green mercenary

Chapter 316 Four Nations Invitational Tournament

On July 7, the national football team took a flight to Shanghai and stayed at Longbai Hotel.

The national football team regards this four-nation invitational match as an extremely important training opportunity, and the opponents in the top ten match of the Chinese team also regard this match as a good opportunity to find out the details of the national football team.After learning the news of the Four Nations Invitational Tournament, Uzbekistan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman, the four opponents in the top ten group, expressed that they would send special personnel to collect information.

Qatar team coach Haji and Oman team coach Stanch also relied on their good personal relationship to get in touch with Kuwait team coach Radi who participated in this invitational tournament, intending to obtain the video tape of the national football team playing this game.

Although on the surface, the four-nation competition is lively.However, there are indications that the opponents of the national football team are undoubtedly parallel imports.

Although Milu disagrees with people's doubts about the effect of the warm-up match, but against such an opponent, the national football team can only be satisfied with a beautiful victory.If there is any discrepancy, there will be even greater doubts-the national football team can't even win against such an opponent, how can they make it to the top ten?
Kuwait, who came to China nearly two weeks in advance, played two warm-up matches with Shanghai Ninth National Games Team and Zhejiang Greentown, and lost 0-2 and 2-5 respectively.

Although the Trinidad and Tobago team has not shown its true colors, the fact of its "parallel imports" cannot be changed.They have long lost hope of qualifying for the World Cup finals. The team's stars, such as Yorke who played for Manchester United, have also begun to prepare for the Premier League, and they are not on the list for Shanghai.

The North Korean team also arrived in Shanghai a few days ago, and it is North Korea's team targeting the next Olympics and World Cup.Although these players are known as the best young players in North Korea, they are too young, and their average age is no different from that of the third Hongta team that played a few days ago.

On August 8, the Organizing Committee of the Shanghai Four Nations Championships held a pre-match press conference, and all the head coaches of the four participating teams attended.

A reporter asked Milu bluntly, the other three participating teams are all young, is such a warm-up match meaningful for the national football team?

Milu half-jokingly said: "The national football team is also very young, and the competition between young people is always very interesting! After winning the Four Nations Championship last year, we participated in the Asian Cup and achieved good results. I hope that through this exercise, we will achieve better results in the second stage of the World Cup qualifiers in the future."

"Oh? As far as I know, Bai Xiaotian, the top scorer and winner of the Golden Globe in the World Youth Championship, is not on the starting list. Isn't he not qualified as "young"?"

Hearing such a question, everyone at the scene focused their attention on Milu.

Whether it is domestic fans or foreign spies, they all want to know whether Bai Xiaotian can play in this warm-up match.

"Bai is a very good player!" Facing all the flashing lights on the scene, Milu first decided Bai Xiaotian's sex.But the reporters also knew that the next words were not what they liked to hear.

Sure enough, Milu's turning point came: "But Bai Xiaotian was selected for the national team for the first time after all, and he returned to the team late, so the tacit understanding with the players is not high enough. He is a special player. If there is a chance, I will let him show himself."

Next, no matter how the reporter asked questions, the seasoned Milu would always change the topic invisibly, and the reporters on the scene were itchy with hatred.But helpless, I can only wait for the performance of the national football team.

On August 8, the national football team played the semi-finals of the Shanghai Four Nations Championship with the North Korean team at the Shanghai Stadium.The two sides drew two to two within the specified time.According to the rules, the two sides decide the winner directly with penalty kicks.In the end, Bai Xiaotian sat on the bench and watched the National Football Team lose 3-[-].

At the post-match press conference, Milu said that this defeat will not affect the confidence of the national football team, and he will not be troubled by it.He also believes that the national football team's harvest in this game is: if you want to win the game, you need to concentrate from beginning to end.

The head coach of the North Korean national team, 42-year-old Lee Jong-hwan, said that if the defense of the national football team was not unified, they would not have won the game.

When it comes to the top ten games, Lee Jong-hwan is full of envy for the national football team.Because Li Zhonghuan himself also participated in the World Cup qualifiers, but the North Korean team was eliminated in the group at that time.As a player, being able to participate in the World Cup is the most glorious thing for him.

The national football team led 1-0 in the first half, and scored 2-2 in the second half, and missed two penalties.After winning first and then losing, the national football team and Milu made headlines again.

This time, the media seemed to think that simply using the score to "humiliate" the national football team was not enough. They thought of a coup. The report only briefly mentioned the score and the game process, while the large-scale content focused on introducing the players of the North Korean team.

The North Korean team arrived in Shanghai on July 7, 26 days earlier than the registration time stipulated by the organizing committee.

During this period, all training and accommodation expenses must be borne by themselves. This is obviously a severe test for the North Korean team whose economy is not well off.In the end, they lived in a three-star small hotel under the arrangement of the organizing committee.

After the accommodation problem was solved, the training problem reappeared: there are not many football fields available for professional teams to train in SH City. The training grounds reserved by China for them are top-notch, but the cost of a day is at least 1000 yuan. How can the North Korean team afford it?No way, the organizing committee finally arranged them in a forest park in the eastern suburbs of Shanghai, free of charge.

All problems seemed to be solved, but a new problem appeared: the drinks in Shanghai were too "expensive", and a box of mineral water cost 20 yuan.

No way, the North Korean team finally decided to have two training sessions a day, and the two of them could only drink one bottle of mineral water.

In fact, the North Korean team's subsidy for the four-nation match is $5 per player.During the adaptive training in the stadium before the game, several North Korean players were so thirsty that they ran outside the stadium to buy water.When they asked that a bottle of mineral water cost 3 yuan, they had no choice but to give up.

After the game, some fans recalled the details of the game: Whenever the Chinese players picked up the drink toppings on the sidelines, the North Korean players on the side impatiently picked up the water bottles and poured them into their mouths...

Mineral water is not the only thrift of the North Korean team.In order to save the laundry fee of 10 yuan per day, the first thing they do after training every day is to wash clothes in the room.In Shanghai, an international metropolis, their daily life is a simple "two points and one line", and they have never visited the streets for a day.

After defeating the obviously superior national football team, all North Korean players were ecstatic and threw the head coach into the air.Then, under the leadership of the assistant coach, he walked around the field excitedly.But the North Korean team's celebration was only for a while. When they returned to the station, no one spoke when they were eating in the restaurant, and only the sound of knives and forks was heard at the scene.

After the game, Li Weifeng, the main central defender of the national football team, sighed: "Oh, everyone is unhappy after the loss. If I had known that the North Korean team was like this, I should have taken off my jersey and sneakers and given them to them."

At the end of the article, the author made a summary: I hope Li Weifeng and his teammates.Don't think about what to give to the North Korean players after listening to the story, but think carefully about what the North Korean players gave us.

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