Chapter 68

In fact, regarding Zhou Yi's entry into the national team, since Zhou Yi's outstanding performance in the first game, there has been discussion in the Chinese media.

Not everyone supported Zhou Yi's decision to enter the national team. Everything was controversial, and it was impossible to win everyone's approval.

People who agree with Zhou Yi's outstanding performance in Dortmund have proved his ability. Such a good player should enter the national team. In addition, Gao Hongbo's national team is already famous for using young people, so Zhou Yi was selected for the national team Isn't it a matter of course?

Opponents believe that Zhou Yicai played a professional game in Dortmund, and he came off the bench. Although his performance was good, there were also accidental factors. The performance of one game can't explain anything. It is too early and too hasty to say that he should be recruited into the national team.

In fact, what the opponents said was quite reasonable. It is indeed too arbitrary to say that Zhou Yi should be selected for the national team based on the tens of minutes of the substitute game.

But then, Zhou Yi played, and changed from a substitute to a starter, and his performance was as good and stable as ever.

Those opposing voices are also getting smaller and smaller, because they also feel that their reasons are not convincing.

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

However, the Chinese Football Association did not express any opinions on such voices. It was Gao Hongbo who was blocked by reporters and asked questions about Zhou Yi during the interview. He said that he was concerned about Zhou Yi’s performance in Dortmund and would consider it as appropriate. . But it did not say whether or not to recruit, and when to recruit.

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

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

Although I don't know if he can finally represent the Chinese team... But the training list has been entered, isn't it a matter of time before the competition?

What excites the Chinese fans is that Zhou Yi's joining is very much needed for the current national team.

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

Although Zhou Yi is not a scorer, he is a very good offensive organizer. He has proved this in Dortmund. So far, he has played four times, three starts and one substitute, contributed four assists, and one goal.

Such a performance is naturally worthy of everyone's more hopes for him.

Zhou Yi's entry into the national team also made fans who were a little disappointed with Chinese football refocus their attention on the Chinese national team.

In China, the composition of fans is very complicated. There are fans who only watch football but don't play football, fans who only play football but don't watch much, and fans who both watch and play football. At the same time, among football fans, there are fans who only watch European leagues and international competitions, such as the World Cup and European Cup; there are also fans who only watch intercontinental competitions such as the World Cup and European Cup, but do not watch European leagues at all. ; What the former two have in common is that they do not pay attention to domestic football, whether it is domestic league or national team games, they don't care much. In addition, there are also some fans who are die-hard fans of the domestic league and also watch the matches of the Chinese national team. The number of these people is relatively small.

Zhou Yi made his debut in Dortmund,

The outstanding performance has attracted the attention of many Chinese fans. Not all Chinese fans care about and support the Chinese national team. If there is no Zhouyi, they will just look at the European League.

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

This is the discovery of many talents-damn, why do I...don't know anyone in this national team? !

In addition to these people being older, the memory of the national team is still limited to factors such as the World Cup in Korea and Japan eight years ago. It also has something to do with Gao Hongbo's reuse of young people.

Gao Jiajun has many players who have never been selected for the national team before. In his first batch of 31 national team training lists, the newly selected national team accounted for more than one-third of the total. Such players in the lower leagues.

So it's normal for his national team roster to feel strange. Not to mention those who haven't followed the national team for eight years, even fans who have been following the national team will feel a little at a loss.

However, after more than half a year, they have gradually gotten used to such a national team head coach who dares to use young people, but can not sell the face of old players.

After Zhou Yi was selected for the national team, the excited Fang Shuai published an article written by himself.

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

As a veteran fan of Chinese football, Fang Shuai is naturally very clear about the bullshit of the national team. But this time he was optimistic.

Because he believes that the eradication of gangsters and evil in the general environment has the effect of deterring some people who want to use their brains. In the past, the national team was chaotic because it was chaotic from the top of the Football Association. The upper beam was not straight and the lower beam was crooked.

But now, those corrupt officials of the Football Association have all been arrested. Let alone the results, at least the atmosphere in the national team will be much better, and there will be fewer connections who rely on money to get in.

From a small background, Gao Hongbo's national team puts a lot of emphasis on young players, but doesn't 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 the last few games, he didn't even make it to the training list.

In the past, the most impressive thing about the Chinese national team, apart from the failure, was that there were many factions in the team, such as the Dalian Gang and the Shanghai Gang, the Northern faction and the Southern faction, and everyone was formed by the club and the place where they were born. Intricate and antagonistic factions.

All kinds of legends between big brothers and younger brothers are talked about by Chinese fans.

If a rookie wants to enter the national team, if he doesn't pay homage to the mountain and recognize a big brother, then he can't get out of the national team. It's a good conscience not to pretend to make mistakes in training and destroy you.

But now, it can be said that Gao Hongbo's national team is the most free national team in history.

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

They haven't had time to make any hills in it.

The atmosphere in the national team is the most relaxed for Zhou Yi. He doesn't need to be the younger brother of any big brother, and he doesn't need to be involved in the previous discordant factional struggles. He only needs to play well.

So Fang Shuai thinks now 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 about Zhou Yi's prospects in the national team.

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

At this time, Zhou Yi had already put on the national team's training uniform. He looked no different from other national team players, but his figure was still slightly thinner among his teammates. Standing in a large group of teammates, it is not very prominent. If you only look at his current appearance, it is easy to mistakenly think that he is still a student in school, not like a young genius who can make waves in the Bundesliga.

In fact, not only the reporters on the sidelines felt this way, but even Zhou Yi's new teammates in the national team were looking at Zhou Yi with a little doubt—he looked like a schoolboy anyway, How did he become the most popular new star in the Bundesliga recently?

Gao Hongbo's Chinese national team puts a lot of emphasis on young people, as well as players from the domestic league—of course, the latter is because there are almost no good Chinese overseas players, and Zhou Yi is the only one.

Zhou Yi is the only player on this team who has studied abroad. Coupled with his legendary experience, in the eyes of his teammates, he seems to have another layer of mystery.

Is this skinny kid really... so powerful?

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

Some Chinese reporters outside the field were also worried about whether Zhou Yi could adapt to the slower pace of Chinese football after he got used to Dortmund's fast-paced football.

Everyone looked at him with huge question marks in their heads.

Even with his initial success in the Bundesliga, he remains an unknown to many.

After the training started, both the reporters on the sidelines and the players on the field all looked at Zhou Yi with wide eyes, wanting to see what he was capable of.

After watching for more than ten minutes, the reporters off the court had new doubts in their minds—Zhou Yi's performance in training was still good, and he had no problem receiving and running the ball, and it could even be said to be very smooth.

But it went so smoothly that journalists felt wrong.

The Zhou Yi they imagined came back from Germany, a football developed country, with the advanced football concept, not to mention how his personal strength compares with the strength of the players of the national team, but only his understanding of football. The international players who have received training are completely different, because Zhou Yi has never received Chinese football training in China before, so it is a blank sheet of paper. He directly became a professional player in Germany.

Just take the simplest example, the Bundesliga must be faster than the Chinese Super League, and Dortmund's pace is faster than the average pace of the Bundesliga, so Zhou Yi, who has been training with Dortmund, must also be used to the fast-paced style of play. He must not be able to adapt to the slow play of the national team.

In the imagination of the reporters, Zhou Yi's first training session must have gone very badly. He and his teammates must have made various mistakes.

But they didn't see the picture they imagined.

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

Is it because the level of the national team is too high, can it directly and seamlessly connect with European football?

None of the reporters believed this reason.

Could it be that the level of Zhouyi is not as high as we thought?

This is not right either.

Everyone is professional. After watching half an hour of training, I can still see that it makes sense for Zhou Yi to start in Dortmund.

His strength lies in passing and finding space.

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

So 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 of a rookie who is selected for the national team for the first time!

Although Zhou Yi performed well in the first training of the national team, the question marks in the minds of the reporters have not been eliminated at all. 〖To be continued〗【】