Chapter 143: Advance to the London Olympics
Because of the Golden Globe Award, Cheng Hai's first game in 2012 attracted much attention.
In addition, Cheng Hai scored a big hat trick of six goals in a single game for the first time in the Bundesliga, so after the game of Hamburg vs Dortmund, media around the world reported Cheng Hai with important pages and even front-page headlines.
"In the first game of the new year, Cheng Hai scored a big hat trick with six goals in a single game! 》
"Cheng Hai led Dortmund to a 7-1 bloody hamburg away with six goals in a single game, and the FIFA Golden Ball Award became a laughing stock! 》
"Cheng Hai scored a big hat trick with six goals in a single game to conquer the People's Park stadium in Hamburg, I don't know what FIFA thinks!" 》
"God descends to earth, Cheng Hai Bundesliga first single-game six-goal shouting FIFA Golden Ball Award! 》
Major media and fans have reported and heated about Cheng Hai's six-goal goal in a single game, and ridiculed the results of FIFA's 2011 FIFA Golden Ball Award.
Cheng Hai's hat-trick of six goals in a single game in the first game of 2012 can be said to be a slap in the face to FIFA and those judges who did not vote for Cheng Hai, nailing them to the pillar of shame.
Cheng Hai also made a bold statement at the post-match press conference: "This year, my annual total goals will be higher than last year's 152 goals!" ”
This can be said to be a declaration of war against FIFA and those judges.
This year's annual total goals exceed last year's 152 goals, and it is bound to win championships, golden boots, record-breaking, etc. on all fronts, otherwise it will be difficult to surpass.
If such a result can't win the Ballon d'Or, then why is there any need for the FIFA Ballon d'Or?
As if to confirm Cheng Hai's bold words, on January 28, 2012, Dortmund hosted Hoffenheim in the 19th round of the Bundesliga, Cheng Hai once again scored four goals with his head and feet, and staged a big four-year victory for Dortmund to win 5-1 at home.
Ten goals in two Bundesliga games is enough to make people stunned.
It's not the German Cup, or the Asian national team, it's the Bundesliga, one of the five major leagues.
Hamburg and Hoffenheim are not fish belly teams, but strong teams in the middle of the ranking, and their strength is very good.
Ten goals in two games at this level is more than some strikers have scored in a season, so you can't help but be crazy.
Moreover, after this game, Cheng Hai's Bundesliga goals this season have broken through the 40-goal mark and reached 41 goals.
This has surpassed the original Bundesliga Golden Boot record of 40 goals in a single season set by Gerd Muller in the season, and it is only 4 goals away from Cheng Hai's own single-season Bundesliga Golden Boot record of 45 goals set last season.
And the game, only 19 rounds were played.
I have to say that Cheng Hai's strength has improved a lot compared to last season.
Everyone is full of expectations about when Cheng Hai will break his own Bundesliga Golden Boot goal record.
On February 3, 2012, in the 20th round of the Bundesliga, Dortmund played away against Nuremberg.
Originally, there were only 3 days between this game and the next fourth round match of the German Cup on February 7, which was not enough for Cheng Hai to participate in the national Olympic team competition.
But Cheng Hai insisted on doing so and insisted on participating in the Olympic team's Aoya preliminary match, so Cheng Hai only played the first half of the game against Nuremberg and was replaced at halftime.
However, even after only 45 minutes, Cheng Hai still scored a terrifying hat-trick to help Dortmund achieve a 4-0 away victory.
So far, Cheng Hai has scored 44 goals in the Bundesliga this season, which is only one goal away from the record of 45 goals he set last season.
Cheng Hai, meanwhile, has scored 71 goals in official matches for the club this season, just two goals shy of the record of 73 goals he set last season for clubs in Europe's top five leagues.
Last season, Cheng Hai scored 45 goals in the Bundesliga in 26 games, but this season it took only 17 games to score 44 goals.
Last season, Cheng Hai's club goal record of 73 goals took 45 games, while this season's 71 goals took only 26 games.
Cheng Hai's strength is much higher than last season.
However, Cheng Hai's next game will not be a club game, but an Aoya preliminary match for the National Olympic team.
It is also because of Cheng Hai's ability to quickly enter deep sleep, as well as Cheng Hai's own strong request, otherwise no club would allow players to participate in the National Olympic team when there is a next game only three days apart.
After playing the 20th round of the Bundesliga match with Nuremberg, Cheng Hai did not return to Dortmund, and flew directly from Nuremberg to Qatar.
The opponent of the Chinese Olympic team in the fourth round of the group stage of the 2012 London Olympic Games Asian Qualifiers is Qatar, and the national Olympic team plays Qatar away.
On the afternoon of February 5, 2012, the fourth round of the group stage of the Asian qualifiers for the London Olympic Games officially began.
Before this round, the Chinese Olympic team won all three games and ranked first in the group with 9 points, South Korea ranked second with 4 points, Qatar was third with 2 points, and Saudi Arabia was fourth with 1 point.
In the case that there is only one group directly qualifying places, in fact, the qualifying situation of the Chinese Olympic team is very good.
Cheng Hai insisted on participating in the competition of the National Olympic team, and was willing to just get the promotion quota earlier, so that he could concentrate on playing the club game.
Because after the second half of the season, the Bundesliga, the German Cup, and the Champions League will enter a more tense stage, and if there is no match for the national Olympic team, it will naturally be more beneficial to him.
Early out of the line good morning birth.
Therefore, this group stage is very hard.
Of course, the Qatar Olympic team playing at home is also very hard, because they are third in the group, not to mention the direct qualifying places, and even the second place in the play-offs has to fight hard to get it.
Therefore, Qatar, which is playing at home, not only did its best to defend Cheng Hai, but also took the initiative to attack, and finally scored two goals.
However, in this kind of Asian-level Under-23 Olympic team competition, scoring two goals simply cannot make up for the huge gap.
Because, Cheng Hai, who only played 45 minutes in the first half, scored five goals in 45 minutes.
Asian U23-level players can't stop Cheng Hai at all. Regardless of physique, technique, speed, and archery, Cheng Hai is a crushing existence.
If it weren't for the head coach who only let him play for 45 minutes in order to avoid Cheng Hai's fatigue and injury and affect his club's game, Cheng Hai would have scored seven or eight goals.
Even so, 5 goals are enough for the Huaguo Olympic team to win.
The final score was 2-5, and the Huaguo Olympic team won a 5-2 away victory with Cheng Hai's five goals in a single game, and continued to lead the standings with 12 points from four games.
Now it's up to Korea.
If the South Korean team can beat Saudi Arabia, then the difference in points between the two sides is 5 points, and with two rounds of group games left, the Chinese Olympic team cannot ensure qualification, and the South Korean team has the possibility of overtaking.
But if South Korea can't beat Saudi Arabia, even if it's a draw, then the Chinese team will qualify early, and the next two rounds of group stage will not be left alone.
The match between Saudi Arabia and South Korea started two hours later than the Qatar vs China match.
To the delight of Cheng Hai and everyone in China, after 90 minutes, South Korea failed to win against Saudi Arabia, and they were held to a 1-1 draw by the bottom-ranked Saudi Arabian Olympic team.
After playing four rounds of group stage, the Chinese Olympic team won all four games and ranked first in the group with 12 points, the South Korean team ranked second with 5 points with one win, two draws and one loss, and Qatar and Saudi Arabia ranked third and fourth with 2 points.
With only two rounds left in the group stage, the South Korean team, which is 7 points behind the Chinese team, will not be able to catch up with the difference in points in any case.
Therefore, the Chinese Olympic team qualified for the 2012 London Olympics two rounds ahead of schedule and successfully qualified for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
This made fans across the country ecstatic.
Looking back on the history of the Olympic team, from the Moscow Olympics to the Beiping Olympics, in addition to the Beiping Olympics with the host of the automatic promotion of only 1 goal and 1 point, the first 7 times the Olympic Games, the Chinese team only qualified from the qualifiers in the Seoul Olympics and advanced to the Olympic Games.
However, in the main match of the Seoul Olympics, the Chinese Olympic team only achieved 0-3 West Germany, 0-2 Sweden, and 0-0 Tunisia, with zero goals and 1 point.
In the history of the Olympic Games, the Chinese team has only scored one goal so far and has not tasted a victory, which is not a kind of sadness.
But now, there is hope.
Cheng Hai led the national Olympic team to advance to the London Olympics, and no one would believe that Cheng Hai would not only be able to score a ball in the London Olympics, but the Chinese Olympic team under his leadership would not be able to win a single game.
Countless Chinese media and fans are full of longing and expectation for the London journey of the National Olympic team.
As for how the remaining three opponents in the group stage, South Korea, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, will compete for the qualification for the second play-off in the group, it is no longer the business of the Chinese national team.
Years of Koreanophobia are gone, and now it's time for the South Korean team to pray not to run into the Chinese team. Once they do, as in this group stage, they will have to fight for second place.
However, for Cheng Hai, he didn't have time to go back to China with his teammates to celebrate the joy of the Olympics.
It is not only the question of participating in club competitions, but also the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards, which require Cheng Hai to participate.
On the night of the match with the Qatar Olympic team, Cheng Hai flew to London, England.
If it weren't for the assistants and bodyguards who arranged these things now, Cheng Hai would have gone crazy by himself.
Fortunately, in addition to the competition, other travel, accommodation and other issues were properly arranged by Yue Yonghao, Han Zhijun and others, Cheng Hai only needed to travel according to the arrangement, and there was no need to worry about other things.
This way, he can fall into a deep sleep on the plane without having to fall into the fatigue of a long flight like everyone else.