World Cup of Great Powers

Chapter 315 World Youth Third Runner-up

After defeating the Dutch team, the good luck of the China Youth Team came to an end.

Xu Liang, Sun Xiang, and Wang Xinxin were injured, and Ma Yi, Yu Tao, and Zhang Yaokun were suspended for cumulative yellow cards.

Perhaps he has already seen the future and destiny of the China Youth Team.

Before the start of the semi-finals, Chen Jingang locked himself in a small room and wrote his experience of this World Youth Championship.

"In this World Youth Football Championship, the China Youth Team went all the way through and once again reached the semi-finals."

"The next opponent of the China Youth Team is Ghana, an African team."

"The Eastern giant dragon will face the fierce impact of the African black whirlwind."

"The above news was reported by Su Jie, a reporter based in Buenos Aires."

In the past three weeks of the World Youth Championship, Ghana has defeated Iran and Paraguay in the group stage, and drew with France.

They defeated Ecuador in the quarter-finals and eliminated the favorite Brazil team in the just-concluded quarter-finals.

If the Chinese and Japanese teams in the last World Youth Championship were the two dark horses from Asia, then the Ghana team is the black whirlwind from Africa in this World Youth Championship.

The Ghanaian team has distinctive features.

In attack, their attack combination is like a sharp arrow sent by a sharpshooter, fast and accurate.

The French and Ecuador teams are well aware of this characteristic of the Ghanaian team, but neither has been able to find a way to stop the opponent's attack.

The lightning-fast attacks of the black players in Ghana made all opponents suffer.

Facing the Chinese youth team in the semi-finals, Ghana coach Afrene said: They are not afraid of the Chinese youth team.

Because in youth competitions, the personal physical fitness of the players is very dominant.

Although the Chinese youth team is indeed extraordinary, it is not invincible.

On July 7, the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship, China Youth Team VS Ghana.

In the 3rd minute of the game, the Ghanaian team got a free kick in the midfield.

Ibrahimli dropped the ball into the middle of the penalty area. Du Wei and Eric Mu interfered with each other and missed Pingpeng in the frontcourt.

The Ghanaian striker stopped the ball in the chest and did not wait for the ball to hit the ground, so he volleyed and followed up.

An Qi failed to make a save, and the ball flew into the lower left corner of the goal. The China Youth Team was in an extremely unfavorable situation at the beginning.

The Chinese youth team, which fell behind in the score, was not discouraged.

Captain Du Wei, under the command of Chen Jingang, also rarely took the ball to the front side to participate in the attack. The players gave full play to their speed and fighting.

In the 9th minute, Gao Ming quickly made a pass from the bottom, but Qu Bo failed to kick in time after getting the ball, and was tackled out of the penalty area by defender Mensah in time.

One minute later, Sun Ji received a direct pass from his teammate in the penalty area, but unfortunately rushed to the same point as Yan Song, wasting this offensive opportunity;
Then Qu Bo forced a corner kick. Although the opponent's goalkeeper made a mistake, it was a pity that Du Wei followed with a header that went above the crossbar.

Facing the black whirlwind, the Chinese youth team conceded a goal at the beginning, but the players still showed high fighting spirit.

Taking advantage of their own technical and tactical advantages, they frequently attacked the Ghanaian team's positions.

However, since several main players can only watch the game off the court, the last pass and shot are always a little bit off.

The Ghanaians showed no signs of weakness either.

Every time after resisting the positional attack of the China Youth Team, they immediately launched a quick counterattack.

In the 16th minute, Muntari tricked Wang Sheng with an ingenious feint on the left side of the penalty area, and immediately shot.

In terms of the number of attacks, Ghana did not have many offensive opportunities after the opening, but the only two attacks were quite threatening, which fully demonstrated the horror of its offense!
Since then, the situation on the field has been relatively balanced. Ghana frequently fouled in the midfield to prevent the fast attack of the Chinese youth team, and used his own body and speed advantages in counterattacks to frequently create troubles for the Chinese youth team in the backcourt.

In the 33rd minute, the Ghana team passed the ball to the left space of the China Youth Team when they cleared the siege, but Pingpeng deflected his teammate's pass in the middle.

Then Ibrahim subconsciously headed the ball at the back post, An Qi fell inside the goal, threw the ball to the feet of Eric Mu who was back on defense, and then completely relaxed his vigilance.

Two minutes later, the Ghanaian stole the ball and launched an attack directly after taking advantage of a pass error in the backcourt of the China Youth Team.

Fortunately, An Qi concentrated and fell to the ground to hold the ball out of the baseline.

Since then, the Ghana team has missed two scoring opportunities.

The black whirlwind blew the members of the Chinese youth team upside down.

It is not easy to maintain a score of only one goal until now.

Before the end of the first half, Ghana's midfielder succeeded in anti-offside. Fortunately, Eric Mu returned in time and broke the bottom line with a wonderful flying tackle, leaving the China Youth team behind by only one goal.

During the intermission, Zeng Zheng just smiled slightly after hearing the news on the other side of the field.

"Didn't you just lose one goal!"

"Guess what's going on here?"

"Paraguay lost all three!"

After putting down the phone, Zeng Zheng looked at the Paraguayans who were no longer fighting, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Bielsa is a fucking madman!"

Miss Qian snuggled up to the side without making a sound.

If the two watched the Copa Libertadores final before it was called tourism, then watching the game between Argentina and Paraguay was for work.

Marcelo Bielsa is the coach of this Argentine national team.

The World Cup is just around the corner, and teams like Brazil and Argentina are the favorites to win the championship.

And the main techniques and tactics adopted by these teams will also be studied under the microscope by the opponents.

It is precisely for this reason that Zeng Zheng chose to watch the game.

If nothing else, next year's Argentina will adopt a 3-back formation.

Zeng Zheng read it and wrote it down in his mind.

The more I watch, the more I admire these so-called "crazy" coaches.

Traditional tactics believe that to defend two forwards, at least four defenders must cover all the space in the backcourt.

The lunatic Bielsa said: As long as the defender is not too bad, 3 people can defend the opponent 2 people!
In this way, the extra player became the key to Bielsa's formation.

Before this World Youth Championship, many people expected that the champion would be Argentina, and the top scorer would fall on the Chinese youth team or the Brazilian team.

But no one expected that the Brazil team with Adriano and Robert lost to Ghana in the quarter-finals.

What is even more unexpected is that Argentina's Serviola is far ahead of the scorer list with 8 goals.

Coupled with the two goals in this game, the number of goals reached as many as 10.

Qu Bo of the China Youth Team has only scored 6 goals so far, which is the same as Adriano and Cisse who have been eliminated.

Why are you scoring so many goals?
On the one hand, it is because of Seviola's personal strength, and on the other hand, it is due to Bielsa's 3313 formation.

"Honey, you see, although Argentina has a 3313 formation, they actually play a single striker."

Although Ms. Qian also likes to watch football, she doesn't understand the professional knowledge that Zeng Zheng said.

Most of the time, she just leaned against Zeng Zheng and acted as a loyal listener.

"They gave up space in the backcourt and sideways, but filled the frontcourt to the brim."

Seeing the Argentines attacking the city one after another, Zeng Zheng looked at it and suddenly felt a bit of doubt in his heart.

"Honey, do you know who are the strikers in Argentina?"

"Well, well, I remember a guy named Barty, right?"

"Yes, Batistuta, he's a striker. What else?"

"Crespo? The one who played a friendly match with the Chinese team before?!"

"Yes, he is also an Argentine striker!"

Zeng Zheng slapped his thigh, "I just said something is wrong!"

"Barty and Crespo are top strikers."

"Belsa's formation is playing a single striker, and the two are destined to not be able to play at the same time!"

"I dare say that this time Argentina will either make it all the way to the finals, or they will fail and fail to even make it out of the group stage!"

That being said.

After the start of the second half, Zeng Zheng immediately calmed down and continued to concentrate on studying the Argentine's tactics.

On the other side, the China Youth team gave their opponents an offensive opportunity as soon as the second half started.

Du Wei made a mistake in stopping the ball in the backcourt and was intercepted by the opponent to form a single shot.

Fortunately, the other team members chased back desperately, which helped An Qi save the day.

Mistakes are just a blip.

Soon, the Zhongqing team's offense rushed up.

In the 51st minute, Hu Zhaojun shot a cold arrow from outside the penalty area. The Ghanaian goalkeeper dropped the ball.

The Chinese youth team missed the opportunity to tie the score.

In the 53rd minute, the offense of the China Youth Team finally paid off.

Hu Zhaojun made a wonderful pass behind the opponent's defender in the midfield. Qu Bo used his speed to get in at high speed, and before the opponent's goalkeeper attacked, he kicked the ball into the empty goal behind him, tying the score at 1-1.

Seeing the goal, thousands of Chinese fans in the stands were ecstatic.

The fans hugged each other excitedly, as if seeing victory.

However, the Ghana team woke up like a dream after conceding a goal and quickly strengthened their frontcourt attack.

After replacing two players with sufficient physical fitness in a row, they frequently attacked the side defense line and the back defense of the China Youth Team.

The stamina of the middle-aged and young players, who were tired of coping, showed a significant decline. The midfielders were weak in interception.

In the 63rd minute, Muntari made a pass from the bottom, Eisen cleverly distributed the ball to the middle space, and Pingpeng raised his foot and shot near the penalty spot.

An Qi, who is in an excellent position, accurately blocked the must-go ball and made great contributions to the China Youth Team.

In the 71st minute, after receiving a pass from Qu Bo, Gao Ming decisively kicked six meters in front of the goal under the pressure of two defenders, but unfortunately the ball hit the opposing defender.

In the 78th minute, Ghana took a corner kick from the right. Menthah in the penalty area used his back heel to pad his teammate's pass, and Pingpeng's header popped out on the back post.

In the melee, Domins shot angrily at the ball, and the ball hit the net.

The sudden goal of the Ghanaian caught the middle and young players by surprise.

After losing the ball, many people bent over, supported their knees, and panted heavily.

Then compare the Ghanaian players running around the field. The physical fitness of the two sides is decisive.

Afterwards, Chen Jingang played all the substitution cards, trying to make the last game.

Unfortunately, when most of the main players were diagnosed, the China Youth Team failed to threaten the opponent's gate in the end.

When the final whistle sounded, the Ghanaians raised their arms and shouted to celebrate their entry into the final of the World Youth Championship.

The Argentine fans in the stands also let out a long sigh of relief.

In their view, there is nothing happier than the elimination of both the Brazilian team and the China Youth Team.

Not long after the game here ended, the result of the game over there came out.

Argentina beat Paraguay 5-0 and got their wish to advance to the final.

"Don't be discouraged, reaching the semi-finals is already very good! You haven't lost the face of the previous champion!"

"There is still a third and fourth finals to play, so don't let go of this tone first."

"The opponent is Paraguay, who was mistreated by Argentina."

"We should have no problem beating them!"

After the players and coaches comforted each other, they calmed down and prepared for the next three or four finals.

On July 7, Buenos Aires, the third and fourth place finals, China Youth Team VS Paraguay.

Because it is the third and fourth finals, the main focus of the China Youth Team is to be a companion!
The starting goalkeeper was replaced by Yang Jun. So far, all players participating in this World Youth Championship have all played.

After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, the China Youth Team finally defeated Paraguay with a score of 2 to 1 with the goals of Qu Bo and Gao Ming, and won the third place in this World Youth Championship.

As for the champion of the World Youth Championship, it finally fell into the hands of the Argentine as he wished.

In the final, Argentina defeated Ghana 3-0, once again showing the terrifying power of its offensive football in front of the world.

This is the fourth time Argentina has won the World Youth Championship.

After all the games, Javier Saviola won the Golden Ball of this cup.

At the same time, he also won the Golden Boot of this cup with 11 goals.

For the China Youth Team, Qu Bo scored 8 goals and Gao Ming scored 4 goals, which are also very good personal records.

In addition, the Fair Play Award was also awarded to the China Youth Team.

Judging from this result, the China Youth Team's trip to the World Youth Championship can be regarded as a perfect ending.

Of course, there are not only Seviola and Qu Bo who are shining in this World Youth Championship. Players such as Adriano, Cisse, and Santa Cruz have all attracted the attention of many giants.

Even before the third and fourth finalists started, there was news that Boca Juniors, who had just won the Copa Libertadores, invited Gao Ming and Eric Mu to participate in a 10-day trial training.

For this reason, the two also specifically sought Zeng Zheng's opinion.

"You can go if you want."

"When it comes to studying abroad, I have always kept an open mind."

"As long as the level of the league where you go is higher than our A-A."

"I still say that."

"Since I have gone, I will play there honestly and strive to become the main force in a short time."

"Even if you are loaned out, you must play well and get more opportunities to play."

Just as Zeng Zheng was explaining the advantages and disadvantages of studying abroad in South America to the two of them, Chen Jingang who was on the side suddenly yelled angrily.

"Get me down!"

Hearing the head coach's voice, Ma Yi suddenly fell off the motorcycle by the side of the road.

Seeing this, the other team members all smiled.

"Still laughing? You still have the face to smile? Forgot about San Francisco?"

Chen Jingang cast a gouged glance at An Qi who was beside him, and the latter stopped talking all of a sudden.

"what's the situation?"

Seeing Zeng Zheng's puzzled expression, Qu Bo quickly explained.

It turned out that as early as the training camp in San Francisco, several young and middle-aged players became interested in the motorcycles driven by the police to clear the road.

At that time, An Qi took the initiative to ride one, but because she didn't grasp the balance well, she was directly crushed by the heavy motorcycle, which almost caused non-combat attrition.

"Hey, don't mention it, that big motorcycle is really heavy!"

An Qi who was on the side had lingering fears, "When I asked the price, it was equivalent to hundreds of thousands of RMB, which was more expensive than buying a car!"

Hearing this, Zeng Zheng stepped forward and squeezed An Qi's arm, then shook his head and said:

"An Qi, your physique is not good."

Chen Jingang also said after hearing the words: "With a height of 1.9 meters, you can't even push a motorcycle. If things go on like this, how can Coach Zeng call you into the national team with peace of mind?"

Upon hearing this, An Qi quickly looked at Zeng Zheng with wide eyes.

After seeing Zeng Zheng nodding, An Qi immediately stood at attention, and then said loudly in front of Zeng Zheng: "Coach Zeng, I will definitely train hard after I go back this time, and strive to increase the weight by 20 catties, no, 20 kilograms!"

When she heard that she might not be recruited by Zeng Zheng because of her weight, the expression on An Qi's face was even more frightened than when she was crushed under the motorcycle.

Before returning home, Ms. Qian approached Zeng Zheng and secretly asked:
"Honey, what do you think of this World Youth Championship?"

"Have you seen which one has potential?"

"Shall we try to sign one or two too?"

Ms. Qian's agency mainly signs players from China, Japan and South Korea, but they don't want to miss out on good European and American players.

Just like Deco, he is currently the leading European and American star under Miss Qian.

But the problem is that players like Serviola, Rodriguez, Adriano and Cisse will definitely have a lot of fans.

If Zeng Zheng and Ms. Qian want to pick, they have to pick those players who did not perform very well in the World Youth Championship but have full potential.

Commonly known as "gambling".

Seeing that his girlfriend wanted to buy European and American players, Zeng Zheng suddenly rolled his eyes.

"Honey, the Brazilian team has a guy named Ricardo Izeksson dos Santos Wright, we can try it."

"Ah??? What's the name? It's so long?"

"If I thought his name was too long, I even gave him a nickname."

"What's it called?"

"Kaka!"

(End of this chapter)