green mercenary

Chapter 480 5.19
On May 5th, at 19:03 pm, the national football team and PSV Eindhoven played an international football match in the "Philips China Tour" at the Shanghai Stadium.

This game is also part of the second China International Football Exhibition, and more importantly, the 23-man roster for the World Cup will be announced tomorrow.Today's game can be said to be Milu's final screening of the national football players.

Among the 26 people on the scene, 3 people will be eliminated in the end.And Bai Xiaotian's return to the team is bound to make the players on the front line even more crowded.

Just after lunch, many fans bought tickets to enter the stadium one after another to watch the game.

Everyone knows that this Champions League champion team is a parallel importer who came to accompany the prince to study, but what everyone wants to watch is not the national football team, nor PSV Eindhoven, but Bai Xiaotian, who just won the Champions League Golden Boot.

No matter how picky the fans are, they can't make any negative comments in the face of Bai Xiaotian's goals.

What's more, Bai Xiaotian conquered the whole world with his last goal in the Champions League a few days ago.

As the surrounding stands were gradually covered by fans, some fans holding strange banners also attracted the attention of others.

These fans are generally older, or have a beer belly, or are on crutches.But all of them are well-mannered and look very educated and knowledgeable.

"Brother, where are you from? What's the situation?" A Northeast fan patted the shoulder of the neighbor next door, pointing to them hanging a banner and asking.

"We are from the capital!" A big brother in a baseball cap let go of his work and came over to explain, "20-year-old fans."

"A 20-year-old fan?" The Northeast fans looked each other up and down. The gray hair on the sideburns really proved that the person in front of them was old.But what does this banner mean?
"You said this!" The old fan patted the Northeast man on the shoulder, and the two sat down on the chair and chatted. "Brother, do you know what date it is today?"

"March 5st."

"Then do you know what day it is?"

"What day?" Xiao Dongbei thought for a while, "Didn't Mother's Day just pass? I really don't know what day it is!"

"Well, well, it hasn't been many years since you watched football like this, so let me tell you about it." Lao Jingcheng first leaned on his old age, and then said: "Today 17 years ago was the darkest day for our national football team."

On May 1985, 5, the national football team, which had just won the runner-up in the 19 Asian Cup, launched an impact on the World Cup for the third time under the leadership of coach Cao Xuelin.

In the group stage of the first stage of the Asian qualifiers, the national football team only needs to draw in the last home game against the Hong Kong team to get the right to qualify for the group stage and advance to the second stage group stage.

However, on that day, the national football team still failed to win.

In the 18th minute of the first half, No. 14 Zhang Zhide of the Hong Kong team took a beautiful free kick in the frontcourt and scored directly.

In the 31st minute, Yang Zhaohui of the Chinese team made a long-range shot. The Hong Kong goalkeeper caught the ball and let it go. Li Hui of the Chinese team made a supplementary shot into the net to equalize the score.

It was drizzling in the second half.Although the Chinese team's offensive is slightly stronger than the opponent's, but there is no real threatening attack.In the 60th minute, No. 11 Liu Rongye of the Hong Kong team broke through and entered the penalty area. The defender of the Chinese team made a careless tackle. No. 19 Gu Jinhui caught up with the ball and scored the second goal.

Before the game, "Football News" published an article predicting that the national football team would beat the Hong Kong team 2-0.And 2 to 0 also set the tone for this game.

With a shooting ratio of 28 to 6, the national football team still lost the game.

After the game, Zeng Xuelin dismissed the head coach of the national football team and never returned.It was not until 1998 that he went to Shenzhen Ping An as a teaching assistant and helped Shenzhen Ping An succeed in relegation.

However, the day of 5.19 has always been Cao Xuelin's nightmare.

After the game, about 8 fans who were watching the game cried bitterly and broke out in a painful blow. They besieged players from both sides, smashed public facilities, attacked foreigners, and demanded a dialogue with the leaders of the Football Association, which caused a catastrophe.Not only did they overturn the team's bus, but even the cars and even the traffic booths parked on the side of the road were not spared.

The reaction of the fans after the May 5 incident was defined as "organized sabotage", but AFP did not agree. In the AFP report, they commented on the May 19 incident. "The Chinese have finally begun to connect with the world." Before May 5, violent incidents caused by football-related stadium riots emerged endlessly in Europe.

It is worth mentioning that ten days after May 5th, the Heysel tragedy broke out in Europe. Before the European Champions Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, fans in Italy and England clashed, resulting in many deaths.

On that night, Chinese football was covered with a black veil.Since then, Chinese football has missed the World Cup finals many times.

That is, this black 5 is just a date for some young fans.But more is the pain brought to our older generation of Chinese fans, because it represents their loss of confidence in Chinese football.

But today, with the regrets of 17 years ago, these old fans came to Shanghai from the distant capital to watch the warm-up match of the national football team.The purpose is to remind Milu and the Chinese players present not to forget the "national humiliation", not to be careless, and not to underestimate the World Cup.

By the way, they also came here to see if the young people of the national football team can be the best medicine to make up for their trauma.

Hearing this, Xiao Dongbei was also silent.

Compared with the old fans of these decades, he who has not experienced that day really can't feel the lament in the hearts of the old fans.

At this moment, he suddenly felt very happy.

I was fortunate to grow up in this era. In my youngest time, the Chinese team entered the World Cup.

I have the youngest body and the strongest physique, and I can go anywhere to cheer for the Chinese team with the team.

Although this Chinese team still has many problems, it has also been scolded bloody by fans all over the country.

But from the bottom of their hearts, why don't the fans love this team deeply?
Deep love and responsibility.

I scold you because I hope you are well, and I still scold you after you are better, because I hope you will not be complacent, and hope that you will be better and continue to be better!

Xiao Dongbei was silent for a moment, stood up, came to the group of old fans with gray temples, and began to help them tidy up the banners.

After a while, the bottom of the south stand was covered with a huge banner from left to right, which read: "Come on Chinese team, 5.19, the season when dreams start again!"

(End of this chapter)