Reborn Almighty Life

On December 12, local time in Tokyo, the first game of the Club World Cup semi-finals started. The South American Copa Libertadores winner Boca Juniors played against the African champion Etoile Sahel. This game also attracted a lot of attention.

In the eyes of the world's media and fans, the African champions Stars of the Sahel from Tunisia are little-known. His ability to advance to the semi-finals has exceeded people's expectations.

In the quarter-finals, the Sahel Stars faced the Central and North American and Latin American champions Pachuca. Before the game, the outside world was generally optimistic about the stronger Pachuca team.

Sure enough, the Pachuca team performed very well in the first half. Their delicate footwork and smooth cooperation allowed them to take the initiative most of the time. In the 14th minute, the Pachuca team had a chance to break the deadlock, but their first

Unfortunately, a shot was blocked by the crossbar, and the subsequent header shot was miraculously resolved by the opponent's goalkeeper. In the 84th minute of the game, the Ghanaian foreign aid Moussa of the Sahel Stars suddenly shot a cold arrow from outside the penalty area.

This tricky shot caught the opponent's goalkeeper off guard and he could only watch as the ball rolled into the net.

In this way, Stars Sahel successfully entered the semi-finals and will compete with Boca Juniors for tickets to the finals!

However, people no longer believe that Africa's dark horse can win the championship. After all, Boca Juniors is a world-class team with many big names in the team. When it comes to Tokyo, its only goal is to win the championship, even if the opponent in the final may be in

The invincible Red Devils Manchester United in Europe.

The Tokyo National Arena is one of the oldest stadiums in Fuso. After many repairs, it meets FIFA's requirements for international competitions. In the future, this stadium will be torn down and rebuilt to become the main venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The venue adds a bit of glory to the century-old history of this stadium.

But today, this stadium only has the blue color of Boca Juniors, because there are no fans from far away Africa who follow the Sahel team to Tokyo, but Boca has a lot of influence in Tokyo.

You know, in the past few years, Boca has been a frequent visitor to the Toyota Cup and the winner, which has naturally conquered many Fuso fans. Now Boca is making a comeback, and fans who like it flock to the stadium and fill the entire stadium.

It was packed to the rafters.

At the beginning of the game, the Sahel Stars team quickly entered the state, while Boca looked lethargic. The situation was obviously more favorable to the Africans. In fact, every Boca player was holding back their energy.

, but the movements seemed to be stiff, and it was difficult to cooperate with each other. In addition to the reason for not playing a game for 10 days, the more important reason was that the poor state at the end of the league continued.

For Boca coach Russo, the trip to Japan is not as simple as "enjoying the trip". Boca Juniors' next results will directly determine his coaching position.

Due to the team's poor record in the Argentine Spring League, not only failed to win the championship, but even fell out of the top three, Russo is currently facing a huge crisis of confidence. The newly appointed general counsel of the club, Maradona, has begun to

The presidium recommended the head coach candidate. Although Chairman Pompilo said that he still trusts Russo, this is just because the war is imminent and he does not want to affect the team's combat effectiveness. If Boca Juniors cannot win the cup, what awaits Russo

He will be dismissed on the spot.

As predicted, Boca took control of the game without much effort after the game started. In the second minute of the game, eight Argentine players had already overwhelmed the opponent's half. However, although Boca had the upper hand in possession of the ball,

Excellent, but did not achieve much in terms of creating threatening opportunities. Boca passed the ball slowly, while the Tunisian team followed Boca. The players of both teams seemed to be out of shape, or neither side was going to try their best. The game was once

Deadlocked in boredom.

Riquelme was sitting on the sidelines, and the boring game even made him yawn. This Boca fan, No. 10, incredibly rushed to Tokyo before the game, not to play, but to purely support the team.

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In fact, Riquelme is more attractive than all the players on the field. In recent days, both the Japanese media and the Argentine media have focused more on Riquelme, who is unable to play, instead of Boca.

Other relatively unfamiliar faces in the team. Riquelme arrived in Tokyo via Spain on Monday. Fans surrounded him asking for autographs, screaming for him, and looking for photos with him. They didn't care that he was a mere spectator.

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"I am an ordinary fan this time. I hope the boys can give us fans more joy. I don't know if I will have the chance to come here again next time. I hope we win another Copa Libertadores, so that I can win another Copa Libertadores.

We can go to Tokyo." Riquelme encouraged his teammates before the game, but his teammates' energy obviously did not rise.

In the first half of the first half, neither side was willing to attack rashly, and the game was a bit boring. It was not until the 37th minute that Boca broke the deadlock. Captain Palermo did not stop the ball in the middle and directly volleyed to the left with his left foot.

After Palacio took the ball from the left side of the penalty area, he passed the ball from two defenders

The player passed the ball through the gap. Cardoso stopped the ball with his right foot and volleyed with his left foot from a small angle 5 meters in front of the goal. The ball hit the crossbar and entered the near corner. The opponent's goalkeeper Barboli could only watch the ball and sigh.

In the 42nd minute, Boca's veteran striker Palermo missed a scoring opportunity.

After the change of sides, Boca gradually strengthened its control in the midfield. In the 54th minute, after a series of short passes and penetration, Palacio completed the shot. The ball was touched by the defender of Sahel Stars and then bounced to the post.

In the hands of the goalkeeper.

In the 65th minute, Boca's Vargas was ejected for a foul in the backcourt. In the 78th minute, Boca's Alfaro Gonzalez was brought down in the opponent's penalty area, but Danish referee Larsson did not

A penalty kick was awarded. After that, the Sahel Stars team, which had one more player, got several shooting opportunities, but ultimately failed to change the score.

In the end, Boca Juniors defeated their opponents with difficulty and took the lead in reaching the 2007 Club World Cup final. It can wait for the winner between Manchester United and Urawa Ruby.

Judging from the second half of Boca's game, the team's condition has recovered, but facing the aggressive Manchester United, no one can guarantee whether Boca can withstand it?

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The on-site director's camera panned to Ferguson, Gu Fei, Gary Neville, Cristiano Ronaldo and others who were sitting in the stands' boxes. People from Manchester United came specially to observe the performance of their opponents in the final.

For Manchester United, the Urawa Ruby will not be an obstacle. If Manchester United fails to win the Club World Cup in Tokyo, the European "six-time champion" is destined to become a joke.

However, Boca Juniors is not a soft persimmon, and a temporary poor state does not mean that Manchester United can sit back and relax. After all, football matches are not sand table deductions. A star's inspiration can easily change the direction of the game.

In the Boca Juniors team, talented players such as Palermo, Cardoso, and Palacio have all shown their talents in the past games, and Manchester United does not dare to take it lightly.

While the opponent was playing, Sir Alex Ferguson led the coaching staff and the core members of the team to appear in the stands. The purpose was to closely observe the opponent's state and the objects that needed to be focused on, and he was well-targeted.

Although there is still a semi-final to be played, Manchester United has already set its sights on the final. They only have the championship in their eyes!

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"Ferguson brought the core figures of Manchester United to the game to watch the Boca Juniors game up close. It seems that the final will be a good show!" Commentators from major TV stations did not take Urawa Ruby seriously, and they all agreed that Manchester United will

Easily reach the finals.

Even Fuso's media believes that Urawa Ruby has no chance of winning against Manchester United. The only suspense is whether Fuso's players can perform well enough to attract Manchester United's fancy?

Gu Fei's success at Manchester United has made the Fuso football community jealous. They believe that maybe Fuso will have talents who can succeed in European football, because Hidetoshi Nakata and other Fuso players have set the best example.

Seeing that Chinese football is gradually getting on the right track under the leadership of Gu Fei and is about to take off, the Fuso football community is naturally anxious.

This time, being able to compete head-to-head with the European champion Manchester United makes the Fuso football community look forward to it. They want to see how far they are from the best team in the world?

Therefore, although Manchester United was the opponent of Urawa Ruby in the semi-finals, Fuso treated Manchester United with the highest courtesy and even received more preferential treatment than the home team.

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After Boca Juniors debuted, everyone knew that Manchester United was about to make its second appearance in the Club World Cup. In the 2000 Club World Cup in Brazil, Manchester United participated as the 1999 Champions League champions, but failed to enter the top four. That was also Manchester United's first time.

shame.

Although there are many reasons for poor results, for Ferguson, who has always been strong, it is really shameful to achieve such poor results in the Club World Cup.

Unfortunately, the Club World Cup was later shelved due to the bankruptcy of the sponsor, and Manchester United's record in the Champions League declined year by year, so naturally they were not qualified to participate in the Toyota Cup.

Coming to participate in the Club World Cup this time is also Manchester United's best opportunity to prove its strength to the world, so Ferguson brought the entire team to Tokyo.

On the eve of Manchester United's debut, media around the world were frantically reporting on the World Cup, and FIFA and sponsors were even more behind the scenes. Especially in some emerging football markets, the Club World Cup has a huge influence.

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Here is Palermo, here is Gu Fei, here is Tanaka Hat King, here is Mousanari... If the first two star-studded names can still make people think of the "Toyota Cup", the latter two will

It seems to be a funny ditty that only deserves to be played by the minions. It’s not that I have any grudges against the top players of the Asian champion Urawa Ruby and the African champion Sahel Stars, it’s just that they seem a bit out of place when they appear on the stage of competition between the top clubs in Europe and South America.

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In fact, the majestic name of "FIFA Club World Cup" cannot conceal the fact that this event is useless.

In the final analysis, the emergence of the "Club World Cup" is the result of FIFA's compromise with the football business: Central and North America, Asia and even African football federations are unwilling to accept that the tens of millions of broadcast shares of the "Toyota Cup" every year are always occupied by Europe and South America.

, demanding that the "Toyota Cup" be expanded into a "Super League" that includes championship teams from five continents!

However, the "Club World Cup", with the eagerness for quick success and instant benefits of various continental football federations as its father and FIFA's indecision as its mother, is destined to be distorted and deformed. Not only has the quality of the competition been greatly reduced, but also the brand effect accumulated by the previous "Toyota Cup" has been distorted.

Wasted and lost.

Like the World Cup, the Club World Cup has also encountered the problem of "football combined with business" in the development process. Since the World Cup and the European Cup have reduced the viewing pleasure of the game after appeasement of commercial expansion, the level gap between club teams from various continents is even greater.

The competition between the two naturally expands the army.

It has a greater negative effect. "Confrontation between different football concepts and different cultural backgrounds" should have been the original intention of the World Club Cup, but now it has been interpreted as a stage for wealthy teams to kill wantonly and arbitrage money. It must be said

It is a great tragedy for world football.

On the morning before the game against Urawa Ruby, Manchester United still attended a commercial event because the sponsor offered a price of 2 million pounds. Even Gu Fei, who was wealthy, could not resist such a temptation.

So, after the entire Manchester United team participated in commercial activities and had lunch, they headed to the Tokyo National Arena surrounded by tens of thousands of fans to prepare for the game against Urawa Ruby.

In fact, even if Manchester United's arrogant actions angered the Fuso people, strength is king on the court. Even if Manchester United sent out a substitute lineup, they still relied on Scholes. Solskjaer's flash of inspiration hit him with a violent goal.

The shot and the shot in front of the goal gave Manchester United a 2:0 victory.

Manchester United's understated victory was like a bucket of cold water dousing the anger of Fuso fans. When the team is weak, anger is more like a sign of incompetence.

Even though Manchester United had to fly a long distance and move around, Urawa Ruby, who was well prepared, still couldn't even touch Manchester United. The ball possession rate in the game was less than 30%, which truly reflected the Fuso people's disadvantage on the field.

During the game, Manchester United firmly controlled the rhythm of the game. In the long-term tug-of-war, they easily won with the help of their star's inspiration.

The dust of the two semi-finals has settled, the tasteless preview of the Club World Cup is finally over, and the long-awaited final is finally ready.

Not only did Manchester United and Boca Juniors win in the semi-finals, but the game processes were surprisingly similar: after a lazy procrastination, they only used the star player's flash of inspiration within a few seconds to win the entire game!

It is true that the difference between the strong and the weak is largely reflected in the differences in players' personal abilities, but what European and American clubs show in direct confrontation with Asian and African clubs is the advantage of "super competition"——

Boca's ball possession ratio is ten percentage points higher than that of Star of the Sahel, and Manchester United is twice as good as Ruby in this area!

The huge disparity in strength made the already suspenseful game even more boring. Even the most ardent Manchester United fans couldn't help but fall asleep during the game.

All the foreplay ends here, and the highlight of the weekend will draw a successful conclusion to the last major championship in 2007!