Chapter 172: Eleven Years of Waiting (Part 3 [Herakles] Grandmaster 6/7)
On the field, the players of the Chinese team were still frantically celebrating the victory, and they sprinted hand in hand towards the stands of the Chinese team fans, which caused huge cheers from the fans in the stands.
The camera gives a close-up of the South Stand at Canberra Stadium:
The five-star red flag is waving in the hands of the fans!
Fans jumped and jumped, hugging, shouting, celebrating.
Some gray-haired old fans were crying.
A Chinese fan whose hair was dyed red roared hoarsely, and on his cheeks, two lines of tears.
This fan's name is Lu Lei, nicknamed Stone, and he is also the vice president of the Chinese Dragons Fan Association and the president of the Inner Mongolia Branch of the Jiang Chenxi Fan Association. In the past few years when the national football team was at its lowest, he has always loyally supported the national football team on the field and has a high reputation among fans. After the match between China and Uzbekistan, the fan, nicknamed "Stone", in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, was named the official best fan by the AFC. After the battle between China and Ukraine, Chinese fans took the initiative to stay and take away the garbage from the stands, which moved the AFC officials on the sidelines. Among them, Lu Lei, as a fan organizer, left a deep impression on them, he not only led the fan phalanx to cheer during the game, but also organized the fans to clean up the "battlefield" after the game.
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For Chinese fans, when the whistle blew at the end of the Chinese team's game, there were tears, but most of them were tears of loss and sadness, tears of despair, lowered heads, tears of slipping, and greater sadness after endless anticipation...... and the numb expressions of the Chinese team players, as well as all kinds of sarcasm and ridicule and abuse of Chinese football on the Internet and in the media, but this time it is different, the tears of the fans are tears of joy, the national flag is waving in the stands, the cheers are thunderous, and the hysterical shouts are the catharsis of emotions and excitement! He Wei's voice choked.
At this time, the scene on the stadium moved all the Chinese media people, and the excited Chinese fans rushed into the stadium to celebrate with the players of the Chinese team.
They hugged every player of the Chinese team, some people cried and laughed, some people didn't do anything, that is, in the field, waving the five-star red flag vigorously, and there was an old fan, taking out suona and blowing it tick-tock......
"It's a moving scene." The corners of Duan Xuan's eyes were moist, "I even think it's a dream, if it's really Meng, such a beautiful dream, I don't want to wake up!" ”
"It's not a dream!" He Wei's voice was low, "Our eyes are watching, our noses can smell the breath of victory, and what we reach out to touch is the ticket to the finals!" The excitement of that night in Wuli River ignited the night sky, the sadness of that night in Beijing Gongti flowed into a river, eleven years of waiting, hard days, staying up, loving, eleven years later, Australia, Canberra, we are back! ”
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Many Chinese fans in front of the TV couldn't help but cry when they heard He Wei's words.
Chinese fans are really bitter.
When the Chinese team performed poorly and the domestic football environment was getting worse and worse, they waited obsessively, desperate again and again, disappointed again and again, but continued to love, while saying that they would never love again, but once again they waited in front of the TV, crying, laughing, and of course, crying more often.
It has even been misunderstood, and watching the national football team has even become a shameful thing.
They are aggrieved in their hearts, we are Chinese, we love football, naturally we want to support our national team, is this wrong?
There is no right or wrong.
There is only love and hate.
The depth of love and the depth of hate.
The whole country rejoiced on the night of the Five Mile River.
The sadness and loss of the Beijing Gongti losing the championship.
Eleven years of waiting, eleven years of torment.
Now, in the distant Australian continent, on this night, all the bitterness and sorrow, the bitter waiting, bear beautiful flowers.
Regardless of whether the Chinese team can win the Asian Cup in the end, at this time, reaching the final equaled the best result of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup, and in the case of the unpleasant experience of these years, this feeling of happiness is even more precious.
At the very least, there is hope.
At the very least, at this moment, tonight, football, Chinese football, gives them a reason to cheer.
What's more, the outstanding performance of the Chinese team with Jiang Chenxi as the number one star in the Asian Cup has made everyone see the team's hope of entering the 2018 World Cup in Russia......
Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, North Korea, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates were all killed!
The Chinese team may not be strong enough, but in Asia, there is already more money to look forward to!
The 2018 World Cup in Russia is no longer just a fantasy of existence......
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After the celebration at the court.
Back in the locker room, Zheng Zhen, the captain of the Chinese team, sat down with a somewhat dazed expression, and then, the thirty-five-year-old captain covered his face and sobbed.
The locker room suddenly became quiet.
No one bothered the captain.
The 2004 Asian Cup was held in China, and the final stage of the Asian Cup was expanded for the first time, with the number of participating teams expanding from 12 to 16. In the end, the host Chinese team won the runner-up, equaling the best result of the Chinese team in the Asian Cup (runner-up in the 1984 Asian Cup in Singapore).
The 2004 Asian Cup was played by Dutchman Ali? Han is in charge. At that time, it was the era of the replacement of the old and the new in the national football team, and the heroes of the 2002 World Cup were still there, and the Mesozoic players dominated by Jianlibao gradually became the main force.
At that time, Zheng Zhen was surrounded by Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, Li Xiaopeng, Shao Jiayi, Hao Hidong, Li Jinyu, that Asian Cup, Zheng Zhen, who served as a central defender, scored three goals, all of which were penalty kicks, at home, dare to stand at the penalty spot, the pressure can be imagined, at that time, Zheng Zhen, who was only 24 years old, had a big heart.
Losing 1-3 to the Japanese team in the final, especially when the second goal of the Japanese was obviously handball, the players of the Chinese team were aggrieved and felt that the loss was wronged, and Zheng Zhen cried like a child after the game.
The Chinese team was only one step away from the top of Asia that year, and people felt regretful at the time, hoping that the Chinese team could make persistent efforts to stand on the top of Asia in the next Asian Cup, but no one thought that it would be the highest point of the Chinese team in these years, and then, the situation of Chinese football became worse and worse.
The 24-year-old Zheng Zhen is now 35 years old, and his national team teammates Li Xiaopeng and Li Ting are now on the coaching staff of this national team.
Time flies, and the boy's head is white.
Zheng Zhendu thought that until he retired, he would no longer have the opportunity to seek the Asian title.
However, he did not expect that in the Australian continent in early 2015, he once again saw the hope of standing on the top of Asia.
Zheng Zhen wiped the corners of his eyes, he walked towards Jiang Chenxi and hugged Jiang Chenxi suddenly, "Thank you, thank you!" ”
Jiang Chenxi didn't speak, he patted Zheng Zhen on the shoulder, he knew that Zheng Zhen didn't need too many words now, the captain was just emotional, this was eleven years of grievance.
The team left the Canberra Stadium and returned to their hotel.
That night, in the room of the Chinese coaching staff, Li Ting, Li Xiaopeng, and Zheng Zhen, the three of them raised their glasses, clinked glasses, no one spoke, and drank them all.
The cup is not wine, but plain water.
Plain water can also be intoxicating.
Someone heard a loud cry coming from the room...... This cry is permeating.
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