Grassroots Glory

The second warm-up match of the Chinese team was held in Shanghai.

It was unimaginable for a long time in the past that a warm-up match for the national team could be held in a first-tier city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, which shows the popularity of the national team now. Shanghai did not grab the right to host the home stadium during the World Cup preliminaries of the national team, but just for such an ordinary World Cup warm-up match, when the host city was just finalized, the tickets had been snatched up in the shortest time.

When the Chinese team arrived in Shanghai, including Lippi's coaching staff, as well as the Chinese team's current well-known overseas study group, they were all popular targets, especially Zhou Tian became the most popular.

In front of the hotel where the Chinese team stayed, the media also came a lot. Originally, it was a joyous atmosphere, but the reporters forced their way in from the crowd, and the questions they asked were very unpleasant.

Zhou Tiancheng, have you paid attention to the classification of the World Cup?

The Chinese team was placed in the third tier of the just-concluded World Cup. What do you think of the grouping situation?

Did Lippi officially mention the goals or requirements of the World Cup? How confident are you in leading the national team to qualify?

Are you looking forward to playing against the German team in the World Cup? There must be a lot of Dortmund or former Schalke teammates.

It's no wonder that the questions raised by the reporters are all related to the just-released World Cup classification. It is their professional characteristic to keep track of the latest hot spots all the time. The prospect of the national team returning to the World Cup is something that all fans are concerned about. They think there is nothing wrong with asking at this time.

But Zhou Tiancheng was very helpless, and he was still a little annoyed: Why are you asking me these questions? Although I have done enough on the court, but I have no prophecy plug-ins, you guys want YY not to bother me.

Facing the swarm of reporters, Zhou Tiancheng could only follow the team to the hotel, and at the same time said to the reporters: I didn't pay attention to this at all, before the official lottery, this is not the category I should care about.

After speaking, he walked inside, and casually explained a few sentences to the translator beside Lippi. After the translator understood Zhou Tiancheng's thoughts, he immediately turned around and had a simple communication with Lippi. Reporters have crowded to the front of the hotel gate. Just as the security guard wanted to stop him, he saw Lippi standing in front of all the reporters and said, I understand everyone's feelings. Regarding the prospect of the national team's World Cup, our coaching staff and players will do their best to satisfy all Chinese fans. But I need your cooperation, before we officially set foot on the World Cup, please don't use your curiosity to disturb my players, OK?

Hearing Lippi's rhetorical question, many reporters immediately fell silent. Some stood quietly outside the hotel, and some left slowly after a while.

Reporters who know Lippi know that Lippi can only speak Italian. Even if he once coached the Italian team for the World Cup, the work of communicating with the referee team was left to the assistant coach. He himself has no habit of speaking English.

But when Lippi asked back in English, it proved that he was very angry. Just like when he led Guangzhou Evergrande to compete in the AFC Champions League, because he was extremely dissatisfied with the referee's red card for sending off Zhang Linpeng and expelling himself, he asked Why? Why? at the post-match press conference twice.

The media is not willing to touch this bad luck. If the old man is really angered and he directly and publicly says that the media has affected the team's normal preparations, he will definitely be sprayed to death by the fans' saliva.

Although Lippi may not be able to point out specific media units, but everyone is in this industry, who can say that there is no competitor who doesn't like each other? It is not too simple to seize an opportunity to add insult to injury.

However, these reporters really reminded Lippi that he did take time to pay attention to the classification situation afterwards.

The next day, when the team was training normally at the Hongkou Football Stadium, everyone noticed that Lippi's face was a bit unsightly, and everyone became nervous. Before the training officially started, Lippi said to all of them: You should thank those reporters,

Thanks to their reminder, I went to check the classification results yesterday. To be honest, every opponent is stronger than us. I feel a lot of pressure. Even when I was coaching the Italian team and the team was in a lot of trouble before the World Cup in Germany, I didn't have this kind of pressure. I never talked to you guys about goals because I don't know how far we can go. If you really have the desire for the World Cup, maybe good luck will favor us.

Many people were dumbfounded by these words.

Before the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the Italian team encountered the Phonegate incident, and the team was once in a mess. This history is well known all over the world. With Italy's ascension to the top, this has become a classic commentary on Lippi's legendary coaching career . Although everyone doesn't know what happened inside the Italian team at that time, Lippi was definitely not pessimistic at the time. Otherwise, what will Italy rely on to survive to the end?

But now the players have different expressions. Everyone lacks experience on the big stage, so they just point to Lippi to guide the maze. If Lippi is confident enough to instill confidence in everyone, maybe everyone can expect two more points.

What kind of routine is this now?

Only Zhou Tiancheng blinked, and when Lippi glanced at everyone's faces, only he showed a faint smile. And he also noticed that the corner of Lippi's mouth hooked slightly.

After the training, many players returned to the locker room and began to read the news. Everyone was stunned.

Damn, it's over, it's over, is this division so ruthless?

What does this mean? Bullying people! It's normal for us to be in the third gear, but why are France, Italy and Portugal in the fourth gear?

It's over, even opening a resurrection card is not enough to be abused!

Brother Cheng, tell me something, you must have known it a long time ago, right?

Jiang Hao looked at him quietly, and at the same time, Wu Sanshi, who was sitting very close, also looked over.

Zhou Tiancheng grabbed his backpack and said directly, I didn't look at it. If I have so much free time, I might as well go back to my room to rest! Are you not tired? Brothers, let's go and rest.

Many players feel that they and their captains are really not in the same rank. Are all the bosses so awesome?

They didn't dare to answer, only Jiang Hao dared to catch up and held the phone in front of Zhou Tiancheng: Brother Cheng, take a look, it's really a strong team.

Then what can you do? Zhou Tiancheng looked at him and asked back: We haven't entered the World Cup for two consecutive years, and we still want to get a seed team? This is determined by other people's rules. Others make rules, so we can decide Can you change our fate?

Jiang Hao slowly shook his head.

By the way, it can't. The death group is arranged by others, but no matter how good they are, they can't decide the game, right? Have you heard of the rule that the seeded team is sent out?

Jiang Hao shook his head subconsciously: Who would make such a rule, then close the door and fix it, how can this be played?

So why are you so flustered? It's not up to us to decide the game! They send us into the death group, that's the power given to them by the rules, but we control the outcome of the game, control them—the fate of every opponent , this is something we can do! We are all men, so we can make a difference, don't be cowardly, okay?

Zhou Tiancheng is not afraid to express his confidence in front of all his teammates. He knew that this might be a bit of a slap in the face, but it was also the truth.

Rules determine our destiny, but we can control our opponents!

Don't want to return home like last time, the young team must not lack momentum.

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