Episode [012]: The World Cup in Germany Officially Opens

Zhong Cheng, Julia Oliveira, Christina and Isabella George left Hawaii, USA and flew directly to Germany.

Zhong Cheng and the others are going to watch the upcoming World Cup in Germany live.

And Joorabchian flew directly to England to contact the transfer manager of Leeds United. He was going to negotiate this matter as soon as possible.

Sitting on the plane, Zhong Cheng still had a lot of things on his mind.

The first is the matter of Tevez and Mascherano. In Zhong Cheng's memory, it seems that when these two joined West Ham United on loan, they had zero loan fees. But at that time they had the intention of acquiring West Ham United, but now they are not.

Zhong Cheng knew that Leeds United should still spend some symbolic money on loaning these two, at least on the side of Corinthians, and it can be done similarly.

What Zhong Cheng also thought of was the "Phonegate" incident that broke out in Italian football not long ago.

On May 4, 2006, "Gazzetta dello Sport" suddenly published the content of the call between the general manager of Juventus Club Moggi and the Serie A referee designator in recent years. The record of the phone call between Serie A referee designator Paireto during the season.

The content here involves many, many things. Moggi and Juventus bought referees to manipulate the game, and there are many clubs involved, such as Fiorentina, AC Milan, etc. Almost half of the Italian football world has fallen into In the match-fixing storm.

And there are a lot of people involved, including senior officials of the Football Association, club executives, referees, players, etc., a lot of people.

As soon as this scandal broke out, the entire Italian football world was shocked. The world has been shocked by the match-fixing scandal in Italian football, one of the biggest football scandals ever to come to light.

The saliva from all over the world is flocking to Italian football, and Italian football is now in turmoil.

On May 8, the chairman of the Football Association Carraro resigned, and the vice chairman Mazzini subsequently resigned. The four major prosecutors' offices including Naples, Rome and Turin began to intervene in the investigation. A few days later, Juventus officially issued a statement announcing the collective resignation of the Juventus board of directors.

Then, problem referee DeSantis was disqualified from refereeing the World Cup. The investigation was carried out in an all-round way, and it was reported that many teams including AC Milan and Fiorentina were suspected of fake play, and Buffon was also involved in the gambling scandal. On May 14th, Serie A came to an end, and Juventus successfully defended the title. Moggi announced his retirement from football. Soon the chairman of the Italian referee committee, Ranese, also dismissed get out of class sadly. On May 16, the Italian Olympic Committee appointed Rossi to temporarily host the Football Association.

Later, Juventus's stock fell sharply, causing a series of very turbulent effects.

And at this time, the Italian national team is about to go to the World Cup, which also affects the Italian national team. Countless Italians are shouting that the winter of Italian football is coming.

And Zhong Cheng himself is more aware of how much impact this incident has had on Italian football, and many people even call this incident a sign of the decline of Serie A.

Zhong Cheng didn't pay attention to these things, because he really didn't care much about them, not at all.

What Zhong Cheng cares about is whether he can get some benefits from it, because Zhong Cheng knows that Juventus will be deprived of multiple league titles and ordered to be relegated. Many stars in their club will ask to transfer and leave of.

Zhong Cheng also hopes to introduce one or two players from here. Of course, he cannot afford to introduce people like Vieira and Ibrahimovic, but he can introduce some young players, such as Chiellini and others.

However, now that Juventus has not been relegated, Zhong Cheng still has to wait.

Other things, such as transfers. Now there are some people in Leeds United who want to leave. Zhong Cheng wonders if there will be more people on this list who want to leave.

Now these things have to be handled properly.

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The 2006 World Cup in Germany officially kicked off on June 10. The two sides were Germany and Costa Rica. Zhong Cheng naturally wanted to attend the opening ceremony of the World Cup this time.

However, there are still a few days left.

Zhong Cheng came to Germany ahead of time. He took Christina, Julia Oliveira and Isabella George to visit the German team and feel the atmosphere of the World Cup in advance.

Yes, the atmosphere of the World Cup in Germany is very strong now. Fans from all over the world are gathered here, and more people are flocking here. This is a festival and carnival for fans all over the world day!

Moreover, at this time, almost all the teams participating in the World Cup have come to Germany and are preparing for the upcoming World Cup in Germany.

On this day, Zhong Cheng went to watch a warm-up match between France and Ukraine. This is a warm-up match between the two teams before the World Cup. In this match, Zhong Cheng watched Ribery.

Of course, Ribery sat on the bench and did not play.

Ribery's injury is already healed. He was selected for the French national team and will wear the No. 22 jersey of the French national team to represent the French team.

Of course, seeing that Ribery did not play, Zhong Cheng was a little puzzled.

Zhong Cheng found Ribery directly that day, and Zhong Cheng saw Ribery in the hotel where the French national team stayed.

When seeing Zhong Cheng, Ribery was a little surprised: "Boss, I really didn't expect that you would come to our French team's warm-up match."

Zhong Cheng chuckled and said, "Aren't I concerned about your situation?"

Ribery nodded slightly and said: "Thank you boss, my situation is very good now, don't worry, I will definitely play in this World Cup!"

Zhong Cheng nodded. He is very confident in Ribery. Ribery is very good and must be the most dazzling person in the French team.

Zhong Cheng asked: "Why didn't you play in today's warm-up match? You are well-known in world football now. Your head coach should not let you hide your clumsiness!"

Ribery said directly: "Boss, that's not the case. It's because my injury hasn't fully recovered. Let me rest more and recover as soon as possible, so that I can play in the next World Cup!"

Zhong Cheng nodded his head, which is the same as his own guess, and it seems that this is the reason.

Zhong Cheng immediately said: "Then how do you feel? Will the injury affect your participation in the World Cup?"

Franck Ribery said with a smile: "Boss, don't worry. In fact, I think my injury is completely healed. However, the team doctor is more conservative, let me rest and recuperate!"

So that was the case, Zhong Cheng nodded, and said, "Well, it's normal for your team doctor to be worried. You have to take care of your body and don't try to be aggressive, you know?"

Franck Ribery nodded immediately, expressing his understanding.

Ribery was a little moved in his heart, Zhong Cheng seemed to be his guardian, caring so much about him.

Ribery said: "Don't worry, boss, I will be fine!"

Zhong Cheng nodded directly and said: "Okay, I believe, you should prepare well for the upcoming World Cup, work hard, work hard!"

Zhong Cheng didn't say no more, just said goodbye to Ribery.

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After that, Zhong Cheng didn't go to see other players. He felt at ease traveling to Germany with Christina and others, waiting for the start of the World Cup.

June 10, 2006, Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany.

Today, the curtain of the 2006 World Cup in Germany will be unveiled here, which is the first match of this World Cup.

Before the opening of the World Cup, the opening ceremony of the World Cup was held.

At this opening ceremony, there were naturally many leaders' speeches. Then there was a series of cultural performances, all of which covered a theme, and showed the Germanic people's humanistic and spiritual life and other aspects.

Of course, in this cultural performance, Zhong Cheng also saw a Chinese.

That is Lang Lang, a world-class pianist from Shenyang, China. Seeing this person's performance, Zhong Cheng applauded sincerely, which is really amazing. Christina, Isabella George and others all applauded warmly and liked the performance very much.

The cultural performance is not long. After the end, the opening game of this World Cup will begin.

The opening game is between hosts Germany and Costa Rica.

This campaign is the fourth time for the German team to appear in the opening game of the World Cup. The previous three times the German team has won 1 and 2 and remained unbeaten. At the same time, this is also the seventh time that the host team has participated in the opening game. Also undefeated, the German team had a record of 10 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss in the 15 first games they participated in. The Costa Rica team, which entered the World Cup finals for the third time, ended in victory and did not concede a goal in the first two World Cup openers.

The Argentine referee Elizondo was the referee for this battle. This is also the second referee for the opening match of the World Cup finals after the Argentine World Cup in 1978 when Coereza presided over the opening match (formerly West Germany 0-0 Poland). Argentine.

Today's weather is also very good, very suitable for football games, with sunshine and breeze, 20 degrees.

Ballack, the core midfielder of the German team today, did not appear in the starting list because of a calf injury that did not heal. This should be Ballack's last World Cup. This is very important to him, and it is also a pity for him not to be able to participate in this opening game.

The game started very quickly, and the game was very intense from the beginning.

In the 6th minute, German striker Klose kicked the ball to the left in a scramble inside the arc of the penalty area in the middle. The left-back Lahm, who played for Bayern Munich, suddenly dribbled the ball laterally after getting the ball on the left side and crossed the line of the penalty area. Moved, and hit the far corner with a right foot curve ball 20 meters away, and played a high-quality World Cup kick.

The ball hit the inside of the right post and scored into Costa Rica's net. No one had such a wonderful first goal in this World Cup. It was an extremely exciting world wave. And the goal was scored by a defender.

The entire Allianz Arena exploded, and countless fans cheered excitedly.

Zhong Cheng was also surprised when he saw this. This goal really seemed familiar. Very wonderful.

In his last life, he came to watch the World Cup live in Germany, but happened to miss this opening game. Being able to watch this game live today is really a dream come true.

The fans of the German team at the scene were all chanting Lahm's name. This full-back with a height of only 1.70 meters scored the first goal of this World Cup and the 1917th goal in the history of the World Cup finals. ball.

The whole stadium is about to explode, really.

The Germans started to cheer wildly, they started to celebrate wildly, and the Costa Ricans started to prepare for a counterattack. Although they had little chance in this game, they yearned for victory.

Sure enough, the sky paid off, the Costa Rican evened the score after only six minutes, and it was Wanchope who scored the goal!