World Cup of Great Powers

Chapter 207 The Patchwork National Team
The conversation between Zeng Zheng and Zhu Xie collapsed.

The fans who hadn't waited until the news of Zeng Zheng's appointment to the national team exploded in an instant.

"If you don't let Coach Zeng take over, how can you win this year's Asian Cup?"

"Don't hurry up and let Coach Zeng polish the team, what about next year's world preliminaries?"

"Is the Olympics more important than the World Cup?"

Especially Harbin fans.

I was dumbfounded.

Not only did he not welcome Zeng Zheng as the coach of the national football team, but he also "lost" his own head coach.

What's the point of this?

For a while, fans wrote to Zhu Xie one after another, asking Zhu Xie to give an explanation for this incident.

The phone in Zhuxie's office rang off the hook again.

Those operators disconnected the telephone lines and started to live a life of eating melon seeds and chatting.

Many things are linked together.

When the fans saw that Zeng Zheng took the initiative to "retreat" after halfway through the negotiation with Zhuxie, according to the clues of Zeng Zheng's schedule these days, various "conspiracy theories" also prevailed.

Among them, the most complaints from fans are to check carefully those who are in charge of the national team at this stage.

Let's see if some of them deliberately set up restrictions to prevent Zeng Zheng from easily entering the national football team, or if there are other corruptions.

Facing the "report letters" one after another on the desk, I was so angry that I slapped the desk.

"Isn't it just useless for him to be the head coach?"

"What's so great about it?"

"These fools mess with BB without knowing anything!"

"I don't believe it anymore!"

"Without him Zeng the butcher, I can only eat this hairy pig!"

"Tell Li Xiaoguang to let him lead the team well."

"This four-nation competition, we must win the championship!"

"Also, ask Nanyong to call those boys who play football abroad and tell them to return home to compete!"

As the days passed, Zeng Zheng was still doing youth training in Maojiawan.

At the same time, the national football team also ushered in the first game of the new century.

On January 1, the national football team played the first match of the four-nation match with New Zealand at the Tianhe Sports Center, and finally won 14-1.

Two days later, the national football team defeated Uruguay with the same score and won the championship of this four-nation tournament.

After the game, assistant coach Jin Zhiyang said: This battle is a victory for the underdogs, and the victory lies in the word "dare" and the word "fast".And hope that the victory of this game can inspire the football world, firm determination to hit the 2002 World Cup.

Use this team to hit the 02 World Cup?

Fans have question marks in their hearts.

According to the latest national team roster announced by Zhuxie, the fans were stunned.

Who is this Chen Gang?
Who is Gao Jianbin?
Who is Zhao Changhong?
Who is Sun Jianjun?

Who is Li Yao?
Immediately after these questions were raised, fans of the player's club came out to "popular science".

Gao belongs to Quanxing, Sun belongs to TEDA, Chen belongs to Manatee, Zhao belongs to Songri, and Li belongs to Liaoning!

After learning about the origins of these players, a new round of questions began again.

They played well in A-A last season, but why use them?

What about those overseas players?
Why did I only see General Fan coming back alone?

What about the rest?

What about Zhang Xiaorui who just scored twice in the Portuguese Super League Derby?
What about Li Jinyu who just scored in three consecutive games in Turin?

What about Li Tie, who just played ten consecutive starts for 90 minutes in Seville?

What about Sun Jihai, who just moved to Manchester City and became Manchester City's main right back?

It's fine if these Olympic teenagers didn't come back.

But why didn't Yang Chen and Zhou Ning, who were in the Bundesliga, come back to serve as kings?

Doesn't the national team need overseas players?

In this regard, the explanation given by Zhu Xie is that these players did not call because of the club.

But if these main players are not called, what will happen to the next game?
Zhu Xie didn't reply.

It seems to be "wait and see" with the fans!
On January 1, the national football team left Guangzhou and rushed to Vietnam to participate in the Asian Cup qualifiers.

On January 1, the national football team played the first match of the Asian Cup qualifiers with the Philippine team at the Reunification Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, and finally won with a score of 23-8.

Looking at the whole game, the victory of the national football team should be reasonable.

More than half of the Philippine players are non-professional players, and they are obviously not at the same level as the national football team, so this victory does not explain any problems.

On January 1, at 26:15 pm, the national football team played the second match of the Asian Cup qualifier against the Guam team at the Uni-President Stadium, winning [-] to [-], setting a world record for a single goal in the history of an A-level match.

19 is better than 0!

Such numbers not only greatly encouraged the excitement of players and fans, but also broke the previous world record of 1997-17 set by the Iranian team in the 0 World Cup qualifier against the Maldives.

Many reporters watching the game from the sidelines have realized that this is a historic moment, and they have raised their cameras to aim at the score board of the venue.

As soon as the score came out, fans across the country were excited.

The person in charge of the national team, headed by Eye Gum Duo, was even more happy.

That night, Moutai and Wuliangye were built.

"Hahaha, did you see that? 19 to 0! Only one short of 20!"

"This is a new world record for an international A-level event!"

"We are the party that sets the record!"

"What was he once in charge of?"

"He led the team to pick and search, and he knew how to defend and counterattack."

"Can you play such an open score?"

"There are even stronger players among the strong players. If he is led by Zeng Zheng, maybe he will be scored by his opponent!"

Hearing this, other people at the wine table also raised their glasses and echoed:

"That's right!"

"He probably was afraid of shaving his head again, so he didn't dare to lead the team this time!"

In two consecutive victories, the national football team ushered in the host Vietnam team of this Asian Cup qualifier.

Vietnam also won both games.

As long as they beat the national football team, they can still break into the finals.

For the national football team, which has a goal difference of 12, this game can qualify for a draw.

After the kick-off in the first half, the national football team has always occupied the initiative on the field. The Vietnamese team frequently ran out of urgency, but the Vietnamese team defended tenaciously and resolved the national football team's many attacks.

In the 27th minute, Yao Xia quickly broke through with the ball and shot angrily at the top of the penalty area.The goalkeeper of the Yue team dropped the ball, and Su Mao made a successful shot.

The national football team leads 1-0.

In the second half of the game, the national football team still overwhelmed the Vietnam team, but it was a pity that it only blossomed but did not bear fruit.

Since then, the national football team has played more and more urgently, the number of long passes has increased significantly, and the players have not responded in time. Shen Si and General Fan also received two yellow cards.

Until the end of the second half, the national football team finally seized the opportunity. General Fan Da made a cross from the right, and Zhang Yanhua scored with a header from the penalty area, extending the score to 2-0.

After this campaign, the national football team officially entered the Asian Cup finals.

The person in charge of the national team headed by Eye Gum Duo even called this national team the "Millennium Dragon Team"!
With three victories, domestic support for Zeng Zheng's ascension has become much smaller.

But those are also some fans who know that it's useless to shout.

Those real "people of insight" can see the key at a glance!

Ji Yuyang: The so-called "Dragon Team" is just a group of old men in their 30s, plus some "strangers" who performed well in the club last season.

Huang Jianxiang: This patchwork national team can't see anything when they play against teams like the Philippines and Guam, but once they face a slightly stronger team like Vietnam, they can't play a decent score. .

Lao Rong: Such a cobbled-together national team, once they meet a real strong team in Asia, they may not even be able to hold out for a round!

Similar voices have not resonated with the masses.

In other words, the fans are also expecting that such a "brand new" national team can surprise them when facing a real strong enemy.

On February 2, because the second half of the Magic City Four Nations Tournament was somewhat difficult, Zhuxie only announced the time for the first round of the League One.

After the Spring Festival, Ladd showed up at the Macau Stadium to watch the Asian Cup qualifiers between Little Days and Macau.

After taking a video of the whole game with DV, Ladd rushed to Haigeng non-stop to watch the spring training of A-B.

However, the A-B players are obviously not interested in Ladd's arrival.

Everyone should practice and play, and there is no intention of showing a show in front of Ladd.

For this reason, Haigeng found Bayi and Wuniu and asked the two teams to play a practice match and perform well in front of Ladd.

After the opening, the players on both sides were extremely excited, and the smell of gunpowder became more and more intense.

However, in the 15 minutes of the second half, conflicts broke out.

Looking at the players on the field who were punching each other, Ladd could only shake his head.

The person in charge at the side grinned crookedly after seeing it.

How much these players don't want to join this national team!

On February 2th, the Lantern Festival, the national football team competed with the Japanese national team for the Kirin Beer Cup at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Arena.

With the previous three victories as a foundation, the players are in a good state of mind after the start.

But because the forward line composed of Qu Shengqing and Su Maozhen did not get the support of teammates, the whole team was weak and weak, like a mess.

The three players who came back from Europe in the small days-Hidetoshi Nakata, Akira Joji and Hiroshi Minami all played.

These three players, together with the cooperation of veteran Masashi Nakayama through the short pass in the middle, threatened the gate of the national football team many times after the opening.

Just 6 minutes into the first half, Jo Shoji took a strong shot, but it was a pity that he shot the ball high.

His strike partner Masashi Nakayama then had a chance but ended up hitting the ball into the side netting.

Encountered two consecutive embarrassments, this national team looks a little shaky.

Under Nakata Hidetoshi's needlework, Xiaori created many good shooting opportunities.

Especially from the two ribs, there are often opportunities to go straight into the penalty area of ​​the national football team.

Finally, in the 37th minute, Jo Shoji's strong shot knocked on the gate guarded by Jiang Jin.

In the second half, they changed places to fight again.

In the 60th minute, the national football team once played a small climax, which was also the only highlight moment of the national football team.

At the last moment of the game, Xiaori once again relied on the home court advantage to suppress the national football team.

In the 87th minute, veteran Zhiliang Miura, who came off the bench, scored a header in the penalty area and smashed the ball into the goal of the Chinese team again.

2 is better than 0!

While Xiaotian won the Kirin Cup this year, he also finalized the contract renewal with head coach Troussier.

In the post-match press conference, Troussier talked eloquently.

And his sentence "This is not the Chinese team in my impression", once again pushed the national team to the forefront.

What do you mean this is not the Chinese team in your impression?
What is your impression of the Chinese team?
Counting Troussier's resume in detail, it is not difficult for fans to find out.

This game turned out to be the first time Troussier led the team to defeat the Chinese team!

Why can't the world play, the Asian Youth Championship can't play, but this millennium Kirin Cup won?
Is it because of home field advantage?

Is it because of the differences in the strength of the senior teams?

Or is the person who restrained him everywhere not in the team?
As more football people spoke out one after another, the underpants of this "Millennium Dragon Team" were suddenly stripped off by Xiaotian.

The fans also really saw that this national team is different.

The starting 11 players are indeed well-known in the club, and they are all former national football veterans.

But who are the people sitting on the bench?

Is there a substitute that could make a difference?

What's more, when the team fell behind and needed substitutions to strengthen the weak, no one on the bench dared to raise their heads and face the camera.

Are you really here to play football?

"Force him!"

"Pinch him!"

"Steal him!!!"

Similar words resounded frequently over the Maojiawan training base.

The pitch was in full swing.

Young people, don't have too many twists and turns.

They will do whatever Zeng Zheng directs.

No matter what happened in society, Zeng Zheng was at ease here.

And in the hearts of these young people, they have already established a glorious and magnificent image.

Frankly speaking, compared with Jianlibao, this group of players still has a certain talent gap.

But it's not without good material.

In addition to Xu Liang, Qu Bo, Yan Song, An Qi, Hu Zhaojun, and Wang Xinxin in the three eastern provinces, Du Wei, Sun Ji, and Sun Xiang from the Modu 2 team also performed outstandingly.

The most important thing is that Zeng Zheng also forcibly snatched someone from the young man brought by Shen Xiangfu next door.

That person is Chen Tao!
Putting Chen Tao, who was born in 1985, in the 81st and 82nd youth teams seems a bit counterproductive.

But what if Chen Tao's age was increased by two years?

In 83, wouldn't it be so abrupt?
Chen Tao, who is 1.8 meters tall, is no longer invincible in the new National Youth Team. Even so, if he wants to successfully defend against him, the current national youth team's personal ability is still a little bit worse.

There are two training grounds in Maojiawan, one is used by the national youth team and the other is used by the national junior team.

In the past two days, Zeng Zheng has not been idle except for training the players.

Under his investment, two more open spaces were opened up next door.

Before long, these two new stadiums will also be put into use.

"Coach Zeng, you still have good eyesight. You can tell at a glance that this kid is extraordinary."

After Chen Tao scored another goal in the chaos, Shen Xiangfu couldn't help but praise.

"Coach Shen, don't flatter me." Zeng Zheng smiled, "What's going on with Chen Tao, you know much better than me."

Shen Xiangfu, who was punctured by Zeng Zheng, was not embarrassed. Instead, he glanced at Li Huajun behind Zeng Zheng and said, "Hey, what's the matter! Xiao Li, don't you think so?"

After being named by his "senior", Li Huajun felt embarrassed.

Zeng Zheng ignored the "hidden rules" of the two former international players, but continued to point to Chen Tao and said, "Coach Shen, the world has changed now!"

"The times are advancing and society is developing!"

"With Zeng Zheng here, we won't need to compete with other countries in such a way of playing big and small!"

Shen Xiangfu sneered: "I hope so!"

Just when the two were guessing who else in the team had changed their age, Han Tao ran over and told Zeng Zheng the news of Ladd's visit.

Hearing Ladd came here to look for him, Zeng Zheng snorted lightly.

"Coach Shen, did you see that a small unicorn cup is directly forced by Ladd!"

"Haha, Coach Zeng, what do you think Ladd is looking for you this time? Please come out?"

"Don't talk about it! How is that possible! How can he have that power!" Zeng Zheng laughed, "Let me tell you, he came here this time to ask me for a gold medal!"

"gold medal?"

"That's right!" Zeng Zheng snapped his fingers, "With the gold medal, Zhuxie can transfer the generals outside to join the battle!"

Thinking of the relationship between Zeng Zheng and those overseas players, Shen Xiangfu suddenly realized.

"No wonder! Those boys are no longer Zhuxie's registered players, and Zhuxie really has nothing to do with them!"

"Xiao Zeng, how about it? Do you want to take this opportunity to use these boys as bargaining chips and talk to Zhu Xie again?"

Although Shen Xiangfu was not very optimistic about Zeng Zheng before, after getting in touch these days, he was completely convinced by Zeng Zheng's professional ability.

Which football player would not want to see his national team kill the Quartet?
"Let's talk about it." Zeng Zheng waved his hand, "They want this 'gold medal', so I'll give it to them! Don't say I'm stingy!"

When Shen Xiangfu heard this, he immediately worried: "Xiao Zeng, this is too affordable for you!"

"These are the main players of your National Olympics!"

"If we hand them all over, what about the friendly match with the national football team in a few days?"

Zeng Zheng pretended to be surprised and said, "Yeah, it's true, why did I forget about it?"

Then Zeng Zheng rolled his eyes, pointed at Chen Tao who had once again scored two goals in a row, and said, "Coach Shen, what will they think when I bring this kid with you?"

(End of this chapter)