Volume 7 Chapter Seventy-Four

When the outside world rang the New Year's bell in 2015, Zhou Tiancheng was still preparing for the final battle with the national team in Guangzhou.

During this period, Lippi also briefly celebrated the New Year with everyone. In addition, to Zhou Tiancheng's surprise, he plunged into the day-to-day training and preparations, forgetting the time. Remember his birthday. And also prepared a short birthday party for him at dinner time.

On Zhou Tiancheng's Weibo, he also received the official Weibo birthday news on this day. In fact, he thought he was the only one who knew about it, but he opened his Weibo to post a championship declaration related to the Asian Cup. I saw a bunch of blessings below.

"It's Chengda's birthday in my family. Suddenly I don't know what to say. When I saw it, I remembered that Chengda is only 26 years old this year... A brick-moving party at the same age, stop talking, go to the toilet and cry for a while."

"Happy birthday, boss! I won't talk about going to the next level. In this regard, the boss is already so good that one hand is enough. If he goes to a higher level, I am afraid that even the solar system will not be able to accommodate it. Definitely the strongest in the universe."

"Are you sure it's a friendly army upstairs? I can hear the sour smell coming from the stick."

Lippi is actually very concerned about Zhou Tiancheng's state. This kind of party is actually Lippi deliberately giving Zhou Tiancheng a chance to relax.

Because this is the last day of the team in China, when the team goes to Australia, it is destined to be the focus of attention, and it is impossible not to get nervous.

From the beginning of this Asian Cup, CCTV has canceled the practice of holding the expedition ceremony for the Asian Cup. Perhaps it is more confident and thinks it is completely unnecessary. In the past, for the Chinese team that had no chance to participate in the World Cup, the Asian Cup was held every four years. The top competition, now... the World Cup is actually the same, so does the Asian Cup still need to be as important as that?

The Chinese Football Association only officially announced the Chinese team's Asian Cup list, which is more eye-catching than last year's World Cup list.

Manchester United's core Zhou Tiancheng, AC Milan's main striker Jiang Hao, Paris Saint-Germain's No. 2 goalkeeper Ming Tao, Naples winger Chen Pengfei...Although the number of European teams has decreased due to Hao Junmin's return, except for Wu Sanshi The Spaniards are a little colder, and the others are at least all quasi-first-class European giants.

At least the confidence of Chinese reporters and fans is quite overwhelming. In this Asian Cup, we will lose even if we tie a game!

It was so domineering that the fans even proposed on the Internet that the Chinese team could put the English word "" of the champion on the bus, blatantly telling everyone that the champion is ours.

Want to grab? Weigh yourself. Is it strong enough? Or... to what extent can the referee be biased?

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The 16th Asian Cup in 2015 was held in five cities in Australia. This is also the most special Asian Cup in the history of the Asian Cup, held by non-Asian countries.

Regarding the Asian Cup, in fact, in European football in recent years, it has been criticized by many club coaches for almost the same reason. As far as Zhou Tiancheng is concerned, Magath and Van Gaal have both sprayed it. Therefore, their reasons for spraying the Asian Cup are almost the same: they have never seen the Intercontinental Cup held in winter.

It's just that January is summer for Australia, which is located in the southern hemisphere, which is why the national team arranged to prepare for training in Guangzhou.

The Chinese team was in Group B with Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and North Korea in the group stage. The first match was against Saudi Arabia in Brisbane.

Sixteen participating teams arrived one after another, and the Chinese team was a bit late, but this did not delay the popularity of the Chinese team at all.

From Brisbane Airport to the hotel, there were fans holding five-star red flags to welcome them all the way, which made the players of the Chinese team unbelievable.

Jiang Hao grabbed Zhou Tiancheng's shoulders and looked at the scene in disbelief: "Brother Cheng, is this really Australia? Why does it feel like you're in China, in the nest of Chinese people?"

Zhou Tiancheng teased him in turn: "What's the matter? Are you tired of admiring those white-skinned tall big (foreign) (horses) in Europe? Are you not used to seeing the same kind?"

The Chinese team did not prepare as hard as the World Cup for the Asian Cup.

There is no separate training camp, and they will stay in a hotel arranged by the AFC.

That is to say, the Chinese team lives in the same hotel with the three opponents in the same group, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and North Korea, and they can meet each other in restaurants on weekdays.

The head star of the Saudi team, Asian Footballer Shamrani, intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Zhou Tiancheng, but no matter whether it was Zhou Tiancheng, Jiang Hao or others, he glanced at him and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Jiang Hao approached Zhou Tiancheng, and whispered, "Brother Cheng, is that little guy with a goatee gay? Be careful, don't be targeted."

"Fuck you." Zhou Tiancheng scooped up a spoonful of butter and stuffed it roughly into his mouth.

Zhou Tiancheng is very familiar with this kind of gaze, and has been interpreted like this by many opponents, but he really doesn't know the origin of this opponent staring at him.

He thought in his heart that maybe he could be regarded as the No. 1 player in Asian football, but his current opponents are not limited to Asia.

The opponents are paying attention to Zhou Tiancheng, not only the opponents in the same group, but all the teams that have ideas about the Asian Cup are probably studying the Chinese team in depth.

After all, such a lineup in Europe is definitely rare among Asian teams. Perhaps the scale is still not as good as Japan and South Korea, the two major players in Europe, but the quality is unprecedentedly high.

Not only that, even if the Chinese team suffers frequently, the AFC official website of the Chinese team will have a new situation.

On the special page of the Asian Cup, the AFC officially predicted their top five favorites to win the championship: Iran, Japan, South Korea, and even Qatar are all hot spots, and the host Australia is at the top of the list.

What about the Chinese team?

The annotation behind the AFC list is the truth-this list only predicts teams with certain possibilities. Based on the strength of the lineup, the defending champion Chinese team is not included in the measurement.

What does this mean, still look down on the Chinese team?

At the same time, the AFC has another list: the top ten players in the Asian Cup.

Including Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa, striker Shinji Okazaki, Australian goalkeeper Matthew Ryan who played for Brighton, and the core midfielder of the United Arab Emirates, Omar, known as "Gulf Messi", was selected. Sun Xingmin, who is priced at 40 million euros in the transfer market.

Same as the last list, Jiang Hao and the others are all on it, but Zhou Tiancheng should be the most number one.

Has the value of hundreds of millions of euros, the number one player in Asian football history, been ignored by the AFC?

There is also a line of annotation: Manchester United midfielder Zhou Tiancheng is not included in this list. His ability and reputation have been proven, which is obviously higher than this list.

This time the Chinese journalists suddenly understood.

These two lists only illustrate one point: whether it is Zhou Tiancheng or the Chinese team, they are unique in strength.

Whether there is a champion or not, we don't need to say this time.

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