Chapter 177 Champions League Group Draw 2
European Champions Cup, this event is the highest event of all European clubs and the top European club event. For a European club, the honor of this championship is the highest honor they can get.
In such an event, it is very difficult to participate in such an event, not to mention winning the championship. In fact, at present, there are only three to three and a half seats in the three top leagues of England, Italy and Spain. That is to say, if you want to participate in the UEFA Champions Cup, you must win the top three in the national league. Set up.
And this 'national league' is limited to the three major leagues, and there are fewer places in other leagues. For example, the Austrian League has only a poor half quota. Their league and cup double champion Glaz was also directly killed by Liverpool in the qualifiers, and they can only participate in the next level of the League Cup.
If it can promote such a high-level event, its development history must be long. To trace the history of the European Champions League, it also needs to start from the 1940s.
After the end of World War II, people's lives fell into a stable environment. As a result, football, a sport, has achieved a comprehensive revival around the world. However, there are few exchanges between national teams and club-level events, and they don't even want to participate in the game.
At this time, the Frenchman Gabriel. Arno put forward the idea of creating the European Club Cup.
Arno is the founder of the European Footballer of the selection event, and also writes for the French Team Newspaper and French Football magazine. As a professional football knowledge, Arno is keenly aware of the possibility of a brand-new event, which can bring together the top clubs from European countries. In this idea Later, he soon proposed that famous clubs from all over the world would create a new tournament with a league system. Therefore, the promoters of the European Club Cup actively contacted FIFA and UEFA, but the result was disappointing. Both organizations were not very interested in non-national teams. But Arno's plan was warmly welcomed by several clubs such as Real Madrid, Anderlecht, Vienna Express and the Hungarian Football Association.
After that, Team News entrusted Zao Yakde, the head of its editorial department. Risvik organized a meeting attended by representatives of major European clubs at that time to determine the format of the competition between European clubs. Although the UEFA reiterated at the Vienna Executive Committee meeting that it would not cooperate with non-national teams, it could not prevent the associations from sending representatives to Paris.
At this historic meeting, the clubs reached an agreement on the competition system: the competition will be played by national league champions; the home and away knockout system is adopted. If the points and goal difference between the two teams are the same, a play-off will be held on the third-party court; the final of the Champions League must be on the court predetermined by UEFA. During the team's game, the ticket revenue, advertising fees and TV broadcasting fees are handled by the host.
In addition, at this meeting, an executive committee was established (Real Madrid President Santiago. Bernabeu served as the first vice chairman of the committee, which was fully responsible for drafting the main points for the preparation of the European Club Cup and informed FIFA for understanding and support.
UEFA's idea is to organize another cup to replace the European Club Cup proposed by Team News and most European clubs. There are many interests, so European football actually does not agree with the holding of this event. The participants of the proposed Cup are not clubs, but cities. The purpose of participating in the event with the qualification of the city is obviously to close friendly ties and sports exchanges between European cities.
Unfortunately, such a proposal is a little naive.
After all, football is in the hands of various clubs, and there are often many teams in a city. It is impossible to implement such a proposal, and the fans also support the club, and their attitude towards the city is not very good.
After, the development of form is very orderly...
Fans all went to see the club's top games and put the European Union aside. At the same time, on the other hand, after the first televised and success of the World Cup held in Switzerland in 1954, it is more likely for European television institutions to support the European Club Champions League, which means expanding its influence and making a lot of money... Money.
So, UEFA began to reconsider its attitude towards the European Club Cup immediately. They proposed to the organizers of the cup to give the power to organize the game to UEFA, and the club's participation in the game must be approved by the national association.
After the conditions proposed were accepted, the UEFA Executive Committee held a meeting in Paris on May 21, 1955, and decided that the UEFA would personally organize the event, and named the event the European Football Club Champions League, no longer using the original name "European Cup".
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After decades of development, the European Champions League is now the top event in Europe, and its competition system has also become close to perfection and balance, balancing the requirements of all European countries and clubs. However, the development of the event always has to change one by one. Last season, the second phase of the UEFA Champions League was cancelled. The group stage, that is, after the top 16 was formed, the knockout competition began until the champion was decided.
Such a simple and direct way has both advantages and disadvantages.
Obviously, the progress of the event is even more cruel to every club. The cruel knockout match makes all clubs afraid to make a mistake, which almost means out.
And Jack Don is currently watching the group draw ceremony of the Champions League group stage.
With the current Champions League winning system, the number of teams directly entering the group stage is 32 teams. In the group stage, these 32 teams are divided into eight groups. Each group of four teams will compete in points. The two with the best results will enter the final stage, and the third place in the eight groups will enter the next level of the European League (Europe In the top 32 knockout matches of the Confederate Cup, the four best teams will be listed as seeded teams together with the first place in each group stage of the League Cup.
Such a competition system has little to do with Liverpool, because for a team at the Liverpool level, being eliminated in the Champions League group stage almost means a season's defeat, which is unacceptable.
If Liverpool is eliminated in the group stage, the pressure of head coach Benitez will be very great.
As for participating in the UEFA Cup?
What if you win the League Cup? In the hearts of fans, the champion of the Champions League is everything, and the League Cup is simply a dispensable event.
The draw ceremony held now is a very formal ceremony every year. It is also a European Union award ceremony for the best player of the year. At the ceremony, the winners of each European Union award will be announced, such as the best coach of the season, the best player, the best midfielder, the best defender and the best striker. Wait a minute.
In a word, if it is analyzed by dark fans, it is that the European Football Association invites star player guests, there must be a name, so these indifferent awards are sent to them one after another...
'Gerard and Cise also went...' Don Jack felt that he shouldn't think so, so he always felt that he couldn't eat grapes and said that the grapes were sour.
But he is really not envious. After all, he has only joined the professional league for less than a year. What they have achieved will definitely be achieved in the future. All he cares about is Liverpool's grouping. Watching this award ceremony, he also brings a little gossip and fun.