The Legendary Chairman Novel - Chapter 442
442 German World Cup Opens
Zhong Cheng left Hawaii with Julia Oliveira, Christina and Isabella George for Germany.
Zhong Cheng and the others are going to watch the upcoming World Cup in Germany.
Holabuchin flew directly to England to contact the transfer manager of Leeds United and was prepared to discuss the matter as soon as possible.
Sitting on the plane, Zhong Cheng was still thinking about a lot of things.
The first was about Tevez and Mascherano. In Zhong Cheng’s memory, it was as if the two had joined West Ham on loan at zero loan fee. But they were thinking of buying West Ham at the time, and not now.
Zhong Cheng knew that Leeds United would still have to spend some money symbolically, at least on Corinthians.
Zhong Cheng also thought of the recent “Calciopoli” incident in Italian football.
On 4 May 2006, La Gazzetta dello Sport suddenly published the conversation between Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi and the Serie A referee designate in recent years. The recording was mainly about the conversation between Moggi in 2004 and Serie A referee designate Pajreto, who had served six seasons in Serie A.
It involved a lot of things, Moggi and Juventus bribed the referees to manipulate the game, and involved a lot of clubs, such as Fiorentina, AC Milan and so on. Almost half of the Italian football world was caught in a fake ball storm.
Moreover, there were a lot of people involved, including senior officials of the Football Association, club executives, referees, players, and so on. There were a lot of people.
The whole Italian football world trembled when the scandal broke out. The whole world is shocked by the Italian football match-fixing scandal, which is one of the biggest football scandals ever exposed.
Saliva from all over the world is pouring into Italian football, which is now in turmoil.
On May 8, President Carlo resigned, followed by Vice-President Mazini resigned, Naples, Rome and Turin four prosecutors began to intervene in the investigation. A few days later, Juventus issued an official statement announcing the resignation of the Juventus board of directors.
The questioning referee, De Santis, was then disqualified from the World Cup. Investigations have been carried out into allegations that AC Milan, Fiorentina and other clubs were playing fake games and Buffon was involved in a gambling scandal. Juventus defended their title on May 14 when Serie A came to an end. Moggi announced his retirement from football. Lanesse, chairman of the Italian refereeing committee, was also dismissed shortly after. May 16, the Italian Olympic Committee appointed Rossi temporary trusteeship of the Football Federation.
Later, Juventus’ shares fell sharply, creating a number of very volatile effects.
At this moment, the Italian national team was about to play in the World Cup, which also affected the Italian national team. Countless Italians were shouting that the winter of Italian football was coming.
Zhong Cheng knew how much impact this had on Italian football, and many people even called it a sign of the decline of the Serie A league.
Zhong Cheng ignored these things because he really didn’t care about them at all.
What Zhong Cheng cares about is whether he can get some benefits from it, because he knows that Juventus will be stripped of several league titles and demoted, and many of the stars in their club’s formation will ask to leave.
Zhong Cheng also hopes to bring in one or two players from here. Of course, Vieira and Ibrahimovic could not afford to bring in players like him, but he could bring in young players like Giuliano Chiellini and others.
However, Juventus have not been relegated yet and Zhong Cheng will have to wait.
Other things, like the transfer. Right now, there were some people in the Leeds RUF who wanted to leave. Zhong Cheng did not know if there would be more people on this list who wanted to leave.
Now, these things had to be handled properly.
–Division Line–
The 2006 World Cup in Germany officially kicked off on June 10. The two sides were Germany and Costa Rica. Zhong Cheng naturally had to attend the opening ceremony of the World Cup.
However, there were still a few days left.
Zhong Cheng arrived in Germany early. He took Christina, Julia Oliveira and Isabella George to take a good look at the German team and experience the atmosphere of the World Cup ahead of time.
Yes, the atmosphere of the World Cup in Germany is already very strong. The fans from all over the world are gathered here, and more people are rushing here. This is a festival for the fans all over the world, Carnival Day!
At this time, almost all the teams participating in the World Cup had come to Germany and were preparing for the upcoming World Cup in Germany.
On this day, Zhong Cheng went to watch a warm-up match. The two teams warming up were France and Ukraine. This was a warm-up match between the two teams before the World Cup. In this match, Zhong Cheng looked at Ribery.
Of course, Ribery sat on the bench and didn’t play.
Ribery has recovered from his injury. He has been selected for the French national team and will wear the No. 22 shirt of the French national team to play for France.
Of course, seeing that Ribery didn’t fight, Zhong Cheng was puzzled.
Zhong Cheng went straight to Ribery that day. He saw Ribery in the hotel where the French national team stayed.
Seeing Zhong Cheng, Ribery was a little surprised, “Boss, I never thought you would come to see our France warm-up match.”
Zhong Chengshi chuckled and said, “Didn’t I care about your situation?”
Ribery nodded slightly and said, “Thank you, boss. I am in good shape now. Don’t worry, I will definitely play in this World Cup.”
Zhong Cheng nodded. He was very confident in Ribery. Ribery was not bad. He must be the most dazzling person on the French team.
Zhong Cheng asked, “Why didn’t you play in today’s warm-up match? You have a certain reputation in the world football world right now. Your head coach shouldn’t let you hide your strength!”
Ribery said straightforwardly: “Boss, it’s not like that. It’s my injury that hasn’t fully recovered. Let me rest more and recover as soon as possible so I can play in the World Cup!”
Zhong Cheng nodded. This was exactly what he had guessed. It seemed that this was the reason.
Zhong Cheng immediately said, “Then how do you feel? Will your injury affect your participation in the World Cup?”
Ribery chuckled and said, “Boss, don’t worry. Actually, I think my injuries have healed completely. However, the team doctor is more conservative. Let me rest more!”
So that’s what happened. Zhong Cheng nodded and said, “Well, your team doctor’s worries are normal. You have to take care of your own body, don’t be brave, you know?”
Ribery immediately nodded in understanding.
Ribery was touched. Zhong Cheng had become his guardian and cared for him so much.
“Don’t worry, boss, I’ll be fine,” Ribery said.
Zhong Chengshi nodded his head and said, “Alright, I believe that you should prepare for the upcoming World Cup. Good luck, good luck!”
Zhong Cheng didn’t say anything else and said goodbye to Ribery.
–Division Line–
After that, Zhong Cheng did not look at the other players. He was relieved to play with Christina and the others in Germany, waiting for the start of the World Cup.
10 June 2006, Allianz Stadium, Munich, Germany.
Today, we will unveil the 2006 World Cup in Germany. It is the first match of this year’s World Cup.
The World Cup was preceded by the opening ceremony of this year’s World Cup.
At this opening ceremony, there were naturally many leaders who spoke. Then there was a series of artistic performances, all of which held a theme, and more of them showed the grace of the Germanic humanistic spiritual life and so on.
Of course, Zhong Cheng also saw a Chinese in this performance.
That was Lang Lang, a world-class pianist from Shenyang, China. Seeing this person’s performance, Zhong Cheng applauded sincerely. He was really powerful. Christina, Isabella George and the others applauded enthusiastically and enjoyed the performance very much.
The performances will not last long. After the end, the opening match of the World Cup will begin.
The opening match was between Germany and Costa Rica.
It was Germany’s fourth World Cup opener, after three unbeaten wins and two draws, and the seventh by a host team. The first six hosts were also unbeaten, with a record of 10 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss in their 15 previous openers. Costa Rica, who made it to the World Cup finals for the third time, ended the first two World Cup matches victoriously without conceding a goal.
The match was overseen by Argentine referee Elisondo, the second Argentine to oversee the opening match of the World Cup finals since the 1978 World Cup World Cup referee Coereza (former West Germany, 0-0 Poland).
Today’s weather is also very good, very suitable for football matches, there is sunshine and breeze, 20 degrees.
Germany’s central midfielder Michael Ballack did not make the starting lineup today because of a calf injury, which should be Ballack’s last World Cup. This was very important to him. It was a pity that he could not participate in the opening match.
The competition started very quickly, and it was very intense from the beginning.
In the 6th minute, German striker Klose kicked the ball to the left in the arc of the central restricted area. Left-back Ram, who played for Bayern Munich, suddenly dribbled the ball horizontally after obtaining the ball on the left. He moved horizontally along the line of the restricted area and hit the far corner of the right foot arc 20 meters away, hitting a high-quality World Cup kick.
The ball hit the inside of the right pillar and scored Costa Rica’s net. No one had scored such a wonderful first goal in this World Cup. It was a wonderful world wave. And the goal was scored by a defender.
The entire Allianz Stadium exploded and countless fans cheered excitedly.
Zhong Cheng was also shocked when he saw this. This goal was really familiar. Very wonderful.
In his previous life, he had come to watch the World Cup in Germany, but he had missed the opening match. It was a dream to be able to watch the match today.
German fans were chanting Lamb’s name. The 1.70-meter-tall full-back scored the first goal of the World Cup and the 1917th goal in World Cup finals history.
The whole stadium is going to explode, really.
The Germans began to cheer wildly, they began to celebrate wildly, and the Costa Ricans began to prepare for a counterattack. Although their chances of winning this match were slim, they yearned for victory.
The Costa Rican equalised just six minutes later. The goal was scored by Wan Jopu!