Champion’s Heart

The Japanese media present also knew about the matter between Zhou Yi and the Japanese Olympic team, but when they reported it, it gave people a different feeling. It was obviously Zhou Yi who showed his confidence and dominance.

But in the eyes of the Japanese media, Zhou Yi has become a challenger.

... Zhou Yi, the leader of the Chinese Olympic team, issued a challenge to our country's Olympic team...

This is the tone of Japanese media.

So if you only look at the Japanese media reports, you will 100% think that the Japanese Olympic team has the advantage.

But unfortunately, only Japanese reporters were present during the whole thing, and there were no media from other countries, so we had to let the Japanese media say whatever they wanted.

Zhou Yi doesn't care what the media says about him, because in the end football has to rely on his feet to speak.

Defeating your opponent on the court is much better than fighting verbally.

On the evening of July 29, the Chinese team ushered in their second opponent in the group stage, the Swiss Olympic team.

Because European teams generally don’t pay much attention to the Olympics, and many European teams even only send their U19 teams to participate in the Olympic qualifying rounds. Therefore, among the sixteen teams participating in the Olympic finals, there are very few traditional European powers. See you.

Four European teams participated in the finals of this Olympic Games. Host countries: Great Britain, Switzerland, Belarus and Spain. I am afraid that only the United Kingdom and Spain can be considered strong teams here, while Switzerland and Belarus are average in strength.

In Group B where the Chinese team is located, the only strong teams are Mexico, Switzerland and Gabon, and they are unlikely to pose any threat to the current Chinese team.

The process after the start of the game also proved this.

At the end of the first half, the Chinese team broke the deadlock. He Ying received an assist from Zhou Yi and scored his first goal in this Olympics.

This goal helped the Chinese team lead Switzerland 1:0.

However, after the two sides changed sides and fought again in the second half, in the 60th minute, the goal guarded by Sun Pan was breached.

At that time, the Swiss team's forward Emeghara's shot hit Guo Nu's toe during the flight and changed direction. Faced with this deflection ball, Sun Pan was beyond reach and could only watch the football fly into his own goal. .

However, Sun Pan did not blame Guo Nu after losing the ball.

Instead, he just punched the ground hard to vent his frustration.

Guo Nu himself seemed very embarrassed. He wanted to go to Sun Pan to apologize, but he didn't dare.

At this time, Sun Pan had already gotten up from the ground. When he saw Guo Nu with a constipated expression next to him, he glared at him: What are you doing? This goal is not counted as yours, so don't stand there!

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The Swiss players were happy after the goal because it gave them hope of winning. In the first game of the group stage, they tied with Gabon 1:1. If they can defeat the Chinese team in this game, their hopes of qualifying in this group will greatly increase.

However, after losing the ball, the Chinese team suddenly broke out and caught the Swiss team by surprise.

Zhou Yi led the team to suddenly attack after losing the ball instead of continuing their defensive counterattack.

This wave of offensive made the Swiss team scrambling. In the end, Wu Lei's shot was blocked by their goalkeeper Benaglio.

The Chinese team won a corner kick.

Zhou Yi ran to take the corner kick. In the Chinese Olympic team, he has relatively more work to do, and all the set kicks in the frontcourt are handed over to him.

The corner kick he took went straight to the front of the goal.

Guo Nu, who was lying in ambush in the penalty area, saw Zhou Yi kicking the football out, so he accelerated towards the front point. Taking advantage of his short stature and being less likely to be noticed, he bypassed the defensive player and appeared at the front point, and then Relying on his excellent explosive power, he jumped high!

He jumped even higher than the other defenders in the penalty area!

In order to jump so high, he even threw all his weight out, just to be able to hit the ball. Zhou Yi did not lower the height of the ball just because Guo Nu came to compete for the top. He maintained the normal height. It was not easy for Guo Nu to top the ball with Guo Nu's height.

But Guo Nu hit it. He was lying in the air, looked back at the moon, and pushed the football towards the goal behind him!

Guo Nu——!

Amid He Ping's cheers, the football flew into the goal from the near corner!

In the 64th minute, three minutes after the Olympic team lost the ball, they took the lead again! Beautiful! Guo Nu's header was very difficult and sudden. Benaglio didn't react at all. ! Guo Nu made up for it! Because the ball he conceded before was the ball that changed direction after touching his feet and went in... Now he has made up for this mistake with a goal!

After scoring the goal, Guo roared angrily, with a ferocious face, not very cute, but at this time, in the eyes of all Chinese fans, he is the cutest person!

Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio was helpless after losing the ball and shook his head. Regarding the Chinese Olympic team, there are two people he knows well, one is Zhou Yi and the other is Yang Muge, because these are his opponents in the Bundesliga. As Wolfsburg's main goalkeeper, he may know Zhou Yi better. He knows that Zhou Yi's assist ability is excellent.

But he really didn't expect that the little center back scored the goal.

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After losing the ball, the Swiss team became a little impatient, and they made more and more moves in defense. In the second minute after losing the ball, Swiss defender Morganella made too many moves when defending He Ying, which almost caused He Ying to be injured. His foul caused a conflict between players from both sides on the court.

In the end, the referee showed Morganella a yellow card, but Morganella was still angry. If Benaglio hadn't pulled him away, he might have gone up to the referee to argue. Maybe it's not a matter of a yellow card.

Guo Nu from the Chinese team also received a yellow card. He had a direct dialogue with Morganella during the conflict just now. He also received a yellow card for this.

In the next game, the Swiss team, unwilling to fail, launched a fierce offensive against the Chinese team's goal. The Chinese team relied on its solid defense to resist the Swiss team's attack, and also counterattacked wantonly, preventing the Swiss team from aggressively pressing forward.

In the final stages of the game, two of their forwards received yellow cards for being impatient. Four of their players received yellow cards in this game. According to FIFA regulations, if five players of a team receive yellow cards in a game, they will be fined. The Swiss team is just one yellow card away from this penalty standard.

But this still failed to save their defeat.

When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, the score was fixed at 2:1. The Chinese team defeated Switzerland and won two consecutive group stage victories!

The game is over! We won! He Ping announced excitedly. The Olympic team with two wins from two games has already qualified from this group in advance! We have qualified!!

Another game in this group ended before the match between China and Switzerland. Mexico defeated Gabon 2:0. After the two rounds of the group stage, the Chinese team has six points with two wins from two games, Mexico has three points with one win and one loss, and Switzerland and Gabon have one point with one draw and one loss. With the last game left in the group stage, , the Chinese team leads the third place by as many as five points, so it has naturally qualified early.

If Switzerland wants to qualify, it will have to face Mexico in the final group stage. As long as Mexico can draw with them, they will be guaranteed to qualify.

This time, the Chinese team does not have to play a battle of life and death or a battle of honor in the last game of the group stage. They can sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. This is really a rare experience for Chinese football...

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It was a very happy thing to beat Switzerland and get the right to qualify for the group stage. The Chinese Internet was also having a carnival in the early morning of that day, and the Chinese media the next day was also a sea of ​​joy.

But under such circumstances, discordant voices emerged.

After losing the game, Swiss defender Morganella made some remarks on social networks, causing an uproar.

The player, who had many confrontations and conflicts with Chinese team players during the game, said on Twitter: I will beat up the Chinese and burn them to death...them trisos!

Trisos is a French slang term for Down syndrome, a word used to describe disabled people with intellectual disabilities and special faces. He used this word to describe Chinese people, with obvious insults and racial discrimination.

After Morganella's remarks were released, they quickly spread across the Internet and caused an uproar.

Chinese netizens happily greeted Morganella's 18th generation ancestors on the Internet, and Weibo almost contained a complete collection of curse words in local dialects across China.

The Chinese Olympic team also soon learned about this matter. Zhou Yi asked Guo Nu: Old Guo, who is that idiot? The team has already qualified and such a bad thing happened.

I, how do I know... Guo Nu spread his hands.

Aren't you playing in Serie A? Isn't that idiot also playing in Serie A, Palermo? Zhou Yi asked.

Just because everyone is in Serie A doesn't mean we need to know each other! Guo Nu felt aggrieved.

Damn, you guys in Serie A are so incompetent! Zhou Yi said.

Go, go, go! No, no map cannon!

Everyone laughed, Zhou Yi was teasing Lao Guo again.

At this moment, Zhou Yi's phone rang. It was a Swiss reporter calling and asking him what he thought of Morganella's remarks.

Zhou Yi's answer left the reporter speechless. He asked: Who is Morganella?

The Swiss reporters didn't know whether Zhou Yi really didn't know who Morganella was, but they still had to explain to Zhou Yi that Morganella was the No. 17 of the Swiss Olympic team and served as a defender.

After listening to the reporters' introduction, Zhou Yicai suddenly realized: Oh, I'm sorry, I can't remember those players who have no sense of existence. As for what I think of his remarks...it's just a trisos statement made by a trisos.

Will this hurt the feelings of the Chinese people? a Swiss reporter asked.

Don't be ridiculous, the Chinese people are not trisos, and their feelings will be hurt by such trisos remarks. Zhou Yi said.

But we noticed that there are also many voices scolding Morganella on the Chinese Internet... the Swiss reporter continued to ask.

Well, just because we scold trisos doesn't mean our feelings have been hurt. It's just a normal and polite response. Zhou Yi defended netizens from his homeland.

These words left the Swiss reporter speechless.

Just after hanging up the phone, Zhou Yi's cell phone rang again, it was still a reporter calling.

After that, Zhou Yi received many such calls. When faced with these reporters' questions about Morganella, Zhou Yi's first answer was always Who is Morganella?

That's a good answer. I think we can all use the same tone and answer reporters this way. Just as Sun Pan finished speaking, Yang Muge's phone rang. Sure enough, it was to ask him what he thought of Morganella.

Under everyone's gaze, Yang Muge said to the reporter on the other end of the phone: Who is Morganella? (To be continued.)