Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 1154 The Strange Journey to Saudi Arabia

Although Chinese fans claimed that the Chinese team played crazy in Sydney, Australia when they released news simultaneously on social media!

But in fact, the trend of the game is that the Australian team dug their own grave. The performance of the near collapse in the first half made it difficult to turn things around even if they regrouped in the second half!
In the end, the Chinese team defeated the Australian team 4:1 in the away game. After Situ Yunbing took office, he won 2 wins and 1 draw in the three away warm-up matches, all against strong teams within the AFC!
When the game was over, Situ Yunbing turned around and went to the bench, and said to Zhao Fenghua who stood up and applauded: "Go and thank the fans with your teammates."

Zhao Fenghua nodded with a smile, trotted into the field and organized the players to go to the fans' stand of the visiting team to applaud the overseas Chinese and overseas students who cheered for the Chinese team, as well as a small number of fans who came from China to watch the game.

At this time, Situ Yunbing shook hands with Graham-Arnold after the game.

Arnold's expression was a bit embarrassing. He thought he had taken over a national team with the largest Asian team, but now it seems that he may fall into a shit before he is firmly seated on the throne!

Situ Yunbing, on the other hand, didn't have much emotion. He was neither arrogant in victory nor discouraged in defeat, and had nothing to show off.

After all, the passivity on the scene made the Chinese team play by ear depending on the opponent's face.

When he came to the post-match press conference, Situ Yunbing clearly noticed that the Australian football media reporters were a little depressed.

When Situ Yunbing summed up the game, he said: "Although the score of 4:1 seems to be very easy and convincing for the Chinese team to win, in fact, I think the result of this score is not that the Chinese team performed better than us. The factor of its own strength is that the Australian team has given up their own good style of play in the past. Although Australia in the past cannot be said to be particularly conservative, it is also conservative on a balanced basis.

But Australia quickly lost patience with the game today. They seemed to have to score in the first half, which led to many gaps and loopholes in the defense.

I don't know the reason for Australia's impatience, and I don't want to know, but I hope that the Chinese media and ourselves will face up to this big victory.

If one day we can completely suppress Australia and achieve a goal difference of three goals, I will be very proud and proud to say that the Chinese team is at least much stronger than Australia.

But today's results are not representative.

The players performed very well, and I will praise them in the locker room, but we still have to maintain a good attitude. This is just a big victory that includes the opponent's mistakes. "

Situ Yunbing is still humble and cautious. His remarks at least made the Australian media feel better.

When the Australian media tried to bring the topic to Graham-Arnold, Situ Yunbing decisively chose not to talk about it.

He doesn't want to comment on the opponent's coach most directly, and he can't afford to compete with or make enemies after coming to the position of coach of the national team.

If you can't do it, it's definitely a way to lower your status.

When he said Graham-Arnold, he was giving the other party an international advertisement.

A reporter from the Chinese football media asked Situ Yunbing what his evaluation of the team's performance was.

Situ Yunbing said seriously: "The performance of the Chinese team is slightly higher than my expectation. Overall, our tacit understanding is improving, and our ability to implement tactics is also becoming more disciplined. Looking at each individual player, I can see every player improving from last month's performance!

This is our biggest gain from this training camp and warm-up match. If it can be maintained, I believe that the Chinese team will soon have a big leap in strength! "

Situ Yunbing's remarks seem a little too optimistic, but this is indeed his judgment after seeing the team's overall performance today.

The defense was tight in the first half, and the counterattack was efficient. The team did not relax in the second half, and the players who came off the bench were also very active.

On the whole, the overall situation is indeed positive.

Situ Yunbing's side was sunny, but Graham-Arnold's post-match press conference was covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder. The Australian media directly placed the responsibility for the fiasco at home on the opponent's head and began to question.

Graham Arnold was in an embarrassing situation for a time, and he couldn't find a good reason to explain this fiasco!
The report of the Chinese team's 4:1 victory over the Australian team in the away game was frantically swiping the screen on Chinese social media!

A new generation of Chinese football idols has also been born. Zhao Fenghua and Wu Lei are naturally the leading figures, and the second echelon is Luo Cheng, Luo Xin, Bai Yuanfan, and Shen Jingjie.

Chinese fans were discussing the future prospects of the Chinese team enthusiastically. All the football media were very satisfied with Situ Yunbing's achievements in coaching the Chinese team in the past few months!

Situ Yunbing led the team to Saudi Arabia after leaving Sydney!
It’s a long journey from Australia to Saudi Arabia. The Chinese team travels in a luxurious first-class cabin, where they can take a shower, sleep by themselves and have their own small space.

Even the players of the Chinese team told Situ Yunbing that the salary was too high!

Situ Yunbing is still very good to them on weekdays, but he will give them the best arrangement if he can think of them.

I only ask them to train hard and compete seriously, and there is nothing else to ask for in return.

After Australia entered the AFC, Saudi Arabia's status in Asian football has declined, which is of course also related to the development of South Korea and Japan in the same period.

But Saudi Arabia is also definitely edging close to the top ranks in Asia.

Saudi Arabia did not perform well in the past World Cup. They were conceded 5 goals by Russia in the opening game. This is directly related to their overall management and development strategy problems in the year before the World Cup.

After Van Marwijk led Saudi Arabia to the World Cup, he was fired by the Saudi Arabian Football Association because of conflicts between the two. Then his successor, Baousa, was also fired after 2 months of coaching. Finally, Chilean coach Pizzi took office. Leading the team to the World Cup, Saudi Arabia experienced three coaches in 74 days. Such anecdotes are signs of chaos.

In the first half of the World Cup, in order to improve the team's record in the World Cup, the Saudi Football Association formulated a group overseas study plan, which opened the door to La Liga through the oil and gold dollars, and then sent 9 Saudi internationals to La Liga. Improve the level of.

But the embarrassing thing is that after 3 months passed, the Saudi Football Association found that these 9 players basically didn't play much in La Liga!
The Saudi Football Association was furious, but there was nothing they could do. They could only curse La Liga behind their backs for being unkind, and not doing anything after taking money!

In the end, most of Pizi's 23-man squad for the World Cup came from the local league. Among the 9 players who were sent to La Liga, only one player was selected for the World Cup squad!

From the dismissal of Van Marwijk to the farce of exporting players to La Liga for training, the successive actions of the Saudi Football Association to dig their own graves have made other football associations enough to take warning.

Pizi continued to coach Saudi Arabia after the World Cup. The Saudi Football Association does not want to mess around anymore.

Situ Yunbing came to Saudi Arabia this time, and the Saudi Football Association applauded and welcomed it, mainly because Saudi Arabia hopes to increase its influence and popularity through football.

When Situ Yunbing led the team to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a scene that shocked everyone appeared.

A line of luxury cars awaited them outside the airport.

The Chinese team didn't pay much attention at first, they just looked at those luxury cars, but their bus was not there for a long time, and the staff kept calling and asking, thinking that they were negligent.

As a result, someone took the initiative to walk up to Situ Yunbing, saying that it was specially sent by a chief to meet the Chinese team, and that before the Chinese team left Saudi Arabia, their convoy would be dispatched at any time.

Situ Yunbing was really caught off guard. He didn't want to accept this favor, but the problem was that their bus just disappeared. It was not a problem for them to stay in Saudi Arabia. In October, the daytime in Saudi Arabia was more than 10 degrees. It's going to be hot!

In the end, the group of them got into these luxury cars, and then drove comfortably to the Fairmont Hotel. This hotel is very luxurious!
After Situ Yunbing got off the car, he couldn't figure it out again. This is not the hotel they booked!

It is quite close to the airport, less than 20 minutes by car.

Just looking at the luxury of this hotel, it is estimated that it will cost a lot for one night.

But the visitor told Situ Yunbing that the room had been reserved for them until the Chinese team left Saudi Arabia.

It's really coming to the world of local tyrants, Situ Yunbing didn't bother to refuse now, and directly led the team to stay at the Fairmont Hotel.

Accidents one after another, his room turned out to be a luxury suite!
Maybe there are two Middle Eastern beauties wearing a three-point style dancing in front of the bed!

This trip to Saudi Arabia is mainly to let the Chinese team get acquainted with the rhythm of playing games in what they think is an abnormal seasonal climate environment.

The temperature in Saudi Arabia is high throughout the year. In October, the daily average temperature is as low as 20 degrees, and the highest is still above 30 degrees!
In central and northern China, the temperature is definitely dropping significantly.

When it was time for dinner at night, the Chinese players seemed very cautious, and there was always a strange feeling that they came to an away game but were inexplicably arranged to a mysterious place.

Before Situ Yunbing moved his chopsticks, a waiter sent a message to invite him to the private room next door to the restaurant.

Situ Yunbing knew that it must be the chief, so he could only stand up and follow the waiter to leave.

There are many chiefs in Saudi Arabia, but they are basically the royal family. The reason why Saudi Arabia is called Saudi Arabia is because the royal family who ruled here is named Saudi Arabia!
When Situ Yunbing came to the private room, he saw the sheikh, Salman, sitting on the seat by the window!

Next to him are two bodyguards.

Seeing this posture, Situ Yunbing was really uncomfortable, but the other party stood up friendly and extended his hand to Situ Yunbing to say hello.

(End of this chapter)