Chapter 5: The Uncrowned King
Actually, it's not that special.
Lao Pao'er's team has many advantages over other teams, such as the team composition is very stable, most people have played together for many years, and the team discipline is almost the same as that of the army, these basic qualities may not be found in other teams.
As long as everyone's quality is still there, it will still be easy for Zhou Wei to lead the team.
What Zhou Wei needs everyone to do is to continue to maintain basic training, such as physical fitness, health, confrontation and so on.
Everyone in the team is running around for life during the day, and the type of work is also very simple, almost all of them are hard work, so the physical fitness is definitely guaranteed.
Zhou Wei feels that the most important thing for the team is to play more friendly matches and use friendly matches to improve and maintain the state of the game.
So his usual training is very simple, just running with a group of big men, tired during the day, don't toss too much in the evening.
Villagers in the vicinity of Bajiahu found that at sunset, there was always a group of young people in their twenties running around, these young people looked different from other young people, they were very dark-skinned, plainly dressed, looked like migrant workers, strong bodies, and had a pair of sharp eyes......
Then, Zhou Wei handed over the matter of contacting the friendly match to Zhou Xindong to deal with.
Before the start of the official match, he believes that at least three to five friendly matches will be played for the team to find the groove of the game.
This task of Zhou Xindong is very important.
However, it is not difficult to contact the friendly match, and the other participating teams will also have this idea, so soon Zhou Xindong arranged three friendly matches for Lao Paoer. I wanted to arrange five games, but the time didn't allow it.
The first game was against Xinjiang Normal University, the second game was against Xinjiang Xinbaolai, and the third game was against Xinjiang Logistics Park. These three teams are participating in the Cup, it is an ideal opponent, these three opponents are not found randomly, according to Zhou Wei's requirements, the team needs to play with teams with different characteristics in order to test the level.
For example, Xinjiang Normal University is characterized by being young and energetic, and such a team may not have the strongest skills at the feet, but their super physical strength makes up for their technical deficiencies.
Xinjiang Xinbaolai team is an amateur team composed of social personnel, this team is very fierce, their skills and tactics may not be high, but they may be the most able to fight, extremely aggressive.
The team of Xinjiang Logistics Park is actually a second-tier team under Guanghui Group, a semi-professional team, and the technical and tactical cooperation of such opponents is more prominent.
In fact, these three matches were a gradual process, with the warm-up opponents getting stronger and stronger.
Another important point is that when Zhou Xindong contacted the warm-up match, he did not say that Lao Pao'er was a participating team, he came to find the opponent in the name of a sparring partner, or rather, the opponent found them.
These three teams didn't expect Lao Pao'er to be a participating team at all, but they were just treated as general characters, not to mention that Urumqi City had never had a team called Lao Pao'er before.
This is naturally carefully arranged by Zhou Wei, and he doesn't need everyone to play with all their might, he doesn't want anyone to be injured before the official game. Of course, the Normal University doesn't want anyone to get hurt, they want to stay in shape.
Compared with Lao Pao'er, other teams have actually made sufficient preparations for this competition, only Lao Pao'er is in a hurry.
Zhou Wei just asked everyone to find the feeling, the state, and the feeling of teamwork.
Everyone was very excited about this warm-up game, after all, they hadn't played together for a long time.
What makes Zhou Wei feel relieved is that the team has basically not lost any of the qiē they have experienced in prison. In particular, teamwork and willpower are the core qualities of the team.
In this game, the old guns were mainly defensive, and their offense could not be tested, and Xinjiang Normal University finally found that they had no other results at all in the whole game except for continuous passing and running. Lao Pao'er's defense is simply impregnable and seamless.
At the end of the game, the coach of the normal team even said to Zhou Wei that it was a pity that Lao Pao'er did not participate in the game......
Zhou Wei just smiled, at this time, you should keep a low profile, and try to keep a low profile before the game starts, otherwise the strength of the team will be discovered too early by other opponents, which will only add more ups and downs.
Therefore, in the second game with Xinjiang Xinbaolai, Zhou Wei can still keep a low profile, but contrary to the first game, he tested the defense in the first game, and he focused on offense in the second game.
But he deliberately gave up on defense...... So Lao Paoer lost 3:4 in this game.
But Zhou Wei is still very satisfied, if Lao Paoer wants to defend, he believes that he will not let the opponent have any chance to score.
So, he's looking forward to the third game, and he's ready to test his team's ability to balance attack and defend.
But people are not as good as heaven, and Xinjiang Logistics Park suddenly unilaterally canceled the game, the reason is that he is afraid that the players will be injured!
In this way, Zhou Wei has no chance to test the team's real combat effectiveness!
At the same time, he suddenly received a call from the Football Association, asking him to go to the Football Association building to participate in the draw.
Because the number of registrations for this cup far exceeded that of the past, the Urumqi Football Association had to close the registration in advance, and had to arrange the game in advance to catch up with the pace of the national finals.
When I came to the hall of the Football Association, it was already crowded, and there were more than 100 people in the shadows, which may mean that there will be more than 100 participating teams.
He arrived from the construction site in a hurry, still wearing dirt-stained overalls, and a pair of liberation shoes were like stepping on a pit, faintly exuding some smell.
This kind of dress naturally instantly attracted strange eyes in the hall.
"Is this here to draw lots, or is this here to get the toilet?"
"If you dress like this, you either use the toilet or fix the water pipes."
"It stinks, won't you go through the back door?"
There was a lot of discussion around him, and it sounded really harsh, but Zhou Wei was unmoved, and still stood here quietly, ignoring Yiqiqi next to him.
Then the draw ceremony finally began.
Zhou Wei saw the person that day, Huang Weibang.
Of course, Huang Weibang also saw Zhou Wei.
The eyes of the two men only collided in the air for less than half a second, and then they looked away.
Because Wong Wai Pong was the guest of honor who presided over the draw ceremony......
A total of 128 teams participated in the Urumqi Division, and the winner will be directly selected by PK elimination, and the winner will enter the next round of knockout until the final Urumqi Division champion is determined, and then the finals of the Xinjiang Division, and the top two will directly represent the Xinjiang Division into the national finals.
It's a huge event......
However, although the journey is ethereal and distant, Zhou Wei is still confident!
Even when the words 'Lao Pao'er' first came out of Huang Weibang's mouth, he only raised his sword eyebrows slightly.
How lucky can you get to this point? It was actually the first team to be drawn.
Of course, the hall is quiet, because no one knows what the 'old guns' are, intuitively, this should be a team of old guys, such a team is purely here to join in the fun, there is no hope at all.
"The opponent is ...... Xinjiang Pharmaceutical Factory. ”
"Wow-" This time everyone was in an uproar, but they didn't expect the second team to be the third place last year! What is the concept of third place? That's the team that's just half a step away from reaching the national finals! The first two go and the third place is just a little bit worse?
"What kind of old cannon is that, it is estimated that it will be poured into double digits!"
"Forget about the direct abstention, do you still need to play this game?"
"Think about it with your heels to know what kind of team Lao Pao'er is, purely looking for abuse."
“……”
“…… Xinjiang Pharmaceutical Factory. When he heard this name, Zhou Wei was also moved, he had collected the more famous teams in Urumqi before, and the Xinjiang Pharmaceutical Factory was impressively listed, and it belonged to the traditional top four in Urumqi, no, maybe it was the top four in Xinjiang!
This team is fierce and aggressive, and the use of skills and tactics is quite good, and it is called the uncrowned king by the people of Wushi, and the reason why they have such a title is because they have almost passed by the championship over the years, and have never had a championship life.
"The Uncrowned King!" At this time, Zhou Wei didn't think of retreating, but how to defeat his opponent!
In fact, the style of Lao Paoer and Xinjiang Pharmaceutical Factory is quite similar!
He didn't know that Huang Weibang on the stage had been sneering in his heart......
The big gift he gave to Zhou Wei was really too big!
In the first game of the opening ceremony, the uncrowned king was used to baptize the old canopy!