Chapter 280: Every "Point" Counts
After taking out his mobile phone from his backpack, Feng Quan was ready to hang up casually when he saw an unfamiliar number displayed on the screen once. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info However, just when his fingers were about to touch the hang-up button on the screen, a thought suddenly flashed in his heart: "Could it be someone from the Football Association who called?" ”
So, Feng Quan quickly pressed the answer button.
As Feng Quan expected, it was Cao Jingwei, the leader of the national football team, who called him.
There was not too much greeting, and when the other party explained his identity, Feng Quan went straight to the point.
"Team Leader Cao, I feel very honored to be selected for the national team." After Feng Quan made his opening remarks very politely, the conversation immediately changed.
"But, I think you should also know that in addition to being a professional player, I'm also a track and field athlete. Moreover, there is not much time left until the World Championships in Moscow in August. Therefore, if you just train with the national team for more than ten days, and you can't get any opportunities to appear, I'm afraid ......"
"Hehe, you can rest assured about the opportunity to appear." Cao Jingwei said with a smile. "However, after all, you are selected for the national team for the first time, so there will inevitably be some rustiness with the cooperation between your team-mates. So, while I can't guarantee you a start, I'll at least get you half an hour or so in the game. ”
Because Cao Jingwei is only the leader of the national team, although he made a promise to himself, Feng Quan did not immediately accept the invitation of the Football Association to invite him to the national team.
Just kidding, the head coach of the national team is Camacho's stubborn, pedantic old Spanish man, if he doesn't agree to me playing, what can you, the team leader, do?
"I am very grateful to Team Leader Cao for his trust in me. However, what I want to know is whether the promise you made to me was endorsed by the head coach of the national team, Mr. Camacho? ”
Although Feng Quan has no experience as an international player before, as a senior Chinese fan, he still knows some "lace news" of the Chinese national team.
In many cases, when both foreigners and domestic "local coaches" serve as the head coach of the national team, the final list of players who participate in the training camp will be somewhat different from the list they submitted to the Football Association in advance.
For example, the squad reported by a head coach to the Football Association was originally only 23 players, but the final number of players participating in the training camp was basically about 26. Under normal circumstances, the Football Association will make an explanation of "substitute players" for these "extra" players. After all, it's not uncommon for players to get injured in training. So the explanation of this "substitute player" is quite reasonable.
But this is not the case.
These so-called "substitute players" of the national team are just some players who do not have the strength of international football, and through some shady "transactions" with some football associations with "right to speak" or the staff of the national team, they have added "international" resumes to their careers.
Even if you don't get the chance to play in a match because you don't get the national team manager. But with the experience of an international player alone, he can also ask for a higher salary from the club he plays for. Or when applying for a transfer, ask the new owner for a higher remuneration, or even the so-called "signing fee" that the Football Association prohibits.
It is precisely because of this that Feng Quan is worried about whether he was only selected as a "substitute player" in this phase of the national team training squad, and he will not be able to get the opportunity to play at all.
Although Feng Quan himself did not reach any "deals" with some people, "Camacho does not like him", Feng Quan is still very sure. Otherwise, he should have been selected for the national team in March, when China played the Asian Cup qualifiers against the Iraqi team.
Cao Jingwei obviously heard the reason for his scruples from Feng Quan's words.
"I can assure you that if you can't get a chance to play in this training camp, then the national team will never 'bother' you again." After a slight pause, Cao Jingwei continued after a "mysterious smile": "Moreover, when it comes to the next national team training camp, that stubborn old Spanish man may no longer be the head coach of the national team." ”
As soon as Cao Jingwei's words fell, Feng Quan's mind suddenly appeared that the Chinese national team was here
In June 2013, the humiliating fiasco was defeated at the foot of the "Shemale Country".
However, in order to complete the task set by the system for himself, Feng Quan still agreed to the request of the Football Association under Cao Jingwei's promise.
However, because the first warm-up match of the national football team against Uzbekistan in this training camp will be held in Hoh, Inner Mongolia on June 6, and the decathlon competition at the National Track and Field Championships will not end until the evening of June 1. Therefore, Feng Quan proposed to Cao Jingwei that he hoped that he could "skip" the first game in Hohhot on June 6, and after he had a little rest and adjustment, he would fly directly to the capital to prepare for the match against the Netherlands on June 11.
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At around 18:10 on the evening of May 27, the latest national team training squad was announced in CCTV's "Sports News" column.
And Feng Quan, who was not selected for the last training camp, also appeared in this list "without suspense".
Although Feng Quan was able to finally appear in this squad, both the Football Association and the Athletics Management Center have made a lot of efforts. But for the vast majority of domestic fans who "don't know the truth", the reason why Feng Quan was selected into the national football squad is just because of his outstanding strength.
Especially the Feng Weiguo couple who are sitting in front of the TV at the moment.
"Humph! That blind old man from Spain has finally cured his eyes this time. Xu Jingxin teased.
"Well, that's how it should be. Otherwise, with the strength of our son, even if Daquan was born in a football powerhouse such as Spain, Germany, and Italy, he can also be selected for the national team. Feng Weiguo nodded.
"Not really. If our son was selected for the national team in March, it would not be until the last minute that he barely won the Iraqi team? If you look at the game, it's ugly. "Thinking that his son was not selected for the last national football squad, Xu Jingxin's anger did not come to a place." If our son had played in that game, it is estimated that in the first half alone, the right side of the Iraqi team would have been burst into a sieve. ”
Although Xu Jingxin is not a fan, since Feng Quan became a "crossover" athlete last year, under the "influence" of her husband Feng Weiguo, he has gradually become a "professional" fan.
"Hehe, although what you said is a bit exaggerated, but with our son's strength, the Asian-level guard line is really not enough." Feng Weiguo said with a smile.
Hearing this, Xu Jingxin said proudly.
"Not really. If there is no strength, Atletico Madrid in La Liga will spend more than 20 million euros in order to buy our son? ”
In fact, if it weren't for the special clauses in Feng Quan's contract with Hamburg, according to the German "Transfermarkt" assessment, with his contribution to the "double-double" data in the Bundesliga, plus his current age advantage of only 19 years old, his worth would be at least about 30 million euros.
According to the evaluation of "Transfer Market", I am afraid that the total value of other players selected for the Chinese national team is less than half of the total price of Feng.
I don't know, if Feng Weiguo and his wife learned that if it weren't for the Football Association forcibly adding Feng Quan to the national football team, their son would be defeated again after the current national football training camp, how would they be grateful......
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On the morning of May 29, after a simple opening ceremony, the National Track and Field Championships and National Games Qualifiers officially began at the Suzhou Sports Center Stadium.
On the morning of the first day, except for some field events, almost all of them were preliminaries, so there were not many spectators who came to watch the competition.
It wasn't until around 14 p.m., when the men's 100-meter preliminaries were about to be held on the track at the stadium of the Suzhou Sports Center, that the spectators in the stands began to gradually increase.
After all, in addition to Feng Quan, the "king of sprinting", there are also well-known athletes such as Sun Bingtian and Zheng Peimeng in the Chinese men's 100-meter sprint.
And these domestic sprinters did not disappoint the audience.
In addition to Feng Quan, without using any skills, with a time of 9.91 seconds, he won the first place in the preliminaries without any suspense. Moreover, Zheng Peimeng and Su Bingtian also reached the A standard of the Moscow World Championships with a time of 10.04 seconds and 10.06 seconds respectively.
As a result, after the 2012 London Olympics, the Chinese track and field team will once again have three athletes appear on the 100-meter track of the World Championships.
Just three hours after the men's 100m heats, Feng Quan appeared in the men's 400m heats again.
Although this is Feng Quan's first time participating in the 400m individual event, when other athletes see him, their hearts begin to know how to compete for the "second place" in tomorrow's final.
After all, except for Feng Quan, almost none of the athletes who came to participate this time can be sure that they can break through the 46 seconds in terms of performance. A year ago in London, Feng Quan ran a time of 45.83 seconds in the 400m event of the decathlon.
Now, he can dare to sign up for the 400m individual event, which shows that he has improved in this event.
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Speaking of the men's 400m race, there was also a small episode.
Originally, two months before the start of this competition, the venue of the entire National Athletics Championships was decided, and in late April, the competition schedule was distributed to the participating teams.
However, when the wind is full in early May, through the LN Provincial Sports Bureau, after signing up for the 400-meter event at the National Track and Field Championships to the Athletics Management Center. In order to facilitate the wind all-round competition in the 100 meters, 400 meters, and decathlon, the organizing committee has made certain changes to the competition time of individual events.
For example, the men's 100m preliminaries and finals, originally scheduled for May 31 and June 1, were rescheduled for May 29 and May 30.
The preliminaries and finals of the 400m event, originally scheduled for May 30 and 31, have also been rescheduled for May 29 and May 30. The men's decathlon competition, originally scheduled for 30 and 31 May, was rescheduled to 31 May and 1 June.
Although the organizing committee of the tournament is well aware that the temporary revision of the competition schedule is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the vast majority of teams. However, considering Feng Quan's influence in the international athletics arena and the almost fanatical love of the domestic masses, it was decided to create a "convenience" for him to compete.
And Feng Quan also used his excellent performance to repay the "good intentions" of the organizing committee.
After qualifying for the World Championships in the 100m event with a time of 9.91 seconds, Feng Quan easily ran 44.99 seconds in the 400m heats, reaching the A standard of the World Championships in Moscow, and also breaking the national record in the event that had been in the dust for 12 years.
Although the time of 44.99 seconds is still a huge gap with Feng Quan's goal of breaking the world record, it still makes him the first Chinese to break the 45-second mark.
So much so that when the big screen of the stadium showed Feng Quan's results, and the commentator at the scene reported that "Feng Quan broke the national record with a time of 44.99 seconds", all the spectators in the stands applauded him warmly.
Feng Quan was in the 400-meter heats, and without using any skills, he still had some reservations.
Looking at the applause of thousands of enthusiastic spectators in the stands, Feng Quan's heart couldn't help but sigh.
"If these guys knew that I had only used eighty or ninety percent of my 'power', how would they feel?"
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that every time he broke a record, the system would reward Feng with all 1 to 5 skill points, I'm afraid he wouldn't have saved his strength like this. Although the reward for breaking the national record is only 1 skill point, if you go directly to break the Asian record, you will always suffer a "loss". Therefore, Feng Quan deliberately saved his strength in the preliminaries, and then when it came to the finals, he would break the Asian record.
In this way, counting the reward for winning the championship of this event, Feng Quan will get at least 5 skill points in this 400-meter race (1 skill point for the individual national champion and 3 skills for breaking the Asian record).
For Feng Quan, who urgently needs enough skill points in order to buy more skills, in addition to the 400 meters, which is the first single event, he can get more skill points. In the 100m and decathlon events, with his current state not being very sure of breaking the world record, the other two events together can only earn a maximum of two skill points.
It is precisely because of this that Feng Quan will be a little "calculating" in the 400-meter race......