Champion’s Heart

It's not that Zhou Yi doesn't want to reveal his next family in advance, but he really doesn't have time to think about it. He has told his agent Schulze not to bother him with any transfer matters until the Olympic team's game is over. In other words, even if there is transfer information, it will be postponed until after the Olympic team game is over.

His goal is to lead the team to win the championship in the Olympics. This task is difficult to complete. It requires all-out efforts and full concentration. How can he be distracted and consider the transfer?

At 9:30 pm on July 26th, Beijing time, the Chinese Olympic team's first men's football match at the London Olympics kicked off against Mexico.

Before the match between the Chinese team and Mexico started, countless fans and spectators in China were in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast of the match. People's expectations for this Olympic team are far greater than the expectations for that Olympic team in the last Olympics.

Before the game, Chinese media and fans also analyzed the prospects of the Chinese Olympic team in the Olympics in great detail.

Naturally, the championship was not mentioned. It was Zhou Yi's exclusive goal. More realistically, everyone thinks that if the Chinese team can qualify from the group stage, it will be a victory, and if it can still reach the semi-finals, it will have overfulfilled the task.

The Chinese team's opponent in this game, the Mexican Olympic team, is one of the four seeded teams in this Olympics.

Although Mexico is not the best team in the world in the world of adult football, in the field of youth football, Mexico is definitely one of the top-ranked teams in the world. In the 2012 London Olympics qualifiers, they won all five games in the North American division. In the 2012 Toulon Cup, Mexico's 23-year-old team, the Olympic team, won the championship. In the 17th World Cup in 2011, they won the championship on their own doorstep with a perfect performance, and then also won third place in the 2020 World Cup.

Having such outstanding and dazzling results fully illustrates the strength of Mexico's youth training.

With Mexico's performance in youth football, it is normal to be listed as a seeded team.

Chinese media analyzed that if the Olympic team wants to qualify from the group and surpass Mexico to become the first in the group, it must defeat Mexico, but this is difficult. But if they lose to Mexico, qualifying from the group will be in trouble.

In addition to Mexico, Gabon and Switzerland were assigned to the same group as the Chinese team.

A rational analysis shows that if the Chinese team wants to ensure that they qualify from the group, it is not a good choice to fight with Mexico. They can completely retreat and settle for the next best thing. Maintaining a draw in the confrontation with Mexico is the most likely and most advantageous As long as the remaining two opponents can win one and draw the other. Five points in this group should basically guarantee qualifying as second place in the group.

If we lose to Mexico,

The Chinese team must strive to win the next two games, so that it is the safest way.

Therefore, the strategy and tactics of the first game against Mexico determined the outcome, and the results determined the tactics that the Chinese team would adopt in the next two group matches.

Facing Mexico, Blazevic's chosen tactic was a defensive counterattack.

In fact, not only against Mexico, this Olympic team, led by Blazevic, mainly played defensive counterattacks.

Because this Olympic team has two very fast forwards, He Ying and Wu Lei.

He Ying and Wu Lei also have outstanding personal abilities and strong individual combat capabilities. Especially He Ying, in addition to being fast, he is also very comprehensive, has good passing and dribbling, and has particularly outstanding scoring ability.

The Olympic team's ability to obtain Olympic tickets from Asia is inseparable from He Ying's outstanding performance.

There are two fast forwards, a goalkeeper who is always like a god, a defensive core with extremely abnormal physical fitness, plus a defensive midfielder who is as difficult to deal with as brown sugar, and a passer who can accurately point where to hit the ball. , the rhythm control is comparable to that of a top midfield core, and with a lineup like this, constantly defending and counterattacking, isn't it a waste of staffing?

So since Zhou Yi joined the team, Blazevic only did one thing during the twenty-day training period, which was to train the team's defensive counterattack crazily.

He doesn't need the team to play well, he just needs results.

And this is exactly in line with the Chinese people's expectations for this team. In an occasion like the Olympics, it doesn't matter what the scene is like, winning is the last word.

Before the start of the Olympics, the British media made a list of the Ten Most Anticipated Rising Stars at the Olympics.

Mexican winger Javier Aquino is among them. He currently plays for the Mexican giants Blue Cross Club. He serves as a winger and has excellent skills. He is one of many unknown young players at this Olympics who have great potential.

However, the Chinese team is the biggest winner on this list. They have as many as three people on the list: He Ying, Yang Muge and Guo Nu.

He Ying, who played on loan at Valladolid last season, was the silver boot scorer in the Spanish Second Division last season. The British media also spoke highly of him. He was ranked seventh in the eight-man list. The British media believed that Barcelona might have to seriously consider He Ying's future this summer.

Guo Nu performed well in Siena last season and has become the core of Siena's defense. Although he is not tall, his excellent defensive awareness, super confrontation ability and jumping make up for it. His lack of height.

Yang Muge got a chance to play in Schalke 04 at the beginning of the season, and then he was out of control. By the end of the season, he was already an iron gate in Schalke 04's midfield.

But Zhou Yi is not on this list of ten. It stands to reason that when everyone sees this list, they will definitely feel that Zhou Yi is definitely ranked first.

But it is a pity that the Brazilian genius Neymar is ranked first instead of Zhou Yi.

What about Zhouyi?

How did the British media who selected this list explain why Zhou Yi was not selected: In the view of our reporters, Zhou Yi has broken away from the concept of a new star. Yes, he is not a new star. As a core player of Dortmund, he leads the team The team won two league championships and reached the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Champions League. Everyone can clearly see his potential and ability. There is no need to include him in this list to grab headlines, right?

Another person who didn't make the list is Sun Pan. The reasons given by the media are similar. They don't think Sun Pan should be regarded as a new star. He won the Europa League championship at Atletico Madrid! Why are you here to compete with those geniuses who haven't even entered the European League yet?

So just like that, Zhou Yi and Sun Pan were destined to become men who bear the title of the top ten most anticipated rising stars in the Olympic Games.

But then again, if Zhou Yi and Sun Pan are also selected for the list, wouldn't the Chinese team dominate the list? Are you leaving a way for others to survive?

Before the match between the Chinese team and Mexico, in the locker room of the stadium, Blazevic was doing the final mobilization for the players.

Children, in ten minutes it will be your first game in the Olympics. Are you ready?

I think you all should know that I am a very demanding head coach. Thank you very much for persisting in my training. Now it is time for you to taste the fruits.

When we were still in China, Zhou Yi publicly expressed that his goal was the gold medal. I thought it was not just his goal, but also the goal of all of us. So you have put in extraordinary efforts in training. . All efforts will gradually show their value from this moment on. I hope that each of you will not have the slightest regret or unwillingness to recall your experience of participating in the Olympic Games in the future. I hope that this Olympic Games can give You have left behind an incredible memory.”

Mexico is our first opponent and the seeded team in this group. The media rated them as the favorites to win the gold medal in this Olympics. Sorry, we are not among them, although we also have many good players, but maybe Chinese football has left them with a bad stereotype in the past, causing them to ignore us. But it doesn't matter, because we can prove to them through this Olympics that you have nothing to do with the past of Chinese football, you are a team A team full of vigor and unlimited future. Each of you can write a different future for Chinese football.

And this future will start from this game. Defeating Mexico is not only for the three points to qualify, but also to strengthen your dream!

Blazevic did not set the goal of this game as a draw, he just wanted a victory.

No one was surprised because that was their goal.

Otherwise, why would they undergo such hard training? You must know that Blazevic is a very strict head coach in training.

When the game started, Mexico took advantage of the opportunity to get the kick-off and launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team's goal.

In the face of their fierce attack, the Chinese team shrank its defense. The two forwards, He Ying and Wu Lei, both retreated to the center circle.

Judging from the scene, it was indeed very unsightly. The Chinese team was completely beaten by the opponent.

When Mexico was bombarding the Chinese team's goal, the Chinese fans in front of the TV were a little nervous. They were afraid that this young team had not been baptized in the World Series and would be nervous and perform abnormally in the first game. Isn’t this a normal performance for Chinese football?

If Mexico scores a goal, the team might even collapse.

Mexico's offensive momentum seems quite huge, but it brings some threat to the goal guarded by Sun Pan.

In the tenth minute of the game, Sun Pan yawned.

Fuck! After yawning, Sun Pan pointed at Guo Nu and shouted, Old Guo, can you put some water in? You can at least let them shoot within the door frame!

He feels that the Olympic games are not as exciting as La Liga.

Chinese commentator He Ping saw Sun Pan pointing at the defender and yelling and said: Sun Pan is directing the defense to defend.

Guo Nu heard Sun Pan's roar, but he ignored Sun Pan because he knew that Sun Pan was just messing around about whether the opponent's shot hit the goal frame, which was beyond his control.

The opponent's Aquino came up with the ball again. This time Guo Nu did not stay in his position and let his full-back teammates deal with him. Instead, he directly made a fierce sliding tackle and shoveled Aquino's ball out of the sideline. , was so frightened that Aquino jumped up on the spot, and then managed to avoid Guo Nu's tackle.

After landing, he reached out to the referee in protest, indicating that Guo Nu's action was a foul.

But the referee ignored his clean tackle. How could it be a foul? You think I'm stupid!

After finishing the tackle, Guo Nu got up and ran back. At the same time, he turned to glance at Aquino, who was complaining to the referee.

Is this the person on the same list as me? Compared with the opponents he encountered in Serie A, they were simply weak! To be continued.