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Chapter 88 J-League Award Presentation
The Tokyo National Stadium is the largest stadium in Japan, but in Japan, the most famous stadium is the Yokohama Arena, which is currently the home of the Yokohama Mariners.

The Yokohama Arena was specially built for the World Cup. In the 02 World Cup final, the Brazilian team defeated Germany 2:0 to win the championship. This also made the stadium famous. The 2012 J-League awards The ceremony will be held here.

Also, in the upcoming Club World Cup, many important games will also be held here.

Yokohama is the third largest city in Japan after Tokyo and Osaka. It is located in Kanagawa Prefecture in the Kanto region and is very close to Tokyo. Otherwise, the World Cup finals would not be held here.

On the afternoon of December 12, Ringer, coach Bobovic and several teammates rushed to Yokohama to participate in this year's J-League Awards Ceremony.

No matter where the awards are presented, they are all the same. The feet of lazy women are smelly and long.

Waiting for the leaders of the Japanese Football Association and the J-League executives to finish their speeches one after another, and then began to present the awards.

Ringer is undoubtedly the biggest winner of this award. He won the Golden Boot and the Player of the Year Award, the two awards with the highest gold content.Hisato Sato, who was suppressed by Ringer, could only get a fair play player as a consolation.

Generally speaking, when you hear something like a fair play award, you should know it's a consolation prize.

Oh, and there might be the icing on the cake too.

However, it is worth mentioning that the best newcomer was awarded to Shibazaki Yue, not Ringer.

Linger didn't care, the best rookie award wasn't a big deal, and the J-League sent someone to explain it to him.

Probably because he was afraid that Ringer would cover all the awards with a slightly higher gold content, so the J-League made some adjustments, thinking that Ringer is already a well-known star in Asia, and it is not suitable for him to run for the best rookie. Award, so he was not shortlisted.

For this reason, the J-League officials also specially sent someone to communicate with Ringer.

Linge can understand that no matter where the awards are presented, it is normal to take care of one's own people.Shibazaki Yue has also improved rapidly this season. Although the league record is not good, he still led the team to win a League Cup.

In addition, Bobovich won the best coach award, which is also an award that cannot be escaped. If the AFC Champions League double crown cannot win the best coach, it will be too shady.

Ringer was also selected to the best team of the season along with teammates Hasegawa, Takahashi Hideto and Morishashige.

The best team Tokyo FC and Sanfrecce Hiroshima each have four places, and the other teams only get three places.Endo Yasuto, the core midfielder of the relegated Gamba Osaka team, was also selected to the best team. He was selected as the best team in the J-League for the tenth consecutive year. This is very realistic.

I don't know if he can continue to be elected next year, because Gamba Osaka is relegated, and there are many rumors about Yasuto Endo's transfer. Hangzhou Greentown of the Chinese Super League is one of the rumored teams.The former head coach of the Japanese national team and Endo Yasuto's mentor, Takeshi Okada, is currently the head coach of Hangzhou Greentown.

In the 10 World Cup, Takeshi Okada built the team with Yasuo Endo as the core, and finally led the Japanese team to the knockout round. The top [-] was only lost in a penalty shootout, which established Endo's status as Japan's number one star in one fell swoop.

But now Japan's No. [-] star should be Kagawa, and Yasuo Endo is a thing of the past.

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After the J-League Awards Ceremony, Ringer and other core players returned to Tokyo to prepare for the upcoming Club World Cup.

The Club World Cup is an international football championship hosted by FIFA and participated by football clubs from six continents.

In 1960, South American Football Confederation and UEFA jointly organized an international football match, sending the strongest football clubs in Europe and South America to compete against each other, called the Intercontinental Cup.

This Intercontinental Cup is also the predecessor of the Club World Cup.

At that time, Bosman was not yet born, let alone the Bosman Act, and the talent exchange in international football was quite poor. This Intercontinental Cup can provide a platform for exchanges between South American football and European football. On the surface, it still looks very promising.

But soon a problem arose. The Intercontinental Cup itself does not have much gold content or huge prize money, and it still has a home and away game system. European teams have to fly to South America every year to play an insignificant game. It is still a busy season In the middle term, everyone is quite unhappy.

So the Intercontinental Cup began to fall into trouble. In the 70s, it happened that the Champions League champions were unwilling to participate in this competition.European champions such as Ajax, Bayern Munich, and Liverpool have all refused to participate. Even if other European champions send people to participate, they usually send a bunch of marginal players or even youth teams to go through the motions. The Intercontinental Cup exists in name only.

Because the European champions did not pay much attention to the Intercontinental Cup, most of the Intercontinental Cup winners in the early years were South American clubs.

After entering the 80s, the game took a turn for the better.

Japan's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, and then it is committed to improving the level of football. It can be said that the whole of Japan has been mobilized.

In this context, in order to support the national football policy, Japan's Toyota Group expressed its willingness to pay a lot of money to sponsor the Intercontinental Cup.With the appearance of the bully, this almost stagnant Intercontinental Cup was finally revived and became the Toyota Cup.

Since then, the venue of the Toyota Cup has been set in Japan to help improve the football atmosphere in Japan and expand the football market.Every year, the European champions and South American champions can get a large amount of appearance fees, and there are also many bonuses for winning the championship.

Later, with the implementation of the Bosman Act, the internationalization of football became more and more obvious. The Toyota Cup between the European champion and the South American champion also began to be valued and became more and more influential.

In this context, FIFA expressed dissatisfaction and expressed its intention to incorporate the event.

The Toyota Group, which has sponsored the game for many years, of course quit, unwilling to hand over this good thing, so FIFA directly established the World Club Champions Cup, also known as the Club World Cup.

However, the Club World Cup was first established, and its influence was not enough. It was held for one year in 2000, and then it could not continue in 2001. It was suspended for the next three consecutive years, but the Toyota Cup was still going on as usual.

FIFA has no choice but to find a way to pick the ripe peaches.

After several years of tugging, the two parties finally reached an agreement.

In 2005, the Toyota Cup and the Club World Cup merged into the Club World Cup, which was still mainly sponsored by the Toyota Group.In order to increase their influence, the participating teams have also changed from the previous pure South American champions and European champions to the champions of six continents plus the participation of the host team, which is now the Club World Cup.

The current Club World Cup final MVP, the winner of the Club World Cup Golden Globe Award, can receive a Toyota car as a prize, which is also a tradition left over from the Toyota Cup era.

It is worth mentioning that since 2015, the main sponsor of the Club World Cup has become Papa Ma's Alibaba.

The current Club World Cup consists of six continental champions, European champions, South American champions, North American champions, Asian champions, African champions, Oceanian champions, plus the host team. Seven teams compete together to determine a world club champion. .

It sounds high-end and elegant, but the gold content is actually not high.

However, with the advent of the information age, the Club World Cup has also begun to attract attention. After all, there are teams from every continent to participate.European giants have also begun to pay more and more attention to this Club World Cup. First, it can spread the team's global influence well, and second, there is a bonus for winning the championship. Why not do it.

Since the establishment of the Club World Cup, it has been held eight times as of last year. Except for the first three times, the South American champions won the championship, and the next five times were all won by the European champions.

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