Chapter 130 From the National Youth to the National Olympics

Lisbon is the capital of Portugal and the largest city in Portugal. Located less than 12 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean www.biquge.info Lisbon is the westernmost city on the European continent and one of the most famous world cities in southern Europe. Lisbon is one of the richest regions in Portugal and Europe, with a GDP per capita that is much higher than the average GDP per capita in the European Union.

Of course, for many football fans, Lisbon still gives them the impression that football is predominant, and Sporting Lisbon Football Club is a famous team in Europe and one of the top three in the Portuguese Super League. This team has produced many stars, and the famous Figo and Ronaldo all debuted at Sporting Lisbon.

Zhang Shujie and Li Mu had already arrived in Lisbon, and they walked out of the airport together with the crowd. There were a lot of people picking up the airport outside the passage, almost all of them were foreigners, but in the crowd, there were two people with yellow skin and black hair like Zhang Shujie and Li Mu.

Zhang Shujie saw them almost effortlessly. One of those two should be Zhao Wenkang, as for the other...... Could it be Xu Ziyi?

The first one walked towards the two of them and asked, "It's Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, right?"

The two nodded.

The man said: "My name is Zhao Wenkang, and I have the same agent as the two of you, and he entrusted me to receive you." ”

Zhang Shujie said with a smile: "It turns out that you are Zhao Wenkang, who has admired his name for a long time." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare. It's just a substitute who can't play the main team in a small team. ”

"Oh, so do we. ”

Li Mu looked at the young man beside Zhao Wenkang and asked, "Could this be Xu Ziyi?"

"Good eyesight!" Xu Ziyi said.

"Aren't you in Spain? How did you get here?"

"Spain and Portugal are very close, it just so happens that there are no games in the past two days, I heard Zhao Wenkang say that you have been selected for the training list of the national Olympic team, so I came to take a look, just to see the style of the two. ”

This Xu Ziyi is really good at talking. Zhang Shujie said: "What style, just an ordinary player." By the way, are you still in the reserves?"

"Yes. ”

"When will you be in the first team?"

"It's hard to say. Let's see if the coach appreciates me. ”

Zhao Wenkang interrupted the conversation between the two and asked, "Do you know when Ma Junqiang will arrive?"

Li Mu said: "It should be soon, we called him this morning when we were still in Italy, and he was in the waiting hall in Amsterdam. What's the matter, do you still want to pick up Ma Junqiang?"

"Uncle Feng has explained, if it is convenient, he will also answer Ma Junqiang. In general, we are both Chinese, and it is not easy to leave our homeland, and I play in the Portuguese Super League and know a little bit about it. We are all compatriots, and it is also appropriate to take care of each other. ”

"And what about the small aspect?"

"We have entered the training list of the national Olympic team, and Xu Ziyi and I also considered it yesterday, if there are no big accidents in the future, I think we will all be selected into the final squad of the national Olympic team to compete for the right to qualify for the Olympic Games. It is even possible to become a teammate of the national team in the future. ”

Zhang Shujie and Li Mu smiled after hearing this, Zhao Wenkang was so young that he thought really far, and even thought about the national team, but what he said was not impossible to achieve.

Zhao Wenkang looked at the time, it was still very early, and then said to the three of them: "Since Ma Junqiang is coming soon, then let's wait for him in Lisbon." ”

An hour later......

Ma Junqiang saw Zhang Shujie as soon as he got out of the airport, and under Zhang Shujie's recommendation, he also met Zhao Wenkang and Xu Ziyi. Ma Dashuai is originally a hot intestine, as long as the other party has no malicious intent, even if they meet for the first time, they can get along with each other. His meeting with Yan Tao at Christmas is a good example.

This Shandong man quickly became familiar with Zhao Wenkang, he knew that Zhao Wenkang and Xu Ziyi were both from Sichuan, and he actually sighed that the two of them spoke Mandarin so well. In his opinion, the Chinese language of Sichuan people is "Trump".

A large contingent of the Olympic team will not arrive in Lisbon until tomorrow. The team booked a hotel in Lisbon in advance, but because the scheduled date is from tomorrow, Zhang Shujie and the others will naturally not be able to stay today. Fortunately, Zhao Wenkang arranged it and took the three of them to his apartment for one night.

Zhao Wenkang now lives alone, the apartment is not big, just two rooms, but it is more than enough to live for four people, not to mention that this is just a temporary stay.

Setúbal is adjacent to Lisbon, and even if you return to Setúbal today, it will be too late to rush back to Lisbon tomorrow morning. As long as it's not deliberately procrastinating, there's plenty of time.

Zhao Wenkang has been to Lisbon several times and is no stranger to Lisbon. He took the four of them for a walk around Lisbon and tasted a little Lisbon food along the way. After dark, Xu Ziyi said goodbye to everyone and returned to Spain.

Before leaving, he wished everyone all the best in the training competition.

Soon after Xu Ziyi left, Zhao Wenkang took Zhang Shujie and the others back to Setúbal, rested for the night, and rushed to Lisbon the next day, where they successfully rendezvoused with Liu Chunmin's Olympic team at a pre-booked location.

This national Olympic team was established in April 2007, but it was called the national youth team at that time, and the personnel in the team have not changed much in the past few years, and the people who come in and out are basically those people. The team was originally established to compete for the London 2012 Olympic Games, and these players will also be the focus of the country's training.

However, the record of this national Olympic team is not very good. During the national youth team, the team defeated Australia and Iran 1:0 and 2:0 in the second Weifang Cup two years ago, and the national youth team also won the runner-up in the Weifang Cup at that time. In the 36th Asian Youth Football Championship qualifiers, the national youth team swept Malaysia 7:1 and the amateur team Macau, China 10:0, but the opponents in these games were too weak and it was not a matter of pride to win.

There are victories and there are also losses. The national youth team has lost two 0-1 to Uruguay and South Korea. During this period, China and South Korea played twice, with one win and one draw. It's understandable that they can't play these strong teams, but on November 14, 2007, in the qualifiers for the Asian Youth Championship, the national youth team actually lost 0:1 to North Korea, which made people full of doubts about their future.

However, in 2008, the national youth team won the fourth place in the Qatar Eight Nations Tournament, and in the subsequent official Asian Youth Championships, the national youth team advanced to the quarterfinals, which is so-so. It's just that in the match with the old enemy South Korea, the Chinese team still can't win, so Chinese teams of all ages continue to be "afraid of South Korea".

(Here's a simple explanation, the current Olympic team is different from the 2008 Beijing Olympics when Du Yi led the Olympic team, they are two different teams.) In terms of age, the average age of Liu Chunmin's team is 21 years old, and in 2008 they were only 19 years old, which is still in the "national youth period"; Du Yi's national Olympic team was about 223 years old in 2008, and it is a real "national Olympic team". Now two years have passed, Duyi's team has been disbanded, and now only Liu Chunmin's team in China is the only "National Olympic Team", which exists to impact the London Olympics. )

In general, the national youth team has experienced low and high walks in the past year and a half, and can barely give fans an explanation. But when the 2009 National Youth transitioned to the National Olympics, the game played can be said to be miserable.

In November, they won just one of their three matches in the Vietnam FA Cup, drew 2-2 with Thailand's Under-23s in the other two, then lost to Vietnam's Under-23s 2-3 two days later, and a month later, the Olympic team failed to qualify from the group stage of the 5th East Asian Games with a 3-0 defeat to South Korea.

The Chinese Olympic team has achieved such results for two consecutive months, which has greatly dissatisfied domestic fans. The fear of South Korea has made people feel numb, but what about the situation of drawing with Thailand and losing to Vietnam? After all, the Chinese Olympic team is also a professional team, so can't even play two amateur teams? With so much money, the country has raised such a group of people? And they still want to go to London to participate in the Olympics like this? Foolish dreams!

In the past two months, Liu Chunmin has also been under great pressure, and there are voices from the outside world asking him to "get out of class". But if he really leaves like this, he will only leave a lifetime of infamy.

It happened that during this time, the names of Zhang Shujie and the four were hyped up by the Chinese media. Although there were a few games in the middle where the performance of several teenagers was very average, but after the winter break, they gradually got better, either scoring goals or assists, or blocking opponents, which also attracted Liu Chunmin's attention. It happened that the National Olympic team was going to hold a training match in Europe, and Liu Chunmin obeyed the name and recruited them into the National Olympic team.

Zhang Shujie, Ma Junqiang, Zhao Wenkang, Li Mu, the four of them are different from other members of the National Olympic team. Most of the others have been in the team since the national youth period and can be called veterans. These four are just newcomers, and although they play at the highest level in each country, they still can't have any steam in a new environment.

Besides, they are not big stars now, and they are not qualified to put on a show.

The first time I picked up the head coach of the national Olympic team, the four teenagers were a little nervous. Liu Chunmin was okay, he welcomed the arrival of the four people, and said a few words of condolences, and then took everyone to stay in the hotel they booked.

It was not yet noon at the moment, and Liu Chunmin told the team members to rest for a while. Most of the players coming to Europe from China are affected by the time difference, Liu Chunmin will not arrange training and run-in too early, after lunch, the players will take a nap in the afternoon, and do some basic ball sense exercises before dinner.

Zhang Shujie and Li Mu were arranged to live in one room, and Ma Junqiang and Zhao Wenkang lived in the same room. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the team members had to go back to their rooms to sleep for two or three hours after lunch, and reverse the jet lag to avoid losing energy. There is no time difference between Zhang Shujie and these four people, so there is no need to bother so much.

Ma Junqiang carried a notebook with him, called Zhang Shujie and Li Mu to his room, and the four of them looked for a movie to watch.

At this time, there were suddenly several people outside the room making noise, listening carefully to what they were saying in Chinese, but they couldn't hear what they were saying. This must be the members of the national Olympic team speaking.

Zhang Shujie felt strange: Aren't they tired after more than 10 hours of sitting on the plane?

"They're in good spirits. I've been on a plane for so long and I don't fall jet lag. ”

Li Muban smiled and said, "Maybe it's excitement." ”

"It's not the first time they've gone abroad, so what's so exciting?"

"This is the tradition of our Chinese Olympic team and national team, and the energy is always off the court. ”

The other three laughed, and Zhao Wenkang said, "If they don't rest for a while, what should they do with the training in the evening?"

Ma Junqiang said: "The coach just thought about the problem of jet lag, so he said that there will be no tactical drills today, just do some basic ball sense training." This kind of training is not a lot of running, it is relatively easy, as long as you are not half tired and half dead, you can do it. ”

"Then you can't stop resting, right? I don't think it's a good attitude. ”

"Attitude? Haha! Don't tell me you've never seen the Olympic team before. What kind of attitude is that......"

Ma Junqiang's voice was a little loud, and Zhang Shujie hurriedly pulled him: "You are quiet, do you want others to hear it?"

Zhao Wenkang pondered and said: "If this is the case, then some people in this team may not make it to the Olympic qualifiers and leave the national Olympic team." ”

Li Muyi beckoned: "Isn't it better to go? Don't talk about them, we don't have the influence of jet lag, let's watch a movie." ”

Zhang Shujie also said: "Are there any blockbusters released recently? I haven't paid attention to it for a long time." ”

Ma Jun laughed twice: "I don't have a blockbuster here, but I have something better, don't you see it?"

The curiosity of the three of them paused: "What is beautiful?"

Ma Junqiang smiled **** and clicked on the E disk.

He set a decompression password for a compressed package called "baby", and clicked in to take a look after compressing and decrypting it. Suddenly, Zhang Shujie, Zhao Wenkang and Li Mu looked surprised and looked at each other.