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Chapter 1108 Opening of the Asian Cup

Because the match against Iraq had no media access, and there was no video expansion, so on the domestic Internet, all the news about the match was only a short [-]-character text report, not even a single picture...

The content of this thousand-character text is still the same in all media, because the source is the same, and it is written by the press officer of the Chinese national team.

You can't see much from this thousand-character text, especially whether the cooperation between the other players of the Chinese team and Rong Guang has been tacit, and whether the Chinese team is still in a mess in the attack?
These issues that the Chinese media and fans are most concerned about are not mentioned in the text, nor can they be seen at all.

No matter how much Chinese media researches, they can't figure it out.

Because the manuscript given by others has already been processed, naturally they will not be allowed to obtain any information from it.

After the match against Iraq, the Chinese team will continue their closed training.

The next time I appear in front of everyone, it will be the first match of the Asian Cup group stage.

The Chinese team will challenge Kuwait.

This may be the weakest team in this group.

The Chinese team must beat Kuwait in order to maintain the hope of qualifying for the group.

The last five days of training time passed quickly in the daily heavy training tasks.Although the players of the Chinese team have been in Qatar for many days, none of them have the opportunity to go shopping and buy some luxury goods that are cheaper than domestic ones as souvenirs.

They even saw Doha, the capital of Qatar, only once in the car, and that was when going from the airport to the training ground.

Now, the training camp is over, and the whole Chinese team has moved into their hotel in Doha, where the other three teams from the same group are also there.The players and coaches of the four teams will look up and down at any time.

When the Chinese team's bus stopped at the gate of the hotel, reporters had already gathered there.

The glorious Chinese team is now not only the team with the biggest star in the Asian Cup, but also the most mysterious team. It has been in Qatar since December 29, but they are closed all the way. No media can take pictures of their training, and no one can interview their head coach.

Even if the players of the Chinese team were interviewed, they didn't talk much, and it was obvious that they were given a gag order.

No one knows the specific preparations of this team, nor the true strength of this team.

It is true that they are the most mysterious team, even more mysterious than the North Korean team!
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On January [-]th, the last night before the official match, Gao Hongbo held a tactical meeting in the hotel's small conference room, with the entire team's coaches and players attending.

This is also the last mobilization meeting before the game.

The leader of the Chinese national team first delivered an impassioned speech, calling on everyone to let go of their burdens, show off their morale at a high level, show the results of their usual training on the court, and win glory for the country. Hundreds of millions of fans in China are watching them...

I said before that I should let go of the burden and pressure, but now it is all about adding pressure to the players of the national team.

Next, Gao Hongbo started to talk about tactics. He only talked about tactics and nothing else. Some of them were already mentioned by the team leader.

Talk about how to play the first game between the Chinese team and Kuwait.

This tactic is also something that everyone has practiced repeatedly in the past week.

That is what makes Rong Guang integrate with other players.

But to be honest, Gao Hongbo didn't have much confidence.

The training has ended, and the players have improved to varying degrees, but they are still far from Gao Hongbo's requirements.

If you insist on playing like this, it may be okay to play against Kuwait, but it will be dangerous to meet the host Qatar later.

But Gao Hongbo had no other choice, he could only take one step forward and think about it one step at a time.

The players can't wait for the Asian Cup to start soon.

They have worked hard for so long just to show it in the competition. If there is no competition, they will never know whether their training is effective or not, and they will not know how much they have improved.

Just like the game against Iraq, without this game, the players of the national team would have been tortured in training.However, after defeating the defending champion in the game, the players of the Chinese national team felt the effect of the training. In the next few days of training, everyone was very motivated and their training attitude became more positive.

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The group match between the Chinese team and Kuwait started at [-]:[-] p.m. on January [-]th, BJ time. Before that, from the afternoon, China’s domestic CCTV had already started broadcasting various live events ahead, including interviews with Chinese fans, the scene of the Chinese team staying in a hotel, and interactive programs with the guests ahead.

From after lunch, the CCTV sports channel became the Asian Cup channel.

If there is no glory, the Chinese media and fans may not have such great expectations for this Asian Cup.

Now everyone is here for the glory.

In addition, CCTV also interviewed several foreign fans wearing the No. [-] jersey of Glory in Manchester City on the streets of Doha.

They also came to cheer for the Chinese team, or to be precise, to cheer for Rongguang.

"We are fans of the United Arab Emirates! We are all die-hard fans of Rong! Rong is in Manchester City, we support Manchester City, and now he is in the Chinese team, then we support the Chinese team! Come on, Chinese team!"

The CCTV female reporters interviewed were all amused by these foreigners.

Rongguang also brought such foreign fans to the Chinese team, which was unexpected by everyone.

But these three are definitely not real Manchester City fans, they are glory fans.True Manchester City fans will never want China to win.It is best for the Chinese team to lose in the first game.

During the training period of the Chinese team, Manchester City defeated Newcastle United 19:3 away in the No.1 round of the league.

Next, Manchester City defeated Aston Villa 20:4 at home in the No. 0 round of the league.Zlatan Ibrahimovic is still outstanding.

However, in the No.20 round of the league on January 1, Manchester City was tied 1:[-] by the newly promoted Blackpool at home, and did not continue to win.

In the 22nd round of the league, the focus of the battle, Manchester City challenged Arsenal away.

This game is so important that even Rong Guang dedicated an hour and a half to watch it after training.

Just 5 minutes into the game, Arsenal took the lead with Van Persie's goal. The momentum of the Emirates Stadium can be felt even in front of the TV, like a storm.

The competition that followed became more and more intense.

In order to be able to score again, Arsenal also actively fought in the game to seal the victory.

The same is true for Manchester City, but their purpose is not to lose.

No.80 Two minutes later, Zlatan Ibrahimovic broke out. He shot an angry shot from outside the penalty area. The football passed through the players on both sides in the penalty area, and got into the goal against the turf!
At that moment, Rong Guang in front of the TV couldn't help but clenched his fists and waved his arms.

Afterwards, the fight between the two sides has gone beyond the scope of the football game. In the No.809 minute, the players of both sides had a dispute in the game. Arsenal's full-back Sagna and Manchester City's full-back Zabaleta were both sent off because of a big fight.

This intensified the tension of the game.

But fortunately, Manchester City still held the tie in the end and did not let Arsenal beat Manchester City at their home court.

Manchester City's league unbeaten streak has reached 37 games.

Only thirteen games away from fifty unbeaten league games.

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Let us turn our attention back to the Asian Cup.

After lunch and a short rest, all the players of the Chinese team boarded the bus and rushed to the Alagarafa Stadium.A large number of Chinese fans saw them off outside the hotel.

Seeing the players of the Chinese team board the car, there was a burst of cheers.

The players of the Chinese team waved goodbye to the fans.

The atmosphere is still good. Although many people in this team are participating in the Asian Cup for the first time, it is inevitable that they will be nervous, but the level of tension is not as high as everyone thought before.

Because Rong Guang is still sitting in this car.

During training, Rong Guang is a demon who abuses their bodies and spirits.

But in the game, everyone believed that Rong Guang's speech turned into a demon that completely destroyed the opponent.

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When the players from both sides arrived at the stadium to start warming up, the Aragarafa Stadium had already begun to arrange for fans to enter the stadium.

Although Kuwait is closer to Qatar, judging from the distribution of fans in the stands, it is more like the home court of the Chinese team.Chinese fans wearing red Chinese team jerseys and waving five-star red flags can be seen everywhere.

Kuwaiti fans, who wore blue Kuwait jerseys, were less active by comparison.

Playing against Rongguang made Kuwaiti fans not very optimistic about the fate of their team.

Rong Guang is one of the top players in today's football, only Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo can compare with him.

Such a person is definitely not something that Kuwaiti players can compete with.

Kuwaiti fans were obviously intimidated by Rong Guang's fame.

Especially after they saw the warm-up of the Chinese team, Rong Guang received the ball from the assistant coach outside the penalty area. He didn't stop the ball, but shot directly at the ball!

The football roared and flew towards the goal. Although Yang Zhi, the main goalkeeper of the Chinese team, jumped into the air and stretched his arms as far as possible, he still couldn't catch the ball.Because the ball kicked by Rong Guang went directly between the goal post and the crossbar!

Absolute dead end in theory!

World wave!
Could Kuwait goalkeeper Nawaf Khalidi have defended the kick if this had happened in-game?

Kuwait fans are silent...

Not only them, but the Kuwaiti players who were warming up in the other half were also silent.

(End of this chapter)