Champion’s Heart

Before going to the Asian Cup, Zhou Yi and Shinji Kagawa will join forces to play another league game for Dortmund.

In the seventeenth round of the league, Dortmund challenged Frankfurt away.

But maybe it's because we have won the half-time championship ahead of schedule, or maybe it's because this is the last game before the winter break. Everyone's mind is not on football, but on the longing for the holiday.

So in this game, Dortmund lost 0:1 to Frankfurt in the away game.

Ended their new season's record of away wins.

After the game, Klopp did not criticize his players. Although he was disappointed to lose the game, he also knew that the players had performed well enough for this half-season championship, and there was no way to demand them too much. At this time, the most important thing is to take a good rest and relax during the holidays. They are still busy in the second half of the season.

Anyway, in the last round of the league, Mainz lost 0:1 to Schalke 04 at home, and now the points gap between the two sides is as much as 13 points.

However, at the end of Dortmund's game a little later, Mainz's game also ended. They defeated St. Pauli 4:2 in the away game and narrowed the points gap to ten points.

It is a pity for Dortmund to end the first half of the season without maintaining a 13-point lead. But the ten-point gap is scary enough.

In any case, Dortmund's players and coaches can have a good Christmas.

Zhou Yi and Kagawa Shinji did not have this blessing, and they appeared together at Dusseldorf International Airport the next day. They will be separated here, one will go to China and the other will go to Japan.

At the airport, there are also a large number of journalists from the two countries.

After queuing up and passing the security check together, the two waved goodbye to the reporters' telephoto lenses, and then went to boarding gates in two different directions.

The next time the two of them meet again, maybe it will be in the Asian Cup.

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In fact, before the first half of the Bundesliga was over, the training and preparations for the Chinese national team had already begun.

More than ten hours after Dortmund lost 0:1 to Frankfurt in the away game, the Chinese team also ushered in a warm-up match-Estonia.

finally,

Gao Hongbo's team defeated this European team with a score of 3:0 without Zhou Yi.

Throughout 2010. For the Chinese team. It can be regarded as a glorious year, because the national team's performance in this year is very good.

Under the leadership of Gao Hongbo, this team has achieved nine wins, four draws and three losses in 16 national team matches, with a winning percentage of 60%. This is definitely the best result in the international competitions of previous national teams.

And the highlight moment of the national team this year is naturally the 2010 East Asian Final Four. That is the East Asian Cup. The Chinese team first drew with the Japanese national team in Japan, then unexpectedly defeated the Korean national team 3:0, and finally won the East Asian Cup.

The second highlight moment is the warm-up match before the World Cup. The Chinese team defeated the mighty World Cup champion France national team 1:0.

But these two bright moments have nothing to do with Zhouyi...

Although the national team performed well in 2010. However, Chinese people still care more about the results of official competitions.

Next is Gao Jiajun's first official competition, the Asian Cup. The most important thing is what answer sheet this team can deliver in the Asian Cup.

Especially this time the Chinese team has Zhou Yi. With Zhou Yi's outstanding performance in Dortmund, it is indeed easy for people to place more hopes on him. So a team with such a player at its core. Should I also improve my goal in the Asian Cup?

Faced with the expectations of fans and public opinion, Gao Hongbo's performance was different from what everyone imagined.

When he was being interviewed. The Asian third-rate theory and Asian Cup training theory were thrown out, which really shocked the media and Chinese fans.

It also pushed Gao Hongbo to the forefront.

For a while, the media, public opinion and fans criticized him, and some people even conspired to think that Gao Hongbo had already found an excuse for the failure of the Asian Cup.

in the face of these controversies. Gao Hongbo didn't want to say more, but said: As the head coach, what I have to do is to try my best to lead the team well and work hard according to the previously preset goals. As for other things, I don't care, and I don't have the time and energy to care about them. The important thing for us is to do our own job well, and let others comment on the rest, and nothing can change the direction of progress.”

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Even Zhou Yi was affected by this controversy. After arriving in Guangzhou, he was asked this question by a reporter.

Zhou Yi behaved very...ordinarily.

It's just a normal decompression method. He waved his hands, unwilling to talk more.

He's not stupid, and he knows that it doesn't make sense to get involved in this kind of controversy.

As for whether the Chinese team is the third-rate team in Asia, it should not be the focus of discussion, because this is a definite conclusion-when the current Asian Cup group stage was drawn, the Chinese team was placed in the third-tier team , so what is it if it is not the third rate in Asia?

In fact, he doesn't care much about what the team's strength positioning should be, it doesn't matter at all. Because that's just a saying, the outcome of the game does not depend on the strength of the team, but on the performance of the players.

A third-rate team can also beat a first-rate team, and a first-rate team can also lose to a lesser team.

This is football, full of all kinds of surprises and surprises.

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Zhou Yi and Hao Junmin are the only two returnees in this national team, and the others are all from domestic leagues.

Although Sun Pan became famous in the DFB Cup match between Offenbach Kickers and Dortmund, Gao Hongbo did not choose to add him to the national team training list. After all, as a goalkeeper, Sun Pan He is still too young, and the time since he became famous in the first battle is too hasty, so he can't be transferred to the team for training. However, according to Gao Hongbo himself, he has indeed begun to pay attention to this outstanding young goalkeeper.

And Gao Hongbo has another consideration-Sun Pan has become the main goalkeeper of Offenbach Kickers since his outstanding performance in the German Cup, and he has always performed well. The club played steadily, instead of coming back to be a substitute for the national team, and then experience an Asian Cup...

Besides, in just two days, on December 20th, Beijing time, the Offenbach Kickers will face Nuremberg in the quarter-finals of the German Cup.

This critical moment. It is meaningless to recall Sun Pan to the national team. It's just messing around.

In the past, many Chinese overseas players were fed up with the meaningless recruitment of the national team. It was obviously an irrelevant friendly match, but they insisted that the overseas players fly thousands to 10,000 kilometers to return to China to play, and then played After halftime, fly the same distance back to the club.

Doing so can only make the player lose his position in the club. In the national team competition, he was also unable to perform at a better level due to fatigue.

Why Magath didn't use Yang Chen back then, wasn't it because Yang Chen always wanted to return to the country to compete. Are you delaying things?

So it is not a very important game, Gao Hongbo is not willing to cause trouble for these Chinese young people who have just started in European football.

He knew that there was a young midfielder named Yang Muge in the Schalke 04 youth team, and he also knew that there was a short central defender named Guo Nu in the Inter Milan youth team. Not to mention He Ying in the La Masia youth training camp, he is the main shooter of the national juniors and national youths. He is still a fellow with him, so it is impossible for him not to know this person.

He is starting to pay attention to these people.

He thinks they are the future of Chinese football.

Gao Hongbo is really concerned about these young players, such as the German Cup match between Offenbach Kickers and Nuremberg. It was at 2:15 in the morning on the 20th, Beijing time. Gao Hongbo even got up and watched the live broadcast on the Internet...

To know. Zhou Yi didn't even get up to watch the game.

The Offenbach kicker used the same tactics as in the previous game against Dortmund, retreating across the board, and then playing a defensive counterattack.

this game. Sun Pan's performance is still very good. He gave full play to his advantages of height, arm length and fast second reaction speed. With the cooperation of his teammates, he scored zero opponents.

Relying on Sun Pan's performance and a sneak attack in the 78th minute, the Offenbach kicker was upset again and eliminated the Bundesliga team Nuremberg!

Gao Hongbo believes that if Sun Pan can continue to play in this state and play in a top European league team next season, then the main goalkeeper of the Chinese national team will probably be his sooner or later...

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Sun Pan's outstanding performance in the German Cup has naturally aroused heated discussions among domestic media and online fans. To a certain extent, he has also relieved the pressure of the Chinese national team being watched all the time.

Now some media have begun to appeal to the Chinese Football Association to let Sun Pan enter the Olympic team to prepare for the Olympic qualifiers that will start in June this year.

And not only Sun Pan, if the other young overseas players perform well in their respective clubs, they should all be recruited.

Although there are 90, 91, and 92 age groups among them, they are not the most suitable players in the 89 age group for the London Olympics, but if their strength is really outstanding, they can be promoted exceptionally. Because now this 89-year-old Olympic team really doesn't have much talent to show for it.

The only one who is a bit famous is probably their goalkeeper Wang Dalei. He became famous very early. He was selected for the national team in 2006. He was also a talented goalkeeper who went to Inter Milan for trial training. However, his career did not develop very smoothly. In the 2008 Olympic Games held in front of his home, he was not selected for the national Olympic squad. Influenced by injuries and personality, his state also fluctuated.

If Sun Pan can really be promoted to the Olympic team, I am afraid that his position as the main goalkeeper will be lost...

He Ying was originally the player closest to the Olympic team. Although he was born at the end of 1990, he was not a particularly suitable age player, but because of his outstanding strength, he had a chance before the 2008 Guangzhou Asian Games. The National Olympic team—then it was called the National Youth Team—was selected to participate in the Asian Games. However, it is a pity that He Ying suffered a serious injury when the Asian Games started a month ago. Not to mention missing the Asian Games, he also had a five-month truce. This is also the most serious injury in He Ying's football career. one hit.

Because of this, he missed the opportunity to join the Olympic team. Until now, he has not been selected for the Olympic team. Of course, after he recovered from his injury, the Olympic team didn't have many chances to play, and it didn't make much sense to be selected...

However, I believe that when the Chinese Olympic team begins to impact the London Olympics this year, He Ying will definitely be selected for the Olympic team. (To be continued.) Enable new URL