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When the club's senior management was discussing matters, Zhao Yaning had not yet left Liverpool.

On May 29th, it was a friendly match between Juventus and Liverpool, and he needed to go to the scene to watch the match.On May 31th, Gerrard celebrates his birthday, and he also needs to go to congratulate him. On May [-]st, Vieira gets married, and he also attends—although the season is over, he has to go to all these big and small things Attend.

Moreover, there is one more thing. In early June, the Chinese embassy in Monaco was completed. Prince Albert II of Monaco, the former Prince Albert, needs to go there to meet the Chinese ambassador.

Zhao Yaning really didn't know why he wanted to go there.He and Prince Albert have only met a few times, and they are not very familiar, although Prince Albert was once his boss.Moreover, the so-called embassy in Monaco is basically run by a group of people stationed in France. Why go there for formalities?However, for some unknown reason, he has become a "bridge of friendship between the people of China and Morocco".

Looking at other people's table tennis, they are building a bridge between China and the United States. Monaco is a town about the size of a town, and my own bridge is really cheap. [

There are so many things this summer, how can I be in the mood to keep busy with these things?

Zhao Yaning didn't know what the higher-ups were thinking, and didn't have time to think about it.This summer, Zhao Yaning still has a lot of affairs, and he still has more things to solve.First of all, this summer, there are still three games to be played in the world preliminaries. These three games are directly related to whether I can go to Germany to participate in the World Cup next year.Secondly, there is a Confederations Cup game to be played this year-if I can't go next year, then this year I will really be a warm-up for others.What's more, at the end of July this year, the Chinese team still has an East Asian Football Championship to participate in.Last summer, he represented the team in two games, but that was because there was a youth team like the Olympics.But this time, although he doesn't have to think about the World Youth Championship anymore, theoretically he still has two supreme fighters to play in.

Fortunately, when he was busy abroad, Zhang Yuan had already helped him with the dredging work.

"You don't have to go to the East Asian semi-finals." Zhang Yuan was still very proud when he saw him. "In these few games, the Football Association came forward and told the head coach not to look for you. It’s already the end of July. Don’t Liverpool still have the UEFA Champions League play-offs to play? You are a symbol of Chinese football now, so you should pay more attention to your career. You don’t need to come back for the East Asian semi-finals. Anyway, it’s just a friendly match For the game, friendship comes first, competition comes second, whether you come back to play or not, it doesn’t make much difference.”

This reason is really bad.In fact, the East Asian semi-finals ended on August [-], while the third round of the Champions League play-offs began on August [-].After all, Liverpool is a Premier League team, and the Premier League points are high enough. Liverpool will play the play-offs directly from the third round.Liverpool didn't have to play in the first two rounds, and naturally there was no game time conflict-of course, Liverpool also had friendly matches, but these friendly matches were of lower quality than the East Asian semi-finals.

And with Liverpool's points in the European War, it is estimated that the play-offs will not be a strong team.After all, in the play-offs, the seeding teams were divided according to the European points. Liverpool just won the Champions League. If you count the five years of European points, there are also points from the UEFA Cup in 2001. No matter what, Liverpool must be the seeded team. Can't draw a strong team.

But Zhang Yuan didn't want to think about these things.All he knew was that other national teams knew that players from Europe could not be recalled easily. They were afraid that the club would be unhappy and start suppressing the players, not giving them the main position, and no longer employing them.However, the Chinese national team must recruit Zhao Yaning almost every game. Zhang Yuan has long been disgusted with such things.

Last year, although it was said that Zhao Yaning won the Champions League, after all, the wings had not hardened. At that time, the Football Association could still control Zhao Yaning.But this year, Zhao Yaning first won the Olympic championship, registered with the General Administration of Sports, and then Liverpool won the championship again, and Liverpool is a wealthy family after all. The Chinese Football Association did not dare to be arrogant anymore.In addition, this time, he also participated in foreign affairs activities. The people of the Football Association dare not provoke Zhao Yaning now. Zhao Yaning can now negotiate with the Football Association not to play some minor games.

"If that's the case, what's really important this summer is the world preliminaries."

Although there is still a Confederations Cup match to be played this summer, Zhao Yaning doesn't think there is much chance of winning the Confederations Cup.

The participating teams this time are still the intercontinental champions of all continents, that is, China in Asia, Tunisia in Africa, Australia in Oceania, Mexico in North and Central America, Brazil in South America, and six teams from the European champion Greece, plus Argentina, the runner-up of the America's Cup in 2004 and the host country of the 2006 World Cup, is also the host country of the Confederations Cup. Champion, and the remaining seats shall be filled by runners-up.Germany participated as the host, and the remaining seats are naturally the runner-up of the America's Cup, Argentina.

This Confederations Cup, of course, is still being hyped as the strongest in history, but speaking of it, it can really be called the strongest in history, probably a Brazilian team.

Ronaldinho, Robinho, Adriano, Kaka, Ronaldo... Brazil's strongest offensive players are all here. Brazil's frontcourt can only be described as luxurious.

In contrast, Argentina's lineup is much worse.Crespo didn't come, neither did Samuel and Ayala, and Aimar and Saviola were both injured. Although they went out with the team, they might not be able to play.The real big names, apart from Zanetti and Heinze's two guards, are Riquelme and Cambiasso.

However, the other two names in Argentina surprised Zhao Yaning.One is Bernardi, his teammate in Monaco, who was also selected for the national team this time.And then there is Gabriel Milito, he is the younger brother of Diego Milito, and he is also the main defender of Argentina this time.

However, no matter how weak Argentina is, it has nothing to do with the Chinese team. The Chinese team is divided into Brazil, Greece, and Mexico.

Strive to qualify for the group stage-this is Zhao Yaning's biggest expectation.

Both Brazil and Mexico are hard nuts to crack, and Greece, although Zicos once told him that after the European Cup, the Greek team will no longer have the unity and sincere cooperation before the rematch, but no matter what, they are also the European Cup champions. In such a group, the future is indeed difficult.

However, after Zhao Yaning won the second Champions League, his confidence has also greatly expanded.After all, the victory of this Jedi counterattack in the Champions League made him also realize one thing: the victory of the game lies largely in the spirit and will not to give up. Fight to the end and see what the result is. [

And after the Champions League final, his strength has been further enhanced.

This time in the Champions League final, the card given to him was a 'Ukrainian nuclear head' card.The ability of the card is shooting 1, heading 1, running 1, jumping 1, and composure 1. A complete shooter card, which made him stronger after getting it, except for the header 1, Jumping 1 is important to him, the other three items are all extremely important, the ability to send charcoal in a timely manner.

And to say something meaningless, that night, he also exchanged jerseys with his opponent.And the person who exchanged his jersey was Maldini.

The card he got was a 'Red Black Soul', which was used as a loyalty 5 plus 5 card for the second record holder that Zhao Yaning had seen.But what he didn't know was what Maldini's record was.

Most appearances in Serie A?Longest time with the same club?Most European Wars?World Cup finals competition longest?Most Milan derbies?he does not know.Maldini has too many records, he doesn't know which honor this card was exchanged for.

He didn't use the card. He didn't know how the card increased loyalty, but he didn't want his loyalty to come from this way.The love for a club should not be based on cards.

But he has no regrets in exchange for a jersey.Maldini's jersey, after all, is commemorative.After all, he is the only remaining witness of the Milan dynasty, and fighting against him is of extraordinary significance.

The steady improvement of strength has made Zhao Yaning more confident.Moreover, this time, the public opinion in the domestic media was surprisingly good, and he didn't find him too much trouble.Even the pressure is gone, he is naturally more relaxed.

In this grouping, the Chinese media rarely mentioned any more groups of death. There are only two groups in total. The other group is Argentina and Germany. Compared with this group, they are not much weaker.To participate in this kind of competition, no matter which group you enter, you will be trampled. From the perspective of the Chinese media, the focus of this competition is to participate. It is unrealistic to talk about winning the championship and competing for victory.

And the Football Association did not announce any pre-match tasks: The Chinese team this time is the world champion, the North American champion and the European champion. It seems that none of them can win. Lose one, lose two, lose three, lose as little as you win... the Football Association will not say such stupid words.What they want to do is to take advantage of the achievements of the past, not to let others use them as targets and scold them stupidly.

Moreover, for them, the World Preliminaries are more important than the Confederations Cup.The Chinese team will now play two games, one is an away game against Uzbekistan on June [-]th, and the other is against Saudi Arabia on June [-]th. If they win these two games, it will be the last game for the Chinese team If you lose, you may be able to qualify early.They are not wrong to lose world-class trophies like the Confederations Cup.But the appearance of the world preliminaries is a big event.

When Zhao Yaning played against Uzbekistan on June [-], it was too late to come back.But Uzbekistan is not a strong team. Although it is an away game, Zhao Yaning feels that even if he does not go back, they will not have any problems.What Chinese football is afraid of is only the four countries of Japan, South Korea, and Shay. When they face Uzbekistan, even if Zhao Yaning does not go back, the chances of winning are still great.

As long as I go back and finish the home game against Saudi Arabia, maybe I don’t even have to come back for the world preliminaries against South Korea in August.

But the development of the situation still exceeded Zhao Yaning's imagination.When he finished his work in Monaco and was about to return home, he suddenly received a call, and what Zhang Yuan told him made him unable to laugh at once.

The Chinese team lost 1-2 away to Uzbekistan.The world preliminaries were once again in trouble.