The news that the Chinese team advanced to the semifinals shocked the whole world.

This is the second time since the first World Youth Championship in Tunisia in 1977 that an Asian team has reached the semi-finals.

In 1983, the scene of South Korea and Poland playing a full 120 minutes before losing is still fresh in my memory. After 14 years, another team in Asia finally made it to the semi-finals.

Moreover, this World Youth Championship is the first time that the team has been expanded to 24, and the difficulty of competition is not comparable to 14 years ago.

The most important thing is that the last stop of the Chinese team before the semi-finals is not a fish belly team, it is France, the host country of next year's World Cup!

For the French team, which has stars such as Barthes, Zidane, Desailly, Deschamps and Lizarazu, it is the number one favorite to win the World Cup next year.

And according to French media, this World Youth Championships is also seen as a selection. Young players like Thierry Henry and Trezeguet will also be included in the French national team. Therefore, such a French team defeated the quarterfinals of the World Youth Championship, which was never imagined by all fans.

Especially some European fans, they can't accept that France is locked out of the last four, but who is the one who scored to knock out the French team.

If it is Brazil, the three-time world junior champion, or Argentina, the last champion, or Erlan or Spain, which are also from Europe, the French can accept it.

But what about losing to China?

China?

Do Chinese play football?

It has only been a few years since the professionalization of Chinese football, and no one knows what this seedling will eventually grow into.

But now, with a rumored record, the youth team has proved to the world that the country's youth army is on the rise.

"Waterloo under the Great Wall"

The "Team Newspaper" described the "battle" in two words with a clear idea.

"I have to admit that our players have done a good enough job. For most of the game, they were on the attack. But every time I shoot, I always lack a little luck. ”

"It wasn't until the start of the penalty shoot-out that we realized it wasn't bad luck that stopped the king's conquest. In front of our army, there is an impassable Great Wall at some point. ”

"The ancient Oriental people used their industrious sweat and wisdom to forge an impregnable city wall that stretched for thousands of miles, resisting countless invasions from outsiders from ancient times to the present."

"Now the Chinese have put it on the football field, and in the penalty shootout, three of our players were killed..."

"Team Daily" is right, any team that encounters the Great Wall will return with a feather.

But unlike Team Newspaper, which attributed the defeat to the Chinese team's defensive strength, Spain's Marca newspaper took another perspective and added the glory of this victory to a young Chinese.

When Marca newspaper made headlines with a photo of the two sides guessing the coin for the third time, fans could tell at a glance who would win the match.

Ordinary photos have been rendered in post-production, and Ou Chuliang on the left is almost completely bathed in light, his face full of confidence and longing for the future. On the other side, Wilde was in the dark, his eyes revealing suspicion and anxiety.

This picture seems to be a collision of "heaven and hell", and for the Europeans who boast of their own light, it is naturally the righteous side and laughs at the end.

At the end of the year, the photo was nominated by National Geographic in the United States and won the award.

"Marca" listed the French team's possession rate and shots on goal in the whole game, supplemented by the number of interceptions of the Chinese youth team and the number of saves by Ou Chuliang for comparison, creating the illusion that the Chinese team alone defended the entire French team.

Coupled with the ups and downs of the penalty shootout, Ou Chuliang, a goalkeeper who "can attack and defend", became famous in Europe for the first time.

For a time, Ou Chuliang became synonymous with the new generation of goalkeepers. Just as Schmeichel, Pagliuca, Van der Sakan and others were getting old, no one expected that a new successor would appear in Asia, growing up in China.

"I want Ou Chuliang!"

For the first time, this voice sounded in the offices of large and small clubs in Europe.

What "China's Maradona", "China's Davis", these exaggerated nicknames are all leaning aside.

The management is not stupid, they can still tell which is exaggerated and which is realistic. If nothing else, three saves in the penalty shoot-out alone are enough to impress these clubs.

They can look down on China's professional leagues, and China's national team can also ignore them. However, they have to pay attention to the new force of China's young generation.

For a while, the phone of the Football Association office was quickly flooded by international calls, all of which were transatlantic calls, asking how to sign a contract with Ou Chuliang.

"I want Ou Chuliang!"

Not only football clubs, but also international giants selling sporting goods such as Adidas and Nike have also smelled the aroma. Although Adi and the Football Association have received sponsorship from the Chinese national team in the World Preliminary Tournament and the World Cup, Ou Chuliang himself, they have never been in contact until now.

Based on the data fed back by the staff in the China office, the two companies found that even if Ou Chuliang did not go to Europe to make money, he could make a lot of money in Asia and China alone.

This kind of "moving cash cow", of course, these companies will not let go.

At this time, the office of the Football Association, Yuan Weimin's work was covered with documents, and the soon-to-retire chairman of the Football Association was also happy and distressed by these documents.

These documents are all the troubles of his happiness!

The document is roughly divided into two piles, and the content all mentions Ou Chuliang.

Here are Hamburg, Borussia Mönchenchen, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Napoli, Fiorentina, Roma, Bordeaux, Monaco, Valencia, Real Betis, Everton, Leeds United, West Ham, Chelsea and other clubs sent trial invitations to Ouchuliang; On the other hand, sports brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma, Fila, and ASICS hope to get the endorsement of Ou Chuliang himself.

Yuan Weimin looked at these application documents and had an incomparably headache.

"Alas! I'm old, so I'd better leave this matter to the young people! Yuan Weimin sighed for a while.

After scratching his head, he instructed the secretary to call Wang Junsheng and the eye feces. For Yuan Weimin, these two people are young people.

The Football Association building is as breezy as possible, but the fans at home don't act as if nothing hasn't happened.

That's the top four!!

The Chinese team's historic breakthrough into the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship is enough to celebrate.

For a time, the streets and alleys were noisy with gongs and drums, and firecrackers rang out. I didn't know that I thought this store was renovated and reopened.

Countless football-loving owners have given their shops a new look, and their window cabinets are plastered with news and posters about football.

"I want Ou Chuliang!"

The sharp voice sounded in every stationery store, and some owners would frown sadly after hearing it, and take out a cabbage and a watermelon miserably, hoping that these customers could take a look at it; And some bosses will mysteriously close the doors and windows, and then take out a gilded picture scroll from the safe with 99 locks on their own, and unfold it in front of all the girls with wide eyes.

The factory worked overtime to print, but it could not stop the best-selling of Ou Chuliang's posters. At the gates of various schools, Ou Chuliang's posters are always in short supply.

The white squad leader was lying on the mat covered with ice, and his two snow-white feet were swinging back and forth on the side of the bed.

"Ah~~~ Sure enough, money can buy happiness!"

On the ceiling decorated as a projector, Ou Chuliang's voice and smile jumped on the paper. If you glance at it casually, you will really have the illusion of playing on the same field as Ou Chuliang.

College campuses are also full of discussions about football. The boys discussed which player had the best skills, and the girls discussed Ou Chuliang's photo as the most handsome.

The football stadium is always surrounded by spectators, and the sense of pride brought by the World Youth Championships has made the sport popular among colleges and universities across the country. Boys are proud of their good skills, and girls are proud of having a boyfriend who is good at football.

"I want Ou Chuliang!"

A domineering voice rang out in the street shop.

Seven or eight middle school students gathered in a circle, craned their necks and watched.

When Huang Wu opened the last pack of instant noodles and took out a glittering golden card from it, the light of the card instantly poured over the entire commissary.

"Goo-dong..."

"Goo-dong..."

A continuous sound of saliva sounded, and the man with glasses on the side trembled as if he were a court, looking up at the card raised in Huang Wu's right hand.

"My God... Actually, it turned out to be Ou Chuliang's gold card! ”

A month later, the commissary, called the "Affordable Store", became a "Affordable Supermarket".