King of the Zone

On July 7, the Chinese Football Association announced the national football squad for the second stage of the 8 Brazil World Cup Asian qualifiers.

A total of 43 teams signed up for the World Cup Asian qualifiers. FIFA stipulates that there are 4.5 places in the Asian region.

The 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifiers will be divided into five stages:
In the first stage, the 16 teams with the lowest rankings in the last South African World Cup qualifiers will compete in two rounds of home and away games, and the winning 8 teams will enter the second stage of the competition.

The second stage: Excluding the top 5 teams in the South African World Cup qualifiers, the remaining 22 teams will compete with the 8 teams that won the first stage for two rounds of home and away games, and the 15 winning teams will enter the third stage.

第三阶段：日本、韩国、澳大利亚、朝鲜和巴林这5支直接晋级的队伍加上第二阶段胜出的15支队伍，共20支球队分为5个小组，每支球队进行主客场双循环比赛。小组前两名获得参加十强赛资格。其中亚洲区20强分档将根据2011年7月份国际足联的最新排名。

The fourth stage: The 10 advanced teams will be divided into two groups, and each team will also play a home and away round-robin match. The top two teams in the group will directly qualify for the World Cup in Brazil.No.3 in each group will go through two rounds of home and away games, and the winner will qualify for the Asian playoffs.

The fifth stage: The teams that have qualified for the play-offs in Asia will compete with teams from Oceania, Central and North America and the Caribbean, and South America that have qualified for the play-offs. The situation will be determined by drawing lots, and the final promotion quota will be determined through two rounds of home and away games. (Note: The above information is quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia)
华国队的本届世界杯预选赛之旅就是从亚洲区预选赛第二阶段开始的，国足将在7月23日和7月28日通过主客场两回合的淘汰赛与老挝队决出谁能晋级20强小组赛。

Whoever loses will directly end the 2014 Brazil World Cup qualifying trip.

However, July 7 happened to be the day of the 23 German Super Cup, so Cheng Hai naturally couldn't leave.

Therefore, Cheng Hai will not participate in the first round of the competition.

Fortunately, Laos itself is weak, and the national football team should have no problem winning.Even if there is any accident, Cheng Hai can make up for it in the second round.

After more than ten days, Dortmund played three friendly matches while training, and won all without any suspense.

Subsequently, on July 7 and 20, Dortmund participated in an invitational match sponsored by the famous German telecommunications company T-Home - the Deutsche Telekom Cup, and competed with Bayern Munich, Mainz, and Hamburg for the Telecom Cup championship.

The semi-finals consisted of Borussia Dortmund VS Mainz, Bayern Munich VS Hamburg.

On July 7, under the leadership of Cheng Hai, Dortmund easily defeated Mainz with a score of 20-3, and then joined the Hamburg team that defeated Bayern Munich in the final.

On July 7, in the final of the Deutsche Telekom Cup, Cheng Hai easily performed a hat-trick and assisted a goal, helping Dortmund beat Hamburg 21-4 and successfully won the first championship of the new season.

Although this is just a friendly match and invitational match winner, and Cheng Hai does not have a championship reward, it is still a good start to the new season.

After winning the Telecom Cup championship, I took a day off. It was the first round of the Asian World Preliminaries China VS Laos on July 7, and it was also the day of the 23 German Super Cup - last season's league champion Borussia Dortmund VS German Cup champion Schalke 2011.

The Ruhr Derby has been staged on the stage of the German Super Cup. Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04, the old enemies in the Ruhr area, will compete for the king of German football.

The champion of the German Super Cup will also be the first official championship in the 2011/2012 season.

However, due to the time zone, Huaguo's home game against Laos took the lead.

Fortunately, there were no surprises in the game. After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 7-2. The national football team took a 5-goal lead in Kunming to wash Laos, basically announcing the early end of the second round.

Not to mention that Cheng Hai will participate in the second round of the match, even if Cheng Hai does not participate, with the huge gap in strength between the two national teams and the score scored in the first round, Laos basically has no chance of making a comeback.

Cheng Hai's participation is more for his own experience and the scoring statistics of the national team.

But that's all for the next round, now let's concentrate on participating in the German Super Cup match with Schalke 04!
It is a pity that Hao Junmin has terminated his contract with Schalke 04, and the Huaguo Derby in Germany is no longer available.

2011年7月23日晚上，足以容纳6万多球迷的沙尔克04主场傲赴沙尔克球场座无虚席。

Although Dortmund led by Cheng Hai showed extraordinary terror last season, as the mortal enemy of the Ruhr area, the fans of Schalke 04 will not back down even if they know that they will lose.

What's more, they also defeated Bayern Munich last season to advance to the German Cup final, and won the championship with a 5-0 bloodbath in the final.

In addition, this time the German Super Cup is Schalke 04's home court, they are not without a chance.

Schalke 04 fans accounted for about 3/4 of the audience, and the rest were Dortmund fans.

晚上20:30，随着主裁判的一声哨响，由2010/2011赛季德国杯冠军沙尔克04主场迎战2010/2011赛季德甲联赛冠军多特蒙德的2011年德国超级杯正式开始。

Although Cheng Hai's deterrence is full, as the mortal enemy and opponent of the Ruhr Derby, Schalke 04 will not admit defeat in terms of momentum.

Therefore, Schalke did not put on a defensive counterattack posture to deliberately mark Cheng Hai.

They sent out the two strongest forwards Raul and Huntelaar to fight against Dortmund.

Of course, in the midfield, they will still pay attention to guarding against Cheng Hai's attack, and will not completely let Cheng Hai enter a no-man's land.

But no matter what tactics Schalke 04 adopts, in the eyes of the media and fans, they lose more than they win, even if this is their home court.

However, the process after the start of the game was beyond the expectations of many people.

Maybe it was affected by the away game, maybe it was because the players had just spent a holiday and the mentality of the players had not adjusted, maybe it was because the organization's midfielder changed from Shaheen to Gundogan, which made the players uncomfortable...

For various known and unknown reasons, Dortmund's overall on-the-spot performance in this game was quite poor.

In the 8th minute, Cheng Hai ran an excellent opportunity on the penalty area line. As long as Gotze with the ball crosses the ball, Cheng Hai can get a chance to shoot.

Although Cheng Hai is not good at long shots, the shots on the penalty area line are actually not too far away.With his shooting skills, as long as he hits within the range of the goal frame and shoots from a tricky angle, the probability of scoring is not low.

Unexpectedly, Goetze, who was holding the ball, seemed to have completely forgotten that there was another Cheng Hai, his eyes were only on the goal, and he hit the goal directly after shaking it at an angle.

As a result, his rushing kick flew high over the crossbar, causing the Schalke home fans in the stands to burst into laughter.

Cheng Hai was annoyed and said to Ge Ce: "Didn't you see that there is a vacancy on my side?"

Goce, who was still annoyed by the high shot, turned his head to look at Cheng Hai, with a confused expression on his face: "Huh?"

Cheng Hai shook his head speechlessly, and walked straight back, waiting for the Schalke goalkeeper to take the goal kick.

In the 17th minute, Dortmund cut off Schalke 04's offense and fought back.

As a result, when Cheng Hai ran without the ball and tried to counter-offside, Lewandowski who was holding the ball seemed to be unresponsive.

When he passed the ball forward again, and was about to pass it to Cheng Hai, who was anti-offside, the linesman raised the flag, indicating that Cheng Hai was offside.

Lewandowski's pass was half a second late, causing Cheng Hai to fail for offside.

In the 24th minute, Cheng Hai personally dribbled the ball past two people to the front of the penalty area, passed the ball to Gundogan not far away, and then ran without the ball to bypass the Schalke defender in front of him and enter the penalty area. After receiving the pass from Gundogan, he took a shot in the penalty area.

This is a small-scale collision with the wall in the frontcourt attack.

Cheng Hai's short passing and stopping skills are all at full value now, and there will be absolutely no problems.

If he cooperates with Shaheen, the ball will basically be there, because he has almost penetrated Schalke 04's defense line with two people in a row before.

As a result, after receiving Cheng Hai's pass, Gundogan didn't know what he was thinking. He didn't pass the ball back to Cheng Hai who bypassed the defender and rushed into the penalty area, but gave it to Shinji Kagawa who entered the penalty area on the other side.

Although Shinji Kagawa seems unguarded and has a better chance than Cheng Hai, can Shinji Kagawa's shooting skills be compared with Cheng Hai?

Sure enough, although Shinji Kagawa, who entered the side of the penalty area, received a pass from Gundogan and volleyed with no one to mark, the angle turned out to be too square, and Schalke goalkeeper Farman easily threw himself into his arms.

This ball not only shows the lack of tacit cooperation between rookie Jing Duoan and Cheng Hai, but also shows the poor state of Kagawa Shinji.

Otherwise, the probability of scoring the goal is not low.

When Dortmund's overall state was sluggish and wasting opportunities, Schalke 04 was not idle.

Schalke 04, who played at home, was in full swing, not only blocking Dortmund's attack, but also breaking through Dortmund's goal in the 32nd minute.

And it was Lord of the Rings Raul who scored the goal.

The way of scoring is the counterattack caused by another pass error by Gundogan.The ball originally passed to Lewandowski was intercepted by Schalke 04 and counterattacked. In the end, Raul received a wonderful pass from his teammate in the penalty area and volleyed successfully.

Schalke 04 led Dortmund 1-0 at home, and more than 4 Schalke 04 fans in the stands erupted in earth-shattering applause and cheers, which made Dortmund's players and fans look ashamed and very unhappy.

But there is no way, it is also bad luck to encounter Dortmund soldiers in a sluggish collective state today.

Many fans set their sights on Cheng Hai, hoping that he can stand up and lead Dortmund to defeat their rivals and win the first championship of the new season.