Chapter Seventy-Seven: Early Promotion
On October 29, 1999, at the 80,000-person stadium in Shanghai, the Chinese Olympic team sat at home to face the South Korean Olympic team. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Chinese team, which wore the red jersey at home, was imposing, and although there were also South Korean fans who came to Shanghai to cheer for their country's team, it was clear that the number of 1,000 people made them look small surrounded by Chinese fans.
Compared with the previous national football game, although the game of the national Olympic team is not the most important, but it is the game that fans are most looking forward to seeing, the last game in South Korea, although the national Olympic team defeated the opponent away, but after all, it is an away game, and it will not be able to see the victory of the national football team with their own eyes like today.
Yes, all the Chinese fans are looking forward to winning this game, although there are some worried fans who say that it doesn't matter if they lose, as long as they can enter the Olympics in the end, most fans still think that the national Olympic team should win this game and qualify for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
After winning the first two games, fans have more expectations for this young and excellent national Olympic team.
At the press conference before the game, the hard-mouthed head coach of the South Korean team, Xu Dingmao, still said strongly in the face of questions from Chinese reporters that the strength of the Chinese team is comparable to that of the South Korean team, and the South Korean team is confident of defeating the home team today.
Compared with Xu Dingmao's hard mouth, Horton is uncharacteristically very cautious, before the first game with the South Korean team, Horton is a Chinese team must win attitude, at that time he hoped that his actions and speeches can maintain confidence for the players, but after Liu Han appeared, the Chinese team defeated the opponent in the away game, Horton is now like the traditional style of the United Kingdom, unexpectedly gentlemanly, he said that the Korean team has excellent combat strength, outstanding physical fitness, is a team with willpower, the Chinese team will go all out.
In the tunnel of the players, the young players of the Chinese team appeared to be talking quite relaxedly, Li Jinyu and Cho Junzhe were still discussing why the South Koreans had such small eyes and prominent cheekbones, while Liu Han was looking straight ahead, completely ignoring the gaze of the Korean players next to him.
Park Ji-sung, the youngest of the Korean team, looked at the tall Liu Han beside him with a strange mood, this player he both admired and hated now looked ahead as if he ignored the entire Korean team, Park Ji-sung admired the strength of this Chinese who was 5 years older than him, but for the last game, Park Ji-sung also hated this tall Chinese very much, it was this person who forced the Korean team to the cliff.
The 17-year-old Park Ji-sung was arranged to start by the bold Xu Ding-mao in this game, and Park Ji-sung, who has excellent ball skills and outstanding physical fitness, has been trained as a front-court player before, but in this game, Xu Ding-sung gave Park Ji-sung a seemingly impossible task, that is, to keep up with Liu Han all over the field, no matter what stadium and position the opponent is, Park Ji-sung's only task is to keep up with Liu Han.
Xu Dingmao still can't find a way to deal with Liu Han after careful consideration, he can only arrange such a marking tactic, let Park Ji-sung, who has the best physical fitness, keep up with Liu Han, and then the other players pay attention to the help defense, as for the effect, I can only wait for the next game to be how it will be.
The starting lineup submitted by the Chinese team was once again a bit unexpected by everyone, Horton actually put out a 352 formation, what is even more peculiar is that Liu Han did not appear in the position of the front, but was placed in the position of the back by Horton, the front line is a combination of Li Jinyu and Zhang Yuning, the combination of domineering Zhang Yuning and dexterous Li Jinyu scored in the last game, and it can be said that the cooperation is very tacit.
"Oh, we saw that Coach Horton did not put Liu Han on the forward line today, which is different from the previous two games, although in the first two games Liu Han will return to the backfield to participate in defense, but he is still a nominal striker, but as soon as this game started, he was placed in the back position by Horton, it seems that Coach Horton should have his own ideas." The commentator is still the passionate Huang Jianxiang, although after the first game with the South Korean team, CCTV leaders criticized Huang Jianxiang for deviating from the position of the commentary, but this can't stop many fans from loving him, because this guy's commentary on Liu Han's barb is really exciting, and even on the emerging Internet, Huang Jianxiang's commentary was selected as one of the top ten famous commentary scenes in New China, and a few netizens have also said that Liu Han is not a "person" on the message boards of major communities. It is an uncrowned "god" in the minds of Chinese fans.
"Maybe Coach Horton intends to confuse the Koreans, after all, Liu Han is the most powerful weapon on the Chinese team's front line, and there is no reason to put such a weapon quietly in the warehouse to mold." Today's commentator invited Qi Wusheng, the former head coach of the national team who resigned in 97, to guide Qi.
When the audience of 80,000 people collectively stood up and sang the majestic March of the Volunteers, Liu Han's originally calm blood began to boil, and he remembered what he said at the beginning of Coach Li Rui, raising the national flag and playing the national anthem, what a beautiful thing it should be, and now he is gradually approaching this goal.
With the whistle of the Iranian referee, the life-and-death battle between the Chinese team and the South Korean team officially began.
South Korea got a chance to serve, and they started attacking first.
Liu Han quietly waited for the opponent's attack in his own position in the backfield, just like the starting lineup submitted by Houghton, Liu Han really started in the position of the back midfield, not in order to confuse the Koreans.
"The game has officially begun, Director Qi, the performance of this National Olympic team can be said to be very unexpected to everyone, do you have any thoughts on this National Olympic team before?" Huang Jianxiang couldn't snub the guests at the beginning, after all, he was also an old man who had made contributions to Chinese football.
"I did understand about this National Olympic team before, and the technical and tactical level of the players with the Jianlibao team as the core is still quite high, but I originally had different opinions on Coach Houghton's tactical arrangement, but then I guided Liu Han to join, I think that the problem of qualifying for this National Olympic team is not big, although I have been in China, but I have been paying attention to the Premier League, I use four words to describe Liu Han's performance, that is, Tianzhong Wizard, to be honest, I have been engaged in football since 1957 to the present, I have never seen such a talented player, not to mention anything else, that is, Liu Han's physical fitness is a genius who can only produce one in many years. ”
No matter what Qi Wusheng's coaching level is, at least he still has a good grasp of the current situation, and he knows that he can belittle Horton, but he must not find problems with the players and Liu Han.
The South Korean team can be said to be bound to win this game, they must beat the Chinese team if they want to appear, but will the Chinese team with a soul surrender easily? Obviously, the Chinese who are rebuilding their national self-confidence do not agree, the fans who are feeling the joy of football do not agree, and the players of the national Olympic team who are feeling the joy of victory from the worship of the fans do not agree. (To be continued.) )