Chapter 108: Resisting South Korea in the Cold Snap
On March 2, the Seoul Meteorological Observatory forecast a minimum temperature of -6 degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of -2 degrees Celsius for the next day.
Yang Yimin and Shen Xiangfu issued a "cold-resistant" order: you are not allowed to go out at will, and you must wear a down jacket when you go out!
Shen Xiangfu also jokingly said to the players: "Tomorrow we are going to double "anti-han", cheer me up!" ”
On March 3, Han Liu arrived as promised. The northeast wind peculiar to Seoul this season is like a knife, blowing on the face with a faint pain.
At 11 o'clock, the National Olympic Sports was asked to "go downstairs and go out for a walk, breathe, but be sure to keep warm!" ”
The players walked out of the gate one after another, and at the door, there were staff who specially checked the players' clothing.
At 16 o'clock, the team held a "pre-war mobilization meeting" in the restaurant on the third floor.
Shen Xiangfu announced the tactical plan and personnel combination that the coaching staff had put into full effort, and Hu Zhaojun in the midfield position was indeed replaced by the physically stronger Wang Dong.
"I've been teaming up for six years, and that's for this moment. We have what we should have, and if we don't have it, it's too late to practice now. For you, for me, it might be the last time! Don't hesitate too much, just do it! ”
Yang Yimin's speech was much simpler: "We must win!" Win! ”
The 21 team members roared like wolves: "Victory!" Win!! Win!!! ”
Hu Zhaojun was the first to walk out of the room, his face flushed, the same as his eyes.
"Xiaohu, you didn't rest last night, right?" The staff on the side asked.
"No, I'm well rested!" Hu Zhaojun replied.
"In my heart, there was a dream..."An Qi wore a headset and hummed Zhou Huajian's "true hero" and walked out.
Subsequently, there was a group of players from Dalian. When everyone came out one after another, Wu Pingfeng was the last to come out, with a piece of white tissue under his nostrils. He had a nosebleed!
At 17:10, the "anti-Korean" National Olympic Games advanced to Shangyan in the cold snap.
At 17:30, three words appeared in the West Stand: "Koreanophobia", and the pronunciation of Korean fans is a bit like "Korean attack".
On the eve of the previous year, Cha Fan Geen once confirmed with a smile at the dinner table that this sentence has become a foreign word in the Korean market.
26 years ago, it was a goal by Cha Fangen that became the beginning of "Koreanophobia".
Seeing the South Korean team enter, the home team fans were loud again.
Before the game, there were two things that Korean fans were dissatisfied with: one was that at Sangam Stadium, no Korean national team had been able to win for several years, so the fans asked to change the venue, but to no avail.
Second, the new version of the South Korean Olympic jersey has been strongly opposed by 90% of fans, who believe that a circle outside the number looks like a chip in the gambling house, and will always lose to the dealer in the end; It's like a traffic restriction sign, which means that the South Korean team members can't take off.
Fans voted on the official website for the home team to wear the World Cup jersey from the year before the meeting, but it wasn't until the players entered that fans found out that they were still wearing the "chip jersey" and "speed limit" on the field.
Other than that, South Korean fans have no other grievances with the players and coaches.
"The North Korean fans look so excited!" Shen Xiangfu rubbed the snot on the tip of his nose with the back of his hand, looked at the yelling fans in the West Stand and sighed.
Yang Yimin said: "Maybe it's cheering for the home team!" I saw a report on the Internet before, and everyone is unanimously optimistic about our National Olympic Games. There are even bookmakers who offer odds of "handicap hemisphere". Lao Shen, don't be surprised, we have been preparing for so long, even if we can't win, we can at least play a draw, and throw the burden to the opponent first. ”
"Let's hope so!" Shen Xiangfu sniffed, the weather in Seoul was indeed a little cold.
When he saw the South Korean starting players, Shen Xiangfu frowned.
"No. 16 Choi Dui Wook didn't play?"
"Who knows! I wonder too! The teaching assistant on the side also scratched his head.
As early as noon, Kim Ho-kun predicted to Chinese reporters the starting lineup of the National Olympic Games, which was exactly the same as Shen Xiangfu's actual arrangement.
This matter was suppressed by Yang Yimin and others, as Xiangfu said before the game: "Now there are no tactical secrets on both sides, and everything will only be known after the game." ”
The meeting that night was very deep and detailed, and a team insider told reporters: "It is detailed to every link, every player, and every grass......
After tossing the coin, captain Dewey decisively picked the south side of the court.
Due to the design of the upper rock stadium, the southern half of the stadium was sunny due to the sunshine, and the northern half was blocked by the stands, which turned into frozen soil.
Shen Xiangfu regarded the second half as the key period of "anti-South Korea", so he regarded the southern half with a good field as an offensive area when picking the side.
So on the issue of choosing sides and balls, Dewey did not hesitate at all.
At 18 o'clock, with the whistle of Kamikawa Tse, the game began with the cheers of the fans present.
The process of the game can be described in these simple words: "It took 89 minutes to complete his idea, but it only took one second to subvert the effort of the ministry. ”
The accident occurred in the 86th minute, when the South Korean Olympic goalkeeper picked up a corner kick and then quickly launched a hand-tossed ball to counterattack, and Wang Dong, who was sitting at the back, slipped when he grabbed in the midfield. Cui Chengguo, who was dribbling the ball, started to run from the backfield and rushed to the National Olympic penalty area single-handedly.
An Qi came out, but he was still a step slower. Choi Sung-kook knocked the ball sideways and passed the ball to the back point, which followed the unmarked Cho Jae-jin and easily pushed the empty goal.
1-0, the home team fans shouted "Republic of Korea" in unison, which shook the hearts of all Chinese fans and players at the scene.
Two minutes after stoppage time in the second half, the whistle blew to end the game, announcing that the Chinese Olympic team had lost the first game of the Olympic Games for the seventh time.
The tragedy or comedy happened in a second, and afterwards Xu Liang sighed to the camera: "It shouldn't have been like this!" I can't catch the ball in front of me, and there is no way to do that ball, in fact, I can make a tactical foul at all, alas! ”
Wang Dong was expressionless as he walked back to his room through the long lobby after the game.
In fact, no one blamed him, for 90 minutes, he was very conscientious. But "one-second fate" is like an octopus that always wants to catch some unlucky guy in the Chinese team, and this time it is Wang Dong's turn.
Like many previous Sino-Korean historical dramas: the Korean team is as active as mercury, and the Chinese team is as dull as a puppet; South Korea attacked, attacked, attacked, and then it was the result of 26 years of astonishing similarity. Red and blue frenzied embraces, white and red lost souls.
After the game, Shen Xiangfu walked into the locker room and said: "It's a pity to lose the first game, and we still have future games. Go back and summarize it well. ”
It's like a comfort to the team.
Yang Yimin said: "We still have five games to play, and no one can say the final result. ”
Outside the hotel lobby, a voice suddenly came: "Attack Korea..."
When Shen Xiangfu looked angrily, he saw the smiling faces of two or three Sven Korean students.
The players walked into the hotel with their uniforms on their faces, without the flattered frustration on their faces. The expressions of these young players born in the 80s are just a kind of emptiness, a kind of suddenness that is carried from one world to another.
Dewey was already experiencing the "defeat of Shangyan" for the second time, and he had a coin-sized bruise on his left cheek, and I don't know if it was hit by Cao Bingju, who challenged him.
An Qi was also defeated for the second time, and he did well except for the ball that bounced up due to the deformation of the frozen ground on the field, but he just wanted to flash into the elevator quickly, but his teammates who had already flashed in it were stuffed like canned tuna. The No. 1 goalkeeper had to stay and be questioned by reporters.
Wang Jianying was also defeated in Shangyan for the second time, and this person who was so loyal to his career wanted to smile at the reporters, but he smiled bitterly and confused.
Lee Jang-so appeared in the lobby in a gray trench coat, and on this day he had traveled from 400 kilometers south to Seoul to watch the game, his expression always made people feel as mysterious as his Chinese pronunciation.
"It could have been a draw and the goal was sudden! Jin Rongguang is very good at throwing the ball with his hand, his hand throwing the ball is fast and accurate, Cui Chengguo is also very good, and his dribbling is fast and smart. ”
Lee Jang-so's students launched a counterattack, and Cha Beom-geun's students finished the match. Two Korean coaches who have coached in China are really good at teaching students! That's how they inherited a certain lineage from generation to generation, and continued to write a certain family tree, from 1978 to 2004, and maybe forever.
Yang Yimin and Shen Xiangfu finished being interviewed by reporters on the side of the lobby. In the flickering corridor, Huang Jianxiang's friend Li Chengpeng, who watched the game with the team, asked: "After we have worked hard to do everything, what do we do when every failure is caused by a very small mistake?" Is this a form of fate? ”
A wry smile shook Yang Yimin's somewhat old and desolate face like a spark, and he didn't give an answer.
In the dim corridor, Shen Xiangfu suddenly remembered a person, and muttered in his mouth: "I don't know if it's fate, but if he is there, the result of this game will definitely not be like this!" ”