Champion’s Heart

Apart from the fact that the Olympic team players enter the national team, in fact, the football grudges of China and Japan are very promising.

In the distant twenty years ago, such a saying was popular among Chinese fans. A paragraph about the football of the three East Asian countries: China can’t win South Korea, South Korea can’t win Japan, and Japan can’t win China, forming a Perfect endless loop.

Now it seems that this is a ridiculous one-the Japanese team will not win the Chinese team?

But in the distant 1980s, it really was like this. The most famous Sino-Japanese football match that everyone remembered occurred in the qualifiers of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. At that time, there was no such thing as FIFA restricting the age of players participating in the Olympic Games, so it was the qualified national first team that participated in the Olympic Games, not the national Olympic team or the national second team.

For the first time in Chinese history, the Chinese team broke into the Olympic finals, defeating the Japanese team in that game.

The Chinese team's victory over the South Korean team began in 1978. Later, after media rendering, there was "phobia", but why didn't you hear of "phobia"?

Before entering the 1990s, Chinese football was also an important force that could not be ignored in Asia. It was a famous powerhouse in the East Asian circle, and they could not meet the South Korean team who was more capable of running and more tenacious. But in the face of the Japanese team, they have the upper hand.

At that time, Japanese football was not yet civilized. In 1964, the Japanese team participated in the Olympic Games for the first time. It was the Tokyo Olympics held in the country and reached the top eight. Four years later, in the Mexico City Olympic Games, it achieved a historic third place, which is also their best record in the history of the Olympic Games before the London Olympic Games. However, although the Japanese team at that time had good results, it did not last long, because at that time Japanese football used an elite training program. To put it bluntly, it was to train football as a grassroots sport as an elite sport. But there was also a historical reason at that time, because there were too few people who played football in Japan, so if you want to get results, you can only do so. Thirty or forty people were selected from all parts of the country. These people usually do nothing, do not need to work part-time, and just conduct professional training every day.

This is a bit like a nationwide system with Japanese characteristics.

This training method, of course, the level of players improves quickly, but it can not last long, because the country cannot always keep so many dozens of people for training and competition. If this is the case, football, a grass-rooted football, cannot Survived in Japan.

So after experiencing a short period of glory, Japanese football fell to the bottom again.

After losing to China in the finals of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Japanese Football Association ushered in a key figure, he is the former Japanese national team international Kawon Saburo. He began to plan to promote professional football leagues in Japan. This is not only for Japan, but for many other Asian countries, professional leagues are a new thing. At the time, Japanese baseball was the number one sport, and football was a small, unremarkable role. But with the efforts of Kawabuchi Saburo, in 1993, the Japanese professional league was born.

However, Japanese football, which has just established a professional league, suffered a heavy blow at the beginning of its development. In the last game of the Asian World Cup qualifiers in the United States, as long as the Japanese team defeated Iraq, they can enter the historic first World Cup finals. Unfortunately, before the game ended, the Japanese team was tied by Iraq, and the score of 2:2 made them miss the US World Cup.

This failure gave Japanese football a great shock. Three years later, in 1996, Kawabuchi Saburo introduced an ambitious plan, the famous "100-year plan for Japanese football."

Since then, Japanese football has entered a rapid development of morale, and finally reached the World Cup finals for the first time in 1998.

In 2005, the Japanese Football Association issued a "2005 Declaration"-through football to create a sports culture and create a healthy society. By popularizing football, integrating sports into people's lives, creating a good living environment for everyone; intensifying efforts to strengthen football, so that the Japanese national team can perform well in world competitions, giving people courage, hope, and moving; Maintain the spirit of fair play, maintain good relations with other countries, and contribute to the stability and peace of the international community.

The specific goal is: in 2015, the Japanese national team should be ranked in the top ten in the world, and the football population will increase to 5 million; before 2050, the football population will increase to 10 million. .

These goals sound illusory, and even attracted ridicule and ridicule when they were first released.

But now it seems that the goals of Japanese football are all achieved one by one. For example, to win the World Cup, the Japanese women’s national team has already achieved it-let alone the Japanese women’s national team is not a national team. There is no limit in this century-old goal of Japan. Only the Japanese men’s national team won the World Cup. Count it.

In fact, if China wants to improve their football level, they don't need to learn anything about Brazil, Spain, or Germany. There is a good target for them to learn from, that is, Japan.

From the construction of the national team, to the maintenance of the league, to the most important campus football foundation, Japan has a complete set of mature and mature experience to learn.

Japanese football once had a method of forcibly ignoring the law of football. Although it won the third place in the Olympic Games, it eventually fell into the deep. All actions that do not follow the laws of football to develop football, no matter how much money, manpower and material resources are spent, will not have a good result.

When the Japanese started to develop their country's football in accordance with the laws of football in a down-to-earth manner, and the whole society participated in it, the results achieved by Japanese football were natural and natural.

After the Japanese team began to seriously engage in football construction, the strength contrast between Chinese and Japanese football was reversed. From the 1990s onwards, the Chinese team met the Japanese team again and lost more and less.

As of this World Cup qualifier, the last time the Chinese team defeated Japan still dates back to the East Asian semifinals in 1998, when Li Bin scored twice and helped Horton’s Chinese team defeat Gang 2:0 The Japanese team led by Tian Takeshi.

After that game, the Chinese team has never been able to beat the Japanese team in the FIFA A-level game. The embarrassing record of "invincible Japan" has continued for 14 years.

Originally in the Asian Cup early last year, the Chinese team had the hope to pull the wrench wrist with the Japanese team, which might end the embarrassing 14-year record of defeating Japan.

However, Zhou Yi was suspended in the semi-finals due to the accumulation of yellow cards and missed the Asian Cup final with Japan.

In the final, the Japanese team defeated the Chinese team and won the championship.

This is also a new grudge between China and Japan football at the national team level. Now the World Cup qualifier is considered by the Chinese media as the national team's revenge.

Some people say that the national Olympic team defeated the Japanese team, yes, the national Olympic team did defeat the Japanese team, but that is the Olympic game. The Olympic games are not in FIFA's A-level events, and their status is not high. Messi has won the Olympic Games gold medal, but his national team honors are still blank, because the Olympic gold medal is not a recognized national team honor.

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Every time China-Japan confrontation will tell a lot of stories, the 1988 Seoul Olympics preliminary round is one of them.

At that time, the Chinese team led by Gao Fengwen unexpectedly lost to Japan in the qualifiers at home 0:1, which put the Chinese team into a desperate situation. The away game can be described as a battle against the backwaters. In the autumn rain in Tokyo, the Chinese team was wearing a red jersey to challenge the white team in Japan. The Chinese team put forward the best game in 20 years. The Japanese team played no fight, only the first half of China. The team had 15 shots. In the end, with the goals of Liu Haiguang and Tang Yaodong, the Chinese team defeated Japan 2-0 and stepped on the Japanese body to enter Seoul.

The meaning of this game for Chinese football is the first time to rush out of Asia to the world, and the significance for Japanese football may be a little bigger, because this failure directly gave birth to the Japanese Football Association’s unpaid salary and courage to reform, this is the only thing Today's brilliant Japanese football.

In the 1996 Asian Cup group stage, a match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team was a dark and ugly representative. At that time, the Chinese team lost to Uzbekistan in the first game 0:2, and the second game 3:0 victory over Syria again found confidence. The third group match faced the Japanese team that had won before and was willing to give water to the Chinese team. As long as the two sides can draw, they can squeeze out the third group of the Korean team. In this case, the Chinese team and the Japanese team played a tacit ball. In the 90-minute game, they spent more than half of their time in the backcourt. Everyone thought that the game would end with a score of 0:0. As a result, Japanese defender Soma Naoki volleyed in the upper left corner of the penalty area and the football flew into the goal of the Chinese team. Not only were the Chinese stupid, but the Japanese were stupid. In the end, the Chinese team relied on the results of the match between Syria and Uzbekistan to see that others' faces even got the group qualifying right.

It was the first and the last tacit ball in the history of China and Japan. Later, the gap between Chinese and Japanese football was widening, and the football between the two countries was no longer on the same level.

The 2004 Asian Cup was held in China. As the host, the Chinese team reached the finals all the way, and met the old rival Japan team. That game went to the next city first, but the Chinese team then stubbornly equalized the score. Originally, the game returned to the balance of power, but the Japanese team's Koji Nakata hit the football with his hand into the goal of the Chinese team in the corner kick, but the referee and the referee ignored this and the ball was valid. This lost ball greatly affected the mood of the Chinese players. In the end, the Chinese team lost to the Japanese team 1:3 at the door of the house, making the Japanese team successfully defend the title, and they lost the opportunity to win the Asian Cup for the first time.

In fact, although the Asian Cup was held in China, the Japanese team received more preferential treatment than the Chinese team. For example, for the first time in history, the goal was changed in the middle of a penalty shootout. It happened to Japan. At that time, the Japanese team missed consecutive penalties, so they protested that they thought there was a problem with the penalty spot. Opposite half. What is incredible is that this kind of unreasonable request has even been approved by the referee team! After changing the venue, the Japanese team finally eliminated Jordan by penalty kick... In addition, the ridiculous penalty of throwing off the ball was also seen on the opponents of the Japanese team.

So when it comes to the Asian Cup, there must be a lot of people who have only used the fans to disagree.

In 2011, it was the Asian Cup again. The Chinese team reached the finals without being optimistic, but the core Zhou Yi was suspended due to the accumulation of yellow cards and missed the peak matchup with the Japanese team. Without Zhou Yi, the strength of the Chinese team was greatly reduced, and eventually the Chinese team lost to Japan and again missed the Asian Cup champion.

This Asian Cup, I am afraid that even made Chinese fans unconvinced. Everyone can’t help but guess—if Zhou Yi is not suspended, if he is in the finals, will the Chinese team really win Japan, ending the Chinese team’s embarrassing record of defeating Japan in the international A-level competition? ?

Fortunately, this time, Zhou Yi did not miss the World Cup qualifiers.

He will lead the Chinese national team to challenge Japan away, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, the old enemy of China.

Enthusiastic netizens on Weibo hand-drawn a picture. The players of the Chinese national team in the picture are wearing the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army. The leading one is the most obvious. It is Zhou Yi. !"

Obviously this is the hope of Zhou Yi's "anti-Japanese" success.

After this picture came out, it still caused some controversy, but the controversy has nothing to do with football. It is related to the history of the Anti-Japanese War. It is just that some people accuse the painter of letting the players pass the Eighth Route Army uniform, which is a distortion of history, because the main force of the anti-Japanese war is to wear Military uniforms should also be worn.

Such remarks attracted other people's condemnation. The two sides fought together, and they also affected Chiyu, so that the fans could not cheer for the Chinese team.

Under such circumstances, Zhou Yi's real-name authentication Weibo suddenly reposted the Weibo of this picture.

And wrote: "Thank you, be sure to cheer on, do not disgrace the mission!"

Some debates continue, but more people can focus on football. (To be continued.)