Chapter 1 Bars

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April 2009 is one year and two months away from next year's World Cup in South Africa.

Fans around the world are focused on the World Cup qualifiers in all states, and Chinese fans are no exception.

Tonight is the final match of the Asian top 10, and the Chinese team faces the Japanese team away. It can be said that this is a game with a considerable gap in strength, and only by scoring three points can the Chinese team snatch a ticket to South Africa from the Japanese team.

Even though the odds of victory are slim, hundreds of millions of fans in China are still sitting in front of the TV religiously, praying, praying that the Chinese team will play a beautiful game, and that God will bless the Chinese team to defeat Japan. A small bar in City H was already full of fans at this time.

"Second son, have a beer! I want snowflakes, NND, snowflakes are good, two at a time! I'm going to him with two balls in Japan today! A fat man yelled at the bar.

The second son is the owner of this bar, a very handsome young man, his long flowing hair covers his face, making it difficult to see his appearance, and what is even more strange is that his left foot is a little lame, and he walks with a limp. He brought the wine to the fat man's table, and the fat man took the wine, and without saying a word, he poured half a bottle into his belly, and made a very loud wine.

"Cool! I'm just waiting tonight to see how little Japan gets beaten down! ”

"It's hard to say", a glasses next to him poured cold water on him, "The strength of the Chinese team is a grade lower than that of Japan, and they are fighting at home, just keep the draw, the Chinese team wants to get three points from people's homes, it's difficult, it's really difficult!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" The fat man's eyes glared and he wanted to attack, "I'll just say****** Little Japan can't kick us, I don't believe we make a bet, if the Chinese team wins, you ****** settle the accounts of everyone in this bar today, if we lose, I'll please!" ”

When everyone heard the music, they applauded, and naturally there were many people who wanted to drink for nothing to take advantage of. The glasses shook their heads and smiled bitterly: "This brother, as long as the Chinese team wins, don't say that you invite everyone to drink, no matter how difficult it is, I am willing!" What I just said is the truth, it doesn't mean that we are not patriotic, so let's say so, I'm just waiting for you to have this meal! ”

The fat man looked like a straight man, and he was happy when he heard this, patted the shoulder of his glasses, and shouted: "Second son, take two more bottles of wine, and they will have snowflakes!" I'm going to have a drink with this buddy! "For a while, there was a lot of wine in the bar, all of them wanted snowflakes, the second son was lame and busy, and the others were also happy, if the Chinese team won, it would be good, even if they lost, they would drink for nothing, and they would not drink for nothing.

At seven o'clock Beijing time, the game began, the Chinese team fought against the water, discharged a 4-3-1-2 formation, began a big onslaught, just three minutes into the opening game, Dong Fangzhuo, who played for Manchester United Club, flashed a defender on the edge of the penalty area and shot vigorously, which was saved by the Japanese goalkeeper, and the Chinese team won the first corner kick since the start of the game. At the moment when Dong Fangzhuo shot the goal, the applause in the bar could lift the roof.

In recent years, many Chinese players have gone to Europe to play, they have trained themselves in the European arena, and have achieved certain results, but there is still no super star, and there are only a handful of players who have entered the giants. Dong Fangzhuo is the biggest name among them, but he is only a substitute for the Red Devils Manchester United, and he can only play a dozen games a season.

The corner kick was opened, the first point was pushed out by the defenders of the Japanese team, the Japanese team began a fast attack, the veteran Junichi Inamoto launched a fast attack, the players of the Chinese team pressed too high, and the defense exposed a Siberian wasteland. Junichi Inamoto is so experienced, seeing the opportunity to shake over Xu Liang, who came up to intercept, a long ball to the front, and the teenager Ryuichi Yamaguchi flashed the last defender of the Chinese team at speed to form a single knife. Pulling his foot and nudging, the ball crossed the fingers of Wang Jianye, the goalkeeper of the Chinese team, and gently rolled into the gate.

Chinese players are stupid, Chinese fans are stupid, although they know that this battle is more auspicious, but they were scored just at the beginning, I'm afraid few people can accept it, right?

Goalkeeper Wang Jianye fell to the ground, looking at the ball in the goal and the Japanese players who were cheering in pain, and smashed the ground with a hard punch.

It seemed to be dubbing Wang Jianye, and there was a loud sound of broken glass in the bar at this time, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound source, it turned out to be a fat man, his eyes were blood-red, and there was still half a broken wine bottle left in his hand.

"How did ****** kick! Scored so quickly! How to kick back! The fat man roared and prepared to rush to the TV, but the people around him quickly grabbed him, and it was estimated that the TV would not be able to save if it was two seconds slower.

Either way, the game has to go on. After losing the ball, the Chinese team appeared more and more impatient, and the mistakes in passing and receiving the ball increased significantly, while the Japanese team did not play in a hurry, and began to patiently pound in the midfield and backfield.

Time passed little by little, and the Chinese team was never able to organize a threatening attack, but was almost counterattacked by the Japanese team and overtook another goal, but fortunately, the goalkeeper was brave and escaped. In this way, the first half of the game ended with Japan leading 1:0.

During the intermission, the bar was in a mess, everyone expressed their opinions, and the mess became a pot of porridge, while the second son leaned on the bar alone, drinking quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Suddenly, someone sighed: "If only Ling Feng of the national youth hadn't been injured before, the national team now lacks a spiritual leader with all-round skills like him." ”

After everyone nodded their heads, there was a sudden sound of the wine glass breaking, and everyone followed the voice, only to see the second son looking at the broken wine glass on the ground silently. Everyone is very strange, the people who come here are all regular customers, and secretly call Erzi a weirdo, because he never talks much, and he has not seen him very close to anyone in a place like a bar, including men and women, and naturally I have never seen him have such a big reaction, even if the Chinese team was scored just now, Erzi's face was not shocked.

The second son didn't say anything, just silently swept the debris on the ground into the trash, everyone was used to him like this, and they didn't care, and continued the topic just now.

"If Ling Feng still plays, he will only be twenty-seven or eight years old this year, and he is at his peak, alas! It's a pity, such a genius was actually abolished by a car accident, and on behalf of the national fans, I cursed the driver for having a son without an asshole! The fat man yelled from the sidelines.

"Not necessarily, "every time the fat man is splashed with cold water, it must be the glasses" When did the national youth team participate in the World Youth Championships and not have one or two potential players? But in the end, as soon as you enter the so-called Super League, you will definitely lose! The so-called country is not as good as the National Olympics, the National Olympics is not as good as the national youth, Ling Feng had an accident not long after he entered, so he left a good influence on everyone, otherwise in that big dye vat, even a genius like him would be abolished. ”

"What are you talking about?" The fat man is now more familiar with glasses, and he is not more serious, "Didn't I hear that Ling Feng has been photographed by Paris Saint-Germain?" The trials over there have passed, but the club here won't let people go! Mommy's! For his own benefit, he hid such a good player, and it turned out to be an accident, damn it!'

Everyone continued to talk without saying a word, and no one noticed the tears on the second son's face, which was covered by long hair.

Fifteen minutes passed quickly after the halftime, and at the beginning of the second half, the Chinese team seemed to realize that losing one goal is also a loss, and losing two goals is also a loss, and began a large-scale counterattack.

Dong Fangzhuo is worthy of being honed in Europe for many years, and the defensive pressure of the Japanese team has increased dramatically, and the two midfielders Zhao Xuri and Shao Jiayi, who also play in Europe, have also made the Japanese team's defenders have two big heads, with the awakening of several overseas players in the frontcourt, the Chinese team's offensive has suddenly strengthened, and several threatening shots have scared off half of the Japanese team's goalkeeper.

But the Japanese team is not a rookie, they already have the strength of a second-rate European team, they have more overseas players than China, and after only a few minutes, the Japanese team adapted to the Chinese onslaught, and the two sides are in a stalemate, and unfortunately, the Japanese team began to delay the same tactics as in the first half.

Time passed minute by minute, fifteen minutes passed in a blink of an eye, the Chinese team's offense still did not improve, and the Chinese players began to be impetuous again, eager to score their actions in defense too big, the veteran Dewey received another yellow card, this is the third yellow card in the Chinese team's game.

There is a saying that football is round and anything can happen, and the turn of the game occurred in the seventeenth minute, when Shogayi was knocked down in the midfield arc and won an indirect free kick about 40 meters from the goal. Generally speaking, such a ball is not threatening, and the kick-off player tends to serve quickly and launch a fast attack when the opposing player does not react, but the opposing player is not stupid, they will stand next to the ball before the penalty and block the opponent's quick serve until the referee signals him to leave. The same is true for this free kick, Zhao Xuri wanted to serve quickly, but was interfered with by the experienced veteran Junichi Inamoto and had to put the ball on the ground and wait for the referee to intervene.

The referee really signaled Junichi Inamoto to stand away, and Junichi Inamoto saw that his players had returned to the defensive position, knowing that the goal had been achieved, so he slowly left. The Chinese team's opportunity to attack quickly was destroyed, and Zhao Xuri also expected this result, so he passed the ball to the penalty area according to the usual drill, waiting for his teammates to grab points in the chaos.

But the ball passed a little big, directly sent to the vicinity of the small penalty area, where is the goalkeeper's control range, the Chinese team striker Xu Gang, who is one meter eight six tall, saw the Japanese team goalkeeper attacking, subconsciously jumped to grab the point, did not reach the ball, but the Japanese team defender Suzuki Chuan Heng next to him also subconsciously jumped up to grab the point, a dramatic scene happened, Suzuki Chuan Heng did not hit the ball, but the ball fell on the back of his head and flew towards the Japanese goal, the Japanese team goalkeeper was caught off guard, watched the ball change direction and fly into his door.

Oolong! The Japanese team gave China a ball! The score became a 1:1 draw!

The Japanese team is dizzy! All the Chinese players were also dizzy for three seconds before they reacted, they rushed to Xu Gang together, pressed him under him, although the ball was not scored by him, but if he hadn't jumped up and stimulated Suzuki Kawa Heng, people would have been so "friendly" to give us a goal.

The Chinese fans in the bar are also crazy! One by one, they jumped on the table, shouting and jumping around. Indeed, there is only one goal left, and there is still nearly half an hour left in the game, and the Chinese team still hopes again! Only the second son sighed softly, and with his gaze, Dong Fangzhuo's shot flashed on the TV just now, although it was a flash, but he still found that Dong Fangzhuo was panting, and the veteran of the Japanese team, Nakata Hidetoshi, who was standing beside him, flashed a gleam in his eyes.

The celebration of the Chinese team was soon over, because they knew that time was of the essence and that they had to seize every remaining minute to score.

The Chinese team's offensive began to be fierce again, but the Japanese team still looked like they were going to die, slowly controlling the ball and slowly pounding their feet.

Dong Fangzhuo ran desperately in the front court, hoping to cut off the ball from the Japanese team's defenders, but how could the opponent be cut off so easily? In the end, it was his own physical strength that was consumed.

Several attacks of the Chinese team have been in vain, and the Japanese team is getting more and more grinding, and even the goal kick is not open, several players in the midfield keep pounding, every time the Chinese team shoots after failure, to wait until the ball again, it will probably take more than three minutes.

More than 10,000 Chinese fans began to boo, but it was people's home stadium, and the cheering and shouting of tens of thousands of Japanese fans at home completely overwhelmed the boos of Chinese fans.

Another 20 dull minutes passed left and right, and there were only less than ten minutes left before the end of the game, and the Chinese players began to breathe, while the Japanese team was still passing the ball unhurriedly. Suddenly, Shao Jiayi snatched the ball from the Japanese team in the midfield and immediately passed it to Zhao Xuri, who flashed a defender who came up to rush and stuffed the ball to Dong Fangzhuo, who was quickly inserting. Within seconds, three overseas players completed a coordination from defense to offense, Dong Fangzhuo quickly dribbled the ball, and only one defender was left in front of him, and the hearts of all Chinese fans were in their throats. And Dong Fangzhuo made a very wonderful feint, and in the moment of Jia Tengyuan's hesitation, he changed direction and broke through the defense, and met the goalkeeper one-on-one!

The Japanese goalkeeper went out on the move, and the two sides were about to collide separately. Dong Fangzhuo had already taken the ball to the front of the big penalty area at this time, ready to hit the goal with his feet, but as soon as he raised his feet, he suddenly felt a strong force hitting behind him, and flew out involuntarily. In the air, Dong Fangzhuo turned around and only saw the smug smile of the Japanese team veteran Hidetoshi Nakata.

The referee blew the whistle in his hand, and Nakata immediately ran to Dong Fangzhuo and pulled him up, and apologized very "sincerely", and the referee saw that Nakata Yingshou had such a good attitude, and took out the hand that was about to take out the card again, and only awarded a free kick in front of the penalty area to the Chinese team.

Dong Fangzhuo was pulled up by Nakata, but he knew that Nakata Yingshou's action just now was deliberate, but there was no way, the referee's judgment was impossible to change, he patted the grass clippings on his body, and prepared to go to the penalty area to grab points.

He had just taken a step when he suddenly felt a great pain in the muscles of his right leg, "It's a cramp!" Dong Fangzhuo immediately realized that he had overdrawn, and he didn't realize it when he was running fast just now, once he stopped, and he was hit like that again, his body couldn't bear it.

Seeing Dong Fangzhuo fall to the ground in pain, the fans in the bar roared angrily, and scolded Nakata Yingshou for being deliberate, after all, Dong Fangzhuo alone undertook most of the Chinese team's attack in the game, and if he couldn't play, it would be fatal to the Chinese team's attack.

The referee suspended the game, and the nursing staff rushed on the field to carry Dong Fangzhuo down for simple treatment, hoping to play as soon as possible, but everyone knows that once the menstruation is drawn, it is impossible to recover in a short time, that is to say, even if Dong Fangzhuo returns to the field, at best, he can only play half of the previous level, in the case that the Chinese team must win, the coach is likely to replace a striker with good physical strength, and there is still a certain gap between the substitute players of the Chinese team and Dong Fangzhuo, according to this situation, The Chinese team is in a bad form.

Sure enough, the coach of the Chinese team, Shen Fu, replaced Dong Fangzhuo with the teenager Zhang Peng, Zhang Peng is a speed-type player, but the young man is a little lacking in hard work, and Shen Fu's move is also forced to be helpless.

The game continued, the Chinese team sent a free kick, Shao Jia hit the goal directly, was saved by the Japanese goalkeeper, Xu Gang made up the shot, the ball hit the Japanese team's defender and popped up the bottom line, and the Chinese team took a corner kick.

Zhao Xuri moved the ball to the penalty area, the front point of the Gatenyuan header out, Inamoto Junichi took the ball and passed to Nakata Hideto, Nakata bypassed the Chinese team players who came up to force and stuffed Yamaguchi Ryuichi on the side, fortunately, the Chinese team has been paying attention to the Japanese team's fast attack, Dewey rushed up to destroy the ball out of the bottom line, destroying the Japanese team's attack.

Since then, the two sides have been in a stalemate, and time is passing rapidly, with the referee's whistle, the game is over, and the dream of the Chinese team to impact the World Cup is over again.

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