Chapter 50: World Junior Championships

With the return of players to the team, the 93/94 season has officially arrived, compared to last season, the Prato team is more strong, in addition to the players themselves have increased greatly, but also the addition of Dunga, the emperor superstar, and Inzaghi, Zanetti, Ayala and other powerful players. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Maybe it didn't feel like it at this time, but when people in the future look through Prato's roster at this time, they will definitely be shocked by the names of the team's long list of superstars.

This season, to the embarrassment of the Tuscany media, there is not even a single team left in the region, and Fiorentina was relegated last season after having superstars such as Laudrup Jr., Effenberg and Batistuta. This made the media, which was originally focused on the first division, begin to pay attention to the news of the lower league.

In July, the newly appointed Spalletti played two warm-up matches with the team, against Pisa in the second division and Modena in Group B, both of which are teams from the Tuscany region, and Prato has always had a very good relationship with them. In those two games, Spalletti experimented with a number of line-ups and tactics, and the most prominent of them was Philippe. Inzaghi.

In the first game of Pisa, Inzaghi came on as a substitute in the second half, but it only took 7 minutes to receive a through pass from Veron, successfully countering offside, and scored a goal. Before the end, it was he who took advantage of Ma Minyu's long-range shot to hit the goal, and the opponent's goalkeeper saved the ball and scored a supplementary shot, helping the team beat Pisa 3:1.

In the game against Modena, Inzaghi scored a hat-trick, kicked his head and feet, and scored three goals in the first 80 minutes, so that Spalletti, who wanted to save face for the opponent, had to replace him early. And with these two warm-up games, Inzaghi almost captured the Prato fans as quickly as possible, making the fans realize that in addition to Vieri, Prato seems to have another great striker to join.

For this reason, Spalletti had to have a long talk with Chen Lin before the start of the Coppa Italia qualifier on August 2. Because as early as the beginning of his succession as coach of Prato, Chen Lin hinted at his bottom line, the team's results are important, but except for Li Tie and Li Liuyu, two young players, other Chinese players cannot sit on the bench.

But now whether in terms of strength or state, Inzaghi is obviously better than Yang Chen, if Yang Chen is hard-hitting, not to mention whether Inzaghi will have an idea in his heart, Yang Chen will be under great pressure.

Therefore, Spalletti came up with a complete set of rotation plans, there are three main games in Prato this season, the C1 League, the Italian Cup and the C-League Cup, the C-1 League is related to the team's promotion, the most important, and the Italian Cup can expand the influence of the team, Chen Lin does not want to give up, and finally the C-League Cup, if Prato is successfully promoted this season, then there may be no chance to play the C-League Cup in the future, and from the data on the computer, Prato's current strength is completely crushing the C-League team, This is the best chance to win the C Cup in Prato's history, and although the trophy is not heavy, Chen Lin does not want to leave a single regret. Therefore, as early as when formulating this season's bonus plan, Chen Lin took it into consideration, and the three lines went hand in hand, and he would never give up one easily.

Adhering to this principle, Spalletti divided the existing players into two groups, the stronger Group A is led by Vieri and Inzaghi as strikers, Ma Minyu as the left midfielder, Doni as the right midfielder, Dunga and Veron as the back, Pesoto, Ayala, Fan Zhiyi and Zanetti from left to right, and the goalkeeper is Toldo. Group B is played by Yang Chen and Li Qiyu as forwards, Jonti as the left midfielder, Li Tie as the back instead of Dunga, and the center back as Materazzi instead of Fan Zhiyi. Group A is mainly responsible for the two cup competitions and some key matches in the league that are more accidental, while Group B focuses on the longer leagues. Although Group B is weaker, it is also relative, even the two Chinese youngsters with the worst ability can reach the level of players in the middle and lower reaches of the C1 team, not to mention the others, even if they are placed in the second division team, they are also the main level. And because the back line has not changed much, only Materazzi is used to replace Fan Zhiyi, and the strength of the back line is basically undamaged, which can completely ensure the stability of the team on the field.

It can be seen that Spalletti has not done useless work in the past month, and has a relatively deep understanding of the strength of the players of the Prato team. In this way, basically all the main players and main rotation players in Prato will have at least nearly 30 games to play in a season. Seeing Spalletti's mature rotation plan, Chen Lin deeply felt that he had invited the right person, at least with enough respect for his opinion as the chairman.

On August 2, in the first round of qualifying for the Coppa Italia, Prato drew Olbia from Group A of the C2 League. In order to get off to a good start to the new season and to run in the team, Spalletti decisively sent the strongest squad of the team. As a result, Prato had 36 shots on goal and only 6 shots from the opponent, Prato had nearly 70 percent possession, and in the first half alone, Prato scored five goals against the other side, and the final score was fixed at 7:0, with Inzaghi and Vieri scoring hat-tricks at the same time, which made reporters throughout Tuscany exclaim incredible.

For a time, Prato's fame in Tuscany soared, coupled with the previous transfer turmoil of Gianni Caida and the addition of Dunga, making Prato's regional influence directly after an old second division team like Pisa.

Pre-sale tickets for the Prato club have been so hot that by the time the first round of the league starts on 22 August, more than 7,000 tickets have been sold for the new season, more than two-thirds of the stadium's seating capacity. Thankfully, many third-division teams have an average attendance of 60 percent a year.

However, Chen Lin didn't have time to care about these, he was busy persuading the Chinese Football Association to send the Jianlibao team to participate in the World Junior Championships.

The full name of the World Junior Championship is the FIFA World Junior Football Championship, which is a men's football championship in which the national team under the age of 17 participates, and FIFA is responsible for organizing the event. The inaugural tournament was held in China in 1985 and was won by Nigeria. Since then, it has been held every two years, and in 1991 the upper age limit was raised from 16 to 17 years old, known as the U17 World Cup.

In the first World Junior Championships, as the host, the Chinese national youth team became the seeded team in Group A, and there were Xie Yuxin, Cao Liangdong and other mainstays of the national team in the national team at that time.

In this competition, Xie Yuxin, Cao Liangdong, Guo Zhuang and others scored 8 goals for the Chinese team in four games, which is also the strongest attack in history of the national youth team, in the tsunami-like cheers of the national fans, the Chinese team has drawn 1-1 with the Bolivian team, 2-1 against the Guinean team, 3-1 against the United States team, and entered the quarterfinals as the first place in the group, although it lost 2-4 to the West German team in the 1/4 finals, but considering that Germany was the world's top team in the 80s, so the national youth can be said to have played Chinese Football Level".

However, in the second World Junior Championships in 1987, the Chinese team failed to enter the finals, which suddenly made the Chinese Football Association anxious. Therefore, in order to reflect the "level of Chinese football", the Chinese Football Association sent Gao Feng, Wei Qun and others born in 1971 to play in the 1989 World Junior Championships. Since then, the Chinese Football Association has insisted on walking on this road, but after walking a lot at night, it will eventually meet ghosts.

This year, the 5th World Junior Championships were held in Japan. Historically, it was in this year's 1993 World Junior Championships that the Chinese Football Association once again sent Yu Genwei, Li Xiaopeng, Song Lihui, Yao Xia and others born in 1974 to play in the World Junior Championships, and the result was a 2:2 draw with Chile in the group stage, a 0:2 loss to Poland, and a 0:1 loss to ******. Seven years later, that is, in the 2000 Asian Club Cup, the Japanese AFC officials in charge of the World Junior Championship in 93 suddenly discovered that Li Xiaopeng, Song Lihui and others in the Luneng team also participated in the World Junior Championship that year, and according to the age of registration, these players are overage players, and China's notoriety for using overage players has also been completely raised.

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