Chapter 437 World Champions
Club World Cup semi-finals, Yokohama International Stadium.
Champions League champions Barcelona face CONCACAF Champions Saprissa of Costa Rica.
FIFA was not very concerned about this semi-final at first. After all, this Central American team did not have much appeal in the world football arena, and it should have been difficult to attract fans to the stadium.
According to pre-match estimates, it would be a top-line number if 40,000 people could enter the stadium.
Unexpectedly, ticket sales were extremely hot, especially as the game approached, tickets became hard to come by.
Finally, on the day of the game, the Yokohama International Stadium, which can accommodate more than 72,000 people, was packed.
The packed attendance shocked everyone, even the Japanese media themselves were quite surprised.
Judging from the reaction of the fans at the scene, Su Dong was undoubtedly the key factor that attracted them to the stadium.
Japanese fans really want to see it live. How strong is this Chinese player who has won the Footballer of the Year award for two consecutive years? Is he really as good as the rumors say? …
It's not just Japanese fans who want to test Su Dongpo's strength, there are also players from Costa Rica.
National team center back Jarvis Drummond is a veteran of the Costa Rican national team. During the World Cup in Korea and Japan, he was in the team that defeated the Chinese team.
In recent years, Costa Rica has played three more games with the Chinese team, with one win, one draw and one loss. Drummond missed the last two games, but he played the entire game in the previous victory over the Chinese team.
In his impression, the strength of Chinese players is not that good.
How could a player who couldn't even make it to the national team achieve such amazing success in European football?
Is it true or false? Did Barcelona and FIFA take a fancy to the Chinese market, so they adopted this method to support a Chinese player? It has to be said that conspiracy theories are really harmful.
Yet, it is very attractive.
Especially when Drummond himself has a bad stereotype of Chinese players.
So tonight, he wanted to test Su Dong's strength.
If it was the real level, that would be fine. But if it was really a fraud, he wouldn't mind being the child who exposed the emperor's new clothes tonight and letting the whole world know such a huge lie.
It was precisely because of such thoughts in his mind that Drummond made a very low-level, even very stupid mistake at the beginning of the game.
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After Barcelona kicked off, they controlled the ball for nearly three minutes before Costa Rica had a chance to grab the ball.
When the ball was quickly passed to the back line, Drummond wanted to steady the tempo, so he kept the ball under his feet.
But just as he tried to control the ball, Su Dong suddenly rushed over at an extremely fast speed.
A 1.95 meter tall burly giant rushed over at an extremely fast speed. The pressure and momentum made Drummond stunned for a moment, and he even trembled involuntarily.
Su Dong seized the opportunity and quickly cut in between him and the ball, using his strong body to push the Costa Rican central defender away.
Trumond, who was used to being domineering in Central and North America, would never believe that he was pushed away by his opponent in an instant.
In fact, he felt that Su Dong did it effortlessly.
He even stepped back involuntarily.
By the time he realized what was happening, he was completely terrified.
The center back lost the ball!
Damn it!
But at this time, Su Dong had successfully intercepted the ball, drove straight into the penalty area, and calmly scored a goal, opening the scoring for Barcelona, one to zero!
The entire stadium was filled with cheers from Japanese fans.
They shouted Su Dong's name in broken Chinese to show their admiration for him.
As Su Dong walked back, he waved to his teammates from afar to celebrate, while looking at the Costa Rican central defender with some surprise, his mind full of doubts, why is this kid so stupid?
"What's the matter?" Messi ran over to celebrate the goal with him, noticed Su Dong's gaze, and asked curiously.
"Nothing, I just wonder if this No. 5 is involved in match-fixing?" Su Dong asked with a smile.
He swore that he had never bribed his opponent.
Messi also smiled, "Maybe he was startled when he saw you suddenly. He probably thought you were too ugly."
Su Dong kicked up and almost hit Messi.
The Argentine boy jumped away quickly.
Su Dong was confused because he felt that the No. 5 had enough time to react, but he wanted to control the ball more. Isn't that stupid? How tall is he?
He is a full head shorter than Su Dong, and his body is not very strong. Does he really think he is made of iron and can fight Su Dong to the death? "Who gave him the courage to fight me physically? Two of him are not strong enough for me to hit!" Su Dong shook his head and smiled bitterly.
The opponent is too weak, and there is no sense of accomplishment in bullying him.
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In fact, Barcelona did not try their best.
On the one hand, the team had to travel a long distance and adjust to the time difference, and on the other hand, the opponent was too weak.
So Barcelona played leisurely and still controlled the game.
In the 32nd minute, Van Bronckhorst quickly made a run in from the left, got the ball and made a cross, directly lifting the ball into the penalty area.
Su Dong jumped high, headed the ball and brought it down.
Ronaldinho quickly inserted himself and without waiting for the ball to land, he volleyed the ball directly, hitting a wonderful world wave and sending the ball into the Costa Rican goal again, two to zero!
After the change of sides in the second half, Van Bronckhorst came in from the left again, and after receiving the pass from Deco, he passed the ball directly to the top of the penalty area. Su Dong stopped and passed, shook off the unlucky Drummond, and hit a curve ball with his left foot.
The ball hit the Costa Rican goal again, 3-0! This score remained until the end of the game, and Barcelona eliminated Saprissa 3-0 in the semi-finals.
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Club World Cup final, Yokohama International Stadium, Barcelona vs. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Su Dong finally met the legendary goalkeeper Sene, who was famous for his free kicks in the Road to King of Football system.
Before the game, he even made an excuse to talk to Senny for a few minutes to get to know him, which was quite like a star-chaser.
After all, this is a goalkeeper with a very high rating in the Road to King of Football system.
But in the game, just two minutes into the game, Su Dong broke through the goal guarded by Seni.
Belletti threw the ball in from the right, Messi got rid of the defender and passed the ball into the penalty area with his left foot. Sudong made a close-range header and scored the first goal for Barcelona.
But then, Ceni also demonstrated his strength as an excellent goalkeeper, blocking high and low, and repeatedly resolving Barcelona's attacks.
Cicinho, the right-back who is about to join Real Madrid in the winter break, played very passionately when he met Barcelona. In the 27th minute, he passed the ball from the right to his teammate Aloisio, who stopped the ball with his chest and turned to pass it into the penalty area.
The ball passed over Barcelona's defense line and fell into the penalty area. Midfielder Mineiro came in from behind, stopped the ball, and shot into Barcelona's goal to equalize the score.
This score remained until the end of the first half.
After the second half, Sao Paulo continued to rely on Ceni's outstanding performance and prevented Barcelona from scoring again.
It was not until the 61st minute that Ronaldinho dribbled the ball inside from the left and made a diagonal pass into the penalty area with his right foot. Su Dong shook off the defender and then made a shot in front of the goal, breaking through Sao Paulo's goal again, 2-1!
After that, São Paulo didn't dare to give it a try, and the situation remained in a stalemate.
Ceni played very well and saved at least six great scoring opportunities for Barcelona.
In the 88th minute, Su Dong headed the ball in the penalty area, Messi made a cross pass from the right, and Ronaldinho followed up and scored another goal for Barcelona, 3-1!
In the end, thanks to Su Dong's two goals, Barcelona defeated Sao Paulo 3-1 and won the Club World Cup.
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With two goals in the final, Su Dong not only won the top scorer of the Club World Cup, but also won the best player.
As in previous Toyota Cups, the best player in the Club World Cup final can drive away a Toyota car.
The car Toyota has arranged this year is a hybrid version of the Prius, which is priced at around 30,000 euros in Europe, and the top-of-the-line version will be relatively more expensive.
Su Dong actually didn't have much interest in Toyota cars, because his sponsor was BMW, but who made Toyota a sponsor of the Club World Cup? Su Dong could only reluctantly cooperate with the official activities, received the Toyota car key, and cooperated with Toyota in publicity.
The game will be played in Japan, but the prizes will be sent directly by Toyota to Barcelona, Spain and handed over to Su Dong.
Su Dong didn't care at all. After receiving the prize, he put it directly into Messi's hands.
"Congratulations, you now have your first car in your life." Su Dong said with a smile.
Messi was very surprised and was about to refuse, but was stopped by Su Dong.
"Don't say anything, I really can't sit down." Su Dong made up an excuse.
He didn't have a driver's license, so he hired a driver. There was no use having an extra car, so he might as well give it to Messi.
Messi is not tall, but he matches this Prius very well.
On the contrary, Su Dong, who is only 1.95 meters tall, cannot fit into the car no matter how hard he tries.
Of course Messi knew Su Dong's good intentions. After thinking about it, he did not refuse.
He really wanted to have a car of his own, but he didn't expect that Su Dong would give him one.
Before that, Su Dong also lent him and Iniesta money to buy a house.
Speaking of which, Su Dong is really very righteous.
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Barcelona was not too excited after winning the Club World Cup, but after all, they were world champions, so they naturally had to celebrate. With the addition of the fans on the scene, the scene was quite lively.
After receiving the Club World Cup trophy and Su Dong's two individual awards, Barcelona also began to leave the stadium.
After the game, the team will return to Barcelona overnight, but many players will not return with the team.
Su Dong would fly directly from Japan to China.
It's a rare opportunity for him to come back, so naturally he wants to go home and take a look.
Messi and Iniesta both decided to accompany Su Dong back to their country, as they also wanted to visit China.
As for going home for Christmas, young people like them don’t really care about it.
In addition, Su Dong also has to wait in Asia for news from Wang Chuqing, Mendes and Ma Dawei.
You may not believe it, but I spent a whole day installing the system today and I am so pissed off!!
(End of this chapter)
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