On July 8, the Chinese Football Association announced the national football squad for the second stage of the 2014 Brazil World Cup Asian Qualifiers.

A total of 43 teams have signed up for the Asian qualifiers for this World Cup, and FIFA has stipulated that there are 4.5 places for the Asian region.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil Asian Qualifiers will be divided into five phases:

In the first stage, the 16 teams with the lowest ranking in the last South Africa World Cup qualifiers will play two legs home and away, and the winning 8 teams will advance to the second stage of the competition.

Stage 2: Excluding the 5 teams with the highest results in the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa, the remaining 22 teams will compete with the 8 teams that won the first stage again in two legs of home and away, and the winning 15 teams will enter the third stage of the competition.

Stage 3: The 5 teams that qualified directly from Japan, South Korea, Australia, North Korea and Bahrain plus the 15 teams who won the second stage make a total of 20 teams divided into 5 groups, with each team playing a home-and-away double round-robin match. The top two teams in the group qualify for the Top 10. The top 20 in Asia will be based on the latest FIFA rankings in July 2011.

Stage 4: The 10 teams will be divided into two groups, each team will also play a double round-robin home and away match, and the top two teams in the group will directly qualify for the World Cup in Brazil. The third-placed finishers in each group will play over two legs, home and away, with the winner qualifying for the Asian play-offs.

Stage 5: The teams that qualify for the Asian play-offs will play the teams from Oceania, CONCACAF and South America to play the play-offs head-to-head by draw, with a two-legged home-and-away match to determine the final qualifiers. (Note: The above information is quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia)

The Chinese team's journey to the World Cup qualifiers began in the second stage of the Asian qualifiers, and the national football team will decide who will advance to the group stage of the top 20 through a two-legged knockout match of home and away on July 23 and July 28.

Whoever loses will directly end the 2014 World Cup qualifiers in Brazil.

However, July 23 happened to be the day of the 2011 German Super Cup, and Cheng Hai naturally couldn't leave.

As a result, Cheng Hai will not compete in the first round.

Fortunately, Laos itself is weak, and it should be no problem for the national football team to win. Even if there is any accident, Cheng Hai can make up for it in the second round.

In the following ten days, Dortmund played three friendly matches while training, and won all of them without any suspense.

Subsequently, on July 20th and 21st, Dortmund participated in the Deutsche Telekom Cup, an invitational tournament sponsored by the famous German telecommunications company T-Home, and competed with Bayern Munich, Mainz and Hamburg in this friendly competition for the Telecom Cup championship.

The semi-finals consist of Borussia Dortmund vs Mainz, Bayern Munich vs Hamburg.

On July 20, Borussia Dortmund comfortably defeated Mainz 3-0 under the leadership of Cheng Hai, and then met Hamburg in the final against Bayern Munich.

On July 21, in the final of the Deutsche Telekom Cup, Cheng Hai easily scored a hat trick and assisted a goal, helping Dortmund defeat Hamburg 4-0 and win the first championship of the new season.

Although this is only a friendly match and invitational championship, and Cheng Hai has no championship reward, it is still a good start for the new season.

After winning the Telecom Cup, I had a day off, which was the first leg of the Asian World Preliminary Tournament between China and Laos on July 23, and the day of the 2011 German Super Cup - last season's league champion Borussia Dortmund vs German Cup winner Schalke 04.

The Ruhr derby has been put on the stage of the German Super Cup, and the two old rivals of the Ruhr area Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 will compete for the best of the best in German football.

The winner of the German Super Cup will also be the first official winner of the 2011/2012 season.

However, due to the time zone, Huaguo's home match against Laos was the first to be played.

Fortunately, there were no surprises in the game, and the score on the big screen was 7-2 after 90 minutes, and the national football team bloodied Laos with a 5-goal lead in Kunming, basically announcing the early end of the second leg of the game.

Not to mention that Cheng Hai will participate in the second leg of the game, even if Cheng Hai does not participate, with the huge difference in strength between the two national teams and the score played in the first leg, Laos basically has no chance of reversing the tables.

Cheng Hai's participation is more about his experience and national team goal data.

But that's all for the next leg, so let's focus on the German Super Cup against Schalke 04!

It's a pity that Hao Junmin has terminated his contract with Schalke 04, and the Chinese derby in Germany is no longer visible.

On the evening of July 23, 2011, Schalke 04, which can accommodate more than 60,000 fans, went to Schalke Stadium to a full house.

Although Cheng Hai's Borussia Dortmund showed extraordinary horror last season, as the sworn enemies of the Ruhr area, Schalke 04 fans will not back down even if they know that they will lose.

What's more, they also defeated Bayern Munich last season to advance to the final of the German Cup, and won the championship with a 5-0 thrashing in the final.

Coupled with the fact that the German Super Cup is home to Schalke 04 this time, they are not without a chance.

Schalke 04 fans accounted for about three-quarters of the whole game, and the rest were Dortmund fans.

At 20:30 in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the 2011 German Super Cup officially began, with the 2010/2011 German Cup winners Schalke 04 hosting the 2010/2011 Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund.

Although Cheng Hai is full of deterrence, as a sworn enemy and opponent of the Ruhr derby, Schalke 04 will not admit defeat in momentum.

Therefore, Schalke's side did not put on a defensive counterattack posture to deliberately target Cheng Hai.

They fielded two of their strongest strikers, Raul and Huntelaar, to face Dortmund.

Of course, in the midfield and backfield, they will still pay attention to preventing Cheng Hai's attack, and will not completely let Cheng Hai go into a no-man's land.

But no matter what tactics Schalke 04 use, in the eyes of the media and fans, they will also lose more and win less, even if it is their home stadium.

However, the process after the start of the game was unexpected by many people.

Maybe it was affected by the away game, maybe it was because the players had just spent a holiday and the mentality of the players had not yet adjusted, or maybe it was the change of Gundogan from Shaheen to the players that the players were not very adaptable......

For a variety of known and unknown reasons, Dortmund's overall on-field performance in this game was quite poor.

In the 8th minute, Cheng Hai ran an excellent gap on the line of the big penalty area, and Gotze, who held the ball, only needed to pass the ball horizontally, so that Cheng Hai could get a chance to shoot with his feet.

Although Cheng Hai is not good at long-range shots, the shots on the line of the big penalty area are actually not too far. With his shooting skills, as long as he hits the range of the goal frame and plays a tricky angle, the probability of scoring is not low.

Unexpectedly, Gotze, who was holding the ball, seemed to have completely forgotten that there was a Cheng Hai, his eyes were only staring at the goal, and after shaking off an angle, he hit the goal directly.

As a result, his rushing shot flew high over the crossbar, drawing laughter from the Schalke home fans in the stands.

Cheng Hai angrily said to Ge Ce: "Don't you see that there is a gap on my side?" ”

Getze, who was still annoyed that the shot was high, turned his head to look at Cheng Hai, with a confused expression on his face: "Huh? ”

Cheng Hai shook his head speechlessly, walked straight back, and waited for the Schalke goalkeeper to open the door.

In the 17th minute, Dortmund broke off Schalke 04's attack and counterattacked.

As a result, when Cheng Hai ran without the ball and tried to reverse offside, Lewandowski, who was holding the ball, also seemed to be slow to react.

When he passed the ball forward again, ready to give it to Cheng Hai who was in an anti-offside position, the linesman raised the flag to signal that Cheng Hai was offside.

Lewandowski's pass was half a second late, causing Cheng Hai to fail to be offside.

In the 24th minute, Cheng Hai personally took the ball past two people to the front of the penalty area, passed the ball to Gundogan not far away, and then ran without the ball and prepared to bypass the Schalke defenders in front of him to enter the penalty area, and after receiving Gundogan's pass, he shot in the penalty area.

It was a small wall collision in a frontcourt attack.

Cheng Hai is now full of short passing or stopping skills, and there will be absolutely no problems.

If it was with Shaheen, the ball would have basically been there, because he had almost broken through Schalke 04's defense by two people in a row.

As a result, after receiving Cheng Hai's pass, Gundogan didn't know what he was thinking, so he didn't pass the ball back to Cheng Hai, who rushed into the penalty area around the defender, but gave it to Shinji Kagawa, who entered the penalty area on the other side.

Although Shinji Kagawa looks undefended and has better chances than Cheng Hai, can Shinji Kagawa's shooting skills be compared to Cheng Hai?

Sure enough, although Shinji Kagawa, who entered the ribs of the big penalty area, received a pass from Gundogan and volleyed without being marked, the angle was too positive, and he was easily pounced into his arms by Schalke goalkeeper Farmman, and he didn't even give Cheng Hai who rushed to the goal a chance to make up for it.

This ball not only shows the lack of tacit understanding between newcomer Gundogan and Cheng Hai, but also shows that Shinji Kagawa is not in good shape.

Otherwise, the probability of scoring this goal is not low.

When Dortmund's overall form was sluggish and they kept wasting opportunities, Schalke 04 was not idle.

Schalke 04, playing at home, was in great form, not only blocking Dortmund's attack, but also breaking through Dortmund's goal in the 32nd minute.

And it was Raul, the Lord of the Rings, who scored the goal.

The way the goal was scored was the counterattack caused by another passing error by Gundogan. The ball that was supposed to be passed to Lewandowski was cut off by Schalke 04 and played a counter-attack, and finally Raul received a clever pass from a teammate in the box and volleyed it.

Schalke 04 led Dortmund 1-0 at home, and the more than 40,000 Schalke 04 fans in the stands suddenly broke out in earth-shattering applause and cheers, which made Dortmund's players and fans look like dirt and are very unhappy.

But there is no way, today we encountered the collective sluggishness of the Dortmund soldiers, and it was also unlucky.

Many fans have their eyes on Cheng Hai, hoping that he can stand up and lead Dortmund to defeat their rivals and win the first championship of the new season.