Let's review the shock of Yang Fan's injury to the distant ancient country of the East.

On December 4, 2o1o, Yang Fan was injured in a match between Manchester City and Bolton.

The next day.

Yang Fan was seriously injured and missed the Asian Cup!!

It's the headline of the sports pages of some of China's most important media outlets, and it's eye-catching, and the three exclamation points feel even more terrifying.

But no one has expressed objections and puzzlements to such a title, all fans of the Chinese team should know such a fact, how important Yang Fan is to the Chinese team!

In the upcoming Asian Cup, Yang Fan is the greatest hope and capital for the Chinese team to hit the first Asian championship trophy in history!

The photo of Yang Fan being carried off the field on a stretcher was in the most prominent position in the major media, and almost all the front pages of the entire country were this photo, and the photo showed the young sports superstar trying to maintain a smile on his face, but people could see a trace of pain and panic in his expression.

Under this photo, it is the original words of Manchester City's official announcement about Yang Fan's injury after Yang Fan was fully examined the next day:

“…… It's bad...... Even the most optimistic estimates are that Yang Fan will be absent for at least two months......"

This news is a bolt from the blue for Chinese fans.

The head coach of the Chinese team, Gao Hongbo, learned the news at the first time, and he was stunned, Yang Fan was the most important chess piece in his plan, and anyone could be missing from the Chinese team. Yang Fan can't be missing. Over the past year or so, Gao Hongbo has continued to transform the Chinese team, so that this team is accustomed to Yang Fan as the core, Yang Fan is the offensive core of the Chinese team, and the Chinese team has to rely on the energy of this star to score goals, and, on the other hand, the Chinese team must rely on Yang Fan for defense, because as long as Yang Fan is on the field, it is the biggest deterrent to the opponent!

Some media used such a sentence to describe the importance of Yang Fan to the Chinese team: Yang Fan sneezed, and the Chinese team had a severe cold!

Yang Fan was injured. The prospects of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup have undoubtedly been overshadowed.

Gao Hongbo rushed from Beijing to London as soon as possible, and he temporarily left behind his disciples who had already started training to visit the Chinese team's greatest hope.

The first time he met Yang Fan, Gao Hongbo read a word from Yang Fan's eyes: unwilling!

Obviously, Yang Fan already knew about his injury, which was almost equivalent to announcing that Yang Fan was completely out of the Asian Cup.

He must be very unwilling and sad, Gao Hongbo thought of this, and his own heart was also very sad.

At this moment, Gao Hongbo even felt that God was very unfair to Yang Fan and Chinese football, when Yang Fan began to emerge, he completely fell out with the Football Association for well-known reasons, the Chinese team lost a great player, Yang Fan had no way to serve the country, and the Chinese team finally missed the 2O1O World Cup, and performed extremely badly in the 2oo8 Beijing Olympics. It's a lose-lose outcome.

Now, there is finally a turnaround and changes, the domestic football anti-gambling and anti-black, Yang Fan has also returned to the national team, the upcoming Asian Cup is the first continental competition faced by the Chinese team with Yang Fan as the core and flag, fans all over China have great expectations for this event, they are looking forward to seeing Yang Fan lead the Chinese team to achieve good results, to compete for the shining crown pearls!

However, when there was still a month before the start of the Asian Cup, Yang Fan was injured, and he needed to stay away from the field for two months!

This is cruel to Yang Fan, cruel to Chinese football and Chinese fans, and cruel to the head coach of the national team, Gao Hongbo.

Gao Hongbo is ambitious, he is eager to help Chinese football, eager to lead the Chinese team to make progress, eager to contribute to Chinese football, and the emergence of Yang Fan's star has given Gao Hongbo the greatest capital and confidence......

For the Qatar Asian Cup, Gao Hongbo is ambitious, and he dreams of the day when the Chinese team will reach the top of Asia!

However, now......

It's really a trick......

Yang Fan's injury, all his ambitions became a joke at the moment of injury.

For Yang Fan, this injury is also a cruel fact.

Yang Fan was very unwilling.

He has achieved brilliant glory at the club, he has won the Bundesliga Golden Boot, he has won the UEFA Cup, he has won the UEFA Cup, he has won the German Cup, he has won the English Championship, he has won the English Golden Boot, he has won the Champions League Golden Boot, he has won the European Golden Boot, he has won the FA Cup, he has won the League Cup, he has won the Club World Cup.

He won the European Ballon d'Or.

He won the World Footballer of the Year!

But no matter how great the glory and personal glory he has achieved in terms of clubship. There is always a regret in his heart!

Not being able to win honors in the national team has always been Yang Fan's heart disease.

Before, he was excluded from the national team by the bureaucratic Football Association, and he had no way to serve the country, but now, he finally has the opportunity to play for his country, and he will soon be able to usher in the Asian Cup, which can make up for the trauma of the 2oo4 Asian Cup in his heart. However, at this moment, he was injured...... He is really unwilling to stay away from this opportunity to fight for Chinese football and his motherland.

Gao Hongbo comforted Yang Fan, he asked Yang Fan to recuperate from his injury with peace of mind, and comforted him that he could participate in the Asian Cup four years later, participate in the qualifiers for the 2o14 Brazil World Cup, and contribute to the Chinese team's impact on the Brazil World Cup. Of course, he knew that what he said could not soothe the regret and sadness in the young man's heart.

However, at this time, Yang Fan spoke.

"I'm going to do my best to recover! Yang Fan said in a calm tone.

"Huh?" Gao Hongbo didn't react, "Four years later, in the Asian Cup, of course, we will work together at that time......"

"It's not the Asian Cup in four years' time, it's the Asian Cup in Qatar in January next year. Yang Fan said.

"Your injured ......" Gao Hongbo originally wanted to say, this was impossible, but he felt that this was too cruel, he guessed that Yang Fan must not be able to stand the fact that he was injured, and he said this purely because of stubborn obsession. So, he thought about it, and said with kind comfort, "Well, rest assured, there may be a miracle." ”

Yang Fan knew that Gao Hongbo didn't believe it, so he didn't need to say more. Yang Fan still thanked Gao Hongbo for his visit, and the head coach was able to temporarily put down the team and make a special trip to visit him, which Yang Fan couldn't imagine, and he was a little moved. During the period of working with Gao Hongbo, he can feel that this is a real person who does practical things, and a coach with ambition and hope. This is good.

Yang Fan's injury has attracted the attention of the whole Chinese team, and various media are tirelessly reporting the news of his injury, and the major media have tried to buy doctors and nurses from the Royal College of Physicians in London, and even cleaners, hoping to know some of Yang Fan's current situation.

Although South Korean player Lee Qinglong, who tackled Yang Fan, repeatedly claimed that he did not mean to, and also called Yang Fan after the game to apologize, the angry Chinese did not want to let him go. Even Manchester City fans ran to the Bolton training base to protest against his brutal foul, and the media even held on to the issue, threatening to portray Li Qinglong as a "public enemy of China".

There are also media that elevate this foul to the level of "conspiracy". It is believed that Li Qinglong must have been instructed by some people in South Korea. Even South Korea's own media admit that Lee Qinglong's shovel of Yang Fan will be very beneficial to South Korea's competition in the Asian Cup, because the Chinese team without Yang Fan has greatly reduced the threat of South Korea's championship.

Chinese fans were furious.

It is no wonder that Chinese fans are so angry, because Yang Fan is the biggest support of the Chinese team and the hope of Chinese fans. Yang Fan is seriously injured, what should the Chinese team do? Our hope of winning the championship is gone, who is responsible?

Of course, the Bolton player Li Qinglong who fouled him!

Li Qinglong said that he swore by his conscience and character that he definitely did not deliberately foul Yang Fan.

The Chinese media immediately snorted, conscience, character, and do Koreans have this thing?!

This incident even brought the Korean media in, and his players were insulted, and the Korean media was also very unhappy. South Korean media said that the media of the two sides officially went to war.

The most intuitive reaction to Yang Fan's injury is that William Hill has made some adjustments to the original odds of winning the Asian Cup, and the odds of the Chinese team winning the championship have changed from 1 to 5 to 1 to 9. Adjusting the odds of winning the championship, William Hill doesn't often do this, which can only show that Yang Fan is too important to the Chinese team now......

Along with the Chinese team's odds to win the championship, the odds of several other teams have also been adjusted, and without the competition of the Chinese team with Yang Fan, other teams quickly become bigger champions, as the Asian football world has always been ordered.

Gao Hongbo rushed back to China after visiting Yang Fan, Yang Fan was injured and missed the Asian Cup, which made the pressure on his shoulders greater, he needed to restart the tactics with Yang Fan as the core that the Chinese team had practiced this year, without Yang Fan, the Chinese team quickly changed from the pseudo-rich and handsome who were focused on and vigilant by many teams, and completely became diao, for other strong teams in Asia, it seems that there is no threat all of a sudden.

In the days that followed, Gao Hongbo led the Chinese team to start the training camp and warm-up matches before the Asian Cup, the Manchester City team continued to play in the UK, and Yang Fan disappeared, only the official announcement of Manchester City informed the star's whereabouts, and Yang Fan's own private team was recovering from his injury.

On December 23, the day after the Chinese team's 1-0 Macedonian warm-up match, Gao Hongbo was busy in his office, and he was struggling with the Chinese team's player squad for the Asian Cup, because once the list is submitted, it cannot be changed after it is filed with the AFC.

Because Yang Fan was absent from the Asian Cup, this made Gao Hongbo more cautious about the selection of other players, when there was Yang Fan, the strength of the Chinese team was a grade higher, and it was not a big deal if a player was wrongly chosen, but now there is no Yang Fan, the strength of the Chinese team has been beaten back to its original shape, and the choice of each player needs to be considered again and again.

At this time, Gao Hongbo's mobile phone rang, he frowned, he didn't like to be disturbed when he was working, especially when he was doing such an important job, but when he saw Yang Fan on the caller ID, Gao Hongbo opened his mouth in surprise.

"Yang Fan, how is your recovery?" Gao Hongbo answered the phone and asked with concern, "Where are you now, those reporters are crazy, they are looking for you all over the world." He joked.

Yang Fan didn't have time for Gao Hong's blog, he asked anxiously, "Coach Gao, has the Asian Cup squad been reported?"

"The big list?" Gao Hongbo subconsciously looked at the name he wrote and drew in his notebook, and replied, "Not yet, but the list will be submitted soon." ”

Yang Fan was relieved when he heard that Gao Hongbo had not yet reported the Chinese team squad for the Asian Cup, and he was really worried that it would be too late when he called.

"You really haven't handed it in yet?" Yang Fan asked again uncertainly.

"Not yet, but in a while I will raise the list to the Football Association, and then the Football Association will review it and submit it to the AFC. Gao Hongbo said, and then he asked in surprise, "What are you asking for?"

"Director Gao, do you remember what I said?" asked Yang Fan.

"What did you say?" Gao Hongbo was stunned, he didn't remember.

"yes. Yang Fan said, "I said I was going to participate in the Asian Cup." ”

"Ah, four years later," Mr. Gao said.

"I'm talking about the Asian Cup. Yang Fan said, "So, I called to remind the senior director not to forget to put my name in the big list." ”

"What?" Gao Hongbo was startled and stood up suddenly, "How is it possible?" he rubbed his temples, "Yang Fan, don't be kidding, I still have a lot of things to deal with here, the list has not yet been finalized, and I am still struggling." ”

"I'm not kidding. Yang Fan said, "Director Gao, if I tell you that I am recovering from my injury very well and have a good chance of catching up with the Asian Cup, do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it. Gao Hongbo said directly, he smiled bitterly, "Yang Fan, I understand your feelings, I am also sad that you are absent from the Asian Cup, okay, don't joke." ”

"I'm not kidding. Yang Fan was also anxious, "Director Gao, I'm not a child, I won't joke about such a thing, I mean seriously, I have the possibility to catch up with the Asian Cup, that's why I called you in such a hurry." ”