Chapter 753 Chinese Football’s Coming of Age Ceremony
When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half after two minutes of injury time, many Qatari fans in the stands let out a sigh of relief...
They even felt that the referee should not even give two minutes of injury time. It was better to blow the half-time whistle in the 45th minute.
Because they were really worried about the Chinese team taking a three-goal lead in the first half.
After Hulei scored twice, the morale of the Chinese team became even stronger. In stark contrast, the players of the Qatar national team seemed to not know how to play football.
There are many foreign players in this Qatar national team who were naturalized from Qatar at a high price.
The personal strength of these foreign players is better than that of the original Qatari players. With them as a team, the Qatar national team participated in the 2022 World Cup held locally.
Although as the host nation, they were eliminated after the group stage. However, many Qatari fans and media still have high hopes for their future.
Participating in two consecutive World Cup finals is the mission of this team.
But now, they are two goals behind the Chinese team in the most critical game...
The on-field performance of these naturalized players greatly disappointed Qatari fans.
Although the use of naturalized athletes in various sports has become a "traditional performance" in Qatar's sports world, for example, in track and field, Qatar started naturalizing very early. The first Asian 100-meter athlete to run under ten seconds was also a naturalized athlete from Qatar. However, although this person represented Qatar in the Asian Games, ran under ten seconds and won the 100-meter gold medal in the Asian Games, he himself But he is an out-and-out African and has nothing to do with Qatar or Asians.
Therefore, when many media talk about this achievement, they will add the qualifier "non-Asian local athletes" - everyone knows what this means.
In an event like track and field, where individual abilities are heavily weighted, Qatar's naturalization route is feasible, but collective events like football are still different from individual events in track and field.
Football matches require more or less coordination and team awareness.
Now these naturalized players are performing in a mess on the court, and their biggest problem has been exposed to the eyes of the majority of Qatari fans.
That is, most of these foreign mercenaries lack a real sense of belonging to this country. They fight for money, not for national honor, let alone for the people of this country.
This causes them to fall apart easily when they encounter difficulties.
Without cohesion, no one can bring them together so that they are willing to sacrifice for each other and become teammates.
The forwards only think about scoring goals, because there are high goal prizes for scoring goals.
The defender complained that the forward stayed in front and did not return to defend when the Chinese team was attacking crazily.
At the end of the first half, when the players walked off the field, the television broadcast clearly captured footage of two Qatari players walking off the field while blaming each other.
He Feng and Yan Kang, who were watching this scene in the studio behind, were extremely sad.
In fact, ten years ago, when Chinese football was unable to work without reform, there was a debate in the country about how to carry out reform. At that time, there were many voices and different opinions, but they all seemed to be justified.
Among them, some people have proposed to completely open up naturalized players. Previously, only those overseas Chinese players with Chinese ancestry were allowed to naturalize into Chinese players. Complete liberalization refers to global selection, allowing those who are outstanding but unable to be selected in their respective countries. The foreign players of the national team sign up for the Chinese Super League, and then become naturalized Chinese players step by step. Finally, they are allowed to represent the Chinese team in competitions and compete in the World Cup.
This opinion is still taken seriously and has been discussed many times.
The reason why everyone is so confused is that this opinion is not some crooked idea that can be seen as nonsense at a glance, but has real practical significance.
At that time, Chinese football had hit rock bottom. Youth training talents were in short supply. League attendance continued to decline. Club investors were withdrawing one after another. Clubs in various places were disbanded and bankrupt. It was almost impossible to achieve results by relying on existing talents. . And it takes time to re-cultivate outstanding talents. During this time, what will happen to the results of the national team? You can’t give up treatment completely, right? By then, the performance of the national team will get worse and worse, and it may also affect the youth training plan.
Therefore, by naturalizing some foreign players, it can help the Chinese team temporarily improve its performance, and maybe it can also feed reforms.
It must be said that this suggestion is reliable and feasible. The rapid rise of Japanese football back then was not unrelated to its excellent naturalized players.
But in the end, the higher authorities still did not choose to completely liberalize the naturalization policy. The fundamental reason is actually the saying, "People who are not of my race must have different minds." They believe that these naturalized players may not really work hard for the country at the critical moment.
In the end, the Football Association chose to carry out youth training in a down-to-earth manner and develop a campus football plan to connect campus football from junior high schools to high schools and then to universities, so that players can have a clear and visible upgrade path in school. Only in this way will more parents be willing to send their children to play football, which will fundamentally expand the size of our country's football population.
From 2015 to 2025, now ten years have passed, although the Chinese team still has not won the right to participate in the World Cup, but judging from the first half of this game alone, there is no need to debate which one is better, the youth training route or the naturalization route. , the verdict was made.
A group of players trained by our own campus football have become leading figures in their respective clubs, and we have also trained "hope of the whole village" like Hu Lai who can win glory for the country in the Premier League.
When these men come together, they know exactly what they are fighting for.
Not for the promise of high bonuses, but for his motherland, and even more for his original dream - every football boy must have longed for the day when he would stand on the World Cup stage wearing the national team jersey.
They are fighting for their dreams, how could they not try their best?
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In the Chinese team's locker room, Shi Wuyin looked around at his players.
Young, old, familiar faces, new faces, they are all his players.
In order to hit the goal of the World Cup, they persisted until the end.
He said: "The game is not over yet. Although we are two goals ahead, it does not mean that we will definitely be able to win the final victory... I believe that everyone here knows this better than me. A journey of 100 miles and half 90 . In the remaining 45 minutes, everyone should leave! Forget about the score, just treat them as if we are 0:0! "
Captain Yao Huasheng stood up and yelled: "This is the closest we are to the World Cup. No one can stop me! If anyone messes around during the game, don't blame me for being rude!"< br>
The captain of the national team actually rarely talks like this in the team.
But now he shows his domineering side.
Facing the attraction of the World Cup, Yao Huasheng no longer cares about other people's feelings. He only considers that if he can participate in the World Cup, it will be a huge honor for his career...
So anyone who dares to harm him is his enemy. He will never be merciful when dealing with them.
Of course, when the other teammates heard what the captain said, no one would feel unhappy or offended.
In fact, they and Team Yao have the same idea now - if anyone dares to delay me from playing in the World Cup, I will kill him!
As long as everyone thinks about the hope of participating in the World Cup, their hearts will be hot, and the air in the locker room will be heated up.
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After fifteen minutes of intermission, the players from both sides changed sides and played again.
It can be seen that the Qatar players must have been inspired, or stimulated, during the halftime break.
So after the start of the second half, their performance improved compared to the last period of the first half.
Amid the cheers of Qatari fans, they continued to attack the Chinese team's goal.
Facing Qatar's attack, Shi Wuyin made adjustments during the halftime break. He expected that Qatar would definitely step up its attack after the start of the second half - this was actually easy to guess, because Qatar had no other option but to do so. They can't possibly fall behind by two goals and still play in the backcourt, right?
Since Qatar is going to counterattack with all its strength, it means that there will definitely be a gap behind them.
The Chinese team only needs to defend well, wait for opportunities to counterattack, and use the speed of the two wings to create threats.
It doesn't matter whether they score or not, the main thing is to make Qatar realize that if they continue to attack like this, the defense is very dangerous, so they can take the initiative to retreat and reduce the pressure on the Chinese team's defense.
The Chinese team, which leads by two goals, is still in a stable situation as long as they don't make mistakes.
Unless Qatar suddenly explodes and there are several world waves in a row... then there is really no way.
As for the refereeing issue, after the first half of the game, Shi Wuyuan felt confident.
Ever since the Chinese Football Association made a big fuss in the AFC in the U23 Asian Cup, Qatar should not dare to commit crimes and repeat its old tricks.
This fully illustrates that you can’t be too honest as a person, and you will make trouble when it’s time to make trouble, and the same is true for organizations.
At the same time, it is also because the performance of Chinese football is indeed better than before. For example, the amazing performance of the National Olympic team in the Olympics has brought glory to Asian football. Sometimes the AFC has to take these factors into consideration.
In short, this game can basically eliminate interference from off-field factors and let football return to football.
When it comes to football alone, Shi Wuyin is not bragging. He really has this confidence now. The Chinese team should still have the upper hand against Qatar.
He had just finished thinking this in his mind when he saw the Chinese team make a quick counterattack.
Hu Lai quickly moved forward in the middle and took away Qatar's defender, leaving Chen Xingyi behind.
Chen Xingyi, who ran into the space, used his chest to remove Zhang Qinghuan's pass, and then volleyed with his feet!
The football flew into the bottom corner of the goal!
"3:0!!! Beautiful, Chen Xingyi also scored! In the 51st minute of the game, Chen Xingyi extended the lead for the Chinese team to three goals!! This score is almost..." He Feng There was a pause here. He was still a bit conservative, for fear of setting a flag himself.
But Yan Kang beside him was so excited that he didn't think much about it and directly answered his words: "...almost killed the game! We no longer have to worry about how the game between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates turned out! The Chinese team still has a chance to compete for the last ticket to the World Cup... Now I don't know if we can succeed, but from being almost sentenced to death to now we can still stay on the stage, I think this is the Chinese team's greatest success Victory! ”
Hearing what Yan Kang said, He Feng also put down his psychological burden and nodded: "I think this World Cup qualifier, no matter what the final result is, for Chinese football that has been reforming for ten years, I am afraid it will be like a... 'Rite of passage' through this World Cup qualifier. , tested the results of the reform. Hu Lai, Luo Kai, Chen Xingyi, Wang Guangwei... these are all outstanding young talents who emerged during the ten-year reform period, and they lived up to expectations and proved to us how good the path they chose was. Correct..."
Chen Xingyi who scored the goal ran wildly to celebrate, while countless Qatari fans in the stands were silent.
The boiling pot seemed to be gradually cooling down.
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PS, due to the recent events of BCI (friends who don’t know can search BCI and Nike for details, I won’t pollute the page here), in short, due to the Western fool’s saucy operation, the original design of Hu Lai’s contract with Nike cannot be continued. . So I've modified some of the chapters about previous signings and the parts where Nike's name was mentioned.
In this parallel world, there are no Nike, Adidas or other sports brands that we are familiar with.
Instead, I made it up.
In fact, at first I thought about making up these brands as well, but then I got too lazy and didn’t want to waste my time coming up with names... I didn’t expect that it would cause trouble - but I really didn’t expect it at the time. China has such a huge market, and Nike, which contributes more than half of their company’s total profits, would actually have such a stupid operation...
In short, there are no real-world sports brand elements in this book. Hu Lai and Li Qingqing are no longer related to Nike, replaced by the fictional brand "Flying Falcon".
Please forgive me if it affects everyone’s reading. (End of chapter)