Golden Greenery

World Football Challenge (World Football Challenge), referred to as the World Challenge, is a very strange event held in the United States.

It's strange because there is no fixed competition system, or even a formal competition system. There is neither rotation nor elimination. It kind of means that you can fight how you want and fight whoever you want.

At that time, the competition was quite formal. AC Milan, Inter Milan, Chelsea, and America America were four teams in a single cycle. Six games were held in six cities in the United States. In the end, Inter Milan won the championship and AC Milan came last.

The World Championship will not be held next year due to the World Cup. But in the second session last year, it was very lively. A total of ten teams participated, nine of which each selected their opponents to play three games. Sporting Lisbon alone only played one game.

In the end, Real Madrid won three games and accumulated 17 points to become the champion. That's right, it's 17 points, and the goals scored will also count towards the points. This is very American.

The first two sessions happened to coincide with Zhuoyang's transfer season, so he didn't catch up with the excitement because it was finalized at the last minute, but he caught up this year. As soon as August arrived, the entire Real Madrid team came to the noisy United States.

After an inexplicable defeat to Benfica, they returned to Madrid and the European internationals returned to the team. Casillas, Shui Ye, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dirty Dancing, Arbeloa, Pepe, Coentrao, Detu, Khedira, Erdogan, Benzema, including Carvalho who was originally going to transfer. is back for a new season.

Except for Marcelo, who is competing in the Olympic Games in London with the Brazilian National Olympic Committee, all members of Real Madrid are present. Then he left for the United States to participate in the third World Championship with a total of eleven teams participating.

The World Championship is actually also called the ‘Herbalife World Football Challenge’.

Herbalife is a large-scale nutrition and weight management company that sells health care products.

Herbalife is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, and is a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange. It sponsors more than two hundred well-known athletes around the world, including Zhuo Yang, Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo and Cassie.

Herbalife can become associated with football, and the origin of the World Championship actually has a lot to do with Zhuo Yang.

In the summer of 2005, Zhuo Qiu, the general manager of the fledgling "Yiyang Domain", made a big move and organized six of the top European teams at the time to hold the "Top Six China Tournament" in China.

Madiburg, Juventus, Bayern, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester United,

The Six Musketeers brothers are on the team, so this game is also called the "Six Musketeers China Game".

During the event, Zhuo Qiu invited guests and friends, and luxury merchants from many fields participated. In terms of health products, Herbalife from the United States was involved.

That event was very successful, and all participating merchants greatly expanded their markets and potential markets. Herbalife benefited from the event, and CEO Michael Johnson and Zhuo Qiu established a good cooperative relationship.

In the following years, Herbalife and Yiyang cooperated in the field and used the summer vacation to organize some scattered commercial events, making the cooperation between the two parties more mature, and finally launched the ‘World Football Challenge’ sponsored by Herbalife in February.

Yiyang Domain is a family business of the old Zhuo family, so the eldest sister and Zhuo Yang are actually the bosses behind the World Challenge.

The World Championship is very unique. Although the competition system is absurd, it is in line with the Americans' unconventional and innovative taste. Over the past few years, the World Championship has become a star product of global football business competitions. Many European giants are eager to come to the United States for training in the summer.

After all, there are so many strong teams gathered together, they can practice, compete and make money, and they have also developed the huge potential football market in the United States, so why not do it.

Having fun alone is not as good as having fun together. Yiyang Realm and Herbalife have decided to make the plate bigger and let more teams and brands participate. This year’s third World Championship is likely to be the last one, and the new and more formal ‘International Champions Cup’ (International Champions Cup) is under comprehensive planning.

Starting next year, the International Champions Cup will replace the World Championship and become the pinnacle of football commercial events, no less than the Toyota Cup of the past.

To be honest, in terms of transfer operations and business negotiations, Fatty Raiola does not admire Zhuo Qiu very much, but in higher-level fields such as market development and large-scale event organization, Fatty admires his elder sister to the ground.

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The third World Championship is as informal as ever. The eleven teams are neither divided into groups nor rotated. They only find opponents to fight based on mutual wishes and event arrangements. Moreover, each team participates in a different number of games. .

Real Madrid has the most, having to participate in 4 games, followed by Chelsea, who have played 3 games, AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain have played two games each, and the remaining seven teams, including Liverpool and Celtic, have only one game.

The number of participating games varies, so there will be no points or final rankings in this World Championship. It only focuses on the process rather than the results. In the first two editions, Chelsea and Real Madrid won the championship respectively.

The first game of the 2012 Real Madrid World Championship is against the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Major League Soccer (MSL) in the United States has many unique rules that are different from mainstream European and American football. For example, it imitates the divisional regular season, playoffs and finals system of the four major leagues (baseball, basketball, football and ice hockey), and there are also sideline balls that can be taken. Play, and the outcome must be seen in every game.

At the beginning, MSL stipulated that the two teams would directly take penalty kicks when the two teams tied, but their penalty kicks were rather strange. The penalty kicker must start from the center circle and complete the single shot within 5 seconds.

However, these too deviant things made American fans who are mainly European and American immigrants feel that they have lost the original flavor of football. On the contrary, these people stayed away from the stadium, so it was canceled after a short time.

In fact, Americans' enthusiasm for football started in 1998. Before that, a survey agency conducted a survey. In the minds of ordinary Americans, football ranked 105th among all sports, and dog sledding ranked 104th. .

After so many years of development, especially after the hard work of MSL, although football is still far behind the four major leagues, it finally has a place. Football can also be very nourishing in the United States.

The Los Angeles Galaxy were last year's MSL champions. Last month they all went to the White House and were received by Obama. In the past, this treatment was only available to the four major leagues. This can also reflect the development of football in the United States.

The Los Angeles Galaxy has many star players, and Donovan, the current number one player in American football, is the captain here. There is also former Premier League champion Robbie Keane. This 32-year-old forward has played for Inter Milan and Liverpool. He likes to imitate machine guns after scoring goals.

But the most dazzling star of the Los Angeles Galaxy, and also the signature superstar of the entire major league, is the man named David Beckham.

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