Chapter 513 Asian Witness
If anyone, after the AFC Champions League draw results came out, pointed to Anton Shining Star’s name and said: “This team will become one of the top 16 in the AFC Champions League!”
Then he will definitely be laughed at: "You know how to play football!"
Even Zhao Kangming, the head coach of Flash Stars, said that our Flash Stars came to the AFC Champions League to learn from strong teams across Asia.
The posture is very low.
As a result, Anton Shining Star, who came to study, qualified from the AFC Champions League group stage and became the top 16 of the AFC Champions League. He looks like a top student.
This team participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time, and the starting point was a bit high...
In the first group match, when Shining Stars was defeated by Osaka Victory 0:3 in an away game, many people were still discussing whether Shining Stars, a newly promoted team, participating in the AFC Champions League would be a blessing or a curse for them, and whether they would Affecting the team's relegation.
The team returned to the league at that time, and then lost to the South Kerry Lions.
This has caused many people to worry, and some even hope that the Stars will send a reserve team in the AFC Champions League and just deal with the AFC Champions League casually.
After being eliminated in the group stage, they can concentrate on playing in the league again.
Looking back now, many Shining Star fans are thankful that Shining Star head coach Zhao Kangming is a sensible person and will not be affected by those public opinions and does not really choose to deal with the AFC Champions League casually. Instead, prepare seriously for every game and let the team play well.
In the end, they got the good result of qualifying from the group for the first time in the AFC Champions League.
Yes, for the Flash Star team, being able to qualify from the AFC Champions League group is already an achievement worthy of pride and pride.
So when the Shining Star team flew back to Andong Jincheng happily, they were warmly welcomed by the local media and fans at the airport.
This kind of "welcome ceremony" in which everyone went to the airport to greet the Shining Star team, initially caused misunderstandings, thinking that some celebrity was coming to Jincheng.
Many passers-by waited excitedly for a long time and were reluctant to leave. As a result, a group of professional players wearing uniforms arrived.
Later, when such scenes often occurred at Dongsheng International Airport in Jincheng, everyone got used to it and no longer made a fuss.
At the same time, after seeing such a scene, they knew that Flashing Star must have returned victoriously.
But in fact, it is not always a triumph.
Of course, in the beginning, fans and media came here to greet the team after they won the game. Now, no matter whether they win or lose, as long as they come back from an away game, fans and media will come here to greet the team.
After all, you can't support it until you win, but you can ignore it and ignore it if you lose, right? That would be too snobbish.
For the Flash Star players, they can see fans picking them up at the airport every time they come back. This feeling is like a tired traveler returning home after a long journey. Before he can raise his hand to knock on the door, the door is opened. , the family stood in a brightly lit place, smiling at him.
Traveling thousands of miles does not seem so hard anymore.
During the period when there was no professional football team in Jincheng City, Andong Province, people called the city a "football desert" and joked that there was no place for football in mass entertainment here.
After such words were repeated thousands of times, many people really believed that this city did not need football.
Indeed, fans in this city have been absent from the history of Chinese football for a long time, and they have not caught up with the historical stage of the rapid development of Chinese domestic football culture.
But after all, this city was once the gold medal market of Chinese football. This is the place where the first whistle of the Chinese Professional Football League was blown. It has created a lot of Chinese football culture:
The cheering slogan of "Rise Up" spread across the country, "get out of class" became a special term for dismissing the head coach and is still used today, and dared to be the first in the world to "charter a flight to watch football"...
Nowadays, whether it is fans or professional football clubs, the lessons they have left behind are being made up little by little.
The enthusiasm of waving flags and shouting has never gone away with time, and the football culture belonging to Anton is being re-established.
Originally there were no grass or trees in the desert, but after climate change and a few more rains, weeds scrambled to emerge from the sand and gravel.
These weeds are both beneficiaries of climate change and contributors to its continued change.
Eventually, more and more rain fell, and birds brought various seeds, which fell on the wasteland, where they sank into the soil, where they regenerated, sprouted, and broke through.
So there were shrubs again.
Many years later, when everyone looks here again, they will be surprised to find that in a lush green forest, where is the shadow of desolation?
So all that is missing is some seeds and a few rains.
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"The game is over! Although Dashun Golden Arrow did not win the game at home, with the draw in this game, they still obtained the right to qualify for the group in advance!"
The Ocean Stadium was filled with cheers, and Dashun Golden Arrow fans cheered for their team's performance.
Although the team's performance in the league in the new season has been ups and downs, it is not very good. But in the AFC Champions League, the team's performance was very stable.
First, in the first round of the group stage, they defeated the Canberra Kangaroos 4:1 at home, getting off to a good start in the new AFC Champions League season.
Next, they defeated Hiroshima Shooter 1:0 in an away game.
In the third group match, they drew 2:2 at home with Busan Daewoo.
After going to the away game, they defeated Busan Daewoo 1:0.
As a result, in the first four group matches, Dashun Golden Arrow won three and drew one, remaining unbeaten and ranking first with ten points.
In this group match, after a 1:1 home draw with the Hiroshima striker, they currently have 11 points. The third-ranked Canberra Kangaroos only have five points, and the six-point gap allows Dashun Golden Arrow to qualify from the group early.
And not just qualifying early.
Because they had one win and one draw against the second-ranked Busan Daewoo, the outcome was dominant. Even if the Dashun Golden Arrows lost to the Canberra Kangaroos and Busan Daewoo defeated the Hiroshima Shooters in the final round of the group stage, they would still have a better relationship because of the victory or defeat. The relationship advantage still overwhelms Busan Daewoo, which had the same score, and won the first place in the group.
Not only did he qualify from the group, he also qualified as the first in the group.
Such an outstanding performance even made many Dashun Golden Arrow fans couldn't help but fantasize about winning the AFC Champions League.
With such a performance in the AFC Champions League, no one will complain about the team's poor performance in the Chinese Super League for the time being.
If we can really bring back an AFC Champions League trophy to the football city of Dashun, we won't be able to win it if we can't win the league championship.
After the final whistle blew, Wang Xianke got up from the coaching bench and went to shake hands with the head coach of the Hiroshima Shooter first.
Then he turned around and went directly into the players tunnel.
After walking a few more steps inside, he stopped and looked back at the exit of the passage.
Although the camera could no longer capture it in this place, the enthusiastic cheers of the fans still reached his ears clearly.
Hearing such cheers, the corners of Wang Xianke's mouth curled up.
The winner is king.
It turns out that as long as I can lead the team to victory, those rumors have no impact on me at all.
I don’t know if Xue Chaoyu regrets not renewing my contract... But it’s too late. After this season, I will go to another team.
When we meet again on the court, don’t blame me for not missing our old friendship!
Wang Xianke withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and took out his mobile phone from his pocket. On it was the news that Flash Star qualified from Group H of the AFC Champions League yesterday.
The picture accompanying the news was Hu Lai's photo.
Today, Hu Lai seems to have become the spokesperson of Flashing Star. As long as there is news about Flashing Star, there will be his photos.
Looking at Hu Lai in the photo, Wang Xianke sneered.
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After finishing the live broadcast, He Feng took off his earphones. With the camera turned off, he turned to Yan Kang next to him and said, "It's exciting now. The quarter-finals haven't even started yet, so the media have to get excited." ”
Yan Kang also seemed helpless about this: "This script...I almost wonder if it was intentional by the AFC."
"Thinking too much, Yan Kang. The AFC will not pay attention to our domestic gossip. Besides, after the results of the group draw came out, no one was hyping that these two teams would meet in the AFC Champions League."
"At that time, who would have thought that Dashun Golden Arrow could win the first place in the group, let alone that Flash Star, who participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time, could qualify from the group - the probability of these two teams meeting is really low. .”
What they are talking about is the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League.
After Dashun Golden Arrow won the right to qualify in Group F as the first in the group, its opponent in the first round of the knockout stage was determined.
That is second place in Group H.
The second place in Group H is Flash Star.
The feud between Hu Lai and Wang Xianke is now well known to everyone in domestic football.
But everyone's eyes were originally set on the tenth round of the league - that would be the away match between Shining Star and Dashun Golden Arrow.
Unexpectedly, these two people met in the AFC Champions League first.
Yan Kang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Now it's exciting. The whole of Asia will know about their grudges..." (End of Chapter)