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Chapter 164 The World Cup in Germany

"Thank you kid for thinking it out...but Quanjude is really appropriate." Hu Gandang shook his head and said, then looked at the other people with a thoughtful expression on his face: "Hey, it's not easy for the seven of us to get together again, but there are still three people left."

"Isn't it just Ning Xi and Liu Lin who haven't come yet?" Long Bisheng asked suspiciously, "They are currently attending a manager training class, and they can only come to Germany on the [-]th...Who is the other one?"

The hands of the other five people pointed at Dai Guangming whose face was a little red at the same time: "Who else is there, his pony..."

Long Bisheng made a sudden realization expression, and laughter immediately filled the entire small hotel.

Dai Guangming blushed and tried hard to argue: "Who belongs to my family? We are just friends. We just invited her to watch the World Cup..."

He was greeted by even louder boos, and the surroundings shouted: "You have many friends, why don't you invite MM, the network manager of the Internet cafe, to watch the World Cup?"

"People don't like to watch football..." Dai Guangming argued feebly.

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On the second day in Hoffenheim, Ma Ninger came to Germany, and Dai Guangming specially ran to pick her up. The two seemed to be inseparable, and the way they looked at each other made others feel uncomfortable.After staying for a few days, Liu Lin and Ning Xi also finished their agent courses and came to Germany to join them. The two of them hadn't seen this group of friends very much in this year, except for Ning Xi who often met with Long Bisheng half a year ago-the others hadn't seen each other for a whole year.

Although Ning Xi and Liu Lin are Yunjia Tianyu's agents, they are still in the learning stage. The players they are in charge of are all young players like Long Bisheng. After all, the transfer of young players is not complicated. The club arranges them to be the agents of these young players. It is nothing more than to let them accumulate experience first. While accumulating experience, learning cannot be neglected. The so-called combination of theory and practice.

Ning Xi complained a lot when chatting with Long Bisheng on QQ. Learning to be an agent is really tiring. You need to be in good health—especially if your agents work for European clubs, and they will always fly between Europe and Asia. A club that is suitable for my players... a double labor of mental and physical strength.

However, Long Bisheng could tell that Ning Xi loved her current job very much—Ning Xi was not someone who liked to sit in offices and classrooms and live a step-by-step life. This can be seen from the fact that her academic performance was not bad when she was a child, but she resolutely took the path of playing football, which is much more difficult than the college entrance examination.

It is undoubtedly one of the happiest things to do what you like as a career. No matter how hard it is, there is joy in the pain, and the joy occupies the vast majority.

Long Bisheng had already asked Li Fang and Chu Ran, who were selected for the national team, to help them get nine sets of live tickets for all the matches of the Chinese national team in the group stage, so they didn't need to worry about the tickets.In the next period of time, the nine young people felt the atmosphere of the World Cup and had a good leisure time.

When there is a match of the Chinese team, they will drive to the venue where the match is held to watch the match. Around, Hu Gandang and Zhang Yi already have their own car, and this time they just donated it and acted as the driver. For other games, they watch live TV in the hotel and usually travel around Germany. This is a rare experience for them. Although these young people play football in Europe, they can be considered poor.

Sometimes they also played matches with soccer players in the nearby park. Although there were only seven of them on the court, they were professional players after all, and it was extremely miserable for those amateur soccer fans. Ning Xi would also go up and kick a few times, but her performance was average - after all, she hadn't played soccer for too long.

During this period of time, the performance of the Chinese national team was also exceptional. Unlike the other three Asian teams, they defeated Ukraine and Tunisia in a row in the first two group matches, and joined hands with Spain to qualify for the group ahead of schedule.

The Dutch coach Guus Hiddink used the players who had played for Yunjia Tianyu as the main body, and tailored a set of excellent tactics for the Chinese team. Adriano was the front line and charged forward, and Messi was the second forward behind him. Deco was the center of the midfield. Zheng Zhi is the sweeper at the central defender, Li Wei, who plays for Everton in the Premier League, is the man-marking defender, and the goalkeeper is Chu Ran from Naples.

When Hiddink first used this main lineup, it caused an uproar in the domestic public opinion. In this main lineup, there are as many as eight players who have played for Yunjiatianyu and are currently playing for Yunjiatianyu.

What's more, among the 23 members of the national team, there are five substitutes from Yunjiatianyu, namely Du Wei, Zhu Guosheng, Chen Wei, Ai Lin and Wu Jiang. The thirteen players related to Yunjiatianyu account for more than half of the national team members-this also makes other clubs somewhat dissatisfied.

But the result of the final game speaks for itself. This time the Chinese team’s qualifying process was even smoother than in 3, when it created the No.2002 World Cup’s best record in history.

Hiddink is indeed the world's leading tactical master. He gave Nie Fei and Messi the greatest degree of freedom on the field, allowing the two most aura and imaginative players of the Chinese team to get more play on the field. He arranged a defensive midfielder behind Deco, so that the Brazilian midfielder can give full play to his strength in both offense and defense. Without a formal left midfielder, Wu Jiying, a veteran left back, can display his excellent assist ability. The previous Li Fang, who was active in running and accurate in long passes, and the cooperation between the two complemented each other...

A good coach can make eleven players on the field play the ability of more than 11 people, a qualified coach can make the players play their own abilities, and a bad coach can only let the players play the ability of ten, nine or even less. Obviously, Hiddink is a good coach, and he is one of the ten best coaches in the world.

The second qualifying in the group brought good luck to the Chinese team—due to South Korea’s disruption, Group G was in chaos. In the end, it was not France that qualified first in the group, but Switzerland. France struggled to qualify after defeating Togo in the last round—this made their opponent No.1 Spain in Group H, and China, No.2 in Group H, was lucky to meet Switzerland.

The final result was that the two No. [-] players were eliminated by the No. [-] players—France eliminated Spain [-]-[-], and China eliminated Switzerland, whose captain Senderos was absent due to injury, [-]-[-]. How could the Chinese team be lucky?

The Chinese team, which once again entered the top eight of the World Cup, dominated the performance of the Asian teams. Iran and Japan had one draw and two losses in their respective groups and only one point at the bottom.It's different from the last one held in Asia!Being able to achieve the quarter-finals has already tied the best results of Asian teams in other continents, and compared with the quarter-finals that North Korea won in England in 66, the gold content of the quarter-finals this time is much higher!

It is precisely because of this that although the Chinese team lost to the Italian team in the quarter-finals and failed to create the No.3 miracle of the last World Cup, the sports media around the world still spoke highly of the Chinese team—maybe Asia will become the fourth important force in world football after Africa!Especially China, they have a huge population base and a huge player base, and there are more and more Chinese players playing in Europe and South America-how did the strong teams in Africa rise?Isn't that how it rises?What's more, Asia's economy is much better than Africa's, and their professional league level has surpassed that of Africa...

This argument is also strengthened by the fact that the World Cup was won by the Italian national team. The four Italian national team members who performed well in this World Cup - Marco Materazzi, Fabio Grosso, Ivan Gattuso and Luca Toni have all played in the Chinese league!The Italian domestic league failed to excavate them, but the Chinese league cultivated them...

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