Chapter 77: Asian Champions
In the stands, the Chinese fans all stood up, stretched their necks, looked at the Australian goal, and looked forward to Cheng Hai taking the penalty directly into it.
The Australian fans let out loud boos one by one, trying to interfere with Cheng Hai.
On the commentary seat, the commentator of CCTV-5 was also nervously watching the situation on the field, and said in a nervous voice in his mouth:
Cheng Hai carefully checked the grass on the penalty spot for a while before putting the ball on the ground.
"Australia's goalkeeper Schwarzer jumped around on the goal line, trying to interfere with Cheng Hai, hoping that Cheng Hai would not be affected."
"Okay, the referee blew the whistle that you can make free throws, and Cheng Hai started to run!"
"Shot ......"
In the next second, everyone saw that Cheng Hai's penalty kick drilled into the dead corner of the Australian goal from the goalkeeper's palm diagonally above the lower edge of the crossbar.
The narrator's voice suddenly rose up, and he roared with all his might:
"The ball is in!"
"The ball is in!"
"The ball went in, it went in, it went ......"
"Cheng Hai scored the penalty!"
In the dead corner, Cheng Hai put the ball into the upper right corner. Although Schwarzer pounced in the right direction, he could only watch the ball go into the net! ”
"Cheng Hai scored a hat-trick to help the Chinese team take a 3-0 [new] lead."
"With a three-goal lead, we won!"
In the roar of the narrator, all the Chinese people on the scene and in front of the TV fell into complete madness.
On the field, Cheng Hai, who scored a penalty, was about to rush to the sidelines to celebrate, but was pulled upside down by the players of the Huaguo team who rushed into the penalty area to celebrate fiercely.
On the sidelines, head coach Gao Hongbo also hugged with assistant coach Ou Chuliang, team doctors, substitute players and others to vent their excitement.
In the 71st minute, Cheng Hai completed a hat trick to help the Huaguo team lock up the victory 3-0, and the Huaguo team basically won the game.
Even if Cheng Hai, who scored the penalty, was exhausted, and was overwhelmed by his teammates for a long time to celebrate, he couldn't stand up, and was quickly replaced by Gao Hongbo with Gao Lin, but it didn't matter anymore.
With a huge advantage of a three-goal lead, there are only a little more than 20 minutes left in the game time plus stoppage time, and Australia has one less player, so it is impossible to match the disadvantage of three goals behind.
Soon, the game resumed, and Australia, who only had 10 men to fight, naturally pressed all the players and launched a frantic attack.
However, the players of the Chinese team, who have a three-goal lead and are about to win the Asian championship and create a new history of the national football team, are even more highly motivated, even if they are pressed and beaten by the opponent, they are very desperate, and they resolutely do not let the opponent easily get the opportunity to shoot.
In the 76th minute, Zheng Zhi, the captain of the field after Cheng Hai got off the field, crashed into each other because he grabbed the ball with the opponent's striker Colwill, and fell to the ground and didn't get up for a long time.
However, after the team doctor came on the field to make a simple rescue, Zheng Zhi did not take a break, and still stayed on the field to continue to lead his teammates to defend desperately.
In the 82nd minute, Zhang Linpeng was also directly tackled by the opponent because he desperately grabbed the ball on the side and had to be replaced.
However, the opponent also received a yellow card and delayed the wide attack, which had a good chance.
It wasn't until the 86th minute that Australia pulled a point back from a corner kick with a header from centre-back Ognovski to make it 1-3.
However, they are still two goals behind and have less than ten minutes left.
The Australians, who pulled back a point, didn't even celebrate, and directly fished the ball back to the center circle, allowing the Chinese team to kick off and continue the game.
In the next game, Australia continued to attack wildly, wanting to continue to score goals, try to equalize, and drag the game into extra time.
However, the Kangaroos did have very bad luck today.
In the 89th minute, striker Cahill broke out, taking the ball at the edge of the big penalty area and rushing left and right in a very small space, breaking through three Huaguo players in a row to enter the penalty area, and obtained an excellent shot gap.
As a result, Cahill, who had previously broken through and behaved as a god and Buddha and Buddha, was sparse on the most critical shot at the end, and kicked the ball off the crossbar.
Basically, it was Australia's best chance to open the scoring before the end of the game.
In the following minutes, under the dense defense of the Chinese team, which even did not hesitate to use foul tactics, Australia never broke through the Chinese team's goal again.
Four minutes after stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, and the Chinese team won the Asian Cup for the first time in history by beating Australia 3-1 in the final of the 15th men's Asian Cup in 2011.
When the referee's final whistle sounded, Gao Hongbo, Cheng Hai and others, who had been waiting on the sidelines, all rushed into the field excitedly and hugged and celebrated with the Chinese players in the field.
The tens of thousands of overseas Chinese fans in the stands, who had long been unable to hold back, also suddenly broke out into the biggest cheers and screams.
The Chinese commentator on the commentary seat also stood up excitedly under the envious eyes of the commentators of other national TV stations around him, and roared in the loudest voice:
"It's over!"
"The Chinese team defeated Australia 3-1 and won the first Asian Cup championship in the history of the national football team!"
"After decades of struggle and sinking, Huaguo football has finally stood on the top of Asia under the leadership of Cheng Hai, who was born out of nowhere!"
"Cheng Hai also set a new record of 8 goals in a single Asian Cup and 14 goals in a single Asian Cup with a terrifying record of 17 goals in 6 games."
"There is no doubt that Cheng Hai is definitely the No. 1 striker in Asia, and he deserves it!"
Far away in East Asia, it was already around 1 o'clock in the morning, but countless Chinese fans not only did not feel a little sleepy, but fell into a complete carnival after the final whistle of the live game.
Countless people are in the carnival in bars, night markets, squares, living rooms at home, multimedia rooms, Internet cafes and other places, and they no longer care whether they will disturb their families and neighbors.
Some people even took out firecrackers or fireworks that had been prepared long ago and set them off in the community and on the side of the road.
The large LCD screens of countless railway stations, airports and government squares across the country also played the words "Congratulations to the Chinese team for winning the Asian Cup".
Some citizens who were not interested in football but were woken up by the cheers of fireworks outside, also joined in the celebration.
Chinese football, which suffered a lot, finally won the Asian Cup for the first time in history, which made the land of China completely boiling in the early morning.
On the other hand, the Australian players on the scene collapsed to the ground one by one, or lay on the ground, squatted on the ground, and fell into silent sadness.
The Australian fans in the stands also had tears in their eyes and were extremely depressed.
You know, after the results of the two semi-finals, everyone is optimistic about Australia's 4-0 victory over Japan.
Unexpectedly, the Kangaroo Army was so unlucky in the final, and only scored one goal in the nearly 20 shots on goal, but Cheng Hai scored 3 goals by himself and defeated the Kangaroo Army alone.
How can this keep Australians from being sad, depressed, and depressed?
Of course, there are many of them who are not convinced, thinking that the Chinese team is lucky, if it weren't for Australia's bad luck today, the champion would definitely be Australia.
But this kind of unconvincing has no effect, on the football field, not only luck, but also the referee's misjudgment, the accident of the game, etc., are all part of football.
Except for match-fixing, football is a win-or-lose affair in other situations.
Ten or twenty years later, everyone only remembers that the Chinese team was the champion of the 2011 Qatar Asian Cup, and who still remembers that Australia created many more shooting opportunities than the Chinese team in the final, but was unlucky to score only one goal in the end?
This is the case of the king and the loser.
Regardless of what the Australians think, the Chinese have every reason to celebrate the first-ever Asian title.
The fans in the stands were applauded and thanked each other, causing the fans to scream even more.
Cheng Hai, in particular, was respected by everyone, not only did the fans shout the loudest and loudest at him, but even the players gathered around him and threw him up to celebrate.
For Cheng Hai, there are even more surprises.
In addition to completing the task of winning the Asian Cup and getting 200 skill point rewards, Cheng Hai also won 2 million and 4 million experience respectively for breaking the individual goal record of the single Asian Cup and the personal total goal record of the Asian Cup, with a total of 6 million experience rewards, so that his total experience soared to 7.3731 million/5 million at level 23, and was automatically upgraded to 2.3731 million/7 million at level 24, adding an upgrade reward of 30 skill points, and the balance of skill points became 230.
In addition to this, Cheng Hai also opened a rather useful breakthrough skill: croquettes.
Because Cheng Hai's own dribbling attribute is not low, the initial attribute of the croquette is 11, which is very good.
After adding this skill to the full value, with Cheng Hai's full value, speed, physique, balance, and Matthews feints, it will be easier to break through.
Therefore, Cheng Hai did not hesitate to spend 38 skill points to increase the croquettes to the full value of 20, and the balance of skill points was 192.
Regarding the record-breaking, Cheng Hai asked why there was no Asian Games, and the system replied that only important events of the senior national team and club are available, and they can only break other people's records, and there is no reward for repeatedly breaking records.
For example, in Asian competitions, only the Asian Cup goal record is rewarded, and there are no games such as the World Preliminaries, the East Asian Semifinals, etc.
Club competitions are available in the Bundesliga, German Cup, UEFA Cup, and Champions League, but not in the secondary leagues outside the top five leagues.
There are competitions around the world, such as the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Club World Cup, but not the Olympics.
The standard is that the top scorer and the best player are 10 times the experience of a single goal, the experience of breaking a single scorer is 2 times that of a top scorer, and the total goal record is 2 times that of a single record.
So this can understand why Cheng Hai can get 6 million experience at once.
Because his goal in the Asian Cup is 100,000 experience, the top scorer is 1 million, the 17 goals in 6 games to break Alidaiyi's single-term 8-goal record is 2 million, and then break his Asian Cup total goal record is 4 million, so it adds up to 6 million.
Of course, the top scorer and best player awards have not yet been issued, and this will have to wait for the official announcement of the awards before the system will send them out.
At that time, there will be 2 million experience in the account.
In this way, Cheng Hai's gains in the Asian Cup are simply too much, and it is not a matter for Dortmund to be eliminated in the German Cup and miss the 30 skill points championship reward.
After interacting with the fans and celebrating for more than ten minutes, everyone went back to the locker room to take a shower, and then changed into a jersey with a star on the chest, representing the Chinese team to win the Asian Cup.
Old players like Li Weifeng and Zheng Zhi really have mixed feelings when they wear such jerseys.
finally caught the last train at the end of his career and won the Asian Cup once, and he has no regrets in this life. Everyone changed into championship jerseys and came out, and the podium was set up and ready to be awarded.
Cheng Hai won the top scorer award in this Asian Cup with 17 goals in 6 games, an average of nearly 3 per game.
In the warm applause of the fans, Cheng Haitai received the trophy of the top scorer and received a 1 million experience reward.
To Cheng Hai's surprise, when he got the trophy and took a photo, he was led by the staff to a sponsor's advertising board and gave him a $10,000 advertising board to take a photo.
It turned out that the top scorer also had a separate $10,000 ad from the sponsor, which was a bonus.
The champion itself has a bonus provided by the AFC, and the Football Association will also give bonuses to everyone after returning to China, and the sponsors of the national team also have championship bonuses, and some of the endorsement contracts signed by Baker to Cheng Hai also have additional championship clauses, once you get the Asian Cup championship, the best scorer, the best player, etc., there are different amounts of bonus income.
Cheng Hai's bumper harvest of winning the Asian Cup and personal awards this time is more than 1 million euros in prize money, which is equivalent to half a year's salary.
In addition, after winning this championship and his personal performance is so good, after this Asian Cup, Cheng Hai's endorsement value will skyrocket. Especially in China, it is possible to increase several times.
Therefore, winning a major championship is not only an honor, but also a lot of practical benefits.
Otherwise, why do European giants desperately play the Champions League and can't look down on the League Cup?
Isn't it because the Champions League has more money than the UEFA Cup!
After the top scorer is awarded, the fair play award is awarded. In this Asian Cup, the South Korean team has the least number of fouls, cards, red cards, etc. per unit of time.
As a result, South Korean captain Park Ji-sung received the Fair Play Award on behalf of South Korea.
This was followed by the Most Valuable Player, also known as the Best Player, popularly known as the Ballon d'Or.
This award is as undoubted as the top scorer, as the captain of the Chinese team, Cheng Hai almost single-handedly led the Chinese team through five hurdles and six generals, and finally led the national football team to the final and defeated the mighty Australia to win the championship.
When Cheng Hai received the trophy from the FIFA vice president and received a 1 million experience award, the fans of the entire stadium gave Cheng Hai warm applause and screams.
At this time, the frustration of the Australian fans who lost the final has been relieved a lot, and they have to admire Cheng Hai, a terrifying scorer who scored 17 goals in 6 games.
During the game, everyone was the enemy, but now that the game is over, many real fans have become fans of Cheng Hai, and they admire him so much that it is natural to give him applause.
After the best player is awarded, the referee award and the silver medal for the runner-up will begin.
When the Australian players came to the stage to accept the award, the players of the Chinese team lined up to applaud them, but the Australian players were very sullen.
After all, the side that was favored before the game, but they lost the final, it is really difficult to be happy.
But no one in the Huaguo team has a problem with them, after all, the winner is tolerant. The fans did the same, with Chinese fans smiling and giving Australians a round of applause.
After Australia's runner-up medal was awarded, it was finally the turn of the Chinese team to receive the award as the champion.
The live broadcast announced: "Now, let us welcome the champion team of the 15th Qatar Asian Cup in 2011 - the Huaguo team to the stage to receive the award!" ”
Hearing this voice, tens of thousands of Chinese fans at the scene suddenly boiled, and the applause and cheers were much higher than those sent to Australia just now.
Cheng Hai was the first to walk on the stage as the captain, and was worn a gold medal by Qatar in the past, and was praised by the other party twice.
When shaking hands with other FIFA and AFC leaders, everyone also said two words of praise to Cheng Hai.
Obviously, Cheng Hai's performance in this Asian Cup has conquered everyone.
Once all the players and coaches have received their medals, it's time for the climax of the toast.
Cheng Hai came to the side of AFC President Ben Haman as the captain, Ben Hamann received the Asian Cup trophy from the staff, and said to him while handing the trophy to Cheng Hai: "Congratulations, you are the champion!" ”
Cheng Hai took the trophy excitedly while thanking him, came to the front of his teammates and coaches standing in a bunch of them, and held the Asian Cup trophy engraved with the name of the Chinese team high in the cheers of countless Chinese fans watching the live broadcast on the scene and in front of the TV.
The players and coaches who jumped up with Cheng Hai also let out huge cheers and shouts to vent the excitement in their hearts.
Red notes representing Huaguo were also sprayed around the podium, setting off the climax of the toast to be more festive and joyful.
This is the highest moment in the history of Chinese football, whether it is the players, coaches, or Chinese fans on the scene or in front of the TV, some people shed tears of excitement.
Countless fans jumped and applauded in the stands and shouted:
"We are champions!"
"Ahhh We are the Asian champions! ”
"We have finally become the champion of Asia, standing on the top of Asia!"
"It's really worth it to come to Qatar to watch the football live! A lifetime of great memories! ”
"The national football team is doing well! I'm not going to scold you anymore! ”
"No regrets in this life! Come on, Huaguo team! ”
Finally, when the players celebrated with the fans around the stadium with the trophy in hand, the enthusiasm of the fans was pushed to a higher climax.
This night has become a sleepless night for countless Chinese people!