In fact, the discussion about Zhou Yi's entry into the national team has started in Chinese media since Zhou Yi performed well in the first game.

Not everyone supports Zhou Yi to join the national team. Everything is controversial and it is impossible to win everyone's approval.

Those who agree believe that Zhou Yi's outstanding performance at Dortmund proves his ability. Such a good player deserves to be in the national team. In addition, Gao Hongbo's national team is famous for his love of young people. Isn't it natural to select Zhou Yi to the national team?

Opponents believe that Zhou Yi had just played a professional game at Dortmund and came on as a substitute. Although his performance was good, there were accidental factors. The performance of a game could not explain anything. It is too early to say that he should be recruited into the national team now and too hasty.

In fact, what the opponents said is quite reasonable. It is really arbitrary to say that Zhou Yi should be selected for the national team just by taking the dozens of minutes of the game he played on the bench.

However, Zhou Yi appeared next, and from a substitute, his performance was as outstanding and stable as ever.

Those oppositions were getting smaller and smaller because they felt that their reasons were not convincing.

After Zhou Yi played three games, Gao Hongbo's national team encountered trouble in the Asian Cup qualifiers, so the calls for Gao Hongbo to recruit Zhou Yi into the national team began to rise again.

However, the Chinese Football Association did not express any comments like this. However, Gao Hongbo was blocked by reporters in an interview and asked questions about Zhou Yi. He said that he was concerned about Zhou Yi's performance in Dortmund and would consider it as appropriate. But he did not say whether it was necessary or when to ask.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi's entry into the national team came so suddenly

When they didn't expect it, suddenly, Zhou Yi was already a member of the national team training list!

Although I don’t know if he can finally compete for the Chinese team, the training list has been included. Isn’t the game a matter of time sooner or later?

What excited Chinese fans is that Zhou Yi's joining is in urgent need of the national team in front of him.

Although the Chinese team's frontcourt offense is much better than before and has played a technical role, it still lacks strong offensive organizers and scoring methods.

Although Zhou Yi is not a scorer, he is a very outstanding offensive organizer. He has proved this at Dortmund. So far, he has played four times, three times and once substituted four assists and one goal.

Such performance is naturally worthy of more hope for him.

Zhou Yi's entry into the national team also made the fans who were originally a little disappointed with Chinese football re-direct their attention to the Chinese national team.

In China, the composition of fans is very complicated. There are fans who only watch football but not play football, fans who only play football but do not watch football, and fans who watch football and play football. At the same time, among the fans who watch football, they only watch European leagues and international competitions, such as the World Cup and European Cup; there are fans who only watch intercontinental competitions such as the World Cup and European Cup, but do not watch European leagues at all. The common point of the first two is that they do not pay much attention to domestic football, and they do not care much whether it is domestic leagues or national team games. In addition, there are some fans who are hard-core fans of domestic leagues and also watch Chinese national team games. The number of these people is not large compared to the number of these people.

Zhou Yi debuted in Dortmund and performed well, attracting the attention of many Chinese fans. Not all Chinese fans care about and support the Chinese national team. If Zhou Yi was not available, they would just look at the European League.

But because of Zhou Yi, their eyes also turned to the national team.

This is a lot of talents who have come to see me. Why don’t I recognize this national team any longer?!

In addition to these people getting older, their memories of the national team are still stuck in factors like the Korean and Japanese World Cup eight years ago. It is also related to Gao Hongbo's reuse of young people.

Gao Jiajun has many players who have never been selected for the national team before. On the 31-person national team training list, the newly selected national team internationals exceeded one-third of the total. Some players are not even the main players in the club, and there are also players like Yu Han who are in low-level leagues.

Therefore, it is normal for his national team to feel unfamiliar. Not to mention those who have not paid attention to the national team for eight years, even fans who have been paying attention to the national team will feel at a loss.

However, after more than half a year, they have gradually become accustomed to such a national team head coach who dares to use young people but can never sell the face of old players.

After Zhou Yi was selected into the national team, the excited Fang Shuai posted an article he wrote in the post bar.

The article analyzes Zhou Yi's future and future in the national team.

As a senior fan of Chinese football, Fang Shuai is naturally very clear about the bullshit things that the national team had in the past. But this time he was very optimistic.

Because he believed that the overall environment of cracking down on organized crime and eliminating evil has the effect of intimidating some people who want to have bad ideas. The previous national team was in chaos because it was chaotic since the top leaders of the Football Association. The upper beams were not straight and the lower beams were crooked. If you follow the example, it would naturally become a mess.

But now, all the corrupt senior officials of the Football Association have been arrested. Not to mention the results will be like, at least the atmosphere in the national team will be much better, and there will be fewer related households who can get money in.

From a small perspective, Gao Hongbo's national team valued young people, but did not like to use veterans. The former captain of the national team, Li Weifeng, has never been selected for the national team since Gao Hongbo took office. Another veteran Zheng Zhi played in Gao Hongbo's first few games, but his status was very embarrassing. In recent games, he simply did not even make the training list.

In the past, the Chinese national team had the most impressive impression of people, except for failure, the factions in their team were full of hills, such as the Dalian Gang and the Shanghai Gang, the Northern and Southern Gangs. Everyone formed a complex and opposite factional relationship based on their clubs and their hometowns.

Various legends between big brothers and little brothers are talked about by Chinese fans.

If a newcomer wants to join the national team, if he doesn't like a mountain and recognizes a big brother, then he doesn't want to make a fortune in the national team. If you don't pretend to make mistakes during training, you will be very conscientious.

But now, it can be said that Gao Hongbo's national team is the national team with the least faction or mountain in history.

Because everyone is basically a newcomer who is selected for the national team for the first time, or a marginal figure in the previous national teams.

They didn't have time to create any mountain here.

The atmosphere in the national team is the easiest for Zhou Yi. He doesn't need to be the younger brother of any big brother, nor does he have to mix with the previous conflicting factional struggles. He just needs to play well.

So Fang Shuai believes that this is the best time for Zhou Yi to join the national team. This is true whether it is considered from a technical and tactical perspective or from a locker room politics.

He is very optimistic and optimistic about Zhou Yi's prospects in the national team.

Although the reporters wanted to interview Zhou Yi, no one knew what flight Zhou Yi took to meet with the team, so in the end everyone could only take pictures of Zhou Yi and Gao Hongbo shaking hands outside the training ground of the Chinese team.

At this time, Zhou Yi had already changed into the training suit of the national team. He looked no different from the players of other national teams, but his figure was still a little thin among his teammates. Standing among a large group of teammates, he was not very prominent. If he only looked at his current appearance, he would easily mistakenly think that he was still a student in school, not like a young genius who could make waves in the Bundesliga.

In fact, not only the reporters on the sidelines had this feeling. Even Zhou Yi’s new teammates in the national team were looking at Zhou Yi with a slightly puzzled look, but why did he become a new star in the Bundesliga that was recently popular?

Gao Hongbo's Chinese national team valued young people and domestic league players as the second one because there are almost no Chinese overseas players who are doing well now, and Zhou Yi is considered the only one.

Zhou Yi is the only player in this team who has been abroad. In addition to his legendary experience, in the eyes of his teammates, he seems to have another mysterious color.

Is this thin kid really that powerful?

Some people in the national team have also paid attention to Zhou Yi's game, but the feeling through the TV screen may be different from personal experience.

Some Chinese journalists off the court were also worried that Zhou Yi would be able to adapt to the slower playing style of Chinese football after he got used to Dortmund's fast-paced football.

Everyone looked at him, and their heads were filled with huge question marks.

Even if he has achieved initial success in the Bundesliga, he is still an unknown in the eyes of many people.

After the training began, both the reporters on the sidelines and the players on the field all opened their eyes wide and looked at Zhou Yi, wanting to see what he had.

After more than ten minutes off the court, a new doubt arose in my mind. Zhou Yi performed well in training, and he had no problem receiving the pass, and it could even be said to be very smooth.

But the smooth progress made the reporters feel that something was wrong.

Their imagination of Zhou Yi comes from Germany, a football country. With his advanced football philosophy, he does not compare his personal strength with the strength of the national team, but only talks about his understanding of football. He should be completely different from the national players who have only received training in China. Because Zhou Yi has never received Chinese football training at all in China before, so it is a blank piece of paper. He directly became a professional player in Germany.

Let’s just talk about the simplest example. The Bundesliga must be faster than the Chinese League, and Dortmund’s pace is faster than the average Bundesliga. Then Zhou Yi, who has been training in Dortmund, must be used to the fast-paced playing style. He will definitely not be able to adapt to the slow playing style of the national team.

As I imagine, Zhou Yi's first training class would definitely not go smoothly, and he and his teammates should have made various mistakes.

But they did not see the picture they imagined.

Zhou Yi and his teammates cooperated normally in training, and there was no difference.

Is the national team's level too high? Can it be directly and seamlessly connected to European football?

None of the reporters believed this reason.

So is it because the Zhou Yi level is not as high as we imagined?

This is not right.

Everyone is professional. After watching half an hour of training, it is still clear that it makes sense that Zhou Yi can play in Dortmund.

His strengths are passing and finding a chance.

In this regard, Zhou Yi did a good job in training.

Then why did he integrate into this team so smoothly?

Isn’t he selected for the national team for the first time? This should not be the performance that a newcomer who has been selected for the national team for the first time should have!

Although Zhou Yi's national team training performed well, the question marks in the reporters' minds did not disappear at all. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!