Yang Huan arrived in Japan one day earlier than the entire Southampton team, and Maki Horikita came to pick him up on the plane.
But he did not go to Hokkaido to soak in a hot spring or have a mixed bath as he said.
Instead, he went directly to Osaka and watched the game between Yangcheng Hengda and Mexico America live in Osaka.
Judging from the game process, the two sides were really evenly matched.
Although the Mexican American team scored the first goal, Yangcheng Hengda scored two goals in the last ten minutes, stubbornly reversed the Mexican American team, and successfully advanced to the next round.
Especially the winning goal at the end was truly admirable.
It can be seen that this team has such momentum.
In the past few years, the money has really not been wasted.
However, whether it is Yangcheng Hengda or Mexico America, if they want to compete with a super strong team like Southampton, it is not possible for the time being.
The gap between the two sides is directly reflected in the price of the team.
Southampton's total value is twenty times that of Yangcheng Hengda.
Although the price may not reflect the strength, it can at least show that there is an irreparable gap between the two teams.
After all, the Club World Cup is still the same as the previous Toyota Cup.
The real contenders are the European champions and the South American champions.
But judging from the scene, Yang Huan can also see the progress of Yangcheng Hengda.
At the very least, the overall situation seems to be quite organized, and the players' ideas for playing on the court are also very clear.
Coupled with strong foreign aid, the overall strength looks pretty good.
It should be said that these are all joyful changes.
Originally, Chinese football lags behind Europe, even South American teams, in terms of concepts, tactics, youth training, daily training, and even team management.
In this case, the introduction of foreign teachers and foreign players will definitely help improve the level of domestic football.
When the level of domestic football has been improved in all aspects, and when the professional football industry has gradually grown in scale, everything will naturally follow, even youth training.
To give a simple example, suppose that all 16 teams in the Chinese Super League are burning money and bringing in powerful foreign players, but how many of them can If the domestic players are not good enough, no matter how good the foreign players are, what’s the use?
Therefore, foreign aid and local players complement each other.
While introducing strong foreign aid, we will also pay attention to local players.
Even if you can't cultivate it yourself, you will definitely spend money to buy it.
When excellent local players are scarce in the country and transfer fees rise, it will be easy to handle.
There will definitely be a team responsible for training them, and then cash out to sell them, and finally form a stable player circulation system.
Just like La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona are responsible for burning money, and other teams are responsible for cultivating talents.
Atletico Madrid is now eager to squeeze into the first team, and will be responsible for burning money and introducing stars in the future.
Of course, this does not mean that these teams that are responsible for burning money do not pay attention to youth training.
It can only be said that they will not rely on youth training.
Even though Southampton's current youth training output is amazing, within five years, the Saints will definitely follow this path.
The reason is simple.
This is the path that all wealthy teams must take after developing to a certain level.
On the second day after Yangcheng Hengda reversed Mexico America, the Saints finally arrived belatedly at Tokyo's Narita Airport.
Yang Huan did not go to pick him up because the fanatical Japanese fans had already been waiting at Narita Airport.
As the most popular team in Europe in the past few years, this is the first time the Saints have set foot in Japan.
However, they did not expect that a large number of Japanese fans would greet the team's arrival in an almost crazy way.
Wearing Saints jerseys and holding signs with various slogans, they blocked the entire airport.
Not only at the airport, but also on the Internet in Japan, the Saints have become the most popular topic of conversation.
After arriving at the airport, superstars such as Ancelotti, Messi, Suarez and Neuer all accepted brief interviews with media reporters and expressed their desire for the Club World Cup.
"Yangcheng Hengda is a strong opponent, we will concentrate on the semi-finals" Head coach Ancelotti said in an interview.
Captain Neuer also said that he had received the news on the plane and watched the game.
He believed that Yangcheng Hengda would be a very threatening opponent.
Regardless of whether the words of the Saints players were sincere or polite, in short, they gave their opponents enough face.
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Just kidding, this is a team from Master Huan’s homeland, can you not give me face?
But on the football field, that may not be the case.
As the European champions, the Saints traveled thousands of miles from Europe to Japan in the middle of the season to participate in this kind of Club World Cup.
The organizers also gave enough face in the arrangement of the event.
Other teams have to go to Osaka to play a game first, but the Saints' semifinals are scheduled to be held in Yokohama.
Therefore, as soon as the Saints arrived in Tokyo, they immediately moved to Yokohama without stopping.
But even so, the Saints still announced that many superstars on the team, including Messi, Suarez, Hazard, and Toni Kroos, will not be able to participate in the semifinals.
As for the specific reason, the explanation given by the saint was that he was injured.
But everyone knows that these players have just played Premier League and Champions League games in Europe, so how could they be injured.
The most important thing is to consider the competition.
After playing in the Club World Cup, returning to Europe, the Saints will face the devil's Christmas schedule non-stop.
If it weren't for FIFA's mandatory regulations that these stars must be obtained and must play, the Saints would definitely not include them in the roster.
To put it bluntly, in terms of hard power, the Saints have the ability to win the championship even if they all play as substitutes.
It turns out there's nothing wrong with the Saints' confidence.
In the semi-final against Yangcheng Hengda, although the Saints did not give their best, they still defeated Yangcheng Hengda very cleanly 4-0 and successfully advanced to the final.
England center Harry Kane scored twice, while Martial and Sturridge each scored one goal.
It is worth mentioning that it was not Kovacic who replaced Toni Kroos in the starting lineup in this game, but Belgian teenager Youri Tielemans.
The Belgian sits in the midfield, has a general style, and his performance is remarkable and quite impressive.
His skills in the midfield are very delicate and his basic skills are very solid.
Together with Pogba and Oscar, he firmly controlled the midfield and suppressed Yangcheng Hengda.
Three days after playing the semi-finals of the Club World Cup against Yangcheng Hengda, the Saints ushered in the final.
Before the final, Yangcheng Hengda held a third-place final with Japan's Hiroshima team.
Yangcheng Hengda took the lead in scoring quickly after the opening, and then steadily controlled the game.
But in the second half, the Hiroshima team started to exert its strength.
Yangcheng Hengda made two mistakes and was beaten by the opponent twice.
But at the last moment of the game, captain Zheng Zhi scored an equalizing goal for Yangcheng Hengda, and the two sides entered overtime.
In overtime, Yangcheng Hengda performed very tenaciously.
Despite huge physical exertion, they managed to score two goals in a row, defeating Japan's Hiroshima team 4-2 and finishing third in the Club World Cup.
This also made Yang Huan who was watching the game keep applauding and congratulated Yangcheng Hengda on WeChat, thinking this was a victory for Chinese football and it was so awesome.
Compared with the succession of third and fourth place finals, the final was calm.
It's not that the game was not good to watch, on the contrary, this time the Saints sent out all their main players, including Messi, Suarez and Hazard, and other superstars all appeared and played the entire game.
The reason why it was calm was mainly because the Saints crushed the Argentine River Plate team throughout the game.
Less than six minutes into the game, the Saints took the lead and scored.
The one who opened the scoring for the Saints was Argentinian player Messi Then in the 27th minute, with another assist from Hazard, Suarez grabbed a point in the penalty area and once again broke through River Plate's goal, rewriting the score to 2-0.
In the second half, the side changed sides and the Saints continued to attack unabated and firmly controlled the game.
In the 68th minute, Cesc Fabregas made a direct pass, and Suarez turned offside and scored twice.
Spend. 3-0, Saints defeated River Plate and won the Club World Cup Yang Huan looked very sad in the stands.
It can be said that the River Plate team is no match for the Saints.
If the Saints had not stayed strong throughout the game, it is estimated that the Argentine team would have lost even more miserably.
It can be said that the strength of European teams in this event is absolutely crushing.
Even the intensity and enjoyment of the competition were far inferior to the International Champions Cup organized and planned by Yang Huan himself.
Originally, according to Yang Huan's plan, if the International Champions Cup should reflect the word "international", it could not only be limited to the participation of European teams.
Therefore, he considered inviting teams from South America to participate.
But after some investigation, he found that if South American teams were invited to participate, not to mention the schedule would be a bit difficult, but the enjoyment of the game would definitely be affected.
The final analysis is that the South American teams are not strong enough.
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Looking at the past few years, the loss of football talents in South America has been too serious.
Not to mention that the five major European leagues still recruit the top football talents from South America, let’s talk about the Portuguese Super League.
There are many South American foreign players there.
There are also wealthy leagues such as Ukraine, Russia, and Türkiye, which are also frantically recruiting foreign players from South America.
Now, a China has emerged in Asia.
The best star resources in South America have long been divided up.
What can we do to compete with Europe?
The best stars in the world have gone to Europe.
Coupled with Europe's complete football industry and abundant football capital operations, the European leagues have grown rapidly and are sold around the world with the help of copyrights.
If we really want to compete, who can stop Europe?
Although no one says it, in fact, today's world football has quietly entered the colonial era of football.
In other words, the colonial era of capital football Therefore, today's professional football league has already entered the era of capital operation.
If the Chinese Super League wants to rise, it must either follow up and conform to this trend, or it will become like those small countries.
Another point is youth training.
Assuming that China's youth training is really promoted, with a huge population base, there are many talents, but the league is as disappointing as the national team, what will the result be like?
As China's football industry develops, the worst-case scenario is that it will end up like Brazil and Argentina, relying on exporting players to earn foreign exchange.
This is definitely not a good thing for the domestic football industry, nor is it a long-term solution.
Therefore, the government's football reform is in the right direction, but this road is not easy to follow, and it will not be possible in a short time.
But as Yang Huan said before in Longhai, with such a huge population base and such a huge consumer market, who would believe that China cannot build a world-class professional league?
Now, sitting in the stands and watching River Plate's powerless performance against the Saints, Yang Huan believes this even more.
After the game, there was a brief awards ceremony.
The Golden Globe, Silver Globe and Bronze Globe were all won by the Saints.
Interestingly, the awarding guest turned out to be the legendary Ma Yun.
It was also at this moment that Yang Huan belatedly discovered that Alibaba was the sponsor of this Club World Cup.
No wonder Ma Yun came out to present the award: