Although everyone was an opponent during the game, Lu Wenbin just arrived in Doha and was welcomed by many local fans in Qatar.
Qatari Football Association officials who greeted the China team were also very enthusiastic and filled with smiles at Lu Wenbin’s arrival.
Qataris are quite enthusiastic about football.
No shortage of money Qatar consortium is buying Paris Saint-Germain, preparing to make football a national business card and introduce its means to the world with high world influence.
Qatar’s continuous bid for hosting the Asian Cup and the World Cup is also based on this consideration.
The Asian Cup in 2011 is the preview of the World Cup in 222, which is the opportunity to test the level of Qatar competition.
Therefore, it is natural for the host to warmly welcome Lu Wenbin, the world’s number one superstar, to the Qataris who can raise the world’s attention to the Qatar Asian Cup.
The hotel had a rest for one afternoon, and after jet lag, it started its first training class for mild recovery training.
The next day is New Year’s Day when we enter 211.
On January 2nd, China played a warm-up match with Iraqi, the champion of the Asian Cup. In the end, China won 52 games.
Although the defense line was still like a leaky spoon, Iraq scored two goals, but Lu Wenbin’s arrow frontcourt attack line still poured five goals from the defending champion.
Lu Wenbin played a hat trick and scored a goal for Zheng Zhi and fellow villager Wang Song.
Lu Wenbin made five goals for the China team by himself, which made China reporters and fans who covered the game quite excited.
The defending champions were beaten so badly that China can really imagine winning the Asian Cup for the first time.
With the arrival of the participating teams in the Asian Cup, the atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger, and many Asian stars appear 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 Australian number one star Cahill, South Korean star Park Ji-sung, Nishikawa Shinji, Kei Nakata You and so on.
Of course, in terms of worldwide fame and hope, all players of all teams in Asia can’t compete with Lu Wenbin alone.
Many teams can’t see a reporter from outside Asia during training, while the China team is crowded with European and American journalists and visiting fans during training.
In the eyes of European and American media and fans, it is not worth noting that Lu Wenbin is the only one in this Asian Cup.
On January 6, the Asian Cup has not yet started the winter break, and Serie A will start in the second half of the season.
Juventus’ 14 home defeat to Parma broke the biggest upset in Serie A.
Then without Lu Wenbin, Inter Milan beat Houdusse 31 at home and continued to lead the standings.
Looking back to the Asian Cup at 1 pm on January 7, 2011, the opening ceremony of the 15th Qatar Asian Cup can accommodate 50,000 people, and the Doha Khalifa Stadium kicked off.
King Emir of Qatar FIFA President Blatter and UEFA President Platini attended the opening ceremony together.
After playing Qatar’s national anthem, Amir delivered a speech to greet his 15 teams who came to Doha and hoped that everyone would leave a good memory here.
Of course, these are all rhetoric champions, and one of them is impossible for every team to leave a good memory.
After Emil’s speech, the flags of 16 teams entered the stage of singing, dancing and fireworks display.
About half an hour after the opening ceremony, Amir announced the official start of the 15th Qatar Asian Cup in 2011.
Then start cleaning up the stadium to prepare for the opening game.
At 19:15 pm local time on January 7th, the opening match of Qatar-Uzbekistan 2011 Qatar Asian Cup officially kicked off with the whistle from Japanese referee Yukio Nishimura.
It may be that the host status put too much pressure on Qatar players. At half time, Qatar made frequent mistakes. Although it kept the score until halftime, its shooting times were far behind Uzbekistan.
At this rate, they are very dangerous.
Sure enough, Uzbekistan scored the opening goal by their No.9 Akhmedov in the fifth minute of the half-time.
Akhmedov became the first player to score in the Asian Cup.
After the score fell behind, the host Qatar was even more at ease.
On the 77th minute, he came off the bench. No.14 Ibrahim of Qatar made a mistake in the backcourt. No.14 Jeparov of Uzbekistan directly hit back after breaking the ball in the frontcourt and grabbed the opponent’s defender. Before he reacted, he kicked his foot and shot low.
Uzbekistan 2 leads Qatar to seal the victory.
With more than ten minutes left, Qatar did its best to equalize the score but failed to score a goal.
Three minutes after stoppage time, Yuichi Nishimura blew the whistle for the end of the game. The 2-0 defeat to Uzbekistan in the opening match of Qatar cast a shadow over Qatar’s qualifying situation and made Qatar nervous when it took over its opponents China and Kuwait.
Including the 13th Asian Cup held in China in 24 years, the hosts of previous Asian Cups will get a lot of extra convenience and care, and the judges’ bias is much worse than the World Cup and the European Cup.
On the one hand, Asian football is relatively backward, and there are many tricks, on the other hand, ticket revenue is considered.
If the host can’t even qualify, who will sell the tickets for the next game?
After all, there are a few foreign fans who have money to go to the scene to watch the ball, and the Asian Cup is not as attractive to fans as the World Cup.
The revenue of Asian Cup tickets still depends on the local fans of the host country.
If the host country goes out too early, it will be extremely unfavorable to the sales of knockout tickets. Even AFC and FIFA are aware of this and turn a blind eye.
Don’t go too far. There’s no evidence and no one cares
What if it’s too much
Koreans dare to make the World Cup in Korea and Japan so bold in front of the world. What if the host of the Asian Cup enjoys the convenience of a host?
The most nervous thing is that the current president of the AFC is Qatar Haman.
Qatar lost the first group match, and then its opponents, China and Kuwait, will certainly receive a lot of "extra" treatment, which is beyond doubt.
This is a hidden rule of the Asian Cup and an open secret.
It is no wonder that the coaches and team leaders of these two teams became nervous after watching the opening ceremony and asked for a monthly ticket.
Chapter 424 The first group match
Take a night off after the opening ceremony. The first game the next day is the second game of Group A, China vs Kuwait.
China and Kuwait are bound to win the game because of the difficulty of the host Qatar. Both sides want to beat their opponents and make a good foundation for qualifying with three points.
Therefore, both sides are the main force.
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China sent 541 formation starting players are
No.1 goalkeeper Yang Zhi No.2 left back Li Xuepeng No.3 center back Wang Qiang No.4 center back Zhao Peng No.5 center back Dewey No.17 right back Zhang Linpeng No.11 left halfback Deng Zhuoxiang No.7 waist Zhao Xuri No.1 right halfback Hao Junmin No.1 front waist Zheng Zhi No.6 striker Lu Wenbin.