The next day, Tuesday, Gu Biao asked for leave from the unit in advance, and then secretly flew to Xiangjiang with Mina to relax.

It can also be regarded as compensation for Mina's recent grievances.

This seems to be the first time Gu Biao has taken Mina to a place like Xiangjiang, and he only took it to the Middle East before.

Mina's blue eyes, and a hint of dark brownish red in her long black hair, are not very conspicuous in a place like Xiangjiang, where countless British people haunt them.

Let Gu Biao not have to avoid hugging the girl's waist even if he is on the street, no one knows them anyway.

When they were in China, they were very restrained and never dared to be intimate in public.

Now that it is a cold winter in the north, but Xiangjiang is as warm as early summer, Mina also realized that she could let herself fly this time, so she specially brought a lot of cool and beautiful beautiful clothes, some of which were French trendy and beautiful summer clothes that I didn't dare to wear since I bought them from Iraq last year.

Han Ting had already been in Xiangjiang a few days in advance, so she had already arranged everything, and when Gu Biao came, she had already sent a driver to show Gu Biao the house and drove a Mercedes to pick up the airport.

As soon as we came out of Kai Tak Airport, Mercedes went straight to Mong Kok.

In the 80s, there was a "Xiangjia Football League", which was also a common problem of all British colonies, and no matter how bad the game was, it had to be a façade.

Since the so-called league is a bunch of teams "city derby", and now basically rely on the "Mong Kok Stadium" and "Yuen Long Stadium" to complete all the games. Therefore, the teams in the east and west of the city can only be one-size-fits-all, focusing on choosing one as their home stadium and the other as the away stadium, which finally saves the face of the "home and away system".

In today's warm-up friendly match, Han Ting rented the largest and only stadium in the city center of Xiangjiang, Mong Kok Stadium. The place was opened in '73 and has 6,000 seats. (There are only 5,000 people in Yuen Long, and the maximum number of people in other irregular venues is 2,000)

Not even one-tenth of the capital's workers' body.

In addition, Xiangjiang people don't like to watch football very much, Han Ting didn't plan to sell tickets to return to the cost when she rented the stadium, and she didn't even give reporters admission, and all the stands were reserved for reliable people, or they would ask for ** fees to be empty.

It is mainly sent to related households in the mainland, some patriotic business people in Xiangjiang, and some people in the football community in the mainland, mainly in the football circles in eastern Guangdong.

In the seventies and eighties, the provincial football in the north was very weak, and the main international players Rong Zhixing and Gu Guangming at that time, as well as the head coach Su Gui, were all from the Yuedong team.

Because the east of Guangdong is close to Hong Kong and Macao, there is a little money to engage in football. Many other provinces are so poor that even the provincial team players are malnourished and can't play at all. Only after being selected for the national team can beef ration be rationed every day.

This also led to the fact that the national football team at that time did not pay attention to physical confrontation, only emphasized skills, and hoped to use a cost-saving model like table tennis and badminton to engage in football - it was not that the country did not want to engage in physical fitness football, it was really poor and hungry. The people who were selected for the provincial team can only ensure that they are full of white rice, and the meat is not guaranteed at all, so what kind of physical confrontation is there to talk about?

Gu Biao glanced at it when he entered the venue with Mina, and it was estimated that there would be only a few hundred people at most today, and the large number of grandstand seats were empty.

The security personnel at the gate also checked very strictly, not to look at the ticket, but to look at the documents and the list before releasing them. Because of the rush of time, it is estimated that no New Zealand dogs or other pro-British spies will be involved.

"Mr. Han has done a good job of confidentiality. Gu Biao praised himself secretly.

In the 80s, the bitter fruits of unclassified training for the Chinese also had enough. Those lackeys of the British dog are the ones who like espionage tactics the most.

Gu Biao came relatively late, and the game started soon after he sat down, and no one greeted him for a while. The venue is so empty, of course, they sit in a good position, they are all in the front row of the rostrum, and they can casually go down to the coach's seat to walk around and observe it up close.

At the beginning of the game, the Chinese team was obviously not adapting to it, and the pace was a little slow. The West Ham United's long-distance transfer of England made the gaps in the Chinese team's defense repeatedly torn apart, and they conceded a goal in 15 minutes and fell behind 0-1 -

After all, it wasn't until 3 days ago, when I knew that I was going to play the play-offs, that the warm-up training of the Chinese team really became serious. Before that, because it was just for the purpose of "playing with the British club and earning some appearance fee foreign exchange", the team leader didn't take the coach seriously, and it was normal for the players to be emotionally slack.

However, the advantage of the warm-up game is that there is no psychological pressure, after falling behind, Director Su yelled on the sidelines for a while, and also used a substitution quota in the first half of the game, replaced the effective defensive veteran Chi Shangbing, and gave some instructions to the people on the field at close range, stabilizing the situation.

On the other hand, although West Ham United's current results are slightly lower than the middle of the English League, it is said that even if it is a substitute lineup, it should be a level better than the Chinese team.

However, after all, West Ham United has just been promoted from League Two to League One this year, and it does not have the spare resources to build the whole team for the time being. Therefore, the gap between the strength of its substitute second team and the main first team is greater than that of the average League One team.

In other words, its first team is a "middle team in League One", and its second team can only be regarded as a "top second team in League Two".

It is not surprising that the second team of a top team in League Two is inseparable from the Chinese team in 81.

After taking the lead, West Ham played more relaxed. China's main striker Rong Zhixing once equalized, but at the end of the first half, West Ham striker Billy Bang scored after another long pass.

At the end of 45 minutes, the score was 2:1.

Gu Biao watched the two groups of players retreat to the lounge on the sidelines of the field separately and tiredly, and Director Su and some others also surrounded them.

In the crowd, Gu Biao found an elegant figure dressed in fashion and intellectuality, it turned out to be Teacher Han who he had been searching for a long time, so he hurriedly came over with Mina.

"Teacher Han, I didn't see you just now, so let's watch the game first. Gu Biao greeted politely.

Mina also respected her teacher very much, and did not forget to bow.

"This is ...... Comrade Xiao Gu of the diplomatic department, hello hello, thanks to the mediation and help of President Han and you this time, otherwise I am afraid that the situation will be really bad. ”

Two old men in their forties and fifties with vicissitudes of skin were about to thank Han Ting, but when they saw Gu Biao inserting in, they fixed their eyes and quickly thanked Gu Biao.

"This is ......" Gu Biao did not have photos of the relevant personnel of the national team, and he couldn't distinguish his identity for a while, which was quite embarrassing.

Fortunately, this embarrassment only lasted for a second, and Han Ting helped him out of the siege: "Team Leader Xu, Director Su, this is too outward." Everyone is for the country, what do you say thank you or not. What's more, Xiao Gu is still a government official, and it is also appropriate to make more contributions, if he dares to be proud, I will pump him!"

Han Ting has always been selfless in the two years at the Foreign Affairs University, although Gu Biao has graduated, but the former teacher-student relationship is there, plus the initial start, Gu Biao estimates that he will not be able to escape Han Ting's lessons in this life.

"What Mr. Han said is that this is what I should do. Gu Biao took the opportunity to recognize who was Team Leader Xu and who was Coach Su, and then exchanged a few polite words with the team leader, and then was pulled into the lounge by the head coach half-pushed.

Han Ting and Mina also followed.

Director Xu gathered all the team members and pointed to Gu Biao and others to lecture:

"Comrades, this is Comrade Xiao Gu of the Foreign Affairs Department, as well as Comrade Isminaya. I heard Director Li of the General Administration say that Comrade Xiao Gu and a few of them sent a note overnight that night and severely condemned the Saudis, did not let them put more water, and saved the chance to play another play-off! Comrade Xiao Gu is a proud and closed disciple of Secretary of State Kissinger, so he has such a full insight into the despicable process of capital paying attention to the country!

Mr. Han and Comrade Xiao Gu have created such good conditions for us in terms of winning the opportunity to compete and preparing for the competition, so that we can have the opportunity to continue to walk! In the future, we must not disappoint the great help of the fraternal departments and patriotic red capitalists and fight the game well!"

"Play a good game! Be worthy of the file! Be worthy of the motherland! Be worthy of the people!" Captain Chi took the lead in shouting, and the other team members also shouted slogans.

Han Ting took the opportunity to quietly identify a few main team members for Gu Biao on the side.

Gu Biao glanced at it, and was secretly startled again.

He didn't know much about football in his previous life, and now he is only standing in the field of diplomacy and capital, helping a little, but what are the personal information and technical characteristics of the national football team, Gu Biao still doesn't know, and he is completely blinded.

He had only looked at the list before, but there was nothing on the list, just a handwritten list with only names and numbers, and even the age of the players.

That's why Gu Biao was so surprised when he recognized who was who.

"Captain Chi Shangbing looks at the vicissitudes of life, he is 32 years old, the main front waist and the core of the offensive organization Rong Zhixing are 33 years old, no wonder he has been through the wind and frost...... Why are the main players so old? Just the explosive main striker Gu Guangming 22, the young Zhuang faction. ”

Gu Biao secretly discussed with Han Ting in a whisper.

"Do you have any questions about Comrade Xiao Gu?" Director Su is very interested in Gu Biao, the benevolent man who helped him continue his life, so he is very courteous.

"Uh...... I'm afraid that Director Su will laugh, I don't really know much about ball, and it's too layman to ask. ”

"It's okay, Comrade Gu is engaged in diplomacy, and it's normal for him to be busy with official business and not have time to learn about football. Director Su didn't care at all.

Gu Biao raised his question slightly.

Director Su sighed sadly: "The aging of the national team is indeed a little serious, compared with European and American countries, the average age is three or four years old." Alas, most people will also kick this session, and if there is a next one, they will definitely have to change a considerable batch of blood.

But there is no way, my country's football takes the route of technology, not physical fitness. So even if the players are older and have less stamina, they can still make up for it by relying on experience and skill.

First, the country has no money and can't afford to raise too many players, so it is impossible to change a batch of new talents every three or four years, and everyone must be prepared to serve the country for at least 15 or 20 years. One more international player will consume an additional 200 kilograms of beef every year, as well as other nutritional products and training consumables. ”

When Gu Biao heard this, he felt a lot of pain in his heart.

He suddenly discovered that the 60 places at the Foreign Affairs Academy every year that could learn how to eat steak and other Western food at public expense were so precious.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs can only afford such a small number of people, so it is no wonder that the Federation of Entities, which is much less valued, cannot open the pot.

Thinking about it, Gu Biao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took Han Ting's arm and asked eagerly: "By the way, Mr. Han, did you find the Thai beverage factory I asked you to check?

Han Ting thought for a while: "I have delivered, it should be that I didn't make it clear when I handed it over." Coach Su, didn't we also sponsor a batch of 'sports drinks'?"

Coach Su recalled for a moment, and then went to ask the team leader.

After a while, a staff member took out a few boxes of drinks from the supplies piled up over there, and explained apologetically: "Coach Su, we were negligent, the boxes are written in Thai, no one can read them, and they don't dare to drink indiscriminately, so there won't be any forbidden ingredients, right?"

Gu Biao smiled with relief: "No, even if you drink it, as long as you drink it after exercise, it's no problem." This kind of thing is called 'functional drink', there are no prohibited ingredients, and it is translated as 'Red Bull', don't look at it as just a Thai product, it has a good effect on instantly improving endurance. ”

The "Red Bull" in 1981 was just a product of an unknown beverage factory opened by Xu Shubiao, a local Chinese businessman in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It wasn't until two or three years later, in 1984, that Austrian businessman Matt Schötz discovered this miraculous stamina-enhancing formula, and began to inject capital into joint ventures, trying to internationalize, and officially opened the overseas market in 1987.

If it weren't for Gu Biao, who had known that Red Bull was a must-have killer for endurance events in later generations, and begged Han Ting to take the trouble to go to a small city in Thailand to scrape the ground, he wouldn't have been able to buy "Red Bull" at all.

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PS: There are already 3,000 words on the top, and the money is not counted below.

Answer the two more frequently asked questions in the previous chapters.

First of all, some book friends can't understand the competition system (I originally assumed that everyone knew history, so I didn't write too much, and I didn't want to write water).

In a word, at that time, "the Chinese team finished the regular season ahead of schedule and had a bye in the final round." In the bye state, the Chinese team is ahead of the New Zealand team by 3 points and 5 goal difference. So at that time, the country thought that New Zealand must have no play, and the team was supposed to be disbanded in advance for a holiday. But the Saudis lost to New Zealand by 5 goals in the final round for various reasons, framing the Chinese team", and then the plot of the protagonist's operation was picked up.

The second question is that many people have sharply discussed the issue of "Yu Minhong's remarks" that I clarified yesterday, so let's analyze it here. First of all, from the perspective of political correctness, Yu Minhong's words are definitely wrong, and the fall of women will not lead to the degradation of the country.

He should first say that first of all, men are cheap, and the reason for being cheap is that many men want to find women and refuse to live for themselves, but instead live with "women who think they are pursuing whatever they want", so this part of the men themselves have problems.

Men's values should also be diverse, they shouldn't all pursue women, they can be based, they can be celibate, they can be chemical from the palace, they can be solved by VR, if men break the instinctive circle that they have to find a woman, in fact, no matter what women appreciate, it has nothing to do with him.

So Yu Minhong's passage was changed to "The depravity of women leads to the depravity of those cheap men who are interested in women", then there is no problem.

It cannot be said that the fall of women leads to the fall of all men, because they do not degrade men who are not interested in women;