"It's exciting and exciting to beat Ivory Coast in the first round of the World Cup, but I don't want the brothers to keep that feeling for too long, there will be a second round, a third round of the group stage, and even a knockout round, so we should get used to winning and make it a daily routine. ”

Tang Zheng said at the end, and suddenly his voice changed: "We all know in our industry, we eat the rice of youth, the main elite of the clubs, the annual salary is very considerable, the quadrennial World Cup is a rare opportunity, if you perform well, there will be a higher annual salary and better advertising contracts waiting for you, everyone is a person with dreams, take a long-term view, if you can perform well on the stage of the World Cup, I happen to have the resources and platform in my hands, I can help you." ”

As we all know, Tang Zheng and his agent Fibino Rodrigo have cooperated to open an international football agency, specializing in sending outstanding players from China to higher leagues abroad for training.

The most successful ones are Lu Liang, Yan Junling, Zhang Linpeng and Wu Sanshi, and Tang Zheng has arranged many talented young players in China to receive high-level training at Dortmund through his influence in Dortmund.

Now many players in the national team have changed their agents, and the changed agents are the professional agents of Tang Zheng's brokerage company.

Even if some players are not members of the national team and have not been selected for the national team, they will give preference to Tang Zheng's agency.

After all, the facts are there, and there is no room for questioning.

Some are players signed by Tang Zheng's agency, some are considering, and some are not, but Tang Zheng's words are very correct, especially the sentence that professional football eats youth rice.

Very realistic!

Now in the national team, except for the captain Zheng Zhi and Liu Jian, who are older, the other players are in their playing years.

Like Ren Hang, Li Xuepeng, Jiang Zhipeng, Zheng Zheng, Wu Xi, Cai Huikang, and Cao Yunding, they were all in the same year as Tang Zheng and immediately entered the peak of their careers.

Zhang Xizhe and Liao Lisheng are both post-90s and younger.

Although playing in the Chinese Super League is not like a fish in water, it can also be said to play freely, so the career has come to a bottleneck period, and a broader stage is needed to stimulate personal growth.

People have dreams.

A long time ago, due to the cruelty of reality and the pressure of survival, they had to give up their so-called ideals, but now that they have the opportunity to fulfill their dreams when they were young, people with a little ambition will choose to pursue their dreams again.

Professional footballers are often ambitious.

Besides, there is a classic saying that has been circulating in China: water flows to a low place, and people go to a high place.

There are better platforms waiting for you, so why not?

Tang Zheng is full of words, everyone knows it, so there is no Tang Zheng who will deceive them.

If it weren't for the captain Zheng Zhi who had stayed abroad, and now that his age has come to the end of his career, he would have been ready to go out for a while.

The World Cup is a top personal promotion platform, and if the individual performs well, even if there is no way to go abroad to stay abroad, the status and annual salary of the individual in the club will be qualitatively improved.

In any case, there is no objection to things that are conducive to the prospects and interests of personal development.

About half an hour later, it was past 12 o'clock in the evening local time in Brazil, and the head coach of the Chinese team, Lippi, and his coaching team waited at the door of the conference room for a long time, when they saw that the players' mental outlook had changed greatly, and they were no longer as excited and excited as before.

Coach Lippi has a vicious eye and sees people very accurately, and he also notices that the mentality of the players has changed a lot, whether it is a starter or a substitute, there is one more thing in his eyes.

That's right, more than faith is!

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The next day, at noon, the Chinese team was led by Lippi's assistants Madaloni and Li Tie to fly from Recife to Natal on a domestic flight from Brazil, while head coach Lippi took intelligence coach Pezzotti to Belo Horizonte in the morning to watch the second group game of the same group.

Shortly after the Chinese team arrived in Natal, the second match of the first round of Group C against Greece at the Mineiro Arena in Colombia kicked off.

After 90 minutes of fierce battle, Colombia finally defeated the Greek team 3-0.

Tang Zheng watched the news newsletter of the game through the 4G network for the first time after getting off the plane, and he felt inexplicably relaxed when he saw Colombia's three-goal victory over Greece.

Colombia's three-goal victory over Greece, which has a strong defensive ability in the qualifiers, when Tiger Falcao missed the World Cup finals due to injury, not only shows that Colombia's offensive strength is strong, but also shows that the Greek team is not as powerful at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends as imagined.

Since there are drawbacks at both offensive and defensive ends, Tang Zheng believes that the head coach Lippi who came to the scene will definitely see it, and there will definitely be targeted deployment at that time.

Of course, you can't take it lightly.

There is no weak brigade in Europe, and there is nothing wrong with this statement.

During the interval between waiting for a bus from the airport to the hotel, Tang Zheng watched the video of the game on his mobile phone, and he found that the Greek team had exposed a lot of defensive problems, and the defense was crumbling under the continuous pressure of the Colombian attack.

The most important thing is that the Greek team's defenders are prone to lack of concentration in the game, conceding the first goal in the fifth minute and the third in the 93rd minute.

In this regard, the clash between the two teams can be exploited.

The Chinese men's football team arrived at the hotel and had a nutritious lunch together, followed by a two-hour rest before taking the bus provided by the hotel to the side court near the Dune Stadium for recovery training.

The amount of training is not large, but the Chinese players have shown a very good mental outlook and are full of enthusiasm.

The Chinese media who followed the Chinese team's first World Cup group stage win were very satisfied, not to mention that the next game against the Greek team, which lost in the first round, was immeasurable.

Greece, which lost in the first round, is in dire need of a victory, but the Chinese team won the opening momentum, and now the spirit is amazing, and it can't win Alexander's Greece?

The Chinese media were pleased with the mental outlook of the Chinese players, while the Greek media were worried.

First of all, the Chinese team's 3:2 reversal of Ivory Coast in the first round will inevitably be greater, and the Greek team, which lost in the first round, will definitely be under great pressure in the second round, and it is difficult to predict the performance at that time.

In the entire Chinese team, the most talked-about player is undoubtedly Tang Zheng, who is currently playing for Real Madrid, and his form is even more amazing.

Although the whole team is now conducting simple recovery training, Tang Zheng has no physical problems at all, so he is training with the ball alone after a simple warm-up.

2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Tang Zheng played as a defensive midfielder for a long time in the first round of the Chinese team's game against Ivory Coast, but many times the role of superstars cannot be ignored, the first goal of the Chinese team in the World Cup was completed by superstar Tang Zheng, and then assisted Lu Liang to equalize.

In the final goal that overtook the score, Tang Zheng also played most of the scenes.

The offensive end is perfect, the defensive end is another husband, and the best of the game is well deserved.

In addition, the strength of the Chinese team in the first round of the offensive end surprised the whole of Europe.

Hao Junmin, Lu Liang, Zhang Xizhe, Wu Sanshi, and Gao Lin all showed excellent individual ability, so it was a little difficult for Greece, which was in dire need of three points in the second round, to win.

The Greek team, which lost three goals in the first round, has a lot of problems on the defensive end, and the offensive tactics are old-fashioned, and there are no bright spots at all.

"Hey......"

The Greek media reporters who were present shook their heads.

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The first round of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was in full swing, and the most talked-about match of the night was the direct clash between Italy and England in Group D of Death.

The game was played at 8 p.m. local time in Brazil, and Tang Zheng was watching the live broadcast from the hotel room where the Chinese team was staying.

Both teams borrowed from a number of games in which they conceded too early in the first round of the group stage, so the focus was on the defensive side at the outset, and it was not until the 35th minute that Italy broke the deadlock with an imaginative corner kick from Marchisio.

However, just two minutes into the game, England's rising star Raheem Sterling sent a delicate through ball in the middle, captain Wayne Rooney won the ball and crossed from the left, and the middle flanked Liverpool's demon Sturridge pushed past Buffon in front of the goal to equalise.

The two sides then attacked and defended each other, but did not break through the opponent's goal until the end of the first half.

England paid a heavy price for their lack of concentration in the second half, with Candreva gaining space on the right flank with his superior personal footwork and a noticeable leak in the England penalty area!

Balotelli leaped high unmarked and headed the ball into Joe Hart's back of the net to put Italy back in the lead.

As an England fan, Tang Zheng shook his head helplessly, except for the first goal conceded, the second goal could be avoided.

Balotelli is Italy's top striker, and it stands to reason that Giagielka or Cahill should be in charge of marking, but there is no one to mark at crucial times, and Balotelli is allowed to have an easy header at the back of the six-yard box.

Although England launched a tidal wave of attacks next, the Italian defense that contracted the defense was solid, and the score did not change until the referee blew the end of the game.

In the end, Italy defeated England 2-1 to get the start of Group D of the Group of Death.

With the end of the group stage between Italy and England, Tang Zheng really focused on only one group stage, and that was the strong dialogue between the German team and the Portuguese team.

Whether it is the German team or the Portuguese team, Tang Zheng has a lot of good friends.

Germany started with former team-mate Hummels and current Gotze team-mate Khedira, while Portugal started with team-mates Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe and Coentrão.

With just 10 minutes to play, Gotze won a penalty for Germany with a breakaway, and Thomas Müller broke the ice to score.

Cristiano Ronaldo played hard, but his teammates were far from each other in terms of strength and awareness, so Tang Zheng, who was sitting in front of the TV watching the game, could often see his teammate Cristiano Ronaldo use his super individual ability to create opportunities.

However, it has to be said that the overall strength of the German team is too strong, the offensive end can create a threat, and the defensive end can defuse the attack created by Portugal's front court through tacit cooperation with each other.

In the 32nd minute, Kroos took a corner kick from the right, and Hummels, who had been well selected in the middle, jumped high and headed the ball into the net to extend the score.

Five minutes later, Pepe and Thomas Muller got into a verbal altercation, and then Pepe's head had a top-down movement, which was just in time to be seen by the referee on duty.

Perhaps the referee on duty decided that Pepe's action was a malicious provocation that was beyond the scope of sports, so he directly gave a red card.

The Portuguese team fell behind by two goals, and Pepe, the backbone of the defense, was sent off with a red card, and Tang Zheng, who watched the live broadcast of the game, shook his head.

He knows that the big picture of the game is decided!

Sure enough, in the end, the German team defeated Portugal, which had one less player, 4:0 and got off to a good start.

After the two key battles, Tang Zheng didn't want to pay attention to the World Cup group stage, so he focused on training and stepped up his time to prepare for the second group stage of Group C at the Dune Stadium two days later.

During the two days of preparation for the Greek team, Lippi's coaching team conducted an in-depth analysis based on what Lippi observed in the first round, and then researched targeted tactics.

The defeat to Ivory Coast in the first round of the group gave China a lot of room to qualify, but when it comes to facing seeded Colombia in the third round and a relatively weak Greece in the second round, winning is a wonderful opportunity to advance to the round of 16.

The final two matches of Group H have been concluded and the second round of the group stage has kicked off, with hosts Brazil and Mexico being the most likely teams to qualify early, but only on the premise that the winner will be decided in a direct second round.

Unfortunately, the two sides fought for 90 minutes and the battle ended 0:0.

As a result, the first team to advance to the round of 16 hopes to appear in Group B.

The Netherlands and Chile, who won in the first round, faced Australia and Spain respectively, and the Netherlands, who kicked off first, defeated Australia 3-2 to become the first team to advance to the round of 16.

Because the Netherlands qualified early, there was only one place left in Group B, and Spain, which lost in the first round, could not afford to lose, but the Spanish team under huge pressure could not withstand the pressure, they lost 0:2 and missed the round of 16 in advance.

Spain was eliminated in the first round, which is embarrassing.

The Barcelona-based Spain team has become less controlled in midfield with the ageing of Xavi and Xavi Alonso, and the three strikers of Diego Costa, Fernando Torres and David Villa are out of form.

Only one goal was scored from the penalty spot in the two games, which can be seen.

However, this has nothing to do with the Chinese team, but head coach Lippi reasonably used Spain's exit as a spur point to warn the Chinese players who did not underestimate their opponents' qualifications.

In the blink of an eye, the second round of Group C group stage of the Chinese team against the Greek team at the Dune Stadium is coming, and the whole country is paying attention.