The strongest winger

Chapter 790 Tragic Japanese Football

The Chinese national team became the first team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The outside world did not feel too much surprise. After all, at the beginning of this year, they beat the former Asian overlord Japan team 4-0 away.

Therefore, the AFC official website, the FIFA official website and the South Africa World Cup official website immediately announced that the sleeping dragon had awakened and advanced to the main match.

It is worth mentioning that in the newly released world rankings, the ranking of the Chinese team has reached a new high. It has come to No.40 in the world, second in Asia, second only to Australia.

Although the Chinese team has advanced to next year's World Cup in South Africa, the group match against Bahrain in the seventh round of the Asian top ten match held at the BJ Workers Stadium is still full of seats, but it is confirmed that the team has already advanced to the main match. Instead of sending the main lineup, they played with a semi-main lineup.

The main players like Ai Luo, Feng Xiaoting and Gao Lin all sat on the bench.

Originally, Ai Luo's desire to fight was very strong, but the head coach Gao Hongbo thought that Ai Luo had just participated in a high-intensity Champions League final, and then returned to China non-stop for training to participate in the World Cup qualifiers.

But there was another reason that really convinced Ai Luo to take a rest--the last round of the group stage was to disgust the Japanese team at home!

The Japanese team, which is currently second in the group A, is five points ahead of the North Korean team. The two teams will have a direct confrontation in the next group stage.

Many media believe that it is extremely slim for North Korea to directly qualify for the finals, but there is still hope of advancing in theory.

If North Korea can beat Japan in the next home group match, the point gap between them will be reduced to two points, and the final round of the group will determine the fate of the two teams. North Korea will challenge Uzbekistan away, and Japan will challenge China away.

Everyone knows the historical grievances between China and Japan. The Chinese team playing at home will definitely not easily let the Japanese team go. That is to say, the Chinese team will very likely take advantage of the home court to beat Japan. Then the points and rankings between the Japanese teams will remain unchanged in the first game. North Korea happens to beat Uzbekistan, the weakest team in the group match, in the last round of the group match. Then with one win and one loss, North Korea will reverse Japan and become second in the group!

At that time, Japan will be squeezed to the third place in the group, and can only compete with the third place in Group B for half of the place to advance to the World Cup finals.

And this result will also severely slap the Japanese Football Association in the face. What about leaving Asia and entering Europe?

Thinking of this possibility, countless Asian media are full of anticipation.

It seems that there are quite a few media who hate the Japanese team over the years...

Even Ben Harman, the chairman of the AFC, has a very cool feeling. At the beginning, Japan disregarded the face of the AFC and wanted to leave Asia and enter Europe to participate in UEFA's competitions.

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"Since our national team has already qualified for next year's World Cup finals in South Africa after the last round of the group stage, it is reasonable for Gao Hongbo to choose a semi-main lineup in the case of consecutive matches. We all know that captain Ai Luo just participated in the Champions League final on the 28th of last month, and then returned to China non-stop to prepare for the World Cup qualifiers. Both physically and mentally, he has reached a personal critical point, and there are rumors that Ai Luo has not had enough rest for two consecutive summers. Wouldn't it be too selfish to use Ai Luo?"

When the fans watching the live TV broadcast played the starting lineup on the big screen, they blurted out tacitly cursing, which was completely equivalent to taking off their pants, and what they saw was the gourd baby!However, following the commentary given by the commentator He Wei at the scene, the fans who complained gradually understood.

Of course, under such circumstances, those fringe fans who can’t understand will always be indispensable. They yell at social networks such as penguin groups, post bars, and forums, but under the bombardment of united and high-quality fans, they are slowly calmed down and dare not speak out.

Although the Chinese team played a semi-main lineup at the BJ Workers Stadium, they still relied on their home court advantage to beat Bahrain 2:1. In the U20 World Youth Championship held in Egypt in September this year, age-appropriate Wu Xi and 18-year-old Wu Lei each scored a goal. Among them, Sun Ke, Zhang Chengdong, and Zhang Xizhe, who came off the bench, made people shine.

In the later game, the Japanese team, who challenged North Korea in an away game, really capsized in the gutter, losing 10:0 to the home team North Korea after nine and 1 minutes of mad attack!

We must know that as long as Japan draws, they can directly advance. I didn't expect to lose in the away game...

The possibility predicted by the previous media, I didn't expect it to happen, and the probability is very high!

Because Japan's opponent in the last round of the group stage is China!

If it was in the past, I wouldn’t worry about it, but today is different. The Chinese team, which is composed of almost a substitute lineup and young players, can beat Bahrain at home. Thinking about the historical grievances between each other, the well-rested Ai Luo, Feng Xiaoting, Gao Lin and others will 100% appear in the final round of the group stage.

In other words, Japan will be in bad luck!
The North Korean media, who are not good at sympathy, also praised the Chinese team at this time, playing all kinds of family cards and wearing high hats, hoping that China can beat Japan at home and indirectly help them get a place to directly qualify for the World Cup.

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A week is fleeting, and the final round of Group A of Group A of the 2010 South Africa World Cup qualifiers for the Chinese national team against the Japanese national team will start at the BJ Workers Stadium.

This venue is very familiar to many die-hard Chinese fans, but it is always a little sad to think of it.

The Asian Cup final five years ago was held at the BJ Workers Stadium. At that time, the Chinese team lost to the Japanese team 1:3 at home due to repeated misjudgments by the Kuwaiti referees, and they finished second. This started a black history of Chinese football. As the person involved, Ai Luo knew it best...

So in any case, Ai Luo will also block the Japanese team in the last group match.

Before the game, Japanese head coach Takeshi Okada fully showed weakness in an interview with reporters, saying how strong the Chinese team is and how weak the Japanese team is. In the final analysis, he hopes that the Chinese team will let them go.

The Workers Stadium, which can accommodate 64000 fans, was already packed an hour before the start of the game. More than 5000% of the Chinese fans wore red jerseys, and there were only less than [-] blue Japanese fans. Neither shouts nor boos could be conveyed to the stadium, because... this is the home stadium of the Chinese team!
Thinking that Japan will not be able to directly qualify for the main match, Japanese fans can only worry.

The main lineup led by Ai Luo led Japan 2-0 in the first half, and at the same time in another group match, the North Korean team led Uzbekistan 1-0 at halftime, which means that if the game ends according to this result, then North Korea will miraculously reverse Japan and directly qualify for the World Cup next year!
In the end, China defeated the Japanese team 3:0 at home, and North Korea also defeated Uzbekistan 2:1 away in another game!

When the two games were over, the entire Asian media was stunned, and the Asian overlord was reduced to participate in the play-offs...

It is worth mentioning that at the end of the game, countless North Korean fans in North Korea shouted "Long Live North Korea" and then shouted "Long Live China!"
After the game ended, the players of the Chinese team celebrated crazily when they learned that North Korea defeated Uzbekistan in another venue and beat Japan to become the second place in the group. They were able to advance to the World Cup after eight years and at the same time prevent Japan from directly advancing to the finals. That feeling is really cool!

After learning the results, the members of the Dragons Fan Club took out the huge slogans and banners they had prepared: "Congratulations to Japan for bidding farewell to the World Cup in South Africa", "What about leaving Asia and joining Europe?", "Who is the sick man of East Asia?"...

Many Japanese fans at the scene are international students in China, so they can see the meaning expressed by the Chinese fans at a glance, but dare not speak out.

After the 2010 South Africa World Cup Asian qualifiers were all over, the four national teams that directly advanced were: China, Australia, South Korea and North Korea, and the teams competing for another 0 promotion places also came out. Saudi Arabia beat Iran to become the third in the group, and will compete with No.5 Japan in Group A for half of the finals.

When the results came out, in addition to the Japanese Football Association feeling very disappointed and uncomfortable, the AFC chairman Ben Harman was also the same. The four teams that will directly advance to the World Cup finals next year are all from East Asia, which made him, the AFC chairman representing West Asian football, very depressed.

But these have nothing to do with Ai Luo, nor with the Chinese team.

At this time, countless die-hard fans with financial foundations have already started planning to go to South Africa next year to watch the Chinese team's game live, and many companies are also studying related detailed plans to deal with the situation when employees ask for leave to watch the game...

China has directly qualified for the World Cup finals. Ai Luo let out a long breath, but he will not be easy. After returning to Changsha to enjoy family fun with his family, he will quickly devote himself to business activities. At the same time, he must also take care of the construction of professional football clubs. In short, he will not be able to relax this summer.

(End of this chapter)