Grass roots glory

Chapter 233

In mid-November, FIFA has a two-week national team match day. After the league match with Borussia Mönchengladbach, Zhou Tiancheng began to prepare to set off to join the national team.During this period, the Chinese team has two official matches. In Group D of the Asian Cup qualifier, the Chinese team will play back-to-back against Lebanon. They will go away on November 22 and return to home on November [-].The Chinese team won the first two games and scored the first place in the group with six points. As long as they can double beat Lebanon, they will basically be able to qualify for the Asian Cup ahead of schedule.

But this time Zhou Tiancheng no longer reported to the national team alone, and Jiang Hao was also called up.Jiang Hao must be very excited to be selected for the first time. After all, if he is selected for the national team, he will have the opportunity to appear on the international stage. There is no Chinese player who does not want to participate in international competitions. At this stage, the Chinese team can contact The top competition is the Asian Cup. Because the Asian Cup group of the four Southeast Asian countries was eliminated early and failed to get the top three places, so even if Gao Hongbo's new national football team has made significant progress, he still has to fight for the Asian Cup seat. struggle.

But besides the excitement, Jiang Hao also had some hidden worries. He immediately told Zhou Tiancheng about it when he received a call from the coaching staff of the national team, but instead of asking for congratulations, he said: "Brother Cheng, you are in the national team. You have to cover me, after all, I am a newcomer, and I don't understand the rules at all."

Zhou Tiancheng smiled: "Haozi, what are you thinking? You are here to play games, not to mess around with the society, and whoever covers you. If you don't cause trouble, no one will provoke you."

"Brother Cheng, are you kidding me? Isn't the media often reporting that the water is deep there?"

"It doesn't exist in this national team. Director Gao said in the first training session that this is absolutely not allowed. Besides, do you think I can play at a normal level in the national team if there is really a small group on the top of the mountain?" Zhou Tiancheng gave him a reassurance.

In addition, Chen Pengfei, who played the main role in Freiburg, was also selected for the national team. The three of them departed from Gelsenkirchen and Freiburg respectively. There are no airports in these two places. They need to meet at Dortmund Airport, and then travel from Dortmund to Berlin, transfer flight to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The coaching staff and most of the players have come to Lebanon to adapt to the climate a few days ago, but the team has not yet entered the stage of real tactical training.Gao Hongbo was still waiting for Zhou Tiancheng to arrive. Without the core midfielder, he couldn't practice tactics.

According to the strength of the two sides, the national team did not need to take Lebanon seriously, but after the announcement of the national team training list, the attention of the Chinese media suddenly increased. The relatively well-known first-line sports media have sent forward reporting teams. Except for Zhou Tiancheng, the focus is on the performance of these two people.After all, they and Zhou Tiancheng are very young. Although the World Cup in South Africa is long gone, the World Cup cycle in Brazil depends on them.

Originally, most of the media and fans did not have much hope for the World Cup in Brazil.The speed of progress of Asian teams can already be seen in the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa. Qatar, which was easily beaten 2001-3 by the Chinese team at home in the top ten match in 0, could win the game at home in turn... But the appearance of Zhou Tiancheng gave everyone a little hope, and Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei, Including the appearance of Mingtao, this hope was magnified by two points.

The previous series of warm-up matches, including the two consecutive victories in the first two rounds of the qualifiers, filled the domestic media with an optimistic tone. The new head coach, the national team led by overseas players, played a competitive performance. So far So far, the Chinese team has not lost a game, no matter the main match or the friendly match. With such a competitive performance, it seems that they can say goodbye to the past and really turn a new page from now on.

But the fans who have been injured too many times are not very optimistic. Too many times, the Chinese team always gives everyone a little hope when everyone thinks they have fallen to the bottom. A decent team, as for the warm-up match against Iran and Germany, it is not convincing. The Chinese team has the reputation of "the king of the warm-up match".

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Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei integrated into the team faster than everyone expected. After reuniting with the national team, Jiang Hao shocked his teammates and the coaching staff in the first training session.

Several foreign players joined the team on the first day. The coaching staff did not let them practice together with the whole team, but first let them test various data with the physical trainer. Gao Hongbo said hello, especially paying attention to Jiang Haohe According to Chen Pengfei's test report, he has his own use plan for those who can play in the five major leagues, but the degree of reuse must be determined based on their basic data.

The physical trainer of the national team had known for a long time that Zhou Tiancheng's physical fitness was too good to say anything, which didn't surprise him, but when he tested Jiang Hao, he was greatly surprised.

The local players who were on the training ground and in between training watched them accelerate instantly on the track and field track, and the acceleration became faster and faster. In the end, they couldn't even keep up with their eyes, and they were shocked from ear to ear.

"Hey, hey, look, my mother, it's too fast."

"Super Saiyan, I seriously doubt he has a Ferrari engine."

"I'll go, it seems like Brother Zhou, he is also a powerful man. I thought that playing in the Chinese Super League is already very good, but... are those who study abroad so strong? MMP, I want to go too Europe!"

"Hehe, it's just you? I didn't hear Director Gao said that he, Zhou Ge and another one named Chen Pengfei came out of the European youth training. We have already lost at the starting line."

"Hey, isn't there another one? Look, brother Cheng is all-rounder, this one is crazy fast, and that Chen Pengfei doesn't have any specialties. It seems that he still plays the side lane. Could it be that he is also fast?"

"Maybe his skills are better than Ronaldo's, haha!"

"Hey, people are more popular than people."

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"Gao Zhi, take a look at their physical test report."

The fitness coach's voice was a little excited. Gao Hongbo took the list and saw Jiang Hao's data at first glance, because a red horizontal line was added under his name.

"Is this impossible? Such a terrifying speed?"

Gao Hongbo, who also played as a striker in the player era, knows exactly what Jiang Hao's current starting speed of 20 kilometers per hour is, but he doesn't know that this is not Jiang Hao's peak state at all. In Schalke 04, Jiang Hao measured the passing speed The instant start ability of 30.5 kilometers is just a rush from Germany, flying thousands of kilometers, plus being selected for the national team for the first time, too excited the day before affected the state.But even so, Jiang Hao's ability still ranked first in the team without any suspense.

The Chinese team did not start intensive tactical joint training until two days before the game. With the first impression of the previous few days, the teammates in the team with Jiang Hao knew how to cooperate with him, and they went straight ahead. A Ferrari-level speed killer.

Jiang Hao can indeed catch up with the ball with his speed, but in this way, the training becomes a personal show.Gao Hongbo was very dissatisfied with this. The players did not understand the purpose of the tactical training at all. This was to allow the whole team to participate and let everyone further understand the tactics.The game can rely on key figures to solve problems like this, but playing like this in daily training is purely messing around.

He gathered the substitutes in the white vest together, and said angrily: "Have you forgotten my request? What did I tell you? Pass the ball! Run! Cooperate! It's easy to open your feet like you, and the game can also be done." Play like this all the time?"

Afterwards, everyone became much more honest, and passed forward through the midfield with a single eye. Chen Pengfei also got more chances to catch the ball, and showed his ability to combine man and ball on the wing.

However, comparing the rhythm of the main players and the substitutes, Gao Hongbo found that the gap between the two sides is quite large. He is used to passing the ball at a slow pace, which is always out of sync with Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei.

After Gao Hongbo discovered this problem, he immediately adjusted, and the next day he switched the two to the main team. This group included Zhou Tiancheng and Zheng Zhi.Although Zheng Zhi switched from Charlton to the Celtics, the old overlord of the Scottish Premier League, and faded out of the mainstream European arena, he is still an overseas player and the captain of the national team for many years. His experience and strength are still unquestionable.

Zhou Tiancheng is naturally familiar with Jiang Hao, and he played football with Chen Pengfei less cooperatively. He was extremely impressed by the scene of being killed this season. He communicated with Zheng Zhi, passing the ball to Chen Pengfei, to his feet, and to Jiang Hao , give as much advance as possible.

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It has been raining lightly in Beirut these days, and the road outside the training ground is full of potholes and mud, which is hard for the reporters waiting outside the ground.Out of the emphasis on the game, the coaching staff only opened 15 minutes of pre-match warm-up to the media, but the reporters were eager to get the training situation of the national team, so they lay down on the top of the hill outside the training field early, and the angle was condescending, which was simply blocked The screen couldn't cover it, and I watched the Chinese team training in the rain.

Of course, the local reporters in Lebanon also discovered this shortcut to steal information, but the Chinese reporters were more diligent. Every day half an hour before the Chinese team started training, some people climbed to the top of the mountain in advance to occupy a favorable position.

After two consecutive days of observation, the changes in the team could not be hidden from these reporters.While observing, peers discussed with each other.

"Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei are amazing. It took only one day to put on the yellow vests. Is this the rhythm of quickly becoming the main force?"

"Not necessarily, maybe it's a smoke bomb."

"Gao Hongbo really thinks highly of overseas players, but I'm a little worried that if he tastes the sweetness of overseas players, he will rely on them in the future, and let them come back for irrelevant games, just like Yang Chen." Speaking of this, this is Wu Yuxin, a senior reporter from the Asian section of the Football News.

"Old Wu, you got the point, but I think there are more serious things. Didn't you see that Zhou Tiancheng and Zheng Zhi were passing the ball to Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei during training these days?"

Next to Zhang Yuan, a colleague from Sports Weekly, answered the call, and several reporters turned their attention to him, listening to what he had to say.After all, Zhang Yuan's weekly sports newspaper is well-deserved.The first contact with Zhou Tiancheng Football News is just a corner of intensive football. It is professional enough, but in terms of influence, it is far inferior to the Sports Weekly. So far, the Sports Weekly still maintains a record of 262 million copies in a single issue.It was created on October 2001, 10, the day when the national team qualified for the World Cup in Korea and Japan.To a certain extent, it is not an exaggeration to say that the status of the weekly sports newspaper is established by football, so no one will question the professionalism of their football reporters.

"Old Zhang, they are all playing football in Europe. It's normal for them to be close in consciousness. You won't worry about these overseas players forming cliques, right? They shouldn't be very good in this national team, right?"

Zhang Yuan does not agree with this statement: "Maybe they are really unintentional, but look, other people can't catch the ball, what do you think the local players will think? On the court, if the overseas players and the local players fight separately, What do you think the situation will be? The national team has not suffered from this kind of loss before. If a club cooperates with each other, if it is not the same club, it will not pass the ball. I don’t know how Gao Hongbo will allow this situation to continue.”

"Old Zhang, don't be too pessimistic. We are not coaches. Maybe they just arranged it like this on purpose. The combination of these people is still very interesting to attack."

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When the training was over, these reporters immediately divided into three groups to intercept Jiang Hao, Chen Pengfei and head coach Gao Hongbo respectively. The biggest news points of this national team training session depended on these three people.

The two expressed that they were trying their best to integrate into the national team and were satisfied with everything about the current national team. But when it came to the game, they both declined at the same time. The reasons were surprisingly the same: "Before the game is played, We are not in a position to comment."

The reporters who have reported on the national team for many years understood it immediately, and the coaching staff issued a gag order.You don't want any surprises that affect the results.

Since then, all the reporters flocked to Gao Hongbo. In addition to collecting as much information as possible about the game, more importantly, everyone wanted to know what he thought of Jiang Hao and Chen Pengfei after these few days of training.

But Gao Hongbo said that this is still a secret, and played Tai Chi with reporters: "This question does not need to be asked, right? Being able to enter the national team itself proves that they are absolutely capable players, and they must be important players in the future... As for the next one This game involves team tactics, so we can’t talk about it yet, but everyone will be able to see it on the field.”

Although for most domestic fans, how the national team will use these two fresh blood is still a mystery, but the reporters who reported ahead of them knew it well.

Zhou Tiancheng, Jiang Hao, Chen Pengfei, Zheng Zhi.The four will mainly take on the offensive task of the Chinese team.

The Study Abroad Gang will once again support the national team!
PS: [-]-word large chapters, [-] words per chapter is convenient for me to save manuscripts, and I will try my best to publish large chapters in the future, and it will explode for a period of time if I save enough.

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