Sampdoria, who returned to Genoa from Amsterdam with a point, made a decisive rotation for the next game against Turin.

Whether Di Francisco admits it or not, everyone now knows that Sampdoria have indeed given up the league this season to secure results in the Champions League.

Most of the main players who played in the last draw with Ajax did not appear in the starting lineup this time, and Gao Zheng was naturally not there.

Two high-intensity games in a row is indeed a big drain on the physical fitness and energy of the Sampdoria players.

In the end, Sampdoria drew 2:2 at home to Torino.

After seven league games, they are still in 13th place with eight points.

It can be seen that the impact of the Champions League on Sampdoria is still very deep.

That wasn't the case for Sampdoria in the league last season.

However, there is something to give, and their performance in the league is not good, but their performance in the Champions League is amazing.

After returning from Amsterdam, even the people who usually upset them could only remain silent at this time, and it was really not dark. However, Juventus, which has always been sought after by the media, has been disappointing.

After the match against Torino, the club competition was suspended and the national team break came.

This time, Gao Zheng did not continue to stay at the Mugneni training base, but went to Milan to board a flight to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia - in fact, in the Sampdoria vs. Turin game, Gao Zheng did not even enter the squad, and flew a day in advance, that is, the head coach Di Francesco took into account his long journey, tossed back and forth, and was afraid that he would not have enough rest, so he simply let him go a day earlier.

Anyway, he didn't plan to let Gao Zheng play in the game against Torino.

So at the end of the Sampdoria vs. Torino match, Gao Zheng had already appeared at the airport in Jakarta.

At the airport, Gao Zheng was warmly welcomed by the media of China and Indonesia.

This is not the first time Gao Zheng has worn the jersey of the Chinese team, but it will be his first senior national team game (note).

Such a commemorative competition naturally attracted much media attention.

In fact, today's China really needs a master like Gao Zheng to come back and help.

This year has been a fateful year for Chinese football.

Originally, everyone thought that after the 2010 crackdown on gangsters and evil, Chinese football should improve. In the 2010 East Asian semi-finals, the Chinese team led by Gao Hongbo did perform well and gave people hope. This time around, fans are even looking forward to qualifying for the 2014 World Cup finals.

But just when Gao Hongbo led the team to the top 20 of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup, the Chinese Football Association made a stupid move - under the will of the sponsors, they replaced Gao Hongbo, who led the team well, because Gao Hongbo is a local coach, they don't believe in the ability of the local coach, and replaced a foreign coach Camacho.

As a result, Camacho, who hastily took over the Chinese team, led the Chinese team to not even break through the top 20 matches in the Asian region, let alone qualify for the World Cup finals. The hope of a four-year rotation was so ruined by a rash change of coach.

In 2013, there was a famous match in Chinese football, when the Chinese national team lost 1:5 at home to the Thai national team, which is basically made up of youth team players.

Whether it was the performance of the players on the field or the performance of head coach Camacho, it caused outrage.

Finally, after this game, Spanish coach Camacho was sacked.

The Chinese national team is temporarily taken over by Camacho's Chinese assistant coach Fu Bo.

The first game Fu Bo took over was the East Asian Cup, which was the former East Asian semifinals.

In this kind of game, both the Japanese and South Korean teams do not recruit foreign players, and all of them are local players. Naturally, the Chinese team couldn't recruit Gao Zheng back to compete, so they were all international players who played in the local league.

As a result, I didn't expect Fu Bo's Chinese team to perform well. Since losing to the Thai team 1:5, the national team has been under tremendous pressure, and the dogs who have been scolded are bloody, and all kinds of jokes on the Internet are used to satirize them.

However, in the East Asian Cup, the Chinese team drew 3:3 with Japan in the first game, drew 0:0 with the host South Korea team in the second round, and defeated Australia 4:3 in the last game, and finally won the runner-up of the East Asian Cup.

Fu Bo's national team gives people a refreshing feeling.

In the warm-up matches, they also defeated Singapore and Malaysia with a score of 6:1 and 2:0 respectively.

However, these are not important games, and the real test is the Asian Cup qualifiers.

The Chinese team is in a group with Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Indonesia.

Camacho led the Chinese team to play two Asian Cup qualifiers, losing 1:2 to Saudi Arabia away and defeating Iraq 1:0 at home.

Three points from two games, ranking second in this group, but Iraq is the same as them, with three points, the same goal difference, and the same number of goals, and the Chinese team has the advantage in terms of mutual wins and losses.

When the results of this group came out, the domestic media exclaimed that the Chinese team had entered the "group of death", and I am afraid that it would be difficult to even guarantee the qualification for the Asian Cup.

According to the rules of the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers, the remaining teams are divided into five groups, with the top two teams in each group and the best group runners-up qualifying for the Asian Cup in Australia.

Why is this group a group of death?

Because the seeded team Iraq is a former Asian Cup champion, the strength should not be underestimated. At the same time, Saudi Arabia is the strongest team in the third tier, and it is really difficult to break out of this group at the level of the Chinese team, which is the second tier team.

In order to compete with Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the Indonesian Chinese team, which is the weakest team in the group, must score six points. Otherwise, it would be difficult to say anything about advancing to the main event.

But Indonesia is not willing to be a soft persimmon that is casually pinched.

Although they are the weakest team in the group, they also have their own ambitions.

In the FIFA rankings, the Chinese team is currently ranked 99th, and Indonesia is 170th, and from the ranking point of view, the two teams are not in the same grade at all. However, because the Chinese team lost to the Thai team 1:5, Indonesia, which is naturally comparable to the Thai team, was full of confidence, and before the game, Indonesian fans simply shouted the slogan of "8:0" to defeat the Chinese team.

When Gao Zheng arrived at the airport in Jakarta, he saw Indonesian fans holding 8:0 banners to "welcome" him.

Reporters at the airport asked him what he thought of the match.

Gao Zheng said with a serious face: "I don't think Indonesia is a soft persimmon, on the contrary, I attach great importance to them." It's a bit like Sampdoria in the Champions League group, where everyone thought we were the ones to get the points, but we slapped those guys in the face. So if we think Indonesia is easy to deal with, then we are in danger. ”

Gao Zheng took Indonesia as an opponent so seriously, which made Indonesian reporters feel very comfortable listening to it.

But when Gao Zheng left, they came back to their senses - it stands to reason that they shouldn't want the Chinese team to be proud and underestimate the enemy? If you let Gao Zheng go all out...... I'm afraid that's not something to be happy about, is it?

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Note: In fact, with Gao Zheng's influence and strength, he should have been selected for the national team a long time ago and played for the national team. However, at that time, it was the time when Camacho was coaching the national team, and given that we all knew the end of Camacho and my personal prejudice against Camacho, I really didn't want Gao Zheng to join this national team.

After all, I can't let Camacho go out of class, just when Gao Zheng has obviously joined the national team, and write that they lost to Thailand 1:5, and write that the Chinese team will sink into the top 20 in Asia, right?

If the national team with Gao Zheng has not improved, what is the significance of Gao Zheng's existence?

But if Gao Zheng wants to renew Camacho's life, I'm not happy. To make it clear, I just don't like this famous Spanish coach, I just wasn't happy that the Football Association listened to Wanda's words and replaced Gao Hongbo. In reality, I don't care, but I don't want this to happen in my own book.

At the same time, when Gao Zheng is so famous, it seems very unreasonable for the Chinese team not to recruit him, even if the Chinese Football Association is mediocre, it will not even ignore the number one star, right? I also thought about writing some plots to explain why Gao Zheng didn't join the Chinese team.

But when I think about it, I can't think of a suitable reason, I can't think of a convincing and reasonable plot.

So in the end, I simply erased this paragraph.

Don't worry about why Gao Zheng didn't enter the Chinese team before, just think that this Asian Cup qualifier against Indonesia is the starting point of his senior national team.

Camacho is gone, and the plot of Gao Zheng's Chinese team can also unfold normally.

From now on, every national team match day, Gao Zheng will not be a spectator.