Seven Crowns

After finishing the league match with Valladolid, the whole Real Madrid team boarded the plane and flew to Japan, preparing to participate in the 2012 World Club Cup as last season's Champions League champion.

The World Club Cup is an international football championship hosted by FIFA and participated by the top teams from six continents. The first session began in 2005.

The Club World Cup is nominally the highest-level event at the world club level, and the champion can be called the world champion.

Of course, the gold content is much worse than the Champions League, it's like a warm-up match.

The predecessor of the Club World Cup was the Toyota Cup that began in 1981, and the Intercontinental Cup that began in 1960.

Because of the inconvenient transportation in that era, the importance of the Intercontinental Cup was not high. In everyone's mind, it was similar to the warm-up match. Many teams were unwilling to travel back and forth to play the Intercontinental Cup to affect their team's normal games or preparations, resulting in the interruption of many games. can be successfully held.

However, with the development of modern football and the convenience of transportation, everyone began to pay attention to the champion of any event.

After all, one more championship title is also good.

Especially for this year's Real Madrid, winning the Club World Cup can achieve the annual six-time champion in 2012. This is an unprecedented annual super grand slam in world football and must be taken seriously.

Therefore, on the plane to Japan, not only Real Madrid's team and coaches, team doctors, and staff, but also senior club executives such as Florentino.

In fact, this year's Club World Cup has already started, because there are still teams that need to play qualifying rounds, quarter-finals and so on.

There are a total of 7 teams participating in the 2012 Club World Cup. They are the 2011/2012 UEFA Champions League champion Real Madrid, the 2012 South American Libertadores Cup Corinthians, the 2012 AFC Champions Ulsan Hyundai, and the 2012 African Champions League champion. Al Ahly, the 2011/2012 CONCACAF Champions League Monterrey, the 2011/2012 Oceania Champions League champion Auckland City, and the host, the 2012 Japanese J-League champion Hiroshima Sanfrecce.

Because the level of European and South American football is too high, and the number of teams is not enough, Real Madrid and Corinthians directly entered the semi-finals.

The remaining 5 teams, Hiroshima Sanfrecce will play the qualifying match with Auckland City first. The match will be held on December 6. Hiroshima Sanfrecce will take advantage of the home court to beat Auckland City 1-0 and enter the quarter-finals. Auckland City Become the seventh place in this Club World Cup.

December 9,

Two quarter-finals will be held, with Hiroshima Sanfrecce VS Al Ahli and Ulsan Hyundai VS Monterrey.

The final result of the game was that Sanfrecce Hiroshima lost 1-2 to the African champion Al Ahly, and Ulsan Hyundai lost 1-3 to the North American champion Monterrey.

The collective elimination of the two Asian teams proves the low level of Asian football from the side.

Al Ahli and Monterrey are in the semi-finals and will play against Real Madrid and Corinthians in the semi-finals.

Prior to that, Ulsan Hyundai and Sanfrecce Hiroshima competed for five or six places first.

In the end, Hiroshima Sanfrecce defeated Ulsan Hyundai 3-2 and won fifth place. Ulsan Hyundai became the sixth place in this Club World Cup.

Then all that's left is the semi-finals, where the European champions and South American champions at the highest level of football play one after another.

The first to be played was the South American champion Corinthians.

On December 12, at Toyota Stadium, Corinthians beat African champion Al Ahli 1-0 to advance to the final.

Next, it was Real Madrid's turn to play, and their opponent was the North American champion Monterrey.

At 19:30 on the evening of December 13, local time in Japan, the second match of the semi-finals of the 2012 Club World Cup between Real Madrid and Monterrey officially started at Yokohama International Arena.

Even though it was only a semi-final, and the opponent was also an unknown Central and North American team, the game was broadcast in dozens of countries.

The reason is the fame of Lu Wenbin and Real Madrid, as well as the attraction of Real Madrid's upcoming six-time crown.

Moreover, the stands were all full, and the Japanese fans welcomed Real Madrid's appearance with great enthusiasm. Even Lu Wenbin was screamed and cheered by countless female fans.

With Sanfrecce Hiroshima eliminated, these Japanese fans naturally poured their affection for the game into Real Madrid, which has more superstars.

Especially Lu Wenbin, even if he is a Chinese player, he can't stop his extraordinary skills and great achievements from attracting fans.

Except for a few extremists, most Japanese fans still admire and even worship Lu Wenbin.

Monterey Club is a club from Monterrey, the capital of the state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico.

To win the CONCACAF Champions League, Monterrey's strength is obviously good.

But in front of Real Madrid, which is heavily built and star-studded, Monterrey is obviously still too weak.

In the 4th minute of the opening game, Lu Wenbin suddenly kicked a long-range lob shot when he saw the opponent's goalkeeper standing slightly forward when he was holding the ball in midfield.

The fierce general Orozko turned pale with fright, retreated quickly, and barely took off on the line of the small penalty area, but still failed to stop the long-range lob.

Lu Wenbin scored a goal for the first time in the Club World Cup, and he scored a wonderful long-range lob over 40 meters.

It was originally a cold day, and the fans watched the game with their necks curled up after the opening game.

As a result, the game had just started, and the fans at the scene were excited by Lu Wenbin's wonderful goal.

Some fans simply stopped sitting down and stood watching.

The entire Monterey team is psychologically prepared to be defeated by Real Madrid, after all, Real Madrid is too strong.

However, they didn't expect to fall behind at the beginning of the game and be scored such a beautiful goal by Lu Wenbin.

Especially the goalkeeper Orozko, who stood in the front and was successfully lobbed by Lu Wenbin, almost wanted to die.

After the game restarted, Montero's team, which was hit at the beginning, was a little out of shape.

In the 17th minute, Real Madrid scored again. Moreover, this time it was Monterrey's own goal.

Ozil made a pass from the wing, Lu Wenbin, Benzema and others failed to grab the first point, but the defender Mesa who grabbed the first point also failed to get the right position under Lu Wenbin's interference. He originally wanted to push out The header from the baseline clearance was headed into his own goal by him.

This is another heavy blow to the Monterrey team.

Lu Wenbin scored a beautiful long-range shot, and then scored an own goal and fell behind 0-2. The entire Monterrey team had no confidence in winning.

Real Madrid took full control of the game.

In the 38th minute, Real Madrid assisted Lu Wenbin with a cross from the side of Ronaldo and scored the third goal with a long shot from outside the penalty area. Real Madrid led 3-0.

In the 57th minute of the second half, Alonso took a corner kick. Ronaldo jumped high in the penalty area and scored a header. Real Madrid led 4-0.

At this point, the game is basically over, and Mourinho began to make substitutions.

As a result, before Lu Wenbin was replaced, Lu Wenbin scored a long-distance counterattack goal in the 65th minute and staged a hat-trick.

Real Madrid leads Monterrey 5-0.

Then Lu Wenbin was replaced.

It wasn't until the stoppage time of the game that Monterrey seized a chance of a free kick. Forward De Nigris scored a goal in the penalty area and scored a face-saving goal.

Real Madrid beat Monterrey 5-1 in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup to advance to the final.

They will compete with South American champion Corinthians for the final Club World Cup.

This is a final battle that concerns Real Madrid's annual six-time crown.