15. It's not just football
A goal with luck and luck allowed the Chinese team to retreat from the nightmare, Sangam Stadium in Seoul, take away three points, and win all eight rounds of the group, score 24 points, and blind everyone's eyes. South Korea, who finished third in the group, can only pin their hopes on the final qualifying play-offs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Their opponent is the third place in the other group, Australia.
The Kangaroos should not have been in this position, but perhaps a little conceited, as they went on a winless streak in their first three group games, and lost to direct rivals Iran and Uzbekistan. The disgraced Australian Kangaroos finally swept away Lebanon and Jordan in the final rounds, narrowly missing out on third place in the group.
South Korea and Australia have a slight advantage in the all-time head-to-head meeting with 6 wins, 10 draws and 9 defeats, and the opposing side has no fewer players in Europe......
South Korea, who have always been known for their hard work, will be able to snatch a play-off spot from the equally desperate Australian Kangaroos, and will continue to participate in the final play-offs as the fifth place in Asia and the fifth place in South America to compete for the final World Cup ticket in Brazil.
With a large number of international players in Europe, the East Asian Taiji Tigers suddenly fell to the point where they might miss the World Cup, which made more than 40 million people in the Korean Empire extremely dissatisfied, and they directly put up signs calling for the president to step down, and held a huge parade of 10,000 people in front of the Blue House.
Journalists from various countries have followed in depth, and at least the media in China, Japan, and North Korea have expressed a gloating attitude -- although North Korea has not even made it to the top 10 match, this does not prevent them from falling into the ground.
Park Kim Hye, the first female leader who had just taken office for less than half a year, was so anxious that she had to appoint her female best friend to privately put pressure on the Korean Football Association, even if she exhausted her human and financial resources, at least she had to qualify from Asia.
In order to boost morale, in addition to setting high winning bonuses for players and coaches, Commander Park even publicly promised that as long as she can reach the 2014 World Cup finals, she will apply to the National Assembly to exempt all participating players from military service.
The unity and discipline of the Koreans are well known, and the willpower of their players is far from being comparable to that of other countries.
United, they stormed Australia at the start of October, when the equally desperate Tai Chi Tigers met the Australian kangaroos on a narrow road in neutral Indonesia.
In order to prepare for this game, South Korea's domestic K-League deliberately suspended the national team competition for three weeks, and all domestic clubs unconditionally supported the national team's decision, and the Korean Football Association also communicated with the Bundesliga and Premier League clubs in a low voice, recalled all the international players who played abroad two weeks in advance, and chartered the players to Indonesia for half a month of special training.
Their preparation was foolproof and their players were resilient on the pitch, but they still lost to a stronger Australia in the last minute.
Australia's hero is their key player, Tim Cahill, a 34-year-old veteran who was pushed down on the turf by his own head coach when he scored the suspense-killing header.
When the final whistle blew over Indonesia, all the South Koreans covered their eyes in pain, and head coach Choi Kang-hee burst into tears when he faced the Australian coach who had come to comfort him.
You must know that unlike the Chinese team, which only relied on the increase in the number of places in 2002 and was lucky enough to enter the World Cup, the South Korean team has experienced many group stage failures since the 1986 Mexico World Cup, although it has experienced many group stage failures and sinking into the sand, but it has also experienced the glorious moment of entering the semi-finals in 2002, and more importantly, for 28 consecutive years, the South Korean team has never missed a World Cup match!
This time, they were directly blocked from the door of the finals, and the tickets to the World Cup in Brazil purchased by many domestic fans at high prices suddenly became waste paper.
To whom do you let their anger out?
Choi Kang-hee bowed three times in front of the cameras of the media in various countries at the post-match press conference, and choked up three times, and after announcing his resignation, he still burst into tears after bowing his head and leaving.
When the South Korean team returned home, they were surrounded by nearly 10,000 angry and grieving fans at the airport.
Faced with the faces of the die-hard fans who were hideous, sad, or painful, the chairman of the Korean Football Association, who accompanied the team, had to bow his head and apologize:
"It is a major mistake of my work to let the fans of the Korean Empire see the most humiliating top 10 match in 30 years, and I personally announce that I will officially submit my resignation to the association, so that more capable latecomers can lead the national team to the next World Cup, and I wish the football career of the Korean Empire can quickly get rid of this low point Smecta."
In the afternoon of the same day, after urgent consultations, the Korean Football Association held a press conference, and the top management collectively bowed and apologized to the fans of the entire country and announced their collective resignation.
Such a collective resignation immediately attracted the attention of the sports media around the world.
But this is not the end of the incident, the matter is far from over.
At the press conference, a staff member bluntly pointed out that the president's close friend from the Blue House seriously interfered with the preparation of the national team, and even revised the battle plan formulated by the coaching staff, so that the players gave up their good tactical play and got lost in the strong muscle jungle of Australian kangaroos.
This immediately caused even more waves within the Korean Empire, which has always advocated democracy and freedom, and of course Commander Park flatly denied that his girlfriend was "ordered" to interfere with the work of the Football Association, but under the turbulent undercurrent, an even bigger wave has swept in.
The defeat in the World Preliminary Tournament led to the trigger for Park Dae's cronies to interfere in politics, and found the best weapon for her political enemies to bring her down. When the politicians who were already reluctant to take up her position hit it off with the big conglomerates and the media with ill intentions, it may not be necessary to wait for the 2014 World Cup for the Blue House to change hands.
A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest, with an occasional flap of its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later.
A loss in a football match may really lead to a regime change, who knows?
Of course, the Chinese media is highly concerned about what is happening in the football world of neighboring countries, and a large number of female CCTV reporters who like South Korea are stationed in South Korea in rotation to cover and report.
The event began as a follow-up in sports news, but over time it has become a regular fixture in the news section of international politics.
The leaders of the Chinese Football Association also talked about this matter as an after-dinner conversation, but they did not understand the choice of their South Korean counterparts.
It's a thing to quit en masse just because you missed the World Cup...... It will never appear in themselves.
Because the label on them is not just the management of the football association.
What does the team's defeat have to do with them?
The fans shouted twice outside, vented their dissatisfaction a few times, and they were about to resign?
Isn't there a head coach? (To be continued.) )