From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 269 Five Crowns

On December 12th, another event that attracted worldwide attention was the draw for the Champions League quarter-finals.

When the Udinese team boarded the plane to RB, Udinese general manager Giaretta went to the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, to attend the Champions League quarter-final draw ceremony.

After a tense draw, Udinese drew the Premier League team Arsenal. This is the worst result for Udinese.

After all, among the eight second-placed teams, Arsenal is already the strongest opponent that Udinese can face, except for Paris Saint-Germain.

Even Arsenal, who have rich experience in European wars, are no less difficult than Paris, the French hegemon.

Not only Udinese suffered a death draw, but the other two Serie A teams also received lower draws - the opponents of both teams were the Cosmos, among which Juventus faced the Bundesliga southern kings Bayern Munich and Roma. Then he met the Galacticos Real Madrid.

As soon as the draw result came out, the Italian media was in an uproar, saying that Serie A was being targeted by UEFA, because not only the three Serie A teams that had advanced to the knockout stages of the Champions League encountered strong enemies, but also the 16 points of the Europa League that followed. In the final draw, the three Serie A teams that advanced to the Europa League knockout round were all drawn without exception. Lazio faced the Turkish Super League giant Porto, Fiorentina faced the Premier League quasi-rich Tottenham Hotspur, and Naples' opponent was the Yellow Submarine who performed well in La Liga.

With such a matchup situation, all Serie A teams may be eliminated after the first round of eliminations!

The other groups are Barcelona VS Gent, Paris Saint-Germain VS Chelsea, Benfica VS Zenit St. Petersburg, Manchester City VS Dynamo Kiev, Atletico Madrid VS Wolfsburg.

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Udinese currently has no energy to think about the Champions League knockout round with Arsenal. What they need to worry about now is the upcoming Club World Cup match.

The 2015 Club World Cup once again returned to RB, the venue of its predecessor, the Toyota Cup, and the competition format remains the same as in previous editions, that is, the champions of the six continents plus a host team, with a total of 7 teams participating.

According to the rules, the Champions League champion and the Copa Libertadores champion directly advance to the semi-finals, while the remaining five teams play two knockout rounds according to the rules.

There is only one game in the first round of knockout, with the host team playing against the Oceania champion; the second round of participating teams includes the teams that advanced in the first round, plus the African champion, Asian champion and Central and North American champions, four teams Teams face each other in pairs, with the winner advancing to the semi-finals and the loser competing in a ranking match for fifth and sixth place.

The two teams that enter the semi-finals are drawn to play against the Champions League champion or the Copa Libertadores champion. The winner advances to the final, and the loser enters into a qualifying match for third or fourth place.

In total, there will be eight games in the entire Club World Cup.

As last season's Champions League champion, Udinese will start from the semi-finals. Regardless of the result, they will play two games, one semi-final and one final.

Before Udinese leaves for RB, this year's Club World Cup has already started on December 12.

Udinese's first game, the semi-finals, will be on December 12, RB starts at 17:7 pm local time. The opponent is last season's dental crown champion Taobao team.

If they can defeat the Taobao team, Udinese will participate in the Club World Cup final at 12:20 pm local time on December 7th.

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Udinese is participating in the Club World Cup for the first time in history, while their opponent Taobao is participating in the Club World Cup for the second time. In the 2013 Club World Cup, Taobao defeated Egypt's Ahli 2:0 under Lippi's command and got a chance to face Bayern Munich. In the semi-finals, Evergrande lost 0:3 to Bayern Munich.

In the first game of this Club World Cup, goals from Zheng Long and Paulinho helped Taobao reverse a 2:1 victory over Mexico America and gain a chance to face Udinese.

In this game, the Taobao team physically continued the starting lineup against the American team. The only change was to replace Robinho with Zheng Long.

For Udinese, news broke two hours before the game that Di Natale would be absent due to illness, but Bruno still started the game. The game completely became Bruno's personal show. He once again scored a hat trick in the game, helping Udinese defeat the Taobao team 3:0.

The Taobao team is also quite miserable. Two years ago, they saw Bayern Munich, the master of teamwork, and today they once again witnessed a team that takes individual heroism to the extreme.

In fact, playing against a Chinese team is also a strange feeling for Bruno. However, he had no intention of letting go. On the one hand, no one knew that the core players facing the Taobao team had Chinese souls in their bodies. On the other hand, Bruno also wanted these people to see that they were going all out. How strong he is.

Then, Bruno scored another hat trick, raising his total number of goals in 2015 to 60 goals.

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If Bruno allowed the Chinese to see the ultimate in individual heroism in the Club World Cup semi-finals against Taobao, then in the Club World Cup final three days later, Bruno allowed the whole world to see what individual heroism is.

Facing the Copa Libertadores champions, the Argentine giants River Plate, Bruno once again became the master of the game.

In the 36th minute of the game, Udinese broke the deadlock. Bruno broke through and scored. Cancelo made a pass from the right side of the penalty area. Di Natale headed back from far away. Bruno volleyed into the net with the outside of his left foot from 10 yards. Udi Ness leads 1:0.

In the 49th minute, Udinese expanded the score. Itura made a diagonal pass in the counterattack, and Bruno, who succeeded in countering offside, shot a single shot from 14 yards. The ball passed between the legs of Barovero and entered the net. Udinese also extended its lead to two goals.

In the 52nd minute, Udinese almost ushered in a third goal. Bruno made a direct pass from the center, Di Natale knocked across the left side of the penalty area, Bruno pushed his left foot from the center of the penalty area, and was saved by the brave River Plate goalkeeper Barovello on the goal line.

However, Udinese secured the victory through Bruno after 16 minutes. Adnan passed a diagonal pass from the edge of the penalty area on the left, and Bruno, who was unguarded, scored with a header in front of the penalty area, giving Udinese a 3:0 lead.

Udinese, who were leading by three goals, relaxed, which gave River Plate a chance.

In the 77th minute, River Plate almost scored when Vangioni passed in and Alario's header from 11 yards was saved by Canizisi's crossbar.

In the end, Udinese defeated River Plate 3-0 and won the 2015 Club World Cup.

This is also the fifth championship trophy won by Udinese in 2015.

Bruno's number of goals in 2015 was finally fixed at 63. Cristiano Ronaldo ranked second with 57 goals, and Messi ranked third with 49 goals.

(End of this chapter)