Seven Crowns

After ten hours of flying, the Chinese team arrived in Doha the next morning and was warmly welcomed by hundreds of Chinese journalists, fans and local Chinese who had arrived earlier.

Among them, the cheers to Lu Wenbin were the biggest.

Countless people are expecting that as the world's number one superstar, Lu Wenbin will lead the Chinese team to make a historic breakthrough in Chinese football!

Of course, Lu Wenbin's current fame is not only sought after by Chinese fans, but also because of his opponents in the group stage, Qatar, many people are his fans.

Although everyone was opponents during the game, Lu Wenbin had just arrived in Doha and was welcomed by many local fans in Qatar.

The officials of the Qatar Football Association who greeted the Chinese team were also very enthusiastic and smiled at Lu Wenbin's arrival.

The Qatari people's enthusiasm for football is quite high.

The Qatar consortium, which is not short of money, is acquiring Paris Saint-Germain and is preparing to turn football into a national business card as a means to introduce itself to the world and increase its influence in the world.

Qatar is constantly striving for the right to host the Asian Cup and the World Cup because of this consideration.

The 2011 Asian Cup is a preview of the 2022 World Cup, and it is an opportunity to test the quality of the Qatar Games.

Therefore, as the host, the arrival of Lu Wenbin, the world's number one superstar, can increase the attention of the Qatar Asian Cup in the world, and the Qatari people naturally welcome it warmly.

After resting in the hotel for a whole morning, after falling into jet lag, the first training session was started in the afternoon for light recovery training.

The next day is New Year's Day, and the time enters 2011.

On January 2, the Chinese team played a warm-up match against the previous Asian Cup champion Iraq. In the end, the Chinese team won 5-2.

Although the back line was still like a colander, Iraq scored two goals, but the frontcourt attack line with Lu Wenbin as the arrow still filled the defending champion with 5 goals.

Lu Wenbin staged a hat-trick and assisted Zheng Zhi and Wang Song, also a fellow Guizhou fellow, to score a goal.

Lu Wenbin alone made all five goals of the Chinese team, which made the Chinese reporters and fans watching the game quite excited.

The defending champions have been beaten so badly, the Chinese team can really imagine winning the Asian Cup for the first time!

With the arrival of the participating teams, the atmosphere of the Asian Cup has become stronger and stronger, and many Asian stars have appeared one after another.

In addition to Lu Wenbin, the world's number one superstar who has booked the FIFA Golden Globe Award, there are also Australia's number one star Cahill, the three-lung South Korean star Park Ji-sung, Japan's Kagawa Shinji, Nakata Keiyou and so on.

Of course, in terms of fame and prestige around the world, all the players of all Asian teams are not as good as Lu Wenbin alone.

Many teams did not see a reporter outside of Asia during training, while the Chinese team was crowded with European and American reporters and fans during training.

In the eyes of European and American media and fans, the previous Asian Cup is not worth paying attention to. This time the Asian Cup only needs to pay attention to Lu Wenbin alone.

On January 6th, the Asian Cup has not yet started. Serie A will begin in the second half of the season after the winter break.

Juventus lost 1-4 to Parma at home, bursting the biggest upset in Serie A this round.

Then, without Lu Wenbin, Inter Milan defeated Udinese 3-1 at home and continued to lead the standings.

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Looking back at the Asian Cup, at 18:00 on the evening of January 7, the opening ceremony of the 15th Qatar Asian Cup in 2011 kicked off at the Doha Khalifa Stadium, which can accommodate 50,000 people.

King Emir of Qatar attended the opening ceremony together with FIFA President Blatter and UEFA President Platini.

After Qatar’s national anthem was played, the Emir gave a speech, greeted the other 15 teams that came to Doha, and hoped that everyone will leave good memories here.

Of course, these are clichés. There is only one championship, and it is impossible for every team to leave a good memory.

After Emil finished his speech, the national flags of the 16 participating teams entered the stadium and entered the stage of singing, dancing and fireworks.

After about half an hour of the opening ceremony, the Emir announced the official start of the 15th Qatar Asian Cup in 2011.

Then, began to clean up the stadium and prepare for the opener.

At 19:15 on the evening of January 7, local time, with the whistle of the referee Nishimura from Japan, the 2011 Qatar Asian Cup opening match between Qatar and Uzbekistan officially kicked off.

It may be that the status of the host gave the Qatar players too much pressure. Qatar made frequent mistakes in the first half. Although the 0-0 score was kept until the intermission, it was far behind Uzbekistan in the number of shots.

According to this situation, they are very dangerous.

Sure enough, in the 58th minute of the second half, Uzbekistan scored the first goal by their No. 9 Ahmedov.

Ahmedov became the first player to score in this Asian Cup.

After the score fell behind, the host Qatar was even more at a loss.

In the 77th minute, Qatar No. 14 Ibrahim made a mistake in the backcourt pass. Uzbekistan No. 8 Jeparov directly counterattacked after stealing the ball in the frontcourt, rushing to score the goal before the opponent's defender reacted. .

Uzbekistan led Qatar 2-0 to seal the victory.

In the remaining ten minutes, although Qatar tried their best to equalize, they failed to score a goal.

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, Nishimura sounded the whistle for the end of the game. The host Qatar lost to Uzbekistan 0-2 in the opening game. The start was not good, which cast a shadow on Qatar’s qualifying situation and also let Qatar take over. The opponents China and Kuwait became nervous.

Including the 13th Asian Cup hosted by China in 2004, the hosts of the previous Asian Cups will get a lot of extra convenience and care. The referees favored by the hosts are much better than those of the World Cup and the European Cup.

On the one hand, Asian football is lagging behind and there are more insidious tricks; on the other hand, it is for ticket revenue considerations.

If the host can't even qualify, who will sell the tickets for the next match?

After all, there are only a few foreign fans who have money to go to the scene to watch the football, and the Asian Cup is not as good as the World Cup, which is inherently less attractive to fans.

The ticket revenue of the Asian Cup still depends on the support of the host's local fans.

If the host is out prematurely, it will be extremely detrimental to the ticket sales of the knockout tournament~www.ltnovel.com~AFC and even FIFA know this well and turn a blind eye to it.

As long as it is not too excessive, there is no evidence, and no one cares.

Besides, what if it is too much?

The Koreans dared to be so blatant in front of the whole world in the Korea-Japan World Cup. How about the hosts of the Asian Cup enjoying the convenience of the host?

The most stressful thing is that the current AFC president is Qatari Haman.

Qatar lost the first group match, and the next opponents China and Kuwait will definitely receive a lot of "extra" treatment. There is no doubt about this.

This is the unspoken rule of the Asian Cup, and it is also an open secret.

No wonder the coaches and team leaders of these two teams became very nervous after watching the opening game. (Seeking monthly pass)

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Update 2/2 on July 19