Any player is motivated by a final. Everyone wants to play it. But to play it you have to overcome rivals, injuries and many moments of tension on and off the playing fields. And then the trips, the waiting at the airports and the concentrations. Everything is exhausting but necessary.
International football matches in Europe They are no more than a few hours away, but in other competitions they can take up to 48 hours if the return home is complicated by weather conditions. As happened to the players and technicians of Sailors on the Central Coastthe current champion of AFC Cup (The European League of Asia) after the last playoff match is played Kyrgyzstan he is new Abdysh-Ata Kant which ended 1-1. Floods in the Arabian Peninsula forced the team to divert to Seoul, and its subsequent scales, to return to Australia two days later.
Not earning
The Australian football federation is attached to the Asian confederation and this means that it must play group stage, playoffs and final matches in most Asia. Several Australian club officials from A-League They hate gaming competitions AFC (Asian Football Confederation) because of the high economic cost that is only paid if you reach the final…and win.
The AFC It offers value, but for the Australian teams it does not cover their costs because it is not calculated based on the distance traveled but fixed: they receive 40,000 Australian dollars (24,578 Euros) in the previous rounds, the stage of the group and the playoffs. If they pass and reach the elimination round, they will pocket 100,000 Australian dollars (61,445.50 euros) and if they win the final, 1,500,000 Australian dollars (921,682.50 euros). If they do not reach the final, the president of Sailors calculated that the adventure of AFC Cup will result in a net loss of 300,000 Australian dollars (184,307 euros).
103,634 km and many anecdotes
The AFC Cup have added 13 extra games to their calendar, which means that this season they will play 44 games in all competitions, a volume and rhythm that is starting to resemble the teams of Europe every season. In addition to traveling outside the Australian continent, in this competition they also competed in another domestic one, against MacArthur FC.
In total, there are 21 flights and 15 cities in 10 countries. In total, 103,634 km. which makes several anecdotes. As in 50 fans joined them broken (Indonesia). They were guilty of a lack of knowledge of the rules when they discovered that alcoholic beverages could not be brought into the stadium, so they decided to drink all the alcohol they had before the game. A slightly injured fan got lost and didn’t show up until the next day when they left the country. In another stadium, they welcomed the players with flares that filled the atmosphere with smoke and made it difficult to identify them. In Malaysia Two club directors go out for a walk and one of them falls into a hole in the street. In the final they played the match Al Ahedthey found out that the club Lebanon had alleged links to Hezbollahthe terrorist group attacking Israel from the same Lebanon.
Differences between leagues
It has been 10 years since Western Sydney Wanderers defeated Al Hilal to win at AFC Champions League. Since then, no Australian team has advanced to the round of 16, a period that coincided with civil war within A-League and subsequent financial decline. As a result, a gap between Australian clubs and the emerging Pro League Saudi and J.League of Japanese. On paper, the AFC Cup It always looks affordable as it will be played against clubs with less potential. This year is the last of the denomination of AFC Cup. Starting next season, they named it as AFC Champions League Two.
Three titles in one season
An almost forty-year-old goalkeeper who two days ago announced his retirement from professional football, Danny Vukovicwho has an unbeaten goal record and is the only goalkeeper to have scored on A-Leaguean Austro-Kiwi-South African full-back, two center-backs from the islands of Peaceful, five young players in the eleven and their star players, one is almost 1.60 m tall. and one was playing last year in the Brazilian Serie D: no doubt, the Sailorscoach holding hands Mark Jackson and Brazilian goals and assistance Mikael Dokathey are the most charismatic team in A-League and now in fashion, because after winning the title of the regular season of A-League and the AFC Cup he is new Al Ahed (0-1), on Saturday they won the league playoff where the first six fought, winning the final match Success in Melbourne by 3-1.
The trophy of AFC Cup they are given a pass to play next season AFC Champions League Elite. In excitement, the subsequent trips and the addition of kilometers, again.
Source: La Verdad
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