After the match against Elche, Atletico Madrid will face Juventus on December 9, and there will be no pressure on Atletico Madrid, who can qualify for the knockout rounds even if they lose.

It's just that it is possible to finish second in the group and be in a relatively disadvantageous position in the knockout draw.

But it's better than not being able to qualify in the group, right?

However, before this game, Simeone has a very important thing to solve, that is, when will Gao Zheng leave the team.

The Chinese Football Association and Atletico Madrid are at loggerheads on this issue, and neither is willing to budge.

Atletico Madrid believes that the warm-up match on December 21 is not an international A-level event recognized by FIFA, and according to the regulations, the club can not let people go. Considering their good relationship with China – including with Chinese companies – the club's willingness to let Gao Zheng leave at a time when it is not necessary to let the player go back to the national team already shows the great sincerity of Atletico Madrid.

They believe that the Chinese Football Association should not gain an inch, and also ask Gao Zheng to give up one more league. Atletico Madrid are currently second in the league, just one point away from Real Madrid, but one point away from being overtaken by Barcelona.

Considering that the Asian Cup itself will require a minimum of three league delays, this also includes a direct dialogue with Barcelona. Gao Zheng's absence is likely to bring Atletico Madrid a very bad result.

Under such a premise, the Chinese Football Association even asked Gao Zheng to play two less league games, and Atletico Madrid, as the defending champion of the league, doesn't he want results and face?

It stands to reason that the club signed a contract with the player, and the player's income comes from the club, and the national team will not give any money to the player except for the tournament bonus. Moreover, the player was injured in the national team game, and the club had to pay money to treat him, while bearing all the losses of the player's absence......

And the national team just wants the club to release players when they feel they need them, how can there be such a reason in the world?

The national team believes that the Asian Cup is of great significance to the Chinese team, and after Gao Zheng, next year's Asian Cup will give the Football Association more ideas. As such a major continental competition, the national team naturally requires all members to come together to carry out training, and the more neat the lineup, the better the training effect.

Playing Palestine was the last warm-up game before the Asian Cup, and it was also Perrin's last chance to test the lineup and tactics. If Gao Zheng just hurried back to fight in a hurry, then the use of warming up would be very small.

At the same time, they also think that for the sake of the club last season, they did not recruit Gao Zheng in the last round of the group stage of the Asian Cup, and the Chinese team lost 1:3 away to Iraq, but fortunately, the Chinese team had already qualified at that time. Taking this as an example, the Football Association believes that they also fully respect and take into account the interests of the club, but this time it is really for a reason. And they also expressed goodwill, if Atletico Madrid Club is willing to release people, then they also promise that in the future, the kind of warm-up games that are not very tight, they will respect the club's opinion and recruit less Gao Zheng to come back to play.

The Football Association feels that they are very sincere, but Atletico Madrid does not think so - they did not recruit the Chinese team back to play in the second round of the Asian Cup qualifiers last season, and they did not benefit from it, when Gao Zheng was still playing for Sampdoria.

The dispute between the two sides over this matter has also become the most concerned topic in China.

In China's public opinion field, this matter is also divided into two factions, one faction believes that the national interest is above everything else, no matter what the reason, as long as the national team needs it, Gao Zheng should come back, and the club should release him. They even thought that Gao Zheng should put pressure on the club, take the initiative to express his willingness to return to China to compete, and force the club to release him.

But the other faction believes that everything should be done according to the rules, and since the match against Palestine on the 21st is not an international break, then the club has the right not to let him go. Now that the club has agreed to release him, the Football Association should not ask the club to release him for another week. This faction even took out old things to endorse their claims - how well Yang Chen played in Frankfurt back then, but because the Chinese Football Association had to recruit him to return to China to participate in any friendly matches and warm-up matches, he traveled tens of thousands of kilometers back and forth every time, and he was exhausted, which caused Yang Chen to be physically and mentally exhausted. The Chinese Football Association's squeeze on players also angered then-Eintracht Frankfurt coach Magath, so he put Yang Chen on the bench. In this way, Yang Chen's good development momentum was interrupted, and everyone knew about the later development.

There are also people who give everyone popular science, and it is not unheard of before that European clubs refuse to let people go back to China to participate in competitions. On October 21 and 28, 2007, the Chinese team had two World Cup Asian qualifiers against Myanmar.

In the face of the Myanmar team, which is far inferior to itself, the Chinese Football Association is like a big enemy, and issued a player call-up order to four European clubs in one breath, hoping to call all four Chinese players who played in Europe at that time back to participate in the competition. They are Dong Fangzhuo who plays for Manchester United, Zheng Zhi who plays for Charlton, Shao Jiayi who plays for Cottage, and Yu Hai who plays for Vitesse.

But because these two matches were not FIFA-sanctioned match days, all four clubs refused to release them. At that time, Zheng Zhi, the core of the national team, was also facing a similar situation to Gao Zheng, and his Charlton had four league games between the 20th and the 29th, so Charlton resolutely refused to let go.

In the end, in the absence of all four returnee players, the Chinese team still defeated Myanmar 7:0 at home and 4:0 away to enter the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.

Those who cite this historical information try to prove to everyone that the Chinese Football Association is not alone in indiscriminately recruiting players in Europe. They don't care about the importance and difficulty of the game, as long as they feel the need, they can wave the banner of "winning glory for the country" to force the foreign players to return to China to participate in the competition.

This incident has caused a huge controversy on the Chinese Internet and attracted everyone's attention, and more and more people have participated, standing in line with each other and arguing with each other to take a stand.

But no one can convince anyone, everyone thinks that they are justified, and the other party is SB.

This is like the staging between the Chinese Football Association and Atletico Madrid, the big one is like the Yangtze River moat, almost insurmountable.

Because everyone is the ass who decides the head, and there is a position first, and then there is a point of view. Anyone has a point, and no one can convince anyone.

In that case, can the players themselves stand up and make a statement?

Everyone focused on Gao Zheng.

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"Why do you want a handsome guy to take a stand? Isn't this forcing him to stand in line? When the time comes, no matter what he says or does, he will definitely offend the other side, or both sides. I don't think he should have come back so early to prepare for the Asian Cup. It's just an Asian Cup, looking at this battle, I thought I was preparing for the World Cup! Xiao Yingying turned on the mode of complaining about the controversy on the Internet.

Feng Shiyu smiled: "For the current Chinese team, isn't the Asian Cup the World Cup?" We can't participate in the real World Cup. ”

Xiao Yingying pouted and looked at Feng Shiyu: "Sister Feng, aren't you worried about the handsome guy?" ”

"It's useless for me to worry, he always has to face and solve things by himself." Feng Shiyu spread out his hand.

"You two are really ...... I really don't know if you care about him or not. ”

"Well, don't worry about it. Don't look at the noise on the Internet, but I think ah, this may not be a problem for him at all, right? ”

"Why not? What if he comes back and offends the manager? When the time comes, put on little shoes for him when he goes back. That Simeone had given Becky a shadow in the World Cup, what a sinister and cunning person! If he doesn't come back, it will be even worse, offending the Football Association and offending Chinese fans, his reputation must not stink? Does he still want to be in the national team in the future? Xiao Yingying was still in a hurry.

Feng Shiyu said lightly: "I think, it's not enough to offend the head coach or the Football Association." Where is his strength, whether it is a club or a national team, can he really be banned? I don't think you're stupid, so you're not going to be angry like a child, right? As for what the fans think of him, do you think he is a person who cares a lot about what others think of him? ”

Xiao Yingying was stunned for a moment, remembering what Gao Zheng had said and what he had done, he was the one who said "the mountains are there" and "I'm Gao Zheng such a dick" in front of the Italian media, but he was the one who did it against half of the Italian media......

So she laughed: "Although I pay more attention to the news of handsome guys, but sure enough, Sister Feng, you know him better, hehe......"

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Although Gao Zheng has registered social media accounts at home and abroad, he does not speak much and is not a fanatic like Leo Ferdinand, who is said to have to scramble against Twitter and Facebook at halftime during the game.

When the fans on the Internet were boiling and everyone rushed to his social media accounts to leave messages, hoping that he could stand up and make a statement, he couldn't see it at all.

But he always ran away - he couldn't hear the voices on the Internet, but someone could convey them to him.

After training at Atletico Madrid, Gao Zheng was surrounded by Chinese reporters at the gate of Mahada Onda's training base.

"Of course I want to fight for my country, and that has never changed." Facing reporters, Gao Zheng opened his mouth and said first, "I am always proud to wear a jersey with the national flag. ”

Everyone thought that he was going to express his willingness to return to China early.

Unexpectedly, Gao Zheng followed the words: "But I now belong to Atletico Madrid, not a free agent, and I also respect the club." So what's going on...... Ask the manager! ”

He kicked the ball at Simeone, seemingly intending to run away from it, refusing to face the problem.

But how could the journalists get him his wish?

Someone shouted, "But Simone said he didn't want to let you go early!" ”

Gao Zheng stretched out his hands: "He's the boss, then he has the final say." ”

"Huh?"

Some reporters didn't expect Gao Zheng to give his opinion so simply and lightly - the head coach has the final say, doesn't that mean that he won't go back in advance, and he will wait until the game with the yellow submarine to leave?

In the past few days, there has been a lot of noise on the Chinese Internet about this issue.

The result is so decided?