Godfather of national football

Chapter 240 Some stay and some leave
"head!"

Before Zhou Dun could say anything, Li Guo grabbed him, and the two men, the backbone of the future Chinese team, hugged each other.

A group of photojournalists circled around Li Guo to take pictures. Li Guo pushed Zhou Dun to them, "Captain of China, Zhou Dun!"

A team needs a core, and in Li Guo's mind, the core of the Chinese team's future is Zhou Dun.

Facing the reporters as many as flies, Zhou Dun still felt a little uncomfortable, but Li Guo held his hand and forbade him to back down.

Osijek fulfilled his pre-match promise. No matter what the result of the game was, he would give Li Guo a big hug. At this time, the game was over. It was later proved that Osijek would be replaced by a new coach, but at this moment Osijek felt a kind of relief.

"Li Guo, your team is great. I hope the Chinese team wins the championship. You deserve it."

"Thank you. I must admit that, apart from Argentina, Australia you lead is the toughest opponent."

Osijek laughed. It is a compliment in itself to be compared with Argentina.

"Okay, I leave the stage to you, everything belongs to you tonight," Osijek said and left the field. After that, Li Guo never met him in an official game. I heard that he became a lecturer of FIFA again.

The players on the court were exchanging jerseys, and Li Weifeng found Jedinak. Both of them were considered to be the best players on the court, and they also cherished each other at this time.

Datou's English is so-so, but football does not need too many languages. After exchanging jerseys, the two hugged each other for a while, rivals on the field and friends off the field.

On the other side of the goal, Schwarzer and Wang Dalei were chatting after exchanging jerseys, "How did you do it, man?"

"You mean the goal?"

Schwarzer nodded.

Wang Dalei shrugged: "I don't know, maybe it's luck. When the ball appeared in front of me, I kicked it like that. Guess what? The ball just went in."

Schwarzer looked helpless, "God stole our victory."

Wang Dalei patted Schwarzer, "Thank you for calling me God."

"Screw you."

*****
What was slightly sad at this time was the appearance of Kewell. He walked to the stands where the Australian fans were, applauding as he walked.

The fans all stood up and applauded Kewell. Everyone felt that this was probably the last time Kewell wore the Australian national team jersey.

Ji Ke ran over and wanted to exchange jerseys with Kewell, but the latter politely refused. Maybe Kewell himself knew that this was the last time, so he was reluctant to take it off easily.

"Harry,"

"Harry,"

"Harry,"

All the fans shouted Kewell's name in unison, whether they were locals from Qatar, Australians, or Chinese, they were all shouting.

Finally, Kewell couldn't bear it anymore, tears poured down the stadium, he turned to give the fans a thumbs up, "You are the best, you are the best... the best," said Kewell at the end, and Kewell was already sobbing.

Zhou Dun stood beside Li Guo, and he suddenly asked Li Guo, "Boss, if one day I retire, do you think I will cry?"

"I don't know, you don't seem to know how to cry."

"Why, am I abnormal?"

Li Guo chuckled, "No, you are more mature and prudent."

*****
When Zhou Dun scored the winning goal, it was already early morning in China, thousands of miles away, but no one was destined to sleep that night.

"Husband, if you yell so loudly, the neighbors will complain about us being a nuisance."

"Disturbing the people? Whatever it is, the Chinese team won. You know, Zhou Dun's ball was so beautiful. He ran from the backcourt into the opponent's penalty area and scored."

Seeing her husband talking more and more vigorously, the wife was speechless.In fact, things like this abound that night. In university dormitories, bars, and even train stations, as long as there is a screen, there will be a broadcast of the national team, and there will be people cheering.

*****
The next day, the Chinese players watched another semi-final at the hotel. Japan VS South Korea. The strength of the two teams is very similar. Coupled with the bridges formed in history, the match between the two teams will be extremely hot.

The first goal was the South Korean team. Ki Sung-yong scored a penalty kick and the South Korean team led 1-0.Then soon the Japanese team caught a defensive error by the Korean team, and Ryoichi Maeda scored a goal. This goal was mainly because the Korean team got carried away after taking the lead.

However, what I didn't expect was that after two blitzs, the game entered a dull stage, and finally after 90 minutes, the two sides fought 1-1.

Like the semi-finals between the Chinese team and Australia, this game also entered overtime. Halfway through the first half of the overtime, Xibei Moe scored a missed shot in front of the goal, and the Japanese team overtook the score.

Just when the whole world felt that the Japanese could advance to the final, the tenacious South Korean team scored a goal in the 120th minute to equalize the score, and the two teams entered a penalty shootout.

Li Guo was very happy. The two sides fought to the death in this game. This is a good thing for the Chinese team who played one day earlier.

The penalty shootout is a dance on the tip of the knife, and the test is willpower. In the end, the Korean team failed to hold on again in the penalty shootout. They missed all three free throws and lost to the Japanese team 0-3.

In this way, the final opponent of the Chinese team was created, which was exactly the same as the final of the Asian Cup in China seven years ago.

"Bring back the stolen Asian Cup," was the cry of fans on Weibo.In that Asian Cup, the Japanese team used a corner kick and Koji Nakata scored a goal caused by an obvious handball. In the end, the Chinese team regretted losing.

That regret has continued to this day. It has always been a pain that Chinese fans can't let go of being stolen with a handball at the door of their home.

Li Guo knew that when the final match came out, Chinese fans would definitely hype this topic, so he temporarily turned off the comments on Weibo, because what the players need now is rest, not revenge.

Li Guo did not let public opinion affect the team, but that does not mean that Li Guo could forget that game. On the contrary, Li Guo organized everyone to watch the video of that game the next day. When the Chinese team took the lead in the first half, everyone felt that the Chinese team played really well.

In the second half, Shunsuke Nakamura passed a god-level free kick into the penalty area. When his teammates scored, everyone was a little disappointed.

When Nakata Hiroshi's second ball appeared in the end, the players were very complicated, regretful, angry, and angrily reprimanded the referee.

After watching the video, Li Guo didn't say anything. What Li Guo did was like planting a seed in the player's heart. Maybe it would germinate, maybe it wouldn't, but what Li Guo had to do was to wait.

(End of this chapter)