Chapter 183: Asian Cup

If the conflict within the team occurs in a foreign team, even if it is photographed by a reporter, usually the head coach will say "It is normal for the players on the pitch to have disputes, they are all for the team, and there is no problem between them". As soon as www.biquge.info words are dropped, the coach will chat with the players who have had friction alone when no one notices, until the matter is resolved.

But when it comes to the Chinese team, it has to be a different story. For example, in the case of Yan Tao and Li Guobin, Gao Hongbo believes that this is an incident that ignores discipline and hinders unity! Especially when the Asian Cup is approaching! Fortunately, the fight did not start in the end, otherwise he would have to show the Iraqi people a joke!

All the players came to the conference room, which was not large, and the twenty-three players gathered here made the small room even more crowded, plus there was a head coach and assistant coach.

Gao Hongbo's face was very ugly. Yan Tao and Li Guobin were both a little nervous, Li Guobin may be a little more worried, it was indeed his mistake before, and he was the first to hit Yan Tao with his head.

The players sat down one by one, and Gao Hongbo sat at the front, his face ugly. Fu Bo glanced at him and hurriedly turned his face away.

After being silent for a long time, Gao Hongbo said angrily: "Look at you, ah! What did you look like just now? Are you going to fight? What is this place? This is in Qatar, in Doha! What are we going to do? We are about to participate in the Asian Cup! What time is it today? The Asian Cup will start in less than a week, but you are gathering people to make trouble for me in a test match! What are you like?"

None of his teammates answered his words, most of the players were aggrieved in their hearts, only Yan Tao and Li Guobin were really making trouble, and the other team members were basically persuading, but unexpectedly, Gao Hongbo taught everyone a lesson in the conference room.

This can be regarded as a kind of "Chinese characteristics"! In a group, even if only one person makes trouble, it is not this one person who will be scolded in the end, but the entire team.

"It's just an AFC test match to get you guys a little bit more used to it. But what did you do to me? Fortunately, I strongly demanded that the stadium be empty, otherwise those reporters would have taken pictures of the scene just now and publicized it! By then, before the Asian Cup has opened, our Chinese team will have to make headlines, and you will all become influential figures one by one!"

There was still no response from the players, and Yan Tao and Li Guobin, who were nervous on the court before, also became mute at this time.

Gao Hongbo continued to say loudly: "In this year's Asian Cup, there is a lot of pressure on me! Asking us to make it to the top eight! But how did you get into the top eight? Don't you understand the team spirit? You are a whole! You must be united, united! Yan Tao, Li Guobin!"

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Gao Hongbo suppressed his anger: "What grievances do you two have?, come, say it, and I'll settle it for you!" he said and pointed at the two people.

Yan Tao didn't speak, and Li Guobin didn't speak. Gao Hongbo's eyes widened: "What's the matter? Dumb? Didn't you still look like you were going to kill during the test match? Why can't I tell you about a grudge and hatred?"

Yan Tao hesitated, and really planned to explain the reason to Gao Hongbo, but Zhang Shujie and Li Mu quietly pulled him from left to right, telling him not to be impulsive.

Gao Hongbo continued: "I don't want to care about your usual private friendship, and I can't care about it, but you are now in the national team, and you all have the same purpose and want to achieve good results." Twenty-three of you are a group, and if you want to be recognized by the domestic fans, you have to show team spirit. But what about your performance? As for the goal you lost in the test match, as for the noise? You almost made a big fight, as for it? Yan Tao, you have to answer, you are not allowed to pretend to be dumb. ”

Yan Tao shook his head: "No." ”

"Li Guobin, if you answer again, will it be?"

Li Guobin also shook his head: "No." ”

Gao Hongbo softened his tone slightly: "I still say the same thing, being in a team, you have to have team spirit, and any personal grievances must not be higher than the collective." This has nothing to do with personal awareness, this is the simple work ethic, you are all professional athletes, but you act like an amateur athlete in the test match, even worse than some amateur athletes. How much do you get a year? The people standing here have at least a few hundred thousand yuan, right? But are your performances worthy of the country? Are you worthy of the people?"

No one answered, Gao Hongbo said again: "Look at the German team in Europe, how united, why can't you learn a little? You can't learn technology, you can always learn professional ethics, right? I am here today to remind you of the last sentence, I don't care if you play at home or abroad, once someone dares to do anything wrong within the team, the bench is your ultimate belonging! I will do what I say!"

Gao Hongbo is not alarmist, he will not give anyone a favor. Even if you are a returnee, if you dare to make a mistake a second time, then go to the bench and stay.

The meeting didn't last long, and in about forty minutes the team dispersed. Before the meeting ended, Gao Hongbo asked everyone not to disclose half a word to the media.

But no matter how confidential the players are, the Iraqi players have seen this matter with their own eyes, and the national football players don't say it, which does not mean that the Iraqi players can also keep their mouths shut. It is said that the Chinese team players had some friction in the game, but the report is not detailed.

At this special juncture, each country basically pays attention to its own team and does not care much about other teams. Chinese reporters are also powerful, sniffing out a hint of it, and have asked Gao Hongbo to verify what is going on.

Chen Hui and Shen Hao and their entourage did not mess around, they had already asked Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, and the answer they got was "Don't listen to the boring reports of those boring people".

Chen Hui was not stupid and understood what it meant, so several reporters from their "Sports Weekly" did not participate in it.

And Gao Hongbo answered very simply in the face of questions from various media: "It's just nonsense, this is nothing at all!"

Yan Tao laughed exaggeratedly after hearing this: "Li Guobin and I only spoke a few words at close range, and we were considered to have a deep hatred, right? The Asian Cup is about to start, and foreign reporters are just trying to create some gimmicks, and they don't know the truth of the matter at all." ”

Li Guobin also said: "I still don't know how these rumors spread. ”

The two also denied that the reporter had other ways, they found other team members, and they had to make some noise.

Zhang Shujie: "I haven't heard of this incident, to be honest, I haven't seen any quarrels between Yan Tao and Li Guobin from beginning to end. If you think that communication is also a quarrel, then I have nothing to say. ”

Li Mu: "This is really a cloud of people, when you say this, even I am about to believe that it is true." ”

Ma Junqiang: "There is no contradiction between Yan Tao and Li Guobin, they are defenders and I am the goalkeeper, I am the closest to them on the field, I know all this very well, they just communicate often, I really don't understand why they have a dispute."

Zhao Wenkang and Xu Ziyi also said that they didn't know why they suddenly heard some media speculation that Yan Tao and Li Guobin had a conflict, and they were very surprised by this report.

The reporters still did not give up, hiding in the shadows to observe the actions of the team members, but they did not notice anything.

Coincidentally, Chen Hui published a report, claiming that this was just a matter of foreign reporters chasing after the wind, and he also inserted several photos of the players after training in the report, and many international players appeared in the photos, including Yan Tao and Li Guobin.

At that time, the team's internal group confrontation had just ended, and Li Guobin and Yan Tao, who were the partners of the central defenders, were standing side by side talking and laughing, and their expressions did not look like they were pretending, which seemed very natural. Chen Hui took advantage of this to write in the report: "I really don't want to believe that they have a contradiction. ”

Chen Hui is helping these returnee players, they are still young, the eldest Ma Junqiang is not yet 21 years old, they will play an extremely important role in the future national team, who will they not help?

Although Chen Hui has come up with "evidence", there are still many peers who don't believe it, but they can't come up with "counter-evidence".

As the game approached, no one mentioned this matter soon, especially on January 6, all domestic reporters tacitly did not dig up those news that had nothing to do with the game, because on the second day, the Asian Cup will officially begin!

These reporters are not stupid, and in the past 20 days or so, what could have been more important than the Asian Cup in which the Chinese team participated? No other news was as attractive as the Chinese team's journey in the Asian Cup.

In the past three weeks, there were no important matches in international football, and Chinese audiences had to repeatedly enjoy the three special programs produced by the column group for Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in "World Football", from training, to life, to games, and a detailed analysis of the two teenagers. Now that these three episodes of the program have been watched, and it is just in time to usher in the Asian Cup, Chinese fans have more expectations for them.

On January 7, 2011, at 6 p.m. Doha time, the opening ceremony of the Asian Cup in Qatar kicked off at the Khalifa Stadium. Although few people usually pay attention to the domestic league in this country, more than 40,000 people still came to the scene tonight, which is a very impressive attendance rate for Qatar, which has a population of less than 800,000 in the country.

In the hours leading up to the opening ceremony, fans flocked to the sports centre, vendors hawked cheering supplies and flags, and devout Arabs gathered outside the stadium to pay their respects.

Due to the opening of the Asian Cup, there was even a large-scale traffic jam in Doha that afternoon, with five mascots passing through the streets in luxury cars, and the atmosphere of the Asian Cup permeated the whole process. Fortunately, Chen Hui and others came early, otherwise they would have been too late and would have missed the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony lasted about 20 minutes, starting at 18:15 p.m. local time, and the lights of the Khalifa Stadium gradually went out until they were all extinguished, the flashing lights kept flashing throughout the stadium, and fireworks began to set off outside the stadium, and the whole stadium presented a mysterious scene. Three minutes later, a white screen on the pitch lawn became the theme of the opening ceremony, with a huge Qatari flag and 32 small Qatari flags on the screen, accompanied by the national anthem of Qatar, and the fans sang along.

It is worth mentioning that today the King Emir of Qatar also came to the scene to watch the game in person, and the king greeted everyone at the opening ceremony, hoping that everyone can "enjoy the Asian Cup". This also reflects the importance of the Asian Cup in Qatar, where the Emir rarely attended the game in person in the past, but today made an exception. From the Asian Cup to the World Cup, Qataris interpret their understanding of football in monetary terms.

After the opening ceremony, the opening match will be ushered in at 19:15 local time (00:15 Beijing time), with the host Qatar facing Uzbekistan. China and Kuwait are also in the same group as these two teams, both in Group A.

There is no game for the Chinese team today, the game of the Chinese team will be at 21:15 tomorrow night (Beijing time), the opponent is Kuwait in the same group, and then V5 will be broadcast live, and the fans are also looking forward to the returnees to give a wonderful game.