The Chinese team participates in the Copa America?

It may sound like a joke, but it's true.

The 39th edition of the Copa America will kick off in Paraguay on July 17 and end on August 6, with a total of 12 teams divided into three groups.

Before 1993, the Copa America had always consisted of only 10 teams from South America, and unlike other continental cups, there seems to be no fixed time for the Copa America.

Back when the America's Cup was first established, it was an annual competition, then it became a biennial competition, then it became a quadrennial event, and after '89, it reverted to a biennial competition.

After '93, in order to expand its influence and revenue from the event, the Copa America began to invite teams from other continents to participate, first in 1993, the United States and Mexico were invited to participate, and then this year, due to the sudden withdrawal of the American team, the South American Football Confederation was desperately looking for a replacement.

So the Chinese team fell into their eyes.

China is the most populous country in the world, not to mention that their results have improved by leaps and bounds in recent years, the fourth place in the World Cup, it will not surprise people to win the championship in the Copa America, and FIFA also has this image, so it is logical that the Chinese team squeezed out the position of the original Japanese team and received an invitation to participate in the Copa America as the first Asian team.

This decision was announced as early as half a year ago, and it should have been intense pre-game training after the end of the season, but Ling Feng slapped his ass and ran to the United States to watch the Women's World Cup, but the other members of the Chinese team could not learn from Ling Feng, so they had to honestly return to China to participate in training, and Ling Feng would meet them directly in Paraguay after the Women's World Cup.

The lineup of the Chinese team participating in the Copa America this time is basically the same as the World Cup lineup a year ago, but there are many more fresh faces on the bench, Li Ming, Shen Si, Peng Weiguo, Mao Yijun and other domestic league players appear in the squad, the starting striker Hao Haidong Lei can't move, and Yang Chen, who is in another position, must compete for the position with Gao Feng, Su Maozhen and others.

None of Fiorentina's youngsters were selected, of course, Liu Dong and Yue Lingxiang, who shined in the World Cup, are not in Fiorentina now, they were selected for the national team, and Ding Rui, a young player who was used by Ling Feng to exchange for Ronaldo, was selected for the new national team because of his outstanding performance in Inter Milan, squeezing out Li Jinyu at the last moment.

Twelve teams, divided into four groups.

Group A: Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia and China;

Group B: Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela;

Group C: Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Ecuador.

Among them, the Peruvian team was the most active, they started preparing four months ago, played eight friendly matches, the Chinese team only started training a month and a half ago, a total of three friendly matches, Ling Feng only participated in a match against Costa Rica after watching the Women's World Cup - and played half an hour to score a goal before going back to sleep......

In Ling Feng's words, I'm always embarrassed to go to other people's territory and rob other people's champions to come back, so it's better to take it easy, just go and exercise.

Of course, even if he was as bold as him, he didn't dare to say this clearly, but there were two hegemons in South America, Brazil and Argentina, and it would be enough for Ling Feng to take one out at random.

When it comes to Argentina, I have to say that the god of war Batistuta, the Argentine team stopped in the quarterfinals of the World Cup, and the head coach Passarella stepped down gloomily and was replaced by the Argentine madman Bielsa.

According to Ling Feng's memory, Bielsa, a madman, doesn't buy anyone's account, it can be said that he is even more domineering than Passarella, because in this America's Cup, Barty, Veron and others deliberately made excuses not to participate, let alone Redondo.

But now the situation is different, even if Bielsa comes to power, he always has to give Maradona some face - originally Bielsa didn't give face to the old horse, but the problem is that people took a broken team (according to the Argentine media) to win the fourth place, and led Fiorentina to set a world record in a row, and won the title of the treble for two consecutive years, so the old horse is very cool now, even if he handed over the whip of Fiorentina, his fame is much greater than the original - after all, it was only the fans who respected him before, The Argentine Football Federation's top brass didn't buy him at all, but now it's different.

Uncle Ma told the media that the Argentine team needs to inject young blood, so the top management of the Argentine Football Association ordered Bielsa to recruit young players, and Bielsa will not do it, so you can get out of here honestly......

The Argentine team is a country of madmen, Passarella, Bielsa, Maradona, none of them are in their right minds, Bielsa stepped down, and the Argentine Football Association begged Lao Ma to come back to coach, anyway, Maradona has completely resigned from his job as the head coach of Fiorentina, but he doesn't mind taking over Bielsa's class, and signed his contract until the 2002 World Cup.

In other words, the old rascal is going to take the Argentine team to compete for the 2002 World Cup championship, and he will be one of Ling Feng's biggest obstacles at that time.

Bielsa has quality, but he's crazy, and he famously said that Argentina is full of football talents, and I can win the World Cup by catching a few people.

He doesn't like Batistuta and his love will be Crespo.

Before the World Cup, he didn't even leave Barty a chance at all, no matter how high the domestic call for the god of war was, he even insisted on not recruiting Barty into the national team!

One more thing, he didn't like Riquelme.

It was because of his persistence that Barty was substituted at half of the game in the 02 World Cup, and it was also because of his persistence that Riquelme was not even taken to South Korea in 02!

Riquelme's voice in Argentina is very high, in 01 his voice even surpassed the old little donkey Ortega, and now although Riquelme was abducted to China by Ling Feng, the domestic voice has not weakened at all.

As soon as this old horse pouted his ass came to the stage, it can be said that it represented the voice of most fans in Argentina.

Under his appeal, the Argentine team was unprecedentedly united, Batistuta, Riquelme, Caniggia, Redondo, Veron, all returned honestly, and the old horse was not as partial as Bielsa, he left a place for Crespo, and also recruited the current top newcomer of the Argentine team, Saviola, and the "madman" of the Boca team, Palermo.

In addition, Emaar and Cambiaso, who performed eye-catching at the World Youth Championships in '97, were also able to enter the squad of the old horses, and almost all of the well-known superstars of the Argentine team joined!

And more importantly, the old marken gives other people a chance.

Cardinho. The pairing of López and Batistuta in the World Cup, the two formed a sharp offensive line of the Argentine team, one fast and the other steady.

And the 32-year-old son of the wind, Caniggia, who is now in his prime, will compete with López for this position, as well as Saviola the rabbit.

In terms of the selection of center forwards, Batistuta was Argentina's first choice, but Maradona did not completely abandon the other when he had one, like Bielsa, he kept Crespo in the team, and even arranged a three-striker lineup - Barty and Crespo are two forwards, next to Lopes or Saviola as wingers.

Maradona's bold tactics did make many people's fists sweat.

As for the midfield, Argentina's current midfield can even be described as gorgeous.

Redondo's return has greatly increased the control of Argentina's midfield, as well as Simeone's solid defense, Veron and Ortega's double midfield, Riquelme, Emaar and Cambiasso as substitutes, and also performed well in the warm-up games.

There were basically no changes at the back, the only surprise was that goalkeeper Roa patted his ass and announced his retirement because of his belief in Buddhism, and Maradona had to keep River Plate's Bonano as the starter.

In the three warm-up games, winning against China, Peru and Spain (Ling Feng was still watching the game in the United States when China and Argentina played, and he didn't throw the phone call for him to go back to the game), Maradona was in the limelight in Argentina for a while, and the Argentine team has become one of the teams with the highest call to win the World Cup.

Another team with a high demand is Brazil, of course, – you can imagine it on your toes.

Ronaldo recuperated in China for half a year and was finally able to return to the court, but he did not participate in the competition for half a year, and the mule's body became fatter, which made him have to do more than a month of weight loss training to lose body fat.

In the words of the doctor, Ronaldo's illness is basically better, and now there is still a little bit of injury left, but which player is not injured - except for Ling Feng's pervert......

Romario has not been selected for the national team, but Rivaldo, who helped Barcelona win the league title last season, has now become the new icon of the Brazilian team, and Ronaldinho, who is very popular among Saint-Germain, has also been selected for the national team, and people affectionately call him: "Ronaldo Jr. ......"

Brazil's all-conquering 3R in the '02 World Cup is now here and stronger than in '02 – because Ronaldo is no longer plagued by injuries.

Three seeded teams, two of the world's top teams, and a host country...... But the current situation of the hosts does not seem to be very good.

Paraguay's top star and world No. 1 goalkeeper Chilavert refused to play in this Copa America.

Chilavert decided that Paraguay did not have the strength to host a major cup tournament and that the three large stadiums built specifically for the cup were meaningless, so he refused to be selected for the Paraguayan national team, which even caused displeasure among the Paraguayan national hierarchy, but the guy still went his own way.

Ling Feng yawned, he originally thought that he could coach this guy well, but it seemed that there was no play now.

The teams were full of ambition, but the least confident was Venezuela coach Pastorissa, who even said before the game: "We are satisfied to finish second from the bottom." ”

In history, there is a Japanese team at the bottom, and the Venezuelan team really got the penultimate place as expected, but unfortunately now the Japanese team has been replaced by the Chinese team, and it is really difficult to realize this wish.

Ling Feng's transfer next season is still unmoving, and he himself only said in an interview that the goal is still the champion of La Liga, but the team is beyond everyone's imagination.

No one knew what kind of medicine was sold in Ling Feng's gourd, but everyone knew that this guy had always been so sneaky, and they didn't bother to talk about him.

The enthusiasm of Chinese fans for this Copa America is beyond the imagination of the South American Football Confederation, and it is no wonder that the women's football team has just won the World Cup, and the men's football team naturally has to support it vigorously.

The first match after the opening ceremony, Peru vs. China.

Peru is a traditional powerhouse in the Americas, but now, their level can only rank second in the world, after a year of training, the members of the Chinese team have matured more, coupled with their incomparable confidence, the outcome of this game has actually been decided before the game.

To be honest, the other three teams in Group A were not able to be put in Ling Feng's eyes, even the strongest host, Paraguay, without the leadership of the leader Chilavert, was just a piece of scattered sand, so Ling Feng sat on the bench, ready to deal with the unexpected at any time in the second half.

Now the head coach of the Chinese team, Zhu Guanglu, has been studying in the Americas, and his coaching style is biased towards the Americas, which is very strange, Ling Feng did not dictate the tactics arranged by Zhu Guanglu as he did back then, but Zhu Guanglu didn't understand what Ling Feng meant, and he had to discuss everything with Ling Feng first to see if it was feasible.

Ling Feng laughed, he had no choice but to snatch Qi Wusheng's coaching power back then, because at that time, the Chinese team was not comparable to now, and the tactics according to him were naturally up to him, but how to say it, Zhu Guanglu had also followed Santana for two years, and what he wanted now was his personal coaching level.

The Chinese team cannot always be supported by Ling Feng alone.

In the first game, the Chinese team played beautifully, pressing the opponent from beginning to end, and finally won the opponent 3:1 when Ling Feng did not play, and made a good start.