With the grand opening of the World Cup in Qatar, the eyes of the world are focused here, and the Chinese media have also flocked to the country. Qatar, a country far away from the tropical desert, with strange and mysterious, but unexpectedly showed many Chinese elements, beyond the soccer team, more surprising.
Where is the focus of Chinese soccer? The latest news comes in that on November 17, Gansu Jingchuan Wenhui beat Beijing Guoan 7-5 in the second round of the China Football Association Cup, advancing into the top 16 of the tournament. The professional players were defeated by the county team, which triggered netizens to talk about the value for money of the county team and win the hearts of the people. Some netizens exonerated Beijing Guoan, saying that they played for the substitute and youth team and did not pay attention to the game. In fact, Jingchuan Wenhui has a lot of strength and made a name for itself on its debut!
When it comes to the national soccer team, there is both anger and loss in people's hearts. Looking at the exciting events of the World Cup, one wonders when our national soccer team will step onto the World Cup stage. The national soccer team was founded in 1924, joined FIFA in 1931, and gained representation only in 1979. from 1958 to 2014, the national soccer team participated in a total of 14 World Cups, and the only time it was selected was in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.
To be honest, no one expected the national soccer team to ever reach the World Cup finals 20 years ago. Nowadays, although the treatment has been improved, the performance has declined. The only thing the national soccer team can do is sigh. Let's take a look at those shining Chinese elements in the World Cup!
The World Cup final venue, the Lucerne Stadium, with a capacity of 80,000 spectators, is the largest stadium in Qatar and will host 10 matches. This stadium is constructed by China Railway, becoming the first World Cup stadium project designed and constructed by Chinese enterprises under general contract, breaking the monopoly of the industry in Europe and the United States. The stadium has the world's largest-span double-layer cable-net roof monolithic building with the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, making it the largest and most advanced professional soccer stadium built by a Chinese company overseas. It even became the pattern of the 10 riyal banknote to be issued by Qatar in 2020.
In addition to the Roussel Stadium, Chinese enterprises have also participated in the construction of several other World Cup stadiums in Qatar. The main steel structure of the Education City Stadium was constructed by Chinese enterprises, the containers used in the 974 Stadium were made in China, and the containerized houses in the Qatar "Fan Village" were also made in China.
Qatar's World Cup service vehicles are everywhere, totaling about 1,500 buses, including 888 pure electric buses, all imported from China.
The World Cup saw the debut of a Chinese referee team. Three Chinese referees, Ma Ning, Cao Yi and Shi Xiang, joined the World Cup referee team. Young Chinese actors Peng Youxin and Meng Xizi performed Arabian belly dance, and child stars such as Zhang Shuyao appeared at the opening ceremony.
Giant pandas "Sihai" and "Jingjing" arrived in Qatar on the 19th and will live there for 15 years, triggering panda fever in the region. Many locals have begun to learn the Sichuan dialect to better interact with the pandas.
Soccer on the field "Made in China", Yiwu produced jerseys, backpacks, flags and other peripheral products, occupying nearly 70% of the global market share of World Cup merchandise.
Focusing on the World Cup, the matches are tightly scheduled, the players are sweating, and the fans are nervous and speculating. The frequent exciting matches make fans both excited and scared. Although the World Cup is held in Asia Qatar, the time difference is only 5 hours, but Chinese fans still inevitably have to stay up late to watch the game. Although the game is exciting, don't forget to take care of yourself. The ball is someone else's, the body is your own. I hope you can learn to take good care of yourself while following the national soccer team! You don't have to eat sea cucumbers every day like the national soccer team, and when you stay up late to watch the game, remember to make a pot of tangerine and lily tea to protect your body and mind!
