After the Chinese team qualified, the Football Association held a grand welcome ceremony in Beijing to celebrate the victory of the Chinese players.

The next day, although the Football Association won and qualified, the Football Association still played a fine tradition and reported and summarized the World Preliminaries.

In the afternoon, the Chinese team announced its disbandment, and their respective players returned to their parent teams to continue to participate in the league.

Ou Chuliang counted the days, and did not fly back to Naples directly, but took a day to return to Liaozu.

The next day, He Huixian, director of the Propaganda Department of the National Sports Commission, published an article titled "Give Chinese Football an Accurate Positioning" through Xinhua News Agency, arguing that all parties were very sober on the positioning issue before the start of the game, but after the start of the game, with the ups and downs of the game, they began to sway on the positioning issue.

"Especially through our own efforts, we achieved excellent results in the first round of the top 10 competition, and our expectations were also "fried". And when we lost to Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the hard-won opportunity was fleeting, and people were unwilling to face this reality and wavered on the issue of positioning. ”

'It was a big mistake that we almost missed a great opportunity when we should have qualified, we could definitely qualify. Thankfully, they won at the last minute and played well in the Japanese team to secure the last place in Asia. ”

"In the end, the article concludes, in all fairness, although the Chinese team is not a second-rate team in the top 10 in Asia, it is not fully equipped to impact the World Cup."

"For example, this World Preliminaries, although it has rushed out of Asia, there are many lucky elements; If you can't keep a clear head, see the accidental rush out as inevitable, and don't see that your overall strength is still not enough, then you will put your position higher again, and you will definitely make mistakes in future games and go backwards. ”

"The issue of positioning is very important, only by accurately positioning Chinese football, can we not rely on chance to achieve our ideals, can we see the inevitability from setbacks, and do not attribute failures and responsibilities to a certain coach, a certain player, and a certain game."

"Only by positioning accurately can you not be affected by the quality of a competition. Solidly improve the level of all links, and comprehensively enhance the comprehensive strength. ”

As soon as this article came out, it caused an uproar among the people.

Although Director He hopes to give Chinese football a clear positioning, she herself did not explain whether Chinese football is first-class or second-rate in Asia, but only said that the Chinese team is between second-rate and first-class, and the second-rate is more than second-rate, and the first-class is dissatisfied.

For a time, it caused a discussion in China.

A group of people like Huang Jianxiang, Zhang Lu, Lao Rong and others believe that although Chinese football has rushed out of Asia, it is far from the point of complacency. "Build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slow down the king" is the most important thing. Although it is lucky to break out of Asia this time, it should be more humble and develop football in a humble way, and become a first-class team in Asia in one fell swoop by the time of the 2001 World Preliminaries.

And people like Dong Lu, Ji Yuyang, Dye Hongfei and others believe that the Chinese team has made great progress compared with the past. This kind of progress has not been matched by any other country. The Chinese team has been improving and developing, but the time is in a hurry, and the progress to this node is just shown through the top 10 competition. If the Chinese team is given another year, the Chinese team will definitely qualify directly as the first in the group. And, for this top 10 competition, isn't the team that ranks third out of the ten teams still considered first-class?

The first-class and second-rate disputes are raging, and each faction has a representative of the prestige of the football world, and no one is convinced. But it is also the atmosphere formed by the debate from all walks of life that urges football to improve various measures and make progress little by little.

In the end, although there is still no result. However, the Chinese people generally believe that China is at least no longer a third-rate team in the world, and has officially squeezed into the second-rate team. Anyway, the Chinese team is already one of the 32 best teams in the world, isn't it?

On November 29, Japan drew 1-1 at home to Australia in the second leg. Although the aggregate score was tied 3-3, Japan took the last train to France by virtue of the advantage of away goals.

Poor Australia became the first team in history to be eliminated without losing a single qualifying match.

In addition to the host France and the previous champion Brazil, Denmark, England, Norway, Austria, Bulgaria, Spain, the Netherlands, Romania, Germany, Croatia, Italy, Belgium and Yugoslavia in the European zone are all over. Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia and Chile in South America; Mexico, the United States, and Jamaica in North and Central America; Nigeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Cameroon and Morocco in the African Zone; Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China, and Japan in the Asian region made the cut.

On December 4, the French moved the main venue of the draw ceremony directly to the football stadium.

One billion viewers around the world watched the draw in Marseille on television, presided over by FIFA Secretary-General Sepp Blatter.

FIFA divides the 32 teams into four brackets based on their strength, with China, Japan, South Korea, and Iran all being classified as bracket four. While Croatia, South Africa and Jamaica are also all playing in the World Cup for the first time, Croatia is placed in Pot 3 and Jamaica and South Africa are both in Pot 2.

It is enough to see that the level of Asian football is at the bottom of the world.

After the draw ceremony, the Chinese team was placed in Group B along with Italy, Austria and Cameroon.

Faced with such a result, Wang Junsheng said in an interview: "Although the result of such a lottery is not good, it is by no means a lottery!" Compared with the other teams in the Asian region that were drawn to a group with the host France, Argentina and the Netherlands, the Chinese team's signing is a sign! ”

"This is the World Cup, every team has its own characteristics and none of them are weak. No matter which group you are placed into, there will be opponents in the same group whose strength is too different, and the difference in strength is not very big. ”

Translate Wang Junsheng's words into words, Italy has promoted to its own, and we don't stand with them to compare strength. But with the other two opponents, Austria and Cameroon, it is still necessary for us to wrestle with them.

Such a result is still acceptable for Chinese fans, although Italy won the runner-up in the last World Cup, but the Serie A commercial competition in previous years did not please at all in the Gongti. For some half-barrel water fans, Sampdoria won't be much different from Italy at the World Cup.

Of course, the popularity of Serie A in China is also one of the reasons why fans are happy with the results of this draw.

Countless fans of this generation have grown up watching Serie A, and they often fantasize about logging into Serie A like Acchulian and competing with those big-name stars in Serie A.

Now, the Chinese team can meet Italy in the World Cup. Win or lose, for those Serie A fans, this game itself is a "holy war"!

After the draw, some attentive fans also found a very interesting little easter egg.

According to the rules of this World Cup, the four groups of ADE are in the top half of the region, and BCFG is in the bottom half, and the groups where all the seeded teams are originally supposed to be randomly drawn.

In other words, if Brazil, who are in Group A, can win the group, and France, who are in Group C, also qualify with the same score, then the two teams will have to wait until the final to meet in the World Cup.

This result also confirms Platini's words before the game: "Fans all over the world want to see France and Brazil meet in the final, and I think it must be a good match!" ”

After the World Cup draw ceremony, Jianghu-Football Network did not immediately close the live broadcast, but conducted a lottery on the spot.

The day shift leader stared at the small rectangular square bar that appeared on the screen, which would later display the winning number.

In this era when even two-color balls were not recorded, this kind of random beating number program could be written at hand, and the final result could be formulated in advance.

But after my grandson Chen Tang researched with Ou Chuliang, he decided that the first lottery was to accumulate popularity and attract traffic, so it was completely random.

Even if any wild netizen wins the lottery, as long as he authenticates it with his identity verification name, the prize will naturally be sent to the location of his ID card. If you go out to work, let your family collect it on your behalf, so as to ensure that the prize is delivered to the real winner as much as possible.

The third prize and 11 jerseys of the Chinese team will be distributed immediately, including the goalkeeper's jersey and pants; The second prize was won by three pairs of Adidas football boots, which are said to be the latest models of the Chinese team; The first prize is a spare glove for Ou Chuliang against Japan, and it will be accompanied by Ou Chuliang's autograph.

In addition, according to the website, it was also decided that since the Chinese team participated in the play-offs and the players put in more effort, a mystery prize will be born in this lottery, and the prize will be announced after all the awards have been announced.

Every time a number appeared in the small box, the white squad leader's heart trembled. She hoped that her winning number would appear on the screen, but she didn't want the string of numbers to appear early.

Although Huang Wu's redemption code was eventually asked for by him himself, the white squad leader used the ID cards of his aunt and aunt to register an XO account.

"I have 3 redemption codes, so my chances of winning should be 3 times higher!" Looking at the XO software in the lower right corner of the screen, the white squad leader secretly puffed up.

After the second and third prizes were all drawn, the white squad leader clenched his fists tightly with his two hands, and his eyes were almost on the screen.

"Didi, di, di... Beep! ”

"3..."The white squad leader hesitated, "3?!!! ”

None of the 3 prize numbers started with 3, and the white squad leader burst into tears in an instant, burying his face in his arms at once.

"Woooooo The first prize is really not so easy to win..."

“3.2.7.6.4.1...327641？？？ Ouye!! Am I hit? I really won the lottery!! ”

In front of the computer, Huang Wu suddenly jumped up from the stool.

After wiping his eyes and looking at it again, Huang Wufei ran out of the room: "Dad, look, I won the lottery!" Ou Chuliang's signature glove..."

Looking at Huang's father's also happy expression, Huang Wu patted his chest and sighed: "Huh~~~ It's good to get the prize number back..."

"The lucky mystery prize of this top 10 competition is announced below! The prize is..."

Before reading this new announcement, the two eyes of the white squad leader were already straight. Look at the numbers on the screen that stop jumping and keep tapping.

"I... Am I hit? ”

Glancing at the redemption code on his XO, and then at the 759138 in the center of the screen, the white squad leader suddenly screamed.

"Ah!! Am I hit? Did I really win the lottery this time? What is this mystery prize? Or a signature glove? Or a signed football boot? Or is it a signature or something else? ”

The white squad leader hurriedly pressed the mouse and pulled it up, and when he saw the full content of the mysterious prize, he instantly took a deep breath, covered his heart, and came to the bed next to him to lie down.

Looking at the white ceiling, it took a while for the white squad leader to slow down, "This... This... It can't be true, can it? ”