Chapter 439 One Fight

Different from the previous national teams, domestic fans have high hopes for this time the national football team will go to the World Cup.

Last summer, the National Youth Team won the World Youth Championship by surprise and won applause. At the same time, it also allowed many National Youth players to study abroad in the European League. After a year of tempering, everyone has improved in strength.

Chen Tao performed very well in Anderlecht, and has already played the main role, starting every game.

Feng Xiaoting also played the main force at Feyenoord in the Eredivisie in the second half, and his performance was also remarkable.

Although Golin is not the main force in Alkmaar, he is the target of the team's key cultivation. Van Gaal also favors him. He is a substitute almost every game, starting from time to time, especially in the penultimate round of the Eredivisie. Scored a goal as a substitute.

Zhou Haibin has shown a certain degree of competitiveness in Benfica, and he is also very hopeful to gain a firm foothold in the new season, while Hao Junmin, who plays for Hamburg, is an important substitute for the team and also plays an important role.

There are also Zheng Zhi who plays for Mainz, Zhao Junzhe and Du Wei who play for the Celtics of the Suzhou Super League.

The Chinese team's overseas troops are blooming everywhere, showing a very good level.

But the most exciting thing is that Yang Yang, who has become popular in the past two years and is known as the number one star in Europe and the number one star in Asia, scored 44 goals in the Eredivisie last season. In the Champions League, he scored twelve goals and showed his amazing scoring ability.

Everyone believes that as long as Alihan's national team makes good use of Yang Yang, the Chinese team is absolutely capable of making zero breakthroughs in the World Cup.

As for the results, everyone did not have high hopes. After all, the last World Cup was lost too badly.

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Not only do people in the country have high hopes for the World Cup in Germany, but Alihan and the national team also look forward to it.

As early as the end of April and the beginning of May, the national team organized a short-term flight training camp during the league.

In mid-May, the national team officially announced the roster. Only then did everyone realize that young players had begun to occupy half of the national team. Not only a few young players who had studied abroad were selected, but also Zhao Xuri and Cui Peng who stayed in China. The other players have also been selected for this session of the national team.

The international players such as Sun Jihai, Li Tie and Shao Jiayi who were playing in the first year were also selected, but everyone is more worried about Li Tie. He has not played a game for a year. How does his state compare? People are worried.

Unconsciously completed the metabolism, the entire spiritual outlook of the national team is also a new look.

These young internationals who won the World Youth Championship are obviously more energetic and more confident.

The only flaw is that it is relatively young and needs time to grow and progress.

Domestic fans also strongly support this, after all, the World Cup is also a rare opportunity to exercise.

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Starting from Beijing on May 27, the team went directly to France to play a warm-up match with the French national team.

The two sides played three to two, the French team was slightly better, and the Chinese team scored a goal by Yang Yang and Zheng Zhi.

The score can only reflect part of it. In fact, the Chinese team played very embarrassingly throughout the game, mainly focusing on defense.

This is also the purpose of Alihan's arrangement of this warm-up match, that is, to use the powerful France to temper the defense of the Chinese team, and to find loopholes and hidden dangers to solve them before the World Cup.

Defensive counterattack, this is the World Cup tactics that Alihan developed for the Chinese team.

Zidane missed a penalty in the game, but Ribery, who came off the bench, performed very well. If it weren't for him, the Chinese team would have won 2-1, but Ribery's excellent performance was on the left. Two goals were directed in just two minutes, and the performance was very eye-catching.

When Yang Yang talked with Zidane and Henry after the game, he also got to know the French star by the way. He had a vague feeling that Ribery would be one of the most powerful players in the new generation of France.

This can be seen by looking at his performance after coming off the bench.

This game exposed the defensive problems of the Chinese team on the right. Whether it is Xu Yunlong or Wei Xin, there are obviously certain hidden dangers.

After this game, Alihan made the decision to activate Sun Jihai.

The two came to an agreement after an open and honest conversation within the team.

After arriving in Germany from France, the Chinese team played a second warm-up match.

This time the opponent is Ivory Coast from the west coast of Africa.

After a long absence, Sun Jihai finally returned to the starting right-back position. He performed very well and provided an assist for Yang Yang, but the Chinese team finally lost to Ivory Coast 1-2.

Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba did a great job.

After two consecutive defeats, the news came back to China, and it was a scene of grief again.

Many media have criticized the performance of the national team, believing that the national football players obviously did not show their best state.

Alihan responded on behalf of the national team, saying that the players had done their best, and that the two-game losing streak in the warm-up match is not the end of the world. It is more conducive to the team to solve the problem if the problem is exposed early.

In an interview with domestic authoritative media, Yang Yang also said that the atmosphere inside the team is very good, everyone is focused on adjustment and preparation, and there is no slack.

"The two-game losing streak in the warm-up match is disappointing, but we also need to look at our opponents, not to mention France. Ivory Coast's strength is also good. These two teams are not weak at all."

The Chinese team's third warm-up match in Europe was played in Germany against Costa Rica.

The two sides played a one-to-one draw. Yang Yang did not score in this game, but assisted Chen Tao to score a goal.

In the end, the Chinese team's warm-up match ended with a draw and two losses in three games without a win.

Although the domestic media have questioned them one after another, the national team has given a good evaluation of the team's performance when summing up.

The most important thing is not to expose the problem, but to solve the problem.

Through three warm-up matches, the national team has gradually formed its own starting lineup.

If there is no accident, Li Leilei will be the main goalkeeper. He is the most stable goalkeeper in the Chinese Super League this season.

The left flank was absent due to Sun Xiang's injury. Cao Yang, who had performed well in the league, took his place. On the right flank was Sun Jihai. The center defender was the partner of Feng Xiaoting and Li Weifeng. Zheng Zhi would be pushed to the midfield position.

After a season of polishing in the Eredivisie, especially in the second half of the game, Feng Xiaoting has shown quite good strength, and his ball handling and dribbling are quite good, which also makes Ali Han entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.

After Zheng Zhi returns to midfield, Zhao Junzhe and Zhou Haibin will serve as the other two midfield positions.

After joining the Portuguese Super League for one season, Zhou Haibin has many opportunities to play. Although he is more of a substitute, he has also shown a certain strength, and he has also had impressive performances, even Benfica in the Champions League. Came off the bench.

It is not difficult to see that Benfica attaches great importance to the Chinese teenager.

Zhou Haibin, who is both offensive and defensive, is regarded by Alihan as the midfield core of Chinese football in the next ten years, and he has high hopes.

On the front line, Gao Lin replaced Han Peng, who was originally the most vocal, and became Yang Yang's partner on the front line. The other was Chen Tao, who was very fierce in Anderlecht.

The trident of the national youth team will be reproduced in the national team, and they are all made up of foreign players. This is why the team can score in all three warm-up games. Alihan especially values ​​the tacit understanding between the three national youth players. .

When commenting on his performance in the warm-up game, he even said that as long as the Chinese team can hold on, Yang Yang will definitely be able to score.

"I even dare to say that as long as there is no problem with our defense, we will have the opportunity to score goals, or even win a victory, achieving zero breakthroughs in the World Cup in Chinese football history."

"Because, we have Yang Yang!"

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It took nearly a month from Yang Yang's return to China to the preparation of the national team for the World Cup.

During this period of time, the telephone door incident quickly fermented, and soon spread to the Italian Football Association.

Football all over the world was shocked by this scandal in Italian football, UEFA and FIFA also responded quickly, and many referees who had planned to enforce the World Cup were also disqualified.

The brand of Serie A was destroyed in an instant and suffered an extremely painful blow.

Juventus, Lazio, AC Milan, Fiorentina and other four clubs have been seriously questioned, especially Juventus, whose stock was tragically suspended after the stock plummeted by 10%.

Almost all Serie A players have the idea of ​​fleeing Italy, which also gives everyone a feeling that Italian football is likely to fall into disrepair, or even collapse because of it.

At the same time as the telephone incident, there is also the presidential election of Real Madrid.

The two major campaign forces headed by Martin and Calderon launched a fierce competition. The two sides used Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo as their campaign stars respectively. Madrid's Real Madrid fans were also quickly divided into two camps.

What's interesting is that the Chinese team's opponent in the World Cup group stage is Portugal.

Both teams are in Group D, with the other two teams being Angola from Africa and Mexico from North America.

It is precisely because of this that France, Côte d'Ivoire and Costa Rica will be arranged in the previous three warm-up matches of the Chinese team.

As a result, many Spanish media have also paid attention to the game in Group D, thinking that it will be a duel between Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo.

But there are also many fans who feel injustice for Yang Yang, because everyone knows that the overall strength of the Chinese team is far weaker than that of Portugal. Even if Yang Yang's personal strength is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, there is no way to change this fact.

But this still can't stop the hype of the world's major media.

Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo are about the same age, and they are both rookies who have emerged in European football in the past two years. Naturally, it is easy to be compared.

"These people are so boring!"

"I just finished comparing Messi with you, and now I want to compete with Cristiano Ronaldo. How tired are you?"

Su Ye felt distressed on the phone.

Yang Yang was rather eager to try.

He has been known for Cristiano Ronaldo for a long time, but he has never seen it on the pitch.