Chapter 333: A Very Rich Saudi Prince
When he saw the football flying into the goal, the on-site commentator was stunned for a moment, and then he took a deep breath and yelled, "Zhuo Zhuo-!! β
βGoalοΌ The ball is in! 1:0οΌ β
"It's the 37th minute of the Asian Cup final, Hong Kong, China's striker Zhuo Zhuo, scored the ball on the penalty line, and Hong Kong, China took the lead!"
The Saudi fans in the stands were all stunned to look at their own goals, they almost couldn't believe their eyes, some closed their eyes tightly, and then opened them to see that the football was still in the goal, and the score on the scoreboard was actually 1:0, Hong Kong, China did lead.
They still don't want to believe it, so they close their eyes and open them again, hoping that what they just saw is just a dream, but no matter what they do, they can't change what is happening.
Hong Kong, China, is ahead!
On the field, Zhuo Zhuo jumped up from the grass, and then hugged Chen Zhaoji tightly, and then other teammates also rushed over and surrounded him.
Zhuo Zhuo hugged everyone else, and then he got up and ran towards the coach's box, with a group of teammates chasing after him.
Zhuo Zhuo ran all the way to Wansheng and hugged him, "Thank you!" Thank you! "He is very excited, he thinks that he can perform so far, and the goal in the Asian Cup final is inseparable from Wan Sheng's guidance.
Wan Sheng patted Zhuo Zhuo on the back and praised, "Zhuo Zhuo, well done!" β
Zhuo Zhuo was immediately more excited.
At the same time, the Chinese fans in the stands were all excitedly celebrating, they cheered wantonly, and the sound occupied the entire stadium, and those who were close to the Saudi fans' stands shouted in that direction, making the sound of 'entering', 'leading', and 'Goal', almost directly provoking the other party. It made Saudi fans very depressed.
Many media cameras were also pointed in the direction of the Chinese fans, constantly filming the fans celebrating the scenes.
"We can see that the Chinese fans present are very excited, not only Hong Kong fans, but also more than half of the domestic fans, who are all coming to Indonesia to support Hong Kong, China."
As a matter of fact. There are so many Chinese fans at the scene, and it is inseparable from China's 'tradition', and the Chinese are extremely powerful, and this power is reflected in the 'grasp of the loopholes in the rules'.
For example, in this game, in fact, the AFC did not allocate so many tickets to Chinese fans, in terms of quantity, Hong Kong, China fans and Saudi fans are the same, both only 10,000 tickets.
But after the arrival of a large number of overseas Chinese and mainland fans. They began to buy local 'scalper tickets' at high prices, and various fan groups would also organize purchases, and those fans who still couldn't enter the stadium would think of other methods, such as 'bribing-bribing' security personnel and staff, and then directly going over the wall and making trouble at the back door for others to squeeze in, and so on.
Before the start of the game. When the fans entered the stadium, the Jakarta police were devastated by this. In order not to affect the normal progress of the game, they can only turn a blind eye to the behavior of some fans, anyway, the fans just want to enter the scene to watch the game, and in the absence of seats, they are willing to pay the same amount of ticket money, and have income and reduce trouble. Why not?
As a result, the number of Chinese fans in the audience far exceeded that of Saudi fans.
That's the power of Chinese fans.
In order to be able to come to support Hong Kong, they have tried almost everything they can think of, and now that Hong Kong is ahead of Saudi Arabia, they feel that everything they have done is worth it!
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It was a moment when the Chinese fans celebrated the goal. Both teams are in their positions and ready to restart.
Saudi Arabia coach Anjos was frustrated by Hong Kong's goal, and he knew it was due to his own adjustment mistakes.
After making the wrong adjustment, the team's formation was a little chaotic and the style of play became a little chaotic, so Hong Kong, China seized the vacancy, and added the opponent's striker to perform well, so Hong Kong, China scored.
The root of the goal was that he had put two midfield positions up front, which was unwise.
Thinking of this, Anjos couldn't help but look at the coach's seat in Hong Kong, China, that Chinese is really remarkable in directing the game, at least in the previous time, he lost a mess.
Wan Sheng seemed to sense Anjos's target, turned his head and glanced at Anjos, and then under Anjos's stunned eyes, he gestured his finger at him and shook it.
Anjos didn't react for a while, and when he knew what the other party had done, his anger was immediately provoked - this Chinese is too arrogant!
But Wan Sheng had already turned his head, and Anjos could only grit his teeth angrily, and if he wanted to fight back, he could only see his back.
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Anyos still did something about Wan Sheng's provocative behavior, and he found the fourth official and explained Wan Sheng's behavior just now.
The fourth official glanced at Wan Sheng, who was talking to the assistant coach, and then looked at the Saudi coach in front of him, so he could only smile bitterly and replied, "Based on your feedback, we will find relevant evidence after the game, and if it is true, we will punish it accordingly in accordance with the regulations." β
This completely official tone made Anyos feel even more annoyed.
Evidence?
Look at the arrogant appearance of that Chinese, what evidence do you need!?
After the game?
Yes, everyone knows that this Chinese cannot continue to coach Hong Kong, China, and he will return to the UK after the game, can it still make sense to impose any punishment?
For that kind of provocative action, he should be punished now!
Anjos thinks so, but it's a pity that other people don't think so, the referee can't send off the head coach of Hong Kong, China because of Anjos's statement, in addition, even if he directly sees the other party doing that kind of action, that is, he will warn him, what else can he do?
If the opponent is really sent off the field, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction in Hong Kong, China, almost all the media and fans will think that the penalty is too heavy, and then they will definitely say after the game, 'The referee has affected the course of the game', and no one will do such a stupid thing.
For the sake of the Saudi coach, the anger of an irrelevant Brazilian, it really doesn't make sense to do this, not to mention, the anger of this guy now is probably because his team is behind.
Saudi. Asian hegemon, in the Asian Cup final, behind Hong Kong, China, a team at the bottom of Asia...... How interesting?!!
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It's not just the average fan who comes to watch the final.
The importance of the Asian Cup final is undoubtedly in order to support Hong Kong football and show the importance attached to the development of football. Hong Kong's Chief Executive Tsang Yin-kuen appeared on the rostrum, and he was seated with Prince Al Waleed of Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia was formally established in 1932 by the founding monarch Abdulaziz al-Saud (Ibn Saud).
Abdulaziz Saud has about 100 children and more than 30 sons. Counting the royal family members, Saudi Arabia currently has more than 5,000 princes, of which 2,000 are core members.
These 2,000 core members control the Saudi royal family's investment of up to $600 billion abroad.
Alwaleed is one of them, and one of the special onesβhe is the richest of Saudi princes.
Alwaleed, whose full name is Waleed bin Talal Al Saud. Known to many as 'Prince Walid', the son of the 21st Prince of Saudi Arabia's founding monarch, his father was Saudi ambassador to France and his mother was the daughter of the first prime minister of modern-day Lebanon.
Internationally, Prince Waleed is an internationally renowned entrepreneur and investor, known as the "Warren Buffett" of Arabia and the title of "God of Middle Eastern Stocks".
Prince Waleed's most famous investment was the massive purchase of Citibank stock in the 1980s, and his vision made him the largest individual shareholder of Citibank. He is also the second largest investor in Murdoch's News Corporation, and his stakes include Citibank, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, McDonald's, Disney, Motorola, Time Warner, Ford, Amazon, eBay, Kodak, Four Seasons and a number of other internationally renowned companies. It is worth mentioning that he also owns more than a billion dollars in the Bank of China.
In 2005, Prince Waleed's total personal assets were $23.7 billion, ranking fifth on the Forbes list, but many people believe that Forbes magazine underestimated Prince Waleed's assets because of his domestic presence in Saudi Arabia. It also owns the largest United Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia, two oil fields, a Saudi football club, and more.
In short, the investing Prince Waleed...... Very rich, very rich.
This time, the Saudi team entered the Asian Cup final, and Prince Waleed was present and promised that as long as Saudi Arabia could win the championship, he would personally contribute $6 million. As a bonus for Saudi players.
So in this game, Prince Waleed also came to the scene, and because of his economic and political status, he was arranged to sit with Zeng Yinquan.
From the very beginning of the competition, the two kept communicating.
Originally, Zeng Yinquan only planned to come to watch the game live, regardless of whether he likes football or not, but his attendance means that he supports the development of Hong Kong football, which is enough, but he didn't expect to have an unexpected joy and sit with the richest Saudi prince.
So Tsang Yinquan and Prince Waleed exchanged views on Hong Kong's investment issues.
Prince Waleed is still very interested in investing in Hong Kong, and last year he joined several other investment companies to jointly buy a $2 billion stake in the Bank of China, and in June last year, the Bank of China's H-shares were listed in Hong Kong, which means that he also has a lot of assets in Hong Kong.
So the two discussed it.
But sitting in the stadium was mainly watching the game, and soon Prince Waleed's conversation shifted to the game, and he talked about Wan Sheng, because he knew that Wan Sheng controlled a very good investment company.
"He's a very successful football coach and he's done a good job investing." Prince Waleed spoke.
Tsang Yinquan smiled, "He is really good, so I invited him to coach in Hong Kong, China." β
"You invited it? I thought he was willing to come, to be honest, Hong Kong football can't afford such a big-name coach. β
Zeng Yinquan nodded.
Wansheng's salary level is too high compared to Hong Kong football, and selling the Hong Kong Football Association is not enough for his salary for a year.
The two talked about Wan Sheng, and it can be seen that Prince Waleed knows Wan Sheng very well, and he talked about many things that Zeng Yinquan did not know, such as the Tagore Wan Group's purchase of Apple shares and the Tagore Wan Group's massive sell-off of US stocks a few months ago.
At this moment, Hong Kong, China scored, and Zhuo Zhuo helped Hong Kong, China score a goal!
Hong Kong, China leads!
The Chinese fans cheered and occupied the entire stadium, and the two could not hear each other clearly, until the game restarted and the cheers slowly subsided, and the two were able to continue to communicate.
Prince Waleed sighed, "I now feel that he is much more successful as a football coach than investment, and I never thought that Hong Kong, China would be able to take the lead." β
Zeng Yinquan smiled, he was very satisfied with the game.
If Hong Kong, China can win this game and win an Asian Cup, it will definitely promote the huge development of Hong Kong football.
"When the game is over, I really want to get to know this young man, he is very capable. Whether it's football or investment, I think we'll all have a lot in common. β
Prince Waddell laughed.
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When the game resumed, Saudi Arabia paid more attention to their defense.
That's what coach Anjos shouted from the sidelines.
Anyos made a very unsuccessful adjustment before, which led to the confusion of the Saudi formation and tactics, and this situation must not continue, there is not much time in the first half, so he retreats to the defense, and then continues to attack after making adjustments in the second half.
Anjos carefully told all the players to pay attention to defense, so the Saudi formation retreated very strongly.
But Hong Kong, China did not take the opportunity to launch a large-scale offensive, their tactics are not to attack around Saudi Arabia, but to play a steady defensive counterattack, after a one-goal lead, every Hong Kong, China player, is more concerned about what Wan Sheng emphasized, their idea is to resolutely follow the designated tactics to play, no matter how the opponent adjusts, they continue to do that.
So the game became very dull.
But while many Saudi fans were expecting Saudi Arabia to play out, besiege Hong Kong, China, and rely on beautiful attacking football to try to equalize as soon as possible, the match between the two teams became lethargic.
When Hong Kong, China gets the ball, they will keep killing time in the backcourt, and when Saudi Arabia gets the ball, they no longer attack so far forward, but like Hong Kong, China, two people come up hastily, and they go back after attacking.
Both teams seemed to be deliberately killing time, and the game was really not much to watch.
Even Saudi Arabia's national radio commentator Riori couldn't help but criticize Saudi Arabia, "I don't know what they are doing on the field, now Saudi Arabia is behind the score, the most important thing at the moment is to equalize!" β
The Saudi players also know the attack, but the manager demands the defense and they have to follow the manager's command.
In such a game scenario, time is consumed little by little, a few minutes pass quickly, and when it comes to stoppage time, Saudi Arabia barely attacked, trying to take advantage of the last time to play a wave, but Hong Kong, China's defense is very tight, and finally under an anti-aircraft gun from striker Yashir, the first half of the game is over.
The players of both teams returned to the locker room with different moods.
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PS: To be honest, Xiao X originally wanted to write something else to try and broaden his mind, so he wrote the Asian Cup, but now I really regret it when I look at the miserable subscription.
The Asian Cup is coming to an end soon, don't worry!
I just ask for book friends who are still reading this book, and I can support the genuine subscription~~~ Thank you very much!! (To be continued.) )