Chapter 126: Juventus

After Christmas, Ma Junqiang and Yan Tao said goodbye to Zhang Shujie and Li Mu and returned to Belgium and the Netherlands. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info a few days later, people ushered in the New Year's Day, and the annual calendar also entered 2010.

On January 3, Guo Fan gathered with several relatives and friends in Shanghai, and the theme of this gathering was "separation". Because tomorrow, he will go to Beijing and become a member of the General Administration of Sports of China.

Many friends made fun of Guo Fan, saying that he had been "promoted" from the local government to the central government, and he would have to "take care of him" in the future. Only An Rong knew that Guo Fan spent so much energy and ran so many connections to go to the General Administration of National Sports, not just to sit in the comfortable chair in the office.

He has a greater purpose. Although this goal is difficult to achieve, it is difficult to be difficult.

The next day, when Guo Fan left Shanghai, apart from his family, only An Rong went to the airport to see him off. He didn't tell too many people about his flight time, and he walked very low-key and unobtrusive.

In fact, he is really not a person who gets noticed at the moment, and many people don't know who he is. Even if he is a sports player, the sports workers know very little about him, and the hundreds of millions of football fans in China know almost nothing about him.

What do the fans care about? There's nothing more appealing to them than a football game, especially those fans who have a love-hate relationship with the national team.

On January 6, the fifth round of the Asian Cup qualifiers began, and the Chinese national team will face Syria at the Huanglong Stadium in Hangzhou. Since Lebanon and Vietnam, who were in the same group in the same group, were tied 1:1 that afternoon, the Chinese team only needed to win this game to rise to the top of the standings.

At 19:00 Beijing time, the qualifiers for China vs. Syria officially began. The Huanglong Stadium, which can accommodate more than 29,000 people, is full. Although the national football team has disappointed the Chinese people too much, when the game really comes, Chinese fans still support it unconditionally.

In this game, the four teenagers who have played in the official league overseas can still only be spectators, and they are once again blocked from the door of the national team.

In this game, the Chinese team used a disappointing score as a "return" in front of a group of hopeful fans. After 90 minutes of fierce fighting, the two sides finally shook hands and made a 0:0 draw. With the help of the home field and the cheers of countless hometown fathers and elders, China failed to defeat Syria.

As a result, the Chinese team can only continue to rank behind Syria in the standings.

Syria did not go all out in this game, because in the first four rounds, Syria accumulated 10 points in four games, one point more than the second-ranked Chinese team, and six points more than the third-ranked Vietnam, and the qualification is basically a foregone conclusion. However, China used the so-called "strongest lineup" to be forced to a draw by Syria at home.

After the game, the relevant media and fans began to put forward their opinions on the players of the Chinese team again, and many people asked: "Why can't Ma Junqiang, Zhang Shujie, Zhao Wenkang, and Li Mu, who play in Europe, enter the national team?" You must know that among the four of them, except for goalkeeper Ma Junqiang, the other three have scored. Ma Junqiang also has the feat of not conceding a goal in three consecutive games! Moreover, all four of them have been selected for the best team in the league of the year, why can't such a talented teenager even enter the Chinese team? What is the inside story of the national team?

In the face of many suspicions, head coach Gao Hongbo could only say: "There is no insider in the Chinese team, but they are too young, the oldest Ma Junqiang is not yet twenty-one years old, and the youngest Zhang Shujie is not yet nineteen years old." They don't have much experience, after all, this is the national team, not the national Olympic team. ”

Chen Hui, a reporter from the "Sports Weekly," thought it was amused, and he responded to Gao Hongbo's words in the report: "Experience? What kind of experience are you talking about? Those four teenagers really didn't play many professional games, but you have to see who their opponents are! Zhang Shujie and Li Mu teamed up to destroy Fiorentina and led the team to draw with Roma in an unfavorable situation! Ma Junqiang made Anderacht's forward line return again and again in vain! Zhao Wenkang used goals and assists to make Sporting Lisbon completely defeated! Any one of these teams is better than China's opponent in the qualifiers, right? You say they have little experience? Have you eaten up their highlights against strong teams?"

After asking Gao Hongbo rhetorically, Chen Hui took out the data again and spoke: "Zhang Shujie scored five goals and assisted twice in the first half; Li Mu scored two goals and assisted four times; Zhao Wenkang scored one goal and assisted four times; Ma Junqiang was a goalkeeper and could not score goals, but he blocked the opponent seven times in the game! You must know that only Ma Junqiang of these four teenagers can be regarded as half of the main force, and the other three are only substitutes! I would like to ask head coach Gao Hongbo, who else in China can achieve such results abroad?"

Chen Hui continued: "You must understand that Yang Chen was the absolute main force in the Bundesliga back then, and he only scored eight goals in a year; Sun Jihai played in Manchester City for seven years and Sheffield for one year, and only scored four goals in his eight-year overseas career! Now these four children are actually denied by you with a sentence of 'no experience'? How old was Owen when he was selected for the national team? How old was Rooney when he was selected for the national team? And Ronaldo and Messi, Buffon and Casillas, how old were they when they were selected for the national team?"

After Chen Hui's question was published through the "Sports Weekly," it immediately caused an uproar! Other media followed suit and launched a rebuke against the Chinese team and the head coach. The news media can still look at the problem rationally, but some fans can't. Originally, this draw was not a big deal, and the qualifying situation of the Chinese team was still very optimistic, but because of Chen Hui's words, fans turned over old accounts to the national football team.

The most talked about is the "Black Three Minutes" in the past. Everyone seems to think that even if the Chinese team's qualifying situation is very good, everything will be a foregone conclusion when it does not finally get a place to go to Qatar! "Capsizing in the gutter" has become a tradition of the national football team.

For a while, China's domestic football world became dark.

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In Europe, Yan Tao successfully entered the first team of Vidis, and Feng Kai became his agent. Zhang Shujie and Li Mu are preparing for the new season of the league. In fact, it is not necessarily a bad thing that they were not selected for the national team this time, because on the day of the 6th, at 22:00 Beijing time, the eighteenth round of the Italian Football League began, and Parma's opponent was Juventus, who won the most Serie A titles.

Every year, Juventus has only one goal: to win the league. This year will be no exception. Although they experienced a humiliating "phonegate" incident in 2006, after three years of hibernation, Juventus vowed to make a comeback! Last season, the Bianconeri were suppressed by Inter Milan to finish second in the league, which also indicates that Juventus have begun to bottom out.

Parma play at home in this round, but in the eyes of the media, against a team like Juventus, Parma is not much different at home and away, and a draw can be considered a victory.

Guidolin didn't ask for much, and asked the disciples to try to hold the game and fight for a draw. He will not be arrogant enough to go head-to-head with Juventus, which is undoubtedly an egg against a stone.

Since Juventus have set the league title as their ultimate goal, it is only natural that they will also offer the strongest squad. Coach Ferrara doesn't hold back just because the opponent is Parma, that's not the style of a championship team.

Parma will have to focus on defense and will have fewer troops on the offensive line. Zhang Shujie and Li Mu were both on the bench in this game, and Strassell, who had not started for a long time, entered the starting lineup. Strassell's start, however, proved Guidolin's failure to do so.

The game was broadcast on CCTV5, and domestic fans also sat in front of the TV early and waited to watch Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, but unfortunately the two brothers stayed on the bench, and the fans also had a lot of complaints about it.

Wang Shihan has the biggest opinion, before the winter break, Zhang Shujie and Palowski were both the top scorers in the team, why can Palowski get the main force, but Zhang Shujie can only be a substitute? Is Palowski Italian?

However, no matter how much Chinese fans have opinions, it cannot change the fact that Zhang Shujie and Li Mu are substitutes.

Juventus lost Nedved this season, but the team spent 24.5 million euros to bring in Brazilian Diego. Although Diego is not as famous and powerful as the Czech, his performance is still remarkable, with three goals and six assists. With him, Juventus have also changed from 4-4-2 to 4-3-1-2, and Diego is the only waist in the team.

Parma lined up in a 5-4-1 formation with only one Paloski up front. Guidorin's idea is that whether to replace Zhang Shujie and Li Mu depends on the situation.

Juventus showed great attacking power from the start, taking the lead in just the fourth minute through Iaquinta, assisted by Diego.

Guidolin was stunned by Iaquinta's goal, and he was not prepared to concede a goal, but after only four minutes of play, Juventus took the lead, which he did not expect.

Four minutes ...... It is estimated that none of the Parma players have moved their bodies yet. Guidolin looked at the LCD screen outside the field, the bottom of the screen did not scroll to play the results of other games, it should still be 0:0, this goal conceded also made Parma set a record for the fastest goal conceded in this round of the league.

In Guidolin's memory, the previous seventeen rounds of the season had not yet started and conceded a goal just four minutes before the start of the season, and Parma set that precedent today. Perhaps this will be the fastest goal conceded in any competition this season. Even against defending champions Inter Milan, Parma held out for half an hour before conceding a goal.

At the Tardini Stadium, Parma fans were silent for a while, as if even they hadn't expected it.

In the ninth minute, Diego sent a direct pass in the midfield, and Iaquinta formed a single knife in an anti-offside position, and Guidolin saw this posture and secretly exclaimed in his heart: "Oh no!"

In the stands, some female fans closed their eyes and did not dare to look at it again. It wasn't until after the exclamations of the live announcer that they opened their eyes and saw Iaquinta kneeling in the restricted area with her head in her hands.

It turned out that the ball was too angled when he raised his leg to shoot, but he didn't control it well, and the ball rolled past Mirante's fingertips and grazed the post.

False alarm, false alarm!

Guidolin didn't seem to have much emotional ups and downs on the surface, but in fact, he was already up and down in his heart. If you go two goals down in less than 10 minutes, how do you play the rest of the game?

The subsequent game was almost controlled by Juventus, and Diego's reputation in Brazil or international football was not always loud, and it was much worse than Juventus's first two midfield cores, Zidane and Nedved, but in front of Parma's players, it was considered a resound.

Diego can be regarded as first-class, most of Parma's players are not in the stream, only Panucci is famous, but compared with the twenty-six-year-old Diego, the thirty-six-year-old Panucci has long passed his peak. He was already above the norm against Roma in the last round, otherwise Parma would have scored a point at the Stadio Olimpico.

Palowski's shot from twenty yards outside the box was blocked by Cannavaro. This Cannavaro is the "genuine" Cannavaro, and he is also the captain of the Italian national team, Fabio Cannavaro, and the defensive level is not comparable to that of Napoli's Paolo Cannavaro.

Fabio is also Paul's older brother, and his abilities are much stronger than his younger brother.

Cannavaro and Panucci are the same year, in terms of physical strength, he is not as good as the young Palowski, but he has a lot of experience, just now Palowski was prevented by him with rich experience, he can't pass, he can't pass, he can only choose to shoot from outside the penalty area, but there is no threat at all.

Juventus regained possession. Camorane dribbled the ball all the way to the 30-metre area of the front field and passed the ball before the opponent could post it.

Diego got the ball.