Chapter 126 Everyone's Focus

The Chinese team's first warm-up match against Iran was played in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

Henan fans gave a high level of enthusiastic support to the Chinese national team's game.

This is not only because the Chinese team has Zhou Yi, but also because Gao Hongbo has led the team to achieve results since he took office.

Especially the most recent competition, the East Asian Final Four, also known as the East Asian Cup.

The Chinese team performed very well in the East Asian Cup at the beginning of this year. Because Zhou Yi was not recruited, almost no one had confidence in them.

But when the game started, the performance of the Chinese team surprised everyone - they drew with the host Japan in the first game, and then they defeated South Korea with a score of 3:0 at the Ajinomoto Stadium. The Chinese team's 32-year-old fear of Korea.

Especially in this second game, the Chinese team played so soul-stirringly, and Deng Zhuoxiang's goal was even more wonderful and amazing.

This is the best game the Chinese national team has played since Gao Hongbo took office.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated Hong Kong, China and won the East Asian Cup. This is after 2006, the Chinese team once again aspires to the championship of this event.

Next, in the warm-up match before the World Cup in South Africa, Deng Zhuoxiang kicked a beautiful free kick in the elevator, allowing the Chinese team to beat the world champion France 1-0.

These few games have brought great satisfaction to Chinese fans.

Therefore, Gao Hongbo has a high reputation among Chinese fans, and this national team is also well received.

In previous national team games, there were no people in the stands, and there were very few spectators, and the football market was bleak.

And now, the national team's game can also overcrowd the stands.

Chinese fans have gone through the darkest moment, but now it is easy to be satisfied - as long as the players work hard in the game, even if they don't win, they are happy and play wonderful football.

Even if it is a friendly match, if it can win. They are very happy.

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A few warm-up matches before the World Cup. Zhou Yi didn't participate because he needed special training and didn't have the time and energy to fly around to participate in the competition.

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Zhou Yi also specifically communicated with the team's head coach Gao Hongbo. Got Gao Hongbo's understanding and support.

Externally, Gao Hongbo said that Zhou Yi played a successful season. But he is tired and needs to rest, so he will not be recruited for these warm-up matches.

Of course, his decision also aroused doubts from the domestic media and fans. But Gao Hongbo still withstood the pressure. The Chinese team without Zhou Yi performed well in the warm-up match, which also made the doubts disappear.

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The first warm-up match against Iran. Zhou Yi only played halftime, starting the game, and was replaced during the intermission. The whole Chinese team seemed out of shape. No matter how powerful Zhou Yi is alone, it's useless.

In the end, the Chinese team lost 1:3 to the Asian powerhouse Iran.

The second warm-up is dead against Paraguay. Zhou Yi did not enter the starting list and came off the bench in the second half.

And the Chinese team, whether it is mental outlook or personal performance. They were all better than the last game, and in the end they drew 1:1 with Paraguay, the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

Zhou Yi launched an attack in the game. He passed the football to Feng Renliang. Feng Renliang went forward to catch the ball and then passed it in. Gao Lin who followed up in the middle scored with a header and scored.

This goal played the kind of pass-and-control football that Gao Hongbo has always emphasized.

It also ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

Commentator Liu Hong was very excited: "This is the Chinese team we want to see! This is the football we want to see!"

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After playing two warm-up matches, Zhou Yi left China by plane that night and returned to Germany.

There is a league game next and then the Champions League.

Because there will be a Champions League game next, and he just participated in the national team game, so Zhou Yi was not scheduled to start in this game.

And it's not just Zhou Yi, there are many players who have been placed on the bench by Klopp, or have not entered the squad at all.

It can be seen that at this time, Dortmund's focus has shifted to the Champions League.

After seven seasons, Dortmund will return to the Champions League, and of course they will pay more attention to it.

Dortmund, who gave up the league, finally lost to Wolfsburg 0:2 at home in the third round of the league as a matter of course.

Zhou Yi was on the bench for 75 minutes, and only played in the last 15 minutes, and he was powerless. At that time Dortmund was already two goals behind.

For this failure, the media did not criticize them very much. Everyone knows that Dortmund's mind is not on the league at all, and their hearts have already flown to the midweek Champions League.

In fact, not only the team, but also the media fans' minds have gone to the Champions League. The outcome of a league game is not important. Compared with the Champions League, the league is nothing at all.

Everyone is full of expectations for Dortmund's debut in the Champions League after seven years.

Especially... Chinese media and Chinese fans.

They seemed more excited than the German media and fans.

After all, this is Zhou Yi's first appearance in the Champions League, and it is also the first Chinese player to appear in the Champions League since Sun Xiang.

The UEFA Champions League, as the highest-level stage in European football and even world football, has always been unattainable for Chinese players.

Before Zhou Yi, there were two Chinese players who made their debut in the Champions League. The first one was Sun Xiang, who was playing for Eindhoven at the time. He was also the pinnacle of Chinese players in the Champions League - he played a total of four Champions League games, played 168 minutes, and represented the team in the Champions League. Playing the game, playing the whole game... These are the records of Chinese players in the Champions League.

His pinnacle was March 7, 2007, when Eindhoo made his start for a 1:1 draw with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium and played the whole game. In the 82nd minute, the team created a free kick in the frontcourt, and PSV used this free kick to equalize the score.

In addition to Sun Xiang, there is another Chinese player Dong Fangzhuo. On December 12, 2007, he came off the bench in the 72nd minute of Manchester United's away game against Roma in the Champions League, making him the first Chinese player to represent a giant like Manchester United in the Champions League.

Next, no Chinese player will be able to make his debut in the Champions League.

In this regard, there is a natural gap between Chinese players and Japanese players.

But now Zhouyi has changed the embarrassing side of Chinese football.

If nothing else happens, he will start Dortmund's away game against Valencia. He will be the second Chinese player to start in the Champions League after Sun Xiang.

And he will be more worthy of everyone's expectations than Sun Xiang, because he will not just create a free kick for the team and make the media and fans excited. If Zhou Yi only behaved like that. It will be disappointing.

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The Dortmund team left Dortmund two days early and flew to Valencia.

At the airport, Zhou Yi, as the core player of Dortmund, received the attention of Spanish reporters. They threw the question to Zhouyi one after another.

But Zhou Yi dealt with the reporters rushing up like a tide very calmly. Quite a general demeanor, without stage fright.

Facing a series of flicking sounds, he repeated in English calmly: "Sorry. I_don\t_understand (sorry, I don't understand)."

And when the Spanish reporters found out that Zhou Yi would respond to them in English. The dispute was changed to English, but still with a strong Spanish accent.

In this regard, Zhou Yi responded to all changes without change. Said in Chinese: "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are talking about..."

The Spanish reporters were completely dumbfounded.

Taking advantage of the dumbfounded opportunity of the reporters. Zhou Yi calmly walked through them.

People always say that there are advantages to learning more than one language. But for Zhou Yi at this moment, knowing one less language would mean less trouble.

And Zhou Yi really doesn't understand Spanish...

He didn't play in Spain. Naturally, there is no need for Spanish, so how can it be possible to learn it?

How did the Spanish media comment on Zhou Yi's performance that night: "Zhou Yi was very cautious in the face of reporters' questions. Obviously, Dortmund had no idea about participating in the Champions League again after seven years. Moreover, we must also pay attention to one point , that is, as the core of Dortmund, Zhou Yi is participating in the Champions League for the first time in his life..."

The Spanish media's comments were naturally in Spanish, and Zhou Yi would turn on the TV in a Spanish hotel to watch Spanish programs, so it stands to reason that he would not know how the Spanish media commented on him.

But he still knows...

Because, he has a group called "Squeeze Old Guo"!

In the hotel room at night, Zhou Yi turned on the computer, logged into QQ, and showed off his Champions League trip in the group.

After all, he is the first person in this group to play in the Champions League for the adult team.

Zhou Yi: "He Ying He Ying, I'm playing in Valencia the day after tomorrow, why don't you come to support me?"

He Ying: "Excuse me, I'm in Barcelona."

Zhou Yi: "Aren't they all in Spain!"

He Ying: "Then you and Lao Yang are both in the Ruhr area, and you haven't seen you go to cheer him up?"

Zhou Yi: "I rely on He Ying, are you stupid? Dortmund and Schalke 04 are sworn enemies! How can I support Lao Yang? You won't go to support Real Madrid, right? Valencia and Barcelona are not sworn enemies after all. Right? Come on, come and witness my heroic appearance with your own eyes!"

Facing Zhou Yi's "arrogant" arrogance, He Ying responded neither humble nor overbearing: "Zhou Yi, the Spanish media can say that you are a coward. You dare not even answer their questions at the airport. It is obviously a sign of guilt. Are you serious? guilty?"

Zhou Yi's "arrogance" has aroused the public indignation of other people in the group. This time, even Sun Pan is on He Ying's side. Everyone laughed at Zhou Yilai, and Sun Pan looked very happy and exaggerated.

"Fuck, who said that? I can't understand Spanish!" Amidst the laughter, Zhou Yi retorted.

"Oh, really? But the Spanish media also said that they switched to English later, and you didn't answer. Don't you understand English?" He Ying didn't let Zhou Yi go, and spent time chatting with them in this group After a long time, his image on the Internet is much more lively than offline...

"Ahahaha!" Everyone laughed happily again.

Regarding this, Zhou Yi said without changing his face: "Of course I can understand English, but I really can't understand English that the Spaniards speak like a big tongue."

For Zhou Yi's strong words, everyone can only respond with "hehe".

As for Zhou Yi, it is taken for granted that they are all "envious, jealous and hateful". (To be continued.) Enable new URL