Yang Huan arrived a day earlier than the rest of the Southampton team? Ben, Maki Horikita came to pick up his plane.

But he didn't go to Hokkaido to soak in hot springs and have a mixed bath or something, as he said, but went directly to Osaka, and watched the game between Yangcheng Hengda and the Mexican American team in Osaka.

Judging from the course of the game, the two sides were really evenly matched.

Although the Mexican América team scored first, Yangcheng Hengda scored two goals in the last ten minutes, stubbornly reversed the Mexican América, and successfully advanced to the next round.

Especially the last goal, it is really admirable.

It can be seen that this team has such a momentum, and in the past few years, the money has really not been burned in vain.

However, whether it is Yangcheng Hengda or Mexico America, they want to compete with a super strong team like Southampton, but they can't do it for the time being, and the gap between the two sides is directly reflected in the team's price.

Southampton's total worth is twenty times that of Yangcheng Hengda.

Although the value may not reflect the strength, it can at least show that there is an irreparable gap between the two teams.

In the final analysis, the Club World Cup is still the same as the previous Toyota Cup, and it really has the strength to compete, that is, the European champion and the South American champion.

But judging from the scene, Yang Huan can also see the progress of Yangcheng Hengda.

At the very least, the overall look is already very disciplined, the players are also very clear about playing on the field, and with strong foreign aid, the overall strength looks good.

It should be said that all these have made people see joyful changes.

Originally, Chinese football lags behind Europe in terms of philosophy, tactics, youth training, training on weekdays, and even team management, and even South American teams.

In this case, the introduction of foreign coaches and foreign aid is definitely conducive to the improvement of domestic football.

When the level of domestic football has been improved in an all-round way, when the professional football industry has gradually become large-scale, everything will naturally follow, even the same is true for youth training.

To give a simple example, suppose that the 16 teams in the Chinese Super League all burn money and bring in strong foreign aid, but how many can there be?

If the domestic local players are not strong, what is the use of foreign aid?

Therefore, foreign aid and local players complement each other, and while introducing strong foreign aid, we will also pay attention to local players.

Even if you can't cultivate it yourself, you will definitely spend money to buy it.

When there is a scarcity of excellent local players in China and the transfer fee rises, it will be easy to do, and there will definitely be a team dedicated to training, and then cash out to sell, and finally form a stable player circulation system.

It's like La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona are responsible for burning money, and other teams are responsible for developing talent.

Atletico Madrid is now also eager to squeeze into the first group army, and will also be responsible for burning money and bringing in stars in the future.

Of course, that's not to say that these teams don't pay attention to youth training.

It can only be said that they will not rely on youth training.

Even, don't look at Southampton's current academy output is amazing, but within five years, the Saints will definitely go down this path.

The reason is simple, this is the path that all big teams must take after they have developed to a certain extent.

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The day after Yangcheng Hengda's reversal of Mexico and America, the Saints finally arrived belatedly and arrived at Narita Airport in Tokyo.

Yang Huan didn't go to pick up the plane, because the fanatical Japanese fans were already waiting at Narita Airport.

As the hottest team in Europe in the past few years, this is the first time that the Saints have set foot in Japan, but they did not expect that a large number of Japanese fans will welcome the team in an almost crazy way.

Dressed in Saints' jerseys and holding up signs with slogans of all kinds, they blocked the entire airport.

Not only at the airport, but also on the Internet in Japan, saints have become one of the hottest topics.

After arriving at the airport, the superstars of Carlo Ancelotti, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Manuel Neuer all gave brief interviews to reporters and expressed their desire for the Club World Cup.

"Yangcheng Hengda is a strong opponent and we will concentrate on the semi-finals!"

Head coach Carlo Ancelotti said in an interview.

Captain Manuel Neuer also said that he had received the news on the plane and watched the game, and he thought that Yangcheng Hengda would be a very dangerous opponent.

Regardless of whether the Saints players' words were sincere or polite, in short, they gave their opponents enough face.

Just kidding, this is a team from Young Master Huan's motherland, can you not give face?

But when it comes to the football field, it may not be.

As European champions, the Saints made a special trip from Europe to Japan in the middle of the season to participate in this kind of Club World Cup, and the organizers also gave enough face in the event arrangement.

All other teams have to travel to Osaka to play a game first, but the Saints' semi-final is scheduled to be held in Yokohama.

Therefore, as soon as the saints arrived in Tokyo, they immediately moved to Yokohama.

But even so, the Saints still announced that many superstars in the team, including Messi, Suarez, Hazard and Toni Kroos, will not be able to participate in the semi-finals.

The specific reason, the explanation given by the saints, is that it is injured.

But everyone knows that this group of players has just played in the Premier League and Champions League in Europe, how can they be injured.

The main thing is for the sake of the event.

After playing the Club World Cup, back in Europe, the Saints will have a non-stop Christmas devil's schedule.

If it weren't for FIFA's mandate that these stars must get and play, the Saints would certainly not have put them all in the squad.

To put it mildly, in terms of hard power, even if the Saints play all the substitutes, they all have the strength to win the championship.

As it turned out, there were no problems with the self-confidence of the saints.

In the semi-finals against Yangcheng Hengda, although the Saints did not do their best, they still defeated Yangcheng Hengda very cleanly 4-0 and successfully advanced to the finals.

England centre-forward Harry Kane scored twice, while Anthony Martial and Sturridge each netted.

It is worth mentioning that it was not Kovacic who started in place of Toni Kroos in this game, but Belgian teenager Yuri Tielemans.

The Belgian sits in the midfield, has the style of a general, and his performance is also remarkable, which is quite impressive.

His skills in the midfield are very delicate, his basic skills are very solid, and with Pogba and Oscar, he firmly controlled the midfield and suppressed Yangcheng Hengda.

Three days after playing the semi-finals of the Club World Cup against Yangcheng Hengda, the Saints ushered in the final.

Before the final, Yangcheng Hengda held a final with Japan's Hiroshima team for three or four places.

Yangcheng Hengda took the lead in scoring the game soon after the opening, and then controlled the game safely.

But in the second half, the Hiroshima team began to exert its strength, and Yangcheng Hengda made two mistakes and was scored twice by the opponent.

But in the last minute of the game, captain Zheng Zhi scored an equalizing goal for Yangcheng Hengda, and the two sides went into extra time.

In the extra time, Yangcheng Hengda showed great tenacity, and scored two goals in a row in the case of huge physical consumption, defeated the Japanese Hiroshima team 4-2, and won the third place in the Club World Cup.

This also made Yang Huan, who was present to watch the game, applaud non-stop, and congratulated Yangcheng Hengda on WeChat, thinking that this is a victory for Chinese football, which is too powerful!

Compared with the top three and four finals, the finals were calm.

It's not that the game wasn't good, on the contrary, the Saints played as much as they could, with superstars such as Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Eden Hazard all on the pitch and playing the full game.

The reason why it was calm was mainly because the Saints crushed the Argentine River Plate team throughout the process.

Less than six minutes into the game, the Saints opened the scoring opener.

The first scorer for the Saints was Argentine player Lionel Messi!

Then, in the 27th minute, it was an assist from Eden Hazard, Suarez grabbed a point in the small penalty area, and broke the River Plate goal again, rewriting the score to 2-0.

In the second half, the Saints continued to attack, firmly controlling the game, and in the 68th minute, Cesc Fabregas made a straight stop, Suarez formed a single knife against offside, and scored twice with a brace.

3-0, the Saints defeated River Plate and cut down the championship of the Club World Cup!

Yang Huan was also very embarrassed to watch from the stands.

River Plate can be said to be no match for the Saints at all, and if the Saints did not stay all the way, it is estimated that the Argentine team would have lost even more.

It can be said that the strength of European teams in this event is absolutely crushing.

Even the intensity and watchability of the game are far inferior to the International Champions Cup organized and planned by Yang Huan himself.

Originally, according to Yang Huan's plan, the International Champions Cup should reflect the word international, and it could not be limited to the participation of European teams, so he considered inviting South American teams to participate.

But as a result, after inspecting it, he found that if the South American team was invited to participate, the schedule would be a little difficult, not to mention, and the spectacle of the game would definitely be affected.

In the final analysis, the South American team is not strong.

Throughout the past few years, South American football has suffered too much of a brain drain.

Not to mention that the top five European leagues still recruit the top football talents in South America, let's talk about the Portuguese Super League, how many South American foreign players are there?

There are also local tyrant leagues such as Ukraine, Russia, and Turkey, all of which are also frantically recruiting foreign aid from South America.

Now, there is also a China in the Asian region.

The best star resources in South America have long been carved up, so what to use to fight with Europe?

The world's best stars went to Europe, coupled with Europe's own perfect football industry and abundant football capital operation, which made the European league rise and sell it all over the world with the help of copyright.

If you really want to compete, who can stop Europe?

Although no one said, in fact, today's world football has quietly entered the era of football colonization.

Or rather, the era of capital football colonization!

Therefore, today's professional football league has already entered the era of capital operation.

If the Super League wants to rise, it will either follow up and follow this trend, or it will fall into small countries like those small countries.

There is another point, and that is youth training.

Suppose that China's youth training is really carried out, with a huge population base, there are many talents, but the league is not as competitive as the national team, what will the result be?

In the end, the development of China's football industry is a big deal, like Brazil and Argentina, which has become a fate of relying on exporting players to earn foreign exchange.

This is certainly not a good thing for the domestic football industry, nor is it a long-term solution.

Therefore, the government's football reform is in the right direction, but this road is not easy to take, and it will not be able to come out in a while.

But just like Yang Huan said when he was in Longhai before, with such a huge population base and such a huge consumer market in China, who would believe that China can't have a world-class professional league?

Now, sitting in the stands of the stadium and watching the River Plate team's helpless performance against the Saints, Yang Huan believes this even more.

After the competition, there was also a short award ceremony.

The Golden Globe, Silver Globe and Bronze Globe were all pocketed by the Saints.

Interestingly, the award presenter turned out to be the legendary Ma Yun.

It was also at this moment that Yang Huan realized that Ali Baba was the sponsor of this Club World Cup.

No wonder Ma Yun was able to come out to present the award!