Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 170 The Truth Behind the Curse [Second Weekend Update]

On September [-]st, the second day after the China-Ukraine war, Wen Zhihao left Wuhan with the whole team and set off for Doha, preparing for the final match of the World Cup.

Although Lippi issued a gag order to the players and prohibited them from accepting any media interviews before the game, there are still a large number of media at Wuhan International Airport who persevere and want to get some information from Wen Zhihao.

As for the reason, Wen Zhihao's fame and status in the national team are one aspect, and more importantly, in everyone's eyes, Wen Zhihao is the youngest one after all.It's much easier to get a cliché from him than those veterans of the national team.

Wen Zhihao was at the back of the team. In order to get rid of the harassment from the media as soon as possible, he could only say: "Don't worry, you won't be disappointed." Then, under the protection of the national team staff and the airport security personnel, he hurriedly followed everyone, leaving a group of reporters whispering about the meaning behind this sentence.

At the same time, in all the post bars and news comment areas related to the national team, all kinds of history about the national football team's "qualification after a draw" were picked up one by one.Fans began to express their opinions online.

A Wen fan whose vest is "Zhihao 666" expressed his full confidence in Wen Zhihao and the national team: "Isn't this a boiled duck? Since Zhihao joined, we have evened a game with Iran, and we have killed three of them. Qatar? Sorry, our Zhihao really didn't see it."

Immediately, some old fans expressed their objections: "It is visually estimated that the landlord has not watched the football for more than five years. I will give you a history of qualifying after a draw with the national football team. I hope you will always remain optimistic..."

Then the fan eloquently made a few paragraphs, and the history of the national football team's "qualification after a draw" came easily.

"In the 1986 World Cup qualifiers, as long as the national football team drew with Hong Kong, they could qualify. In the end, they lost 1:2, and the gutter overturned... Even Hong Kong can lose! I am also drunk."

"In the two Olympic qualifiers in 1992 and 1996, they both met sticks and qualified after a tie. The result was 1:3 once, and the second time they were directly eliminated at 0:3... The national football team's urine nature of "qualifying for a tie but not qualifying for death" has basically penetrated into the bones since then."

"There is an old saying that there are only three things, three times, and the fourth time should be remembered? In the 2007 Asian Cup, I was watching the last group match on the spot. I saw with my own eyes that the gang of uncles collapsed in the last 10 minutes and were killed by Uzbekistan three times. The nature of the country is easy to change, and I advise everyone not to have too much hope."

Immediately, another fan replied under this long post: "One moment, another moment. Qatar lost to Syria, and they have already been eliminated. Those people are naturalized mercenaries, and they have no motivation to qualify. They shouldn't beat the Chinese team, right? Why don't they let the national football team play like the top [-]. Well, it's such a happy decision. Long live the friendship between China and Qatar!"

"I agree with the above point of view. Everyone knows that Qatar is very difficult after the crisis of severing diplomatic relations. It depends on the awareness of these people on the field. If they cooperate well, there will be many benefits..."

In short, various opinions emerge in endlessly, and the reasons are becoming more and more outrageous, and they are no longer limited to the field of football.

After seeing many blatant manipulations by the West Asians, Chinese fans have gradually begun to understand that sports and politics are not separated.

After the Chinese team arrived in Doha, the embassy not only organized a warm welcome from local overseas Chinese and corporate employees at the airport, but the ambassador to Qatar even personally visited the hotel where the Chinese team stayed.China has been able to set off a football boom in recent years, which is also a well-known reason.Moreover, the high-level planning also clearly stated the goal of entering the World Cup.To put it bluntly, this is a political task.

Of course, some fans are dissatisfied with this approach.Isn't this deliberately creating tension?What's wrong with letting everyone have fun and travel light?
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For the two days of training before the game, the Chinese team will be arranged at the Khalifa Stadium, which is also one of the venues for the 2022 World Cup.The Chinese team experienced the World Cup stadium in another way in advance.Perhaps because of the early exit, Qatar was suddenly very generous, and did not use any off-the-table tricks to hinder the normal training arrangement of the Chinese team.

In addition, the air conditioning and cooling will be turned on in the stadium on the night of the game.The local high temperature above [-] degrees is no longer the enemy of the Chinese team.

However, this does not make Chinese journalists feel that everything is going well.At the pre-match press conference, although Lippi firmly stated that he would not accept any other result except victory, the Chinese reporter was still worried and asked: "Do you know the curse of the Chinese team qualifying in the past but being eliminated every time? Will you pay attention to the Korean team's game at the same time as the game? If the South Korean team loses to Uzbekistan, even the Chinese team may qualify even if they lose."

Lippi smiled at the reporter like he was looking at an idiot, and replied: "When I took over the Chinese team, the situation was very serious. Everyone relied on the accumulation of victories to change their fate at this moment. Now that they have taken their destiny into their own hands, there is no reason to hand it over again. The Korean team's game has nothing to do with us, because I believe my players will not give me this opportunity to worry about. Moreover, I think you should review the rules, as if we have at least secured the qualification for the play-offs, eh?"

There was a burst of laughter at the scene, and the reporter only felt a burst of burning red on his face.It's embarrassing to interview your own country's team and show it to everyone.

After Lippi finished speaking, Wen Zhihao made eye contact with him first, and then picked up the microphone in front of him and said loudly to all the reporters on the scene: "As a member of the Chinese team, I have the obligation to answer the reporter's so-called curse. When you really focus on every victory, all the curses are just clouds. All the curses are a tragic cycle of frightening and then crushing yourself. It is impossible for us.

Including that reporter, all Chinese reporters were stunned for a moment. They didn't expect that the curse that had plagued the national team for many years would be explained to Wen Zhihao in this way.

Although it is a bit convoluted, but if you think about it carefully, it seems to be the case...

The experienced old reporter immediately recalled the previous national team games in his mind.Often the national team can be evenly matched with the opponent for most of the half-time, and sometimes even lead.But as soon as the opponent scored a goal, he immediately became unable to kick, and it plummeted in a short period of time.When Wen Zhihao reminded him like this, it seemed that he really knocked himself down, and the opponent's goal was the last straw that crushed the Chinese team.

The reporters felt much better all of a sudden, some bad things would not happen if they were broken.Everyone hopes to be proud to celebrate qualifying after the game.

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The match between the Chinese team and Qatar kicked off at zero o'clock on September [-]th.But this night, all football fans and even sports fans in China did not feel sleepy at all, only the care and worry of sharing the same fate with the national team.

Most of the diehard fans who really worry about the Chinese team choose to watch the game in dual-screen mode.I watch my national team on TV, and search for games between South Korea and Uzbekistan on the computer.If there is a result that you don't want to see on the Chinese team, then you have to pray that Uzbekistan wins South Korea and assists the Chinese team to qualify.

(End of this chapter)