"That's it?"

"That's it?"

In the confusion of the fans, the national football team ended all the warm-up games.

All the players, coaching staff and staff went to Russia together.

At the last moment when the national football team went to Russia, the Football Association found Gao Gui, hoping that he could serve as Zidane's assistant coach and become a communication link between coaches and players, and at the same time, he could also learn a thing or two by Zidane's side and be a spare tire.

After all, the Football Association is also self-aware.

Even the French national team may not be able to invite Zidane.

Zidane came to coach the World Cup stage of the national football team for the sake of Chu Ge's face.

After the World Cup, the world-class coach is likely to find another job. At that time, the Football Association still needs to find a new head coach for the national football team.

Director Gao is also an old acquaintance of the Football Association.

He's a good candidate.

Sure enough, after being invited, Director Gao immediately recited a poem.

Gladly went to Russia.

……

Chuge came to Nizhny Novgorod.

The first match of the national football team in this World Cup will be played here.

The opponent is Sweden.

The time is 618.

When it comes to Russia, the first thing that Chinese people can think of is probably Moscow or St. Petersburg. You may not know much about the rest of the neighborhood.

Nizhny Novgorod is the fifth largest city in Russia, located in the Volga River basin (the name suggests alcohol), the capital of the Nizhny Novgorod region, and the hometown of the great writer Gorky.

Compared to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod is not a tourist hotspot. However, due to the holding of the World Cup, due to the hosting of several World Cup matches, especially the debut of the Chinese national team in this World Cup, it has suddenly become a popular tourist destination.

A large number of tourists, especially from China, flock to Nizhny Novgorod two weeks in advance.

Hotels throughout the city are fully booked.

Tourist attractions, amusement parks, and food service industries are all booming. Even ordinary municipal roads are full of tourists from all over the world.

The mayor of Nizhny Novgorod saw this grand occasion and the needle was about to laugh.

Putin is also very happy.

The unexpected elimination of the United States has affected Russia's tourism revenue during the World Cup. The unexpected promotion of Huaxia not only completely offset the negative impact of the beautiful country, but also made Russia's tourism revenue hit a new record high in the same period.

This is undoubtedly very good news for Russia, whose economy is in crisis.

Therefore, Putin even decided that after attending the opening match of the first day, he will also come to Nizhny Novgorod to watch the match between China and Sweden in person.

The official reason given by Putin's spokesman was that this was based on the principle of friendship between China and Russia and diplomatic reciprocity.

In addition, the spokesman also revealed that Putin is also a big fan of Chu Ge.

……

Sweden coach Andersson walked into the conference room.

He's a little annoyed.

The Swedish head coach has never been particularly well-known. His English-language wiki page is perhaps the shortest of the quarter-finals managers, with just three lines.

If he is more well-known, he will definitely be blown out of Zidane a few streets.

However, fortunately, the Swedish national team he coached is still very strong.

In the European arena where there are many strong players, even the old powerhouses of the Netherlands and Italy will be eliminated. The fact that the Swedish national team, which excluded Ibrahimovic, was able to qualify, which in itself means that they have excellent quality.

This time, Sweden entered the World Cup finals, and Ibrahimovic's team had built momentum for Ibrahimovic's return, and a considerable number of fans in Sweden welcomed Ibrahimovic back to the national team.

Anderson has a lot of character, though.

He made a strong statement in April that the Swedish national team had no intention of calling up Bongxian, who had already retired from the national team after Euro 2016.

For Andersson, he needs a team of active players, a group of players who can make sacrifices and dedication to the team, not just a football superstar.

That's his football philosophy.

It was also his choice.

And this choice full of personality will undoubtedly put him under a lot of pressure.

The first to qualify for the World Cup finals relieved some of the pressure on Andersson. But for the manager, it's just part of the Swedish national team's goals.

He wants to win more.

On the whiteboard in the conference room, Sweden's three opponents in the group stage were clearly written.

Germany.

Mexico.

Chinese.

Many Swedes believe that Germany and Mexico are undoubtedly Sweden's biggest hurdles to qualifying from this group.

Andersson thinks so, too.

None of that matters, though.

The matches against Germany and Mexico will have to wait a few days.

At the moment, the opponent that Anderson needs to consider is the weakest Huaxia in the group.

This game, they have to win.

Andersson also thinks they'll win.

It's just that Huaxia is a very mysterious opponent for Sweden and Andersson.

Because the team has hardly played in any of the previous World Series, the members of the national team have played in almost all of their home leagues. Little is known about their technical characteristics and style of play.

The only thing he can be sure of is that the Chinese team, like Sweden before them, has a superstar-level player.

He is the current Manchester United who has just led Manchester United to defeat Real Madrid in the Champions League final to win the treble, and many people think that it is possible to win this year's European Ballon d'Or.

Andersson watched Chu Ge play at Manchester United.

That's a genius.

If Ibrahimovic has the level that Chu Ge showed at Manchester United, not to mention that he has ever proposed to retire, even if he says that he will not return to the national team in his life, unless the national team manager kneels down and begs him or something, Andersson will not hesitate to kneel at the door.

Chu Ge is worth it.

He's a player who can make a difference in a team.

Speed, skill, dribbling, breaking, shooting, free-kicks......

He can do almost anything.

Aside from the fact that he is known to score very few goals with headers and is not very fond of penalty kicks, Chu Ge is an almost flawless all-round player.

His strength is very terrifying.

No team wants to face such an opponent.

But

That's just Manchester United's Chu Ge.

Just like Messi who is only in Barcelona is the real Messi, Chu Ge, who has returned to the national team, has a gap in grade compared to his performance at the club.

There are many media analyses of the reasons.

Andersson didn't care.

He has watched more than a dozen matches of the Chinese national team and confirmed this fact, which is enough.

But.

The recent warm-up match of the Chinese national team made Anderson feel a little ominous.

Before the World Cup, Huaxia changed coaches and arranged two warm-up matches.

One against Thailand and the other against Wales.

In both games, Anderson watched the video.

There's not much to say about that match with Thailand, it's basically a remake of the previous match.

Chu Ge was a cow and a horse, tired and tired, doing everything, but he couldn't do anything well. His performance is limited by a group of teammates who deliberately serve him.

But in the warm-up game against Wales, there was a change that made Anderson feel uneasy.

Chu Ge is no longer so active.

His teammates started to show more for the game.

They were clumsy, too simple and too naïve at times in Anderson's opinion, and Wales taught them a hard lesson, scoring eight goals and Bale scoring five.

But in this game, Andersson saw Chu Ge who tended to be normal.

He no longer deliberately retreats from the organization.

Therefore, in exchange, it is more likely to appear in dangerous areas.

In his limited number of counter-attacking performances, he began to have his shadow at the club.

In this game, Chu Ge scored two goals.

He also provided two great assists for his team-mates.

The performance was much better than against Thailand.

Such a change made Andersson feel a little uneasy.

He has reason to suspect that this is a change that has occurred after the change of coach in Huaxia.

Everyone knows that if there is one coach in the world who is best at using Chu Ge, it is undoubtedly his mentor, former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane.

And Zidane is now the head coach of Huaxia.

Andersson stared at the three teams on the whiteboard.

His gaze was fixed on the Huaxia team.

"Either way, you ended up losing to Wales. Wales, on the other hand, is just a team that can't even qualify for the World Cup finals. ”

"No matter how magical Zidane is, he doesn't know witchcraft, and it is impossible for you to have any metaphysical changes in just one week. And no matter how strong Chu Ge is, he is just a team member. ”

"Football is always a team game."

"I believe that my players, as long as they play normally and work together, they will definitely be able to defeat Huaxia and win the game!"

Andersson believed in science more than in metaphysics.

……

Chu Ge has already started his first training session since arriving in Russia.

In Russia, he received an unexpected welcome with his national team.

If it weren't for the fact that this was Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, sometimes Chu Ge even suspected that he had arrived in the northeast of China.

Here, he saw a lot of Chinese people.

Whether it is the pick-up when getting off the plane, or the team bus on the way to the hotel, or even in the lobby, corridor, and elevator of the hotel, there are enthusiastic Chinese fans everywhere. Even for their first public training session in Nizhny Novgorod, the first floor of the stadium stands was packed with Chinese fans.

They shouted incomparably familiar slogans and sang incomparably familiar praises to the motherland.

Although I was in a foreign country, I felt like I was back on my home turf.

Moreover, not only Chinese fans, but also many local Russian fans rushed to show their support.

Needless to say, overseas Chinese undoubtedly support the national football team.

And many natives of Russia, shouting "Ula" and "Ula", singing Katyusha, these burly men with thick eyebrows and big eyes are actually extremely enthusiastic about Chu Ge and his teammates, which makes Chu Ge a little unexpected.

According to local media in Nizhny Novgorod, nearly 75.7% of Russian fans regard the Chinese national team as their second home team during the World Cup.

The Chinese national team is the team that is most supported by Russian fans in addition to the Russian national team.

Chu Ge originally thought that such a report was a bit exaggerated.

When he saw the enthusiasm of the local fans, he realized that maybe not all the media like to talk nonsense.

Even if there is moisture in the data reported in the media, Huaxia is clearly more popular in Nizhny Novgorod than Sweden. Chu Ge could even see many Russian fans wearing his number seven shirt at Manchester United.

Such an atmosphere similar to that of a home battle made Chu Ge feel very comfortable.

And what makes Chu Ge feel more comfortable is football.

With the arrival of Zidane, although only some details were adjusted, Chu Ge suddenly felt much more comfortable.

In the past, when he played in the national team, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong. Whether it is the head coach or his teammates, they are extremely cooperative with him, but Chu Ge just doesn't feel very comfortable, as if he was covered with a film when he plays, he always feels constrained everywhere and has trouble kicking.

Zinedine Zidane makes all the difference.

He didn't even let his teammates deliberately play around Chu Ge, allowing them to express themselves as much as possible, which liberated Chu Ge and made Chu Ge feel like a fish in water.

Zidane doesn't seem to have done much.

But Chu Ge could feel the difference.

Is this metaphysics?

It's just that Chu Ge still cares a little about the score of losing to Wales 2:8.

Although Zidane didn't care about this and let all the players not care, Chu Ge was still a little unhappy after all.

Bale, in particular, scored five goals.

Chu Ge didn't know if Zidane really didn't mind or didn't want to show it, but he always felt that this game was a bit embarrassing.

Especially for Zidane to suffer such a setback as soon as he came.

Chu Ge felt a little uncomfortable.

It's like pit your own teacher.

"What to do? Find a way to compensate him. Chu Ge thought to himself.

After the Champions League final, coupled with the accumulation of this period of time, Chu Ge's appreciation points unconsciously reached 100 million.

He can choose to enhance an attribute, or he can choose to use it as a consumable in the match.

How to deal with it?

Chu Ge glanced at the next opponent.

Hey, hey, hey.