It wasn't that Yang Chen was surprised, there was indeed a major matter that needed Zhuo Yang to make a decision immediately.
——The Brazilian Football Association officially sent a letter to the Chinese Football Association: inviting the Chinese national team to participate in the 46th America's Cup to be held in Brazil from June 15 to July 7, 2019.
The America's Cup is a mess, the World Cup and the European Cup are held every four years, but it's hard to tell how many years the America's Cup happens, especially in recent years it feels like it happens every year.
As a pole of football, the America's Cup held in South America was founded very early. Argentina hosted the first competition in 1916. It has a history of more than a hundred years and is the oldest intercontinental competition in the world.
The World Cup started in 1930 and has been held for 21 times. The European Cup started in 1956 after World War II and has been held for 15 times. Next year’s America’s Cup will be the 46th, which is half as big as the Asian Cup combined.
In the early years, the America's Cup was basically held once a year. After the 12th edition in 1929, it was changed to roughly once every two years, but there is no precise number. It does feel like it can be done on a whim.
At its most extreme, the Copa America was held twice in 1959, once by Argentina in March and again by Ecuador in December. So far, there have been 27 Copa Americas in 43 years.
After that, South America steadily implemented a four-year interval, which was actually a quite reasonable span. However, the Americans, who regarded rules as dirt, could not bear the loneliness, and only twenty years later they returned to biennial meetings.
With the recovery and re-prosperity of the European economy after World War II, European football has also taken over the world. The elite spectacle of the European Cup cannot be compared to the America's Cup. Maybe South America is thinking that quality is not enough for quantity.
This is actually easy to understand, but what the hell is it that has been held every three years since 2001? It is obviously not the way to live. So, starting from 2007, the America's Cup has made it clear that it will be held every four years, and it will be held in a staggered year with the World Cup and European Cup.
, let’s not fight in the ring. If you can’t afford to offend me, I can afford to hide.
During this period, except for the 2016 America's Cup, which was added out of thin air in the United States to commemorate the centenary of the America's Cup, the others were not chaotic. 2019 was a good year.
South America is a vast territory, but CONMEBOL has only ten member countries. With so few teams playing, it will be difficult to divide the teams into groups. In the beginning, it was either 55 or 433, which is outrageous.
After a chaotic battle, they made it through the group stage and entered the quarterfinals. In fact, only two teams were eliminated. It was boring.
Therefore, starting from the 36th session in 1993, due to geographical relations, the America's Cup invited Mexico and the United States from the Concacaf Association to participate. Finally, 12 teams were gathered and divided equally into three groups.
Although Mexico, which participated as a wild card for the first time, made a splash and reached the final in one breath. If it were not for the Argentine national team, which lacked Maradona, and won the championship 2:1 with Batty's two goals, the South Americans would have lost the championship.
It was a big loss, but the 102 America's Cup format has been fixed since then, and Mexico has become the most stable wild card team.
In 2001, the Mexicans did it again. They lost to the host Colombia 0:1 in the final. The goal scorer was the outstanding representative of the short man-marking center and back, Inter Milan star Cordoba.
Although Mexico is good and its football style is suitable, modern football cannot be separated from commercial factors. Mexico cannot bring much additional traffic and wealth to South America, as well as the attention of the world. The United States, Costa Rica, and Jamaica were once wild cards.
Team, the influence is not as good as Mexico.
After learning from the painful experience, in order not to be left too far behind by the European Cup, CONMEBOL is determined to make some changes to expand the influence of the America's Cup beyond the isolated island of America.
There are a large number of Chinese immigrants in South America, China is the most dynamic emerging market in the world, Zhuo Yang is the number one player in football today, and the Chinese national team does not yet have the strength to overturn South America. Taken together, these factors make it obvious that the Chinese team is ideal.
Target.
After the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, CONMEBOL and the Chinese Football Association had already started negotiations on participating in the 44th Copa America in Chile in 2015, but Zhuoyang's sudden accident ended the process.
Chinese football was in chaos, and the Football Association had no intention of causing trouble. And because of the loss of Zhuo Yang's golden signature, South America's interest in the Chinese team also quickly declined. In the end, both parties gave up on the matter with a tacit understanding, and Jamaica became the replacement.
In fact, as early as the 39th America's Cup in Paraguay in 1999, Japan participated in the competition as the first Asian wild card team in the history of the America's Cup. That time, it was not the South American Football Association's initiative to invite, but Japan, which has deep pockets, provided money.
The Japanese, who were full of enthusiasm, had the ambition to go to South America. After a chaotic battle, they ended up at the bottom of the group with three games, one draw and two losses, which directly made Troussier lament the harshness of the world. In order to take care of the Japanese, they were deliberately allowed to avoid South America's traditional three-game group.
Strong, but Japan still lost to Peru and Paraguay, and just barely tied with Bolivia.
It's not interesting, and I won't want to go to Japan after that. Wouldn't it be nice to be the king and hegemon in Asia?
But now and then, CONMEBOL is determined to "go global" in 2019, and the first thing that comes to mind is Japan.
Due to the geographical limitations of the small island country, the doomsday crisis has always hung over the Japanese. Without long-term concerns, there must be immediate worries. Planned immigration to South America is Japan's national strategy and has been implemented for nearly a hundred years.
Today, Japan’s influence in South America is very deep, second only to the United States, which regards America as its back garden, and Spain and Portugal, the two Latin American metropolitan countries. The number of Japanese immigrants and their descendants is no less than that of the Chinese, and their culture and
The economic impact is much greater.
Teng Sen, a descendant of Japan, served as the president of Chile, Sergio Aguero's favorite cartoon is "Captain", and Messi's wife Antonella loves flower arrangements and tea ceremonies. These are all manifestations of Japanese influence.
Therefore, inviting Japan to participate has a broad economic and public base. The Japanese, who care about food but not about beatings, have also forgotten the pain of being beaten 20 years ago. They feel that they are capable again, and they hit it off immediately.
The other wild card team was originally planned to be Qatar, because they had money and were more generous than the Japanese. At first, CONMEBOL did not consider the Chinese team. The fruitless cooperation made both sides feel that the other was unreliable, so they didn't mention it.
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Changes came from Brazil being eliminated and being eliminated by the Chinese team in the 2018 World Cup.
The bookmakers take turns. Brazil is the host country of the 2019 Copa America. Due to commercial development factors, the host country has a very high say in inviting wild cards. Moreover, their name is Brazil and they are the first talkers of South American Football Confederation.
In the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Russia, the Chinese team eliminated Brazil with penalty kicks and succeeded in revenge. It was the Brazilians who needed revenge. Moreover, the penalty shootout of 3:0 was too eye-catching, and the die-hard fans' defection on the spot was too humiliating. The Brazilians could not take revenge at all.
overnight.
After returning crying, the Brazilian still suffered from kidney pain.
The next time we meet at the World Cup, we still don’t know whether the murderous Zhuo Yang will still be there or not. After all, he is 33 years old. The Brazilians who can’t wait can’t hold another friendly match. The local America’s Cup has become the most popular one.
An ideal stage for revenge.
Without further ado, the top brass of the Brazilian Football Association held an emergency meeting and immediately reached a consensus on abandoning Qatar and inviting the Chinese team to participate. As a result, the Brazilian Football Association, which has never been so efficient, directly sent the invitation letter to the Chinese Football Association.
Any conditions can be negotiated, as long as you can come and compete.
There is equality of status between the Football Association and the Football Association, but all major decisions in Chinese football cannot be made without Zhuo Yang. He has the power of veto and the final word.
So there was a shocking phone call from Yang Chen, the national team’s resident manager.
Yang Chen was overjoyed after receiving the notice, not because of the America's Cup, but because of Zhuo Yang.
Zhuo Yang showed signs of retiring, and Yang Chen felt it, but he had no evidence, and he didn't dare to verify it. The sky is falling, everyone has some ostrich attributes, and Yang Chen is no exception.
The wild card invitation of the America's Cup has become an opportunity. Anything that can make Zhuo Yang happy and impress Zhuo Yang to continue his interest in football, Yang Chen will enthusiastically agree.
The America's Cup is not important, but the new temptation of the America's Cup, if it can make Zhuo Yang change his mind, Yang Chen wouldn't mind giving the Brazilian a thumbs up.
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Zhuo Yang got up very late, not because he was pretending not to take it seriously, but because Yang Chen didn't call him early in the morning. This evening was the final match for the third and fourth place finals, and the entire national team had a little more sleep.
Yesterday's drunkenness has subsided, but the words of the two football champions are still confused in Zhuoyang's mind. Pointing out the problem is one aspect, and whether it can be solved is the key. Zhuoyang has no clue.
His decision to retire may seem impulsive, but once Zhuo Yang makes a decision, he will not change it easily even if he is impulsive. If he cannot figure out the puzzle of the ball king's guidance as soon as possible and cannot prove their correctness with actions, Zhuo Yang will retire.
I will not entangle and persecute myself too much.
To pursue his position, Zhuo Yang is the captain of the national team one day and the talker of Chinese football the next, so he has to shoulder the responsibility of making decisions.
After listening to Yang Chen's introduction to the cause of the matter, Zhuo Yang did not make a hasty decision. The national team's expedition was a big event, and it was not enough to just slap him on the head.
“Are there any schedule conflicts?”
"No. The 2022 World Cup qualifiers will not start until September next year, and the friendly matches that have been finalized will also be in the first half of the year. June and July happen to be the window period for the national team."
"Is there any foreign affairs mission?"
"No, there are no arrangements so far."
"Okay. Lao Yang, Brother Zha, what do you think?"
Yang Chen and Sforza said in unison: "Fight."
"Then let's fight." Zhuoyang decided: "Notify the Football Association and as long as the conditions are right, we should come down."
"Yeah~~~" Yang Chen jumped up excitedly, without the poise of a leader.
Zhuo Yang knew how excited he was, and his abnormality caught Yang Chen's eyes. How could Lao Yang's anxiety escape Zhuo Yang's observation.
However, Yang Chen overthought it. Zhuo Yang agreed that the national football team would participate in the America's Cup a year later, purely out of the principle of benefiting the national team. The more high-level competitions, the better. It did not mean that he had changed his decision.
With or without Zhuoyang, the national team will go to the America's Cup. As for whether the Brazilians will be disappointed, or even curse, and worry about Zhuoyang.
So, the matter was settled, and the players were notified. Except for ambition, everyone is looking forward to next summer.
Chapter completed!