47. From the national youth team to the national team

De la Cruz, who took the penalty, was the first penalty taker for the Uruguayan national team. Su Dong took advantage of the fact that the referee was still directing everyone except De La Cruz and Guo Quanbo to leave the penalty area, and quickly introduced, "But in fact, his penalty success rate is very low." Since the start of the South American Youth Championship, de la Cruz has taken a total of six penalties, three of which have been missed, a success rate of only 50%, and he missed the penalty shootout against Portugal in the last round. ”

"Judging by the way he takes penalties in the past, he's one of those who doesn't follow the usual path, and he especially likes spoon penalties. Meng Hongtao's preparation was also very adequate.

"I think the youth team should have a penalty shootout plan, and I must have known about de la Cruz. Su Dong can only hold on to the psychology of luck.

At this time, the referee blew the whistle for the penalty kick, "Run, push." Oops, the ball went in. Su Dong looked regretful, "Guo Quanbo has actually judged the right direction, it's a pity." ”

"The national youth team is now 1-0 down, there is still time for the game, if you add stoppage time, we still have at least 15 minutes, and now is not the time to give up. Meng Hongtao began to cheer up the national youth, but also to cheer himself up.

After the opponent's penalty kick, Maddaloni chose to make a substitution at the first time, Huang Zhengyu, who was passed by Joe Altais because of lack of physical fitness, was replaced by high school striker Guo Tianyu, and the Chinese national youth team was ready to play a high ball directly into the penalty area.

Fabian Coito was quick to respond, with 1.90m-tall centre-back Augustin Rogel replacing 1.8m-tall centre-back Matthias Wiener to bolster the height of the backline.

Uruguay's hand did make the Chinese national youth's later golf tactics useless many times.

In the last minutes of extra time, except for goalkeeper Guo Quanbo, the Chinese national youth team stayed in their own half, and all the others overwhelmed the half.

Some of the weaknesses of the young players were all exposed at this time, the more anxious they were, the more they couldn't control their footwork, and the more anxious they were, the more they made mistakes in their busyness. The national youth team has two crosses in a row, and they pass directly to the bottom line without any pressure!

"It's too urgent. Su Dong's nervous mouth was dry at this time, "You can try to pass it down to the bottom, Uruguay is so good at recycling, and the gap on the side is very large." The threat of a pass from the bottom is much higher than a 45-degree diagonal hang. ”

However, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the score was still fixed at 1:0, and the Uruguayan national youth team relied on a controversial penalty to defeat the Chinese national youth team and get a ticket to the final of the 2017 World Youth Championship in South Korea, while the Chinese national youth team fell on the threshold of the final again after four years.

As soon as the referee's whistle blew, Zhu Chenjie burst into tears, and he regretted and was aggrieved about the penalty.

Xiang Tiange, as the captain, has been selected for the national team, helped the national Olympic team win medals in the Olympic Games, and also won the championship of the World Junior Championships, he has more experience in the game, and hurriedly came over to comfort Zhu Chenjie at this time, although he himself was trying his best to suppress his sadness.

"Don't cry. Xiang Tiange patted Zhu Chenjie's head comfortingly, "You are not even 17 years old, you can participate in the next World Youth Championships again, and then get the field back." ”

Su Dong looked at Xiang Tiange on the field, and also said with emotion: "The boys are good. Although we lost, we still lost on penalties in extra time against the team who were favored to win the championship before the game. Our young lads should be proud. ”

"Yes. Big deal we'll come back next time. Meng Hongtao still continued to focus on encouragement, "Like Zhu Chenjie and Jiang Shenglong, they are all post-00 players, one year younger than the requirement of being born in 99 at the next World Youth Championships, and those who were selected for the national youth team such as Shan Huanhuan, Guo Tianyu, and Liu Ruofan are also 99 years old, and they can participate in the next session, so it can be said that our team has a bright future." ”

Although they lost the game, after crying, the young men of the national youth team were still very sportsmanlike, they held hands and circled the field, bowing to the Chinese fans who came to cheer for more than two hours.

The young men of the national youth also ushered in warm applause and enthusiastic cheers, "Come on Chinese team!", "You are good!", and the fans did not skimp on their encouragement.

Zhang Sheng, who watched the whole game, was not only sorry, but only regretted, after all, this national youth team can really be said to be the second team to be honest, and it is rare to have this result.

If it is a complete Chinese national youth team, then there will definitely be the main goalkeeper Huang Dawei in the backfield, the two main central defenders Li Ming and Lu Yangyang, and Cao Jinghao in the midfield.

If Nie Jiang is in this team, with his ability, the offensive ability of the national youth will be very different. He gave up his chance to participate in the World Youth Championships, but concentrated on the national team's competition, and the sacrifice was not ordinary.

What Zhang Sheng didn't know was that if the strength of the original group of national youth teams in history was used, they would definitely be beaten in the World Youth Championships, because of the task of "common progress" of the system, the potential and ability values of all the young players have changed greatly, and with the proper tactical arrangement of the coaching staff, they have come to this point.

On June 11, the Chinese national youth team will play a third or fourth place final known as the "loser final" with the Italian national youth team eliminated by the England national youth team.

Unable to enter the finals, the media has lost the hype gimmick of the World Youth Championships, and the attention has also dropped sharply, and now the only thing that everyone is still looking forward to is hoping that the national youth team can get the third place in the World Youth Championships, after reaching the semifinals in 2013, the third and fourth place finals were lost to the Ghana national youth team 1:3, and only won the fourth place.

After equalizing the record of the national youth team, Madaloni, who hopes to leave at least a mark on Chinese football, is very eager to win this game.

"Life is unsatisfactory, eight out of ten", Madaloni's current situation confirms this old saying - Wu Wei, Zhu Chenjie, Zeng Fanfang and Zhang Yuning received yellow cards in the last game, and they will accumulate two yellow cards to be suspended, so to speak, the central axis of the Chinese national youth team has been emptied.

In fact, this is also a hidden danger left by the team's lack of strength.

In addition to the yellow card suspension, continuous overtime, injuries, fatigue, and lack of physical fitness have also become the biggest obstacles for the national youth team in the third and fourth finals.

In order to make up the starting line-up, Maddaloni can be described as exhausted, with a large number of players who have not played before coming off the bench.

Xiang Tiange retracted to replace the banned Zhu Chenjie to play the right central defender, Peng Langjun moved over to play the right wingback, Gong Yuzhe, another loan player of the Longteng team, played the left winger, and midfielder Wei Zhen started to play the back to replace Wu Wei, Zeng Prosperity could not play, and the key forward position could only be replaced by Cao Yongjing, who could only be replaced by Cao Yongjing, who played well in the last game, Wu Qingmin, who played well in the last game, replaced Zhang Yuning's position, and Huang Zichang was also the starter, so that Lin Liangming sat on the bench.

It can be said that the whole team has a big rotation.

Compared with Italy, where the yellow card was lifted, the injury returned, and the main players returned one after another, from the very beginning, the Chinese national youth team lost half of this game.

Sure enough, in the first half, the Chinese national youth team made a low-level mistake in the penalty area, causing the team to concede a goal. In the second half, the attack had just picked up a bit, and the Italian national youth team conceded another goal with an efficient and quick counterattack.

Madaloni, who was on the sidelines, completed all three substitutions in just 15 minutes of the second half, but the difference in the hard power of the two teams made him weak.

At the 2017 World Youth Championships in South Korea, the Chinese national youth team completed all the competitions and finished in fourth place.

After the World Youth Championships, fans' eyes returned to another more eye-catching game - the World Preliminary Round of 12.

Unlike the World Youth Championships Maddaloni who is stretched thin in terms of players, although there are injured players like Zheng Zhi, Wang Yongluo, and Wang Dalei on the side of the Chinese senior national team, there are not many players who can replace them, Zheng Zhi is troublesome, and there are also a few who can make up for it overseas, not to mention that there are rising stars like Qi Ming in China, as for Wang Yonglu and Wang Dalei, they are positioned as substitutes, and the impact is even smaller.

The top 12 of the World Preliminary Tournament has been played for seven rounds, and now except for Qatar, which has only three points, it has lost its qualification, and the other teams have the opportunity to qualify directly or play in the play-offs. In this algorithm of adding and subtracting each other, the Syrian team that the Chinese team is about to face must win all the next three games, and also look at the eyes of the other two teams. But either way, a win over China is their only option, if they still want to qualify.

China is in relatively good form now, with 13 points 4 points less than Iran and the same number as South Korea, but in terms of goal difference, China has 6 points more than the opponent's 2. In terms of the number of goals, the Chinese team has 10 goals, and the South Korean team has 9 goals, which seems to be about the same, and there is a big difference between the two sides in terms of goals conceded.

The stability of the Chinese team's defense is still good, except for the first round after Perrin led the team to concede three goals, except for the away game against Iran, which conceded a goal, all of which kept clean sheets.

The South Korean team's conceded goals of up to 7 goals are too different from their previous solid defense, and it is not for nothing that the South Korean domestic media pulled down their faces and scolded the policy of the three foreign aid in the Chinese Super League.

But, who cares?

Now there is a lot of social capital in China, and the return on investing in football is considerable, and the high salary attracts players too much, and South Korea's own domestic league can't retain people, who is to blame?

Under China and South Korea, the slightest threat is Uzbekistan, which has 9 points, but their next three opponents are Iran, China and South Korea, of which the first two games are still away, which is simply embarrassing them, and the hope is extremely slim.

To have money is to be able to do whatever you want, which is also evident in this match between China and Syria.

The five-year contract of 10 billion yuan gives the Chinese Football Association enough money to run various things. In addition to material and logistical support, the Football Association has also done a good job in terms of software atmosphere.

In order to adapt to the venue, the Football Association made a step in advance and found that the grass species of the playing field was large-leaved grass, which has large leaves, large friction and slow ball speed, and belongs to the basically eliminated turf grass species. After discovering this, the Football Association stepped on the point personnel to report in time, and the Football Association specially found a large-leaf grass turf field for training through the help of local Chinese, so as to adapt to the playing style in advance.

In terms of the arrangement of fans, like the national youth team a few days ago, the Football Association and the Dragon Team fan organization contacted the local Chinese and organized the manpower to prepare to buy tickets and cheer when the time came.

But because it is a third-party venue, the AFC did not pay much attention (considering the political impact), the Malaysian media did not do any reporting and publicity because it was not a domestic team game, the management of the stadium did not even post the game logo, and the scene did not provide ticket sales services, all sales are online, and because it is a small website, it is neither famous nor promoted, and few people know about it.

In the end, after the fan group contacted the person in charge of the venue, they adopted the method of group purchase, purchased more than 1,000 tickets, and prepared to turn this ball into a complete home stadium of the Chinese team together with the local Chinese.

In the era of information explosion, the information of these national teams is displayed in front of fans little by little, and the heat of the game is also heated up with this information.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the statement made by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On June 12, the day before the game, at a regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when asked whether the upcoming meeting between the Chinese leader and the FIFA president would discuss the possibility of hosting the World Cup in China, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave an optimistic answer.

China, which has always been extremely cautious at the diplomatic level, gave an optimistic reply, which is basically an affirmative statement that will not leave 10 on 8.9.

This piqued the interest of fans across the country, and fans everywhere began to look forward to their cities as their home stadiums.

Even posts like China City Bar, which has never been interested in football, have begun to actively participate in the discussion.

"Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou have the best hardware conditions, and there are many Super League teams, so they must be the main ones. ”

"It's pitiful, it's all first-tier cities, and my little Shenzhen is crying in circles on the side. ”

"I said that I want to go to those football cities, Dalian, Qingdao, Tianjin have the best foundation, they are the first choice. ”

"We have a lot of fans in the central and western cities, and there are also many teams in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League. Jiangcheng, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guiyang, which does not fill your stadium. ”

"Why did you forget me Changsha. Although we don't have a team in the Chinese Super League, we are a blessed land. ”

"Xi'an: I'm the same. ”

"You can't do that, the Yangtze River line in June is the rainy season, this time to come to our northeast, our four eastern provinces can arrange the World Cup. ”

"What the hell is the four eastern provinces?"

"Upstairs, don't you even know that Hainan is the four eastern provinces? However, if you want me to say, the stadium should be arranged in Urumqi, Hohhot, and Lhasa, otherwise how can we reflect the vast land and resources of our Greater China? ”

The topic of holding the World Cup can be regarded as a reason for those sand sculpture netizens on the Internet to be messy.