Red Rebels

65 The battle with the slave owners

Although it is the last game of the group stage, and although the outcome of this game will not affect the qualification, Mourinho still decided to use all the main players in the game. His request is very simple, win the opponent

The players did not let him down. Every player showed a strong winning mentality in the game, especially Alves, who put huge pressure on Micah Richards when he performed well. , he is eager to prove himself and defend his main position as the right back of the Red Rebels bench.

In this game, the right wing he was stationed on became the source of the Red Rebels' offense. He assisted a hat trick, making Alves the best right back in the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 07o8 season, overpowering Maicon, who performed well in Real Madrid. and other competitors.

Aguero scored twice again, Ronaldinho scored, and the Red Rebels defeated Valencia at home: o.

What's even more commendable is that the Red Rebels' defense once again seemed impregnable. Despite Valencia's efforts, and Flores even made three substitutions to make tactical adjustments, in the end they were still unable to break through the Red Rebels' defense. In the end, only one could be taken away from the Red Rebel Stadium in despair: o.

With this victory, although the Red Rebels performed poorly in the first two rounds, they relied on their subsequent winning streak to qualify as first in the group.

The other first qualifying teams are Droylsden, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Inter Milan and Chelsea. The first qualifying team in England, especially Droisden, Pellegrini's ball The team was placed in a group with Porto, Marseille, and Besitax, and qualified with a record of 6 games and 5 wins.

The remaining second-place teams, excluding Valencia, which is in the same group as the Red Rebels, are Porto, Werder Bremen, Celtic, Lyon, Roma, Fenerbahce and Serbia. Villa are all powerful teams in leagues in various countries, and each of them cannot be underestimated.

Although all the group stage games have ended, the draw for the top six knockout rounds will not be held until the end of the month. Therefore, the Red Rebels do not yet know who their competitors will be, but no opponent can be taken lightly.

You must know that the knockout round is different from the group stage. The group stage allows the Red Rebels to slump first and then rise again. However, the knockout round is a home and one away system. If you perform poorly, you will be eliminated directly, and each other's targeted tactics Stronger.

Even teams such as Porto and Werder Bremen may not have the opportunity and strength to upset them.

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After beating Valencia,

The Red Rebels set out for Japan early the next morning.

The next period of time will be the most intensive period of the schedule. In order to participate in the World Club Championship, one round of the English League will be adjusted to later. Because of this, after the Red Rebels complete the World Club Championship, Returning to England, we will immediately face the devilish schedule around Christmas, followed by the winter break.

In order to increase the attractiveness of the World Club Championship, FIFA previously announced that it will increase the total prize money of this season's World Club Championship to US$6 million and add a seat for the host country, so that 7 teams will participate.

However, this did not have much impact on the Red Rebels. In the first round, the Asian champion challenged the Australian champion, and then the second round began with the original first round competition. North America, Africa, the host team and the first The winners of this round will proceed to the second knockout round, and the two winning teams will advance to the semi-finals.

As seed teams, the European champions and South American champions will directly enter the semi-finals and draw lots with the winner of the second round. The winner will advance to the finals. However, everyone knows that with the strength of teams from other continents, if they want to eliminate South America, The American and European champion teams are really difficult.

The number of competitions has increased, and all aspects have also been improved. The total prize money has been increased to US$6 million, and the champion will receive US$5 million, which is not bad. I believe that if FIFA did not hate arranging the competition in the busiest month, it would probably be Neither the Red Rebels nor the European giants will make much sense.

This is tantamount to legitimately allowing the wealthy teams to make extra money.

The runner-up can get US$4 million, which also takes into account the interests of South American and European teams, while the third and seventh place can only get a pitiful US$500,000.

The Red Rebels actually don’t take bonuses seriously. If they want, they can earn more. The main reason is that FIFA strictly stipulates that the Champions League winners must participate in the World Club Championship. Moreover, in order to win the major Grand Slam, the Red Rebels attach special importance to the Club World Cup.

As Europe's top club, the Red Rebels attracted thousands of fans to pick them up at the airport when they arrived in Japan. They all shouted loudly and were so excited that they all forgot about it, especially when they saw the handsome boy Baker. After Ham's appearance, some fans reportedly fainted on the spot.

Although Kaká was injured, the Red Rebels decided to let him come to Japan with the team.

After a period of rehabilitation training, Kaka's progress is pretty good, but let alone playing in games, even if he is just participating in team training, the laboratory is not currently allowed, and he can only perform some rehabilitation training alone. , as well as appropriate strength training, and occasionally ball training to find a sense of the ball.

Professor Fryer did not dare to be careless. Xiao Yu personally ordered that Kaka must return to the court completely and in good health. Kaka's football career cannot be ruined because of impatience. Although Kaka is impatient, But he could only do as he was told. He knew that Xiao Yu was doing it for his own good.

When the team walked out of the airport, the bus arranged by the organizing committee was already waiting outside the airport.

"I can't tell, you are really popular in Japan," Maradona said with a smile on the bus.

Although he is the king of football, Maradona does not seem to have much talent for learning, especially for those boring coaching materials. His academic performance has never been very satisfactory, and he can only barely pass. Now he I have decided to stay in Manchester to further my studies.

In other words, in the next six months, he will also be the intern coach of the Red Rebels

"The most popular one is probably Aguero. When we came here last year, we stayed in the hotel at night, and a female fan invited him to spend the night," Curtis said with a smile.

Aguero, who was sitting behind him, had a cold sweat on his face after hearing this, and pulled Curtis desperately, "How can such a thing happen?"

"No?" Curtis looked like you couldn't hide it.

"Yes, why not? You forgot. That night you said very coquettishly that you would not come back." Essien also started cheering from the side.

"He also borrowed my perfume, and he hasn't returned it yet," Xiao Luo agreed.

Everyone said something to each other, and the whole thing was said as if it were true.

The more Maradona listened, the darker his face became. He glared at Aguero, who immediately softened and fell on his seat, not even daring to breathe.

Although this kid is engaged to Gianna now, his father-in-law lives next door to their house and supervises him at all times. He originally thought that Maradona should graduate and leave in March, but unfortunately, his father-in-law I'm great at playing football, but my academic performance...

Aguero can only blame himself. After all, few people in the entire club can control Maradona.

But Maradona is not all bad. In fact, he has given Aguero a lot of help, especially since this season. Under Maradona's training, Aguero has made very obvious progress. He is the second-leading scorer in the Red Rebels, second only to Ronaldinho, who is in ridiculous scoring form.

"A bunch of brats" Maradona turned around, shook his head and laughed.

These monkeys probably thought they could trick him, the mighty football king, but they didn't know that Maradona was just pretending to teach Aguero a lesson. How could they be fooled?

Although Xiao Yu doesn't have much favorable impression of Japan, he cannot deny that Japan is another big consumer of football after the United States. Japan plays a large role in the plans of the Red Rebel Ministry of Commerce.

At present, Red Rebel's flagship store has spread in Japan. Although there are only 0 flagship stores and theme stores combined, the operating conditions of each store are very ideal. Red Rebel has collected licensing fees and franchise fees, and at the same time I also made profits from long-term batches of goods, which is generally pretty good.

In addition to Japan and Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea are the current key development areas of the Red Rebels. Originally, the Ministry of Commerce wanted to try to enter the domestic market, but Xiao Yu suspended the plan because he did not think that the mainland could have such a Spending power, even though the Red Rebels currently have the most fans in the world in the mainland, they are also the most popular European giants in the mainland.

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Coming to Asia from Europe, the first thing the players have to do is to overcome the jet lag. Therefore, the coaching staff deliberately took this into consideration when arranging the training for the next two days.

While the players of the Red Rebels and Boca Juniors were suffering from jet lag, the first two rounds of the Club World Cup had already ignited the flames of war.

In the first round, the Asian champion team from Iran: defeated the New Zealand team, but it’s a bit ridiculous. Xiao Yu couldn’t even name the two teams. It’s not difficult to tell from this. The helplessness.

In fact, no matter how the schedule is arranged, no matter how the opponents change, the Club World Cup, to put it bluntly, is still the Toyota Cup at its heart. It just transformed the single game of the Toyota Cup into the current seven games, but everyone knows , the truly decisive game is still the final.

Not surprisingly, the final will also be a showdown between European teams and South American teams.

In the second round, the African team: o defeated the Mexican team, and Japan's Urawa Ruby: defeated the Iranian team. Both teams reached the semi-finals.

FIFA Blatter was also very happy for this. He believed that this was the highest quality World Club Championship in history.

However, compared with Blatter's excitement, the outside world's evaluation of the Club World Cup is more about one word, "freak"

A freak from birth, a freak from the first round

The previous Toyota Cup was known as a cup that perfectly combined business and competition, but now the Club World Cup has expanded the Toyota Cup and attracted teams from six continents to participate. This in itself is already huge. It lowered the intensity of the World Club Championship.

Why should South American and European teams directly enter the semi-finals? Because FIFA knows that these two teams are the highlight of this cup. The World Club Cup is still the Toyota Cup at its core, even if FIFA is now focusing on it. Changed it to a majestic name, what is it called?

fifa club world cup

But in fact, this is more like a tool for FIFA to make money, and it has become a sad business freak.

But there is no way, who makes FIFA the leader in this industry?

In order to ensure that the Red Rebels do not have to work hard, FIFA even secretly issued guiding principles, hoping to see Beckham, Ronaldinho, Messi and Drogba in the semi-finals. I believe that if it were not for Kaká’s injury If not healed, we have to count the Brazilians.

Regarding Drogba, the Red Rebels argued hard, believing that the Ivorian's recovery was ideal after the operation, but he was still unable to meet the requirements of the game. In the end, the two sides negotiated and Drogba had to come off the bench.

"Oh my god, I feel like our players are like a group of slaves." After receiving the final "instructions," Mourinho was so angry that he tore the fax into pieces on the spot.

"During the busiest period of the season, we gave up the league and came to Asia from Europe. Now they are happily telling us that the main force must be on board and the full set must be on board. I netbsp; Xiao Yu is helpless. He is in Europe The interpersonal relationship in the Football Federation is still good, but when it comes to FIFA, because of Platini's relationship, although Blatter will not break up with the Red Rebels, he is actually very dissatisfied with Xiao Yu because Xiao Yu Yu ruined his plan.

Losing Platini and losing the support of UEFA, Blatter's possibility of re-election is constantly decreasing, which makes him eager to increase his campaign chips through various methods, including the World Club.

"Just think of it as cheating," said Walsh comfortingly.

"But, sir, we are not short of money." Although Mourinho retorted confidently, he shrugged helplessly and admitted defeat.

A head coach, no matter how prestigious he is, cannot sway FIFA, and even if the Red Rebels are strong, they can't do anything to FIFA. They are the leaders in this industry.

"Okay, stop pretending, Jose, I still don't know what you are thinking?" Xiao Yu suddenly stood up and said with a smile.

"Although I am angry at FIFA for its actions, the purpose of our coming here is not for the false reputation of being number one, let alone for the so-called cheating to make money. What we want is the Grand Slam, and we want to become the first in history. The first team to win seven titles”

"If you are angry, Jose, vent your anger on your opponent and let Blatter see from the stands what the meaning of this cup is."