Gao Hongbo is still satisfied with the atmosphere at the moment.

He paused and continued: "I don't care what club you come from, what status you have in the club, or what kind of football you have learned. I want to say, here for me, here for the national team, forget who you are at the club, everyone has to stick together and win the game! ”

Everyone nodded, to be honest, these people entered the national team, naturally decided to perform well, work hard to play, although everyone's thoughts are different, but, wearing the national team jersey, the sense of honor is still there, are eager to win glory for the country, but also for their own promotion. In addition, there is another point, Gao Hongbo's Chinese national team, the organizational composition of the players is mainly young people, Gao Hongbo deliberately did not choose those who have been famous for a long time and are big names in their respective clubs, young players are relatively simple, they are still hot-blooded, and they are eager to win glory for the country, they will not think too much about messy things, and they will work hard in the game.

It can be said that this Chinese team is unprecedentedly united, the internal atmosphere of the team is very good, very cohesive, of course, this is also inseparable from the fact that this national team has Yang Fan, a banner star with absolute dominance.

Yang Fan has not had such an experience for a long time, sitting on the bench and watching his teammates line up to play and play.

Even when he first debuted, when he was in Wolfsburg, he barely spent much time on the bench, after he became famous in Wolfsburg, he was the main force of that team, and later in Manchester United, in Manchester City, he was the absolute main force, and rarely sat on the bench to watch his teammates play, even if he couldn't play the whole game, he was still playing, and he was replaced in the second half of the game.

So, at this moment, sitting on the bench and watching his teammates play, Yang Fan feels weird, of course, he doesn't like it very much, he is eager to grow up as a member of the game on the court at this moment, and kick out glory and glory with both feet.

Amid the shouts of the fans in the stands at Harry Stadium, the game has begun.

Du Wei, the captain of the Chinese team today, won the right to pick the edge, so the tee off belongs to Qatar.

Gao Hongbo was very satisfied with this result, and he exchanged two sentences with assistant coach Fu Bo, the opponent is the main attack, and the Chinese team is based on defense, which is good.

Yang Fan didn't see it that way, and he raised his eyebrows slightly while sitting on the bench. With his character, it is better to get the right to kick off, to attack more actively, and to try to catch Qatar off guard.

Then, Yang Fan shook his head, he still subconsciously confused the national team and the club, with the strength of the Manchester City team, he is qualified to take the lead, the national team is now average, and it may be more appropriate to defend the counterattack.

Once the game began, Qatar took advantage of their kick-off and took the initiative on the field. Today's Qatari football is more about ball control, delicate skills at the feet, they pursue degree at the same time, and the attack is fast.

Such a Qatari team has improved a lot compared to the past. In fact, this is inseparable from the football dream plan formulated by the Qatar Football Association.

The core goal of their plan is to reach the round of 16 at the World Cup.

Can a small country with a population of just over 180,000 people and no more than 30,000 people want to become a football powerhouse? Qataris believe that nothing is impossible, and their deep financial resources allow them to hire a global team to turn the blueprint into reality. Germany's Brecher, who has a track record of managing Olympic training bases in Germany, was lured to the small West Asian nation four years ago by a lucrative contract, and his important mission is to nurture Qatar's future football talent. In a small country that resembles a town, even if a complete national talent training plan is planned, the population base is too small, and it will be difficult for the football dream to fly.

After Blacher came to Qatar, the first helper he invited was named Colo Moor, who was once the vice president in charge of youth training in Barcelona, and his name was not important, but he was Messi in Argentina that year, so he knew his Bole ability. Colomor has a wild mind, putting forward the strategic goal of "Aspire Africa" to ask for talents from Africa, and the vast African and West Asian countries have a natural affinity for culture and blood, as long as you pay attention, you can find a rich gold mine of football talents.

In fact, the Qataris have to admire their ability to act, and in the first year of the program, they visited 430,000 African teenagers in 595 areas in seven African countries, and the scouts traced deep into the desert, and even in areas where the fighting has not subsided, scouts with special missions are often whizz by in large jeeps escorted by armed bodyguards. Over the course of four years, the Qataris have trained 20,000 young people from different countries in the Aspire Sports Academy, and the Qataris are obsessed with finding football superstars who can light up the world, and they can't stand their national team being ranked on a par with the likes of Zimbabwe and Moldova. The selection plan has also gone beyond Africa, with Guatemala, Costa Rica and Paraguay, and even young footballers from Vietnam and Thailand coming to Doha to become a spark in the football dream.

Parents of children who are integrated into the big dream can receive $5ooo a year from Qatar, and all the expenses of visiting their children in Doha are also paid by Qataris. For relatively poor African countries, this is a considerable amount of wealth.

Of course, in the current Qatari national team, Qatar can't catch up with these young football players from Africa, Qatar has another way, that is, naturalized players, these naturalized players are not bad, their physical fitness is quite good, their foot skills are excellent, and the impact is very strong.

Many oil countries in West Asia have adopted a complete "take-it-or-leave-it" approach to sports, directly naturalizing outstanding foreign players. After all, bringing in other people's players is also a way, and this road is more convenient.

Looking at the entire international football world, even if it is as strong as Germany, France and Spain, naturalized players are an unavoidable fact. At the World Cup in South Africa, 11 members of the German team came from immigrant families, six of whom were dual nationals, Brazilians in the Portuguese team and Argentines in the Mexican team. What's more, Germany, France, Portugal, with their football traditions, immigrants, former colonial vassals, are understandably willing to play there. It is only under this extreme approach in Qatar that it becomes more intriguing. In West Asia, naturalized players have become a regular mentality, especially in countries that depend on oil for their livelihoods, and they treat the national team almost as a club, and most of the players are "bought in". In the case of Qatar's previous opening match against Uzbekistan, the 11 members of the host Qatar team had seven "mercenaries" from Africa and South America.

Not only Qatar, but also the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and even Iraq have naturalized players, and these "mercenaries" have also been the backbone of the West Asian teams for many years. Of course, in the past ten years, West Asian football has gone farther and farther on the road of naturalization, and the people who can be naturalized have also changed from third-rate to second-rate. As early as 2oo4, Brazilian striker Elton agreed to transfer to Qatar, and if it weren't for FIFA's block, the efficient goalscorer known as "ball lightning" would have played for Qatar in the World Preliminary Tournament and the Asian Cup.

After years of hard work, the Qatar national team has basically become a "foreign aid corps". Eight of the players in the main squad belong to the "mercenary army": No. 1 goalkeeper Burhan is from Sudan, defender No. 3 Cazorla is from Kenya, No. 6 captain Bilal is from Somalia, No. 7 midfielder Wissam is from Palestine, No. 15 Talaur is from Kuwait, and No. 4 Lawrence is from Ghana. The number 1o Hussein in the front line is from Egypt and the number 23 Sebastian is from Uruguay.

Lawrence Akulikuyi 1arenceau1eyquaye, whose Arabic name is Anas, was born in Lawrence, Ghana, and is twenty-six years old this year, just in the prime of his career, and his father Akuliquaye was a famous international player in the Ghana national team in the mid-to-late 80s of the last century. Kui also represented Ghana in the Mediterranean Cup in 2oo1, he went to France in the summer of 2oo2, played for a year at the Etihad in 2oo6, came to Al-Garafa in Qatar in the summer of 2oo7, and obtained a Qatari passport in 2oo8. At that time, the Qatar team wanted to call him to the World Cup qualifiers, but it was unsuccessful because the rumors were too tight at that time. And he still does not meet the FIFA requirement that "you must live in the participating country for more than five consecutive years". However, the powerful Qatar Football Association still let him successfully register for the Asian Cup.

The naturalized players are not bad, and Qatar also relies on the individual ability of these players, hoping to destroy the Chinese team's defense with offense as soon as possible, in fact, in the first ten minutes of the game, Qatar also did exactly that.

Qatar's offensive was very fierce, pressing the Chinese team's defense very tightly, the Chinese team's goal was once besieged, and goalkeeper Zeng Cheng became the busiest and nervous player on the field for a while.

The Chinese team was suppressed and could not attack at all, so Qatar's two fullbacks could rest assured that they could boldly insert assists.

Abdullah Majed and Kalifahamid frequently came up to assist, which made Yang Hao and Yu Hai of the Chinese team be pinned, the former desperately defended, and the latter couldn't think about attacking things for a while.

Joseph Amid and Lawrence were also quite active today, and the two kept attacking the Chinese team's backline.

The only thing to be thankful for is that China's two centre-backs, Zhao Peng and Du Wei, have good header ability and don't give the Qataris too many chances when scrambling for high balls.

Qatar coach Mechu got up on the sidelines and made a gesture: after the current blind side cross had no effect, Mechu immediately made the Qatar team change their style of play.

At the beginning, when Qatar frequently crossed from the side, the Chinese team almost gave up the side defense and shrunk the middle to mainly release crosses. Now after Qatar's targeted adjustments, the Chinese team is a little embarrassed.

Qatar's frontcourt players are very fast and have good skills at their feet. Now it's up to the individual players to solve the problem.

Hussein suddenly switched inward after using a feint to wipe Yu Tao on the right side. Yang Hao stretched out his foot to break the ball but tripped the opponent. The South Korean referee on duty blew the whistle and awarded Yang Hao a foul. The foul scared all the fans of the Chinese team into a cold sweat, and the place where the foul was committed was just one step away from the penalty area.

Hussein almost made a penalty!

If that's the case, Gao Hongbodi's pre-game deployment will be nullified. If the score is behind, the Chinese team will only have to fight with their backs to attack.

Ghanaian Lawrence came up to take the free-kick, he didn't choose to cross, but came up directly into the corner of the penalty area with a shot!

He completely deceived the Chinese goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, when the football grazed the post and flew out of the bottom line and hit the side netting, Zeng Cheng's save came, if the angle of the ball was a little more in, Zeng Cheng would not be able to save the football......

"Ahhhhh

There was also a huge sigh in the stands. The Qatari fans stood up and saw the net shaking, and they were ready to cheer for the goal, only to see later that it was hit in the side-netting, and they were all happy.

Lawrence was also a little annoyed by the loss of such a good scoring opportunity, and he looked up at the sky and kept muttering in his mouth.

This shot made Gao Hongbo also stand up from the coach's seat, and he felt a little nervous. No matter how much preparation you put into the game, you can't predict exactly what will happen in the game. If the Chinese team conceded so early, it would have been a bad situation, but fortunately this time it was lucky.

"Damn naturalized players......" Gao Hongbo scolded hatefully, and the head coach of the Chinese team hated Qatar's intensified naturalization behavior.