World Cup of Great Powers

If you speak in the bureau, no matter how difficult it is, you have to deal with it.

Anyway, Zhu Xie took this matter seriously.

In the past few days, not only has a "seven-year plan" been issued, but the Olympic champion has also been written into the goal charter.

Having ideals is of course a good thing.

But the ideal is too far away, it will give people a feeling of emptiness.

Just like the Great Leap J.

Xu and Wang seriously asked Zeng Zheng to come up with a plan.

But Zeng Zheng said that his contract was until 2002.

Everything, let's wait until next year's World Cup.

With the end of the Confederations Cup and the World Youth Championship, the players also returned to their respective teams.

The players who study abroad go to the club's training camp and friendly matches, while the domestic players play A-A-B normally.

During this period, the national team had two training camps, and Zeng Zheng also gave two very different lists.

Zeng Zhengyao considers many factors such as status, injury, age, position, tactical needs, tacit understanding, formation adaptability, etc.

But the fans saw it too.

Even next year's World Cup will be selected from these 40 people.

The first training camp played three games, two practice matches and a friendly match.

Both the Liaozu Second Team and the Shenyang Second Team have won more than 10 goals by the national team.

As for the second Spanish national team invited to the Northeast, they played a 2-1 match against the national football team in Wulihe.

Relying on Zhang Yuxie and Xiao Wang Tao's headers, the Matador didn't benefit from Wulihe either.

The time has entered August.

The players studying abroad are basically starting to prepare for the new season.

Those players who are looking for a transfer, also because of the World Cup preliminaries, hope that the dust on the transfer can be settled as soon as possible.

In order to make up for Zidane's departure, Juventus spent 2000 million pounds from Benfica to buy Zhang Xiaorui, who is about to wear the captain's armband.

Li Jinyu transferred to Rome for 1850 million pounds after failing to transfer to Juventus.

This price is exactly the amount that Rome sold Hidetoshi Nakata.

Li Tie still stays in Sevilla, ready to help Sevilla gain a firm foothold in La Liga in the new season.

In order to keep this hard-working Asian engineer player, Sevilla even re-signed a 5-year contract with Li Tie, and the annual salary is also much higher than the average annual salary of La Liga.

Like Li Tie, Sun Jihai not only secured his right back position in Manchester City, but also won a new four-year contract.

Under the persuasion of Zeng Zheng, General Fan finally chose to join Liverpool in the Premier League.

Because the Chinese team won the Confederations Cup, Liverpool also made a compromise.

Not only gave General Fan the third salary in the army, but also generously agreed that he could return to China at any time to participate in the world preliminaries, World Cup and other competitions.

As for Zhang Yanhua, although Grimsby wanted to sign with him, but considering the World Preliminaries and various factors, Zhang Yanhua finally chose to play here on loan for a year.

If you are still in a good state after a year, then it is not impossible to consider moving to the Premier League to play.

In the Bundesliga, Yang Chen moved to Wolfsburg and already scored the first goal for Wolfsburg in a friendly match.

Xie Hui also transferred to Mainz with a worth of US$500 million.

Coupled with Shao Jiayi who played for Borussia, Chinese fans affectionately called these three people the "Three Musketeers of the Bundesliga".

For Benfica, due to Qu Bo's outstanding performance in the World Youth Championship, Qu Bo has already taken over Zhang Xiaorui's "inheritance" and put on the jersey of his predecessors.

Zheng Zhi was the main player in Eindhoven before Sun Xiang, and became teammates with Batman Kezman, Peter Pan Robben and others.

After Zhang Ran returned to Brazil International, he also received the important task of head coach.

As for Li Yi of Monaco, he also gradually integrated into the team and became a substitute between No. [-] and No. [-].

As for Zeng Zheng's favorite Li Weifeng, this guy is a bit rough.

Teams in the five major leagues have issued invitations to him, but in the end it was not done because of reasons such as money, position, or having found a replacement.

In the end, Zeng Zheng simply threw Li Weifeng to Nottingham Forest and asked him to go to League One to practice first.

If he can help the team return to the Premier League, he will be a big contributor.

After Gao Ming and Eric Mu had a trial training at Boca, Gao Ming finally gave up Boca's invitation because of family reasons.

But Eric wood is a bachelor.

Even if the salary is not high, stay at Boca.

Finally, after ten days of trial training, Gao Ming flew back to China alone, while Eric Mu stayed in Argentina.

In addition to the above-mentioned players, Su Maozhen, Xiao Wang Tao, Qi Hong, Shen Si, Wu Chengying and others have also received invitations from foreign clubs.

For various reasons, they did not succeed in studying abroad.

Among them, Liaozu's Zhao Junzhe is the most distinctive.

After rejecting the invitation of a giant like Manchester United, Zhao Junzhe directly stated on the public media that he would never transfer if he did not help Liaozu win the championship!
Such rhetoric also made Xiao Zhao gain a group of fans.

Just as he said.

Some people like Ronaldo, others like Bergomi.

The second training session of the national team was to participate in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament in Shanghai.

For this national team, Zeng Zheng recruited all players who played for the country.

Among them are three young players who have just finished the World Youth Championship.

Relying on the excellent performance of this "local national team", the team first defeated North Korea 6-2, and then beat Trinidad and Tobago 5-0, winning the championship of the Four Nations Invitational Tournament.

After participating in the Four Nations Invitational, the team disbanded on the spot.

Two days later, Zeng Zheng announced the squad for the first match against Thailand in the Top Ten.

In just three days, Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, General Fan, Li Jinyu, Zhang Xiaorui, Li Tie, Yang Chen, and Xie Hui all returned to China.

On August 8, all members of the national football team gathered.

The list of players participating in the top ten for the first time is as follows:
Goalkeepers: Ou Chuliang, Fu Bin, Li Leilei
Defenders: Sun Jihai, General Fan, Li Weifeng, Wu Chengying, Du Wei, Xu Yunlong, Yang Pu;
Midfielders: Zhang Xiaorui, Li Tie, Li Jinyu, Qi Hong, Shen Si, Zhao Junzhe, Li Xiaopeng, Ma Mingyu;

Forwards: Yu Genwei, Yang Chen, Xie Hui, Su Maozhen, Zhang Yuxie.

The next day, the national football team played a 60-minute teaching match with the Shenyang Jinde Youth Team and the Junior Team with two lineups at the Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang, attracting many fans to watch.

A teaching game of this scale is mainly to observe the current state and physical functions of the players.

Shen Xiangfu was on the sidelines directing the players to switch back and forth, while Li Huajun was taking notes beside Zeng Zheng.

Zeng Zheng sat under a sun umbrella and watched from a distance.

The world preliminaries are approaching, and the players on the team are inevitably a little angry.

For this situation, there is no need for Zeng Zheng to come forward.

Whoever dares to pierce, directly let Jin Chi and the two be responsible for reprimanding, and each write a [-]-word self-criticism, and hand it over to Shen Xiangfu.

The competition was approaching, and even General Fan became impatient.

In the afternoon, in the team match, Yang Chen scored a hat-trick.

Such a state made Yang Chen himself and Zeng Zheng very happy.

It would be nice to score three goals against Thailand a few days later - both thought so.

In the evening, after everyone had dinner, Zeng Zheng gathered everyone together to analyze tomorrow's opponents for the players.

"Thailand is playing three-five-two. There is a lot of space in the two ribs, and the midfielder and the backcourt are not aggressive. We can play more on both sides."

"As for the strength of the Thai team, there is nothing to be afraid of."

"They think they are on the same level as us, but we don't have to see them that way."

"This is our home court, everyone plays with confidence."

"In terms of technique and tactics, and in terms of momentum, we strive to overwhelm our opponents in all aspects."

Zeng Zheng talked for a long time, and finally announced the core lineup of 14 people briefly.

After hearing their name, the team members also nodded.

The big guys have been working together for two and a half years, and there is still a tacit understanding.

Which is good and which is bad, who is the starter and who is the substitute, everyone has a spectrum in their hearts.

After briefing the team members, Zeng Zheng announced his dissolution.

At the same time, the coaching staff also held a small internal meeting together.

"Coach Zeng, isn't it a little risky to do this?"

At the beginning of the meeting, Jin Zhiyang expressed his worries.

Even late guests nodded repeatedly.

"It's a little risky."

Zeng Zheng did not deny Jin Zhiyang's question, but then threw the question to the other party.

"Then Coach Jin, when won't you take risks?"

Ah this
Are you the head coach or am I the head coach?

The world preliminaries are coming soon, you are such a moth, how should I answer?

No one else in the room said anything.

Seeing this, Zeng Zheng continued: "Since the Olympics, we have been studied under the microscope by Asian countries."

"From the lineup, formation, players' personal abilities, and my usual routines, and even some players' strengths and habits, they have all been clearly studied by the opponent."

"If you don't 'change' now, it will be too late when the countermeasures are thoroughly studied by others."

Several other teaching assistants looked at each other after hearing this, and finally it was Chi Shangbin who spoke:

"But Coach Zeng, this is the world preliminaries after all, so don't make any mistakes!"

"Coach Chi, you also said that this is the world preliminaries, not the World Cup."

Zeng Zheng still had a calm expression on his face, "I didn't come up on a whim."

"This is also figured out on the basis of our existing."

"The most important thing is that our players have no injuries."

"This is my biggest reliance."

Zeng Zheng said a lot, but Jin Chi and Jin Chi still frowned.

After a while, Jin Zhiyang sighed: "Anyway, I don't agree."

"I also reserve my opinion." Chi Shangbin echoed.

"It's all right." Zeng Zheng waved his hand, "It's normal to have objections, and it's a good thing."

"The national team is not my word."

"However, tomorrow's starting lineup has been determined."

"Do as I say."

"Do you have any comments?"

"you"

Hearing the end, Jin Chi and the two were almost out of breath.

Pointing at Zeng Zheng for a long time, he still didn't say a word.

"You can do it yourself!"

After speaking, Chi Shangbin left the meeting room.

Several other coaches looked at each other without saying a word.

Some of Zhuxie's "commissioners" recorded everything that happened in the conference room and sent it to Zhuxie.

That night, Zeng Zheng received a call from Wang Junsheng.

The other party said a lot of nagging, Zeng Zheng listened to it in one ear and spit in the other.

In the end, Wang Junsheng could only give some instructions, and then hung up the phone.

On August 8th, the first game of Group A, A18 China VSA3 Thailand.

Before the match, the well-known movie stars of Xiangjiang also called the Chinese football team through the "China Football News", wishing them a successful start.

At the same time, Master Xing was also invited to serve as a special commentator during the top ten matches of the "China Football News", and will explain the top ten matches with a brand-new commentary style.

Fans far away in Xiangjiang are like this, let alone domestic fans.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, traffic control began to be implemented on Qingnian Street, and motor vehicles were not allowed to pass.

At present, many fans have appeared on Youth Street, the flags are flying, and the scene is spectacular.

Although there are still more than three hours before the start of the first top ten match of the Chinese team, the fans gathered around the Wulihe Stadium in Shenyang have already begun to build momentum and are excited.

On Qingnian Street, nearly a hundred Shenyang local fans pulled a large 21*40m national flag along the street, sang the national anthem, and sometimes chanted "The Chinese team will win".

Fans with oil paint on their faces, holding small national flags and blowing small trumpets are everywhere along the way.

Many male fans had their upper bodies covered in oil paint, and many female fans also had small national flags on their faces.

Fan associations from all over the country gathered outside the Wulihe Stadium, and the fans association phalanx in Shenyang was the most spectacular.

A few big bare-chested men with "China will win" headbands on their heads led the team. Behind them was a huge flag 15 meters wide and 24 meters long. On the flag were written five black and red flags in very contrasting colors. Big characters "Break into the World Cup".

In the Yunnan Fan Association, there are girls from the Bai and Dai ethnic groups wearing ethnic minority costumes, forming a scene.

The Fan Association in Jinzhou opened the way with more than a dozen big drums, and everyone blew their horns with all their strength.

Earlier news reported that Shenyang dispatched 7000 police officers for the competition.

When I came outside the stadium, my eyes were full of people in gray uniforms.

There are four types of uniforms.

The most powerful thing is the riot in the 6 riot personnel carriers.

The men wore dark helmets, bulletproof vests, batons and tear gas grenades.

At first glance, their attire looked like ancient soldiers, with gleaming metal ornaments everywhere.

The wolfhound team appeared on the field at 5 o'clock, and the audience expressed their attention to the 20 bulldogs with a violent sound of small horns.

The wolfhounds seemed indifferent to the lively atmosphere in the stands, and after going around the field for a week, they were pulled to a corner of the field to squat down and rest.

There is also a class of police outside the venue, with a plexiglass shield in one hand and a baton in the other.These policemen stood in front of the entrance passage, looking scary, but their attitude was very kind.

A reporter "borrowed" the shield and took it, which was very light.

"Can it be bulletproof?" Someone asked.

The policeman shook his head.

Seeing this, a fan next to him joked: "It can prevent eggs."

Seeing that these police officers were not hostile to the fans, a fan stepped forward and asked:

"Brother, how many matches do you think you can play tonight?"

The big policeman laughed, "It doesn't matter how many are compared to how many, the important thing is to win!"

When the surrounding fans heard it, they also burst out laughing.

In addition, a team responsible for "harassment" stopped in front of the Marriott Wine Station where the Thai team was stationed.

The fans first sang the national anthem together, and then shouted slogans in an organized manner. After the cheerleader shouted "Team China", the rest of the fans shouted "1 to 0".

This "score" also continued to increase as the shouts of "Team China" grew.

When the final shout of "10 to 0", many fans had broken their throats.

With such momentum, I believe that the Thai team members have already felt the tremendous pressure exerted by the Chinese fans.

"The China-Thailand battle will kick off at Wulihe Stadium on time at 7:[-] p.m.."

"No one can know the result accurately before the game. The only thing that can give us a hint is the big comparison of the real-time military situation of the two teams."

"Using the words of Coach Zeng's last interview with reporters yesterday, the most "gratifying" thing about the Chinese team is that the lineup is neat and basically no players are injured."

"And because the Chinese team's draw and schedule are not ideal, he is also extremely cautious in today's home game, and must score three points!"

"In terms of morale, we shouldn't have to worry too much."

"General Fan said, 'Facing such an important game, I will definitely do my best for the highest honor of our football career'."

"Xie Hui said: 'Trust us, you will know everything when you watch the game tomorrow, and we will win'."

"I hope that such high morale will not turn into nervousness among the players."

"The above is a pretense for a Taiwanese reporter to report for you."

At 7:20 p.m., players from both sides entered the stadium and played and sang the national anthem.

More than 5 fans at the scene completely overwhelmed the Wulihe Stadium.

The red flag is fluttering, and there are huge crowds of people.

Before the Thai players were warming up, every time they kicked the ball to the sidelines, they would attract boos from the fans in this stand.

Under such heavy pressure, many people expected that the Thai team would collapse soon.

Soon the players of the two sides separated and stood in their respective halfs.

With the whistle of the referee, the No. 17 World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the first match of Group A of the second phase, is just beginning.

"Let's introduce the starters of both teams."

When Huang Jianxiang said this, he paused.

"Eh?"

"Today's formation of the Chinese team doesn't seem to be 442?!"