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Chapter 373 A game that does not require mobilization
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Qatar, these four teams can be regarded as the best teams in West Asian football. There are also several strong teams in the domestic league. Unfortunately, their domestic strong teams are basically piled up by players poached from Europe with a lot of money. Basically, they do not have their own perfect echelon system, and it is difficult to cultivate a large number of rookies from their own country.

When the grassroots is not solid, and it can even be said to be very weak, those strong club teams that rely on money to pile up are just flowers in the mirror and moons in the water.

Looking at the teams that eliminated them, needless to say, the Chinese team, players in the 89-year-old group have begun to play the leading role. Even before, there were many players in the 85-87 age group who entered the national team.The Japanese national team now mainly plays veterans who are close to 30 years old, but there are still young players in the team such as Atsuto Uchida born in 88, Masato Morishi born in 87, Naoki Yamada born in 90, Keisuke Honda born in 86 and Shinji Kagawa born in 89. Among them, Keisuke Honda has now moved to Liverpool in the Premier League after winning the best player in the Eredivisie in the 09-10 season. After that, Japanese players became the new leaders in the European arena.As for South Korea, just look at how many young people they have in their main lineup - 26-year-old winger Park Joo-young, 22-year-old midfielder Ki Sung-yong, 23-year-old midfielder Lee Ching-yong, 24-year-old midfielder Song Jin-hyung, 24-year-old midfielder Li Xianghu, 26-year-old goalkeeper Zheng Chenglong... Their youth is definitely not worse than the Chinese team!

This big defeat in the Asian Cup gave the self-deceiving West Asian football associations a resounding slap in the face. After the end of this Asian Cup, the West Asian countries that felt a huge crisis also began to reform. It is said that they are planning to form a new league mainly in West Asia. The best clubs in West Asia will form a league. After all, the population of each country is not large.

The benefits of doing this are obvious. The increase in strong teams will make the league more enjoyable, and at the same time, the exchanges between them will also increase. With more matches against strong players, the level of young players from West Asian countries will also increase a lot.

It is conceivable that in the next few years, the strength of East Asian football will still be unmatched by West Asian football.

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Reaching the semi-finals made the fans in China very happy, especially the performance of the Chinese team was really good, which also increased the expectations of the Chinese fans for the newly formed national team, and the Chinese team's opponent in the semi-finals made the Chinese fans who had already increased their appetites begin to have a strong interest in this game. The reason is simple-the opponent of the Chinese team in the semi-finals is the Japanese team.

The confrontation between China and Japan has never lacked eyeballs, especially in Asia now, and the only ones who can compete with China are Japan, South Korea and Australia. In addition, this time the Japanese team is out of the elite, and almost all the main players have come to participate in this Asian Cup.

For the Chinese team, it was only after reaching the quarter-finals that they met an opponent worthy of attention. Ding Yu naturally paid special attention to this opponent. In addition to winning this game to enter the final, another important factor is that although there are many exchanges in football between China and Japan, Chinese football has always had a relatively large advantage over Japanese football.

It is for this reason that Ding Yu has also conducted careful research on the Japanese national team. The current head coach of the Japanese national team is Takeshi Okada, the legendary head coach who led the Japanese national team to enter the World Cup for the first time. This head coach who coached the Japanese national team for the first time was evaluated as "like a small employee of a company". After the 98 World Cup, he resigned as the head coach of the Japanese national team. The top sixteen of the World Cup, so his position has been retained until now.

The reason why he took office again is also very legendary. Before him, Osim, who coached the Japanese national team, had a stroke at home in November 07. Although it was not life-threatening, he could not continue to coach. Takeshi Okada took office as a firefighter, but he became the most successful head coach of the Japanese national team after Troussier.

Due to the sound development of the domestic league and the influx of a considerable number of players into Europe, the Japanese national team has no shortage of opportunities. The oldest player in the team is 33-year-old Shunsuke Nakamura, who is also the captain of the Japanese national team. But he is no longer the core of the Japanese midfielder. The core of the Japanese national team is now 25-year-old Keisuke Honda.

Honda Keisuke is a middle -defendant with a very strong scoring ability. He once took the best shooter in Hejia. After coming to the Premier League, he also has five league goals every season. This scoring ability is already terrifying. In front of them, 23 -year -old Morimototo and 25 -year -old Okazaki Shinji. Fortunately, he was transferred to the Premier League Manchester United for four seasons last season. He landed in Serie A's current front card for the Japanese national team.

So in this game, Ding Yu dispatched the main lineup in his mind.

Goalkeeper Wu Bufan, right back Xu Liang, left back Huang Zhenghong, two center backs partnered by Li Jie and Feng Xiao, midfielders Hu Gandang, Dai Guangming, Du Zhenyu and Gao Junmin, forwards Long Bisheng and Sun Bing, in the current Chinese team roster, this lineup is the absolute main force.

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Doha, Qatar, Doha Stadium, the locker room of the Chinese team.

"Today's game, I don't think I need to say anything more." After the players warmed up and returned to the locker room, Ding Yu used this sentence as his opening remarks. The players all laughed, and they naturally knew why - playing against the Japanese team, the Chinese team never needed to be mobilized.

"Although we have basically never lost to the Japanese team in the past games, the past is just the past and cannot represent the present." Ding Yu said: "In this game, our lineup will be [-], which is also the formation we are most accustomed to. The Japanese team is also accustomed to this formation. Hu Gandang, today your task is to keep an eye on their midfielder Keisuke Honda. You have played against him in the Eredivisie. You are very familiar with him."

"No problem." Hu Gandang said confidently: "Before he moved to Liverpool, I would meet him twice a year...Vello, where he is, has never won against us."

Ding Yu smiled. Although Keisuke Honda is now considered a star in Europe, he still thinks that Hu Gandang can freeze this guy: "As for Takayuki Morimoto in their forward line... Li Jie, I will leave him to you."

"Leave it to me!" Li Jie said arrogantly: "Although he played for Manchester United, he couldn't play any games last season, so I won't lose to a substitute."

"Okay, you have to do it if you talk big, otherwise you are not the only ones who will lose face." Ding Yu nodded: "Of course we can't just think about defense. Football games have to be offensive, and offense can win the game... The main central defenders of the Japanese team are Kazumichi Takagi and the Japanese-Brazilian King Tanaka. Four, so their air defense at the back isn't bad."

Long Bisheng smiled easily. In Europe, he faced too many central defenders over 1.9 meters tall. A mere 1.8 meters is nothing.

"What is the King of the Tanaka Bamboo Hat? This name is not a strong opponent!" Li Jie laughed and shouted: "This name is really ridiculous."

The players all laughed. Although they knew that King Tanaka was the mainstay of the Japanese national team's defense in recent years, they didn't pay attention to him, and the name was indeed a bit funny. It's not good to call him a king. The king of the bamboo hat is just a bamboo hat...

Looking at the relaxed expressions of the players, Ding Yu's mood is also extremely relaxed. He knows that the emotions shown by the players will not be brought into the game. They have learned to concentrate their full attention in the game. Despising the opponent before the game can make their fighting spirit even higher. This mentality is accumulated by the overwhelming advantage that Chinese football has gained in Asia in the past ten years.
Ding Yu looked at his watch, it was not much time before the start of the game, so he coughed, the players quieted down, Ding Yu looked at the players, and waved vigorously: "Okay, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)