Chapter 615: The Confident National Football Team

As it coincides with the national team break, La Liga has once again entered a short off-season.

Originally, the Football Association was going to take this opportunity to recruit Feng Quan to return to China to participate in the two national football warm-up matches at the end of March, after all, the national football team will embark on the journey of the World Cup qualifiers again from June. However, when the national football coach Lippi learned of the news, he immediately vetoed the decision.

The reason why Lippi is like this is, on the one hand, he hopes to be able to scout more domestic players in case of emergency. After all, the entire Asian qualifiers for the World Cup lasted for two years, and it was inevitable that players would be suspended due to red and yellow cards and injuries.

On the other hand, Lippi also wants to see how the national football team can perform after winning the Asian Cup against Haiti and Tunisia, which are ranked higher than him in the world, without the wind and the whole game.

At the beginning, the Football Association also hoped that Lippi could listen to his opinions on the grounds that "letting Feng Quan return to China to participate in the competition is to hope that he will run in with the team more, so as to increase the tacit understanding between him and his teammates".

However, Lippi replied without hesitation: "An existence like Feng Quan, whose strength is far more than that of other teammates, if he is allowed to cooperate with the strength and rhythm of other teammates to compete, not only will it not be of much help to the team, but it will also restrict Feng Quan's personal strength." ”

As a result, Feng Quan got a rare "vacation" of more than a week because of the national team match week.

Of course, Feng Quan was not in a state of complete rest during this period because he was not called up by the national football team, but went to the gym every night for at least an hour and a half of physical training in order to maintain his competitive state.

At the same time, due to the fact that the company was preparing to start selling "Fengquan brand" products in Europe in late April, Fengquan was also invited to Germany to shoot an advertisement.

Due to the haste of the "Fengquan brand" when it was listed in China, even the most important trademark of the brand was only replaced by a more abstract man "Feng". Although the selection of trademarks in this way is somewhat arbitrary, it is still easy for Chinese people to accept Hanzi as a trademark.

Nowadays, when the "Fengquan brand" is about to be sold globally, it is obvious that a simple "wind" character can no longer be used as a trademark, but must design a trademark that can be understood by non-Chinese groups, after all, only a very small number of Europeans and Americans can recognize Chinese characters.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Fengquan to go to Germany to shoot an advertisement, the executive of Biaoma Company in charge of the "Fengquan brand" also specially approached Fengquan, hoping that he would give some suggestions on the trademark design of the international version of the product.

At the beginning, Fengquan wanted to follow the example of LN, the most successful sports brand in China, and directly use the English abbreviation of its name FQ as the main body of the international version of the trademark. However, Feng Quan felt that the two letters FQ were easy to associate with "angry youth", so he dispelled this idea.

Finally, after some thought, Feng Quan said: "I want to use the letters F and V as the main body of the trademark, as for the color and shape of the trademark, you can make it look good." ”

When asked why he chose these two letters, Feng Quan replied: "F is my last name, of course, and V is an abbreviation of the English word victory." ”

The Biaoma executive smiled: "Then combining these two letters, can I understand that 'the wind is synonymous with victory'?" ”

Hearing this, Feng Quan immediately laughed and said, "Haha, you know me." ”

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Although the lack of the Chinese team has almost dropped a notch in terms of overall strength, the experience of winning the Asian Cup at the beginning of the year has given the international players who have experienced that tournament a lot of self-confidence.

Although strong self-confidence does not help players improve their individual skills, positive and reasonable self-confidence can allow players to maximize their abilities in the game.

In fact, if it weren't for the long-term lack of self-confidence of domestic players, and the fact that domestic coaches often suppress the personality of players in training and games, the more important the players are, the more likely they are to play abnormally, so that they always shrink back and show a lack of self-confidence in the international arena.

If the Football Association had hired "Big Fool" Milutinovic to coach the national football team earlier, I am afraid that the first World Cup trip of Chinese football would not have to wait until 2002.

Now, after the national football team has gone all the way to the top of the Asian Cup, even without the great god Feng Quan, the international players are still full of confidence when they face the Haitian team ranked higher than them in the world and has 15 players playing for European clubs on March 27.

Especially Wu Lei, who scored 6 goals in the Asian Cup and won the Asian Cup Silver Boot after Qu Jufengquan, constantly threatened the opponent's defense from the moment the referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the game.

Just 7 minutes into the game, after Wu Lei received the ferry from the center Yang Xu near the corner of the right penalty area, he first pretended to shoot from a distance, and then took advantage of the opponent's defender's subconscious stretching his legs to block, and suddenly accelerated to wipe past the opponent and enter the penalty area. Then, before the defender could turn around and let go, he finished with a spoon lob shot.

Goalkeeper John Plasid, who plays for Ligue 1 South FC, couldn't touch the ball after leaping up, but the crossbar kept Wu Lei's exquisite shot out of the goal.

If it had been a year ago, such a delicate shot had been denied by the crossbar, and perhaps it would have had a negative impact on the confidence of the internationals. But now, the international players have not been affected in any way, and several teammates who are closer to Wu Lei have also stepped forward to give him a thumbs up and praised his wonderful performance.

Zheng Zhi, the captain on the field, patted Wu Lei's shoulder and smiled: "Well done, you will definitely be able to score next time." ”

Wu Lei, who was praised by his teammates, worked harder in the following games, and Wu Lei, who was originally known for his excellent running, once again expanded the range of running, and he could be seen at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

As the so-called hard work pays off, Wu Lei's efforts quickly paid off.

Just five minutes after the spoon lob was denied by the goal crossbar, Wu Lei finally helped the Chinese team break the deadlock on the field.

At that time, Hao Junming dribbled into the opponent's 30-meter area after playing exquisite cooperation with Zheng Zhi and Gao Lin in the middle one after another.

Since most of the Haitian players' attention was focused on Hao Junming's relationship, no Haitian player noticed that Wu Lei, who was originally ambushed in the middle, had quietly moved to the defensive vacuum on the left side of the frontcourt.

Immediately, Hao Junming sent a scalpel-like through ball towards the empty space near the corner of the big penalty area on the left side of the Haitian team.

The next moment, after Wu Lei, who was almost undisturbed, took the ball, he first easily shook a defender and cut inside to the edge of the penalty area, and then calmly aimed at the upper right corner of the goal to complete a curling goal.

This time, neither John Plaside nor the crossbar could prevent the Haitian goal from being broken.

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