Unlike previous national teams, domestic fans have high hopes for the national football team to participate in the World Cup this time.

Last summer, the national youth team won the World Youth Championships and won full applause, and at the same time, many national youth players stayed in the European League, and after a year of tempering, everyone has improved their strength.

Chen Tao has performed very well in Anderlecht and has been the main team, starting every game.

Feng Xiaoting also played the main team in Feyenoord in the Eredivisie in the second half of the season, and his performance was also remarkable.

Although Golin was not a regular at AZ Alkmaar, he was the focus of the team's cultivation, and Van Gaal also favored him, almost every game as a substitute, starting from time to time, especially in the penultimate round of the Eredivisie, he scored when he came on as a substitute.

Zhou Haibin has shown some competitiveness at Benfica and is also hopeful to establish himself in the new season, while Hao Junmin, who plays for Hamburg, is an important substitute for the team and also plays an important role.

In addition, there are Zheng Zhi, who plays for Mainz, and Zhao Junzhe and Du Wei, who play for Celtic in the Soviet Super League.

The Chinese team's overseas legions blossomed everywhere and showed a pretty good level.

But the most exciting thing is Yang Yang, who has become purple in the past two years and is known as Europe's number one new star and Asia's No. 1 star, who scored 44 goals in the Eredivisie last season and 12 goals in the Champions League, showing amazing scoring ability.

Everyone believes that as long as Alihan's national team makes good use of Yang Yang, the Chinese team will definitely have the ability to make a breakthrough in the World Cup.

As for the results, everyone does not have high hopes, after all, the last World Cup was lost too badly.

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Not only the domestic people have high hopes for the World Cup in Germany, but Alihan and the national team are also looking forward to it.

As early as the end of April and the beginning of May, the national team took advantage of the league period to organize a short-term flight training camp, the purpose of which was to inspect the physical fitness of the players and run in the team by the way, but only domestic players were recruited.

By mid-May, the national team officially announced the squad, and everyone found out that young players had begun to occupy half of the national team, not only several young players who stayed in the country were selected, but even players such as Zhao Xuri and Cui Peng who stayed in China were also selected for this year's national team.

Sun Jihai, Li Tie and Shao Jiayi and other international players were also selected, but everyone was more worried about Li Tie, who had not played a game for a year, and his state was more uneasy.

The metabolism was completed unconsciously, and the whole mental outlook of the national team was also renewed.

The young internationals who won the World Junior Championships are clearly more energetic and confident.

The only drawback is that it is relatively young and needs time to grow and improve.

Domestic fans also strongly support this, after all, the World Cup is also a rare opportunity to exercise.

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Departing from Beijing on May 27, the team went directly to France to play a warm-up match against the French national team.

The two sides played to a 3-2 draw, with France having a slight advantage and China scoring a goal from Yang Yang and Zheng Zhi.

The score can only be partially reflected, in fact, the Chinese team played very embarrassed throughout the game, mainly defensively.

This is also the purpose of Alihan to arrange this warm-up game, that is, to use France, which has strong attacking power, to temper the defense of the Chinese team, and find loopholes and hidden dangers to solve before the World Cup.

Defensive counterattack, this is the World Cup tactics developed by Alihan for the Chinese team.

Zinedine Zidane missed a penalty in the game, but it was the substitute Ribery who performed very well, if it weren't for him, the Chinese team would have won 2-1, but Ribery's outstanding performance, directing two goals in just two minutes on the left side, was very eye-catching.

When Yang Yang talked to Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry after the game, he also got to know the French star by the way, and he had a vague feeling that Ribery would be one of the strongest players in the new French generation.

You can see this by looking at his performance after coming off the bench.

This game exposed the defensive problems on the right side of the Chinese team, whether it is Xu Yunlong or Wei Xin, there are obviously certain hidden dangers.

And after this match, Alihan made the decision to use Sun Jihai.

After an open and honest conversation between the two within the team, the two sides reached an agreement.

After arriving in Germany from France, the Chinese team played a second warm-up match.

This time the opponent is Côte d'Ivoire from the west coast of Africa.

Sun Jihai finally returned to the starting right wing-back position after a long absence, and he performed very well throughout the game and provided an assist for Yang Yang, but the Chinese team still lost 1-2 to Ivory Coast.

Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba were outstanding.

After two consecutive defeats, the news spread back to China, and there was another mourning in the wilderness.

Many media have criticized the performance of the national team, believing that the national football players are obviously not showing their best form.

Alihan responded on behalf of the national team, saying that the players have done their best, and the two consecutive defeats in the warm-up game are not the end of the world, and exposing the problem early is more conducive to the team to solve the problem.

Yang Yang also said in an interview with domestic authoritative media that the atmosphere within the team is very good, and everyone is focused on adjustment and preparation, and there is no slackness.

"It's a bit disappointing to lose two games in a row in the warm-up, but you have to look at our opponents, not to mention France, Ivory Coast is also very good, these two teams are not weak at all."

The third warm-up match of the Chinese team in Europe was played in Germany against Costa Rica.

The two sides played to a 1-1 draw, and Yang Yang did not score in this game, but assisted Chen Tao to score a goal.

In the end, the warm-up match of the Chinese team ended with one draw and two losses without a win.

Although the domestic media have questioned it, the national team has given a good evaluation of the team's performance when summing up.

The main thing is not to expose the problem, but whether the problem has been solved well.

Through three warm-up games, the national team has gradually developed its starting lineup.

If there are no accidents, Li Leilei will be the main goalkeeper, who is the most consistent goalkeeper in the Chinese Super League this season.

On the left side, due to Sun Xiang's injury, Cao Yang, who performed well in the league, replaced him, Sun Jihai on the right, and Feng Xiaoting and Li Weifeng in the central defender, Zheng Zhi will be pushed to the midfield position.

After a season of polishing in the Eredivisie, especially in the second half of the season, Feng Xiaoting showed quite good strength, and he was quite good at taking the ball and dribbling the ball, which also made Alihan entrust him with a heavy responsibility.

After Zheng Zhi returns to midfield, Zhao Junzhe and Zhou Haibin will play in the other two midfield positions.

After joining the Portuguese Super League for a season, Zhou Haibin has not had many opportunities to play, although he is more of a substitute, but he has also shown a certain strength, and has also had impressive performances, and even played as a substitute for Benfica in the Champions League.

It is not difficult to see that Benfica attaches great importance to the Chinese youngster.

Zhou Haibin, who has both offense and defense, is regarded by Alihan as the core of the midfield of Chinese football in the next decade, and has high hopes.

On the front line, Gao Lin replaced Han Peng, who was originally the most vocal, and became Yang Yang's partner on the front line, and the other was Chen Tao, who was very fierce in Anderlecht.

The trident of the national youth team will be reproduced in the national team, and it is composed of foreign international players, which is why the team was able to score in all three warm-up games, and Alihan especially valued the tacit understanding between the three national youth players.

When commenting on the performance of the warm-up game, he even said that as long as the Chinese team can hold on, Yang Yang will definitely be able to score.

"I even dare to say that as long as our defense does not have problems, we will have a chance to score a goal, or even win a victory, and achieve a breakthrough of zero in the World Cup in the history of Chinese football."

"Because, we have Yang Yang!"

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From Yang Yang's return to China to the national team's preparation for the World Cup, it took nearly a month.

During this period of time, the phonegate incident quickly fermented and soon spread to the Italian Football Federation.

The world was shocked by the scandal in Italian football, and UEFA and FIFA reacted quickly, with a number of referees who had planned to officiate the World Cup also disqualified.

The Serie A brand was destroyed in an instant, and it was dealt a terrible blow.

Juventus, Lazio, AC Milan, Fiorentina and other four clubs have been seriously questioned, especially Juventus, whose shares have been suspended after plummeting by 10 percent.

Almost all Serie A players have the idea of fleeing Italy, which has led to a feeling that Italian football is likely to collapse or even collapse as a result.

The phonegate incident was accompanied by the election of the president of Real Madrid.

The two major campaigns, led by Martin and Calderón, were fiercely contested, with Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo as the stars of the campaign, and Real Madrid fans in Madrid were quickly divided into two camps.

Interestingly, the Chinese team's opponent in the group stage of the World Cup is Portugal.

Both teams have been drawn in Group D, the other two teams are Angola from Africa and Mexico from North America.

It is precisely because of this that the Chinese team's previous three warm-up matches will be arranged for France, Ivory Coast and Costa Rica.

As a result, many Spanish media have also paid attention to the Group D match, believing that it will be a duel between Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo.

But there are also many fans who are upset with Yang Yang, because everyone knows that the overall strength of the Chinese team is much weaker than Portugal, even if Yang Yang's personal strength is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, there is no way to change this fact.

But this still can't stop the hype of the world's major media.

Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo are many years old, and they are both rookies that have emerged in European football in the past two years, so it is naturally easy to be compared.

"These people are boring!"

"I just finished comparing Messi with you, and now I'm comparing Cristiano Ronaldo, how tired are you playing two?"

Su Ye said faintly distressed on the phone.

Yang Yang was a little eager to try.

He has been known for Cristiano Ronaldo for a long time, but he has not seen it on the pitch.