Ultimate Demon Sword

Chapter 214 On Faith

[PS: High-energy warning!This chapter has a lot of personal opinions, and I will share them with you. If you don’t like it, you can skip it. 】

At the end of the interview, the topic shifted from the national team to Atletico Madrid. Faced with his season goals, Wen Zhihao confidently expressed his desire for the UEFA Champions League: "If we can play in the World Cup next year with the honor of the UEFA Champions League, that would be the best result. We have such strength, and Atletico Madrid is only a little short of the championship every time. Failure is also a valuable experience. There are only three things. This season should be the harvest season."

Wen Zhihao is still relatively conservative, thinking about the Triple Crown, but he only called out the Champions League champion.Both the league championship and the Copa del Rey championship still need a long process. Atletico Madrid only showed their champions in the Champions League. Wen Zhihao did not want to lose his character in advance.

The next day, Wen Zhihao's exclusive interview was published in the "Football Weekly". As one of the top professional football newspapers in China, "Football Weekly" has strong views, especially the in-depth analysis of football hotspots. It is unique among domestic sports media and has a large number of readers.In addition to Wen Zhihao's interview, "Football Weekly" specially attached an opinionated and persuasive commentary article, which made the reverse of this interview even stronger.

The title of this review is "Lack of Self-Confidence Worse Than a Strong Enemy". The full text is an excerpt of Wen Zhihao's views, and the wonderful discussion is deafening.

"The draw for the World Cup in Russia has just ended, and the Chinese team is in a strong and weak group. Compared with Germany, Mexico and Sweden, we automatically put ourselves in the weakest position. It is indeed true and self-aware, but for the national team that is about to go to the World Cup, is a pessimistic and sighing public opinion environment really good?"

"The World Cup is the highest level of football. The Chinese team can return to the stage of top football matches after 16 years. It is the best proof of its strength. We are still far away from the world's top teams. It is necessary to recognize ourselves, but it is also harmful to belittle ourselves."

"Many people think that the Chinese team will be the point-given boy in Group F, but why does Wen Zhihao think that the Chinese team can win a victory against Sweden, which is relatively rough in technology? When talking about the club's season goals, why can he call out the Champions League champion with full confidence? From Wen Zhihao's point of view, we can see the most lacking thing in Chinese players' temperament. Confidence!"

"Because of the precipitous decline of Chinese football in the past 20 years, the entire football world, from officials and coaches to the media and fans, lacks basic confidence. We did not recognize our own courage, and the most common word everyone said was to learn. In the Jianlibao era, we shouted to learn from Brazil. In the past ten years, we learned from Spain and Germany. In the end, let's look at it. After three consecutive failures in the World Cup in 02, what have we left behind? We have learned nothing! Instead, we have lost our own characteristics. China's leading team. Let's look at it now, can the national team still find players like Su Maozhen, who are empty-handed, and Ma Mingyu and Yao Xia, who are fast on the wing? If Wen Zhihao hadn't turned out, the Chinese team gradually established the basic style of ground conduction, and we are still a three-none team."

"Knowing yourself correctly is also a prerequisite for everyone to regain confidence. The contrast between the Chinese team's journey to the top [-] can explain a lot of problems. Gao Hongbo defined the Chinese team as the weakest team among the [-] teams from the very beginning. Just imagine once this kind of thinking has formed a cognitive inertia in the players, how can they have the confidence to compete with the strong team? But what belief did Lippi instill in everyone after he took office? We are not afraid of any opponent in Asia. Tired running drives every player's hunger for victory, not to mention the results, the fighting style of the national team in the late stage of the top [-] is what every fan wants to see most."

"Since there are lessons learned from the past, why do we have to be so overwhelmingly pessimistic about the prospects of the national team's World Cup? Apart from destroying our own ambitions and boosting the prestige of others, what is the effect? ​​In this sense, Wen Zhihao's voice at this time is just right. I am afraid no one knows the national team better than him. Since he is not pessimistic, why can't we be confident once? Late!"

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Amidst the negative voices, the comment of "Football Weekly" was like a thunderbolt, and many media peers and Internet celebrities forwarded it one after another. "Football Weekly" also published an electronic version on their official Weibo and WeChat public account, and the flow was even greater.Especially in the current mainstream of public opinion, "Football Weekly" used Wen Zhihao to make a strong statement, the intention is obvious, it is to guide public opinion from an optimistic standpoint.

However, because Chinese football has seldom given everyone confidence over the years, everyone has become a little numb. Not only did this article not have the expected effect, but it also attracted a lot of trolls to Wen Zhihao.

A netizen commented on the official Weibo: "The media really likes to sensationalize. Is it meaningful to be so non-mainstream? The Chinese team is the weakest. Even if you say it's a big deal, isn't it true?"

"I also convinced the media. The editor is really good at such serious nonsense."

"Wen Zhihao is still too young, and his words are still not steady enough. Want to win Sweden? Others have eliminated Italy. If you can't win or lose miserably, what will you say then? I am his fan, but I really think this kind of statement is ill-considered."

After Wen Zhihao accepted the interview, he continued to devote himself to daily training. When he returned to the apartment at night, he unexpectedly found that there were a lot of cursing comments on his Qzone and Weibo.Wen Zhihao looked confused. Fortunately, at this time, the editor-in-chief of "Football Weekly", that is, Liang Yuechu, Liang Xin's father, called overseas, and Wen Zhihao gradually learned the whole story.

"Zhihao, I'm sorry, I seem to have played too much this time and brought you into it, do you need us to clarify it for you?" Liang Yuechu asked.

Wen Zhihao smiled: "Uncle Liang, let them say that your point of view is very good, and I don't think it's wrong. Don't think about avoiding it, the correct point of view should be carried forward."

On the other end of the phone, Liang Yuechu was startled: "Now that there is already a lot of scolding, you still want to add fuel to the fire?"

Wen Zhihao responded humorously: "A lie that has been spread thousands of times is the truth, let alone the truth itself. In fact, this is because our fans have no confidence. As long as you stand firm. Maybe you will be the few who grasp the truth by then."

Liang Yuechu was so confused on the other end of the phone that even he wondered if Wen Zhihao was sometimes overconfident.

(End of this chapter)