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"President Sampayo, thank you for inviting us to watch the opening ceremony of the European Cup, and also arranged a private room with such a superior position for us." Since there are still two hours before the start of the game, after taking Adele and Elizabeth into the high-end private room specially prepared by Portugal, George came alone to meet with the current President of Portugal Jose Sampayo, and expressed his gratitude to him with sincere face, "If there is anything in the future, you can just speak."

"Haha, Viscount Nelson, you are so polite. It's just a few high-end tickets. I can still help with this little bit of care and it's not a problem at all." Sampayo naturally understood what George said. Of course, the president also knew in his heart that he could not really expect George to give him a lot of rewards for his show of kindness. In fact, Sampayo was already quite satisfied with being able to take advantage of this European Cup opportunity to get in touch with George.

You should know that football is the world's largest sports and has huge popularity all over the world. The related industries can create huge economic value every year, and can also drive and promote the development of other industries.

Not to mention, due to the relationship between Eusebio and the golden generation with Figo, the sport of football has a very high popularity and support in Portugal. In this case, Sampayo naturally focused on football and its affiliated industries, intending to use it as a key direction for developing the domestic economy and increasing national income.

In Sampayo's view, now is obviously the most suitable time. Porto won the League Cup and Champions League championships in two years. The European Cup held in Portugal this year will become the best opportunity for Portugal to show its football industry!

However, if you want to build this industrial chain into a shape, Sampayo needs to raise enough funds for early construction. After all, football is an extremely expensive industry, and it will be difficult to achieve the expected results if you don’t invest enough.

For Portugal, which was named "Four European Pigs", Ireland has not joined the ranks of this rank in O4 years, and it is undoubtedly difficult to raise this fund. Therefore, Sampayo hopes to be able to leverage George's golden thigh and obtain this key start-up capital through this relationship.

Although George has never disclosed his assets, he can still know and understand some of the situation at the level of Sampayo. Therefore, Sampayo is so enthusiastic about George and has also given him high-end tickets for all games in this European Cup.

George also knows something about Sampayo's intention to show his favor to him. After all, Sampayo has requested him this time. If the other party doesn't know anything about it in advance, how could George know what Sampayo wants him to help?

However, George did not personally plan to help Sampayo, but instead planned to give Sampayo an opportunity to get to know more investors and ask him to raise the funds by himself. Although Portugal is the sovereign country of Brazil, the "football kingdom" and has a natural advantage in attracting Brazilian players, the potential for the Portuguese football market is too limited. If George rashly invests, the final result is likely to be a wedding dress for Sampayo for nothing, but George himself won't get any benefits.

Just as George made this decision, the opening ceremony of the European Cup also ended with deafening cheers. Next, the opening game of the European Cup between the hosts Portugal and Greece!

It has to be said that as the host of this European Cup, the Portuguese Football Association has taken great pains to achieve the goal of winning the championship in the local area. Portugal, Spain, Greece and Russia were divided into the same group, successfully avoiding strong teams such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, as well as Sweden and Denmark, greatly increasing the chance of qualifying from the group. At the same time, in terms of the opening match, the Portuguese Football Association did not choose to play in Lisbon, and chose Porto's home dragon stadium. It seemed that it was planning to take advantage of the light of Porto's victory in the Champions League this season, so that the Portuguese national team could have a good start in this European Cup.

The Portuguese Football Association has tried its best to establish various advantages for the Portuguese national team openly and secretly. The Greek team encountered in the opening match with Portugal is a famous European weak team. Not only has it entered the international competitions in a handful of times, but before this opening match, the Greek team has never won yi games in the final circles of all international competitions!

In other words, it is precisely because Greece maintains such an embarrassing record that the Portuguese Football Association will identify it as the host's opponent in the opening match.

Although the Portuguese Football Association's approach is somewhat of a secret operation, in fact, more or less advantageous in the schedule and match opponents have always been hidden benefits for the host. As long as you don't do it too much, for example, South Korea in the World Cup will not attract condemnation from other teams and the Football Association. Therefore, Greece can only accept this schedule.

In addition, Portugal's golden generation, with Figo and Rui Costa, is at the peak of his career at this time. Porto's magical performance in the Champions League this season also allowed Deco, Ferreira, Maniche, Costiha and other powerful players to play on the stage. In addition, Scolari is the champion coach of the Portuguese national team. No matter how you look at it, Portugal has no reason to lose!

Therefore, before this game began, almost no one thought that Greece had the possibility of defeating the hosts in the opener, even if Greece set a record of six consecutive victories and six consecutive official games in the European Cup qualifiers, their head coach was the famous "Otto Great" Rehger, and no one was willing to change this view.

However, when the ninety minutes of game time passed, the score displayed on the big screen of the Dragon Stadium was finally frozen on the second game, with the home team in front and the away team in the back. Portugal, who played at home, actually lost a surprise to Greece, which had never won a record in the international competition, and suffered an extremely embarrassing defeat!

This is also the first time the host lost in the opening match since the group stage was introduced in the yi98o European Cup finals!
Chapter completed!