Chapter 36: Hao Haidong's Confession
The Chinese team is ahead, which means that the next game is better.
Although no one doubted before the game that the Chinese team would not be able to win this game, football is round, anything can happen, and Ling Fengtuoda did not play - the United States was able to beat Portugal in the last game, so it is reasonable to have another upset in this game.
Hao Haidong's goal put the hearts of Chinese fans at ease, although there is still a long time before the end of the game, but a goal lead is always not a bad thing, and for Hao Haidong himself, scoring in his last World Cup game is enough to draw a successful end to his national team career.
Hao Haidong is a veteran player who has witnessed Chinese football from its inception to development to degeneration, and then to Nirvana.
The 32-year-old Hao Haidong will certainly miss the next World Cup, despite his dominance at home and being hailed as China's number one striker.
But the elderly players are still in the main position in the national team, it is definitely a sadness, now this Chinese team, is no longer the reality of the Chinese team who is afraid of whom, excellent young players continue to emerge, the competition is becoming more and more cruel, and the selection of the national team is no longer like before, who has a good relationship with the coach, who is famous can be selected.
No matter how famous you are, if you are not in a good state, you will get out.
At the age of 36, he will definitely not be able to compete with those young players, and even now, it is quite difficult to play the whole game in a fierce match.
Ling Feng said that even if he kept his state, at the age of 34, that is, in the 2014 World Cup, he might not participate, let alone Hao Haidong.
The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a new generation replaces the old.
Not long after the start of the second half, the Chinese team raised the sign of substitutions, No. 9 down, No. 18 up.
Hao Haidong was replaced by Yang Hui from Torino - the youngster's most impressive was in the Olympic qualifiers against South Korea, who came on the pitch at the last minute and scored a goal to create a penalty to help China beat South Korea 7-0 at home.
The Chinese fans did not hesitate to give applause to Hao Dong, who was substituted, and his performance in this game was obvious to all.
Hao Haidong smiled and hugged Yang Hui, and after greeting the audience, he sat on the bench and took the water handed by Ling Feng.
"Good play, it'll be my time in a while." Ling Feng smiled, not having the seriousness of the game: "In the future games, you will give full play to your physical strength within half the court, I see that you are still walking now, obviously you are lazy." ”
Hao Haidong smiled and smashed Ling Feng's punch, and suddenly the unserious guy pretended to be in pain and fell to Su Maozhen, who was on the side, screaming, clamoring that he was injured and asked Hao Haidong to treat him after the World Cup.
Ling Feng's appearance made the bench of the Chinese team laugh, this is Ling Feng, forever so big and small.
Looking at everyone's relaxed expressions, Hao Haidong took a sip of water, his eyes were still on his teammates in the arena, but his heart had traveled through time and space and returned to the past......
Oh, when I was 10 years old, I joined the youth team of Bayi, and at that time playing football was a kind of non-professional performance, but I liked it, because I liked it, so I did it.
The life of the junior team is the same as that of many players, as one of the best, I was appreciated by the coach, and I climbed up step by step to enter the national Olympic team and the national team.
When I first entered the national team, the head coach was the German devil Schlapner, and I was still a substitute at the time, and we were ambitious to go to the World Cup, but we failed, and we lost at the feet of the little snake in Yemen.
Uncle Shi made a lot of benefits, what advertising fees and endorsement fees made a lot of money, and even went to the Spring Festival Gala, and Feng Gong's old boy sold a white hair to a sky-high price of 100,000 yuan, and I knew at that time that the cow was blown out.
I didn't learn anything from Uncle Shi, but I learned to brag, maybe my bad habit of talking about bad temper in the future was brought out by Uncle Shi.
Uncle Shi is gone, and Lao Qi is here. Lao Qi is still a person with two brushes, and under his leadership, we won the silver medal in the 94 Asian Games, and next, the opening of A A.
I have two biggest wishes, one is to be able to participate in the World Cup, even if I don't score, even if I can shoot a goal on the pitch; Second, China has its own professional league.
We have been watching Serie A and Bundesliga for a long time, but why don't we have a professional league of our own in China, and why can't we organize these games in an orderly manner?!
Now that hope has finally come true, that year, my teammates and I finished ninth.
What impressed me the most was in August '95, when Uruguayan powerhouse Peñarol played against the Chinese national team, and we won that game, and I personally contributed two of the three goals.
At that time, the Peñarol team wanted me to go to them and turn to Europe after the development.
I would love to go, why wouldn't I go?
I never imagined that the Chinese professional league that I was most looking forward to would become like this in a short period of time, match-fixing, black whistles, I watched my teammates end up with stacks of thick bills and go for fun, and then watched them look black during the game, and the defense and offense were lax like that, is this the professional league I was looking forward to?
I easily pierced through the opponent's door, but I saw that their goalkeepers and defenders did not have any frustrated expressions on their faces, and I saw that kind of expression a lot, which means, let's get the game over quickly, let's wait and play!
What else does my goal mean?
It's all rigged matches, and the outcome of the game is decided before the game!
But I didn't make it, the club wouldn't let me go, and just like that, I missed the opportunity to go abroad for the first time.
But just a month later, I remember very well that I went to the club as usual to start training that day, but when I entered the door, my teammates and coaches gathered around with newspapers and looked at me with a very strange look when they saw me coming.
I was weird at the time, but when I saw the newspaper, I was immediately blindsided.
The front page is a Chinese teenager who has never been seen before, wearing the number 46 shirt of Paris Saint-Germain, standing by the corner flag and raising his arms and shouting, while the two people behind him I know, one is Djokaeff and the other is Mboma.
That big line of words pierced my heart like a knife - "Chinese teenagers landed in the French League, two passes and one shot at the savior in danger"!
Ligue 1! Although it is the end of the five major leagues, it is one of the top professional leagues in the world after all!
I remembered the young man's name, his name was Ling Feng.
I didn't participate in the training that day, but ran to have a drink by myself and got drunk!
Professional players are said not to smoke and drink too much, but this is China! Smoking and drinking, it's such a normal thing!
Professional players have nothing, they just have money!
Oh, it's too high-minded, how much better am I than them?
I regret it, I have never regretted it like this in my life! Maybe if I had followed Penarol, I could have appeared in the newspapers with such great glory and attracted the attention of millions of people.
In the next six months, I began to be confused, anyway, the game should be as much as the score, I kicked the ball with my soft feet at will, can make the opponent's goalkeeper "judge" the wrong direction and roll into the goal, what am I afraid of?
Until the beginning of 96, suddenly one day, a mysterious invitation letter was sent to me, saying that I should go to the Shanghai International Hotel, there is something important to discuss, and at the end I also said that if I don't go, I will definitely regret it for the rest of my life.
I can't let myself regret it anymore, I've missed one chance and I can't afford to miss a second time.
Besides, the round-trip tickets have been given, and I don't want to pay for it anyway, so I should go to Shanghai to relax.
When I got there, I saw a lot of acquaintances, Lao Fan, Mao Zhen, Yang Chen, Yu Genwei, and a group of stinky boys who didn't finish their hair.
They were all invited by this mysterious man? What are we doing here? It's not a team, even if you want to play match-fixing, it won't be so blatant, right?!
At this time, the door was pushed open, and a somewhat immature voice came in: "You have come from afar, it is really hard. ”
I turned my head and saw the face that I will never forget......
He stood at the door so casually, dressed in a very sunny sportswear, a very sunny smile, his eyes were very clear, and he was also a little cunning, he is the most popular player in Chinese now, the guy who has achieved the deep dream in our hearts, the shooter king of Ligue 1, the first player in China who is not yet 16 years old - Ling Feng!
I couldn't have imagined that he was the one who invited us to come.
He seemed very casual, and there was no superior frame as I imagined, and I was very jealous of him, but when he asked, I didn't know what I was thinking, so I only heard my own voice answer.
The other players were the same, and I could tell that they were constantly changing their postures because they were nervous.
Damn it! How could I be nervous in the face of such a little ghost?!
I was stunned by the first thing he asked, and he even opened his mouth to ask, how is the situation in the domestic league now?!
My first feeling at that time was that I was embarrassed and thrown abroad!
Ling Feng is far away in France, and he even knows such ugly things as Jia A, this is really a good thing not to go out, and bad things to spread thousands of miles!
When Zhao Jun said "Tianmu", I obviously felt a murderous aura coming from Ling Feng's body, it was a genuine murderous aura!
Unconsciously, we all put our hopes on this guy who is not yet 16 years old, and his next words made us excited one by one!
Go abroad!
Go to Brazil!
At that moment I felt a trembling in my heart, go abroad! Go to the kingdom of football and then springboard into Europe's top five leagues!
What a tempting idea!
I have always been extremely confident in my own strength, and seeing Ling Feng's success overseas, I believe that I will definitely be able to make my own way there!
At this time, I silently said to myself in my heart that I must not let go of this opportunity, even if it is a bankruptcy for the club, I must go abroad!
But Ling Feng solved all the things of the club, I don't know what means he used, when I got the ticket to Brazil, I felt like I was going crazy, I regretted it so easily, I found it so easily?!
From that moment I decided, from then on, I followed him, I believe in my own vision, this boy who is not yet sixteen years old, he is the dawn of Chinese football!
Lao Fan, a few of us also said on the plane that when we arrived in Brazil, we were not familiar with the place, and we went to study, we had to be modest, and our temper should be more restrained, and we finally had such a rare opportunity, if we didn't grasp it well, it was really sorry for ourselves!
I've never been confronted by someone else in my life, but this time I swear, as long as I can stay there and realize my dream, even if they hit me in the face, I will endure it!
However, the attitude of the Brazilian players was much more gentle than expected, there was no arrogance, and the club officials were polite to us, except for Coach Santana's strict requirements for us, there was no very repulsive situation as expected.
We originally thought it was the Brazilian Gao Feng, but later when I was in Hamburg, I told Ling Feng about this by chance, but he pouted and scolded: "Nonsense! When Lao Tzu's 10 million dollars were thrown for nothing, and there are so many other benefits, which one of the girls dares to show us Chinese faces, I will directly abolish him! ”
At that time, I knew that all this money was paid by Ling Feng himself, and I also learned a little from that day, since I have strength, I shouldn't be a grandson!
When I was in Hamburg, it was a great pleasure to work with Ling Feng, he was always able to get the ball to your feet in any way that was unthinkable, and I remember very well that my first Bundesliga goal was disallowed, and that was my first touch after coming on as a substitute.
Next, I created a penalty kick, and Ling Feng gave me the opportunity, and I finally scored my first goal in Europe.
But because of this goal, Ling Feng and head coach Magath had a big quarrel after the game.
Finally Magath was driven away, and my understanding of strength deepened again, as long as there is enough strength, then you don't have to worry about anyone showing you a look!
At the time of the Atlanta Olympics qualifiers, a few of us were still in Brazil, and we were not recruited into the team in China, not even Ling Feng.
But with our excellent performance in Europe, Lao Qi finally couldn't sit still anymore and he called me and hoped that we could return to China for the Asian Cup.
My blood is burning, really, as a professional player, the biggest dream is to play for the country, it just so happens that our strength has grown greatly, plus Ling Feng, we want to let those small countries in Asia see our strength in China!
But Ling Feng's face was gloomy, it was before the match with Leverkusen, he was furious, I will never forget his dark face at that time, that sinister sneer, the words he spit out between his teeth: "Even if I am charged with treason, I will not go back!" …… I'm not just going to bring down the Football Association, I'm going to build a fair and just professional league! ”
I'm really stupid, is this Ling Feng's goal, a terrible target, he's a madman!
After Schuster's words, Ling Feng finally agreed to return to China, but he didn't expect that on the first day of training after returning to China, he severely beat up those old bastards who were powerful and powerful.
What a good fight! It's so cool! Even cooler than my hat-trick in the game!
The next thing I felt was like I was in a dream.
The Chinese team was reorganized, and they were replaced by our own people, all of whom were players that Ling Feng brought overseas for development.
beat Little Japan, slaughtered Korean kimchi, and then gestured four fingers towards Iran, and finally defeated the Saudi Arabian team under the extremely unfair referee, and Ling Feng also ruined the Asian Cup!
I thought at one point that it was just a hallucination that I was having, a beautiful dream, but if it was, I would rather never wake up!
Not a dream......
The Football Association has fallen, Tianmu has also fallen, and Chinese football is finally on the right track.
We qualified for the World Cup, rushed into the World Cup for the first time, and finished fourth!
This achievement can already be recorded in the history of the World Cup!
I'm so glad I was able to see this day in my lifetime and be a part of it!
It can be said that from the beginning of '96 to the end of the '98 World Cup, I felt as if I was in a dream.
I often dream in my sleep of the moment when we lifted the Asian Cup, the excitement when we won the Bundesliga, and that is an eternal memory for me.
But when I woke up from the dream, I suddenly felt scared, I was afraid that what I had just dreamed of, what I had experienced in the past two years, was illusory, and it disappeared as soon as I opened my eyes...... Hallucination.
Luckily, there were pictures of us lifting the trophies on the wall, and I was convinced that, yes, it was real.
Do you believe that a player who has witnessed the rise of Chinese football cries bitterly when he wakes up from a dream and cries bitterly in front of those photos that represent honor!
I held the photos tightly in my arms, because I was afraid that they would disappear and that I would go back to the messy life I had back then......
Maybe, not maybe! Without Ling Feng, we would not be where we are today......
The whistle of "beep" made Hao Haidong's mind pull back, he raised his head in confusion, and saw Ling Feng on the side constantly shaking his legs, which was the performance of his warm-up exercise.
Ling Feng stood on the sidelines, and the fourth official raised the sign of substitution, under the 16th, on the 10th, it seemed that he was ready to play.
Ling Feng clearly heard Ling Feng's pouting scolding: "These bastards, there are only twenty minutes left, and they haven't scored yet, after the NND game, they will be punished for running ten laps around the court, no, twenty laps!" ”
Hao Haidong smiled, this is Ling Feng, that's right, all this is reality.
"Ah Feng," Hao Haidong called softly, seeing Ling Feng looking back at him suspiciously, he said with a smile, "Thank you." ”
Maybe it was Hao Haidong's pig-kidney-like face that was not suitable for expressing such a philosopher-like smile, Ling Feng suddenly shivered, with a chill all over his body, and couldn't stop muttering in his heart: "What's wrong with Haidong, you are smiling so carefully...... Ah, it can't be that kind of orientation, oops, disgusting......"