Chapter 179: Goal Assist: Double Big Four Happiness
As Cheng Hai said, he was very busy this summer, and he didn't even have time to accompany his parents to travel in Germany, so he could only hire two Chinese students to take his parents and cousin to visit Germany.
Cheng Hai, on the other hand, began to be busy.
Along with the Champions League and the Triple Crown, in addition to the poaching of major super giants, there are also interview applications from major media, endorsement appointments from brand owners, invitations to appear in commercial activities, etc.
Backed by a super emerging market with a population of more than one billion people, not only Huaguo brands need to rely on Cheng Hai to impact the international market, but many international brands also need Cheng Hai to help them open the domestic market.
This is mutual, Cheng Hai is equal to both domestic and foreign ends.
Just this summer, the endorsement fees, appearance fees, etc., that Baker has signed and is about to sign for him, are expected to exceed 30 million euros and more than 200 million yuan.
Since the end of the club's celebration dinner, Cheng Hai has been busy accepting interviews, shooting commercials, attending business events, participating in charity activities, etc., until May 25, his 20th birthday.
Witnessed by his parents, agents, club executives, some coaches and teammates, brand representatives, and media reporters, Cheng Hai officially entered the 20-year-old mark.
At this time, Cheng Hai, who has just turned 20 years old, has only been in professional football for two years, but he has already won the 2011 Asian Cup champion, Golden Boot, best player, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 Bundesliga champion, Golden Boot, best player, 2010/2011 League Cup champion, Golden Boot, best player, 2011/2012 German Cup and Champions League champion, Golden Boot, best player, as well as European Golden Boot, European Golden Boy Award, Asian Footballer, Laureus World Sports Awards, IFFHS Top Scorer and many other collective and individual awards for world football superstars, breaking countless world records.
With the achievement of the five crowns last season, it can be expected that Cheng Hai will definitely take away the 2012 FIFA Golden Ball Award and become the new Mr. Golden Ball, and there will be absolutely no accidents this time.
20 years old is not the peak of Cheng Hai's career, it is more like just the beginning!
As the Dortmund club executives delusionally, if Cheng Hai does not leave this summer, Cheng Hai even has a great probability of leading Dortmund to replicate the miracle of the annual six crowns, and even create an unprecedented season of six crowns.
Therefore, no matter how expensive Cheng Hai's endorsement fee is, those who can sign Cheng Hai's contract this summer will already make a lot of money.
After his 20th birthday, Cheng Hai and his entourage set off to return to China.
Of course, Cheng Hai doesn't want to go back to his hometown for a vacation, his parents can go back, but he still has to continue to fly around the country, shoot advertisements for signed domestic brands, attend events, accept exclusive interviews with CCTV, and so on.
It was not until May 31 that Cheng Hai finally finished his domestic affairs and flew to Lebanon to meet with the national team to prepare for the first round of Group A of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifiers with Lebanon.
Since the last Champions League final, his teammates have been on vacation, but Cheng Hai has been busier than when he participated in training and games.
At this time, I went to the national team to report and prepare to play the top 10 matches, which was considered to be the start of work, but it was much easier than nominally taking a holiday but shooting advertisements everywhere and attending events.
That is, Cheng Hai's ability to enter deep sleep at any time, and his physical strength and energy recovery speed are many times faster than ordinary people.
Otherwise, let alone whether he can participate in so many activities, the national team will not allow him to report until three days before the game.
After arriving in Lebanon, meeting with the national team, and receiving the congratulations of his coaches and teammates on winning the Champions League, Cheng Hai began his official training with the national team.
In this training camp, Cheng Hai is no longer in the forward position, but in the forward position in the 4231 formation.
This is the request made by Cheng Hai to head coach Gao Hongbo after the Champions League final and after he was full of "vision" skills.
In view of the fact that Cheng Hai has already tested the premise of playing the back midfield in Europe and achieving good defensive results, Gao Hongbo agreed to Cheng Hai's new tactical proposal, and the personnel call was also based on the tactical needs of Cheng Hai to play the front midfield and have a center forward in front of him.
But in fact, this is just a compromise brought by the trust in Cheng Hai and Cheng Hai's status, and there are doubts about whether Cheng Hai can adapt to the needs of the forward position.
However, when Cheng Hai came to the national team to report, after only one day of formal training, everyone's doubts did not exist, and the rest was only stunned.
In the 60-minute training match on the first day, Cheng Hai, who played in the front midfield, led the main team to slaughter the substitute team 9-0.
Cheng Hai not only scored five goals in a single game, but also provided three assists, and his sweeping sweep in the midfield made the substitutes unable to score even a single goal and were shaved down.
Cheng Hai may not have scored more goals in the forward position than the striker, but without much reduction in attack, the team's defensive strength has been improved by more than one notch.
The whole team was overjoyed, and the confidence in attacking Brazil's right to qualify for the World Cup was extremely sufficient.
The match with Lebanon will be Cheng Hai's first attempt at the position of the front midfielder.
With Cheng Hai's current strength in both offense and defense, if he makes a breakthrough in the forward position, it will undoubtedly be another huge leap in strength for the weak Chinese national team.
At this time, however, the outside world and Lebanon were not aware of this.
Everyone knows that Cheng Hai can play in the back and his defensive ability is also good, but in terms of the current situation of the Chinese national team, letting Cheng Hai play in the back will sacrifice the offensive ability of the Chinese team.
The forwards of the Huaguo team, except for Cheng Hai, are not as good as Lewandowski, and they cannot make up for the loss of attack power caused by Cheng Hai's deep retreat.
Because although Cheng Hai's defensive ability is good, he is limited by his "vision", and his ability to organize offense is relatively lacking.
This is the problem that everyone found after Cheng Hai played a few games in the back.
Therefore, the Lebanese side is still preparing Cheng Hai to play as a striker. Not to mention the front waist, I didn't even think much about the back waist.
During the day on June 3, the starting list announced by the Huaguo team was also submitted according to the 4132 formation, which showed that the single back was Zhao Xuri, the front was Zheng Zhi, and the double strikers were Cheng Hai and Gao Lin.
Although this is different from the 4231 formation played by the Huaguo team in the top 20 matches, everyone thinks that the Huaguo team has the idea of letting Cheng Hai withdraw to the back position and participate in the defense with Zhao Xuri after taking the lead.
No one thought that Cheng Hai was going to play the front waist.
So, at 19:00 on the evening of June 3, 2012, when the top 10 matches of the World Preliminary Tournament of Lebanon VS Huaguo officially began, everyone was dumbfounded.
The real formation of the Huaguo team is that Zheng Zhi retreats and forms a double back with Zhao Xuri.
Cheng Hai retreated again, became the front midfielder, and undertook part of the midfield defense tasks on the basis of organizing the attack.
This left Lebanon dumbfounded.
On the one hand, because there is Gao Lin in front of him and the position is retreating, Cheng Hai is bound to face fewer defenders than in the penalty area, and the running space is much larger.
On the other hand, after becoming a midfielder and having Gao Lin in front of him, Cheng Hai can also retreat deeply at any time to participate in the defense, without worrying that the counterattack is not available to anyone in front of him.
Zheng Zhi and Zhao Xuri's interception ability in the back position is good, plus Cheng Hai's perverted physical strength and speed make up for it, so with Lebanon's offensive ability, he can only sigh at the penalty area of the Chinese national team.
After the commentators found out that Cheng Hai's real position was the front midfield, everyone had a hunch about this: although Lebanon is playing at home, even if you want to score a goal today, it will be very, very difficult, and you will not be able to shave your head.
The only thing that everyone doesn't understand is: Can Cheng Hai be competent for the important task of organizing the attack in the front waist?
As a result, just 4 minutes into the game, the Chinese team broke through the Lebanese defense.
And it was Cheng Hai who assisted. It was Gao Lin who scored the goal.
Cheng Hai used his breakthrough technique like Ling Bo's micro-step outside the penalty area to connect the two of them, attracting a rush of Lebanon's remaining defenders, and then directly penetrated the Lebanese defense line with a wonderful pass like a scalpel on the penalty line, and sent the ball diagonally to the small penalty area line on the left.
Gao Lin received a wonderful pass from Cheng Hai in an almost unguarded gap, and with an easy push, he sent the ball into the Lebanese gate.
Cheng Hai's wonderful pass made the commentators suddenly shout exquisitely.
Because although Cheng Hai also had good passing ability in the past, it was difficult to find this gap and send it from a small space to the penalty area to help his teammates easily break the goal.
As a result, Cheng Hai, who played the front midfield for the first time today, can not only continue to use his breakthrough ability to attract several opponents to surround and grab, but also assist the ball in time.
Of course, one assist can't sum it all, maybe it's just a coincidence, and we have to continue to see Cheng Hai's performance.
However, Cheng Hai's performance confirmed that he is really capable of playing the forward position.
Not only the organization of the offense, but also Cheng Hai's contribution to the defense is unparalleled.
After falling behind 1-0, Lebanon tried to counterattack.
However, with Cheng Hai's physical strength and the assistance of Zhao Xuri, Zheng Zhi and others, Lebanon's attack failed to even hit the 30-meter area of the goal, and was broken by the Chinese team.
In the 7th minute, after breaking the ball, the Huaguo team launched a counterattack instantly, Cheng Hai and fullback Yu Hai first hit the wall and cooperated with the Lebanese back who grabbed it, and then used a bicycle to pass one of the opponent's defenders, and when the remaining defenders of the other side tried to intercept themselves in horror, Cheng Hai picked up the pass again and passed the ball to the right rib of Lebanon's big penalty area.
is a counterattack in itself, Cheng Hai and Yu Hai have cooperated with one against the wall, and another one has passed by pedaling a bicycle, how many people are left in the Lebanese backfield to defend?
The remaining few people rushed over to intercept Cheng Hai as soon as possible because of their natural fear of Cheng Hai.
Gao Lin in the distance was naturally in the gap.
Cheng Hai picked up the pass, which naturally gave Gao Lin an excellent opportunity to shoot.
However, Gao Lin's stopping skills and shooting skills are not as good as Cheng Hai's.
In the face of Cheng Hai's aerial pick-up pass, Gao Lin unloaded the ball first, and he didn't unload it well, adjusting two steps to delay the time, and was forced to grab it by the defender in the middle.
Then, just as he was shooting, he was interfered with by the opposing defender and failed to hit the goal, hitting the post and bounced back into the small penalty area.
Just when the Lebanese players and fans were relieved and were about to wait for the defenders to clear the penalty area, a player wearing the number 9 shirt suddenly appeared and kicked the ball into the goal.
The goalkeeper subconsciously waved his hand, but didn't touch anything.
It turned out that Cheng Hai rushed into the penalty area after completing the pass, and just received the rebound ball and shot into the net.
Just 7 minutes into the game, Cheng Hai made a pass and a shot to help the Huaguo team take a 2-0 lead.
Next, Cheng Hai let Lebanon and the world see what it means to be an all-round forward.
Pressing in the front court, defending in the back court, straight stopping, long pass scheduling, wonderful passes, breakthroughs, grabbing shots, headers, free kicks, etc., Cheng Hai's terrifying performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends made the Lebanese fans in the stands walk away most of the time before the game is over.
Because I can't bear to look at it anymore.
In the 15th minute, Cheng Hai launched a positional attack, made a long pass in the air from the left side, and accurately found Hao Junmin in the gap on the right side.
Hao Junmin dribbled into the box unmarked, caught the attention of Lebanon's last defender and goalkeeper, and crossed the middle.
Zheng Zhi stepped in the back row and fired a furious shot at the ball and kicked the ball into the Lebanese goal.
Although the goal was not Cheng Haijin, nor was it assisted by him, it was brought by his long pass on the left side to Hao Junmin on the right side, breaking through the Lebanese defense.
Hua Guo led 3-0.
In the 27th minute, Cheng Hai made an accurate straight plug more than 30 meters away, which made Gao Lin successfully counter offside and almost formed a single knife, but unfortunately was knocked down by the Lebanese defender from behind.
Although Gao Lin was not injured, this kind of back-to-back tackle naturally had to be punished.
However, perhaps considering that Gao Lin was not injured, or perhaps considering the home factor of Lebanon, the referee did not give a red card, but only a yellow card.
Cheng Hai took the lead in protesting a few words, and when he saw that the referee insisted on his opinion, he didn't make any more trouble.
In this must-win game, there are too many arguments with the referee, and if you get a yellow card, you can't get it.
The free kick that Gao Lin won about 28 meters away from the goal and was on the left was naturally taken by Cheng Hailai.
In fact, Cheng Hai had already taken a free kick before, but he didn't score.
But this time, Cheng Hai sent the ball in. His free-kick cut through the air in a beautiful arc, sparing the wall, fooling the goalkeeper and finally rounding the near corner and flying into the top left corner of the goalpost.
Cheng Hai scored twice, and the Chinese team led 4-0.
In the 39th minute, Cheng Hai, Yu Hai, Hao Junmin, and Gao Lin forced Lebanon to make a passing error through a joint rush in the front court, which was cut off by Yu Hai.
Yu Hai handed it over to Cheng Hai, who ran to the neutral gear.
was originally a steal in the frontcourt, coupled with Cheng Hai's speed and ability to run without the ball, so that when Cheng Hai received Yu Hai's pass, there was even only one central defender left in front of him.
If it is a top defender in Europe, maybe Cheng Hai may not be able to break through the past. But an Asian-level defender is too easy for Cheng Hai.
I don't dare to say 100%, but with a 90% success rate, it's basically no problem.
Sure enough, this time Cheng Hai's breakthrough was no accident. The last Lebanese defender was easily broken through by Cheng Hai's Marseille maneuver, and then formed a one-on-one to go to the meeting, dribbling into the penalty area and scoring with a low shot.
Before the end of the first half, Cheng Hai had already scored a hat-trick and had an assist to help Huaguo take a 5-0 lead.
However, even so, the nightmare of the first half for Lebanon was not over.
Just when the Lebanese players were in a trance by the 5-0 scoreline, only 2 minutes after Cheng Hai completed his hat trick, the Huaguo team scored again.
This time, it was Cheng Hai who took advantage of the loopholes in the defense line that appeared in the trance of the Lebanese defenders and sent a wonderful pass that broke through the defense line, allowing Hao Junmin to receive a wonderful pass from Cheng Hai about four meters to the left of the penalty spot in the big penalty area, and pushed the shot to break through the Lebanese defense line again.
Hua Guo was already 6-0 up, and the game was effectively over early.
After a 15-minute break, Gao Hongbo replaced two substitutes, basically treating this world preliminaries as a training match.
Even so, Cheng Hai also scored two goals by assisting in the second half, and scored another goal himself, and finally launched an attack to indirectly help Qu Bo who came off the bench to score a goal.
After 90 minutes, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game without even giving stoppage time.
Because the score on the big screen was 10-0, Cheng Hai not only scored a goal and assisted the double big four to lead the Chinese team to score 10 double-digit goals, but also shaved Lebanon's head.
The referee couldn't bear to continue stoppage time, for fear that the Chinese team would score again and make the Lebanese players cry.
A World Preliminary Tournament in Asia, but after the game, it attracted a concentrated report from the media around the world:
"In the Asian World Preliminaries, Cheng Hai scored and assisted the double big four to lead the Chinese team to 10-0 blood in Lebanon! 》
"Playing as a front midfielder for the first time in his career, Cheng Hai contributed a goal to assist the double big four and led the Huaguo team to slaughter the opponent 10-0! 》
"Cheng Hai's first attempt to play the front midfield in the World Preliminary Tournament of the national team, Lebanon became a victim, and was led by Cheng Hai's goal and assist to lead the Chinese team to 10-0 bloodbath! 》
"In a qualifying match for the Asian World Cup yesterday, the Lebanese national team sat at home to face the Chinese national team led by Cheng Hai."
"Cheng Hai unexpectedly appeared in the forward position."
"When everyone was still a little doubtful about Cheng Hai's ability to organize the attack, Cheng Hai made a pass and a shot in the opening 7 minutes to help the Chinese team take a 2-0 lead."
"In the end, after the whole game, Cheng Hai not only successfully became a barrier for the Huaguo team in the midfield, making Lebanon's attack fruitless, but also contributed terrifying goals and assists in the attack, helping the Huaguo team achieve a 10-0 victory."
"This is the first time in an official professional game in world football that someone has scored a goal and assisted two big four happy achievements, which is as miraculous as Cheng Hai's five goals in five minutes."
"How can such a Cheng Hai not cause the competition of major European giants?"