Chapter Eighty-Nine: Flash
The first round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa will begin in October, with China scheduled for October 21 against Myanmar. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Although the Chinese team will play against Myanmar in more than 50 days, domestic fans have already discussed it in advance, and everyone agrees that as long as the Chinese team plays normally, it will not be a problem to defeat Myanmar. However, some fans are not at ease, the Chinese men's football team has not "overturned in the gutter" once or twice, and it is difficult to guarantee that the national football team with a criminal record will not drop the chain.
Myanmar does not have a professional football league, and their national team is mostly college students. It's a pity that the Chinese national men's football team has not been fully recognized by the fans in the face of such an amateur team, which is only to blame them for doing too many things that have made Chinese fans sad before. In the words of the ancients, it is said that "it is forgivable to do sins in heaven, but it is impossible to live for one's own sins."
The Chinese men's football team is "self-inflicted".
It's just that despite the heated discussion among Chinese fans about the national team, there are two teenagers in Italy who have not had the time to participate in it, and they are still working hard to play in the Fachetti league as soon as possible.
Parma U19 enjoyed a weekend with coach Manzo in the second round after a 2-0 away win over Perugia after a draw in the first round, but suffered two consecutive defeats in the next two rounds.
In these two games, Parma's opponents were Inter Milan and Varese, if it was lost to the famous Inter Milan, it would be reasonable, how to say that the other party was also a giant youth army, but losing to the little-known Varese made Manzo a little embarrassed. Although it was only an Under-19 game, Manzo still felt disgraced.
After four rounds of Fachetti league matches, Parma ranked fourth from the bottom with one win, one draw and two losses, and Zhang Shujie and Li Mu did not get even a minute of playing in these four games.
The two teenagers were helpless, they had been in the team for a month, and in this month they could already say hello to their teammates in simple Italian, and they also worked very hard in training, but no matter how hard they tried, they failed to impress the head coach Manzo.
The fifth round of the competition is imminent.
The match takes place at 4pm local time on Saturday in Italy, and Manzo can't afford to lose, and if he loses like this, the knockout spots in the quarterfinals will only get farther and farther away from the team.
Parma are playing at home, the team's third home game of the season, with only one point from their first two home games, and Manzo will have to pick up three points against Chievo in this round.
Zhang Shujie and Li Mu were still ready to stay on the bench as usual, but Feng Kai excitedly told the two that they would start this round of the game.
The two thought that they had heard it wrong, or Feng Kai had said it wrong. Feng Kai said with certainty: "There is no mistake. ”
Manzo was also helpless, scoring just four goals in the first four rounds, two of which were scored by two defenders. The forward line was weak and the midfield could not organize the attack, so Manzo could only push the two Chinese teenagers into the starting lineup. In fact, Manzo has also carefully observed, both of them are in good condition in training, Zhang Shujie scored five goals in the latest training, and Li Mu also has three goals and two assists.
Not only did Manzo make two new changes, but he also made changes in other positions, and Strassell, who was a substitute in the previous game, will also start.
At three o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the game started on time. Zhang Shujie wears the No. 21 jersey, while Li Mu is the No. 22. After the opening, Parma attacked fiercely, but unfortunately it only blossomed and did not bear fruit.
In the 22nd minute of the game, Parma still conceded the ball first, the defender's clearance did not kick the ball too far, and the opposing striker seized the opportunity to take the first goal, Chievo took a 1-0 lead.
Conceding goals is naturally a problem for the backline, but not scoring goals is a problem for the forwards. In the first 30 minutes, Zhang Shujie had a shot on goal, and was confiscated by the goalkeeper because he played too well. As a young man, he started to be a little impatient, and if he couldn't score, he would have only a few chances to play in the future.
Li Mu's situation is not much better, he seems to have lost the courage in the training match, whether it is organizing the attack or shooting forward, there are no highlights and threats.
Feng Kai, the "full-time translator" of the two, was also anxious, he kept stomping his feet on the sidelines, more nervous than Manzo.
Neither side scored again for the rest of the first half, with Parma coming into the second half with a one-goal deficit.
Manzo did not change the team configuration for the time being, Zhang Shujie, Li Mu, and including Strassell all stayed on the field.
The players haven't changed, but the tactics have changed. After the start of the second half, Li Mu's range of activities was a little larger, Zhang Shujie was no longer limited to the penalty area, and Strassell's position was also slightly advanced.
This change really worked, in the 58th minute, Strassel broke the ball in the middle and knocked Li Mu, Li Mu did not stop the ball and plugged it straight, Zhang Shujie in the front field successfully countered offside, and in the face of the goalkeeper who attacked, he pushed a far corner, and the ball bounced and rolled into the goal.
1:1, Zhang Shujie equalized the score.
Feng Kai jumped up for joy on the sidelines, as if he had kicked the ball in! He was even more excited than Manzo, and people who didn't know why might see him as the head coach of the team.
This was the first goal scored by all the strikers of Parma U19 in the last three games, and Zhang Shujie was stunned for a moment, as if to determine whether this was the stadium of Yuying Middle School first. When Strassel and Li Mu ran towards him, he could be sure that it was in Parma, Italy's youth team.
He hugged Li Mu with a hint of surprise and a hint of surprise to celebrate, and then ran all the way, dodging the siege of his teammates, running to Manzo's side, and hugged the youth team coach to show his gratitude.
In the 71st minute, Zhang Shujie used his speed advantage to break through the defense of the opposing defender, and passed the ball back to the goal in the baseline position, Strassell's shot was saved by the goalkeeper, and then Li Mubu shot into the net.
Parma led Chievo 2-1.
The two Chinese teenagers scored one after another, Feng Kai, an Italian overseas Chinese with Chinese blood, was so happy that even Manzo couldn't help but applaud.
Chievo, who are behind, will not be willing to lose, and it is still early before the end of the game, and at worst they will have to get a draw away from home.
Chievo started to make substitutions, replacing a defender and bringing on a striker. This is tantamount to a signal to Parma that they are going to step up their attack.
Manzo also changed his tactics, since Chievo should focus on attack, then Parma, who have a goal in hand, must withstand the opponent's attack, so Manzo replaced a striker with a defender, which is the opposite of Chievo's substitution.
The striker who was replaced was not Zhang Shujie, but his partner Okaka. In this match, the eighteen-year-old Okaka performed mediocre and did not have much to offer, so Manzo replaced him.
After Chievo changed personnel, the three strikers took turns to bombard Parma's goal, and for a while Parma was in danger in front of the goal, Li Mu also returned to the penalty area to save and blocked a shot with his body.
Seeing the frequent threats to his own door, Manzo's heart rose to his throat, and he kept directing the defense outside the coach's bench, responding to the situation on the spot. Fortunately, the five defenders in the team did not make any major mistakes, otherwise they would have been equalized.
With thirteen minutes to go, and no more than fifteen minutes including injury time, Parma will have to score another goal to reassure Manzo.
Li Mu split the side after winning the ball in the midfield, and his teammates then handed the ball back to him, and he passed the ball to Strassell, and Zhang Shujie ran in front, waiting for the answer at any time.
Now he's a striker, and he's going to cover the whole frontcourt.
Strassell took two steps and suddenly crossed from the right, Zhang Shujie jumped high in the crowd and hit the goal with a header, the ball smashed into the bottom left corner of the goal, breaking through the opponent's goalkeeper's ten fingers.
The score on the field became 3:1!
In the 82nd minute of the game, Zhang Shujie scored twice, and with a maximum of ten minutes left before the end of the game, Parma had basically sealed the victory.
This time he didn't have to decide whether he was at Yuying High School or in Italy. He opened his arms and ran wantonly on the court, his teammates rushed towards him, Li Mu ran the fastest, the first to run in front of him, and picked him up.
The joy of the head coach Manzo and the players on the bench is self-evident, Feng Kai clasped his hands and smiled, these two children are really competitive!
Manzo was also in a much better mood, and he joked to Feng Kai: "Those two young men are simply amazing!"
Feng Kai smiled: "Coach Manzo, does your words mean that they will have more opportunities to play?"
Manzo smiled mysteriously, "Look at how they perform in the future." ”
Li Mu lay on Zhang Shujie's shoulder with one hand, and the smile on his face never faded: "Great, Jie Zai, time is running out, as long as there are no accidents, we will win this game!"
"Papaya, I really couldn't have imagined that I could score goals in this place, I couldn't have imagined before. Zhang Shujie's emotions were still a little excited.
Li Mu said: "It's okay, we will have to score more goals on a bigger stadium in the future!"
"I'm sure the coach has seen us play, so we should have more opportunities in the future, right?"
"If we keep in shape, we can definitely become the main force!"
"And then go to the first team, huh?"
"Yes, haha!"
The two teenagers began to look forward to the future. They are not afraid of how difficult the future will be, and since they have embarked on this path, they must persevere no matter what.
Ten minutes later, the game was over at 3-1 and Parma won their first home win of the season in the Facchetti league.
As in the national high school tournament in China, the local Italian media interviewed the two Chinese teenagers who dominated the competition, and although they are used to seeing these scenes in their home countries, they are completely different in Italy.
While China has been pushing youth football aggressively in recent years and is getting closer to European reserve matches, the Italians are the better ones in terms of enthusiasm, even in the Under-19s. At this point, China is still a little worse.
But what really caused a headache for the two of them was that the Italian reporters were talking Italian like machine guns, and they were in a fog.
Fortunately, there was Feng Kai, a personal translator, who translated the reporters' questions into Chinese and the two people's Chinese answers into Italian. Feng Kai was a little surprised that these two teenagers, who were only 16 years old, could cope with the reporters' questions. It's no wonder that he didn't know it, as early as when they were in China, the two teenagers had already faced many professional journalists.
However, they still had some minor problems, the nature of the high school league and the Fachetti league are different, and the two are in a different position in the team than before, and they still find it a little tricky on some issues.
In fact, the Italian media did not assume that the future of the two teenagers was bright, and the interview with the two was just a routine: the two of them performed well in this game, so pay more attention to them. If the two don't show anything in the future, maybe these reporters will forget about them.
There are many outstanding players in the youth team, but many people gradually lose their way after entering the first team. The well-informed Italian media will not be impressed by these two yellows because of this excellent performance. Zhang Shujie is not a fool, and Li Mu is not a fool, of course they know how difficult it is for Asians, especially Chinese, to break through in European football.
This dilemma cannot be changed by one or two flashes in the Under-19 youth team games.