Champion’s Heart

Documentary shooting was a very new experience for Zhou Yi, especially the brain scanning part, which really opened his eyes. He didn't know that his brain was so powerful.

Finally, Dr. Li half-jokingly gave Zhou Yi a nickname, saying that he was the super brain among football players.

Mark Lawrenson was thinking, if Zhou Yi was not the kind of person who came out of middle school to play football, but someone who had been trained in the club echelon since he was a child, would he have become famous earlier? Maybe you could become famous at the age of sixteen or seventeen?

This test fulfilled Mark Lawrenson’s long-standing wish, which was also an important reason why he agreed to join the documentary shooting team.

After finishing the documentary shooting, Zhou Yi left countless topics of interest to those who participated in the documentary shooting, and he himself returned to his daily preparations for war.

On the other side, after Real Madrid ended this La Liga season, they also began to prepare for the Champions League final.

Although Real Madrid defeated Espanyol 3:1 in the last round of the league, they were still ranked third. They shared 87 points with Barcelona, ​​but because they did not have the upper hand in terms of victory-this season they were the main They were beaten twice away by Barcelona - so they were just behind Barcelona.

Third place in the league can still participate in the Champions League next season.

Real Madrid failed in the league this season, but they performed very well in the cup.

Let’s not talk about the Champions League that reached the final, but let’s talk about the Copa del Rey. They defeated Barcelona 2:1 in the final.

Among them, Bell's second goal for Real Madrid has become a classic and has been talked about for a long time.

At that time, he used his speed to forcefully break through Barcelona center back Bartra on the wing. After he passed the football, he was pushed out of the stadium by Bartra. In this way, Bell used his speed to complete the forced overtaking from the outside. He made a circle, ran longer than Baltra, and still surpassed Baltra to catch up with the football, then dribbled the ball into the penalty area and scored a single goal.

This goal instantly made many people climax.

Many people even think that Real Madrid spent a reported 100 million euros to buy Bale this season, and this ball alone is worth the transfer fee.

Chinese fans even described Bell's speed as follows: Between two points, Bell is the shortest.

It’s not that the straight line is the shortest,

It is Bell who is the shortest.

You know, Cristiano Ronaldo has not yet played in this final. He was a spectator in the stands and watched the game.

The Dortmund coaching staff has made highlights of Real Madrid's recent games, allowing the Dortmund players to watch them repeatedly to fully understand this opponent.

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But just as the Champions League final between Dortmund and Real Madrid was approaching, there was a sudden disturbance in China.

Although Zhou Yi and Yan Min were absent from the national team's training, the national team's training was still carried out normally.

And conducted two warm-up matches.

But the Chinese team's performance in these two warm-up matches was not good.

The draw ceremony for the group stages of this World Cup was held in December last year.

The Chinese team, which has reached the World Cup finals for the second time in history, along with three other Asian representative teams and four teams from Central and North America and the Caribbean, are considered third-tier teams.

After drawing lots, the Chinese team was assigned to a group, Group B, with Spain, the Netherlands, and Chile.

This grouping result is not very beneficial to the Chinese team.

As soon as the results came out, there was a pessimistic atmosphere in China.

After all, the Chinese team was assigned to a group with the champions and runners-up of the last World Cup. Their luck was really bad. Judging from the strength of the four teams in the group, they were not considered a group of death, but for the Chinese team, they were Probably the group of death.

When the world media analyzed the World Cup grouping situation, they also believed that if there were no accidents in Group B, Spain and the Netherlands would qualify together. After all, they are the strongest. If there is an accident, then the Chinese team is the accident.

Because of the unfavorable grouping situation, the Chinese team's preparations for the World Cup are very tense. As the team's head coach, Gao Hongbo has been working under tremendous pressure.

In response to this grouping result, the Chinese team found three warm-up match opponents, two European teams, and one team from Central and North America and the Caribbean, trying to restore the opponent situation of this group...

The opponent in the first warm-up match was the Belgian national team. Belgium and the Netherlands are next to each other, so for this reason, people from the Chinese Football Association thought that it might be helpful for the Chinese team to study the Dutch team.

Belgium has also reached the finals of the World Cup in Brazil. They are in the same group as the South Korean team, so they are also willing to compete with the Chinese team. After all, China and South Korea are both East Asian teams. Belgium believes that the two teams have similar styles. Can be used as a reference.

As a result, in that game, the Chinese team lost to the Belgian team 1:3.

Although they scored a goal, they were almost passive throughout the game.

In the words of the Chinese media after the game, the Chinese team's true colors have been revealed without Zhou Yi.

After this game, many people were worried about the Chinese team's prospects in the World Cup.

The group results were already very unfavorable. If the team remains in this state, it may turn into a devastating performance in the World Cup.

Of course, talking about this issue after the first warm-up match is a bit alarmist, and perhaps a bit unfounded.

After all, the warm-up game is about finding problems and then solving them.

All the key depends on the result of the second warm-up match.

In the second warm-up match, the Chinese team's opponent was the new World Cup team Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The opponent was not strong, but the Chinese team still lost this game.

And just like the situation in the first game, it seems that the problems exposed in the first game have not been solved in the second game.

After the defeat to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the domestic media was filled with fierce criticism of the national team's preparations.

The criticism is all-round, from the training plan to the selection of warm-up opponents. Of course, it all ultimately falls on the head coach of the national team, Gao Hongbo.

Who makes Gao Hongbo not popular enough in the media circle?

Moreover, the head coach of the national team is of course the person with the most power. If he has the credit, he will take the lion's share of the credit. If he has the responsibility, of course he will have to bear it alive.

...It's understandable that I lost when I chose Belgium. After all, Belgium is also a national team full of talented people, and its strength is not weak. After all, it is also the twelfth-ranked team in FIFA. But losing to Bosnia and Herzegovina is disappointing. I can’t understand. I know why the national team chose Bosnia and Herzegovina. They must have thought that this was a soft persimmon that could be pinched casually. Before the World Cup, winning a warm-up match is very important for the team’s confidence and morale. So I chose There is nothing wrong with being a soft persimmon. But I never expected that such a soft persimmon would pinch the Chinese team... Not many of the problems exposed in the first warm-up match were solved, and new problems emerged. Already...

For the national team's training, the domestic leagues have been suspended to make way for the national team's training. What's the result? After training in China for so long, and spending huge sums of money to go to Europe for training, this is the only result? So training What are you doing? Traveling freely in Europe?

People across the country do not pay taxes to allow the national team to travel to Europe. The warm-up games can actually illustrate the results of the training. So from the current point of view, we can conclude that the training results of the Chinese team are approximately zero. According to this trend, when the World Cup starts , I’m afraid our training goal has not been achieved. How will we break out of the death group by then?

I have said it a long time ago that although Gao Hongbo is pretty good among domestic coaches, it is still a very risky move to lead the team to the World Cup. Because he has no experience in the World Cup, this is the most fatal. At the beginning When the Chinese team wins the right to participate in the World Cup, it should decisively replace him, entrust him with the task of leading the team, and then find a more professional world-class coach to lead the team. This way everyone will be happy... As a result, the World Cup training has begun, and the country The team's preparations are in shambles, and now it's almost too late to change the coach... It's hard to reach the World Cup finals, but in the end we have such a result, which is really unacceptable...

Gao Hongbo's advantage is that he brought up most of these players, not to mention the WeChat account in the locker room. The team is stable. But his disadvantage is that his level is not high enough to reach the level of a World Cup-level coach. The level is huge. The gap can be easily bridged without any other factors...

It's not that I admire foreigners, but the level of Chinese football coaches is indeed not as good as that of foreign coaches. The performance in the warm-up match has well illustrated the problem...

Gao Hongbo has coached some teams. Whether in Xiamen or Changchun, he led the local teams to start high and go low. At first, it made people feel amazing, but then they were unable to move forward due to various reasons. In the end, they could only feel sad. Resign. I think he is an immature head coach...

History has a position for everyone. Gao Hongbo's historical position is that he is the first local head coach to lead the Chinese team to the World Cup. This should be his position. As for the World Cup finals, I don't think that is Gao Hongbo's position. Historical positioning...

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In addition to traditional media, there are also many people on the Internet who criticize Gao Hongbo. They think it is too childish to let Gao Hongbo lead the team to the World Cup. They do not deny Gao Hongbo's contribution in leading the team to qualify, but calm and rational Think about it, Gao Hongbo is not the right person to lead the Chinese team in the World Cup finals.

These remarks were naturally refuted and criticized by Gao Hongbo's supporters.

The two sides started fighting online, each with its own celebrity supporters, and neither could convince the other. But it stirred up this topic and let more people know that Gao Hongbo is currently encountering difficulties in preparing for the national team.

Against this background, on May 21, twenty-two days before the opening of the World Cup, an explosive news suddenly came from the Chinese team’s training camp—Gao Hongbo was guiding the team’s training. At that time, he suddenly fainted and fell to the ground!

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