"Chinese football has stood up from now on!"

The top leader of the Football Association suddenly shouted on the rostrum......

It sounds weird, but it seems to make sense. But if it's the World Cup, not just the Olympics, maybe it's more convincing.

Since the reform and opening up, the Chinese people, who have been weak for a long time, have always regarded the level of sports as a symbol of national strength and an important way to wrestle with the Western world. The women's volleyball team won the "five consecutive championships" in the 80s, which was considered to have "raised the national prestige". However, as the world's largest goal, the performance of the Chinese team has always been so bad, which has become a big stone in the hearts of the Chinese, and some people even raised it to the height of national dignity and honor to discuss.

The post-race madness was indescribable, and CCBV5 immediately gathered voices from all over the country:

"I was going to the hospital this afternoon, but when I got to the hospital, I found that the doctors in the hospital's internal medicine department were gone. When I asked, I found out that it was not an emergency doctor, and they all went to play football in the Chinese team. I didn't even think about complaining, so I immediately squeezed into a nearby place with a TV and watched the game myself. ”

"Our school's gymnasium, electric classrooms, cafeteria, and all other places with televisions were crowded. The students were sweating profusely, but their enthusiasm was high. Every time the Chinese team members burst into the penalty area, they would cheer desperately; If there is a shot on the field, the applause is even more deafening; When they scored, they were like immortals. ”

"In the afternoon, our company had a meeting with a very important customer, but the boss said that all of them would cheer for the Chinese team! If the Olympic team scores a goal, I will reward everyone with 1,000 yuan! As a result, each of us got 4,000 yuan...... Ah, come on! I hope you will always be victorious generals! ”

"When I won the Dunhill Cup against the Korean youth team for the first time, I thought it was just luck."

"I won the Korean Olympic Games in Seoul two weeks ago, and I was suddenly looking forward to this afternoon's game, this is the war between us and them for the next ten years, the players on both sides are equal, and I think if we can beat them again today, it will prove that we are not winning by luck, but by iron strength, I really didn't expect us to win against them 4-0."

"I just want to fry some peanuts and drink some Red Star Erguotou now."

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After Xu Dingmao left the press conference in gray, Horton and Zheng Zhi came to the front desk with a smile, it was really a thousand calls, no one was interested in listening to Xu Dingmao to find a reason for failure, that is a Korean business, as Chinese, just want to hear Horton and Zheng Zhi share the joy of victory.

Even the top leaders of the Football Association appeared here for the first time.

Horton grinned and showed his white teeth.

"I said a long time ago that we won't capsize in the gutter at home because we are the strongest team in Asia, and the strong team naturally has to show the style of the strong team, and we did it and handed over a 4-0 result. I've always instilled that will and confidence in my players to make them understand that we have what it takes to beat any team, in Asia. ”

He made it clear that it was within the boundaries of Asia, not the world, otherwise the cowhide would have been blown out.

"I often think that a football coach is like an artist, he needs to be knowledgeable and rational, and at the same time, he needs to be inspired and passionate about art from time to time." He couldn't help but praise himself, but of course Horton did not forget the signature star Zheng Zhi, who played well in all three games, saying: "Zheng Zhi's performance was impeccable, not only did he do a good job of organizing the attack and defense, but he was also able to shoot and score, and at the same time he had a selfless mind. Having such an excellent player is indeed the luck of Chinese football. ”

Horton has been serving as both the Chinese national team and the national Olympic team since July last year, and in the agreement signed with him, the results of the two national teams are closely linked to his fate in China. According to the agreement, Houghton's first task is to lead the team to Sydney, which is an important condition for him to renew his contract with the Chinese Football Association, and then the next task is to reach the semi-finals of next year's Asian Cup. As for the World Cup qualifiers, it looks like Horton has to lead the team.

The arrogant Horton chatted high, saying: "I am confident that I will create a glorious history of Chinese football in Sydney. We're not just going to Sydney to play the group stage, we might be able to make it out of the group stage, so let's wait and see. ”

In addition, he also stressed that 90% of the members of the Chinese Olympic team will enter the national team training list next year, and the technical and development potential of the players of the Chinese Olympic team is higher than that of the national team members.

"There is no doubt that these players are the future of Chinese football, and they are the main players of the national team in the future, unless they are affected by injuries and form."

Horton, commander of the Chinese national team, Olympic team, and youth team, fulfilled his promise with victory. Naturally, the leader of the Football Association happily told reporters: "Chinese football has finally made convincing progress and gratifying results, and we should fully support Houghton." ”

"Horton is a successful coach hired by the Chinese Football Association to hire foreign coaches, and his ability has been reflected in the Chinese team's competition. The successful qualification of the Chinese Olympic team is enough to show Horton's coaching ability and level. ”

Listening to the leader's mouth, Horton was naturally even happier: "Now I really feel the enthusiasm and support of the Chinese Football Association. ”

In addition to the excitement, the British coach even claimed: "I want to settle in China permanently, China has good social security, high work pay, and football has improved." ”

The reporters began to chant, "Hurry up and buy a courtyard house in the capital!" ”

Courtyard ...... Zheng Zhi was choked up for a while.

And Houghton continues to show his ambitions: "Chinese football faces three major competitions: the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 2000 Asian Cup, and the 2002 World Cup, and the current Olympic team players will be the main force in these three competitions. The Olympic team players are well placed to take on the responsibility of all three competitions. ”

"According to my vision, after the 2000 Sydney Olympics, four to six players over the age of 23 can form the strongest national team to go to Lebanon for the 2000 Asian Cup. This national team will continue to prepare for the 2002 World Cup, the Olympic team will participate in a series of world and continental competitions non-stop, and it is extremely ideal to participate in the World Cup after undergoing training and accumulating experience, and the Chinese national team will be a vigorous and combative team at that time. ”

Wow~

The audience was full of praise.

This is like the head coach of the Chinese national team, how insightful. What was Qi Wusheng in the past? I don't have any foresight, look at the people Horton, I have already thought about the plan for the next few years. Although he is a foreigner, he is more committed and dedicated than his Chinese!

Horton's new point of view has been endorsed by many journalists, who believe that this is a new idea for the revitalization of Chinese football.

After bragging, Horton was also pragmatic, "In the semi-finals, the Chinese team defeated South Korea and Bahrain teams to qualify, which is a matter of course, because South Korea and Bahrain are not the opponents of the Chinese team at all." However, if the Chinese team wants to achieve good results in the Sydney Olympics, it must go out and train with the world's strongest teams. We should go to Europe for training. ”

"I expect the national Olympic team to be reorganized in January next year, followed by two periods of 7 days and 10 days of intensive training, playing three warm-up games, and the opponents in the warm-up games are all European and American teams."

There was another warm applause from the audience, and Horton's voice was so powerful that he at least drew a big, big pie for the Chinese people, and this pie was really full of expectations.

Including Zheng Zhi, who was also applauding gently. In the past and today, the gap between the future of Horton and Chinese football is so great that even he can't imagine how far the future will go. His fate is closely tied to Horton, and the national team, with both glory and loss, naturally, he doesn't want the latter.

"Zheng Zhi, what do you think of the head coach's vision?"

"Me? Show your hands in support. ”

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The Chinese team qualified from the group one round early, and the last round against Bahrain lost its meaning. However, in Asia, it is not only the Chinese team that has done it, but the Japanese team has also done it, and they also qualified one round earlier, and the Japanese Olympic team coach Trussier is even more arrogant than Horton, and he even clamored at the press conference to let the Japanese Olympic team win medals at the Olympics, compared to Horton, Horton is low-key.

Still, Horton's remarks at the press conference drove the whole of South Korea crazy.

"South Korea and Bahrain are not our opponents at all, we have to play against the strong European teams." This sentence hit the South Koreans, and when the three major sports newspapers in South Korea, "Seoul Sports", "North Korean Sports", and "Today's Sports", reprinted Horton's words at the same time, the fans of the Republic of Korea went completely crazy.

"Megalomaniacal Horton!"

"The villain has a will!"

"Wait, the Asian Cup is coming!"

"We'll get revenge!"

"One day, when we win the game again, you too will have a day of destruction!"

When I think of the 0:4 defeat, everyone gritted their teeth, and it is estimated that for a long time in the future, this score will be the heart of Korean football.

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A week later, the Chinese team won 2-0 away from Bahrain and qualified for the Sydney Olympics with a record of winning all four games, and at the same time went to Sydney, Japan and Kuwait, and everything was settled.

The official website of the AFC also congratulated the three national teams and summarized the Olympic qualifiers.

——The midfielder wins the world, whether it is China or Japan, Zheng Zhi and Hidetoshi Nakata are the core of the team's midfield, in addition to the two of them, Li Yin, Nakamura Shunsuke and so on have shown their ability. On the contrary, because of the lack of a good midfielder, South Korea cannot compete with China and hate the group stage......

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Instead, in late July, halfway through the summer, Zheng Zhi only rested for a week at his home in Shenyang before flying to Germany to train with his new club team-mates.

This season, there is no longer Li Yin by his side, no longer Li Weifeng and Yang Chen, and it has been replaced by future superstars such as Balak. Eintracht Frankfurt, which still has many Chinese internationals, came to the Chinese team to prepare for the new season. The club is now hugely popular in China, surpassing Manchester United and AC Milan, who won the 1999 Champions League. Although Leverkusen did not come to China, but the popularity is also skyrocketing, they in the Chinese capital, Shenyang, Shanghai and Guangzhou special stores, the No. 10 jersey has been sold crazy, although the Leverkusen No. 10 jersey piracy on China Street is rampant, but the store still sold 100,000 pieces in just one month, this data directly seconds all Leverkusen players......

Many people have not understood how much Zheng Zhi's commercial value is, but the competitive value is clearer. Zheng Zhi came here with the title of the best newcomer in the Bundesliga, and even Ballack was beaten by him, and when these two youngsters appeared at the training ground, no one dared to underestimate them. Even the Brazilian national team admits that Emerson and Ze Roberto dared to take it lightly.

Naturally, Zheng Zhi did not dare to despise his new teammates. Here, he doesn't really have any advantages. Any one of them is a star, some stars are more big names than him, like Emerson, Ze Roberto, Ballack, in the back are the world's top midfielders, Novotny These defenders were also world-class defenders at the time, not to mention the captain Kirsten, and the newcomer Neuville is also a little inferior.

Zheng Zhi and Ballack were polite to their club teammates, but there were still a few guys who didn't know their names.

For example, the Brazilian Ponte, who has just reported for duty, is a Brazilian who previously played for the Guarani club in Paraguay, South America, and is a little-known guy here.

Another Zheng Zhi has some impressions, but the name is impressive, Thomas Burdaric, transferred from Cologne Fortuna in the German Second Division.

There is also a Czech player, Vlatislav Gresco, who has transferred from International Club Bratislava.

All three of them are younger than Zheng Zhi, but they are young people compared to the others.

When facing Zheng Zhi, they all felt a little restrained, the 19-year-old Zheng Zhi is already the best newcomer in the Bundesliga, they are nothing, so they behaved more politely.

Of course, in addition to fame, strength is more important. Although Zheng Zhi's strength is very good, he has no advantage in this team. Ze Roberto and Emerson are the main players in the Brazilian midfield, and Zheng Zhi has nothing to worry about winning the best newcomer in the Bundesliga, so Zheng Zhi is also very low-key.

When he first arrived, he could only temporarily rely on Barak for his life, and holding together was the most natural choice. However, Emerson obviously has a good impression of Zheng Zhi, not only did the two exchange jerseys last season, but Emerson also gave up the No. 10 jersey to Zheng Zhi this season, and also took Zheng Zhi's helicopter.

So when he saw Zheng Zhi and Barak staying together, Emerson took the initiative to say hello.

"Hey, you two rookies,"

"Come here, come here,"

Emerson beckoned, "Join in the game." ”

On the first day of training, there will be no heavy exercise training, it is all restorative. Emerson also asked everyone to play monkey walking.

"Let's start with you guys, you two come and grab the ball."

He pointed to Ponte and Gresco. These two guys are the least famous rookies, so naturally let them grab the ball first.

Everyone had no opinion, so a big circle was formed here and they started playing.

However, it has only just begun, and the figure of captain Kirsten appeared on the training ground.

"Hey guys,"

"Stop playing, hurry to the conference room, something big is going to happen."

Kirsten waved his hand and beckoned everyone to hurry over.

"What's the big deal, captain, is Bayern Munich calling?"

"Seriously, the boss held a press conference." Kirsten glared at Novotny and explained further, "He's gone to get tested." ”

"Ugh! How did I not know? ”

"I don't know. Let's go, don't miss it. "Kirsten walked in front without looking back, and it was clear that Kirsten cared about Daum.

As the commander of the first army, Daum's achievements in Bayer Leverkusen are obvious to all, and if Daum leaves because of that incident, then Leverkusen will be leaderless. Even if there is a change of manager, it will not be possible to arrest Bayer Leverkusen in a short period of time.

So, it's better for Daum not to have an accident!

As the captain of the team, the oldest man in the team, he cares a lot about winning a Bundesliga title before the end of his career, and Daum is clearly the right manager.

Everyone silently followed Kirsten into the conference room. The televisions in the conference room had already been turned on, and many of the staff had crowded in, even the workers who were maintaining the turf.

It seems that there are too many people who care about Daum.

"Krustov is so stupid,"

"There is absolutely no need for him to give in,"

"What do you care about what those people think?"

"Alas......"

The staff cheered for Daum, "What a nice guy he is, I don't understand why so many people attack him." ”

"It must have been Bayern Munich who deliberately fixed him."

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In front of the TV camera, Daum sat steadily at the press conference, surrounded by the club's general manager, Carl Mund, and sporting director Worrall. The two of them sat next to each other, one left and one right, which was the greatest support for Daum.

Across the position, there is a guy in uniform next to the head **** of the German Football Association, and he is also carrying a document bag in his hand.

Mr. President, who took the floor first and clarified the purpose of convening this press conference, it was naturally for the sake of Daum.

The live footage immediately gave Daum a big close-up. Daum still sat still, his expression relaxed, and he looked confident.

After more than six months of conditioning, he believes that he has absolutely no problems, and he can definitely change his mind and succeed.

So, when the uniformed guy was about to check the results at the beginning of the year, there was even a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"The result of the inspection is,"

The uniformed man's face flashed slightly,

"Positive."

The audience was in an uproar.

Daum's smile instantly filled the air, and after a few seconds of pause, he jumped to his feet, the muscles of his face shaking wildly.

"Conspiracy!"

"It's all a damn conspiracy!"

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