"Antonio, we haven't seen each other in over a year, and you're going to have to spend a few more days with us this time." As soon as he stepped out of the plane, Zhuang Mingge was warmly welcomed by Crown Prince Al-Thani.

"Said, it's been a long time." Zhuang Mingge also warmly had an intimate hug with Crown Prince Al Thani, and said, "This time you are in such a hurry to call me to Qatar, it should not be just for the World Youth Championships to be held next month, right?" ”

The World Youth Championships, the full name of which is the FIFA U20shijie Cup, is an international youth football championship for men under 20 held by FIFA.

Since the first World Youth Championship in 1977, after nearly two decades of development, it has attracted more and more fans and professionals.

The World Youth Championships are a stage for young players to chase their dreams and hopes, and one of the most striking features of this tournament is that the quality of the stars that emerge from each World Youth Championship will largely determine the future direction of Shijie football:

The second World Youth Championship in 1979 belonged to Maradona, and with the starlight of this World Youth Championship, Maradona and his teammates further established the king of Argentine football in Shijie football in the next ten years!

In the 1983 World Youth Championships, in addition to the brilliant European Rookie Van Basten of the year, the most dazzling was the Samba Army. Although Dunga missed the opportunity to perform at the World Youth Championships due to injury, Bebeto, Romario and others helped Brazilian football return to the top of Shijie in the Shijie Cup in the United States ten years later through their outstanding performances!

In the 1987 World Youth Championships in Chile, Yugoslav football represented by Boban, Davao Suker, Mijatovic, Plosineski, etc., the red stars shined!

The 1989 and 1991 World Youth Championships were held by Figo, Cuto, Costa and Costa, Paulo Sousa, Sa Pinto and others.

Facts have verified again and again that the players and teams who shined in the previous World Youth Championships will occupy a pivotal position in the future shijie football, and this year's Qatar should also emerge with such a group of people and such a group of teams.

Originally, the host country of this year's World Youth Championships was not Qatar, but the African country Nigeria. As a result, it was not until July when FIFA sent personnel to Nigeria to inspect that they discovered the poor security and health situation in Nigeria, and were forced to decide to cancel Nigeria's qualification to host the World Youth Championship and hold the World Youth Championship in another location.

However, even if it is postponed, the World Youth Championship will have to start at the end of this year at the latest, otherwise FIFA, as the organizer, will become a big talk.

Under such circumstances, Crown Prince Al-Thani, who has always hoped to show Qatar's demeanor in front of the Shijie people, immediately made a decision to open the way with a large amount of petrodollars, and won this hard-won "opportunity" as he wished.

"Haha, that's right, this time I want to discuss with you Antonio the feasibility of Qatar hosting the Shijie Cup." The second sentence that Crown Prince Al Sani said after seeing Zhuang Mingge was so earth-shattering.

"Undertake the Shijie Cup?" Zhuang Mingge was taken aback by Crown Prince Althani's "bold words".

me, this Crown Prince Al Thani has no problem with his brain, right? After all, climatic conditions like Qatar are simply not suitable for hosting a large-scale event like the Shijie Cup.

Qatar, located on the Qatar Peninsula on the southwestern shore of the Persian Gulf, borders the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The coastline is 550 kilometers long, with a tropical desert climate and a maximum temperature of 46°C in summer. Winters are cool and dry, with lows of 7°C. The average annual precipitation is only 125 mm......

How hot is it in Qatar in June? Numbers don't give us an intuitive impression. Statistics show that the average temperature in Qatar is between 28 and 46 degrees Celsius in June, when the Shijie Cup is held, and the same is true for July.

Perhaps fans living in China's four major furnace cities will probably scoff at this: what is this temperature? But there is one thing that many people don't notice, and that is the geography of the country.

Qatar is located in a desert area, with sparse vegetation, bare concrete floors and asphalt roads, and the desert outside the city, next to the Arabian Gulf, where the sand and sea absorb the sun's heat during the day and slowly disperse at night, so it is shrouded in heat and humidity at any time of the 24 hours.

Even the natives of Qatar have long since given up on outdoor sports, let alone football, in June. The Qatar league ends in mid-to-late May and does not start the new season until September, to avoid the horrors of June and August. In Zhuang Mingge's previous life, the 2001 top ten national football team played away against Qatar, it was September 7, the hottest season in Qatar has passed, but the outdoor temperature at the beginning of the game that day was as high as 37 degrees Celsius. The temperature and humidity have become more formidable opponents than the Qatari national team......

Some people may say that it is not enough to move the Shijie Cup to a cooler month like the current World Youth Championships?

But don't forget, the biggest reason why the Shijie Cup is held in June and July is that the various cross-year leagues are in the summer off-season. Most of the leagues of European countries representing the top level of football are New Year's Eve, if FIFA chooses to fight the Shijie Cup for more than a month on the way to the national leagues, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among clubs and national football associations, after all, this will greatly affect the normal operation of the leagues of various countries, not every country has the courage of the Celestial Football Association to divide the league into countless small segments for an Olympic Games or Shijie Cup to play intermittently for a year......

As for the reason why events like the World Youth Championships can be held in October, it is because the impact of this kind of event on major clubs in Europe is not as serious as the Shijie Cup, so the clubs will turn a blind eye, but the Shijie Cup is different

"I said Saeed, don't forget how horrible the summer is in Qatar." After thinking about this, Zhuang Mingge immediately began to put forward his opinion to Crown Prince Al Thani, "If it is really in Qatar in June and July, then it is not playing football, it is purely playing with life!" ”

"Wouldn't it be better to move it to December?" Crown Prince Al-Thani really said an idea that Zhuang Mingge had considered a long time ago, and was immediately refuted by Zhuang Mingge with the reasons discussed above.

"Uh...... Why don't I find a way to convert all the football fields into indoor stadiums with air conditioning? Crown Prince Al Thani thought about it for a moment and came up with an idea that would make Zhuang Mingge sweat violently......

You can give me a little less moth!

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