On January 5, 2008, there was only one day left before the friendly match between the Chinese national team and the England national team. The two sides held press conferences as usual, attracting hundreds of media reporters, and fans all over the world.

Focus your eyes.

After being eliminated from the European Championship qualifiers, the coaching position of the England national team has been vacant. In this friendly match, the Football Association also intends to solve this long-standing problem. After all, the European qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will start at the end of 2008.

The England team can no longer bear the heavy blow of missing the World Series!

Last autumn, the England national team conceded a last-minute goal that cost them a ticket to the 2008 European Championship, but Russia, already desperate, came back from the dead and was lucky enough to get a ticket.

Everything set the tone in the 2:1 game in Moscow. England just played a good hand to pieces. At this moment, the whole England fell into a state of sorrow.

England fell to Croatia without warning and ultimately missed the finals of the 2008 European Championship. For England fans, this was a huge loss. This was also the third time in more than 20 years that they had failed in the World Series.

Beyond the final threshold.

"We have become the laughing stock of European football; England has spread football to the world, but we often forget how to play it well; although it rains, who has seen the head coach holding an umbrella on the sidelines to watch the game before? McLaren at this time

Looks ridiculous!" Sky TV, the golden partners of Reinker and Mortensen were speechless. This sentence is the most appropriate way to summarize this game.

Major TV stations in England are broadcasting footage of the team's qualifiers, but the more they see this kind of footage, the more heartbroken England fans feel. They can only watch others perform at the European Championships next summer. This feeling is really bad.

So thorough!

Many people threw their beer glasses at the TV sets, and in countless bars, excited England fans even had various conflicts, and the whole of England fell into chaos.

Perhaps the English government had already anticipated this situation, and police departments everywhere were on strict guard, so there was no trouble.

England's failure to qualify for the 2008 European Football Championship finals not only caused the stock price of England's sporting goods manufacturer to plummet, but also caused England to suffer huge economic losses of 2 billion pounds (approximately 4.1 billion U.S. dollars).

Chadwick, a professor of sports business strategy and marketing at Coventry Business School in England, said that if the England team successfully advances to the 2008 European Football Championship finals, England will win a "lucky jackpot" of 2 billion pounds, but now everything is in doubt.

The Croatian team was wiped out as they defeated England 3:2 at Wembley Stadium.

For English people, football has been an inseparable part of their lives, and the development of football in England for more than a hundred years has been deeply integrated into the blood of English people.

Football, this is a simple and easy sport. A football, some friends, and a "goal" stacked with schoolbags and clothes are ready to be played. In England, under the premise of ensuring safety, regardless of age or gender,

You can play football anywhere.

As the birthplace of modern football, watching a football match in England is as common and authentic as going to Munich to drink beer or eating pizza in Italy.

After hundreds of years of development, the composition of the English Football League is now quite complex. There are professional and semi-professional leagues, which are equivalent to a league pyramid. There are mainly nine levels of leagues. The first four levels are professional leagues (Premier League, English Championship, English Football League).

A and B), and the following levels will be subdivided.

In total, there are now more than 5,000 teams playing in their own leagues across England, including top clubs like Manchester United and Fitted, which was formed by Manchester United die-hards with the original intention of opposing Manchester United being sold to

American Capital) is a semi-professional team that competes in the North and South branch leagues.

The football atmosphere in England is so strong that no matter how small a team is, it may have a history of hundreds of years and a group of loyal local fans. Most of them bring their families. Maybe my grandpa supported this kind of team decades ago.

.They will not envy the fans of wealthy clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal. As long as their team can play a good game, they can sing songs happily.

Of course, in addition to the club, the team that English fans support together is the Three Lions England national team.

The reason why it is called the 'Three Lions' is because the development of English football is closely related to the history of this country and has the same origin as English culture.

Gentleman's demeanor is the external manifestation of England's national culture. Gentleman's demeanor is the image of a gentleman that is based on the aristocratic spirit and mixed with certain values ​​of each class in the process of aligning with the upper class society.

Rooted in the spirit of chivalry in the Middle Ages.

A historical event closely related to chivalry is the 200-year-old Crusades. The English army waved the flag of the golden lion on a red background to boost morale. King Richard I of England was awarded the "Lion Heart Examination" for his bravery and prowess in battle.

Title, lion has also become a symbol of courage, loyalty and nobility in Western culture.

The emblem of the English Football Association, "Three Lions", very clearly embodies the inheritance of chivalry in English football: courage, strength and pride. The lion (lion) and the lion's heart (lio) are commonly used in English newspapers to describe football players.

English football style is known for its bravery, tenacity and fighting spirit.

In peacetime, the Three Lions can even be said to be the representatives of the English people. Their performance in the international arena is related to the face of the English people.

Therefore, when the England national team failed to qualify for the 2008 European Championship finals, it would undoubtedly make England fans' mentality explode!

Seeing that their competitors were actively preparing for the 2008 European Championship finals, the original depressed mood of the English people was even worse. The majestic Three Lions were actually reduced to a friendly match with the national team of China, a football desert.

The island mentality refers to the fact that island countries have gradually formed a closed and exclusive mentality because they are geographically isolated from the outside world. England's relationship with the European continent is a typical reflection of the characteristics of the island mentality. The people of England are generally skeptical and hesitant about the EU.

Attitude. In addition to the island mentality, England is also troubled by its past glory: once the "empire on which the sun never sets", is it now willing to become an ordinary member of the European family?

The relationship between English football and FIFA explains the decline of the island mentality and empire from another angle.

Like its political and economic glory, modern football developed vigorously in England in the 19th century, and football spread to all parts of the world with the expansion of the empire.

Although seven continental European football countries established FIFA in 1904, their football level was far from being able to compete with England's football clubs. In 1905, England was invited to join FIFA and took charge as a big brother.

FIFA arrived in 1918, and later withdrew from FIFA in 1920 due to differences of opinion with other countries (about whether FIFA could absorb Germany and its allies in World War I).

As colonial countries became independent one after another and the British Empire gradually disintegrated, English football also lost its leading position in the world.

In 1901, the English team played against a team outside the British Isles for the first time. A team of amateur athletes beat the visiting German team 12-0 in London. In a friendly match on November 12, 1906, they played in Paris

15 to 0 sweep

France. In 1907, the England team played against the Netherlands twice. The English team won 8-1 in The Hague and 12-2 at home in Darlington. In 1936 and 1938, Scotland played against other European teams.

Won 5 out of 6 games.

However, in 1953, England lost for the first time on home soil to a team from outside the British Isles, the Hungarian team. By 1960, the English team completely lost its dominance. The last glory of the English team was the 1966 World Cup victory.

The hard-earned victory gave the English nationals, who were in decline, a shot in the arm. However, in the next 40 years, England's best results in international competitions were only the semi-finals in the 1990 World Cup in Italy and the 1996 European Championships in their home country.

In recent years, although the Premier League has been booming and has gradually become the world's number one league, England's superstars have countless fans around the world, including Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Owen and Rooney.

He has great charm and great influence.

However, the performance of the England national team in international competitions cannot match the glory of the Premier League, which only brings endless disappointment to English fans.

This time, the England national team failed to qualify for the 2008 European Championship. England fans were undoubtedly extremely devastated. However, time will pass and life will continue. When the scars in their hearts are better, England fans will be resurrected with full blood and start to care.

Start the affairs of the national team.

Since McLaren was fired in the early winter of last year, the England national team just happened to have no match duties, and the team's coaching position has been vacant.

However, a country cannot live without a king for a day. If England wants to prepare well for the European qualifiers of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, it is the last word to confirm the national team coach as soon as possible.

Therefore, when the Football Association of England announced a friendly match with the Chinese national team, it was the moment when England's new head coach took office!

This news has undoubtedly triggered a sensation and speculation in the media. Countless famous coaches who are idle at home have been included in the scope of investigation by the "Sun" and other media. However, this time the English Football Association has done a good job in keeping secrets.

Until the eve of the game, the Football Association has not announced the candidate for the new coach of the Three Lions, but the scope of everyone's speculation is gradually narrowing. After all, there are only a few world-class coaches!

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In first-tier Chinese cities such as Yanjing and Binhai, a European luxury vacation tour project themed on the friendly match between the Chinese national team and the England national team was officially launched. Chinese travel agencies will recruit 3,000 high-end customers nationwide to travel to London.

Cheers to the Chinese national team.

For this reason, the travel website under 'Universal Investment' has become a partner of many large enterprises, including Huaxia International Travel Agency and Kanghui Travel Agency, and has successfully opened up a new chapter in the football tourism industry.

With one day left before the competition, Chinese tour groups of all sizes arrived in London from all over Europe, checked into the Cayman Hotel near Wembley, and waited for the start of the final.

The itineraries of these tour groups are different, but they have intersected in London. They will spend two days together in this super metropolis, watching the Chinese national team and the England national team at Wembley Stadium, and then go to each other.

Divide things.

This model already existed when Manchester United and Chelsea met in the FA Cup final last year, and after six months of operation, it has been running smoothly. Chinese fans have become an indispensable element in English football matches.

The sudden increase in Chinese faces has surprised Londoners, because all Londoners know that Chinese tourists are always generous and their arrival can stimulate consumption in London.

In recent years, as Chinese tourists have become famous around the world, the tourism industry in many international metropolises has added Chinese content. Not only do tour guides in tourism schools need to learn Chinese, but also Chinese signs on the streets.

is increasing.

In London's shopping streets, Chinese introduction brochures, Chinese-speaking shopping guides and even special products for Chinese tourists have become newly added features of these shopping streets.

The 20 years from 2000 to 2020 were the golden period for Chinese consumers and tourists to go crazy shopping in overseas markets. Many brands built around Chinese consumers have developed significantly in these two decades. Chinese consumers

His astonishing wealth shocked the world.

In fact, it is not unexpected that this situation occurs. In the 1980s, Fuso tourist groups swept across Europe and the United States, and some Fuso consortiums even clamored to buy the United States. The nouveau riche temperament of the Fuso people who have been poor for a long time and then become rich is undoubtedly evident.

After more than 20 years of reform and opening up, China has developed from a poor and backward environment to today's prosperity. Some Chinese people who became rich first have bulging pockets and are reluctant to tell the world that they are rich. The best way to show wealth is

"Buy, buy, buy", hence the phenomenon of Chinese tourists shopping around.

In particular, with the vigorous development of China's infrastructure construction in recent years, coal bosses in western Shanxi have easily acquired huge wealth. They show off their wealth, purchase luxury cars and luxury goods, and have become cutting-edge figures who "lead the fashion"

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Gu Fei had received more than once nonsensical invitations from some coal bosses in western Shanxi, asking Gu Fei to return to China to attend a wedding. The offer was millions of dollars, which almost made Gu Fei's heart flutter.

If Gu Fei were an ordinary athlete, he would earn eighteen million U.S. dollars every year through hard work, so he might be tempted.

However, Gu Fei had always stayed away from the Shanxi coal boss with a poor reputation. After all, there were always some unclear and unexplained activities behind these unexpected wealth, and Gu Fei didn't want to get into trouble.

Gu Fei has a clear understanding of the empire's policies, and if he stands on the opposite side of the general public, he will eventually be beaten to dust!

As the saying goes, ‘Only when the tide recedes do you know who is swimming naked?’, the emergence of the epidemic has suddenly reached the peak of national self-confidence of the Chinese people, and national cohesion has continued to increase.

Now in 2007, the Chinese people are at the most chaotic stage of their thinking, and their various behaviors are a bit unbelievable, but this is the price that needs to be paid for growth.

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Compared with the usual situation where traditional media occupies the majority of sports event reports, the number of reporters from Internet giants has reached one-third of the English FA Cup reporting team. The convenient and interactive Internet media has finally shown its capabilities.
To be continued...