Chapter 30: Who is the King of Asia?
China and Japan, once it comes to it, both sides will have mixed emotions.
The historical entanglement between China and Japan is still an inextricable emotion between the two sides to this day. Especially for Chinese, Japan has a very mixed view of the country.
Although Japan is a country that has only been wide once in the past hundred years since thousands of years ago, it has indeed brought extremely terrible harm to the Chinese when China was weak. Such a wound will not be easily forgotten in another hundred years.
But on the other hand, this little Japan, which the Chinese have never looked down upon, was really stronger than China at that particular time. To this day, there are still some places in Japan that are worth learning from Chinese. So, to put it seriously, the Chinese's feeling about Japan is: it is a hateful and powerful enemy.
Aside from the factors of history and humanities, in terms of football, it also makes Chinese fans feel complicated.
In the latest edition of the football rankings, the Japanese team once again became the number one team in Asia. In terms of football, it is undeniable that in the past 20 years, Japanese football has always overshadowed Chinese football. The Japanese team has always been the target that Chinese football wants to beat.
Then again. Taizu once said that the Chinese stood up. But in fact, it's not easy. Especially from the heart, it is not easy to stand up from the heart.
Chinese are proud. If the Chinese want to really get back on their feet from the heart, they need to comprehensively surpass one opponent: foreign countries!
In fact, there are only two countries in the hearts of the Chinese. One is China and foreign countries. All that China surpasses foreign countries, the Chinese do not care much. Who cares how many championships China has won in table tennis? Who cares how many gold medals China has won in diving competitions?
The Chinese only care about projects that they are weaker than foreign countries.
And football is undoubtedly a project that Chinese, especially Chinese men, care about.
If gold medals in three or four other sports are exchanged for a World Cup success, I believe many Chinese will be willing.
Now the Chinese team met the Japanese team after miraculously reaching the knockout stage.
encountered the Japanese team, which is a rival in many aspects. Chinese fans and all kinds of football people don't think about how strong their opponents are. Some are just: "The Chinese team will win! Kill the little devil!"
"No one can lose to the Japanese!"
"If you lose, don't come back. ”
It could be to break out of the group stage of the World Cup, snatching a place from England and Croatia. This has given Chinese fans unprecedented morale.
"England didn't lose and Croatia were knocked down by us. Are you afraid of a little Japan?"
"This time, we don't accept any other results. We just have to the devils. ”
The surging public opinion unconsciously made the Chinese team have no way out.
Soon noticed the public opinion of the outside world, and the Chinese team also discussed it. Fortunately, after the victory over the Croatian team, the confidence of the Chinese team reached an all-time high.
"Against the Devonians, it looks like we only have one way to go. This time we must not be cowardly. Lin Fan deserves to be the most energetic young man, and he took the lead in expressing his position without fear.
"What is there to say? One word 'dry', two words 'do it', and three words 'fight to kill Yi'!" Yan Feng said that there was nothing to say. People in other places may not pay much attention to some of the history. And the Chaoshan region, where Yan Feng was born, has never had a good opinion of the Devonian people.
"Kill the Devon!"
Soon, the national football team was full of emotion, and there was only one idea left.
Originally, Lippi also wanted to do ideological work on everyone and boost morale. He didn't expect that without him making a move, the entire Chinese team's fighting spirit burned to the peak.
"The military heart is available!" Lippi was very pleased. After injuring two extremely important main players in a row, the Chinese team is still so combative. This surprised him, but he was also happy.
On the Chinese team's side, everyone thinks that they can't coax the Japanese team.
On the Japanese side, the mood is slightly different.
With a history of nearly 100 years, the Japanese are proud. They bullied the big with the small, and once beat the Chinese very badly. Therefore, in the minds of many Japanese, they do not think very highly of Chinese.
On the other hand, China must be the country that the Japanese once had in mind to heaven and heaven. The long glory of China's history still has a great influence on the Japanese. Especially since the beginning of the 21st century, Japan has stagnated, while China is changing with each passing day, and it is regaining its former normalcy at an extraordinary rate. This is actually a great psychological pressure compared to the Japanese.
China's original advantages over Japan are still maintained, and the areas that were once inferior are not constantly catching up and surpassing. Seeing that there are fewer and fewer advantageous projects in Japan, the Japanese people also have mixed feelings in their eyes.
And football is undoubtedly a sport that the Japanese can still overwhelm the Chinese.
"Who is the king of Asia?"
"Of course it's our Devon!"
"We Devonian are the kings of Asia!"
When the Chinese team met the Japanese team, the Japanese said so emotionally.
Facing the Chinese team, which is bringing great pressure in all aspects, the Japanese think that beating the Chinese team will be a very refreshing thing. And when it comes to football, they have an unrivalled level of confidence.
"How many years has the Chinese team not beaten us? It seems that you can't count it on ten fingers, right?"
"The Chinese team can qualify from the group stage, which is indeed very happy for the Chinese. But when they met us, they can only say that their good fortune is over. ”
"They're just defeated, and we'll send them home. ”
"Chinese, please buy a ticket back to China first!"
Japanese fans are full of confidence. Even if the Chinese team defeated the Croatian team to qualify from the group. I still feel that the Chinese team will definitely not be the opponent of the Japanese team.
Of course, the Japanese do have this confidence. Compared with the Chinese team, it is so difficult to qualify, and there is even some luck. The Japanese team had an extremely eye-catching and consistent performance in the group stage.
You know, the Japanese team beat the star-studded French team with two wins, one draw and three unbeaten games to top the group.
Due to the outstanding performance of the Japanese team in the group stage, many European and American media were very impressed. Some people in Europe and the United States even said that the Japanese team is a strong challenger to the Hercules Cup.
In addition to the good performance, the strength of the Japanese team itself is indeed very strong. They have former Milan stalwart Keisuke Honda, Inter Milan's Yuto Nagatomo, Borussia Dortmund's Shinji Kagawa, Leicester's Shinji Okazaki, and Eintracht Frankfurt's Makoto Hasebe. There are also Shibasaki and others who have gradually emerged in La Liga in recent years. Almost all of the main players of the Japanese team are players who play in Europe's top five leagues.
In comparison, there are only two players in the Chinese team, Yan Feng and Lin Fan, who have risen to prominence in recent years and have successfully established themselves in Europe. The others are the ones who can only be torn apart in the Super League.
The lineups of the two sides are put in comparison, and the Japanese team is really star-studded.
There is no doubt that on paper, the Japanese team is definitely much stronger than the Chinese team, and it can even be said that it is a notch stronger.
"We will be the kings of Asia. Therefore, the Japanese team has enough confidence to shout with confidence in the face of the media.
"Who will be the king of Asian football, is it the Chinese team or the Japanese team?" After the Japanese expressed the above thoughts, the European and American media began to raise this question.
"I think the Japanese team should be the king of Asian football. Whether it's the international rankings or their current performance in the world, they are the best performers in Asia. ”
"The Japanese team is much stronger than the Chinese team. Although the Chinese team defeated the Croatian team, to be honest, it was really surprising. But their overall strength is not very strong. Also, in the win over Croatia, they injured two crucial players. ”
"The Japanese team will emerge victorious. This is the only conclusion that can be drawn after comparing the quality of the two sides, as well as the performance and form of both sides in these games. ”
Many well-known football figures in Europe have made judgments about the outcome of the Sino-Japanese battle. But fundamentally, they all believe that the Japanese team will win. Even the Spanish media who pay more attention to Yan Feng and Lin Fan also think so.
"It's only temporary, it can't last long. In the end, football is all about strength. "That's the final conclusion.
Before the game, the outside world felt like this game. After all, this is a game at the Asian level, and it is not the European powerhouses that everyone usually pays attention to, and it is almost the same as getting the attention of the outside world.
On the contrary, there will be more people in East Asia who are paying attention to this game. Therefore, it is only natural that people in East Asia have heard the topic of who is the king of Asia.
In this regard, people in one country expressed great dissatisfaction. "We, the Great Universe Country, are the real kings of Asia. ”
"Shopkeepers and devils, they just luckily stole this opportunity. ”
"The shopkeeper and the devil are the most hateful. In this game, they will definitely fight very hard. It is sure to be the ugliest and bloodiest match in the history of the World Cup. ”
"I wish them heavy casualties!"
Of course, this kind of rhetoric will never be on the table, and can only be seen on some forums of their own. The two sides who are the protagonists naturally have no time and no opportunity to pay attention to these things.
After the group stage, a few days of rest and adjustment quickly passed. Race day is here.
The knockout stage of the round of 16 has officially begun.
On the day of the match, the stadium was filled with a large number of fans. Of course, most of the Chinese fans are dressed in red.
Before the game, Chinese fans launched an action. Named "Red Sea".
The 'Red Sea' operation was supported by almost all Chinese fans. And the ultimate goal of this operation is to occupy the stadium stands. Make the whole stadium a red home field.
The Chinese fans carried out this operation with extremely exaggerated enthusiasm and motivation. The Chinese fans are so crazy that they scare everyone. And it's really fruitful.
In desperation, the Japanese lodged a fierce complaint with FIFA and the authorities holding the World Cup in Russia. And the Chinese fans' desire to monopolize the stands seems to have caused dissatisfaction in some European and American countries. Under pressure from all sides, in the end, Chinese fans did not occupy the entire stadium stand as they wished.
Under the obstruction and pressure from all sides, Chinese fans were finally very unwilling to watch 30% of the grandstand seats flow into the hands of the Japanese.
Although it did not occupy the entire stadium stands, it was a pity that the stadium could not become the home of the Chinese. However, the seventy percent occupancy rate still makes the stadium not much different from the home stadium of the Chinese team.
When the Chinese fans shouted in unison, "Come on, the Chinese team, the Chinese team will win!", the cheers of the Japanese fans were often covered by the voice.
The frustration of Japanese fans can be imagined. But it is very helpless, just like the population gap between China and Japan, the number of people in the stands is also at an absolute disadvantage. They had nothing to do but curse what they could hear.
"The hateful Chinese will always only play crowd tactics!"
The battle for the stands, although it is not football itself, is part of football. Therefore, this incident still affected the teams of both sides.
For the Chinese team, this is naturally a very happy thing.
"Look, I feel like I'm back at home again. It feels so good. Thank you to our Chinese fans! ”
When the Chinese team passed through the players' tunnel and entered the stadium, they felt the atmosphere of the stadium and felt a refreshing feeling like a spring breeze.
"See. This stadium is almost wrapped up by us Chinese. There are so many fans watching, on the field, no one is allowed to coax. It's about our face and dignity and that of all the hundreds of millions of fans. Yan Feng said to everyone very solemnly.
Now that he has become the official captain of the Chinese team, it is his responsibility to use every opportunity to motivate his teammates and boost the morale of the team.
"Don't worry, against the Japanese devils, there is no need to mobilize. ”
"All the accounts are kept. Let's settle with the devil today. ”
"Kill the Devils!"
The teammates responded fiercely. Seeing this, Yan Feng was very pleased. "Haha, it seems that against the Devon team, everyone is holding back their strength. Ha ha. Come on. Today, we have only one goal. That is to defeat them. ”
"Defeat them!" "Defeat the devils!" everyone on the Chinese team began to shout with their fists.
"Good. Come on, national football players!" Seeing this scene, the fans are naturally very happy.
Lippi, who didn't know what to do, was also very happy. "Huh. Lee, I'm very happy. ”
The teammates responded fiercely. Seeing this, Yan Feng was very pleased. "Haha, it seems that against the Devon team, everyone is holding back their strength. Ha ha. Come on. Today, we have only one goal. That is to defeat them. ”
"Defeat them!" "Defeat the devils!" everyone on the Chinese team began to shout with their fists.
"Good. Come on, national football players!" Seeing this scene, the fans are naturally very happy.
Lippi, who didn't know what to do, was also very happy. "Huh. Lee, I'm very happy. ”