The 2010 Yangcheng Asian Games, the 16th Asian Games, was hosted by Yangcheng City, Nanyue Province, and co-organized by several nearby cities, the sports meeting cycle was November 12, 2010 - November 27, 2010, and the opening ceremony was held on the evening of November 12.

However, due to the particularity of the relatively long cycle of football competitions, whether it is the Olympic Games or the Asian Games, football matches are played before the opening ceremony.

On November 7, the football group stage officially began. However, the Chinese team did not participate on the first day.

At noon on November 8, the day of the Chinese Olympic team's competition, after lunch, countless fans from all over the country and local citizens of Yangcheng began to gather at Tianhe Stadium.

The game didn't start until 19 o'clock in the evening, but most fans couldn't wait that long and wanted to go to the venue early.

As for dinner, just grab a snack around the stadium and have a late night snack after watching the game.

Tianhe Stadium was completed and put into use in 1987 and has been in use for more than 20 years.

For the Asian Games, Tianhe Stadium has been renovated, the number of grandstand seats has been reduced from the original 60,000 to 56,000, but the seats have become more comfortable and spacious, and the turf is also enough to rival the top grass species in football for the World Cup in South Africa.

As the host, the three group stage matches of the Chinese Olympic team will be held here. The full Chinese fans should be able to create a lot of pressure on the opponent.

Outside the stadium, there are fans from all over the country. Quite a few reporters wandered outside, randomly interviewing fans, asking them what they thought and expected of the game, as well as Cheng Hai.

Because there are so many people, the security checkpoint starts at 4 p.m. three hours in advance.

Cheng Songquan, who had never been to the football stadium to watch the game, looked at the surging crowd and sighed with a shocked face:

"My God, when it comes to tens of thousands of fans in a football game on TV and on the news, I don't feel anything at all. Being on the scene today is really insightful. ”

Xi Yulin said with joy on his face: "So many people, all of them came to see Ah Hai play football?" It's just wonderful. If the team hadn't given us three tickets, we wouldn't have been able to buy them! ”

Xi Huabin said: "Auntie, uncle, most of so many people are coming for Ah Hai. I read the comments of online fans, if Ah Hai hadn't returned to China to participate in this Asian Games, Tianhe Stadium might not have been able to sit half of the 56,000 seats. The rest of the tickets were all sold by Ah Hai's fame. Therefore, the National Olympic team gave us three tickets, which is a sure win! ”

Cheng Songquan waved his hand and said with a smile: "This matter can't be about profit or loss, it is also our honor for Ah Hai to put on the national team jersey and play for the country!" ”

Xi Huabin nodded and didn't say anything more.

The three of them took out their tickets and entered the stadium with the crowd.

Cheng Songquan and his wife couldn't find the direction at all, it was only thanks to Xi Huabin and the two of them that they found a seat, just below the VIP seat and press stand, above the exit of the player's passage, the line of sight was very good, and they could see the players play for the first time, and sing the national anthem in front of their stands.

When it came to the seats, there were not many people, but a few people had already come to the nearby seats.

Cheng Songquan asked, it turned out that he was also a family member of the National Olympic team, and everyone immediately chatted cordially.

For Cheng Songquan and Xi Yulin, Cheng Hai's parents, others are also quite respectful, and everyone chatted happily.

As more and more fans entered the stadium, the seats gradually became full.

Half an hour before the start of the game, players from both teams walked out of the locker room in training uniforms to warm up.

And when Cheng Hai's figure appeared, the Chinese fans in the audience suddenly boiled, and everyone stood up excitedly, shouting Cheng Hai's name and bowing to him.

Cheng Songquan and his wife, who were sitting in the first row of the stands, listened to the deafening shouts of the audience, and a sense of pride that was much stronger than watching live TV filled their hearts.

Cheng Hai naturally knew where his parents were seated, and after coming out of the players' tunnel, he turned his head to look at the stands and waved his hand happily to his parents.

Cheng Songquan also shouted at his son: "Ah Hai, come on!" ”

Xi Yulin shouted more emotionally: "Son, come on, score two more goals!" ”

Of course, Cheng Hai couldn't go to the sidelines to hug his parents.

Because domestic stadiums are not professional football stadiums, the stands are relatively high, and it is impossible to allow players and fans to hug directly through the guardrails like foreign professional football stadiums.

Soon, the two sides warmed up, returned to the locker room to change their uniforms, and were ready to play.

It's a pity that Cheng Hai is not a starter, so he can't sing the national anthem and take photos with the starters.

In the first two days of training, Cheng Hai and the coaching staff have already tried, and the training intensity of the U23 national Olympic team cannot be compared with the first team of Dortmund, so Cheng Hai can hold on for a longer time.

The fight is also limited for a long time.

In the official game, it is estimated that Cheng Hai can play 45 minutes in the half, but he still can't play the whole game for 90 minutes.

Therefore, Cheng Hai can only come off the bench at halftime.

In fact, if you play half a game, Cheng Hai can play in the first half.

But then Cheng Hai can only do his best in the playing time, score more goals, and leave more advantages for the second half of the game.

This is not good for preserving Cheng Hai's physical fitness.

The coaches of the national Olympic team also want Cheng Hai to lead everyone to a higher knockout ranking!

The coaching staff also didn't know Cheng Hai's physical recovery ability, but they only felt that it was more appropriate to play Cheng Hai in the second half and then decide whether to stay in the final game stage according to the game situation.

Therefore, everyone decided that Cheng Hai, like in the club, came off the bench in the second half and did not start for the time being.

A total of 24 countries participated in the men's football at the Asian Games, divided into 6 groups, with the top two teams in each group and the four best third-place finishers, with a total of 16 teams advancing to the round of 16 knockout rounds, followed by a single knockout round until the champion was decided.

The Chinese U23 Olympic team is in Group A with Japan U23, Malaysia U23 and Kyrgyzstan U23, and it is no problem to qualify from the group.

However, in order to get a better schedule in the knockout round, it is still necessary to fight hard in the group stage and try to get a higher ranking.

There is no doubt that the biggest opponent of the Olympic team in the group stage is Japan U23.

In fact, in an event like the Asian Games, there is no need for the national Olympic team to recruit nuclear-weapon players like Cheng Hai.

It's just that because the Chinese men's football team has always had too poor results, it wants to recruit all the players it can recruit to get the best results in any game.

And this Asian Games is still the home of the Chinese team, so it is natural to want to play with the strongest lineup and win good results.

On the other hand, for example, Japan U23 did not recruit an overage player, and Shinji Kagawa, who played with Cheng Hai in Dortmund, was not recruited by Japan U23.

Therefore, although the Dortmund club finally gave Cheng Hai face and let him return to China to participate in the Asian Games, compared with the practices of the Japanese Olympic team and Shinji Kagawa, Cheng Hai must have left some bad impressions on the coach and management.

After the Asian Games, Cheng Hai must use a better performance to suppress the dissatisfaction of the coach and management with his participation in the Asian Games.

Otherwise, you may be sent to the cold palace.

Not to mention Shinji Kagawa, the 20 players of the Japanese team do not even have the main players in the domestic J-League, they are all marginal substitutes in the J-League and J2 League, and there are even 6 players who are college amateur players.

This lineup is simply a rabble to the extreme.

Therefore, before the first match of the National Olympic Team vs Japan, the goalkeeper of the Chinese National Team, Wang Dalei, said wildly that he was confident that he would keep a clean sheet against his opponent.

As a result, he was punched in the face just 11 minutes into the game.

Japan broke down the right flank and crossed underneath, causing a scuffle in the penalty area.

Midfielder Kazuya Yamamura rushed into the penalty area to fight for the ball when he pressed Song Boxuan to grab the first header to ferry, striker Kenyu Nagai received the ball and landed without stopping, and directly picked up the back point of the National Olympic team's defense, and fullback Ryohei Yamazaki stepped forward to face Wang Dalei and volleyed the goal from a small angle, and the Japanese team led 1-0.

The more than 50,000 fans in the stands who were happily cheering for the national Olympic team were stunned and silent, and only two or three thousand away fans of the Japanese team waved the sun flag and celebrated wildly.

After a while, the stands began to sound sporadically with shouts of "National Football Stupid 'B'B" and "Wang Dalei Stupid 'B'".

Although the voice was uneven and did not get the response of most people, it was enough to make the players of the national Olympic team on the court lose face.

In the stands, Cheng Hai's mother Xi Yulin didn't understand this voice very well, and asked strangely, "What's the matter?" Isn't it normal to fall behind in a race? Why did the fans start swearing? ”

Xi Huabin explained beside him: "Auntie, these scolding fans are not only scolding for this lost goal, but for the performance of domestic football for a long time. This is the grievance that has accumulated in the hearts of these fans for a long time, and it broke out at this time. ”

Xi Huabin's explanation got to the point, these are not that they can't accept the first goal in a game, but that they can't accept all kinds of backwardness for a long time.

What's more, the Chinese team attached great importance to this Asian Games, not only recruited nuclear weapons like Cheng Hai, but also had the Chinese Super League team sparring in the previous training camps.

On the other hand, Japan's U23 not only recruited some domestic substitutes and college players, but also only had two training camps before the start of the Asian Games, each training camp lasted two days.

With such a lineup and preparation comparison, Chinese fans are of course full of confidence and desire for victory in the first game.

Although Wang Dalei said before the game that he wanted to keep a clean sheet against the opponent, some fans were disgusted, but everyone did not support Wang Dalei's idea of keeping a clean sheet against the opponent.

As a result, I didn't expect that in the first 11 minutes of the game, the National Olympic team had not scored a goal, but the opponent broke through the goal guarded by Wang Dalei.

Coupled with the long-term resentment of fans against the national football team, it is natural for some people to scold.

Of course, this is only the first goal conceded, and the game is not over, and the Huaguo team still has hope of equalizing and winning, so only a small number of people are scolding, and there are not many people who scold.

If you continue to concede goals later, or if you perform poorly, it may cause the fans to scold together.

On the bench, Cheng Hai looked at the game on the field, and his face was a little heavy.

Originally, he thought that the strength of the U23 team in Asia was similar to that of the national Olympic team, but he didn't expect that the Japanese U23 team was so much stronger than the Chinese national team.

Although on the surface, Japan's U23 squad is full of J-League substitutes and college players, but they have real skills, even if they get to Europe, this Japanese U23 team can play a dozen with the German team.

This was more unexpected than Cheng Hai.

Whether it is personal technology, passing and cutting coordination, physical fitness, and physical fitness, Cheng Hai can see that Japan's U23 is almost ahead of the national Olympic team.

Is domestic football really lagging behind to this point?

Cheng Hai, who was sitting on the bench, was full of worries about the good results of domestic football and this Asian Cup, and he no longer had the confidence that he had after receiving Mission 6 and training with his teammates.

The national Olympic team is indeed weak, and training with the national Olympic team is indeed like training with adults and children, but the Japanese U23 is not weak, and it is much stronger than the Chinese national Olympic team.

In the next game, as Cheng Hai feared, Japan's U23 almost dominated the country and bombarded the Chinese team's half.

They also know that Huaguo has Cheng Hai, a super nuclear weapon, sitting on the bench, and they must score more goals in the first half to ensure that the second half will not be erased by Cheng Hai's goal advantage.

Therefore, in the rest of the first half, the Japanese team did not get complacent because of the goal lead, but still pressed vigorously and tried to continue to score.

The national Olympic team, on the other hand, had a very difficult time coping.

The strength of Chinese football is indeed getting worse.

If Asian football is divided into top, first-class, second-rate, third-rate, and last-rate, then Japan, South Korea, Iran, and other Asian top teams that have won the Asian Cup are undoubtedly the top Asian teams.

The Huaguo team, before the runner-up of the 2004 Asian Cup, should be a first-class team that has not won the Asian Cup, but can occasionally cause a little trouble for the top teams and challenge their status.

However, after 2004, the World Cup between Germany and South Africa could not enter the top ten matches in Asia in two consecutive World Cup qualifiers, and Chinese football should not even be considered first-class, but only second-rate in Asia.

And it is still making great strides towards the position of the third rate in Asia, and I don't know when it will become the third rate of Asia like Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, which makes the Chinese people both angry and helpless.

In this U23-level game, the Chinese Olympic team, which is fully prepared and hosted, can't even win the U23 of Japan, which is composed of miscellaneous troops, and the scene is extremely ugly.

Less than 20 minutes after the last goal, Japan scored again in the 28th minute.

And, like the last goal, this time it was a cross from the right side, but the ball was too close to the goal, Wang Dalei made a decisive attack and wanted to punch the ball out of the penalty area.

As a result, under the interference of the players competing for the top of the two sides, Wang Dalei's punch was not solid, although the ball was hit by him, it was not hit away, and still fell in the penalty area.

Japan's No. 11 striker, Kensuke Nagai, was quick and stabbed the ball into the goal of the Chinese team before everyone could react.

Japan leads the Chinese Olympic team 2-0.

The scolding in the stands suddenly became louder, and it is estimated that more than 1/3 of the Chinese fans began to scold.

The performance of the national Olympic team did disappoint many fans who came from all over the country and spent a lot of money on air tickets, tickets, and accommodation.

However, that's not the end of it.

Japan, who had a two-goal lead, still didn't slow down their attack, because they knew what kind of presence was sitting on the bench for the Chinese team.

From full of confidence before the game to 0-2 down, the starters of the Huaguo Olympic team have completely lost all their spirit.

Not to mention counterattacking, even the defense looks very chaotic, and often sees the ball and rushes up, completely out of order.

This is a sign of the whole team panicking to the extreme.

There was no way, the head coach Sun Wei, who was going to start making substitutions at halftime, made the first substitution in the 32nd minute.

Originally, the starting lineup of the Huaguo team was a double striker, but now it seems that the double striker is a useless setup.

Therefore, Sun Wei replaced a striker with a defensive midfielder and switched to a double midfielder, trying to stabilize the defense and wait for Cheng Hai to play in the second half.

However, even with the introduction of a defensive player, the situation of the national Olympic team has not fundamentally changed.

The players on the field have been completely messed up from psychology to formation.

In the 44th minute, just when the first half was about to end and the Chinese players and fans thought that they would finally not concede any more goals, the players of the national Olympic team committed a foul at the back, and the Japanese team won a free kick on the side of the front.

Japan's No. 10 core Kota Mizunuma hoisted a free kick into the penalty area, and defender Yuki Takuto, who stepped forward to participate in the battle, jumped high, which greatly attracted the attention of goalkeeper Wang Dalei.

As a result, Tomoki Takato rose to the top and failed to reach the ball, and the ball grazed his scalp and leaked into the small penalty area behind the unguarded goal.

Daisuke Suzuki, the Japanese full-back who quietly plugged in from the wing, pushed the ball into the goal of the Chinese team with one kick without being defended.

Wang Dalei, who hurriedly pounced on the back post, was a step slower after all and failed to stop the goal.

Before the end of the first half, the Huaguo Olympic team was already 0-3 behind, which can be called a big rout.

Before the game, Wang Dalei, the goalkeeper of Huaguo who said that he would keep a clean sheet against the Japanese team, was swollen in the face.

More than 50,000 Chinese fans in the stands are much more united this time, except for the family and friends of the players, almost all of them are under the leadership of some fan leaders, neatly shouting slogans such as "National Football - Silly 'B", "Wang Dalei - Silly 'B", etc., which shook the four wilds.

On the commentary seat, amid the excited shouts of the Japanese commentators, the commentator of Huaguo CCTV-5 commented worriedly:

"The national Olympic team suffered a serious blow, falling behind 0-3 in the first half alone, and Wang Dalei, who was full of confidence before the game and said that he would keep a clean sheet against his opponent, was poured three goals in 45 minutes by his opponent."

"The spirit of the national Olympic team has been completely dispersed, even if Cheng Hai, the Bundesliga super scorer, is replaced in the second half, I am not confident that I can equalize."

The guest next to him nodded and said, "Yes!" Three goals behind, the score gap is too big, Cheng Hai has just returned to China, and he has only practiced with the National Olympic team for two days, what kind of cooperation and tacit understanding can there be? If the National Olympic team wants to equalize, it is too difficult, I am afraid that even if Cheng Hai plays, he will not be able to return to the sky. ”