Champion’s Heart

The warm-up match with Macedonia took place in Guangzhou on December 23rd. This is the last match of the Chinese national team in 2010. After this match, the Chinese team will announce the final 23 of the Qatar Asian Cup List of people's congresses.

Not surprisingly, Zhou Yi will definitely be on the roster unless he suffered a serious injury during the warm-up match against Macedonia...

Not enough. The probability of this happening is too low to be worth mentioning.

Most national team rosters have no suspense. Players who are often selected for the Gao Jiajun and have outstanding performances should be on the roster.

There are only some marginal internationals who hope to use this last warm-up match to hurry up and express themselves, hoping to impress Gao Hongbo and catch the last team of the national team.

As the opponent in the warm-up match, Macedonia's leading star is naturally Inter Milan striker Pandev.

He and Zhou Yi have just played in the UEFA Champions League group stage, and Zhou Yi is probably the only Chinese national who can name Pandev.

In the press conference before the game, Pan Defu said that Zhou Yi left a very deep impression on him: "Although it is a warm-up match, we will still go all out, after all, the Chinese team has Zhou Yi in."

What this said really made the Chinese journalists and fans almost have a collective climax-to be able to get the evaluation of the striker of the Triple Crown winner. Everyone thinks that Zhou Yi is already a first-class European player.

Macedonia’s performance in this game really does not seem to be perfunctory. People such as Ma De, a reporter of the famous national team accompanying the "Sports Weekly", will always question Gao Hongbo’s low gold content because he leads Most of the games played by the team are warm-up matches.

The opponents in the warm-up match are uneven, not to mention, but also work hard.

But today's warm-up match, Macedonia is very hard.

As a result, although the Chinese team is fighting at home, it has been unable to open the situation.

In a FIFA ranking in July this year, the Macedonian national team ranked 61st. This ranking is actually not high, but for the Chinese team. It is also a strong opponent.

Until the eighty-first minute. Zhou Yi was tripped by Macedonian players in the penalty area and won a penalty for the Chinese team. This game ushered in a turning point.

Deng Zhuoxiang's penalty kick was a quasi-kill to Macedonia.

Although the process is a bit harder. But the Chinese team ended up with a victory in 2010. Their results this year can be refreshed-11 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses throughout the year, the performance is very good.

Of course everyone knows. The Asian Cup half a month later is the most important. If the Asian Cup is not played well, all the wonderful performances of this year will be quickly forgotten. The world ranking of the highest seventy-five places won will be worthless, and the joy brought by the victory will not offset the anger and disappointment of the fans for the failure of the Asian Cup.

No matter how many times you say "sports spirit", "emphasis on participation", "not on success or failure on heroes", "the process is more important than the result", these grandiose words Nothing can change the fact that football is a utilitarian sport that only looks at the results.

※※※

One day after the game, the Chinese team announced their twenty-three list and submitted it to the AFC registration.

Not surprisingly. Zhou Yi was impressively listed.

Hao Junmin is the second returnee, although he basically didn't play much in Schalke 04. But still selected for the national team list. Can't play in Schalke 04, but for the Chinese team, it is still a very strong player.

There are basically no surprises for the candidates in other areas. The previous year's performance was outstanding. All players who are in good shape recently have been selected.

After announcing the final list of twenty-three people selected, the unselected players leave the training ground and they can begin the rest period after the end of the league.

The remaining twenty-three people will continue to train in Guangzhou for a period of time, and will not leave for Qatar until December 30.

This is the youngest national team to participate in world-class competitions in the history of Chinese football.

From this point of view alone, it can be known that Gao Hongbo said that the Asian Cup training is really not a joke...

The Chinese Football Association also expressed support for Gao Hongbo when it was in full swing, saying that the Football Association did not set any specific tasks for Gao Hongbo and the Chinese team in the Asian Cup. The team is preparing for the Asian World Cup qualifiers in May.

In this way, the youngest national team in history left China with expectations and controversy and flew to Qatar.

What impact this team can have on Chinese football, whether it is positive or negative, is hard to say now.

※※※

After the team arrived in Qatar, they played two warm-up matches to further fit the team's lineup.

Although Zhou Yi played in Dortmund's midfielder, Gao Hongbo still put him in the midfielder position in the national team.

Because Zhou Yi still has to be closer to the goal to be more threatening. And in Dortmund, Zhou Yi hit the lower back, with Kagawa Shinji in the front, can fully guarantee the offensive firepower. The Chinese team does not have such a good staffing in this regard.

Pushing Zhou Yi to the front waist position, while creating more shooting opportunities, he also has the opportunity to shoot himself, threatening the opponent's goal personally.

This is Gao Hongbo's plan.

Zhou Yi himself has no opinion about playing in the national team. Anyway, he played in Dortmund is not a fixed back. He often runs forward and participates in offense. At this time, it is no different from a front. .

In fact, it is not uncommon for such a player to be unable to play positions in the club and the national team.

For example, Park Ji-sung played at Manchester United's midfield side, a role player, but in the South Korean national team, he sits in the middle of the road and is a core.

There is no live TV broadcast of the two warm-up matches, so domestic fans who want to know the information of these two warm-up matches can only report through the domestic media.

The domestic media is mainly concerned with other players of the national team, not Zhou Yi.

Because there is nothing to say about Zhou Yi's performance, it can be summarized in one sentence-"Zhou Yi played a stable position in the front waist."

Zhou Yi's level is of course no problem, but can other internationals cooperate with him?

This is what everyone is concerned about.

Judging from the two warm-up games, the players of the national team actually performed quite well. After all, Zhou Yi has been selected for the national team for a year. Although he did not have much training time to participate in the national team, he is not new to this team. His special ability.

Although the Chinese team against Macedonia did not rely on a penalty to win until the last moment. The performance is not too satisfying. But these two warm-up matches after coming to Qatar. Instead, the Chinese journalists who watched the battle have regained some confidence. If they fight like this, the group should have a play.

※※※

In some anticipation and uneasiness, the Asian Cup kicked off.

At 0:15 am on January 8th, Beijing time, host Qatar made the first appearance. This is the opener of the current Asian Cup.

However, the host's first time volume is not quite satisfactory-they lost 0:2 at home to the second-grade team Uzbekistan in this group.

For the Chinese team, this is not good news. Because this means that Qatar is the host, if they want the group to qualify, they must defeat the Chinese team in the second game.

And this is at their home court. The West Asians are particularly good at playing tricks, and they have to make people think...

In this regard, Gao Hongbo said at the pre-match press conference the next day that he did not care about his opponent. The Chinese team should now do not be used to sex, but play their own games.

Because there is still an hour, the Chinese team will appear in this Asian Cup. Their opponent is Kuwait, the weakest team in the group.

Kuwait is not a very strong team, and the strength of the Chinese team with Zhou Yi has also improved. The two teams met, and China quickly gained the upper hand.

Under Zhou Yi's dispatch and command, the Chinese team firmly controlled the situation on the court.

The narrator mentioned Zhou Yi again and again. Praise Zhou Yi's performance.

Zhou Jianliang in front of the TV heard his head shaking, and Li Cuiyun asked when he saw it, "Is it right?"

Zhou Jianliang coughed and said positively: "Where is this? Isn't this his normal performance?"

Although he controlled the situation in the first half, he did not score.

The first goal of the Chinese team came from the fiftieth minute. The player who scored the goal was full-back Zhang Linpeng, and this goal was passed by Zhou Yi.

At that time, Zhou Yi took the ball on the left side of the middle road, and the Chinese team continuously attacked on the left road to find opportunities, so Kuwait's defensive center of gravity was also adjusted to this side to prevent the Chinese team's attack. Zhou Yi is also looking to the left, as if he really wants to pass the football.

But after attracting Kuwait's defensive attention to the left, he suddenly split the football to the right.

After receiving the ball from the high-speed defender Zhang Linpeng, he took a long shot directly on the line of the big penalty area. The football drew an arc, bypassed the Kuwait goalkeeper, and flew into the goal!

"1:0! Zhang Linpeng! Beautiful long shot! This is the first goal of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup! Assist from Zhou Yi!"

After the goal, Zhang Linpeng ran to Zhou Yi who assisted him~www.wuxiaspot.com~ directly took Zhou Yi up, and other teammates swarmed to celebrate the goal together.

As everyone will mention in the interview before the game, that is, the internal atmosphere of this national team is really first-class. There is no dispute between the hilltopism and factions that have been criticized before. No matter the seniority, the new and the old, everyone same. This is what Gao Hongbo has been pursuing.

In China's society of rivers and lakes, the national team is also a small river and lake. Where there are rivers and lakes, there is the trouble of not being able to tell the truth.

And these troubles are not conducive to the team's pursuit of good results. Therefore, not long after Gao Hongbo took office, veteran veterans such as Zheng Zhi and Li Weifeng were resolutely excluded.

This naturally attracted many people's dissatisfaction. But Gao Hongbo insisted on doing so.

If he leads the team well, there will be fewer and fewer opponents. On the contrary, if he leads the team with poor grades, then what he did is the reason for his get out of class.

Gao Hongbo is actually under great pressure. (To be continued.) Activate new URL