Chinese champion

Chapter 136
"Onward! Celtic! Onward! Celtic! Onward! Celtic!"

When Larson opened the scoring, the fans who had been cheering for the home team became even more excited.

"Big Brother is Big Brother!" Looking at Larson who was celebrating with his teammates, Delgado felt deeply that he still has such a strong desire to shoot after he is over [-] years old. .

"It's okay! It's just one goal, we'll get it back right away!" Nadal cheered loudly for his teammates, Manzano also made a proper substitution, Ballesteros replaced Curtis, Nino moved to the left to play left back, while Nadal stepped back to play the sweeper.

After taking the lead, the Celtics did not back down, and they continued their powerful offensive.

Now the Celtics made a mistake. If they properly strengthen their defense after taking the lead, Mallorca, who is already behind, must come out to attack. Relying on the speed of their forward line will make Mallorca suffer. A big loss.

However, the Celtics, who dominate the Soviet Super League, do not have the habit of retreating after leading. They are more used to destroying their opponents with their invincible offensive.

Originally, this approach was understandable, but the opponents they are facing now are different from those in the Soviet Super League, very different.

Other opponents like the Soviet Super League will often disarm and surrender again under the continuous attack of the Celtics, which will mean a massacre, but Mallorca is not comparable to other teams in the Soviet Super League. Toughness is far beyond the Celtics' imagination.

Their tenacious defense withstood the Celtics' attack. Although it seems that the Celtics now have an absolute advantage on the field, in fact, it is difficult for the Celtics to form a threatening attack in the penalty area. , and Mallorca's three frontcourt assaulters have been cruising silently in the frontcourt, waiting for a chance to kill...

Finally, when the Celtics still hadn't opened up the situation after 10 minutes of mad attack, they relaxed a bit, and when the pressure was relieved, the breathless Mallorca immediately launched a counterattack!
Petrov's cross was pushed out of the penalty area by Nadal. After receiving the ball, Panovic immediately distributed the ball to Ibagaza on the left. Ibagaza passed the ball to Eto'o in front. Then he accelerated and ran forward.

Eto'o protected the ball, and after attracting the attention of two Celtic defenders, he knocked the ball back with his heel and handed it to Pei Wei behind him.

Pei Wei took two steps forward, and suddenly raised his foot to pass a 20-meter long pass. The ball flew over the center line and landed accurately in front of Ibagaza, who was plugging in behind!

Ibagaza unloaded the ball beautifully during high-speed running. After taking a few steps, he saw that Campano had also jumped in and galloped on the other side, so he transferred the ball to the right in a wide range with a big foot !
The Celtics' retreating guard blocked Campano, blocking his possible breakthrough route, but Campano didn't get the ball at all, but jumped up and headed the ball in front of him. That is to the right of the restricted area.

Pei Wei ran over like a gust of wind, dribbled the ball directly to the baseline, and then made a pass!

This is a super-fast half-high ball. The ball flew to the front point, but there was no one there. The Celtics goalkeeper was relieved and was about to catch the ball, but the ball flew into the penalty area. Turning a corner suddenly, it turned out that Pei Wei added a rapid spin to the ball, and the force made the ball show an obvious arc when it flew halfway!
The ball flew near the penalty point, Delgado rushed to this point, and bent over with a header!

The goalkeeper had already been swayed by Pei Wei's pass, and Delgado's header was extremely fast. When he just turned around and had no time to make a save, the ball fell It has already rushed into the net nest quickly!

1:1 tie!With 10 minutes left in the game, Mallorca equalized the score!
This is also the final score of this game. After the two sides have attacked and defended each other several times, the game is over.

Mallorca are satisfied because they didn't lose on the road and scored an away goal to take the lead in the two legs.

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After returning to Mallorca, Pei Wei turned on his laptop in the apartment, and he habitually entered a Chinese sports reporting website. He wanted to read the news about the Olympic team's preparations.

He Jin has become the head coach of the Olympic team under Fang Yatao's strong support. Although Yan Wenqiang, who is becoming more and more jealous of Fang Yatao, is a little dissatisfied with He Jin, Fang Yatao's "direct descendant", who has mastered the most important Olympic team now, but He Jin Jin, who holds the title of "Champion Coach" in the World Youth Championship, is still afraid to win it. After all, he brought up this Chinese youth team. If he replaces He Jin, he will definitely be made things difficult by fans all over the country. .

In the Asian qualifier match against Syria, He Jin did not call in Pei Wei and other players who played in Europe. He only formed the current Olympic team with domestic players. It was not that He Jin refused to let them participate. But in He Jin's view, there is no need to call Pei Wei and the others back now.

Because He Jin believes that Syria is not yet qualified to let the current Olympic team go all out, and domestic players are enough.

Of course, He Jin made such a decision under a lot of pressure. At least the leaders of the Chinese Football Association headed by Yan Wenqiang were very angry about this. They have forgotten that Pei Wei and others were abandoned by them when they participated in last year's World Cup. They I think that now is the time for Pei Wei and the others to show their patriotic enthusiasm, how can they not be called back?
The Chinese Football Association often does this kind of thing. When a player who is not in their eyes at all has made some achievements in Europe, they will think that it is only natural for the player to serve the motherland, and then no matter what the trivial things are, they will be in the country. Players who play in Europe recall the national team to play an insignificant friendly match. When the players lose their places in the club because they have to be distracted by these tasteless games, they will abandon these players like shredded shoes... The Chinese Football Association loves to do this kind of "ruining people"!
Fortunately, He Jin used his coaching position to guarantee that he will definitely defeat Syria and enter the top nine qualifiers next year, and after the top nine will definitely recall European players to the national team, the leaders will not let go.

Of course Pei Wei didn't know the cause and effect, and He Jin only asked him to maintain a good state on the phone. Next year's top nine competition is when he needs to contribute.

Pei Wei learned from He Jin that Zhong Yan, Zhao Lin, Yao Le and others have all been selected for the Olympic team. They are currently training in Maojiawan, preparing for the match against Syria in a few days.

Pei Wei counted the days, the home game against Syria was two days later, and he was eager to know the current situation of the Olympic team.

When he opened the famous sports news website, he was surprised to find that on the homepage of the website, it was written in huge red letters, "Due to the spread of atypical pneumonia in some areas of China, the Chinese Olympic team and the Syrian National Olympic games postponed indefinitely".

Pei Wei was stunned.

atypical pneumonia?What it is?Is it serious?So serious that people from other countries dare not enter China?
Pei Wei's head was full of question marks. Although he had seen the news of an acute infectious disease in China on the website before, he lacked medical knowledge and never thought that a disease could disrupt the normal order of the entire country.

He froze for a while, then woke up suddenly, moved his hands a few times quickly, and called up several websites in succession. Now there was a special section for "SARS" in the website, he opened a few, and read them attentively.

The more he looked at it, the tighter his frown became, and the more frightened he became.

The country no longer allows Chinese citizens to leave the country, not to mention national borders, even provincial borders.

The Guangdong side admitted that the contagious disease was "atypical pneumonia" and had spread.

The streets are full of people wearing masks, and now there are three most in-demand commodities in China: masks, Banlangen Granules and disinfectant.

SARS has spread to all provinces and cities across the country, especially those large cities with large populations.

All sports competitions across the country have been stopped, and even travel agencies have been closed...

In the spring of 2003, the whole of China fell into a kind of nightmare.

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"Father! Are you all right? I heard that SARS is raging in China now!" Pei Wei said eagerly on the phone.

"We're fine! Son, play football outside with confidence, don't worry about us!" Pei Wei's father said heartily on the phone: "Fortunately, we didn't listen to you and go to the big cities. The bigger the city is, the more dangerous it is now. , Our small county here is quite good, and no such cases have been found!"

Pei Wei breathed a sigh of relief, he has now let go of his heart - people are selfish, and when encountering dangerous things, they always think of their closest people first, which is also human nature.

"Also, the country attaches great importance to this matter now. Many officials who concealed and did not report have been dismissed! And the infected patients have been quarantined. The situation is much better now, and this virus cannot survive under high temperature. Survive, summer is getting closer and closer, and the time for us to defeat SARS is almost here!"

What his father said reassured Pei Wei a lot. Indeed, can we still be troubled by a disease?
After chatting with his mother for a few more words, Pei Wei hung up the phone.

Such scenes also happened in Seville, Spain, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom at the same time. Players in Europe who knew the news called home to greet their relatives.

"I think we should do something for our country at this time." Pei Wei told Zhu Jun on the phone.

"Indeed, although we are abroad, we should do our part!" Zhu Jun replied.

"I'll contact them now, I think what they want to do now is the same as us..."

Two days later, the SARS donation team of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China received a remittance slip of 180 million euros from a Swiss bank, and the payer on it was "returnees".

This somewhat funny name did not attract much attention from members of the donation team, because they have received countless donations, many of whom are anonymous, and the amount is not very large. You know, some overseas Chinese consortiums Many of them are tens of millions of donations.

April 4th is a day that many Chinese fans will often mention in the days to come, because today, Chinese players playing in Europe have done the same thing.

At St. Moise Stadium, Pei Wei got rid of Ismail's entanglement and broke into the penalty area. Eto'o sent the ball to his feet without losing the opportunity. Open twice!

After scoring the goal, Pei Wei waved his hands to the teammates swarming over, indicating that he wanted to celebrate alone, then he ran to the sideline camera and lifted his jersey, revealing the ten large characters on the underwear:
"Fight against SARS, I am with you!"

The reporters were stunned for a moment, and then the flashlights in their hands crackled together. At the same time, the live broadcast footage also sent this scene to hundreds of millions of Chinese viewers in front of the TV.

At the Menau Stadium, Zhang Qi tore through the home team's goal with a wonderful free kick, 2:1. This was a goal before the end of the game!

Zhang Qi took off her shirt, and eight bright red characters appeared in front of everyone: "I am in the same boat as you!"

At the Olympic Stadium, after Zhu Jun scored the third goal for Sevilla, he also showed people the words on his underwear: "United, resist SARS!"

Freiburg, Brescia, Anderlecht, London, Manchester, Liverpool...

These similar scenes kept appearing in the above-mentioned places. Our football players expressed their feelings in this simple way: "In the name of football, fight against SARS!"

What Pei Wei said at the post-match press conference expressed the aspirations of Chinese players in Europe and all Chinese overseas:
"I would like to express my heartfelt respect to the medical staff who are fighting on the front line against SARS at home. They are real heroes. Although we are abroad and cannot help them, we are with you anyway. I believe that , there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome, and there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome, as long as we are united, the difficult time will surely pass, and the dawn is ahead!"

There was a sudden burst of intense applause from the audience, which was the crazy applause of the Chinese reporters present...

Yes, there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome, everything will be fine...

This is the spring of 2003, the most firm idea in the hearts of every Chinese.

(End of this chapter)