Chapter 299: Chinese World Cup

After two rounds of the group stage, England's qualifying situation was very good, so the English media began to quarrel again.
　　 Should I win Costa Rica in the final round and strive for the first promotion in the group?
　　 Or play a tacit ball with Costa Rica and steadily join hands to advance?
　　Most of the English media still feel that Costa Rica should be won and a good opponent for the knockout stage.
　　 At this time, the second round of the World Cup group competition also ended one after another.
　　 The World Cup group stage ended two rounds, and at the same time there were two super upsets.
　　 The first thing is the England team, Costa Rica advances early, but Italy is eliminated early.
　　 The second upset was that defending champion Spain was eliminated.
　　 In the second round of the group stage, Spain lost 0:2 to Chile and suffered two consecutive defeats and was out of the game early.
　　 As the defending champion and favorite to win, he went home after only playing two rounds of the group stage. This is the biggest upset of this World Cup.
　　 After the two rounds of group matches, there have been teams preparing to pack and go home, but in general, except for Spain and Italy, the other strong teams are doing well.
　　 The exit of Italy and Spain also made the media more optimistic about South American teams. They believed that the final champion of this World Cup should be produced in South American teams.
　　 At present, Brazil and Argentina are in very good condition, and there are indeed champions.
　　 In addition to the duo, South America, Chile and Colombia have performed well and have the potential to become a dark horse.
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　　 After the two rounds of the group stage, England is about to prepare for the third round and Costa Rica's first battle.
　　 But in general, everyone basically knows that this team is England and Costa Rica who have joined hands to advance. Next, it depends on who gets first in the group and who gets second in the group.
　　 However, the match between England and Costa Rica has received a lot of attention from the Chinese media.
　　Because this is a Chinese derby.
　　 The current core of the England team is Li Chenglong, a well-known Chinese star.
　　 On the Costa Rican side, the chairman of their Football Association is of Chinese descent, or a Chinese descent of 100% Chinese descent.
　　 The name of the chairman of the Costa Rica Football Association is Eduardo Lee, who still has the same surname as Jackie Lee.
　　 Eduardo Lee's father is from the east of Guangdong along the coast of China, but he immigrated to Costa Rica very early.
　　 After his father settled down in Costa Rica, he met his mother when he returned to China to visit relatives. After getting married, he took him to Costa Rica to live together, and then he had Eduardo Lee.
　　 Eduardo Lee himself is a businessman. Later he bought a team in the Colombian League before he entered the football industry and eventually became the chairman of the Costa Rica Football Association.
　　 Now Costa Rica, under the leadership of Eduardo Lee, not only made it into the World Cup, but also defeated strong opponents in this death group stage and advanced to the knockout stage early. These are very remarkable achievements.
　　 Now, Jackie Lee, a Chinese star, is about to play against Eduardo Lee, a Chinese chairman. This is just a small news for the media in other countries, but it is big news for the Chinese media.
　　 Many media are following this opportunity to mock the Chinese Football Association.
　　 The success of Jackie Lee proved that the Chinese can play football well.
　　 And the success of Eduardo Lee also proved that the Chinese can manage football well.
　　 But why is Chinese football so bad?
　　 The economy is booming, with a huge population of 1.4 billion, but in football it has always been inactive.
　　 And a small North American country with a population of only one-fourth of the capital of China, and a small North American country with only one-seventh of the capital of China, can play well in the World Cup. This is indeed very topical.
　　 Some Chinese media made a special report during the World Cup, called "In fact, most Chinese people just pretend to like the World Cup."
　　 According to the report, China is the country with the largest number of sudden deaths in order to stay up late to watch the World Cup. It is also the country with the largest amount of money to participate in the World Cup underground gambling. At the same time, China is the country with the lowest proportion of football in the world.
　　 This is really ironic.
　　Many Chinese people watch football, in fact, just to watch the excitement, just like chasing a hit idol drama, chasing it desperately, throwing it aside after watching it, and then continuing to look for the next one.
　　 This interesting report was also reprinted by some European sports media.
　　 In the reprinted report, they also included an illustration, which is a joke about the Chinese football environment.
　　 Illustration, a Chinese man is watching the World Cup, and soon his wife also came over, and then the conversation started.
　　Female: "Which team is this team playing?"
　　 M: "England kicks Italy."
　　Female: "Is this the Chinese Super League?"
　　Male: "No, this is the World Cup."
　　Female: "Where is the Chinese team?"
　　Male: "Just like you, watch TV at home."
　　Female: "Then why don't they kick it?"
　　 M: "FIFA won't let it."
　　Female: "Why? Is it because of the Diaoyu Islands?"
　　Male: "No, it's because of insufficient level."
　　Female: "But don't we have Yao's name?"
　　Male: "......?"
　　 Well, although this is just a joke, it can be seen that the foundation of Chinese football is missing.
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The Chinese star Li Chenglong is already very famous in China, and now suddenly there is a Chinese-American Costa Rican Football Association chairman, and their respective teams will also play against each other in the World Cup. This has made some Chinese media claim that, That match between England and Costa Rica will be the Chinese Derby of the World Cup.
　　 It is worth mentioning that the only time the Chinese team had scored in the World Cup was the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. At that time, China was in the same group as Costa Rica, but both teams were eliminated.
　　 Of course, in the direct match between the two teams at the time ~EbookFREE.me~Costa Rica also defeated China 2:0.
　　 After being eliminated that year, the two scoring boys, China and Costa Rica, were also mocked by the Turks.
　　 That was two years after the World Cup in Korea and Japan.
　　 The Turks won third place in the 2002 World Cup, but after returning to Europe, they were eliminated in the European Cup qualifiers and missed the 2004 European Cup in Portugal.
When their head coach was questioned by reporters at the time, he said: "The European Cup is definitely much harder than the World Cup, because in the European Cup, there won't be a big team like China and Costa Rica to give you. Divided."
　　Although he is telling the truth, Turkey is indeed relying on China and Costa Rica to score points to successfully qualify for the knockout rounds.
　　 But his statement like that is still a bit too disrespectful.
　　 Chinese football is not good, there is no chance to face back.
　　 But Costa Rica has the strength. Now that people qualify early in the World Cup death group, they are completely qualified to go back and taunt.
　　 So the Costa Rican players headed by Navas made a mockery after defeating Italy.
　　 "Where are the Turks? Have you seen them?"
　　 "We are here to give them points again, why can't we find them?"
　　 Since 2002, Turkey has never played in the World Cup again, and they have no way of responding to ridicule.