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"President Sampaio, thank you for inviting us here to watch the opening ceremony of the European Cup, and for arranging for us a box with such a privileged location." Since there are still two hours left before the start of the game, I took Adai with me. After Er and Elizabeth entered the high-end box specially prepared by Portugal, George came alone to meet with the current President of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio, and expressed his sincere gratitude to him, "If you need my help with anything in the future, Just ask."
"Haha, Viscount Nelson, you are too polite. It's just a few high-end football tickets. I can still help you with this small favor. It's not a trouble at all." In response to George's words, Sampa Naturally, the appointment was understood by heart. Of course, the president also knew in his heart that he could not really expect George to give him a generous reward for his overture. In fact, Sampaio is quite satisfied to be able to take advantage of the opportunity of this European Cup to establish a relationship with George.
You know, football is the world's number one sport and has huge popularity all over the world. Its related industries can create huge economic value every year, and at the same time, it can drive and promote the development of other industries.
Not to mention, due to the relationship between Eusebio and the golden generation headed by Figo, the sport of football has extremely high popularity and support in Portugal. Under such circumstances, Sampaio naturally set his sights on football and its ancillary industries, intending to use it as a key direction to develop the domestic economy and increase national income.
In Sampaio's view, now is obviously the most appropriate time - Porto has won the UEFA Cup and Champions League in two years, and this year's European Cup in Portugal will be the best opportunity for Portugal to develop its football industry!
However, in order to bring this industrial chain into shape, Sampaio needs to raise enough funds for preliminary construction. After all, football is an extremely money-consuming industry. If you don’t invest enough, it will be difficult to achieve the expected results.
For Portugal, which was rated as one of the "Four European Pigs" (Ireland had not joined this ranks in 2004), it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to raise this amount of funds. Therefore, Sampaio hopes to get close to George's golden thigh and obtain this critical start-up capital through this relationship.
Although George has never disclosed his assets, at Sampaio's level, he can still know some information. That's why Sampaio was so enthusiastic about George and took the initiative to give him high-end tickets for all the matches of this European Cup. 【爱↑去△小↓说△网wqu】
George also knew something about Sampaio's intentions to show his kindness to him. After all, Sampaio was asking for something from him this time. If the other party didn't reveal it in advance, how could George know what help Sampaio wanted him to do?
However, George has no intention of personally helping Sampaio. Instead, he plans to give Sampaio an opportunity to meet more investors and let him raise the funds himself. Although Portugal is the suzerain of Brazil, the "Kingdom of Football", and has a natural advantage in attracting Brazilian players, the development potential of the Portuguese football market is too limited. If George invests rashly, the final result is likely to be that Sampaio's wedding clothes are in vain, while George himself will not get any benefits.
At the same time that George made this decision, the opening ceremony of the European Cup also ended with deafening cheers. Next, is the opening game of the European Cup between the host Portugal team and the Greek team!
It has to be said that as the host of this European Cup, the Portuguese Football Association has worked very hard to achieve its goal of winning the championship on home soil. During the group grouping ceremony, Portugal, Spain, Greece and Russia were placed in the same group, successfully avoiding With strong teams such as England, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, as well as powerful teams such as Sweden and Denmark, the chances of qualifying from the group are greatly increased. At the same time, in terms of the opening match, the Portuguese Football Association did not choose to play it in the capital Lisbon, but chose Porto’s home stadium, the Dragon Stadium. It seems that it intends to take advantage of Porto’s victory in winning the Champions League trophy this season, so that the Portuguese national team can compete in this European Cup. A good start on the cup.
The Portuguese Football Association has worked hard to build various advantages for the Portuguese national team, both covertly and covertly. The Greek team that Portugal encountered in the opening game is a well-known underdog in Europe - not only has it entered international competitions a handful of times, but it has also Before this opening game, the Greek team had never won a single victory in the finals of any international competition!
In other words, it is precisely because Greece maintains such an embarrassing record that the Portuguese Football Association identified it as the host's opponent in the opening game.
Although this approach of the Portuguese Football Association is somewhat of a secret operation, in fact, it has always been a hidden benefit for the host country to have a more or less certain advantage in the schedule and opponents. As long as you don't go too far (for example, South Korea in the 2002 World Cup), you will generally not attract criticism from other teams and the Football Association. Therefore, Greece can only accept this schedule.
In addition, Portugal's golden generation, headed by Figo and Rui Costa, is at the end of its career peak. Porto's magical performance in the Champions League this season has also made Deco, Ferreira, Maniche, Costiha and a group of legitimate and powerful players took the stage. In addition, the coach of the Portuguese national team is Scolari, a champion coach. No matter how you look at it, Portugal has no reason to lose!
Therefore, before the start of this game, almost no one thought that Greece had the possibility of defeating the host in the opening game - even though Greece set a record of six consecutive wins in the European Cup qualifiers and six consecutive official games without conceding a goal. Their head coach is the famous "Otto the Great" Rehagel, and no one is willing to change this view.
However, when all ninety minutes of the game had passed, the score displayed on the big screen at the Dragon Stadium was finally fixed at 1-2, with the home team in front and the visiting team in behind. Portugal, playing at home, unexpectedly lost the opening game to Greece, which had never had a winning record in international competitions, and suffered an extremely embarrassing defeat!
And this is also the first time since the European Cup finals introduced the group stage in 1980 that the host country has lost in the opening game!
Having broken numerous records in one game, and also set a not-so-glorious new record by the way, the Portuguese players’ defeat in the opening game of the European Cup undoubtedly nailed themselves to the On the pillar of shame! Mobile phone users please browse and read for a better reading experience.
