World Cup of Great Powers

Although Xiaotian lost, they were meticulous in small things, which was reflected after the game.

First of all, while other Chinese players held hands and bowed to the Chengdu fellows, their players stood in a row and bowed deeply to Troussier.

Then he came to the Chinese coach's seat and honestly bowed down from Zeng Zheng.

The meaning seems to be saying: Although I failed, I learned a lot from you. From this point of view, you are also one of my teachers.

Then, in these small days, the players came to the fans and bowed and apologized.

Of course, Senator Hei Teng and others in the stands had already got up and left.

Zeng Zheng came to the sidelines and shook hands with Troussier.

"Zeng, I didn't expect that I would lose again."

Zeng Zheng was modest, "Mr. Omar, with the strength of the team in my childhood, if I lead the team to Tokyo to play this game, I might be the one who loses!"

"Even if you bring the team to Tokyo, you will definitely be the winner." Troussier shook his head. "In addition to the strength of the team, the relationship between you and the players is also incomparable to me."

"Oh? Why?" Zeng Zheng asked curiously.

"I'm a European, and it's normal for me to be incompatible with Asians." Troussier sighed, "What's more, I'm 45 years old this year, and young people are unwilling to share their preferences with me."

Speaking of this, before Zeng Zheng, who was going to be polite, had time to speak, Troussier shook his hand and poured out bitterness.

"Zeng, since the Olympics, the team members have been far away from their hometowns, and their emotions have been greatly affected by this."

"In addition to diet and environment, the mentality of the players has also changed."

"In fact, we have 22 very talented players and I always think we are the best team in this Asian Cup."

"But the Xiaotian players really take football too seriously, even a little too much."

"They regard football as a sacred job, but in fact, football is folk, popular, entertainment and leisure, not a rigid mechanical sport."

"In a short period of time, the Xiaotian team will rise rapidly because of too much attention. But if it continues like this, they will soon stop here and stop there."

"Let me give you an example."

"Once I saw that the training was too intense, I temporarily decided to give the players a day off."

"But they didn't go out and move freely as I imagined. The 22 of them are always together."

"They walked together, ate together, even bought and ate the same food."

"In my opinion, their organization has become a little deformed."

"And once I point out these things, the small day media thinks I'm wrong."

"Their reporters ignored me when I first came to the island country. They never said anything about me in the newspapers. They only cared about baseball in their eyes."

"But recently, after not achieving the results they expected in many tournaments, they have started to pick and choose."

"Now, more than 200 pairs of eyes have come to China to watch me."

"Once something goes wrong, they will make a big splash when they return home."

"And their views are the same. In this regard, I have never been able to really live and communicate with the players."

"I was actually an 'outsider' on the RB team."

Zeng Zheng also held Troussier's hand, listening to the other party babbled a lot in his native dialect.

Zeng Zheng, who is proficient in French, really did not expect that Troussier would have so much bitterness in his stomach.

Before the Sino-Japanese war, he also saw the criticism of Troussier from the small life media on the Internet.

For example, in the "Sankei Shimbun", Troussier was described as "tempered like a fire", "face full of ugly red", "shaking his evil lips and drumming a poisonous tongue".

Regarding the disagreement between Troussier and Rizhuxie, the newspaper also quoted Teresi’s words: “I am a man who is full of challenges... Xiaori Zhuxie’s expectations for the World Cup are very low, which is not my appetite at all! Zhu Xie doesn’t have to swing between me and the technical committee anymore, it’s all over once I leave this balance!”

"Yukan Fuji" also published a commentary article, accusing Troussier, who can be regarded as an unknown junior in the world, for saying such chilling words with an annual salary of 1 million yen.

Judging from the criticism of Troussier by these media, even if he just got the contract of Zhuxie, but stopped in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, it will definitely make Troussier's life embarrassing again.

But no way.

Sympathy is sympathy, who made Troussier meet the Chinese team in the semi-finals?

After finishing the bitterness with Zeng Zheng, Troussier himself was much more relaxed.

In the press conference after the game, he also generously took most of the responsibility for the loss on himself.

In this regard, the reporters of Little Days also pressed the shutter one after another, and did not say anything too acrimonious.

After all, everyone knows that the Asian Cup is just an appetizer.

The most important thing for Xiaotian is the World Cup two years later.

And because it is the host country, there is no world preliminaries for small days.

In other words, next year when all Asian teams are desperately fighting for 2.5 places, Xiaotian can only spend money to find some opponents of similar strength to play some friendly matches.

The Chinese team defeated Little Days and advanced to the final. This exciting news spread across the country in an instant after the game.

Entering the Asian Cup final again after a lapse of 16 years is a matter of gratitude in itself.

In addition to winning on the field, the Chinese team also made a lot of money off the field.

According to the "Asahi Shimbun" report, after the loss of this game, half of the international players planned to transfer to the Chinese League after the Asian Cup.

Among them, the news that Shunsuke Nakamura joined the Jianglong team broke out, which made the melon eaters hooked.

Even after the Asian Cup, Little Days Zhuxie wrote "go to Jia A to learn new football experience" into the charter, and put a strong stroke in the century-old plan of Little Days football.

Coupled with South Korea, which "photographs cats and draws tigers", since this Asian Cup, League A has once become the dominant player in the East Asian League.

The day after the Sino-Japanese war, the results of the Guangdong competition also came out.

South Korea lost 1 to 2 to Saudi Arabia in the semi-finals, and in the end they could only join forces with Little Days in the third and fourth finals.

As soon as this result came out, the football world once again set off a storm.

Because the opponent that the Chinese team lost to in the Asian Cup final 16 years ago was Saudi Arabia!
The encounter after 16 years, for this reason, whether it is the sports weekly or the football night, a special program is specially scheduled for this Asian Cup final.

It's just that due to scheduling and planning reasons, this episode of Football Night will not be broadcast until after the game.

The "Sports Weekly" published the article on the new day directly under the editor's editor.

"16 Years of Reincarnation"

A look at this title, there is a sense of the vicissitudes of the times.

This article carefully recalled how the Chinese team went through many obstacles in the Asian Cup in 84 and finally broke into the final.

And how did he encounter various difficulties in Singapore and fell one step away from the Champions League.

Barry is only half of 90.

"Today, 16 years later, the reincarnation of history will be staged in Shanghai."

"16 years ago, we accidentally lost 0-2 in a foreign country."

"After 16 years, we will welcome a new life on our own land!"

As soon as this article came out, the fans immediately fell into the article.

In addition, the "Sports Weekly" also interviewed several international players who participated in the finals that year, which can arouse the empathy of the fans.

Zeng Xuelin, Qi Misheng, Gu Guangming, Fake Xiuquan, Li Hui, Li Huajun and other personal experiencers stood up and spoke out in support of the Chinese team.

It seems that the 16-year grievances with Saudi Arabia will be concentrated and destroyed in this Asian Cup final.

This Asian Cup final was widely publicized because of a rhetorical article.

But according to football industry professionals, the Chinese team is not actually afraid of Saudi Arabia.

In the eyes of the fans, only the Iranian team in West Asia can still wrestle with the Chinese team.

Unfortunately, the Iranian company was eliminated by South Korea.

Among the remaining East Asian teams, the Chinese team won the Little Days again, but South Korea did not break through the Saudi Arabia.

Judging from the polls conducted by Jiulang.com, although South Korea defeated South Korea 8-1 in the group stage, the fans were worried that South Korean coach Kaiya would bring unexpected troubles to the Chinese team, so they met Saudi Arabia in the final. , has become a more preferred choice for fans.

Before the final, Xiao Zitian had a third and fourth final against South Korea in Chengdu.

Because it is located in the southwestern inland, most of the fans at the scene are locals from Chengdu.

And Xiaotian relied on the tourists who stayed in the previous game, so judging from the situation on the spot, Xiaotian had slightly more fans than South Korea.

Among the three countries in East Asia, two of them are enemies.

When enemies meet, it can be said that they are extremely jealous.

Both teams vented their resentment towards the Chinese team on their opponents. After half an hour of playing in the first half, they each scored two goals.

Judging from the course of the game, both sides seemed to be aiming to attack and defeat their opponents.

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again. First, South Korea opened the score with Lee Dong-guk's long-range shot, and then Ryu Taek-don not to be outdone, equalized the score for the team.

Before the end of the game, Naoyasu Takahara scored another goal.

Just when Xiaotian was preparing to celebrate the victory, Kim Do-hoon's header directly dragged the opponent into overtime.

In the 30 minutes of overtime, neither side scored a goal, and in the end they could only decide the winner with a penalty shootout.

Relying on Kawaguchi's wonderful performance, Xiaotian finally saved the penalty kick against Cui Zhenzhe in the 7th overall penalty kick.

In the end, Xiaori Tian defeated his opponent 6-5 in the penalty shootout and won the third place in this Asian Cup.

After the third and fourth finals, everyone focused on the finals!
October 10, Shanghai, Hongkou Stadium.

Outside this large and modern stadium, which has just been built for more than a year, it has been crowded with people since the morning.

Fans from all over the country gathered here to discuss the Asian Cup final in the afternoon.

"Hey, tell me, can Coach Zeng win this game?"

"Brother, what did you say? You should ask Coach Zeng how many times he can win this game!"

"Ha! Yes, you are right. With coach Zeng here, can we still beat Saudi Arabia?"

"We lost to Saudi Arabia in the final 16 years ago, but don't forget that it was Saudi Arabia who won the first battle after the coach's infancy!"

"Yeah, think about it now, that was already three years ago!"

The fans were talking.

Recalling the changes in Chinese football in the past three years, I can't help but sigh.

In the past three years, a lot of corrupt officials and match-fixing whistleblowers have been detected, but fortunately Xu Fang personally checks it, coupled with the professionalization of referees and the help of Wang Yilin, A-A is now rare even with "tacit balls".

From the top to the bottom, in order to imitate others.

The tacit ball phenomenon in League One and B and League Two is also gradually decreasing.

The Jianglong team in the north, as a pilot for the club, has opened up many examples for other teams that are applicable to the profitability of their own clubs.

In addition, Zhuxie decentralizes the broadcasting rights, allowing local TV stations to bid for themselves, and club owners no longer need to use match-fixing and championships to maintain the team's balance of payments.

Coupled with the salary limit order of bamboo shoes, now whether it is A or B, the phenomenon of wage arrears that was once used to has long since ceased to exist.

The clubs have developed well and have profit-making projects. Some bosses who like football and love football invest the money they earn in the clubs into youth training.

Jianglong in Harbin, Shenhua in Shanghai, Guoan in Beijing, Luneng in Shandong, TEDA in Tianjin, and Shide in Dalian have all opened their own football schools nearby.

Children born in the 85 years from 94 to 10 directly became the "main force" of these football schools.

There are more and more people playing football, and the league is thriving.

I heard from Zhu Xie that they plan to create a "Chinese Super League" in two years.

It seems that the A-A era is also gone forever.

The league is getting healthier, the level of the national brand is getting higher and higher, and the results obtained are more and more satisfying to the fans.

In the past three years since Zeng Zheng came to power, he went from the top 16 of the Olympic Games to the champion of the youth team, to the gold medal in the Asian Games, and then to the bronze medal in the Olympic Games.

The progress of the national team is also seen by the fans.

Just because the strength of the Chinese team is getting stronger and stronger, the right to speak in the AFC is also getting heavier.

The last Asian Cup before entering the new century was also successfully taken over by China, which has a more stable society.

Now, the Chinese team has reached the final of the Asian Cup as it wished.

We should go all out and win the Asian Cup!

That's perfect!
But is there anything perfect in this world?
The Chinese team had just arrived in Shanghai, and the coaching staff had an impromptu meeting in the hotel room.

The content of the meeting was also very simple, that is, Zeng Zheng gave a brief report on his final tactics, and then submitted it to Zhuxie.

This is already a great "favor"!

In the past, the coaching team of several forces had to brainstorm, and then each sorted out a plan, and finally let Zhu Xie select it.

Now Zeng Zheng just needs to use the situation of the report to go through the motions, and the matter will be over.

To put it bluntly, the coaching team of the national team has been built by Zeng Zheng into his own "one-word hall".

After listening to Zeng Zheng's report, Li Xiaoguang, who didn't know much about football, asked others cautiously: "What? What did Coach Zeng mean by the order of the penalty shootout just now? Why does he still want to play penalty kicks against Saudi Arabia?"

The colleague on the side rolled his eyes in his heart, but still patiently explained: "Coach Zeng didn't mean that. But as the head coach, he naturally has to think of all possible situations. The penalty shootout is just a plan within a plan. , Take precautions before they happen!"

After hearing this, Li Xiaoguang suddenly realized.

After the meeting, he parroted the words of this colleague to those colleagues who couldn't understand him like himself.

After seeing these guys with vegetarian meals in the corpses gave their thumbs up one after another, Li Xiaoguang proudly praised: "See, this is called professionalism!"