Glory Greenery

Chapter 632 The Competitive Young General

Although a few months ago, the World Cup group stage draw was fired because of the addition of the national team, and there were many reports in the major media.

But in fact, most of the fans who watched the excitement did not pay much attention to the draw.

So taking advantage of the national team's departure ceremony today, Liu Jianhong and Director Tao just took the opportunity to help everyone or review and analyze.

Because of Yang Mo's leadership, the national team has accumulated a lot of points in the past two years, and the ranking before the opening of the World Cup has stabilized at No.30.

When it was originally the highest, it once hovered at No. 26 and No. [-].

But it is a pity that since the beginning of the year, because of Yang Mo's busy playing in the club, he has often been absent from the national team.

In addition, Lippi didn't put the wins and losses of those warm-up matches on him, and often used the purpose of experimenting tactics, so he lost a lot of games, resulting in a drop in points, which is why he fell out of the top [-].

But even so, in the draw of this World Cup, the Chinese team is still in the third tier, which has won some advantages for the draw.

After successfully avoiding the death group, the Chinese team was finally divided into Group F where Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Nigeria are located.

"This World Cup, we are in Group F, which is a good grouping for the Chinese team."

"In addition to Argentina in the first tier in Group F, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the second tier and Nigeria in the fourth tier, as long as we can give full play to Yang Mo's advantage, it's not like we have a chance to win these two teams."

Director Tao's voice fell, but Liu Jianhong's following speech was very low-key.

"I think the most important thing for the Chinese team now is not to think about qualifying for the group stage, but to get used to the atmosphere of a top competition like the World Cup in a down-to-earth manner."

"Although our performance in the Confederations Cup was good, it also fully exposed our strengths and shortcomings, that is, relying too much on Yang Mo."

"I think in the next World Cup group stage, our opponents will definitely make targeted arrangements for Yang Mo."

"So, first adapt to the atmosphere, then complete the breakthrough of zero goals in the World Cup, and finally strive for the opportunity to appear in the group stage, step by step, and must not be too ambitious."

Liu Jianhong's words are not without reason. In the Confederations Cup, the Chinese team relied on Yang Mo's performance to beat the opponent by one measure.

But the importance of the World Cup is not comparable to that of the Confederations Cup. Every shortlisted team will cheer up.

Coupled with the fact that Yang Mo led Manchester City to win the league this year and win the Champions League three consecutive times, his limelight is already known to everyone in football all over the world.

No matter how weak the Chinese team is, with Yang Mo as a towering tree, I am afraid no one would dare to underestimate the Chinese team.

It is already impossible to catch opponents by surprise like the Federation.

While the two hosts were talking, the expedition ceremony officially began.

In the press hall of the National Sports Federation, Lippi, the head coach of the national team, Yang Mo, the captain, and Zheng Zhi, the player representative, were interviewed by the media.

As Yang Mo realized beforehand, he is the mascot for this expedition ceremony.

The seemingly random interviews are actually arranged in advance, and he only needs to follow the standard answers to make it bigger.

Show your determination, boost your morale, show the style of the game, show the style of China, and don't let the fans down.

On such an important occasion, he really couldn't help himself.

Besides, he didn't plan to randomly place satellites. After all, whether it is good or bad, we have to see you on the court.

He wished to finish this kind of time-wasting thing as soon as possible.

After the high-profile departure ceremony, and after two days of training in China, the players, coaching staff, and huge entourage finally boarded a special plane and headed across the Pacific to Brazil.

The opening ceremony of the World Cup was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city.

The opening game was played by the hosts Brazil against Croatia.

This game started on June 6th domestic time, but the first match of the Chinese team did not start until June 13th domestic time.

The reason why I went to Brazil so long in advance is that the higher-ups put too much emphasis on this World Cup. I hope that the national team can go to Brazil in advance to adjust the time difference and conduct adaptive training.

After a long-distance flight, the national team's plane arrived in Brazil in the early morning of June 6, domestic time.

However, the national team did not go to Rio de Janeiro, where the opening ceremony was held, but went directly to Curitiba, the largest city in southwestern Brazil and the seventh largest city in Brazil.

Compared with the restlessness of Rio de Janeiro and the prosperity of Sao Paulo, Curitiba is most famous for its excellent urban environment.

One of the most livable cities selected by the United Nations, the city completely surrounded by vegetation is full of greenery.

For the Chinese, Curitiba is most familiar with the glass house in the city's botanical garden, which is a popular scenic spot for tourists to take photos.

The reason why the Chinese team chose this place as the destination, in addition to the good environment is more suitable for training, there is another important reason is that the Chinese team's first game against Nigeria on the 17th was played in this city.

After arriving in Curitiba, the Chinese team checked into the hotel that day and started the first adaptive training in the afternoon.

The venue for this training is the training base of the local team Palaniense rented by the Chinese team.

Coincidentally, the Baixada Stadium, where the Chinese team played their first match in the World Cup, is also the home stadium of the Palaniense Football Club.

Although it was only the first adaptive training after landing, it caused a lot of heat.

First of all, the Chinese team is the first team to arrive in Brazil among the 32 teams in the World Cup finals, which itself is the first fire that ignited the World Cup.

Coupled with the popularity of captain Yang Mo, it has attracted the attention of many foreign media.

The most important thing, of course, is the pursuit of the domestic media.

It's been too long since 02. In 12 years, the fans have forgotten the excitement at that time.

Now the Chinese team is like the World Cup finals, and the Internet media quickly follow up and report. The Chinese team's World Cup enthusiasm is unprecedented in China.

Any news related to the Chinese team can easily earn a lot of attention.

So it is not difficult to understand that when the Chinese team was training, the size of the crowd of reporters outside the training base of the Palaniense Football Club was too large.

Just after 07:30 pm local time, the bus of the Chinese team arrived at the gate of the training base.

Li Xiaoguang, the team leader, and the team translator got out of the car first.

Followed by the head coach Lippi, and captain Yang Mo.

The moment Yang Mo got off the bus, not to mention the flashing lights, just the crazy screams of the fans made the atmosphere crazy.

Although there are Chinese fans who came here specially from China among these fans, in fact, more of them are local fans in Brazil.

With such an exaggerated influence on other people's territory, Yang Mo's current status in football does not need to be said.

With the help of security guards, Yang Mo selected several small Brazilian fans and several domestic fans to sign and take a group photo. He did not accept an interview and walked towards the training base.

Although the training equipment of Palanience Football Club is not as good as that of the national team base and local tycoon Manchester City, it is enough for the Chinese team.

After the simple physical training, Lippi directly arranged a short training match.

Speaking of the training match, we have to talk about the entourage of the Chinese team this time.

In addition to the confirmed 23-man squad, there are several young players in the entourage of the national team as training partners.

For example, the young striker Wei Shihao who is currently studying abroad in Portugal, Micro Zhunyi from the Japanese J2 League who is studying abroad, and Li Lei from the Jianye team and other young players.

The reason for bringing these people is that the Football Association means to use the atmosphere of the World Cup to train young players and help the national team cultivate the next generation.

That being said, it is not for outsiders to know the reason and purpose of it.

Yang Mo doesn't care about the twists and turns inside, anyway, it doesn't matter who is the training partner if it's not the Cypriot.

Anyway, with these domestic players, it is really difficult to put any pressure on him.

Under the suggestion of the team leader Li Xiaoguang, Lippi arranged for several young sparring players to play in the selection of the sparring team for the training match.

The game has not yet started, looking at Yang Mo who is standing in the middle circle and preparing to kick off with Wu Lei, the eyes of several young teenagers are hot.

Especially Wei Shihao, who has just signed with Boavista in the Portuguese Super League. This 19-year-old young player studying abroad is full of enthusiasm, and his mind is full of wanting to become famous in Europe like Yang Mo.

Now that it was the first time to compete with Yang Mo, the young man inevitably had the idea of ​​being competitive.

(End of this chapter)