Chapter 69
On the 7th, the "Marca" focused on commenting on the Sino-Czech battle with the title "The Czechs spent 85 minutes to change the situation, and the Chinese only used 35 seconds to change the game": "The Czechs have always been good at calculating. This time, they also calculated very accurately. The Chinese team who went on a remnant team was not afraid of it. The 1-5 defeat to the host in the first round was a true portrayal of this Asian team. It was because the Czechs decisively gave up the second tough battle with the host after winning the African team;"
"They were still a chess game with a relaxed attitude, and they were faced with unprecedented tenacious resistance. As the third-place European and Youth League last year, the poor situation in the Czech Republic is worrying. After losing this game, the initiative to enter the knockout round is no longer in their hands."
"The most classic thing about the whole game is the two goals of the Chinese team. To be precise, it was the Czech team's own goal. All three goals in the whole game were provided by the Czechs. The Eastern Europeans were particularly stingy with the teams in the mainland, but they were very generous to the teams in the neighboring mainland. This internationalist style is really admirable. Internazonel, please pay tribute to the Czech Republic!"
"To be honest, the Chinese team played in this game very ugly, but what surprised them the most was the second-tier lineup, fake goalkeepers, and the crazy second half of the minute, this team was simply the best."
"The Chinese team eliminated strong opponents such as Iran and South Korea respectively in the Asian Youth Championship. When Asian media looked forward to the three World Youth Championship teams in this continent, they defined the Chinese team as a 'super lucky soy sauce team';"
"I didn't expect that five months later, their good luck would still be brought to Madrid. These Chinese babies are God's beloved angels, C2 (China's 1/8 final opponent), are you mentally prepared for unlucky?"
Wu Fu of Wanda put down the newspaper and smiled contemptuously: "Ange?! A joke!"
The Japanese coach once coached in the Spanish league, so reading Spanish newspapers is not difficult for him.
After two rounds of the group stage, the situation of the Japanese team is relatively favorable. In the last game, facing Uruguay, which was eliminated early, it was no problem to defeat the opponent with normal performance;
But for the sake of safety, the head coach still formulated detailed policies and strategies based on the characteristics of the Uruguay team's playing style. Yesterday, they arranged targeted training around this afternoon's game, and did not pay any attention to the two games in Group A and Group B, which may produce the team's 1/8 final opponents;
After getting up this morning, Bandai learned about the two groups of battles yesterday through TV news. The performance of the Chinese team surprised him and decided to buy a morning report to learn more about the details of the game.
He has always had no good feelings for China. After sweeping the Asian Youth semi-finals, he even classified the team as the bottom of the fish and was completely indifferent;
Based on the current situation, Japan will basically advance as the top spot in Group C, and their opponent will be one of the third in the three groups A, B and F. The probability of the two teams of Japan and China encountering again is 30%. Bandai directly ignores this layer of prediction;
Even if the Chinese team really competes in the National Fortune to qualify for the third place in the group and draws the showdown with Japan, it will open a quick channel to the quarterfinals for the Japanese team. The Chinese team, a team that has always stayed in the last century, is not the opponent of the Big Japan team at all, and there is no qualification to connect to the nearest.
With such a firm and relaxed mentality, he suddenly saw the news of the Chinese team winning. Wanda Wufu couldn't believe his eyes. After reading the relevant details of the Sino-Czech Republic battle in detail with a strong desire to curiosity, his inner image of the Chinese team living by luck still remained unchanged.
Hiroji Tanaka behind him couldn't understand the Spanish newspapers, but after browsing the pictures, he roughly guessed the direction of Wufu Bandai's words.
The Japanese Football Association was very satisfied with Tanaka's performance in the local Asian Youth Championship, so he continued to appoint him as the team leader and was responsible for the team's related matters in Spain throughout the whole process. The tacit cooperation between the two also cleared many obstacles for the team's journey.
Tanaka Koji looked at him and asked in detail: "Bandaijun, do you think we will meet the Chinese team this time?"
Wanda Wufu didn't raise his head, and his eyes were fixed on other contents in the newspaper: "I really hope to meet them, but judging from the current situation, it's very difficult. I didn't expect that these Bag Yale actually killed the Czech Republic and directly advanced to the second place in the group. My luck is really good."
Hiroji Tanaka nodded and replied, "Yes, I actually feel this way. When I see the Chinese, I think of that 5:0. The good times cannot be renewed. It's such a pity!"
"Hmph, they are lucky. If they meet us again this time, they will die more miserably and ugly. During the Asian Youth Championship, we basically only lined up a second-tier lineup, which made them look disgraceful. Now that the soldiers are strong, the sweeping is even more irresponsible, haha." Wanda Wufu, who was in a well-equipped manner, seemed very confident and arrogant.
Compared with the Asian Youth Championship, the Japanese team's lineup has been added to Tomoaki Shinno, Yoshida Rio, Atsuto Uchida, Shinji Kagawa, Yuto Umezaki, Yuto Nagato, Takayuki Morimoto and Sho Ito. The strength of the three lines has been strongly supplemented, gathering the most promising young talents at home and abroad. It is no wonder that Wanyobu is so confident.
Hiroji Tanaka recognized his statement and smiled: "So, should our goal be set to 'win the championship' this time?"
Wu Fu Wandae laughed: "Why not? Our Yamato nation is an excellent nation that always strives for the best, and it should be worn in a yellow robe!"
"Saying mud."
"Ye Si, whisper!"
At 4 a.m. on the 7th, Beijing time, the office of the director of the China Football Management Center was still brightly lit, and Shen Shouhu's eyes were still staring at the TV screen, and the blood-covered eyes showed the process of staying up late.
The game that ended more than an hour ago was still playing on the screen, and the excitement made him unable to sleep;
Especially the extremely long-distance own goal that was so crazy that it could not be described in words at the last moment, which directly made his heart beat 180 times in one minute!
The scene of Chinese players and coaches celebrating excitedly came into his eyes, further teasing his heart;
Although he was thousands of miles away, he, an old man in his fifties, clearly felt the restlessness at this moment, no less than a young man in his twentysomething. Since he was away from the track and field field, he has not experienced this kind of youthful wildness for many years.
As the director of the Football Management Center and full-time vice chairman of the Football Association, Shen Shouhu, the top leader of the Chinese football management department, has been in a tight situation every day, just like Wang Xiaoer's New Year. He has not yet been able to truly sleep peacefully on one day;
At the Asian Youth Championship at the beginning of the year, the young men of the national youth team worked hard and eliminated two old enemies in Iran and South Korea, exerting the spirit of the Chinese people, which made the General Administration very satisfied;
However, the two adult national teams, as a football business card of a country, have very poor results. The men's football team must prepare for the Asian Cup in July, and the women's football team must also face the World Cup in September;
At the moment of the competition, the two teams have successively created some inexplicable defeats, and there is no improvement in technical and tactical play. It is like a pool of stagnant water. The leaders of the General Administration directly ordered the men's and women's football team to achieve results, and the head of the sinking tiger was about to explode;
A few weeks before the World Youth Championship was about to start, the National Youth Team, which was highly anticipated, broke out in a vicious incident of a group fight, which was exposed online and caused a very bad impact on society;
The football management center, which had no status in the minds of the leaders, was directly dealt with, and the pre-match policy-based reduction in staff were punished directly hit the weakness of the National Youth Team;
The injuries of Ma Zhang and his two men greatly weakened the team's strength, and the successive changes turned this hope army into a loose sand army;
Through a series of tough measures by the General Administration, Chen Shouhu has already felt that his superiors are very dissatisfied with the Football Association's plan to transform into the National Olympic Games, and he is negative about the implementation effect of the 08 Star, and the possibility of the plan being destroyed is extremely high;
The Olympic strategy is the lifeblood of the sinking tiger. The 08 Star Plan also devoted all his efforts. In the two years since he took office, he has put all his bets on this youth team with a glorious mission. Now the General Administration will cancel it if it says it will be cancelled, which is simply a matter of killing him!
Shenshouhu began to clear all aspects, and he only won the unclear attitude of the leaders of the General Administration, "to make plans after the team returns to China". The results are the best persuasion, but it is difficult for the current remnants to achieve ideal results, and his own failure is destined;
It is precisely because of this that Shenshouhu has never made any relevant speeches since the rectification. At the internal meeting of the Football Association, he did not mention the national youth soldiers fighting abroad, Gao Qiang, Bei Yan Meng and Gou Qingqu, and other deputy soldiers who were fighting abroad naturally did not dare to mention it without authorization.
Although Shenshouhu had given up on the surface of the National Youth Team, he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. He always hoped for a miracle to happen. He really ended like this. He was very unwilling to accept it. He watched the team's first two games, but no miracle happened, and he was completely disappointed as expected.
Before the last game of the group stage started, he decided not to watch it anymore. He was already lying on the bed at 10 o'clock in the evening. He woke up in a daze. When he saw the time, it happened to be 1 a.m., when the game started, he gritted his teeth and still got up to watch it. After two hours of persistence, he got what he wanted, because a miracle really happened.
From 3 a.m. at the end of the game, he was completely sleepy and stared at the screen with his eyes wide open, but a strong signal rang out in his mind. It was so mercy that the star of 08 is alive again!
His thoughts floated to the Olympic stadium next year, hoping to win a medal he had always dreamed of, leaving all the ridicule and meanness behind.
While still looking forward to a beautiful blueprint, there was a knock on the door of the office unexpectedly.
"Please come in." Although it was surprising, he was quite calm.
The person who came was Gao Qiang, vice chairman of the Football Association, also with a pair of red eyes: "Change your head, have you watched the game?"
Chenshouhu nodded "well" and looked at him: "Why are your eyes so red, like red eyes?"
Gao Qiang scratched his eyes and smiled awkwardly: "It's really not as difficult as before. Staying up late to watch the court, haha."
He looked at him and said excitedly, "I suddenly stopped sleeping after watching the ball. I found that the lights in your office were still on, so I thought about sending you some coffee to cheer you up."
Put a cup of instant coffee in his hand in front of him.
Chenshouhu nodded at him with satisfaction: "Okay, let it go here, thank you."
Gao Qiang saw him closing his eyes to rest, and asked curiously: "Chang, do you have nothing to explain to me?"
Chenshouhu didn't open his eyes, and after thinking for a moment, he asked: "Gao Qiang, what do you think of this game?"
"Incredible, I can only answer with this word." Gao Qiang replied frankly.
Chen Shouhu suddenly opened his eyes and asked: "What about this team?"
Gao Qiang looked at him in a glance: "I think they are very good in such a difficult situation."
The Shenshouhu said "um" and sighed as if he was relieved: "Yes, their battle has solved a big problem in my heart!"
"Then you shouldn't be able to do it?" Gao Qiang had figured out the intentions of his superiors and took the initiative to raise the topic.
"No hurry, now they have exceeded the task. I'll wait and see their next move before making plans." I paused for a moment, "Sometimes I'm also wondering if I used to be too demanding on them, so I put too much pressure on them?"
Gao Qiang didn't expect to think of those things that were taken for granted in the end. Therefore, he didn't answer his question for a while, and he stammered and replied: "No, no, there is motivation only if there is pressure. If no one cares about it, that would be really desolate."
After saying that, I felt that it was inappropriate for me to say this, and the words were a bit inconspicuous, and the expression on my face was very awkward.
Fortunately, the Shenshouhu seemed to be distracted. He didn't hear it, nodded, and did not shake his head.
"Then let's continue to observe their performance?" Gao Qiang asked carefully.
"When you find a suitable opportunity to call them first, express our concern, be careful in your tone, and don't put too much pressure on them. Tell them that their performance is great, and the people of the whole country are proud of them. In the future, just let go of the game."
Chenshouhu explained in detail, and finally added, "You have to prepare well during this period of time, but you still have to go there."
Gao Qiang nodded, expressing his recognition of the leader's arrangement, but his deep thought was that this should have been the case long ago.
Chapter completed!