The Ball at Your Feet

The Chinese team played a counterfeit?

When Zhao Yaning heard the news, he was a little confused. Where did he start?

Soon, he understood the ins and outs of the matter.

After the Chinese team defeated South Korea 2-0, Saudi Arabia blatantly kicked a fake: they also lost to Uzbekistan, allowing Uzbekistan and South Korea to score seven points together. With a goal difference, they ranked No. 1 in the group. Third, they are eligible to compete against the Bahrain team, and then compete with North American teams for the right to qualify. This result has also made South Korea be squeezed out of the World Cup finals.

Naturally, Koreans cannot accept such things. After the AFC clamored several times to no avail, in October, watching the match day between Bahrain and Uzbekistan approaching, to decide who gets the half of the quota, the Koreans used a method that normal humans can't even imagine. : Millions of Koreans also wrote emails to FIFA asking the Koreans and Bahrain and Uzbekistan to play-off to get World Cup places. The amount of their emails just exploded the FIFA mailbox. In order to avoid problems, FIFA even had to close the public mailbox to prevent this kind of mailbox explosion from continuing to happen.

By this means, the Koreans have attracted enough attention from FIFA. They clamored for a rematch. In their view, it is impossible for the Koreans to fail to enter the World Cup finals. This must be caused by China and Saudi Arabia playing counterfeit matches. Otherwise, how could they lose? You know, South Korea was the top four team in the last World Cup. How could it not make it to the finals?

However, this kind of thing, everyone knows that it can't happen-once it is admitted that there is a match-fixing in the group stage, how much will the reputation of the World Cup drop in the future? The World Cup is FIFA’s biggest cash cow. In any case, there can be no such nonsense. The various extra-long stoppage times in Africa and South America have caused misjudgments of bloodshed. Don't they all recognize it? Naturally, Asia can no longer rematch. And let’s say: The group stage lasts as many as six matches. After the rematch, how much work is that? Which club will agree that its players have nothing to do and play six more national team games? And the World Cup is coming soon, who has time to play so many games?

What's more, what the Koreans say is totally unreasonable. The competition is not to look at the results, but to look at the results of your last competition? In that case, what else are you doing in the competition? See who owns the last championship, and just give it to whoever you want.

After the South Koreans yelled for no results for many times, they once again threw out a new argument: They believe that Saudi Arabia and China lost to Uzbekistan in a match-fixing, and it was a deliberate loss in order to exclude the Koreans. Otherwise, the two national teams, even South Korea can win, how could they lose to a team like Uzbekistan?

It is precisely because of this accusation from South Korea that Zhao Yaning suddenly had to face the allegations of match-fixing. Although he didn't play that game at all, this is exactly what the Koreans blamed: they accused the Chinese of deliberately not sending top players to lose to Uzbekistan in order to get the Koreans out of the finals.

What Benitez is worried about is that Zhao Yaning wants to go home to explain to the Football Association. But Zhao Yaning will not go back to this kind of problem-let alone Zhang Yuan to deal with him, even without Zhang Yuan, the Football Association will not be stupid, and put this problem on him.

As for this question, Zhao Yaning didn't think it was a big deal. He specially invited the media and wanted to explain.

But his explanation became more confused as he explained it.

"You mean, you were not there in the away game where the Chinese team lost to Uzbekistan. So, you don't know whether the Chinese team played a counterfeit in that game, did you?"

After Zhao Yaning explained that he was absent from the game, the reporter immediately put forward his own reasoning.

"No, that game was not a match-fixing. I asked my teammates, and, just by looking at the game, it was really not a match-fixing that made the team lose." Zhao Yaning explained, "We had a lot of problems in that match. Neither Manchester City’s Sun Jihe and I were able to rush back in time, and our main striker was missing due to injury, and the main central defender was banned by the Chinese Football Association. Few main players were on the court and the team was defeated."

"But, the world preliminaries don't recall the best players. Isn't this in itself a false match?"

"Of course not." Zhao Yaning shook his head, "Sun Jihe has an injury, do you know this? It was caused by Goodjohnson. Our main forward is in his 30s and has played more than 100 games for the national team. Yes, his age and injuries are normal, right? I couldn’t return to the country to participate in the game because of other things. Our main central defender was suspended for malicious fouls in the AFC Champions League. These are all The reason."

Zhao Yaning's explanation was quickly published in the newspaper. But his explanation is useless, because at this time, in order to appease the emotions of the Koreans-or in other words, FIFA in order to prevent its mailbox from being flooded by the tide of spam, FIFA decided to deal with this Things are coordinated.

The result of their coordination is also very simple: after negotiations, the AFC announced that the play-offs between Bahrain and Uzbekistan, which had been completed, were due to referee enforcement issues, and rematches were required. Thanks to South Korea’s efforts, Uzbekistan ‘voluntarily’ withdrew from the competition for places in the World Preliminaries. Since they withdrew, they have to be filled up. South Korea, as the third in the group, naturally fills up the place.

Everyone can understand that this is basically opening the back door for the Koreans: everyone knows that it is impossible for the Koreans to be blasted out of the World Cup if Hyundai Group is a major sponsor of FIFA. It's the same truth as the Japanese, who takes care of half of the AFC's expenses, are always taken care of by the AFC.

Such a thing is not a big deal, but at this time, FIFA’s decision still caused Zhao Yaning to be in huge trouble: the Golden Globe Award selection is about to begin, and Zhao Yaning, as the most powerful contender, unexpectedly There is a match-fixing scandal, such a thing, even if it is finally confirmed that it is not true, it will greatly damage Zhao Yaning's reputation!

After all, the Golden Globe is a competition, and the impression score is very important. As a player, malicious fouls, lies and denials, and lighter flops are all very annoying. And match-fixing is the top priority of all problems.

If he was really involved in a match-fixing case, then, even if he was covered in mouth, Zhao Yaning would not be able to explain clearly.

But the more gratifying thing is that because it was South Korea that was hacked, most of the European media still didn't say anything. The Italians and Spaniards have the same idea about this: it doesn’t matter whether it is a match-fixing or not. This result is regrettable. In fact, if it is a match-fixing, it’s good. The Koreans dare to hack Spain and Italy, they deserve to be hacked.

In Italy, the Western media all support Zhao Yaning, and the French media also support Zhao Yaning. However, only the English media did not hesitate to dig into this, carefully searching through the records of each match, trying to prove the match-fixing cases that took place far away in Asia. It proves that Liverpool's Zhao Yaning and Manchester United's Park Ji-sung have a grudge against the national team, so that the double red will have a new meaning and add new content to this hatred.

For these media, although many people have made accusations, what is impossible for the English media who can still dig into the scandals of their own national players on the eve of the World Cup? They never felt that they and the players were on the same side. Moreover, thanks to their efforts, the Italians have also started to make a fuss. Some Italian media have begun to break the news that it is the matter of Istanbul and that it is a match-fixing caused by the injection of funds.

A game like a match-fixing, easy to explain. However, under the hype of the media, such a thing, even if it is explained clearly, will affect the player's image. Although Zhao Yaning himself has a clear conscience, many people are still beginning to wonder whether Zhao Yaning's championship is true and whether he should be evaluated in international football. Spanish football is the most quarrelsome. They are thinking about drawing votes for La Liga. The Germans are also talking coldly because of Germany's loss in the Confederations Cup. Although they did not directly point Zhao Yaning to the counterfeit, their attitude is very unfriendly, even Others have thrown out UEFA conspiracy theories, believing that Zhao Yaning's success in winning the Champions League is the result of UEFA's in order to attract the Asian market and let Asians watch the Champions League more.

"UEFA also has its own interests." In this regard, some media doubts, although vague, but very sharp, "When they want to expand the influence of the Champions League in certain regions, they may have their own interests. After all, if you can gain a huge market, UEFA’s benefits are quite large. In this case, should the player’s honor be subject to some scrutiny before considering whether Awarded? Especially when the player’s country is still a big country with frequent sports bans in the world."

At the beginning, although I did not clarify the words, I was very clear: In addition to European countries, the Chinese two played the most in sports bans, and no one in the United States played in the Champions League. Who else are they referring to? ?

"Perhaps the biggest liar in football"-such a headline was finally first mentioned in the Catalan "News of the World", and soon, such an article was widely spread among journalists from various countries. Spread. It's almost become a fact to get the second Golden Globe Award by kicking a fake ball.

However, under repeated investigations by the English media, the matter has made a new breakthrough: after the story of Coopers was uncovered, the matter seemed to be further settled. Zhao Yaning’s enlightenment coaches were all suspected of being deprived of their coaching qualifications in the match-fixing case. What good things can Zhao Yaning learn from such a coach?

"Mr. Kubis is still a good coach, and the rumors are wrong." When the media asked this question, Zhao Yaning was also irritated, "I don't bother to care what you think, anyway, I didn't play a fake match!"

Zhao Yaning's temper has always been very mild ~www.ltnovel.com~ But for some people, he can't allow the media to insult casually. Coach Kubis brought him to Ajaccio and gave him the main position, allowing him to perform in the toughest time. This also made Zhao Yaning grateful for him. And now, some people have spoken harshly to Kubis, and finally made Zhao Yaning, who has always been gentle, angry.

"You should control your own emotions a little bit." After arriving in the team, Benitez said to him.

"I see." Zhao Yaning knew that his attitude was indeed out of control-he didn't care about the Golden Globe Awards. In fact, if it was really just a general selection, he would lose. Last year, he lost to Sheva, and he did not lose control. However, this kind of imposing a notoriety on him, and then accusing him of this as a reason, saying that he is not worthy of the Golden Globe Award, he can hardly accept it. He may not have that prize, but being accused of kick-fixing makes him a little unbearable: he has never done that kind of thing in the national team.

"Perhaps, you should have a good talk with someone." At the club, Moreau stopped him after he finished training, "Let's go, go for a drink, let's talk."——

ps: The fact that the Koreans wrote and exploded their mailboxes was a real incident. After the 2006 World Cup group stage, they wrote to ask for a rematch with Switzerland, because they were fourth in the previous year and should not be eliminated by the group... Because too many letters caused trouble, FIFA was forced to close the mailbox and refused the request. In addition, Bahrain and Uzbekistan did rematch that year.