Chapter 45 Style

When many people watch the live broadcast of the game, they will be deeply impressed by a situation on the court, that is, a perfectly good court shows clear light and dark, and a large area of ​​shadow cuts the court into two pieces.八★一中√文网 く★く √√★く

This situation is common in Serie A and English competitions.

This kind of court is called a "yin and yang court".

This situation becomes more common when the weather is better and the sun is stronger. This is the projection of the stadium's stands and roof onto the pitch.

Generally speaking, this should be taken into consideration when building a stadium. When players are playing, the dazzling sunlight will affect their vision and even cause short-term blindness.

Yin and yang fields are unavoidable. After all, football is an outdoor sport and it is impossible to always play with the stadium roof closed.

But when building a stadium, you can artificially adjust the shadow projection direction.

For example, a court facing north-south is better than one facing east-west.

Because when a north-south court encounters a yin and yang situation, at best half of it will have shadows horizontally, and the other half will not. In this way, players will be least affected by sunlight when attacking and defending. The opposite is true for east-west direction.

But it just so happens that the new Wembley Stadium, where this final is located, is an east-west stadium...

There seems to be no problem now, but as the game time goes by, it will be difficult to say.

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The Chinese team lost the right to pick the side and got the right to kick off, so when the game starts, the Chinese team will kick off.

He Ying and Wu Lei stood in the middle circle, with a football under his feet, and Zhou Yi stood outside the middle circle.

Players from both sides have already stood in their positions, waiting for the whistle to blow.

The previously noisy scene gradually became quiet, so quiet that it even made people uncomfortable.

Even the commentator He Ping couldn't help but hold his breath.

The referee looked down at his watch, then blew his whistle hard.

"The game begins!" He Ping shouted, "CCTV! CCTV! Audience friends, welcome to watch the men's football final of the 2012 London Olympics! The two sides of the game are the Chinese team wearing red jerseys and the Japanese team wearing blue jerseys.

The Chinese team kicks off first! "

He Ying kicked the football to Wu Lei, and Wu Lei turned around and passed the football back.

The football fell to Zhou Yi's feet.

When these two kicks were passed, the players of the Japanese team had already crossed the center line and rushed over. One of them was their forward Kensuke Nagai. He is a forward, so it is normal to rush at the front.

But the Japanese player rushing in second was their midfielder Hotaru Yamaguchi!

This defensive midfielder, who should be positioned further back than Higashikago, Otsu Yuki, and Kiyotake Hiroshi, rushed to the second position.

He came straight to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi did not let the football stay at his feet. He turned around as soon as he received the ball, and then kicked the football to central defender Guo Nu. After passing the ball, he pulled towards the wing.

Hotaru Yamaguchi also adjusted his running direction and ran towards a new position. He is like a guided missile locked on the target. He goes wherever Zhou Yi goes.

Seeing this scene off the court, Japanese Olympic team coach Takashi Sekitsuka nodded. He was very satisfied with Yamaguchi Hotaru's performance.

Zhou Yi passed the football back to the back line, but Japanese forward Kensuke Nagai, who was rushing at the front, had no intention of stopping and followed the football towards Guo Nu.

In addition to him, other Japanese players also continued to move forward. Otsu Yuki, Higashi Keigo, Kiyotake Hiroshi... ran up from different directions.

But not all of their forward moves are directed toward football. If you look carefully, you will find that only Kensuke Nagai is like this. Everyone else has their own goals. These goals are not football, but other players of the Chinese team. If Guo Nu wants to get the ball, these people will pass the ball to him. Target.

Guo Nu also noticed this after catching the ball. When he wanted to pass the football forward, he suddenly realized that he had no good choice, because there were already Japanese players near the target of his pass. Their backs are facing the direction of the attack. After getting the ball, they are likely to be stuck by Japanese players and cannot even turn around, and they are prone to losing the ball.

Guo Nu was also trained in Serie A. He did not hesitate, but quickly turned around and passed the football back to goalkeeper Sun Pan.

Nagai Kensuke ran past Guo Nu and continued to chase the football, just like Kua Fu chasing the sun, he ran towards goalkeeper Sun Pan.

Facing Kensuke Nagai's attack, Sun Pan did not kick the football out immediately. He seemed to have other ideas.

But at this time, Zhou Yi, who had already run back to the outside of the penalty area, shouted at him: "Kick him out!"

When Sun Pan heard Zhou Yi's voice, he reluctantly kicked the football towards the frontcourt.

But just when he finished this big kick, Nagai Kensuke had already ran to a place only three or four meters away from him...

If he hesitated any longer, he might not have the chance to kick the football forward and would have to kick it sideways.

Zhou Yi's reminder was very timely.

But Sun Pan was still a little unhappy, and he clicked his tongue.

When Zhou Yi turned around and ran forward, he gave Sun Pan a piece of advice: "Be careful, Pan Pan, the Japanese team is not normal today!"

Sun Pan spat: "When will little Japan be normal?"

His mouth was stiff, but he was also murmuring in his heart. The Japanese team attacked really fiercely after the start of this game... Are they on drugs?

"The game has just started, the Chinese team has just kicked off, and the Japanese team is very aggressive! Nagai Kensuke even went directly into the Chinese team's penalty area..." BBC's Mark Lawrenson also highlighted the Japanese team's kick-off What is shown later.

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Zhou Yi is right, today's Japanese team is indeed not normal.

In the subsequent games, Japanese players kept running and actively fighting.

As long as the Chinese team players get the ball, they will see Japanese players rushing towards them.

To be honest, this scene is quite disconcerting for people watching it. The commentator He Ping found it strange and said: "Today's Japanese team players seemed to have suddenly turned into wolves..."

People who watch football find it strange, especially those who play football.

The players of the Chinese Olympic team seemed very unaccustomed to being pressed by the Japanese team. This was a situation they had not expected before the game - no one expected that Japan would play so aggressively in the game...

The technical characteristics and playing style of the Japanese team have always been obvious and clear for many years. That is technology flow and transmission and control flow. In terms of aggressiveness, they are far inferior to the Korean team. Running aggressively like this and surrounding their opponents like a pack of wolves is the hallmark of the Korean team.

Japanese football has been working hard in this direction since it set the goal of imitating Brazil. Combining their own racial characteristics, they believe that delicate technique and control are the most suitable path for Japanese players.

They have persisted for so many years, almost like Barcelona insisted on Tiki-taka, and it has become the DNA of Japanese football.

Because of the emphasis on creating possession of the ball, Japanese football often has very powerful Asian first-class midfielders. For example, the earliest Hidetoshi Nakata, his successor Shunsuke Nakamura, and then Shinji Kagawa are all people who can occupy a place in European football. In addition to the three of them, there are many outstanding Japanese players who can play for European teams, mostly midfielders.

For a while, there was a very popular view among Chinese fans, that is, China does not lack good forwards or good defenders, but it lacks good midfielders. Japan does not lack good midfielders, but it just does not have Asia's top forwards. This shows that Japanese football has a surplus of midfield talent.

But now, Japanese football's lead over Chinese football is all-round. They not only have Asia's top midfielders, but also Asia's top forwards.

This technical and tactical style of Japanese football is not only reflected in their adult national team, but also includes national teams of all ages and even high school teams.

In fact, the entire Japanese football can be regarded as an enlarged version of Barcelona Club. They have emphasized the unity of football style from the beginning of youth training, so that their players can easily play in the adult team and maximize the success rate. .

Chinese football is completely inferior to Japan in this aspect, and its football style is erratic. More than 20 years ago, when everyone talked about the characteristics of Chinese football, they were "good headers" and "fast horses". Crossing from the wing and headers from the center were one of the magic weapons of the Chinese team's offense, so much so that " The nickname "China Head Team". But as that group of athletes gradually withdraws, the characteristics of Chinese football become less and less distinct. At the national team level, whoever is forced to follow is imitated, the style is erratic, and there is never a fixed standard. This has resulted in many things in Chinese football being unable to continue, and there is no direction for youth training. Good grades are a matter of luck, but good luck cannot always be around. What should you do if your luck runs out?

It's not scary to fall into a trough. What's scary is to be in darkness and not know where to go.

The Japanese team knew what path they should take, formulated a "100-year plan", and continued on this path unswervingly.

This is a characteristic of the Japanese nation. They are relatively stubborn and follow the rules. Sometimes they leave the world with a stereotyped impression, but stereotype is not necessarily a derogatory term.

At the very least, in football, their stubbornness has paid off.

But also because of their stubbornness and rigidity, they left many people with the impression that they had a delicate passing and controlling style of play, and their physical confrontation ability was not good enough, which was in sharp contrast to the Korean team.

This is a fixed impression, similar to labeling.

Many people will think of these keywords when they mention Japanese football, but none of these keywords are related to "pressing the ball".

But in this Olympic final, the Japanese team fought hard when facing the Chinese team!

If the Chinese team was playing against the Korean team, then it would not be a big surprise. In the quarter-finals, the Korean team played against the Chinese team. When the Chinese team faces the South Korean team, they will also focus on how to deal with the Korean team's pressing attack when preparing for the game. Therefore, when the Koreans play like this, the Chinese team can cope with it fairly easily.

But when facing the Japanese team, they never expected that the Japanese team would be so big, so naturally they would not make any targeted arrangements at all.

Now, as soon as the game started, the Chinese Olympic team was caught off guard! (To be continued.)