On May 27, the Chinese team and Saudi Arabia played a World Cup warm-up match, the Chinese team defeated Saudi Arabia 3:1, and then the Chinese team left China to go to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the farewell of tens of thousands of fans, at this time there are two weeks before the opening ceremony of the World Cup, and the Chinese team is also the first team to rush to Brazil to participate in the World Cup.

The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first! The quality of logistics support in large-scale events has also affected the team's performance to a certain extent, many teams began to choose a foothold in Brazil after qualifying, the Brazil World Cup is more special, hosting the World Cup as many as 12 cities, FIFA in order to make the fans of the 12 host cities of the Brazilian World Cup, can see more teams, but also in order to facilitate the maximum and range of commercial promotion and marketing, but also hard to stipulate that every time the participating teams play a game, they must move to a new city, For the players, playing this kind of conference system is already very stressful, physically and mentally exhausting, and the distance between the competition cities is not short, as soon as the game is finished, you have to rush to the next match venue, there is no time to relax and adjust, and you have to arrive at the match venue within 24 or 48 hours stipulated by FIFA. What's more, Brazil's domestic traffic situation is also not optimistic, whether it is air passenger traffic and road traffic, whether it can cope with the transportation pressure of the World Cup, it is still unknown.

Because Li Huan refused to allow the Football Association to intervene in the affairs of the national team, and at the same time refused to hand over the preparation expenses to the Football Association for management, he and the staff of the national team must be responsible for this logistics work.

In order to play well in this World Cup, Li Huan also took great pains, after qualifying, Li Huan recruited a group of staff to go to Brazil, and booked three five-star hotels in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, and Porto Alegley, where the Chinese team played, and also booked a training ground on a piece of turf near the hotel.

After the Chinese team arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, they went directly to the Marsod Hotel they booked, because the Chinese team was delayed in Europe for four hours, and there were no fans at the Gualo Luis Airport in Sao Paulo, until the Chinese team came to the hotel, well-informed reporters and fans finally arrived at the hotel in time, these fans not only have overseas Chinese, but also a lot of Brazilian locals, for Brazilians with the reputation of the football kingdom, the Chinese team is a scum, and all Brazilian fans come to cheer for only one reason, That's because of Li Huan.

As a six-time Ballon d'Or winner, the world's strongest defender, and a superstar who is likely to surpass Pele and Maradona, Li Huan also has a large number of fans in Brazil, which is proud of football. Of course, the level of fanaticism must not be compared with Asian and European fans, if it is in Asia and Europe, even if the Chinese team is delayed for four days, there are still many fans waiting at the airport to see Li Huan, but Brazilian fans are not willing to wait even four hours.

Li Huan patiently and enthusiastically signed a group photo for more than 100 fans, and simply accepted the reporter's interview request, and later found that the fans were still arriving in an endless stream, Li Huan hurriedly left the hall and went back to his room, but he still asked his bodyguard to send a photo signed in advance to the fans who came to the hotel. This is also Li Huan's small means to win people's hearts, this is the World Cup held in Brazil, and the relationship with fans and the media has been handled, as long as they don't fight with Brazil, these fans will go to the scene to cheer for the Chinese team.

Marsod Hotel has 62 suites, including 56 standard rooms, 4 presidential suites, players, staff and coaching staff are a single room, the hotel in addition to the latest fitness equipment, hot springs, saunas and other services are readily available, in addition to Marsod is only 15 minutes away from the domestic airport in Congonas, only 8 minutes away from the training ground, it is very convenient for the Chinese team to travel, so Li Huan finalized here.

However, the location and environmental conditions are such a superior hotel, the cost will not be less, the Chinese team only stayed here for more than two weeks, after the first game with Turkey left, but the cost is as high as one million US dollars, which is the full cost of FIFA to the Chinese team to prepare for the game. In Brasilia and Porto Alegley, Li Huan paid for the two hotels out of his own pocket. However, this is also the reason why the Chinese Football Association happily promised not to interfere in the affairs of the national team, according to Li Huan's standards, the Chinese Football Association not only can't make money, but also has to post a lot of money.

Because it is still a long time before the start of the World Cup, the Chinese team is not in a hurry to train, Li Huan gathered the players and all the staff to have lunch in the restaurant, and then rested for three hours, after a routine short meeting, Li Huan gave the players a day and a half off, so that the players can feel the South American style of Brazil.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the Chinese team started their first training session in Brazil, their training base is in a second-rate university in São Paulo, it is a holiday at the moment, the school rented the stadium to the Chinese team to earn some extra money, although this school is very pheasant, but the stadium is good, better than China's regular stadium, so that Li Huan can't help but sigh that Brazil is called the football kingdom is not accidental, people have a strong personnel and material base.

The training of the Chinese team has also attracted a lot of fans and reporters, even the Chinese fans in Brazil are very tricky, they are very disdainful of the skills of the Chinese team players, laughing from time to time, and also pointing out the mistakes in the technical actions and tactical choices of the Chinese team's players, many times the views are not the same as the coaching staff, so that the players of the Chinese team are impressed by the Brazilian fans.

After training, Li Huan was interviewed at the stadium by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, in which Li Huan told reporters that he was very satisfied with the environment and food in São Paulo, and that the quality of the training ground was beyond his expectations, and he believed that these would help the Chinese team's game.

When a reporter from the newspaper "São Paulo Follet" asked Li Huan why he came to Brazil so early, Li Huan told the reporter that the gap between the climate and environment between China and Brazil is too big, and he hopes that he and the players can adapt in advance, they came to Brazil two weeks early, and the first match of the Chinese team is still five days away from the opening ceremony, and 20 days is enough for the Chinese team to adapt to life in Brazil.

When asked by the São Paulo newspaper about the goals of the Chinese team in the World Cup in Brazil, Li Huan replied very pragmatically and skillfully, Li Huan said: "Of course, our goal will not be to compete with Brazil for the championship, our goal is to break through the last World Cup with zero goals, zero points, zero wins, of course, it is best to enter the knockout round." ”

Two days later, in order to adapt to the playing field, Li Huan played a friendly match at Morumbi Stadium after contacting the Sao Paulo team through Brazilian teammate Diego, and the result was a 2:2 draw between the Chinese team and Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo is a Brazilian powerhouse, they had a 2:1 victory over Spain's Barcelona team in 1992, a 3:2 victory over Italy's AC Milan in 1993, twice won the Toyota Cup, although now the scenery is not as good as it was then, but the strength is not trivial, the performance of the Chinese team has attracted the attention of the local media, Brazil's "Globo Sports", "São Paulo Page" and "Reims" all said that the Chinese team has the strength to qualify from the group, Paraguay must be careful, they have a strong opponent.

After the friendly match with Sao Paulo, the Chinese team trained at the training ground, Li Huan and Chu Fu went to Brasilia and Porto Alegli to inspect the team's accommodation and the environment of the training ground. The only thing that worries Li Huan is that Brasilia is the capital of Brazil, and it is more troublesome to take a plane, and he is afraid of traffic jams when taking a bus. After thinking about it, Li Huan decided to rent a small plane for the team to use during the World Cup, although Li Huan was not confident that the Chinese team could play any results, but Li Huan did not want to affect the Chinese team's performance because of these material conditions, you must know that the Chinese team can get up to millions of dollars in bonuses for every extra step.

As the Brazilian media reports on the Chinese team become more and more detailed, the luxury life of the Chinese team in Brazil has also attracted the attention of the world, especially in China, many fans can not help but be in an uproar when they hear that the Chinese team lives in a five-star hotel, rents planes to and fro, and spends nearly 7 million US dollars a month.

"Beijing Times" commented: "The Chinese team doesn't know what kind of results they can play, but they enjoy the same treatment as the president, are we a little too extravagant." ”

The reporter of "Guangming Daily" also said that it is necessary to torture the Chinese team to live such a luxurious life in Brazil? Can such a luxurious life help the team improve their performance?

The professional media "Weekly" is more objective: "The bonus given by FIFA is better used for youth training, rather than for lavish enjoyment in Brazil, although this is not taxpayers' money, but the Chinese team is too ostentatious." ”

However, soon Jia Lei, a reporter from "Ball", who is known as the most intimate beauty reporter with Li Huan, sent back a report from Brazil, saying that the luxury life of the Chinese team in Brazil, except for the first 20 days with FIFA's $1 million preparation funds, the rest were paid by Li Huan, that is, Li Huan donated six million US dollars to the national team. These are Li Huan's private money.

Although Li Huan has now risen to the top 50 of the Forbes list, the six million US dollars is not a small number, Li Huan's image in China immediately became taller, and the media that originally criticized Li Huan's extravagant and wasteful national team also turned to the same time, saying that in order for the Chinese team to achieve good results in the World Cup, these investments are worth it.

(To be continued)