56. Samba Fengyun (1)
Since the Longteng national team ability level players have not been selected for this training camp, there is only one possibility left - they will all be selected for the national Olympic team.
Chen Jiangfeng, a student who just finished the college entrance examination this year, is a rare outlier among his classmates who likes football rather than basketball.
In recent years, Chinese football has been greatly improved because of the emergence of Zhang Sheng, but most of the children of Chen Jiangfeng's age have grown up with scandals such as "black ball" and "match-fixing" in Chinese football.
Neither the children themselves nor their families will have much interest in football.
Chen Jiangfeng is a fan because his father is a veteran football fan.
After the college entrance examination, Chen Jiangfeng, who has been admitted to his favorite school, is ready to use this summer vacation to make up for the lost time in the previous senior year of high school because of study tension.
Chen Jiangfeng, who has been paying attention to the Chinese national team and the National Olympic team, went to the official website of the Chinese Football Association to check the list announced this time.
Before the list came out, Chen Jiangfeng already had the psychological preparation that there would be a large number of Longteng team teams in the National Olympic team, and when the list was announced, Chen Jiangfeng still felt that he was dazzled, thinking that the Chinese Football Association had sent the list wrong and sent it into the list of league players of the Longteng team.
Because fans looked at the list from beginning to end, they found that they were basically Longteng players, the only difference is that some players are current Longteng players, and some players are former Longteng players.
In addition to the three or four young players who won the World Junior Championship together with Nie Jiang and them, there are only two players left who are not from the Longteng team, Zhang Linpeng and Zengcheng.
It can be said that this National Olympic team is a display of the football achievements of the Longteng team over the years.
On the front line, Nie Jiang and Zou Weijia are the absolute main force, in the midfield, the combination of the former Longteng team and the current Longteng team players led by Qin Minghao occupies almost all the positions of the main force and substitutes, in the back line, in addition to Zhang Linpeng, the other main forces are also Longteng team players, the goalkeeper position is the only bright spot, the main goalkeeper is the No. 1 national gate Zengcheng transferred from Guangzhou Evergrande, and the second goalkeeper and the third goalkeeper are Huang Dawei and Zhou Wei of the Longteng team respectively.
From the two personnel lists this time, Chen Jiangfeng saw the determination of the Chinese Football Association, that is, he would rather affect the training of the top 12 matches and get results in the Olympic Games.
I have been listening to my father bragging, saying that the Chinese Football Association is just a scapegoat, and a certain ministry behind it is the real person in charge.
In fact, what Chen Jiangfeng didn't know was that this year's Olympic Games were the last Olympic Games that were clearly linked to the political achievements of officials, and the central government had begun to advocate sports for all people and national fitness, and slowly abandoned the backward concept of gold medal-only theory.
This is the last good chance for those leaders to make a political achievement through the Olympics.
There is a reason why they think so, because the IOC and FIFA have never dealt with each other, and although the latter is only a sport, the market value and influence are higher than the former.
In order to save face for the IOC and not make it too stiff, FIFA reluctantly agreed that in addition to players aged 23 and under, a maximum of three players over the age of 23 could participate in the Olympic Games.
In other words, the player's club can completely disobey the call of the national Olympic team of each country and refuse to let its players go to the Olympics.
Taking the German national Olympic team as an example, due to the lack of attention to the Olympic football event, the club has no obligation to release people, resulting in many top young players of the appropriate age not being able to participate. The clubs and the German Football Association have negotiated terms again and again, and the German Football Association has constantly compromised. As a result, the coach of the German Olympic team, Hrubesch, did not confirm the squad on the day when the roster was originally announced, so he had to postpone it for one day. In Brazil, the players of the improvised German team practiced together for the first time.
Although the Chinese Olympic team and the Longteng team have also experienced difficult negotiations, China's national conditions have determined that the Longteng team has to compromise, take a step back, and agree to conduct a training camp after the game on July 26.
According to the idea of the Football Association, at least at the beginning of July, the National Olympic team will conduct a training camp, and the reason why the Football Association is willing to talk with the Longteng team also has their considerations, after all, the main body of the National Olympic team is the Longteng team players, and the early training camp is also a training camp, so that the Longteng team can also ensure the state of the league and the FA Cup, maybe it will be better.
The Longteng team is now one of the few football clubs in China that can attract non-local fans, and Chen Jiangfeng, as a young man in Jiangcheng who has been watching football with his father in recent years, has naturally become a die-hard fan of the Longteng team, and the players of the Longteng team in recent years are a treasure.
It is precisely for this reason that when Chen Jiangfeng saw the list of the National Olympic team, he thought that he was dazzled, and when he reacted, he couldn't help but rejoice: "The main framework of the foreign players and the World Junior Championship, the good results are stable." ”
Chen Jiangfeng's view actually represents the opinion of many Chinese fans, this Olympic Games, the Chinese Olympic team and the German Olympic team, the Mexican Olympic team and the Fiji Olympic team are in the same group.
Mexico is China's old rival in recent years, whether it is in the World Junior Championships, the World Youth Championships or the Toulon Cup, the Chinese national teams at all levels are coincidentally in a group with them, or the opponent of the knockout round, while the Chinese side maintains a winning record.
Being able to beat the old powerhouses in the youth stage for several years in a row has given the fans and the domestic football world a lot of confidence. In their minds, in the group stage of the Olympic Games, a big victory over the fish belly Fiji team, a small victory over the old rival Mexico, and Germany no matter what kind of game they play, they can ensure that they will qualify for the group, which will be a breakthrough for Chinese football in the Olympic Games.
On July 27, the Chinese Olympic team successfully arrived in Brazil, unlike the Chinese team, the national Olympic team did not go to Rio de Janeiro, but flew directly to Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on August 5 (Beijing time, the rest of the time will be this time zone), the first round of the national Olympic team will be played here with the Fiji team, and on August 6, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be officially held.
For the Chinese Olympic team, foreign media also paid some attention to the analysis of the Olympic football, as many as five players who played in Europe, and some players still had good players in the Europa League, plus the World Junior Championship blockbuster The group of young players, although the average age of the Chinese Olympic team is generally young, but they are considered to be a dark horse in this Olympic Games.
In the first round of the game, the Chinese Olympic team did play a good state.
At the end of the first half, the Chinese Olympic team relied on Zou Weijia's header, Nie Jiang's shot in the penalty area, Qin Minghao's long-range shot made the score 3:0, and after the second half, Fiji's physical fitness had a big problem, Zou Weijia, who was tall, looked powerful, he and Nie Jiang completed a hat trick respectively, plus Qi Ming's goal in stoppage time, the Chinese Olympic team beat Fiji 8:0 and got off to a good start.
This is also the first victory of the Chinese Olympic team in the history of the Olympic Games, and the domestic fans and media can't close their happy mouths to be able to use this score to achieve victory.
Chen Jiangfeng, who was watching the game in front of the TV, and his father were eager to bang on the table and hit the bench every time they scored a goal, but fortunately Chen Jiangfeng's mother stopped them.
After the game, Chen's father began to talk about the past: "Watching the game of the National Olympic team reminds me of the situation when the Chinese team played the Southeast Asian team before. At that time, the Chinese team was pressing Southeast Asian teams to play, whether you were Thailand or Vietnam, not to mention the Philippines or Malaysia, just count the number of goals with a header and a shot. It's like two years ago, when I beat Thailand and was beaten 1:5, I was so embarrassed that the Pacific Ocean couldn't hold it. ”
"Not anymore. Chen Jiangfeng said proudly, "The national team composed of the players of the Longteng team is much stronger than the previous one. ”
Just when the Chen family father and son were happy there, at the same time, the Chinese Olympic team also had better news, that is, the game between Mexico and Germany was drawn, and the German team, which was put together in a hurry, was obviously very rusty in terms of cooperation, and there were many mistakes.
Before the game, the German Olympic coach Hrubesch was very confident: "I know that there are a lot of good players in the Chinese team, but our goal is to win and then advance from the group. ”
Rick Link was clever enough to take advantage of the weakness of the German team, and in the dressing room before the game, he encouraged everyone: "We are not here to experience the joy of playing against opponents like Germany, the team I lead has always been to win the best trophy - the championship, and I believe you have the ability." A lot of you have experienced what it's like to be a World Champion with me, do you want to do it again?"
"Yes!" Not only did the group of players in the World Junior Championship answer very loudly, but even overage players like Zhang Linpeng and Zengcheng were also provoked.
"Okay. Rick Link also applauded everyone, "Today's opponents, their players are basically young stars in the Bundesliga, they will most likely ignore us, after we go up, press them fiercely, don't give them the opportunity to pass the ball slowly, they have a short run-in time, there are a lot of mistakes, after forcing up, our opportunity will come." ”
In the end, the Chinese Olympic team discharged the strongest lineup of this competition, and the formation also followed the formation that the Longteng team played the most - 3-5-2, goalkeeper Zengcheng, three central defenders Li Yun, Ma Yongli, Du Zhenyu, two wingbacks were Ding Huaiyi, who was strong in attack and weak in defense, and Zhang Linpeng, who was relatively balanced in attack and defense, and Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu and Qi Ming in the midfield, Zou Weijia was at the front on the front line, and Nie Jiang was slightly back.
After the start of the game, the Chinese Olympic team's pressing made the German side extremely uncomfortable.
In the seventh minute, Zou Weijia, Nie Jiang and Qin Minghao's three-man frontcourt forced to snatch the ball from the feet of the German Olympic team's defender Klostermann, and this kind of backcourt loss was extremely fatal.
Chen Jiangfeng stood up from the sofa excitedly when he saw Zou Weijia cut off the ball: "The ball is broken in the backcourt, the Longteng team is broken from the backcourt, a good opportunity." ”
Chen Jiangfeng, who was excited, was a little speechless, and called the Chinese Olympic team the Longteng team, of course, he didn't blame him, the three people who forced the ball to steal, two are current Longteng team players, and one is a former Longteng team player, which is indeed very appropriate.
Of course, a very important point is also because Qin Minghao is too familiar with Klosterman, a teammate of RB Leipzig, and Qin Minghao has been commanding in this three-person siege.
Zou Weijia, who grabbed the ball, knew that he was slow and could not quickly enter the penalty area to form a single knife, so he decisively distributed the ball to Nie Jiang on the left.
In the face of Nie Jiang's ball, another central defender of the German team, Jule rushed over desperately, as a talented central defender trained by Hoffenheim in Huocun, Jule's height of 1.95 meters is still very fast, and his position is very timely.
Nie Jiang saw the speed at which Jule was approaching, and chose the smartest way - to change direction, Nie Jiang, who is 1.86 meters tall, is far more flexible than Jule who is 1.95 meters, and his change of direction shook off Jule's center of gravity, and the latter had to squeeze him down before Nie Jiang was about to enter the forbidden area.
This foul made Rick Link on the sidelines loudly test the referee: "This is a red card, this is a red card foul, my player is going to be single-handed!"
Chen's father, who was watching TV, could still sit firmly before, but now he also stood up: "Is it a penalty?
"Red dot package, red dot package!" Chen Jiangfeng had already shouted happily.
Unfortunately, the Argentine referee Nisgaard Bidana, who officiated the game, did not think so, and he rushed over to give Jule a yellow card, and at the same time awarded a free kick to the Chinese team in front.
"Black whistle! Damn!" The Chen family and father and son shouted in unison.
However, it can be seen from the slow motion of the replay that Nie Jiang did fall outside the penalty area, and the penalty is definitely gone, but this yellow card is debatable. Although Nie Jiang is a side-to-side penalty area, after all, it is also a quasi-single knife, and only giving a yellow card is considered a player who the referee does not want to send off the German team early. The men showed mercy.
At the same time, it can also be seen from this confrontation that Jule, who was born in 1995, is indeed much stronger physically than Nie Jiang, who was born in 1998.
Zhang Sheng, who was watching the game in front of the TV, also felt that Nie Jiang still had a great need to improve physically, and at the same time, he was glad that he did not let him go directly to Europe to play, otherwise, he would have taken the liberty of going to Europe and facing the defenders of the five major leagues who were generally extremely strong, and Nie Jiang would suffer a lot.
On the other hand, Nie Jiang's technical ability at his feet and his mind at critical moments are indeed very good, and he won a free kick in an excellent position for the Chinese Olympic team, and then it depends on whether the boys of the National Olympic team can grasp it.