Chapter 15 It's worth learning!
The Chinese team's first big victory over Hong Kong in the group stage naturally attracted sour reports from the Hong Kong media after the game.
Hong Kong people in this era, whether they were the wealthy who emigrated in the early days or the people at the bottom who have been smuggled in recent decades, still have some memories of the motherland.
But Hong Kong's media has long been controlled by the British, who are not reconciled to losing to the Chinese team.
Before the start of the competition, the Hong Kong media deliberately created contradictions between the two sides, and they learned from John Bull in this regard, and what they are best at is spreading rumors and smears, as well as acting as a-stirring stick for the world.
However, things did not develop in the direction hoped by the Hong Kong media, and at this time, Hong Kong fans were more likely to accept that China had a real talent, and Wu Jie had a lot of fans from Hong Kong through this game.
In particular, he once again used the "pendulum pass", which is not only very easy to attract fans, but also allows him to completely confirm the title of creator of this technology.
This kind of passing action that does not slow down at high speed is perverted enough, and Wu Jie can further speed up after completing the pass, which has never even been heard, of course, it can only be his unique stunt.
Wu Jie is now more concerned about the issue of prize money, this Asian Cup Kuwait royal family has long been the champion, as well as various awards set up a large amount of bonuses.
The final champion will receive a collective prize of $200,000, the "Golden Boot Award", "Best Player", "Best Goalkeeper" is a single prize of $50,000, and the "Best Team" will also receive a reward of $10,000 each.
This amount is certainly too rich in the eyes of the Chinese!
But for Kuwait, whose per capita GDP was close to $20,000 in 1980, this amount of money is simply a sprinkling of water!
The Kuwaiti royal family has prepared a special fund of 2 million US dollars for the World Preliminary Tournament at the end of the year, and the fund prepared by the sports department for the Chinese team is only 100,000 yuan.
Three days later, the poorest, but also the strongest Chinese team, faced the second opponent of the group, Iran, the champions of the last Asian Cup.
But just half a month ago, Iran broke out into war with Iraq.
As a result, Iraq is on an all-out offensive, and Iran is urgently organizing border defenses to resist the invasion with all its might.
The Iranian players were somewhat affected by the war, and although it also inspired them to win glory for their country, the team's form was still on a downward trend.
Wu Jie relied on his individual ability to score two goals in the first half, he has a strong body, excellent explosiveness and speed, coupled with excellent foot skills, the Iranian players cannot limit him with two people.
In the second half, Gu Guangming made another wonderful breakthrough on the right side, assisting Zhao Dayu to score in the penalty area.
However, Iran were much better than Hong Kong in attack, and even better than South Korea, creating at least a couple of dangerous shots.
It's a pity that the Iranian players wanted to score too much, and the power of several shots was not small, but they either missed or the angle was too positive, and they were all blocked by Li Fusheng.
The score of this game was finally fixed at 3:0, and the Chinese team defeated the previous champion to win two consecutive group games.
Wu Jie had already booked the "Golden Boot" and "Best Player" in advance at this time, although the number of goals in the preliminary round was not counted, he had scored 5 goals in the two group games, ranking first in the main goal list with an absolute advantage.
Originally, the "Golden Boot" of this Asian Cup was won by Fariba and Choi Soon-ho, and their final goals were 7.
But now Fariba has only scored one goal, and Choi Soon-ho has not scored a goal, and it seems unlikely that they will compete with him at present.
In the next game, the Chinese team will face the North Korean team, the Asian hegemon of the sixties and seventies.
At this time, Chinese football did not have Koreanophobia, but there was a little fear of North Korea.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China and North Korea have played each other a total of 9 times, and the Chinese team's result is 1 win, 1 draw and 7 losses, which can be called a hanging.
Of course, the North Korean team knew that the current Chinese team was not easy to deal with, but they still vowed to defeat the Chinese team before the game, turning the record of the two teams into 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss!
North Korean football in the sixties and seventies has always been the representative of Asia, because they are the only ones who have achieved results in international football.
In the group stage of the 1966 World Cup in England, North Korea defeated the mighty Italy and reached the quarter-finals, marking the first time in the history of the World Cup that an Asian team had advanced to the knockout stages of a non-home World Cup.
However, North Korea is now similar to Hong Kong, both teams are going downhill, and their results have not been good in recent years.
Park Doo-yi, who scored the goal of the 1966 World Cup, is now the head coach of the North Korean team, but the pressure is very high, because both leaders are avid football fans, and North Korean football has always been responsible for the "face project" of the foreign world.
As a result, once the football game is not played well and the "face" is lost, then the athletes and coaches will be punished to a certain extent.
Park Douyi was charged with many crimes because of his poor performance in leading the team in the original plane, and he was assigned to the mountains as a lumberjack for many years.
This is also the source of the later joke "If you don't play well, you will dig coal", although there is no such thing as digging coal, but being a lumberjack is quite scary.
Wu Jie often thinks that if Chinese football is also doing this, will it have already rushed out of Asia?
Rather...... Harmonized content......
It is better to let the Football Association collectively dig coal if the game is not good, which should be the simplest and most effective way to solve the problem of the Chinese Football Association.
Of course, this method can sometimes be counterproductive because of too much stress!
Park Doo-yi is now in a dilemma, he wants to attack but is afraid of losing the ball, he wants to defend with all his strength but is afraid of losing, which also makes the North Korean team afraid to fight this battle.
The Chinese team has put on a full-attack and all-defensive style of play, attacking either from the two wings and cooperating in the middle to form a threat; Either slowly reverse the ball from the middle and wait for the opportunity to find Wu Jie.
When defending, Wu Jie will often withdraw to the middle to help press, and his excellent dribbling skills can allow the Chinese team to launch a counterattack as soon as the ball is broken.
The North Korean team faced a Chinese team with a high morale, and soon fell behind after the opening, and the middle and two wings were in full swing.
In the 12th minute, Gu Guangming crossed from the right wing, and Wu Jie scored with a header in the penalty area.
The North Korean defender is physically stronger than the South Korean, but there is still nothing to do with him.
After that, the Chinese team firmly controlled the middle, and the veteran Yung Zhixing also showed off his footwork in the 28th minute, shaking two North Korean players in a row to send the ball into the box.
Shen Xiangfu received the ball in the left position in the penalty area, attracted the attention of the goalkeeper and defenders, and assisted Wu Jie to score another goal.
In the second half, the North Korean team finally pressed the Chinese team on all fronts and launched an attack against the Chinese team.
The Chinese team soon began to retreat and counterattack, and Wu Jie also returned to the midfield to help the team defend.
At this time, as soon as the Chinese players get the ball on the offensive end, they will look for Gu Guangming and Shen Xiangfu on the wings, allowing them to use their individual ability to complete the breakthrough, while Wu Jie will respond and pull in the middle.
The North Korean team did not dare to relax Wu Jie in the middle, so naturally they could not divide their troops to support, which made the two wings of the Chinese team frequently stage a good show of riding alone in the second half.
The North Korean team's backline is considered first-class in Asia, but in the face of Gu Guangming's unreasonable emergency stop and Shen Xiangfu's rhythmic breakthrough, the two wings were still burst into a sieve.
In the 64th minute of the second half, the best goal of the game appeared.
Wu Jie exquisitely stopped Gu Guangming's bottom cross in front of him outside the boundary, and then used a "Cruyff turn" to trick the defender into the penalty area, and directly volleyed the ball into the corner of the goal.
The North Korean goalkeeper was unable to do anything about the ball in the face of this tricky shot, and finally experienced the desperation of his colleagues in the south base.
After this goal was scored, many Kuwaiti fans in the stadium even held up a portrait of Wu Jie who I didn't know where to get it.
Many of these Kuwaiti Chinese talents, who can contribute wonderful goals in every game, have become his fans.
Oh Jie started a real walk after completing another hat-trick, but the North Korean players still did not dare to relax their defense against him.
Cho Dayu got a chance in the 78th minute, he received a breakthrough pass from Koo Guangming, shook a North Korean player in the penalty area with outstanding skills, and immediately pulled out his leg to score the goal, and the Chinese team stretched the score to 4:0.
This goal is also very beautiful, the Chinese team's striker with outstanding skills at his feet is not only Wu Jie, Zhao Dayu's speed and explosiveness are not good because of perennial alcoholism, but his foot skills are outstanding, the combination of man and ball is very good, and his shooting skills are also quite exquisite.
If Zhao Dayu can get rid of his alcoholism, his speed, explosiveness, and physical fitness will be better, and he will be perfect as Wu Jie's partner at that time.
North Korea could only console themselves after the game, as they managed to score a goal late in the game, and finally pulled the score to 1:4, which was far better than that of South Korea.
Wu Jie still has a lot of respect for this team, their strength is similar to that of South Korea and Iran, but their physical fitness and fighting will are better.
After the Chinese team played 80 minutes, their physical fitness had actually reached a critical point.
The North Korean team took advantage of the declining fitness of the Chinese players to complete the goal!
And this is the defect that the Chinese team must solve!
Just imagine, if he were replaced by another striker today, would the Chinese team be able to take the lead soon after the opening?
The three goals he scored today may be difficult to score in the other strikers in the team.
Or maybe they're playing against a team from the World Cup?
At that time, it was difficult for him to rely on his individual ability to help the team lead, but it was possible for the opponent to score first.
If that's the case, they won't be able to play defensive counter-attacks, and everything will probably be completely different.