This year Mazembe specially gave up the league and made a comeback. In the African Champions League, he eliminated Alia Kabel and Tunisia’s hope team to win Africa again. This time, he learned the experience. Mazembe first defended the quarter-finals, and beat Chookiat Sakveerakul in the semi-final against Brazil International, the champion of the Libertadores Cup. After 53 minutes, Kabangu broke the deadlock. Five minutes before the end, Dioko Kaluyituka sealed the victory and reached the final.
The African media spoke highly of Mazembe’s historic entry into the World Club Cup finals. They believed that this was absolutely no less than the milestone of Ghana’s winning the World Youth Championship in 29 years. The predecessor of the Intercontinental Cup World Club Cup has always been Europe and South America in the finals for 40 years, but this year Mazembe from Central Africa overthrew the monopoly of Europe and South America on the highest competition at the club level.
The head coach of this team is La Ndiaye, the former head coach of the Swiss national team in Segal, and it was only in September this year that he took over the team. In the African Champions League group stage, he was defeated by Tunisia Hope French coach Gazto, but in just three months, he not only led the team to break through the African Champions League and reach the final in the World Club Cup, but also achieved the imagination of the former players. Ndiaye and his former Gazto both adopted a 433 attack formation, but most of the time it was actually a 451 conservatism, which was a bit like Mourinho’s.
Mazembe has always been a rich team in Africa, but of course it can’t compete with Europe.
But in Africa, they are really local tyrants
Because they have a real local tyrant, the chairman of Mazembe Club is Moses Katubi, the first elected governor of Katanga, the largest province in southern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mazembe’s budget for the season is as high as $10 million, which is almost the sum of the budgets of top league clubs in all countries except South Africa!
At the same time, Katubi also spent $2 million to build a new stadium. Although the number of people has dropped from 35,000 to 10 million, this is the only seating stadium in the whole Democratic Republic of Congo and even the Middle East and Africa, which can meet the UEFA four-star standard.
Almost all members of Mazembe come from miners’ families in Katanga Province, and only foreign aid is also produced in neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia. For a large number of teams in North Africa and West Africa who have made foreign aid from South America, this is definitely the most localized team-building strategy. More importantly, the players are treated as if the salary expenditure of European bulldozers was only $3.6 million in two years and has soared to $10 million in 21 years. Captain Mputu’s annual salary is as high as $500,000, which is the highest salary player in the whole African continent-you know that the top annual salary standard of Serie A team in Houdusse is only ……
This is the winning Lazio will meet their opponents in the World Club Cup final.
Chapter three hundred and twenty-six African small team ambition
Chang Sheng is well aware of Mazembe’s strength and tactical style. His opponent is as naked as a beautiful woman in front of him, and he can see it clearly.
So Chang Sheng thinks that this game should be very easy to win.
If it is Brazil International, he may be a little worried.
But now it’s Mazembe … The final is just a formality …
If nothing unexpected, opponents should choose to stick to their guns in the game and try to delay the penalty shoot-out. This is the only way they can beat Lazio.
Lazio’s preparations are naturally aimed at opponents, and how to break them if they want to stick to their guns.
In fact, Lazio’s coaching staff knows almost nothing about this team, so it’s better to know about Chengnan Yihe, because at least Lazio played with Korean teams in the summer and knows a Korean football style.
But this is the first time for African team Lazio.
Although Changsheng knows this team is right, he knows more about this team through words, that is, media reports rather than game pictures.
The only information of the coaching staff is the video of Mazembe’s participation in the first two games of the World Club Cup.
They study tactics and formulate countermeasures for the players, all of which are videos of these two games.
Generally speaking, this kind of encounter can be done before the game.
But everyone’s mentality is very relaxed
Because it is obvious that Mazembe and Lazio are not in the same level, their strength is far from each other
You don’t need to know much about this opponent, you just need to play at your own pace.
Everyone believes that Lazio can easily beat Mazembe if it is to play normally.
Before the World Club Cup final, Changsheng simply gave his players a half-day holiday and asked them to visit Abu Dhabi to see if there was anything to buy back for their families as Christmas gifts.
Lazio players are all smiling and relaxed when facing the reporter’s camera.
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What is completely different from Lazio is Mazembe’s preparation.
Mazembe coach Ndiaye conducted closed training.
No interviews, no fan visits.
They are training hard at the training ground.