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Chapter 587 A new tradition of Chinese football!

After the 1989 Women's World Cup ended, the next feast was the Japanese stock market crash at the end of the year.

The small group internally sold Japanese real estate one by one in the summer, and even many of them deliberately put up the label of "alien original taste 99 new", and then asked them to change hands at high prices in the Japanese brokerage company branch, so that they could sell as much as possible. Slaughter an extra sum before the little day dies.

And the huge stocks in their hands also began to be sold in batches after the Nikkei broke through 38000 points. Although the amount of stocks close to 200 billion U.S. dollars seems too large, just think about the highest housing prices in Tokyo at this time. Ten thousand dollars per square meter shows how serious Japan's economic bubble is. Tens of billions of dollars are inconspicuous in the Japanese stock market.

In a word: Japan is completely crazy at this time!

Well then, they can watch the little days evaporate like bubbles!

This is the reality. If you get what you shouldn't get, you will lose what you shouldn't lose. This is called the price!

Such 1989 is naturally the end of another decade worth celebrating.

After that, the post-50s who have the most responsibility and pressure in China in the next 90 years will finally be on the stage of history.

Wu Jie also officially passed the tenth Spring Festival in this time and space with his small group that swelled to 50+ people.

This year's World Cup is of course his most important event. For this reason, he even participated in the second stage of the Asian qualifiers.

Wu Jie is very proud of this, because in the original World Cup in Italy, there were only two tickets for the World Cup finals in Asia.

But now?

They have 5.5 tickets to the World Cup Finals!

Of course, there are also reasons why Oceania was merged into Asia in advance.

Therefore, there are a total of 30 teams participating in this Asian qualifier, which is divided into three stages.

In the first stage of the group stage, 30 teams are divided into six groups, and each group will play a home and away round-robin match, and the top two teams in the group will qualify.

The second stage of the group stage: the top 12 teams in each group will be divided into two groups for home and away round-robin matches. The top two teams will be eligible to go to Italy to participate in the World Cup finals.

The third stage of play-offs: the third and No.4 of each group are divided into a single group again for a single round-robin match. North Central America and the Caribbean" play-offs.

The Chinese team started to play the first stage of the competition in January 1989. Of course Wu Jie would not participate at this time. The Chinese team still sent out the lineup of the second team + third team + youth team.

Against the Oman, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia in the group, this lineup is simply killing chickens with a sledgehammer.

In the summer of 1989, the Chinese team took the lead in entering the second stage of the group stage with the only record of victory in six groups.

At this stage, it should not be too turbulent. Wu Jie has also joined the team's roster, but he only played a few home games.

The teams in the same group as the Chinese team are Iran, Japan, North Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.

At this stage, there will also be a full ten games. Fortunately, the schedule is relatively long, and it lasted from the summer of 1989 to February of the following year.

Wu Jie only played two games in the end, because at that time China had already won all five games, and since then it has resumed the tradition of two teams + three teams going out.

This also makes fans from various Asian countries very regretful. Now they don't even have to meet the full main lineup of the Chinese team.

So in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, the South Korean team can meet the full main lineup of the Chinese team once, that is really an honor!

In the end, the Chinese team used another undefeated record to easily stand out from the group stage of the second stage, and successfully won the first place to qualify for the World Cup in Italy.

But for the other through quota, Iran, Japan, and North Korea can be said to have hit the bayonet, and the sky was dark and the sky was dark. In the last few games, players were injured in almost every game.

At this time, Wu Jie felt that the Chinese team played against everyone so easily, and there were no injuries at all. It was not just because of their own strength. It is estimated that everyone gave up the plan to compete with the Chinese team for the spot, and instead devoted all their energy to the Chinese team. In order to compete for the second place.

This is also a reasonable tactic to give up, because even if you fight with the Chinese team, it is impossible to have a good result in the end. Instead, you will lose your chance to compete for the second spot because of the overdrawing of your strength in advance.

In the end, the top two in Group A where the Chinese team is located are China and Iran. In particular, the latter formed the new troika of the Iranian national team with three players who played in the A-League. The team did not dare to relax too much.

The No.3 Japanese team is much worse in comparison. Although they also have four players playing in the A-League, none of them are A-A stars like Ali Dayi and Aziz, so they are playing hard. During the war, I was still in a bad mood, and I could only compete with North Korea for the third stage of survival.

In addition, the top two teams in Group B are Australia and Saudi Arabia, and what is interesting is that the best players of these two teams are also stars who played in League A.

The South Korean team is one of the victims. In their life-and-death match with Australia, they could have won the second place in the group by virtue of their goal difference advantage with Saudi Arabia in a tie.

But in the 86th minute of the second half, Sean Murphy, an 18-year-old tall defender from Australia and Wu Jie's teammate in Shenzhen, actually sent the South Korean to the goal with a header after a corner kick. the third stage.

Now the South Koreans and the Japanese can once again join hands and join hands to create a beautiful and harmonious hybrid.

And the last team to enter the third stage was Qatar, which was the first to pay the protection fee. Unfortunately, the rabbit can only help here.

So far, the Asian division has confirmed the four teams that will qualify for the World Cup in Italy, namely China, Australia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

The four teams in the third stage are North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Qatar.

These four teams will compete for a direct promotion spot and 0.5 play-off spots. In fact, the chances of qualifying are not small. Anyway, they all think they can become the final winners.

At this time, for the Chinese team and the Chinese fans, they couldn't help but come up with an idea: the road to promotion in the Asian Division is really too simple!

In terms of their selection strategy for each game this time, they transferred a batch of the latest players of the month and rookies of the month from League A, and then formed a group to play in the qualifiers.

But it is this very random selection strategy, but the final effect is very good. The Chinese team did not encounter even the slightest challenge on the entire promotion road to Italy!

At the beginning of May 1990, the second season of League A also came to a perfect conclusion!

At this time, the major awards and personal best selections will be released soon, including the most exciting World Cup roster.

Of course, the real roster should come out after the training camp in June, and the 6-man training roster should come out first.

At this time, Asian fans pay more attention to the major awards of League A, because it is not impossible for players from their countries to be shortlisted.

The first is the selection of the best team of the season——

Frontcourt: Ali Dayi (86), Qin Yi (83)

Midfielders: Gao Feng (84), Wu Jie (99++++++), Yassin Brahimi (83), Wei Jiancheng (84)

Backcourt: Jin Guoli (84), Lu Da (94), Luo Zhijie (83), Shang Yun (85)

Goalkeeper: Zhang Huikang (85)

If the best lineup of this year's A-League is drawn to the World Cup, I am afraid that it will be able to qualify in the group stage. Wu Jie is confident that he can lead this team to at least the quarter-finals!

In terms of personal awards that don't need to be announced, Wu Jie's "Golden Boot" and "Best Player" are naturally the least suspenseful.

He only played 28 league games this season, but the number of goals has increased to 46. I don't know if he deliberately added one more than last season.

Wu Jie's performance in the cup competition was similar. In 11 "Fuxing Cup" games, he scored 15 goals and helped the team win the domestic league + cup competition again.

At the same time, the Shenzhen team was still in the AFC Champions League, and finally defeated the previous champion Bayi team 2:1 in the semifinals, and then beat the "Nissan Automobile Club" 6:1 in the final.

This kind of performance allowed him to win the best player award of League A again, and by the way, he also won the fourth Asian Footballer of the Year award, but the "World Footballer" was finally awarded to Lin Yaodong, who had reached the top of the Champions League.

With his impeccable defensive performance, Ruda won the best defensive player award again and again. This season, he has already started to play the position of "free man in the backcourt".

The silver boot of the League A was won by Ali Dayi. This second-year Iranian rookie is indeed worthy of the status of the No. 23 pick. He scored 24 goals in the first season and was elected as the best rookie of the season (rookies over 29 years old cannot Candidate).This season has made rapid progress, contributing an outstanding performance of 32 goals in 8 games, being selected into the first team of the best team, and also scoring [-] goals in the World Cup qualifiers to help Iran qualify for the World Cup.

这个赛季进球榜第三的宿茂臻，联赛内也打进了28球；19岁的秦易本赛季打进了26球；鲁达这个赛季只打进了22球；马林半程打进了15球后就在冬歇期转会到西甲，否则也有机会竞争银靴。

In the assist list this season, Wu Jie still ranked first with 20 assists, and Wei Jiancheng ranked second with 17 assists.

Shang Yun, who was still under 18 years old at this time, finally advanced from the bench to the starting lineup this season, contributing 15 assists in a single season, and also had an outstanding performance of 10 goals.

This allowed him, as a second-year player, to beat this year's 17-year-old champion Lang Zhou Yurong (midfielder) and win the Rookie of the Year selection.

At this moment, Wu Jie hesitated whether to bring Zhou Yurong to the World Cup to meet the market. This little guy is a native comprehensive four-star and a half-level talent. Physically, he may only be a four-star peak. At the peak of a star and a half, the comprehensive talent is naturally at the four and a half star level.

But if you take him to the World Cup, Fan Zhiyi (83), Gao Zhongxun (85), and Ge Guangxing (85) may have to be eliminated.

This made Wu Jie hesitate. At this time, Zhou Yurong, who was also under 18 years old, was definitely higher than these three in terms of talent, but after all, his immediate combat power was much worse.

"I agree with bringing Zhou Yurong, not because I think he can be of any help, but it should become our tradition to take the No. [-] pick to the World Cup!"

At this time, Lu Da made a suggestion. The reference was actually that when the dream team in the original plane was at its peak, it was always the habit of bringing a champion to the Olympics.

"I agree!"

"I also agree!"

"I have no opinion!"

Lin Yaodong, Chen Haonan, and Shang Yun naturally all agree with this suggestion. This should indeed be a tradition of Chinese football. Anyway, wasting a position has no effect on them, but this kind of tradition is very refreshing!

Chapter 588 Expedition - Italy!

The Chinese men's football team started training in mid-May. The European league has not yet completely ended, and the huge European teams will not be able to join until the end of the month.

The 23-man roster for this World Cup will be extremely competitive. In addition to the players who can start in the teams of the four major leagues, many players in Europe who can only play as substitutes in the four major leagues, this time there are A players. The danger of falling.Not to mention those European players who are not stable in the starting lineup outside the four major leagues, they are not as competitive as the stars of the local leagues.

This is also the reason why many European players have returned to China since the second season of League A.

These European players did not get high salaries in Europe, and most of their annual salaries were between 5 and 10 U.S. dollars.

This salary is actually not as much as the stars of League A earn, and the key is that the status of the team cannot be compared.

Wu Jie is very satisfied with this situation. What he wants is that only players who can securely start in the first division of the four major European leagues need to go to Europe. Otherwise, they will stay in the first division and promote the local league. competitiveness is better.

Now the stars of various Asian countries regard the League A as a springboard to Europe, because the Chinese league is not only far more competitive than their own leagues, but now the scouts sent by European teams do not go to other Asian countries at all. Tan only went to the Chinese League to select outstanding players.

You mean the K-League, J-League, Middle East League?

In the eyes of European teams, these leagues are backwaters that are not worth mentioning in the field of football, and it is unnecessary to even take a look at them!

But China's A-League is completely different, there are too many treasures that make them greedy!

So Asian football is taking shape: stars from various Asian leagues go to China to improve their strength to increase worldwide exposure --> After proving their strength through League A, they are finally selected by top European league teams and head to Europe Playing in the top league --> These Asian players, including Chinese players, will go to the Middle East or Japanese leagues to earn huge pension contracts when they get older.

This is the "Asian player promotion chain" that Wu Jie hopes to form in the next 20 years. Of course, he hopes that 20 years later, the League A will officially have the same gold-absorbing ability and competition intensity as the top European leagues. Need to play in Europe.

This goal is full of challenges. First of all, we must let Chinese football become a god in the World Cup, so as to have the foundation to become a "sacred land of football".

Wu Jie and Lu Da worked energetically at the Yunnan base to train domestic stars for half a month. They also took time to play a friendly match with England. As a result, they led a group of domestic stars and kicked England, who was also in the first tier. It was 4:0, and the English didn't even dare to raise their heads after the game, because when they looked up, Ruda was all there.

At this time, the tactics of the Chinese team were much simpler compared to the previous one. Basically, the offense and defense were divided into two separate parts. Give it to Ruda, the "free man in the backcourt", to command.

This should be the only fully automated offensive and defensive system in the world. The head coach only needs to make strategic arrangements before the game, and how to implement it is completely left to the two "free men". Assisted by their respective lieutenants.

Lin Yaodong is the deputy commander next to Lu Da, and Chen Haonan is naturally the deputy commander next to Wu Jie!

Even if such a perfect core configuration has never appeared in the entire history of football, many times even Wu Jie can't help shaking his head and sighing for the opponent when he thinks of the perfection of his team, because there is really no solution!

Now that Chen Haonan and Lin Yaodong haven't returned yet, once Wu Jie and Lu Da join forces in team training, they will be able to display terrifying offensive and defensive capabilities.

He felt that even without those two lieutenants, as long as Wu Sheng and Yang Shuhua, the perfect striker combination, could come back, they would have an [-]% chance of winning the championship.

"Made, why do you feel that in two years' time, Su Maozhen, Gao Feng, and Hao Jianguo are enough strikers?"

During the training camp, Wu Jie saw Su Maozhen, Gao Feng, and Hao Jianguo, who were clearly much stronger than their original planes. If these three really showed their full potential, it would be terrifying.

"Yeah, Qin Yi and Alexander's talents are even better, we can already play very well with only domestic players!"

Lu Da admired these two aboriginal strikers who had never appeared in the original plane, especially Leslie Alexander, an American who came to China with the idea of ​​naturalization from the very beginning.

If it is said that Carlos Joseph could only be naturalized in China because he did not dare to return to China, then who knows what kind of family education Alexander had to have such a wise idea at a young age?

"His grandfather participated in the Olympic Games in 52!"

Wu Jie actually asked Alexander about that boy's grandfather who led the US team to win the football championship. Unfortunately, because his family members were all in the US, he hesitated and returned to China.

Now the small group understands why Alexander was sent to China to practice football when he was a child, and he directly submitted an application for naturalization when he turned 18. This is a family connection!

"Unfortunately, this World Cup cannot take him!"

Lu Da felt it was a pity, but Alexander's immediate combat power was on par with Qin Yi, and not much better than Su Maozhen, Hao Jianguo, and Gao Feng.

His naturalization application has not been officially approved, and even if he is approved, he cannot immediately represent the Chinese team according to the current rules, so it is already the limit to be able to participate in the training camp this time.

At the beginning of June, after a short rest of a week, the players returning from Europe finally officially joined the training camp and began to prepare for the World Cup.

However, considering that this group of people has been fighting in the more intense European top leagues for more than half a year, the intensity of this month's training will naturally not be too high. The teammates who were not playing together regained their tacit understanding.

The outside world naturally pays close attention to the official roster of the Chinese team. Unfortunately, the 23-man official roster of the Chinese team is very mysterious. It was not until two days before the upcoming expedition at the end of June that the real roster was finally revealed to the outside world.

In the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the official squad of the Chinese men's football team——

Head coach: Feng Qingguo, coaches: Zhou Huaide (offensive/technical coach), Ji Xiaoan (defensive coach), Meng Fei (physical coach), Lu Chunchen (goalkeeper coach), tactical/video analyst (Fan Zhuguo).

Yang Shuhua (91, 23 years old, 182cm, forward/center, Inter Milan)

Wu Sheng (88, 20 years old, 194cm, center forward, Bayern Munich)

Qin Yi (84, 19 years old, 176cm, striker, Henan)

Ren Zhihui (92, 23 years old, 174cm, winger/wing midfielder, Ajax)

Wang Yuanlin (90, 21 years old, 179cm, winger/forward, AC Milan)