Zheng Zhi did not report directly to the National Olympic team, but spent two days in the capital, dealing with some commercial advertisements and the like. In fact, Yang Chen and they are similar, and all kinds of endorsements are soft. In the past, everyone envied the players who could play football in China, but now that the goal is high, the foreign players are the objects of their envy, and only by staying abroad can they make a lot of money and have a greater reputation.

In fact, Zheng Zhi is low-key, Wu Di turned down most of the commercial contracts for him, and only accepted high-end and high-grade ones. If he accepts any contract, Zheng Zhi estimates that he will not even have time to play. Relatively speaking, Li Weifeng and Li Yin care more about these contracts, after all, the money they earn is too far worse than Zheng Zhi, and a player who has won the best newcomer in the Bundesliga is not an ordinary player.

However, everyone still came to the Xianghe training base at the same time three days later, except for Yang Chen, who did not meet the age, Li Yin, Li Weifeng, Shao Jiayi and Zheng Zhi all arrived.

The first time I saw Zheng Zhi, everyone scolded Zheng Zhi for a while, because he secretly transferred to Leverkusen, but he didn't tell anyone. Of course, everyone is not serious, Zheng Zhi has gone to the next level, and they are also happy for Zheng Zhi.

In the end, in order to calm everyone's anger, Zheng Zhi invited the entire National Olympic team to have a meal in Quanjude.

Then it was two weeks of preparation for the Olympic top 9, the preparation was hard, monotonous and boring, and Horton personally sat in Xianghe to lead the team to train.

Both the "Sports Weekly" and the "Football" newspaper sent reporters to follow up on the team. I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. The two media gathered together for a private chat.

Ma Dexing was very polite when he opened his mouth.

"What a gap."

"I followed for a few days, and found that the players who play in China and the players who play abroad are a bit big, and I can't see them playing in the first two years, but now I can see that Zheng Zhi, Li Weifeng, and Li Yin play more calmly, and they are not in a hurry to get the ball, and the passing is also in place. Zhao Junzhe is a good midfielder in China, right? But in front of Zheng Zhi, he looked very tender, his passing and vision were not good, and even Li Yin felt that he was more like a general than him. Of course, it's not that Zhao Junzhe is bad, it's just relative to them. ”

"It's that Shao Jiayi, if Shao Jiayi hadn't gone abroad, it is estimated that the attention would not be so great, he was not eligible to be selected for the National Olympics, but now he may get a main position. You have to admit that being able to play abroad is a big improvement. ”

"I think it's possible to make progress even if you look at water coolers abroad, after all, people's football concepts are very advanced, and we are working behind closed doors."

"Yes, it can be seen intuitively from the game, in fact, it can also be seen from the ordinary basic training, I won't talk about the complicated, these days just endurance running can find that domestic players are not as good as foreign players, running in the front is always Zheng Zhi and Li Yin, and there are laughs, it looks very relaxed, I even suspect that they did their best to take care of their teammates running behind."

"It's horrible!"

"What's even more terrifying is that those guys have to practice more ...... later"

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Of course, Horton can also see this, it's not that the attitude of domestic players is not good, it's just that their usual training volume is not at the same level as Zheng Zhi, and the training effect is of course different. His current tactical thinking is actually very simple, with players playing abroad as the main framework, supplemented by domestic players. It's a good structure in the national team, but there aren't so many players who play abroad in the national Olympic team.

However, this cannot be said that domestic players will not work, because in the previous qualifiers, players who played abroad did not participate. And the national Olympic team has also achieved extraordinary results.

In the double round-robin qualifiers, the national Olympic team won all of them, and did not drop a single goal.

Hanoi Division:

China 4:0 Vietnam

China 4:0 Myanmar

China 1:0 North Korea

Shanghai Division: China 4:0 Vietnam

China 6:0 Myanmar

China 2:0 North Korea

Abused the opponent all over the place, of course, because the opponent is too weak, now it is different to play the top nine, the opponents of the Chinese team are South Korea and Bahrain, at least one or two notches stronger. The game still uses a double cycle system, but the Chinese team has a bad schedule, the first game is to go to Seoul to play South Korea, and then come back to play Bahrain at home.

However, last year, the Chinese team did South Korea twice in a row, and this time to go away, the psychological pressure of the Chinese team is not great, not to mention that now there are Zheng Zhi, Li Weifeng and Li Yin in the team, which is like a tiger with wings.

Two weeks later, the Chinese Olympic team arrived in Seoul.

Before the game started, the media and fans of both sides started fighting.

"Chosun Ilbo" gave advice to the South Korean Olympic team - don't be deterred by their foreign players, in fact, the Chinese Olympic team is like the Frankfurt team, take out Zheng Zhi, they are useless. So as long as we keep an eye on Zheng Zhi, victory will be on our side.

The newspaper then detailed some of the alleged weaknesses of the Chinese team.

- The technical fundamentals of these players in high-speed confrontation are not solid, at best they are fancy, and their individual abilities are very different from those trained in professional leagues.

- Horton's tactics are rigid, and his tactics have not changed at all.

- The Chinese Olympic team is not the Chinese national team.

- Several players in Europe are too tired and in questionable form.

- We are fighting in Seoul, and the fans are the strongest backing.

– We were stronger than China in qualifying, we averaged five goals per game, and we have the ability to break down their doors.

- We have two overage players and they didn't bring any of them!

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In the eyes of the Chinese media, this National Olympic team is definitely the strongest National Olympic team in history, and even the "Sports Weekly" is not spared - we have the strongest National Olympic team in history, this team has Jianlibao team, players from Germany and England, the best newcomer in the Bundesliga, and the forward line is still the strongest gold and jade combination in China! And the South Korean Olympic team? What do they have? They have nothing!

The "Football" newspaper even boldly predicted that China might win by 2 goals when playing South Korea's Olympic Games away!

The away goal difference is 2 goals, which is unthinkable if it was changed before......

After the South Korean media reprinted the article from "Sports Weekly", it immediately aroused the disgust of domestic fans.

"Win us two goals Smecta?"

"How dare they think of Smecta!"

"They when Seoul is their home turf? Ridiculous Chinese, without a little brain, they think we are North Korea? ”

"If North Korea wins, it will make their braids go up to the sky. We want to let them know that North Korea is North Korea and South Korea is South Korea! ”

"If we can beat them in Seoul, their best newcomer in the Bundesliga will be a joke, and when the time comes, they will find a player to kick him and they will be cold."

"Our physical fitness is also better than theirs, and we can kill them when we run."

South Korean fans are full of confidence in the Olympic team.

However, this is not the case for some Korean fans, especially Korean female fans, outside the gate of the hotel where the Chinese Olympic team stayed, there were many Korean female fans standing there waiting for the arrival of the Chinese Olympic team, and after Zheng Zhi and Zhang Yuming got out of the car, the scene immediately screamed.

"Yuming Oba,"

"Yuming Oba,"

"Yuming Oba!"

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"Brother Ming, when did you have fans in Korea?"

"Cow!"

Zheng Zhi was taken aback, even he had no fans in South Korea, but Zhang Yuming did.

Zhang Yuming shook his long flowing hair, "Hey, I played a few friendly matches here at the beginning of the year, and then I was liked by the female fans here." ”

"There's no way, it's handsome to the world."

"This is true, haha, it is a must," Zheng Zhi must be convinced, Zhang Yuming is too handsome.

"Life should be like Brother Yuming to learn, win the ball with the stick, and sleep with the stick, right, Brother Yuming."

Goalkeeper Chen Xi quipped behind him.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's how it should be."

"When we win them, I'll go to them in the evening." Zhang Yuming walked to the Korean female fans with a smile, and then signed them neatly, seeing the beautiful, Zhang Yuming also deliberately wrote a few more words, if someone saw it seriously, they would definitely drop their jaws, because Zhang Yuming secretly left his mobile phone number, he may be telling the truth.

I just don't know if he can speak Korean......

A reporter from a Korean TV station also happened to be at the scene, filming the crazy side of Korean female fans, and appearing on the Korean evening sports news.

The Korean male fans who saw this short film were angry.

"Shame on Smecta!"

"Are there no more men in Korea? To kneel and lick the Chinese players? ”

"Aren't all single eyelids? That guy like South Korea grabbed a handful! ”

"There are at least 10 million handsomers than him!"

"Shame on you......"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuming made the Korean man very jealous, and the media and newspapers began to report this matter wildly, and sent a photo of Zhang Yuming - is he really handsome?

Many female fan groups also stood up to accuse those female fans who like Zhang Yuming, and called on everyone to find those people based on the photos in the short film.

But things are far from developing as they think, but they have aroused the curiosity of more female fans.

"Is he really handsome?"

"Really handsome?"

Female fans were interested, and many female fans ran to the training ground of the Chinese team to see what was going on in order to see Zhang Yuming's lineup.

"Wow,"

"It's really handsome, I think it's even more handsome than Ahn Jae-wook."

"That No. 10 is the Korean version of Zhang Dongjian,"

"No, no, no, that No. 5 is handsome, and No. 5 is too manly."

The Chinese reporters who accompanied the team were dumbfounded.

"I rub,"

"Zheng Zhi or the Korean version of Zhang Dongjian?"

"This ...... This...... This...... What taste? What do you see? If Zheng Zhi is Zhang Dongjian, then what am I? Hong Kong version of Ekin Cheng? ”

"Ahem, Korean girls haven't seen handsome pots. Lao Xu, aren't you still married? Just find one here. ”

"Go, go, go, how can I marry a Korean woman, I might as well marry a Japanese."

"Why?"

"Live well."

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"Attention,"

"These two players are very experienced,"

"Kim Do-hoon, Kang Chol."

"They have a lot of experience in the game, especially Kim Do-hoon, who should be the main striker."

The translator was conveying Horton's words.

"Li Weifeng, you have to keep an eye on Kim Do-hoon."

"Li Yin, you pay attention to protection in the backfield."

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"Zheng Zhi, that Park Ji-sung will be a trouble, in the tactics of the recent South Korean Olympic drills, he played the role of a midfield meat grinder, and it seems that he is going to deal with you."

"Lee Yong-pyo, we have to restrict him."

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Zhu Guanghu didn't say a word next to him, for this National Olympic team, he is actually not very satisfied with a few points, because many Jianlibao players have not been recruited into the team, you must know that one of the reasons for the formation of the Jianlibao team is also to prepare for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 World Cup, in this ten-year plan, Jianlibao's players are the top priority, but now it seems that Horton is going to Jianlibaohua, although Zheng Zhi is also his proud work, but Zheng Zhi is not a member of Jianlibao, Even Shao Jiayi squeezed out a place......

There is also Zhao Junzhe, who could also occupy a place in midfield.

Anyway, several of his favorite generals were not selected.

Of course, he also has objections to not recruiting overage players, for the sake of insurance, he thinks he should bring Hao Haixi, Fan Zhiyi and Ma Mingyu, but Houghton's self-confidence is too high, he doesn't want any of them, he thinks these players are enough to ensure that the national Olympic team can reach the Sydney Olympics next year.

It can be said that Zhu Guanghu has a lot of worries, the more important the event, the more he has a lot of ideas, but Horton does not have so much pressure, he is a foreign coach, although he also has task requirements, but he is not as indecisive as Zhu Guanghu.

After the tactical meeting, Zhu Guanghu still stood up and said a few points as the Chinese coaching staff.

"Comrades,"

"It's not easy to play South Korea away, I hope you can clearly realize this, after all, the historical record is the historical record, and the new victory needs us to fight for it. This first game has to be played well, and if we get the three points, we go back home and win Bahrain, and the situation is very clear. ”

"However, once you miss here, the situation behind you will be very bad!"

"We must always keep our vigilant minds at this moment, not blindly optimistic."

The atmosphere became heavy all of a sudden, and I have to say that everyone didn't feel this way when they were with Horton, but it was completely different when they were with Zhu Guanghu. Maybe Zhu Guanghu knows them too well.

"And these players you stay in the United States, you must play at a high level, otherwise you will be laughed at by the Koreans."

"Don't let yourself down in the best of years, after all, you only get one chance in your life to play in the Olympics."

"Only once in a lifetime!"

He made a point of emphasizing this.

Zheng Zhi was touched, and stood up here to say a few words, and at this time, he must support Zhu's guidance.

"Coach Zhu is right, there is only one chance in a lifetime, we missed the 98 World Cup, and we can't miss the Sydney Olympics."

"It seems like we've had too much time these days, and we have to get rid of this paralysis."

"South Korea's home stadium is not easy to play."

His memory is clearer, when he wore the number 21, where he experienced a 1-0 defeat and a controversial goal to beat China's Olympic team.

"*** tells us to despise them strategically and value them tactically. I believe that they are also holding back their strength to kill us, and we must not be failures. ”

If he loses again, Zheng Zhi will experience it again......

"We have to be mentally prepared, the stick is really not easy to bully, we have to play more aggressively, this is a war between men from two countries, it is no longer a youth game."

"Well said!"

Zhu Guanghu couldn't help but admire, with such a disciple here, he can put a hundred hearts, but not everyone is like Zheng Zhi.

However, Zheng Zhi's next words almost made Zhu Guanghu vomit blood and die on the spot.

Yesterday, I was very touched by what Chen Xi said.

"Win the ball with the stick, the woman who sleeps with the stick!"

"If we do that, we'll succeed!"

"It's the other way around, we can't let the stick succeed!"

"I'll rub!"

"Win the ball with the stick, the woman who sleeps with the stick!"

"Well said!"

"Well said!"

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"I suggest that Zheng Zhi be the captain, although he is not very old, he is really suitable."

Zhu Guanghu later ran to Horton's room and made suggestions to Horton.

"At this point, I have the same opinion as you. I originally had two candidates, one was Li Weifeng and the other was Zheng Zhi, but I was more inclined to Zheng Zhi, originally I was also worried about his age, but then I thought about it and thought about it, and I still felt that Zheng Zhi was the most suitable. ”

"There's no better place to be captain than someone of high prestige."

"What about the national team?"

"The national team can't do it, the national team has to be Fan Zhiyi, he is a natural captain. But he will grow old one day, and Zheng Zhi will eventually take over the captain's armband. ”

"Believe me, he may be far better than we imagined, in my opinion, he is a player once in 50 years of Chinese football."

"This ......"