Chapter 223: Race to the Top

Zhang Yuan's parents did not resist their son being far away from him, since the reform and opening up, more and more people have gone out to work in the countryside, Zhang Yuan's parents are also deeply affected by this trend of thought, and do not think that their son should stay by their side, but hope that their son's career is the priority. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Therefore, they can only meet once or twice a year, which is not so unacceptable for them, and they do not think that they are too old to take care of themselves, and raising children to prevent old age is not now.

But from the bottom of their hearts, which parents don't want their children to be by their side, so they are very happy to come back to Zhang Yuan.

The time was very short, but the family was finally reunited, and Zhang Yuan also made up for his regret that he could not spend the Spring Festival at home.

Because of his nephew, Zhang Yuan's parents, including Li Jun's parents, were not in their hometown, and Zhang Yuan did not return to his hometown to worship his ancestors this time.

After a short vacation, Zhang Yuan returned to Qinhuangdao, where the national team trained for a few days, and then embarked on a journey to Reunion Island, where they will have a warm-up match with the French team and be the "sparring partner" of the French team.

On May 23, the Bundesliga Professional Players' Union recently selected the best players of the season, and Zhang Yuan became the best player of the Bundesliga season in the 09-10 season with 41% of the votes, that is, the MVP of the season.

At the same time, he was also selected for the best team of the Bundesliga season, except for his Schalke 04 Neuer and Digan were also selected for the best team, Schalke 04 was just such a three, and the others were not selected for the best team.

Magath was elected Coach of the Year.

Zhang Yuan thinks this is too nonsense, only three people are selected for the best team for a dignified champion, and the majority is Bayern Munich, which is very unreasonable.

But this vote is actually relatively fair, because it is voted for by professional players at all levels of the Bundesliga, Bundesliga and Bundesliga, and not by the union, and they can only be regarded as organizers.

This proves that in the minds of the players, Schalke 04 is only a few people who play better.

Zhang Yuan actually participated in this voting before leaving, he fully carried forward the style of the leader, and voted for himself without a doubt for the best player, and many of the best teams are also Schalke 04 players.

If he was qualified to vote for the best coach, he would definitely vote for Magath, but unfortunately he didn't, but fortunately, Magath finally won the approval of his peers.

Why did the French team choose Réunion, an overseas territory, as the venue for their warm-up match?

Coach Gao has a feeling that this game is a little important, which is not surprising, he also needs his team to show a strong performance against the world's strongest teams to prove himself, because "foreign monks chanting scriptures are always better than local monks chanting!" This argument is very marketable in China, and the Football Association has always believed that the level of foreign football is higher than ours, and the coaches are better than us, and their own coaches are not very good.

They have never been able to grasp the key point, engaging in youth training is the way out, and there are no players who can play football just because there are foreign monks who can recite scriptures, which is still equal to zero.

But are the people of the Football Association just stupid? No! There are many reasons for not grasping the key points, not only the problem of the Football Association, the number of Chinese fans is swelling, but how many people are really willing to let their children play football?!

At the pre-game mobilization meeting, the team's senior management once again shouted "Match the level, play the style, and play the momentum!"

Coach Gao also told everyone to stabilize the defense, remember the defeat four years ago, and save face, and at the same time he also told everyone "Well, you still have to be careful, don't hurt other people!"

Zhang Yuan laughed when he heard it, football is originally a fierce sport, and it is so easy that everyone will not get hurt, this is not an official game, the French team itself definitely does not want to be injured, and the Chinese team has no intention of hurting others.

But if you want to win and don't want the game to be too intense, how can you play? In terms of strength, how many grades the Chinese team is behind, whether you like to listen to it or not, whether the leader is right or not, in the end, if you want to win, there is only one way left to fight, and you have to add a little luck.

How can it be a tough game without being intense, and getting injured in a fierce game is something God knows, and no one can guarantee that the players of the French team will not be injured.

China are France's last warm-up opponent before the World Cup, having played three previous opponents.

The first was against world No. 1 Spain, who wiped them out 2-0, the second was against Central American side Costa Rica, who won 2-1 but won with great fear, and the third was against African team ******, who drew 1-1.

The warm-up effect of the first three games can be said to be bad, very bad, and the team's competitive state is not ideal, but this is the most crucial.

The most important thing is that the problems in the French team are serious, Domenech has the support of the French Football Federation but does not have the approval of the players, many players believe that the astrologer is not capable of leading the team.

Domenech has been increasingly unable to control his national team players since his dismal exit from the group stage of Euro 2008.

Without the support of the French Football Federation, Domenech would not have been able to stay in this position at all, and he hopes to start the warm-up game with a victory, but the final decision is still on the players.

Now the biggest name of the French team is Franck Franck Franchi, even though he has had more injuries this season, the German market still values him at 50 million euros, while Zhang Yuan's estimate is only more than 20 million euros.

Ribery at least wants to win the Chinese team, and this warm-up match is not important to him, but the Chinese team has Zhang Yuan, and he just wants to win Zhang Yuan.

Although Bayern Munich is not empty of the big four this season, the two most important championships are a league championship lost to Zhang Yuan's Schalke 04, and the other Champions League champion They lost to Inter Milan, leaving only one German Cup champion to talk about comfort, how can Ribery not be aggrieved.

When he met Zhang Yuan again today, Ribery was an "enemy" and was very angry when he saw him, so he wanted to win Zhang Yuan, even if it was a friendly match, it didn't matter.

The Chinese team wanted to win but didn't dare to fight hard, Coach Gao formulated a tactic that was very suitable for the current reality, he let the Chinese team shrink his half-court defense, and let Zhang Yuan be at the front alone, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

He himself doesn't like this kind of tactic very much, he admires Barcelona's attack, but this tactic takes into account his ideas very well, passive defense, not a shark cutting tactic, and it will not hurt the French team to the greatest extent.

So the game showed its proper state, and the French team besieged the Chinese team, but fortunately, the world was far away, and there were no Chinese fans, otherwise they would have to be suffocated to death.

Zhang Yuan said that he was at the forefront, in fact, he spent most of his time helping his team defend, no way, the strength of the French team was much higher, and the interception and passing control were better than the Chinese team.

But they failed to break through the door of the Chinese team, on the one hand, Coach Gao is really crooked, intensive defense is the only magic weapon for weak teams against strong teams, today's Chinese team's defense is really good, on the other hand, the French team itself is obviously not in the best condition, Ribery is holding his breath, but the way of playing is too impatient, and the whole team has wasted a lot of opportunities.

As a result, in the 70th minute of the second half, the Chinese team counterattacked, Zhang Yuan easily passed the careless Gallas with the ball with the ball, and faced the French goalkeeper Lloris successfully hit the goal, and China actually took the lead.

The French team does not seem to have any change in appearance because of this goal, but the Chinese team is becoming more and more united at this time, bent on keeping this victory, Coach Gao frequently warned his players on the sidelines to reduce fouls and not give the French team any chance to set pieces.

Don't think that he was afraid of injuring the French players, that idea had been thrown to Java by this time, and he was mainly worried about problems in the defense of set-pieces.

But now the players on the field have no way to think about it, no matter what, they can't get the French team close to their door, of course the foul has to be used, the French team won several set-pieces in front, but unfortunately they still couldn't take the opportunity of the set-piece.

The final score of the match was 0:1, and France lost on their own home turf, ending the pre-World Cup warm-up match in a bad way. (To be continued.) )