion Brazil, the 2004 European Cup champion Greece, and the 2003 Central American and Caribbean Gold Cup champion Mexico. The 2004 African Cup champion Tunisia, the 2004 Asian Cup champion China, and the 2004 Oceania Nations Cup champion Australia.

Because Brazil won the 2002 World Cup and the 2004 America's Cup at the same time, and the 2002 World Cup runner-up Germany is the host, so the 2004 America's Cup runner-up also qualified for the competition.

According to the previous draw ceremony, the host Germany, the America's Cup runner-up Argentina, the Africa Cup champion Tunisia and the Oceania Cup champion Australia were drawn into Group A, the World Cup and America's Cup champion Brazil, the European Cup champion Greece, the Gold Cup champion Mexico and the Asian Cup champion. The cup champion Chinese team was drawn to Group B.

Judging from the current world rankings of the eight teams, Group B, which gathers the No. 13 Brazil in the world, Mexico No. 14 in the world, China No. 20 in the world, and Greece No. 30 in the world, is undoubtedly the fans' heart. group of death.The Group A consisting of the world's No. [-] Argentina, the world No. [-] No. [-] Germany, the world No. [-] and No. [-] Tunisia, and the world No. [-] Australia is a little weaker.

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The Chinese team went to Germany to participate in the Confederations Cup as the first team to qualify for the World Cup in Germany, which undoubtedly stimulated the enthusiasm of domestic fans to watch the game.Coupled with the approach of summer, many people are free, so thousands of fans have bought air tickets to Germany, wanting to watch the performance of the Chinese team live.

A large number of Chinese fans bought tickets for the Confederations Cup, which made the Confederations Cup tickets, which had been in a sales crisis, suddenly become tight.

Due to the host advantage of the German team, the sales of their Group A tickets are not bad. The most popular is the tickets for the match between Germany and Argentina. This match will be held in Nuremberg. 1.8 tickets have been sold in advance. It is more than half of the Franken Stadium, which has a small capacity.

However, the ticket sales of Group B are not so satisfactory. Even though the Confederations Cup will start soon, the situation has not improved much, which makes the officials of the organizing committee very worried.

However, as the Chinese team advanced to the World Cup finals one round earlier, the enthusiasm of Chinese fans was ignited. In just three days, more than 4 tickets were sold.

In particular, the tickets for the match between the Chinese team and the Brazilian team were sold out, that is to say, the Rhine Energy Stadium, which can accommodate 50,000 people, will be full by then!
Schmidt, vice chairman of the organizing committee, is very satisfied with the ticket sales: "Such a large number of spectators will bring more viewing and a better atmosphere to the game."

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The outstanding performance of the Chinese team not only affected the football market in the Confederations Cup, but even the World Youth Championship held in the Netherlands during the same period was greatly affected.

These fans who came to Germany, because the Confederations Cup was still a few days away, so they simply went to Utrecht, the Netherlands, across the wall to watch the World Youth Championship that had already started.

Under the leadership of the German head coach Klauschen, this Chinese youth team also performed well in the competition.Before Chinese fans arrived in large numbers, they beat the powerful Turkish youth team with a score of 2:1 in the first round of the group stage and got off to a good start.Tan Wang Song opened the scoring in the game, and Zhao Yijiao scored the finale of the world wave, thus becoming famous with one goal.

Subsequently, amid the cheers of more than 5000 fans, the national youth team defeated the European third place Ukraine team with a score of 20:3 and achieved two consecutive victories after conceding a goal first and one less player on the field in the last 2 minutes. A round of promotion to the top 16, and not surprisingly, the Chinese National Youth Team will enter the quarter-finals as the top of Group B.

The performance of the national team is excellent, and the performance of the national youth team is also not bad, which makes the fans very happy. Many people have said that the spring of Chinese football has really come!
For the World Youth Championship, there are not many fans present to watch the game.So the more than 5000 Chinese fans present almost turned the Jose Alvalade Stadium into the home of the Chinese team, although the more than 5000 fans only occupied the Jose Alvala stadium that can accommodate [-] fans One-tenth of the German stadium.

After watching this game, more than 5000 Chinese fans temporarily left the Netherlands, and many people could not continue to watch the last group match of the national youth team against the Panama national youth team, because the Chinese team's first joint match We'll have a cup, and we're about to start.

Compared with the national youth team's games, fans will naturally chase after the national team's games. After all, this is their real goal of coming to Europe from thousands of miles away!
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