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Zurich is a city with a very high reputation all over the world. Even people who don’t know much about this city often hear the name Zurich in various news.

Zurich, located in the north-central part of the Swiss Confederation, is the largest city and the most important industrial and commercial city in Switzerland. It is the capital of the canton of Zurich, the national political, economic, cultural and transportation center, and the richest city in Europe. The city has been ranked as one of the richest cities in Europe for many years.

The United Nations Human Settlements Agency ranks it as one of the most livable cities in the world.

Zurich is the representative city of the Swiss banking industry and one of the largest financial centers in the world. Since it is home to the headquarters of more than 120 banks around the world, more than half of which are foreign banks, it is also known as the "European Billionaire City"

". Union Bank of Switzerland, Credit Suisse, Zurich Financial Services Group and many European private banks are headquartered in Zurich. The efficient and strict confidentiality capabilities of the Swiss banking industry have made Zurich a major offshore banking center in the world.

Financial account flows account for about a quarter of the entire economic activity in Zurich. The headquarters of the Swiss Stock Exchange is located in Zurich.

The headquarters of FIFA is located in this city, so many football-related news, award ceremonies and even important events will be held in this city. It is also a city that fans around the world often pay attention to, although it does not have a football team.

A powerhouse in European football.

Zurich is one of the earliest developed cities in Switzerland, and most of its buildings were built in the 19th century. According to archaeological findings, there are signs of human activity in the city where it is located in 3000 BC. These are the remains of settlements in the Stone Age and Bronze Age.

The Lindenhof hill that still remains on the left bank of the Limmat River is one of Zurich's most precious cultural heritages.

In the 1850s, Switzerland's first railway connecting Zurich and Baden was born. This made Zurich's textile industry and machinery industry increasingly developed, thus laying the foundation for financial industry and becoming the largest financial center in Switzerland.

In 1932, FIFA decided to move its headquarters from Paris, France to Zurich, Switzerland. In the following 75 years, it was closely related to the development of world football and even witnessed many important nodes in the development of world football.

In 2004, a brochure commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of FIFA wrote that Switzerland is located in the center of Europe, has convenient transportation, and is politically neutral, so it "is very consistent with FIFA's requirements." But there is another important thing that the brochure did not mention.

The reason is that the Swiss are quite shrewd and willing to meet the not outrageous demands of various international organizations.

Zurich understands the promotional role of FIFA. Every year when FIFA awards awards to the world's best players, TV stations around the world will spend a few seconds to show the scenery of Zurich. FIFA President Sepp Blatter once praised Zurich.

As the "Holy City of Football", FIFA has also said that it is a "love affair" that keeps it in this city.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the relationship between FIFA and this city. The mayor of Zurich, Raidgeber, said that the city "feels honored and honored that the most powerful and largest individual sports federation in the world" has settled here.

pride".

Therefore, Zurich is happy to provide conveniences to FIFA. In the mid-1990s, FIFA officials took a fancy to the Sonnenberg Hotel. This run-down hotel has an excellent location: it overlooks the city of Zurich and the lake.

You can also overlook the Alps. The city government transferred this real estate to FIFA. In Zurich, where land is at a premium, this is a large project involving tens of millions of Swiss francs. The people of Zurich approved the transfer contract in a referendum.

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In 1998, Blatter became the president of FIFA, and FIFA's team has grown day by day. The Sonnenberg Hotel, which was renovated at a cost of 37 million Swiss francs, can no longer accommodate FIFA's 277 employees. After all, FIFA

Rich and wealthy, and Blatter has the same headquarters as the

We have a good relationship with Credit Suisse in Zurich. FIFA Secretary General Lin Xi once held an important position in Credit Suisse. In the end, FIFA bought the Credit Suisse tennis court. From the FIFA headquarters in Sonnenberg

The hotel's headquarters can be reached in less than 10 minutes on foot.

The city government came to the rescue again. It approved the construction of FIFA's new headquarters on the tennis courts, and not only that, when Blatter expressed his desire to rename the road leading to the new headquarters "FIFA Street."

Degeber also agreed to his request. In Zurich, few people receive the honor of naming a street or square.

FIFA's new headquarters was built this year and is called "FIFA House", which overlooks the entire city of Zurich. In this US$200 million building, FIFA's core officials usually sleep on the underground floor.

Meeting in soundproof room with marble floor.

Zurich's city hall says FIFA contributes as much to the city's image as UBS and Credit Suisse - even though FIFA pays less in taxes. FIFA pays about 1 million Swiss dollars a year to the canton of Zurich.

francs, which is negligible compared with the canton’s fiscal revenue of 874 million Swiss francs.

In a sense, FIFA has brought huge influence to Zurich, and because of Zurich's unique advantages, FIFA has become the strongest individual sports federation in the world, enjoying the attention of fans around the world.

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At the end of every year, the FIFA year-end awards ceremony will focus the world's attention on this international metropolis. Especially this year, Gu Fei's voice for becoming the World Footballer is extremely high, which has aroused great enthusiasm from fans around the world.

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There are still three days left before the award ceremony, and reporters from all over the world have already flocked to the event. After they landed, they immediately went to work, squatting at the Zurich International Airport to take pictures of the guests coming from all over the world.

Zurich International Airport is one of the largest airports in Europe. It is located in the northeastern part of Zurich, Switzerland, near the small town of Kloten. It is the largest airport in Switzerland and the busiest airport in Switzerland. The airport has

There are many routes connecting five continents. The airport is divided into Area A and Area B. Swiss Air, as well as Australian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and Delta Airlines that cooperate with Swiss Air and Delta Air Lines are in Area A; other airlines are in Area A.

Area B.

Zurich Airport has a construction area of ​​1.46 million square meters, including 240,000 square meters for passenger facilities and 130,000 square meters for office facilities. The airport has three runways, respectively 3,300 meters, 3,700 meters long, and 2,500 meters long, and can take off and land A380.

Type F aircraft; the civil aviation terminal has 190 seats.

As the date of the awards ceremony approached, the invited guests arrived in Zurich one after another. The reporters stationed at the airport exit transmitted the footage of the guests arriving at the airport to the world in real time.

Compared with previous years, the participation of Internet media has improved the effectiveness of news reporting by several levels. Many Internet media even broadcast live broadcasts at the airport, attracting the attention of a large number of netizens.

Especially Chinese netizens and fans are very interested in this year's awards ceremony. Many netizens crowded in Tencent's live broadcast room and watched various well-known and unknown football people arriving in Zurich. When the Chinese delegation appeared at Zurich Airport

At that time, Chinese fans were quite excited because this was the first time in many years that the Chinese delegation was invited to attend FIFA's year-end awards ceremony again.

The Chinese Empire has just emerged, and the general public's confidence is somewhat lacking, and it urgently needs recognition from the outside world. Gu Fei has established a reputation as a Chinese in world football, and he has naturally won the support of the Chinese people.

This time, the Chinese Football Association delegation was invited to attend the FIFA year-end awards ceremony because of Gu Fei. This also gave Chinese fans a deeper impression of Gu Fei's international influence.

In December 2000, Sun Wen, the sonorous rose of the Chinese women's football movement, was named Miss Football of the 20th Century by FIFA, which brought great honor to Chinese football. It is a pity that since then, Chinese football has never had a greater presence in the world.

An impressive highlight is that even though the Chinese men's football team entered the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, it still cannot change the fact that China is a football desert.

Sun Wen is considered 'Maradona in a skirt', but since the influence of women's football is much smaller than that of men's football, the honors won by Sun Wen and the Chinese women's football team for Chinese football have not really changed the fate of Chinese football.

In the past few years, the decline of Chinese football has been very obvious. Not only the men's football team has been deteriorating, but the situation of the women's football team has also been difficult. This has also caused concern among many knowledgeable people.

Nowadays, Gu Fei has risen like a comet in the world of football, and he has also won enough respect for Chinese football. This time, FIFA specially invited the head coach of the Chinese national team and the Olympic team, Lao Zhu, the national team captain Zheng Zhi and

The chairman of the Chinese Football Association, Zhao Guodong, attended this event, which is a great respect for Chinese football.

Gu Fei's status as an international superstar was achieved through his hard work and hard work. His solid status has benefited Huaxia Football a lot.

You know, in the past few years, China Football has not been qualified to attend the FIFA awards ceremony. In the international community, respect needs to be won by strength.

"We voted for Gu Fei in the selection of World Footballer. He is the pride of our Chinese football players!" When interviewed by the media at Zurich International Airport, Zheng Zhi said: "Gu Fei's outstanding performance undoubtedly greatly inspired China's football players."

Football player, because he broke the paradox that Chinese people cannot play football and gave us great confidence!"

As an outstanding representative of Chinese football, Zheng Zhi is currently seeking to move to an English Premier League team. His concern and understanding of world football are beyond the reach of ordinary media reporters and fans.

Zheng Zhi had trial training experience with several teams in England, only to realize that there was a huge gap between himself and the top players in Europe. If he hadn't had the aura of being a fellow Gu Fei, those Premier League teams might not have given him

Opportunity to try out on your own. You must know that Zheng Zhi himself is 27 years old, which is already an older age for a professional football player.

For European clubs, those young players around 20 years old are their important targets for signing. Unless they are older players like Zheng Zhi, they will not be interested in them unless they are already famous superstars.

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However, Zheng Zhi is Gu Fei's fellow countryman. This factor also makes the Premier League teams have the urge to give it a try. After all, Gu Fei's halfway career is extremely amazing, and it also makes European clubs extremely coveted by the potential of Chinese players.

Not to mention that Zheng Zhi can achieve one-fifth of Gu Fei's level, even one-tenth of it, the Premier League club has made a profit!

As the current fierce competition in the Premier League is in full swing, many Premier League clubs trying to introduce Zheng Zhi have temporarily stopped negotiations and plan to wait until the end of the 2008 Olympic Games before introducing Zheng Zhi. After all, as the captain of the Chinese Olympic team, Zheng Zhi

He will stay in China for most of the next half year to prepare for the game. Even if the Premier League team wants to introduce him, it will not be an easy task.

This time, the reason why the Chinese delegation asked Zheng Zhi to come to Zurich to attend the award ceremony was not only that he was one of the voters for World Footballer, but more importantly, it was to promote Zheng Zhi and more Chinese players to the world.

Only when more and more Chinese players are active in mainstream European competitions can the level of Chinese football be improved and the strength of the Chinese national team be able to make a greater leap and perform better in the international arena.

"Gu Fei's performance this year is undoubtedly phenomenal. We applaud his wonderful performance!" Although Coach Zhu's skills are average, he knows that Gu Fei's joining the Chinese national team will have an impact on the strength of the entire team.

Great help.

"We are studying the most suitable time for Gu Fei to represent the Chinese national team in the game. Everything must be based on Gu Fei's match schedule at Manchester United. After all, Manchester United is on the right path to compete for the Grand Slam." Zhu Guanghu said in front of reporters.

He seemed very humble, because he knew when Gu Fei would represent the Chinese national team in the competition, the initiative did not depend on him, but in Gu Fei's hands.

Looking at the upcoming Yanjing Olympics, Coach Zhu is also full of longing. With a superstar like Gu Fei, Coach Zhu is no longer satisfied with achieving the breakthrough of the Chinese Olympic team in the Olympic men's football competition, scoring a goal and winning a championship.

Instead of aiming for a victory, he has set his sights on a more far-reaching victory.

Speaking of which, Coach Zhu also feels that he is extremely lucky, because during his tenure, Gu Fei has risen like a mythical version. The star-like light has suddenly made the future of Chinese football bright. Everyone is looking forward to Gu Fei representing the Chinese national team.

Wonderful pictures after the battle.

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The arrival of the Chinese delegation is just a microcosm of the arrival in Zurich of the football association delegations from all over the world. Everyone comes with the feeling of witnessing history, because everyone knows that Gu Fei's election as the 2007 World Footballer is already a certainty.

Things. Everyone comes to Zurich simply because they want to witness the beginning of a new era!

World football will undergo earth-shaking changes this winter!