Chapter 413: A Sudden Visit
The next day, the news of the national youth team's victory over the strong rival Turkish team made headlines in various media, and domestic fans set off a wave of discussion on the Internet. γLatest chapter reading. γ
Optimistic netizens believe that they have seen the hope of Chinese basketball, especially Zhang Yufeng's strong performance, which has made the strength of the Chinese team soar, and the World Championships is expected to break through the quarterfinals in further, and this further is a historic progress, because China has never won better results in the basketball field on the world stage than the quarterfinals.
Pessimistic netizens think that the national youth team can break into the quarterfinals is completely lucky, although they also support the national youth team, but they can't let the temporary victory blind, they should recognize their own strength, and the United States, Spain, Argentina, Australia, these super teams There is still a significant gap between the national youth team, and this absolute gap can not be smoothed out by occasional luck, all pessimistic netizens are not optimistic that the national youth team can go further.
Both sides insisted on their own words, and they quarreled on the Internet.
At the same time, the major domestic media and some basketball commentators have also expressed their opinions, all of which have great hopes for the national youth team, but they must also rationally analyze the gap with other teams, although they know that it is difficult to go further, but they are still full of hope, especially for the performance of the teenager Zhang Yufeng, everyone is looking forward to it.
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The news that the national youth team has reached the quarterfinals has also made waves among the teams in the World Championships.
As said before the start of the World Youth Championships, no one believes that the national youth team can break into the quarterfinals, in the eyes of all teams, the national youth team has always been a weak team, but now they did not expect to enter the quarterfinals.
This surprised the rest of the teams, but did not pay enough attention, and even some of the teams that must reach the quarter-finals hope to meet China in the quarter-finals so that they can easily qualify, and in their opinion, there is always some luck in beating Turkey.
In the afternoon of the same day, Group D played the last group game to determine the last place in the quarterfinals, and officially determined the quarterfinals of this World Championships.
Group A qualifiers: USA, China.
Group B qualifiers: Australia, Lithuania.
Group C Group of Death: Spain, Argentina.
Group D qualifiers: Russia, Germany.
One of the most regrettable is undoubtedly the two teams of France and Greece that were eliminated in the group of death, after all, these two teams are teams with the strength of the quarterfinals, but unfortunately they met the stronger Spain and Argentina, so they could only end their World Youth Championship journey early and return with hatred.
After the quarterfinals were released, the battle table also came out naturally, and China's opponent in the quarterfinals was the traditional European powerhouse Germany!
Soon, the major American bookmakers readjusted the odds, and the United States team still had the highest call to win the championship, followed by Spain, after all, the two teams staged an epic showdown at the Beijing Olympics in 08, which still makes fans very excited to think about it.
The third ranked Argentina team, as an old powerhouse, Argentina's strength no opponent dares to underestimate.
There is no doubt that the Chinese team is at the bottom of the odds of winning the championship, and although the German team is also very low in the quarterfinals, the background of the European strong team has always been, coupled with a strong style of play and fierce confrontation, these are all advantages for the Chinese team.
The style of play of the national youth team still inherits the tradition of the national team, focusing on "fast and quasi-spirit", although there have been great changes and progress in tactics, but the core is still these three words, and several core players of the national youth team are also prominent to reflect these advantages, Ren Qinwei's fast, Zhang Yufeng's quasi, Ji Fan's spirit, this is the advantage of the national youth team, like Europe's strong style of play, is not applicable to the current national youth team.
After learning that the opponent was Germany, the national youth team entered into intense preparations.
Winning two games in a row has given them a big boost in confidence, and they are also very confident about the game against Germany.
In the training hall, the players of the national youth team are training, even without the supervision of the coach and the bishop, they are very conscious.
In order to ensure the quality and effect of training, Yang Juncheng once again chose closed training, even though many media strongly asked him to conduct open training, but he still refused, and gave the players a good training environment under great pressure.
While the players were training, Yang Juncheng also sat in front of the TV with the assistant coach, watching the video of the German team's game, studying their tactical play, and formulating tactics for the next game.
While researching a new tactic, the door to the room suddenly rang.
Yang Juncheng frowned, holding a cigarette in his mouth that was about to burn out, and said impatiently: "Who is this?" Didn't I tell the waiter not to let anyone come up to me. β
"Maybe it's really looking for you." The teaching assistant said, putting down the materials in his hand and preparing to get up and open the door.
Yang Juncheng stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Don't move, I'll go, I guess what is asking for an interview." β
With a low mouth, he got up and opened the door.
"Yang! Hello, long time no see!" Outside the door was an American face, with golden and shiny shots, blue eyes, and a tall body, just standing there gave people a sense of intimidation, even Yang Juncheng, who was 190cm tall, looked a little thin and short standing in front of him.
"George!!" Yang Juncheng stared at the American in front of him, who was half a head taller than him, and said in surprise.
"What? Surprised to see me? George said, with a kind smile on his face, as if he had seen a good friend for many years.
In fact, he and Yang Juncheng can only be regarded as friends, and they are far from being close friends.
Yang Juncheng nodded, "I'm really surprised, aren't you a coach at a university in the eastern United States?" How did you suddenly run here? β
"Haha, I came to you to find you naturally something, can we go into the house and talk?" George laughed.
Yang Juncheng nodded hurriedly and made a gesture of please.
The two entered the house, and the assistant teacher got up and said, "Since you have something to do here, then I'll go back first, and call me when you're done, we're working out tactics." β
"Hmm!" Yang Juncheng pointed at George and said, "This is the American friend who gave us the information of the American team." β
"Oh!" The assistant suddenly shook George's hand and left the room.
"Sit, old friend!" Yang Juncheng said, took out a cigarette and handed it to him, lit one himself, sat on the sofa, and looked at George under the smoke while smoking.
George was not polite, he took a few puffs after igniting it, smoked a little violently, coughed a few times before it eased up, and then took a deep breath and said: "Since it is an old friend, then you are not welcome, the purpose of my visit this time is for one of your players, Zhang Yufeng, who is wearing No. 24." β
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