Chapter 52: Group Stage
On August 22, 1993, the Chinese Jianlibao Youth Team went to Japan to participate in the 5th World Youth Football Championship. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoFor the Jianlibao junior team that went to Prato, Italy to study, several influential domestic media have been paying attention, especially the "Sports Circle", which will report some relevant news in the "Prato Chinese" column every week, and also let fans across the country know such a team that carries the hope of Chinese football, and even many Chinese people who are not fans know that there is such a group of children who have left their homeland to learn football in distant Italy. Therefore, this World Junior Championships, as the first "report performance" of the Jianlibao team studying abroad, has attracted the attention of the people of the whole country.
As in history, China and Chile, Poland, and Turnes are in a group, don't look at these names as inconspicuous, in fact, this group is a veritable group of death, with historically the group's top Poland and second place Chile both entering the final four. There are many practical players in the team who later played in Europe's top leagues, such as Poland, which can be said to be the future Bundesliga team, and the weakest Tunis also has the future of Nuremberg in the English Premier League and Mehdi who plays for Santander in La Liga. Naferti's star pair of double midfielders.
In the first game, the Jianlibao junior team faced the Chilean team in Hiroshima. Unlike the Chilean team that is rich in excellent strikers, the excellent players of this Chilean team are mainly concentrated in the midfield, and the backline has the central defender combination of Contreras who will play for Celta Vigo in La Liga and Vargas, who will play for Reggina in Serie A, and Charles of Newcastle United in the midfield. Arcado, Rodrigo of Sporting Lisbon. Tylo, Nicholas of Parma. Cordoba. This has also led to a Chilean team that is more than solid defensively, but clearly lacking in offensive ability.
Historically, Yu Genwei's national junior team almost won the Chilean team, when the game reached the 62nd minute, the Chinese team still led 2:0, if it were not for the goalkeeper Zhang Fengsheng who received the pass back with his hand and was judged to lose points from a free kick in the penalty area, the situation would not be reversed, and finally Chile barely forced China to draw with a header from its high school forward.
However, it was also this first win and then defeat that hit the morale of the Chinese national junior team, resulting in a slump in the next two games, and even a 0:1 loss to the Tunes team.
Obviously, the Jianlibao team, which is more than one step stronger than the national junior team in history, came up and gave the Chilean team a surprise. Although the two central defenders of the Chilean team were very good, Charles. The two central midfielders of Arcadow and Córdoba are also good in attack and defence, but the two wings are weak. However, the side attack of the Jianlibao junior team is a strong point, especially on the right side, the right side of Jianlibao with Sun Chenghai and Zhang Xiaorui is simply a big killer. In the 18th minute, Zhang Xiaorui connected the two players of the opponent like a butterfly, and suddenly cut inside with the ball, and suddenly attracted all the players on the left side of Chile.
Zhang Yuning's physical fitness, which could compete with the Nordic team in the national team later, was by no means covered, and he bullied Contreras and Vargas who were less than 1.8 meters tall and blasted the ball in above their heads.
Then the Jianlibao team completely entered their familiar rhythm of defensive counterattack, with Li Tie, Li Weifeng led by the Jianlibao backline let the Chilean team that was not very good at attacking what is called the iron wall of defense, the long-term unsuccessful Chilean team was scored another goal by the Chinese team in the second half 60 minutes, and finally lost to the Chinese team 2:0.
The morale of the Jianlibao team, which won the first game, soared, and on August 24, it welcomed the strongest opponent in the group stage, the Polish team. In contrast to the Chilean team, the Polish team is undoubtedly much stronger in attack, with the future Hertha Berlin main striker Vecchia Nyarek and the future Hamburg main striker Marek. Saganovski, even on the bench sat Zurawski, the main striker of the future Soviet Super League giants Celtic, and Emanuwal, the striker of Portsmouth in the English Premier League. Olisadebe, the midfield is even more remarkable, with the future Leverkusen's attacking midfielder Kitznowik, Kaiserslautern's wing genius Kosovski, the main defender of Bundesliga Kortebus Kukilka, and the main midfielder Radomski of the Dutch Super League Heerenveen. Alec.
Therefore, as soon as the game opened, the Jianlibao team was under tremendous pressure, and the Polish team almost bombarded the Chinese team's goal. Many of the players in this Polish team are of Nordic and Germanic descent, and they are stronger than the players of the Jianlibao junior team in terms of physique, not to mention their size. With its physical advantage, the Polish team has a complete advantage in the scramble, and the national junior team in history is completely lost in this physical confrontation, and its own dexterous and fast skills have not been brought into play at all.
However, although the Jianlibao team also fell into disadvantage in physical confrontation, 9 months of Italian defensive education still played a certain role. Italian defenders have never been known for their physique, but they have always had a way of keeping England and Germany at bay from the top Malaysians, and the pursuit of defensive skills has been passed down from generation to generation by Italian defenders, from Baresi to Costacuta, from Nesta to Chiellini, Italian defenders have always been able to appreciate the beauty of football defense with their superb defensive skills. These skills are cultivated little by little from a young age, and the Jianlibao Junior Team is very fortunate to have the best youth coaches in Italy to teach these skills.
Usually, those Italian coaches always shout loudly on the sidelines: "Raise your head, raise your elbow, resist the muscles of his waist, bend over, lower your center of gravity, resist his knee joint, jam his pivot foot......" This little habit is not usually visible, but it is released little by little under the heavy pressure of the Polish team.
This made the Polish team, which is accustomed to the usual way of playing, feel very awkward when facing the Jianlibao team, which is much shorter than them, especially their most effective high-altitude bombing is almost completely useless, because these Chinese defenders never jump up to compete with them for the header, but use some unsightly small actions below, even if they jump up, they will hang on you, and they will not make you comfortable with the ball at all.
But even so, the Polish team still scored a goal in the 78th minute of the second half, the progress of defensive technology can not change the physical disadvantage, although the Jianlibao team has not eaten in vain for most of the year, and there has been some improvement in physical fitness compared with before, but this is a long-term and long-term process, it is unrealistic to expect 9 months to change the disadvantage of the race, not to mention that the defense is more physical than the offensive consumption, and the Jianlibao team can hold on to the end of the second half is already commendable.
After the goal, the head coach of the Polish team was ecstatic, you must know that he did not take the Chinese team in the previous reporter's interview.
Insisted on the whole game but was scored by the opponent in the last ten minutes, Jianlibao players were a little frustrated, and at this time, as the main central defender, Jianlibao captain Zhang Ran fell to the ground due to physical overdraft, leg cramps, which cast a shadow on the hearts of Jianlibao players. Head coach Zhu Guanghu had to replace Zhang Ran with substitute guard Shu Chang.
However, unexpectedly, this passive substitution decision unexpectedly pulled the Chinese team back from the edge of the cliff. In the 89th minute, the Chinese team got a throw-in opportunity in the front court, and because the competition carried out an experiment of kicking a throw-in instead of throwing a throw-in, the Chinese team's throw-in was directly kicked as a corner kick. Sun Chenghai's penalty ball flew directly into the penalty area, because it was almost the last opportunity to attack, so the Jianlibao team except for the goalkeeper, almost everyone rushed to the front, you pushed me in the penalty area, and it was a mess, but no one jumped up, but I don't know who rubbed it, and the ball turned and flew into the gate. After the game, it was only through the slow motion of the video that it was Shu Chang who poked out half of his head in the crack of the person and touched the ball into the goal, and his face almost hit the spikes raised by the Norwegian player.
With this unexpected draw, the Chinese team and the Polish team have 4 points and the same goal difference (Poland had previously defeated Tunes 3:1), tied for the top of the group, while Chile defeated Tunes 2:0 in this round, accumulating 3 points and also have hope of qualifying, while Tunes lost both games and was already doomed to be eliminated. The Chinese Jianlibao Junior Team can ensure qualification as long as it draws against Tunes in the next game, and the situation is very good.