Chapter 335: The latest ranking of the Chinese team
"There is no incurable wound, there is no sinking that cannot be ended, everything that is lost will come back in another way."
Wu Jie saw that Bayern finally hit the street, not to mention how happy he was, he almost had to kneel in the living room.
But the next day, in the face of an interview that I don't know if it was arranged in advance, he said this sanctimoniously that made many Bayern fans begin to miss him.
Wu Jie's words quickly appeared in German newspapers, and then I saw that in Bayern's next game against the leader Werder Bremen, there were fans in each stand who raised banners calling for Wu Jie and recalling the past, including many photos of Wu Jie wearing a Bayern jersey, as if he was paying tribute.
But no one knows this touching picture, most of them are composed of the backbone members of the ET family and Wu Xiaojiang, although there are true feelings, but there are also many actors and scripts arranged internally.
Wu Jie didn't know about this, it was completely Helena's handiwork.
He just used cards to increase the form of Werder Bremen's core players, helping Werder Bremen, who are similar to Everton in the Bundesliga this year, beat Bayern 4-0 away, indirectly allowing Hamburg, which also sank, to rise to fourth place.
Now Bayern fans can't miss Wu Jie, the Champions League is out of the league is miserable enough, and now the league has been squeezed out of the top four, which is an unacceptable defeat for Bayern fans who have stood at the top of Europe for four consecutive years!
After Wu Jie stabbed his old club several times, he couldn't be distracted anymore and paid attention to others.
He now has to prepare for the Devil's March with the team, a month when Arsenal will not only play seven league games, but also have an FA Cup sixth round, which is a four-of-eight game.
This is also due to the fact that Arsenal does not qualify for Europe, otherwise it will be difficult for them not to reduce their number of players with two Champions League games.
But even so, after beating West Ham United at home, they overturned on three consecutive road trips, with Aston Villa beating 2-1 in the final leg.
Wu Jie did not blame his team-mates, they had already won Sunderland and Stoke City away in a row before the rollover.
However, against an away game that is played every three days, even he felt tired against Aston Villa and could not use his fitness advantage to complete the stunner in the last 20 minutes of the second half.
It would be too harsh to blame their team-mates in such a situation, and Everton's side also overturned, and they also suffered from the devil's schedule in March, and neither of them was in a much better position.
Shortly after Arsenal's defeat at Aston Villa, Everton may have breathed a sigh of relief, causing them to be too relaxed physically and mentally to lose to Southampton the following day.
This time the two teams are back to the starting point of 2 points, and the two sides can only focus on the head-to-head battle at the end of the month.
On March 30, Arsenal will visit Goodison Park, when the title battle between the two teams for most of the season may become clear.
In addition to preparing for the championship-determining head-to-head confrontation with the team, Wu Jie will also start to pay attention to the Asian Qualifiers for the World Cup next month.
The 1986 World Cup in Mexico was only a year and a half away.
This time, there are 2.5 entries in the Asian zone, and it was also in the case of a separate qualifier in Oceania in advance.
In the last World Cup qualifiers, Asia and Oceania combined only had two places, but this time there were 2.5 places in the Asian region and 0.5 places in Oceania, which is actually a full number of places more than the previous one.
This is of course the credit of the Chinese team, although the entire Asian public opinion except Chinese mainland, and even the media in Hong Kong are trying to find other explanations, anyway, they do not want to report China's goodness, let alone understand China's feelings.
But as long as you are not a fool, you can know that the increase in the Asian quota is entirely because of the outstanding performance of the Chinese team in the last World Cup, plus the rising world ranking in the past two and a half years, which has finally made the status of Asian football rise a little lower.
However, the Asian Football Confederation did not know how to be grateful, and instead played a trick on the Asian qualifiers, arranging the first stage of the group stage at the end of April, which was a full month earlier than the group stage of the first stage of the previous edition.
The purpose of this match date is too naked, everyone knows that most of the Europa League ends at the end of May, and League One will not end until early June.
Not only that, but teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona that are strong in Europe will not be able to play their entire game until June once they reach the European final.
But it couldn't wait for June, and the first stage of the group stage was all over at the end of May.
This means that the Chinese team's players in Europe will not be able to catch up with this group stage, unless the Chinese Football Association forcibly calls the players back in the sprint stage of the European League, but that will obviously affect the goodwill and status of many Chinese players in the hearts of clubs and fans.
"Hmph, even if we don't go back, the Chinese team won't be able to qualify for the group stage, right?"
Wu Jie scoffed at this kind of trick, in fact, he didn't plan to let all the players in Europe go back to play the first stage of the group stage.
But through this incident, it can also be seen that even if some countries have paid tuition fees, they still want Chinese football to die in private, and what people come to learn is how to defeat you.
In this case, it seems that tuition fees will have to rise again, especially for good students like Japan, and it is best to find a way to mislead them to a point of no return.
Wu Jie has never been kind to Japan, and he also knows that although he is extremely popular in this country, it is because any publicity and reports in Japan can dilute the "Chinese" element on his body.
In fact, Japan's discrimination against China from top to bottom has never been reduced, they can worship Wu Jie's personal achievements incomparably, regard him as the pride of Asians and yellow people, and then turn their heads and attack the authoritarianism and lack of human rights in Chinese sports, and constantly report on Chinese sports, especially the dark side of China's three major balls, in the form of rumors at home, and then make a lot of false criticism of China's national system.
And these voices have already begun to be transmitted and exaggerated by the public intellectuals in China, which is of course most effective through China's own intellectuals.
However, so far, these measures have not been able to really affect them, because now only CCTV and several major official media can influence domestic public opinion, and the private media that are most likely to be exploited have not yet appeared.
And now the colons in CCTV and several major official media, as well as middle-level managers, can not only get a food and daily necessities gift package sponsored by the "Uni-President Group" every month. The electrical appliances in their homes are also sponsored by the "Montenegro Group". In addition, the software and hardware of the office have also been given special discounts by "Lenovo". Even the work clothes are sponsored by Uniqlo, and you can also get vouchers from Uniqlo on holidays.
At this time, coupled with a large amount of advertising expenses, it is enough to blow public opinion in their favor.
This time, the Asian World Preliminary Tournament is still divided into three stages: the first stage is the group stage, the second stage is the top 10 round, and the third stage should be a play-off that has nothing to do with them.
In the first stage of the group stage, the 36 participating teams in Asia are divided into 10 groups, with 3-4 teams in each group, and the winners of each group advance to the second stage.
In the second stage of the top 10 competition, the 10 teams are divided into 2 groups, and each group of 5 teams will compete in a double round-robin competition of home and away. The first place in each group qualifies directly for the World Cup, while the second place in each group will play a two-legged play-off, home and away, to determine one to advance to the third stage.
The third stage is considered the play-offs of the Asian region, and the third place in the Asian zone will compete with the first place in the Oceania qualifiers over two legs home and away to qualify for the World Cup.
Now that the first phase of the grouping has been released, the Chinese team, as the No. 1 team in Asia and the 16th in the world, is of course participating in the Asian group as a seeded team.
But this ranking makes many swollen Chinese fans very dissatisfied, because they are the fifth place in the last World Cup, and they are the champions of the last Olympic Games, and they have almost never lost to those so-called world powerhouses in the past two years, so how can they be ranked 16th.
However, this ranking is much better than three months ago, and until December last year, the Chinese team was only the 24th team in the international rankings.
Isn't it a bit incredible to go from 24th to 16th in 3 months?
This is going to start with the FIFA international points reset in January this year, because the current FIFA is to recount the points every eight years, and the last time the points were recounted was in 1977, and the Chinese team only rejoined FIFA in 1979, so it is naturally at a disadvantage in terms of points acquisition.
However, according to the formula for recalculating points every eight years: only 25% of the points earned in the first two years of the previous period are counted, 50% of the points earned in the third to fourth years, 75% of the points earned in the fifth to sixth years, and 100% of the points earned in the last two years.
There is no doubt that this calculation formula is extremely beneficial to the Chinese team, because the rise of Chinese football is after 1980, especially after the 82 World Cup, which means that most of their explosive stage earnings have rolled into a new period of points reset.
In January this year, when all countries recalculated their points, China's outstanding results in the last four years naturally took a big advantage, and it suddenly jumped from the original 24th place to the current 16th place, and the gap between the 10th and 15th places is not large.
If they can achieve good results again in next year's World Cup, then it is likely that they will directly break into the top 10 in the standings and become a first-class international powerhouse, and the Chinese team will also become the first team in football history to enter the top 10 in the world.
Of course, the 16th place in the Asian rankings has already left the rest of the team can't even see the taillights, and Kuwait, the second-best Asian team in the international rankings, is only 51st in the latest ranking, and has not even entered the top 50.
However, this time it is the Asian qualifiers, and the Chinese team is seeded along with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, South Korea, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, North Korea, and Japan.
This order is the current Asian football rankings, and Japanese fans don't know how much they breathe when they see their team finally narrowly lead India and get the tenth place.
If you do be squeezed out of the top 10, it means that you will be in the same group as one of these teams.
If you are unlucky and really in a group with the Chinese team, wouldn't it be directly in the west?
In Group A, where the Chinese team is located, the other three teams that have advanced to the west are Syria, Indonesia, and Taiwan Province of China!
That's right, this time the Chinese team was actually in the same group as Wanwan, which made both sides of the strait nauseous.
Wanwan will be disgusted because they have been adopting a turtle strategy in sports in recent years, and basically do not report any sports news related to China, so there will really be people who do not know the status of China's three major balls in the world.
But the high-level and the media know very well that with their strength, it is estimated that eighty percent of the Fujian Provincial team will be in the west, and this time it is really going to fall, and they can't hide!
On the Chinese side, it is disgusting to encounter such an opponent, and they would rather face the old enemy Hong Kong team than encounter such a family misfortune, a disgusting thing with two wisdoms.
Of course, the Hong Kong side is disgusting enough, and it is better not to touch the two, out of sight.
However, this grouping is indeed a bit overkill to play with the lineup of the previous Asian Cup.
Besides, that lineup can't be formed.
Li Huayun and Zhang Anhong went to Manchester United and Dortmund respectively during the winter break, including Wei Xinghua, who was also bought by the Bastia club in the middle of the French league.
But at this time, Manchester United found that they may have been deceived, and the so-called poor version of the "black rocket" John Barnes in the mouth of their chief scout, and finally spent a full $200,000 to buy the "yellow rocket", which seems to be a little poorer, this is simply a bankrupt version!
Li Huayun's explosiveness and speed, as well as his dribbling skills, are definitely top in Asia, but these are just normal wide levels in England.
In addition, his confrontation, stopping, shooting, crossing, etc. ability are also so-so, the most important thing is that the awareness and coordination ability are not even qualified, and communication is also a problem, can such a player really play at Manchester United? Have they been fooled?
Dortmund also found that the business they did was not worth it, Zhang Anhong did have excellent foot skills, and it was very outstanding in Europe.
But the problem is that as long as he makes mistakes as soon as he gets on the intensity, his heading ability is also very weak, and he can't compete for the defender in the team's early 1.8 meters on the high-altitude ball with a height of 192cm, and the $250,000 spent only to find that it's not worth it at all!
At this time, only Bastia did not regret the Wei Xinghua they bought for 150,000 US dollars, this speed is outstanding, the dribbling is solid, and he is very good at cutting inside the attacking wing, which perfectly strengthens their original shortcomings in the left corridor, and it did not take long for the trade to let him take the starting position.
Wu Jie also knows that Bastia's business is very valuable, not that Wei Xinghua's ability is much stronger than Li Huayun, but that his ability is more suitable for this team.
If Li Huayun goes to a relegation team in the English League, or a middle and lower level team in the French League 1 and the Eredivisie, then he can also become a qualified starter, but if he goes to the fierce confrontation, it is still a strong team like Manchester United, it is really greatly overestimated.
Also, Li Huayun's biggest problem is not that his ability is worse than he imagined, but his real age when he is seriously flooded.
This is the reason why he has been rejected by the national team, in fact, the upper limit of him and Wei Xinghua is not lower than Gu Guangming, and they both have not weak instant combat power at this time, but anyone will choose to cultivate Wei Xinghua, whose real age is only 21 years old.
As for the question of Manchester United and Dortmund wanting to return the goods, the Chinese Football Association can only say: "How can there be a reason to make a profit without losing money", and besides, the person is your own fancy, and the price is also what you think is appropriate, and it is not us who buy and sell.
Also, it may be that you don't know how to use people, and we don't blame you for using people properly.
Wu Jie thinks that this is fine, it is impossible for any transfer to be guaranteed to be played out, and the example of adaptation far exceeds the probability of turning a stone into gold.
In addition, there are indeed many bought players who can't play, not because they are parallel goods with insufficient ability, it is likely that their own style is not compatible with the team, or the league they are in, or communication problems caused by language, in short, there are too many possibilities to not play, how can you return it.
At this time, the most smiling was the Football Association, and they even dared to oppose the introduction of the "25-year-old cannot play abroad" regulation before the World Cup, and at least lowered the age to 22 years old, and then postponed it for a few years.
But the Ministry of Physical Affairs will not adopt this opinion at all, and at this time, the drivers led by Wu Zhengsong believe that they cannot look at everything for money.
If every outstanding player goes abroad to play around the age of 20, this is actually a dry and fish-fishing behavior, because it will greatly reduce the level of the domestic league, but lose the subsequent hematopoietic ability.
This is not alarmist, if the level of players are out, then the result can only be that one generation is not as good as the generation, because the young players have lost the environment for fighting monsters and upgrading, lost the goal of being angry after being beaten, and there is no opportunity to learn from the team's predecessors at close range, and the environment for inheritance and experience is directly broken.
This is also Wu Jie's idea, because even if it is really alarmist, he will not let Chinese football have a brain drain like India.
Then, if the economic foundation is not good enough, they can only introduce compulsory policies to protect their basic market.
Chinese football should take the boutique route next, a genius like Ren Zhihui not only sells for far more than ten Zhang Anhong and Li Huayun and others, but also improves the influence of Chinese football.
Moreover, the genius clause they introduced can also allow geniuses like Ren Zhihui and Wang Yuanlin to go to Europe in their early 20s, without waiting until they are 25 years old.
But if these restrictions are not made, players like Zhang Anhong and Li Huayun will definitely be bought by Japanese clubs with high salaries, and then there will be a large number of excellent players lost in the Chinese league, which will make the standard of the Japanese league rise significantly.
However, this clause can indeed wait until after the 86 World Cup, which will be the last unlimited sale of Chinese football after the end of the World Cup, and then it is time to focus on its own league.