Rebirth 1994: Football Situation

Chapter 235 Lunar New Year Cup

Before the national team was concentrated, the officially appointed head coach Benitez announced the 23-man roster of the Chinese national team. Compared with the national team in the top ten games, there is not much change. The three goalkeepers are Guangdong. Liang, Jiang Hai from Shanghai and Han Wenhai from Dalian, defender Wei Qun, Xie Feng, General Fan, Xu Hong, Zhang Enhua, Sun Chenghai, Wu Jiying, Liu Yue, midfielder Gao Xian, Jiang Feng, Li Min, Ma Tian, ​​Shen Si, Peng Weiguo, Nie Fei, forwards Gao Feng, Hao Dong, Li Bing, Su Maozhen, Yu Genwei.The number of Yunjiatianyu's international players did not rise but dropped to three. It seems that Benitez did not look at Yunjiatianyu's players differently because he also served as Yunjiatianyu's head coach, which also made the officials of the Football Association feel relieved. Have a little refreshment.

The Lunar New Year Cup is a traditional event in Hong Kong. In the past, the Chinese team usually played against the Hong Kong United Team of China. The impact was not too great. However, since Hong Kong returned to the motherland last year, Hong Kong made great efforts to invite There are more than [-] well-known superstar players in the world, including Liberian hero Weah, football evergreen Mateus, Brazilian national team captain Dunga and other national representative stars.

Originally, the Hong Kong Football Association planned to form an Asian star team to compete with the world star team, but due to the outstanding performance of the Chinese national team in the top ten last year, they temporarily changed their minds and invited the Chinese national team to become the opponent of the world star team. After receiving the invitation, the Chinese Football Association readily agreed, and the time was arranged on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival (in history, there was indeed such a game, but the time of the game was in 1997, and the opponents were world stars Team and Asian star team, due to the relationship between the plot changed to 98, please do not be surprised).

In fact, this game was just a friendly match, but the Chinese team still attached great importance to it. After the joint training a week in advance, the national team arrived in Hong Kong and began to prepare for the game.

"Today's game is just a friendly match, so don't pay too much attention to the outcome." Before the start of the game, Pei Wei told the players: "Your opponents are all world-class superstars, so don't move too much on the court. Big, the game is mainly for entertainment, what you should do is to show your talents to your heart's content. Their personal strength must be much stronger than ours, but because they are a temporary team, there must be some differences in tacit understanding Insufficient, so in the offense we should pay more attention to cooperation and less individual heroism. On defense, we should make more use of zone defense to prevent the opponent's individual performance. In games like this, what we have to do is to play style and level, Don’t forget that you represent the Chinese national team, don’t do things that embarrass the national team—do you understand?”

"Understood!" The players replied in unison.

Immediately after Benitez announced the starting lineup, he ranked the strongest lineup of the national team, goalkeeper Ou Chuliang, defenders Sun Chenghai, General Fan, Zhang Enhua and Wu Jiying, midfielders Gao Xian, Li Min, Ma Tian and Nie Fei, both Forwards Hao Dong and Gao Feng, these people are the best players in the league and top ten games last year. In other words, they represent the highest level of Chinese football.

"What do you think of today's game?" Pei Wei asked Benitez with a smile after the players went out to warm up.

"The situation will not be too good." Benitez shook his head: "The opponent's personal ability is too much higher than our players... Our only advantage is physical fitness, and even cooperation may not be able to match them, after all These superstars are going to be very adaptable."

"Friendly matches, winning or losing is not the most important thing." Pei Wei smiled: "Besides, in the past, Chinese football was too arrogant... In terms of skills and tactics, we are at least 20 years behind the world's top football level. I hope today This game can make them feel a little difference. After playing the game, they will find that the performance of the superstars on TV does not look good, but in fact they are far ahead of us!"

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The players of the Chinese team were still full of confidence before going on the court. The "Undefeated Gongti" in 96 gave them too much illusion - the world's highest level players are nothing more than this, even if we are worse, we can't be worse How much!
For example, Gao Feng was still bragging before playing: "What kind of world star team, I don't believe they can be so good! In the past, AC Milan, Sampdoria, didn't they lose face at all by us? Today, We still want to win the game! Boss Pei is too presumptuous!"

Others also nodded one after another. After the success of the top ten competition, their self-confidence has inflated to the extreme. It seems that they are waiting to make a name for themselves in the World Cup, and then waiting to go to Europe to make a lot of money.

From Pei Wei's point of view, "Worker's Undefeated" has a lot of water, like AC Milan's two visits to China, basically did not send a few absolute main players, and these world-class teams are all hopeful. I came here with the idea of ​​traveling and traveled a long distance. I didn't play in the best condition, but I was beaten by the Chinese team as soon as I played. Of course, they don't want to be injured in such a game. Coupled with the bias of the home referee and the support of the local fans... the blind punch killed the master, and there is a lot of water to win the game.But blind boxing doesn't work every time, and when the opponent really plays against the Chinese team with a serious attitude, the donkey of the Chinese team immediately shows its true colors, and it will appear that it was defeated by England [-]-[-] the year before last. The result of the Dutch two-to-zero suppression.

Yelang’s arrogance is not limited to the members of the Chinese national team, even the Chinese sports media generally have this kind of mentality. During the friendly match with the England national team in 96, the media kept saying before the game that “England’s style of play is still The ancient long pass, we are now playing advanced overall football, which is a level higher than England's tactics." Yunyun, the result was directly beaten by England, and it was only then that we discovered that even the world football The recognized "rough brother team" England is technically much higher than the Chinese team.

It's not good to belittle oneself, let alone Yelang's arrogance.After rushing into the World Cup, the national team has shown signs of superciliousness, and Pei Wei is very worried about this.

His worries are not groundless. In the memory of his previous life, after the national team rushed to the World Cup in 2002, the players were all arrogant and ignored all the strong teams. Staring at Ronaldo", the result is that there are no pants left after losing. Pei Wei does not want this to happen in this year's World Cup in France.

Now is the time to let these players know the gap between themselves and the world. In the next six months, Pei Wei also plans to take the national team to Europe for training several times, so that the members of the national team can know that the sky is high and the earth is strong.

Only by knowing the gap can we have the goal of working hard.

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The members of the national team entered the field confidently. After the game started, they did not shrink their defense, but directly launched a fierce attack. Their momentum was like a rainbow, and they stunned the temporarily assembled world star alliance.

Nie Fei organized in the middle, got rid of one of the opponent's defenders and continued to insert into the penalty area. Two players from the world star team immediately attacked him. The defenders ran up together, and there was a considerable gap in the penalty area immediately.

Nie Fei naturally would not give up this opportunity, and sent out a wonderful pass lightly. Hao Dong, who was unguarded, volleyed with his right foot near the penalty spot after receiving the ball. Into the dead corner of the goal!

One to zero!The Chinese national team is surprisingly ahead!

This goal made the Hong Kong fans cheer at the Hong Kong Stadium. Although they have only returned to the motherland, they still support the Chinese national team anyway. They will be very happy to see that the national team has taken the lead so early.

"Well, that young guy is not bad. He passed the ball in a timely manner." The interim head coach of the World Star United, former German superstar Franz Beckenbauer, nodded appreciatively.

As invited by Hong Kong, Beckenbauer, who was the coach of this temporary team, didn't care too much about this game. He only had one goal in coming to Hong Kong, and that was to meet Matthaus Have a good talk, so that the superstar who was removed from the Bayern Munich captaincy position due to the "betting incident" some time ago will not have any lumps in his heart.

But now, he seems to have a new goal-it seems that the Chinese national team still has a few good talents. It seems that Bayern Munich should also develop the Far East market now.

After taking the lead, the Chinese team strengthened their beliefs—the world star team is nothing more than that, isn't it easy for us to lead?
In this state of mind, the players of the Chinese team played more relaxed on the court. Sun Chenghai, who came forward with an assist, actually played the game of man-ball twice in a row, which attracted the applause of the fans present.

"Hehe, they are very relaxed." Benitez, who is usually unsmiling, also laughed after seeing Sun Chenghai pass the ball from the winger for the second time in a row.

"Look, they will be taught a lesson soon." Pei Wei also said with a smile.

The assistant coach next to him, Marshal Qi, rolled his eyes. He had never seen such a head coach and translator, and he was expecting his opponent to teach his players a lesson...

Marshal Qi joined the coaching staff of the national team again after the top ten match last year. It is unbelievable to say that it was Pei Wei who definitely asked for Marshal Qi to be transferred to the national team again.

The reason is very simple. At the beginning of the league, the former assistant coach Chi Shangbing and others all returned to the club. The entire national team will definitely not be able to play well with only Benitez and Pei Wei. It needs an experienced assistant coach who is familiar with the players. Responsible for the usual training, so Pei Wei strongly advocated the re-appointment of Marshal Qi.

PS: Let me tell you one thing. In the codeword competition of the third group last week, Lao Guo was No.3 again... Haha, it is really not easy to stay in the third place for a long time... I started to admire myself......
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