Seven Crowns

After a ten-hour flight, the Chinese team arrived in Doha the next morning, and was warmly welcomed by hundreds of Chinese reporters, fans, and local Chinese who arrived earlier.

Among them, the cheers for Lu Wenbin were the loudest.

Countless people are looking forward to Lu Wenbin, the world's number one superstar, leading the Chinese team to a historic breakthrough in Chinese football!

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

Although we were opponents during the game, Lu Wenbin had just arrived in Doha at this time, and he was welcomed by many local Qatari fans.

The officials of the Qatar Football Association who greeted the Chinese team were also very enthusiastic, and they were full of smiles on Lu Wenbin's arrival.

Qataris are very passionate about football.

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

Qatar's continuous struggle for the right to host the Asian Cup and the World Cup is also out of consideration in this regard.

The 2011 Asian Cup is the preview of the 2022 World Cup, and it is an opportunity to test the level of the Qatar competition.

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 Qataris naturally warmly welcome it.

After resting in the hotel for a whole morning, after getting over the jet lag, I started the first training session in the afternoon for light recovery training.

The next day was New Year's Day, and the time entered 2011.

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

Although Iraq scored two goals in the back line like a colander, the attacking line in the frontcourt with Lu Wenbin as the arrow still scored five goals for the defending champion.

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

Lu Wenbin made all five goals of the Chinese team alone, which made the Chinese reporters who reported the game and the fans who watched the game very excited.

The defending champions were 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 is getting stronger and stronger, and many Asian stars have appeared one after another.

In addition to Lu Wenbin, the world's number one star who has booked the FIFA Ballon d'Or, there are Australia's number one star Cahill, South Korean star Park Ji-sung who is known as three lungs, Japan's Kagawa Shinji, Nakata Keisuke and so on.

Of course, in terms of world-wide fame and prestige, all players from all Asian teams can't compare to Lu Wenbin alone.

Many teams do not see a single non-Asian reporter outside the field during training, but the sidelines of the Chinese team are crowded with European and American journalists and visiting fans.

In the eyes of European and American media and fans, previous Asian Cups were not worthy of attention, and this Asian Cup only needs to focus on Lu Wenbin alone.

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

Juventus lost 1-4 at home to Parma, which broke the biggest upset of this round of Serie A.

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 Khalifa Stadium in Doha, which can accommodate 50,000 people.

Qatar's King Emir attended the opening ceremony together with FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini.

After playing the national anthem of Qatar, the emir delivered a speech, extending his greetings to the other 15 teams that came to Doha, and wishing everyone a good memory here.

Of course, these are all clichés. There is only one champion, and it is impossible for every team to leave good memories.

After the emir finished his speech, the national flags of the 16 participating teams entered the arena and entered the song, dance and fireworks show.

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

Then, start clearing the pitch for the opener.

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

It may be that the identity of the host put too much pressure on the Qatar players. In the first half, Qatar made frequent mistakes. Although they kept the 0-0 score until the intermission, they were far behind Uzbekistan in the number of shots.

If this situation continues, they will be 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, who came off the bench, made a mistake in passing the ball in the backcourt. Uzbekistan No. 8 Jeparov directly counterattacked after stealing the ball from the frontcourt, and scored with a low shot before the opponent's defender could react. .

Uzbekistan leads Qatar 2-0 to seal the victory.

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

After 3 minutes of stoppage time, Nishimura Yuichi blew the whistle for the end of the game. The host Qatar lost 0-2 to Uzbekistan in the opening game. Down rivals China and Kuwait became nervous.

Including the 13th Asian Cup held in China in 2004, the previous hosts of the Asian Cup will receive a lot of extra convenience and care.

On the one hand, Asian football is relatively backward and there are more insidious tricks, and on the other hand, it is for the consideration of ticket revenue.

If the host can't even qualify, who will the tickets for the next game be sold to?

After all, foreign fans who have the money to go all the way to watch the game are a minority, and the Asian Cup is not as attractive as a game like the World Cup.

The ticket revenue of the Asian Cup is still supported by the local fans of the host.

If the host is eliminated prematurely, it will be extremely detrimental to the ticket sales of the knockout round. The AFC and even FIFA are well aware of this and turn a blind eye to it.

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

What's more, so what if it's too much?

The Koreans dared to act so blatantly in front of the whole world in the Korea-Japan World Cup, so what if the hosts in the Asian Cup enjoy the convenience of the hosts?

The most nerve-wracking thing is that the current president of the AFC is Haman, a Qatari.

Qatar lost the first group match, and there is no doubt that the next opponents, the Chinese team and Kuwait, will definitely receive a lot of "extra" treatment.

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

It's no wonder that the coaches and leaders of these two teams became very nervous after watching the opening game. (seeking a monthly ticket)

Ming Qiao said

Updated July 19 2/2