The semi-finals of the Asian Cup are out.

China, Iraq, Japan, South Korea. There are three seats in East Asia, and only one Iraq is left in West Asia. That means at least one East Asian team can make it to the final. If the Chinese team is a little more competitive, then the Asian Cup will become the East Asian Cup......

After the 5:1 bloodbath in Qatar, the Chinese team's call for winning the championship is even higher. In this way, in the next China VS Iraq match, Chiguoguo was one-sidedly optimistic about the Chinese team, and directly showed the Chinese team the handicap of two and a half goals.

No matter how much Iraq cooks, it shouldn't be let so much by the Chinese team, right? But the reality is so cruel.

All the West Asian media are wailing.

After Iran lost to South Korea, the Tehran Daily angrily criticized its own team - shame! Iran should not lose to South Korea no matter what, in Asia, Iran can only lose to China, and it is impossible for other teams to defeat Iran, which has as many as ten players playing in Europe, and actually lost to Iran? We even have reason to suspect that this is a hoax.

The Iranian media have always believed that the Chinese team is the first in Asia and Iran is the second in Asia. They don't accept anyone, only the Chinese team, but now they are overturned in the gutter in front of the South Korean team, and they can't even enter the semifinals of the Asian Cup, how shocking is this?

Saudi Arabia died okay after they held Japan to a 0-0 draw in 90 minutes of regulation time, only to lose to Japan on penalties in the final shoot-out. They died standing up. However, the Saudi media is still pessimistic - now, only Iraq is left alive, and they will face the encirclement of three East Asian teams alone. Saudi Arabia had a chance to reach the last four, but the Japanese had better luck. Judging from the current performance of the Chinese team, Iraq is almost certain to stop in the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.

The Press – This is the biggest tragedy in the history of Qatari football. These people deserve to be killed!

Only the Iraqi people are still cheering.

The semi-finals are already Iraq's best result in 14 years. In the first 14 years, they have never had any good results on the pitch.

Iraq has always been a mysterious division, and most people don't know much about this team, even professional footballers.

The Chinese team's understanding of the Iraqi team is almost limited to these four matches in the Asian Cup.

The Chinese players don't seem to be interested in Iraq.

"The strength of this team is average, there is nothing special about it, and there are no stars." Li Weifeng expressed his opinions.

"But it's quite surprising that they can win against Kuwait."

"What's the accident, it's just that the hard work is better than Kuwait's, but in fact, there is no technical content." Li Ming shook his head, "We can kill them with headers, and we can eat them to death if we are tall." ”

"If I can't beat them, I'll cut off my head." Yang Chen is also full of confidence. 'I'm sure I'll be able to score their goals.'

Yang Chen is now leading the Asian Cup scorer list, having scored six goals, and behind him are South Korea's Lee Dong Kook, Japan's Naotai Takahara and Nishizawa Akihiro, who will definitely want to be the top scorer in this tournament.

The competition is quite big, but Yang Chen has a strong midfield behind him, and it is also the most promising.

Zheng Zhi smiled, no one knew Iraq better than him.

This Iraqi army is actually very dangerous, and you can't judge them with ordinary people's thinking......

"You don't understand," Zheng Zhi finally spoke.

"The first meeting between China and Iraq was in the 1979 Asian Football Championship in Tehran, when Iraq defeated China 1-0. The goalkeeper who helped Iraq keep the city gate safe was Abdulrahman. At that time, Abdulrahman was indispensable, he loved football immensely, and a new era seemed to be dawning. ”

"But ......"

Zheng Zhi is going to tell the story again! As soon as everyone heard Zheng Zhi say this, they all quickly closed their mouths and looked at Zheng Zhi in unison, wondering what he would say next.

"In the minds of countless Iraqis, the bad start came in 1979, when China and Iraq first met – the year when SDM officially took over the power of life and death from his cousin Becker. Hundreds of political opponents were purged by the SDM, and the way the SDM asserted sovereignty set the stage for the turmoil in Iraq in the decades that followed. Sirens, explosions, cries for help drown out the sound of reading in this country year after year. ”

"Every road on the streets of Baghdad can lead to hell at any moment. Even so, there are still many teenagers who take advantage of the quiet to step out into the streets and play street football. The turmoil of the times has cost countless lives, but it has not killed the Iraqi people's love for football. ”

"In 1980, the tragic and protracted Iran-Iraq war broke out. Batches of young Iraqis were sent to the front in a vertical position and carried down horizontally. In order to boost the spirit and national mood of the whole country, SDM has set its sights on sports and football. In modern times, sports and football are almost a kind of embodiment of national pride. Who's in charge of this? Naturally, he was the eldest son Uday, who was widely regarded as the successor at the time. ”

Zhao Junzhe's heart began to mumble, and he was a little puzzled, obviously he and Zheng Zhi were studying in the same compound, why did Zheng Zhi know so much, and he had never heard such a story at all? Where did he hear that? I touched my head, and suddenly I felt like I was really a failure.

By 1986, at the age of 22, Uday was both president of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and president of the Football Association. At the same time, he almost mastered the main propaganda apparatus in Iraq. He heads the Iraqi Journalists' Association, the Youth and Students Union, seven weekly news magazines, and Iraqi national television, and controls almost all of Iraq's public opinion instruments. ”

"The Iraqi people love football, and football is the number one sport in the world. Therefore, football is naturally a key project for Uday to rectify after taking office. How are the people of Udaychi? Like his father, he was a murderer who didn't blink. His favorite childhood toy was a failed grenade, and at the age of 10 he followed his father in and out of the bloody torture chamber. Legend has it that in high school, he braged in front of his girlfriend about how he killed a teacher who was disrespectful to him. ”

In his own mouthpiece media, Uday described himself as the "godfather" of Iraqi football. What is the idea of this "godfather" to clean up football? "Why don't you choose a group of death row prisoners to represent the national football team?" ——The connotation of Uday's football thought is almost a copy of this sentence. He did not turn the condemned prisoner into a national player, but turned the national player into a death row prisoner alive. ”

"Every time you finish a game, you get a whip for a mistake, and then you get two lashes." That's what most of the former Iraqi internationals say, and when Uday is in a bad mood, the whole team is tied up and whipped. When a player lost the game because of a mistake, Uday pulled out his knife and cut his hair in front of everyone. ”

Hiss~

Terrible!

When they heard this, everyone gasped.

It turns out that Iraqi football is so terrible! Learned! I haven't stopped listening to it before......

"Uday's tyranny, even the teenage youth team did not escape. Last year, Abbas, who was still a minor, represented the youth team of the Iraqi Student Club and traveled to Jakarta for the Four Nations Invitational Tournament. At that time, they could have won the championship, but they were upset 0:2 by Indonesia in the final round. Upon returning home, the enraged Uday took Abbas and his teammates to prison, tortured and interrogated, leaving no scars in prison and barely having to dream of leaving. ”

The national teams of different ages later recalled that the most intense part of his career was not playing in front of tens of thousands of fans, but when Uday suddenly called at halftime. Through the hoarse voice of the phone, Uday's anger permeated every corner of the locker room. It was like a call from hell - Uday even let the call go, he couldn't get it back in the second half, and he was going to chop off the lower limbs of the players. ”

"This is Iraqi football as I know it."

After a few seconds of silence, the scene finally exploded.

Even Fan Zhiyi couldn't help but speak, "I'm grass,"

"Zheng Zhi, where did you hear this? It's like the real thing. ”

"yes, we've never heard of it before, you made it up, you are so familiar with SDM and Uday?" Li Weifeng also didn't believe it. thinks Zheng Zhi is just making up stories.

Zheng Zhi shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, "Believe it or not, I read it from a football article in Germany, as for whether it is true or not, we can't get evidence, but there is still a little bit of truth." From my personal point of view, there is this possibility, otherwise why would Iraq's combat effectiveness be so strong? ”

"It's a good thing that North Korea didn't come, otherwise you would have found out that North Korea is even more exaggerated."

"What about North Korea?"

Everyone was attracted by Zheng Zhi's new topic again.

"Could it be that they also have terrible methods?" Li Weifeng was very active and was the first to ask questions.

Once they win international honors, they will receive the titles of "Heroes of Labor", "Kim Yuecheng Youth Honor Award", "People's Sports Workers" and "Meritorious Sports Workers". You can even get a car and a watch with the leader's name on it. What's more, the government can also settle the hukou. ”

"But if you lose, you may be caught digging coal."

Zheng Zhi said seriously, and the others were dumbfounded.

"I'm rubbing, the benefits are good, but if you dig coal, it's too much. If you get to the coal mine, will you be able to come back alive? Li Yin looked down at his arms, feeling that he had become a coal miner.

"The reward is real, but the punishment is not known."

"In my opinion, North Korean players value honor more than profit, and that kind of emotion is not something that money can buy. All athletes in North Korea share this sense of mission. They usually play football training, they just play well for the leader and the country, and they want to enter the national team and represent the country in the World Cup and the Olympic Games. ”

"There are many North Korean players who have played in China: Lin Hu and Li Guangzhe, who joined Jilin Aodong in 1994, were the earliest North Korean foreign players in China. The Shenyang Sea Lions relied on the introduction of the "North Korean troika" Cho In-chul, Lee Chang-ha, and Zhuo Yongbin to rush to the first A in 1997. In 97, many bigwigs were over one million years old, do you know how much they earned? 800 yuan, the club wanted to give them a salary increase at that time, but people said that they couldn't be corrupted by money......"

"Damn, Zheng Zhi, how do you know about the sea lion? Why haven't we heard? Fan Zhiyi wondered, as the big man of the national football team, he should know these things, but he really didn't know......

"Ahem," Zheng Zhi coughed twice, "I heard what Gao Fengwen and Xu Genbao said, what's the matter, captain, didn't Director Xu tell you?" ”

Fan Zhiyi: "No, they rarely talk to us about these things. ”

Zhu Guanghu, the head of the Chinese coaching staff, who had been standing at the door and eavesdropping, also had a strange face, and wondered in his heart, I haven't heard of it either, it's too shameless, and I don't know as much as Zheng Zhi's......

Then Zhu Guanghu knocked on the door.

"Alright,"

"It's time to rest, so let's rest in our respective rooms!"

"The Iraqi and North Korean players are resting at nine o'clock, and even they can do it, can't you do it?"

Zhu Guanghu sent everyone away, but he stayed with Zheng Zhi.

"What you just said is true?"

"Hehe, it's all written in the newspaper, and I don't know if it's true or not. In this era, information is too closed, and when the Internet develops to a certain extent, maybe there will be no more truth. "Zheng Zhi didn't dare to fool Zhu Guanghu.

Zhu Guanghu nodded, and then moved on to another matter, "Qu Peng's state is not good, it seems that he is still affected by the death of his former teammate, otherwise, if you have time, you should enlighten him more, you shouldn't let him start today, there is no state at all, you are all young people, it is easier to communicate." The national team is better, after all, we have a lot of manpower, but if he comes back to the Netherlands in this form, it will be troublesome. I'll give you a special day off, and tomorrow you will accompany him. ”

"Oh," Zheng Zhi agreed very neatly, "can you go out?" ”

"No, you can only move around freely in this hotel."

Zheng Zhi: "......"

I thought I could take Qu Pine out for a walk, but I didn't expect that I could only move around in the hotel, of course, the situation here is so dangerous, he didn't dare to take too many risks.

"Oh, yes, there's one more thing." Zhu Guanghu glanced at Zheng Zhi meaningfully, "Inter Milan lost again." ”

"Ah~"

"This~ home loss to Galatasaray?" Zheng Zhi's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it at all. I was chatting with everyone just now, and I completely forgot to watch Inter Milan's Champions League live broadcast.

"yes, lost 1:2,"

"Last-minute kill......"

In the middle of the night, why are you telling me this news? Do you still let people sleep? Zheng Zhi rolled his eyes in his heart and sighed......

Inter Milan was too difficult and lost again.