On June 30, 2007, the 16th World Youth (u21) Football Championship is finally about to kick off in Madrid. 24 youth teams from six continents will compete for their "Hercedes Cup" in the next 23 days.

It is worth mentioning that starting from the next 2009 Egypt, this event will be officially renamed "FIFA u21 World Cup", further moving closer to the Hercules Cup in terms of name, further demonstrating the super high value of the u21 World Youth Championship in the youth field.

From last year to the beginning of this year, these 24 teams from different countries and races stood out. They are lucky and even the best, representing the strength and spiritual outlook of the young generation in the world football world, and also representing the future of world football.

The World Youth Championship is the best stage for the stars to become famous. After this competition, more young talents will come into the eyes of the world.

Although the examples of injury to Zhongyong have been repeated, the media is always happy with things like predictions. This event has not started yet. As early as the second day after the lottery ceremony, fifa officially announced the 23-person new star lineup that deserves attention to in this event on its official website:

Juan Mata, Gerald Pique, Francisco Fabregas, Alberto Bueno (Spain);

Bruno Gama (Portugal), Giuseppe Rossi (Italy), Marco Arnotovic (Austria);

Sergio Aguero, Evo Banegas, Mauro Sarat, Maxi Morales (Argentina);

Lucas Reva, Morela Rah, Alexander Pato, Marcelo Junior (Brazil);

Carlos Bella, Dos Santos (Mexico), Luis Suarez (Uruguay);

Alexis Sanchez, Nicholas Medina (Chile), Freddy Adu (US);

Momodu Cise (Malawi), Kennao Oshima (Japan).

In addition to pointing out the supernova that has long been famous and has received widespread international attention, fifa also commented on each team.

When talking about the Chinese team, FIFA's wording is interesting: "It is said that this team has been teaming since 2002, and the years-long closed training camp is to prepare for next year's Olympics. The u21 National Youth Team and the u23 National Olympic Team are the same concept in this country. They eliminated Iran and South Korea in the qualifiers, which are two teams that their adult national teams have not won in decades."

"This time they came to Spain, they temporarily replaced two players, and two or three others suspended the internal game from one to three games. The reason was that there was a vicious fight in the team, which caused the country's sports department to swing the machete before the start of the game. This abnormal behavior directly turned them into the most special team. In short, this is a mysterious teacher full of courage and worth paying attention to."

In the morning, the Chinese team conducted tactical training for two classes as usual, and the confrontation was cut. The overall amount was not large, but it was highly purposeful.

In view of the opponent's strong midfield control tonight, Lu Juren arranged a tactic to stabilize the center line and shift the center of gravity sideways. The specific requirement is to increase a central advanceer, shorten the midfield spacing, reduce the opponent's penetration through joint defense, and reduce the opponent's strong ball control advantage by taking the wing.

Limited to personnel and more limited to the opponent's powerful midfield control style. Abandoning the midfield tactics that have been practicing for the past two years is a helpless choice for the National Youth Team, and more importantly for their coach Lu Juren, it is also a great courage. Changing the gun at the last minute may be bitter.

Although the current lineup of the Chinese team is basically the best combination of existing personnel, the tight tension still reflects the team's current embarrassing situation of "some people cannot use it, but they cannot follow the rules."

In such a short time, Hao Junming and Dai Ling, the newly added teammates, could not quickly merge with these teammates who had been training for more than a year, and their understanding of the tactical requirements put forward by the coach was always deviated. They were more isolated. Lu Juren naturally did not dare to let go of the two of them, but they were more just used as temporary substitutes.

Although he brought a 23-man lineup to Spain, the bitterness can only be felt by the people in the game.

Despite the difficulties, the game is imminent, and the players have no time to lament that the overall atmosphere is quite relaxing.

An important reason is that they seemed to have grabbed the straw that saved their lives.

During training, the four wing players, Qian Cheng, Lu Yunkai, Gan Ren and Long Tian, ​​were very excited, not only because of their debut in the opening game tonight, but also because the team's tactical focus was tilted towards the wing, and the team's overall look excited.

After the morning training, after lunch, the whole team had lunch break and quietly waited for the night to come.

Spain is a country of leisure, and lunch break is an important part of lifestyle habits. Due to habits, the shops will be closed from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon, and all Spaniards take naps.

In my leisure time in the afternoon, the sun shines brightly outside the window on the balcony, exuding a lazy atmosphere unique to the Mediterranean. Lu Juren looked at the reflective roof of the Bernabeu Stadium in the distance, squinted his eyes, and continued to browse the contents on his notebook.

The screen shows the specific schedule of the Chinese team's group stage: 6.30, Spain-China; 7.3, China-Malawi; 7.6, Czech-China.

With the current situation of the Chinese team, there is no need to examine the opponent and schedule. Only by winning the game can you be qualified to imagine. Lu Juren is very clear about this, so he did not waste too much time on it.

The content behind the group schedule is the competition system arrangement for the knockout stage of this World Youth Championship:

The upper half is a2-c2 and d1-b3\\e3\\f3—a1-c3/d3/e3 and f1-e2

The lower half is e1-d2 and c1-a3\\b3\\f3 - b1-a3/c3/d3 and b2-f2

Today's Chinese team has no desires and no desires. Playing well and playing style is their biggest wish at present. After the group stage, let's leave it to God to arrange it.

Lu Juren turned off the computer power, stared at the darkened screen for a while, and picked up a cup of latte in front of him. He frowned. It was very bitter and there was no sugar added.

Late at night on June 30, 23:25 Beijing time.

People who had been working hard for a day sat in front of the TV and paid attention to the World Youth Competition being held on the other end of the mainland.

Although the team has a disorganized staff and a slim future, this has not reduced people's enthusiasm for them at all, because they have a five-star red flag on their chests.

In the past few days, reports on the Asian Cup have been reported, and fans' attention has continued to heat up, but in this late night, the concern for the National Youth Team is better than everything.

2007, which survived in the gap between the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Cup, was an absolute football year. The Copa America was not influential and the Asian Cup was insufficient. The u21 World Youth Championship was the largest event in the world this year and became a shining business card for the annual football event.

The opening ceremony was very exciting. The opening ceremony was filled with passionate singing of Latin queen Shakira, who ignited the atmosphere of the opening ceremony. Then the joint performance of Barcelona and Real Madrid further pushed the ceremony to a climax.

The final stage of the ceremony was the entry of 24 bulls, with the national flags of 24 participating countries hanging on their backs, which attracted cheers from the audience. Finally, with the cordial speech of former International Olympic Committee Samaranchi, the 16th World Youth Football Championship (u21) kicked off.

From the grand scene of the entire opening ceremony, it can be seen that the Spaniards have invested a lot of attention and enthusiasm for this event, which is different from other countries in Western Europe.

Although Spain only had a record of winning the World Youth Championship in Nigeria in 1999, that was the only time that two South American giants from Ba and A took turns to take turns to the banker in the seventh session 93-05;

Spain has also become the third largest tycoon after Argentina and Brazil in the past decade. With the Spanish U20 achieving three consecutive European Youth Championships in 02-04-06, they have also launched a strong impact on the championship of this event!

The passionate and unrestrained Spain has always been a hot land for young talents to grow up. Especially under the repeated achievements of Barcelona's La Masia youth training camp, it further promoted the Spanish League to boldly launch the youth team. The La Liga has become the most vibrant league and has become the dream theater for many young players in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

From the meticulous and conscientious preparation of the event to the heroic tone of the Football Association officials, to the vigorous publicity and exaggeration of the media, to the crazy attention of the fans, and finally to the players' confidence, the host is determined to win the prize after eight years at home!

As the hour and minute hands coincide at the same time, the first day of July came to China, which was the time to sleep late at night. However, from big cities to small towns to rural areas, many families still had their lights on, paying attention to this game thousands of miles away.

The result was already destined, but no one who should get up in the middle of the night would be absent. This is the cuteness of Chinese fans. While regretting that they are not strong enough, they grit their teeth, and eventually they will gather in front of the screen and worry about it.

According to an authoritative survey by FIFA rating agencies, the opening match between Spain and China reached a terrifying 170 million viewers worldwide, and 115 million people stayed up late to sit in front of the TV to pay attention to the game;

You should know that the average number of viewers in the German World Cup last year was 400 million. This record not only set a record of viewership that is difficult to surpass in youth-level competitions, but is even far better than some unpopular games in the World Cup.

This crazy craze for attention is exactly the same as in 2002.

Although everyone knows that this Chinese team is difficult to make a difference at the moment, and being able to come back with a decent amount is already a beautiful task, greedy people always have unrealistic thoughts, just like hoping that the Chinese team in the South Korea-Japan World Cup will create miracles.

Many times, the love of Chinese fans is in a state of blindness.
Chapter completed!