Chapter 8 The new jersey of the Chinese team
Erwin flicked the ball back in a hurry, but the ball bounced up too hard, and by the time it reached Schmeichel, the ball was about the height of the Danish goalkeeper's waist.
This kind of ball is the most difficult to deal with, because in the Italian summer of 1900, the number of goals scored by the teams in the World Cup was greatly reduced due to conservative tactics, and in order to prevent this from happening, in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, FIFA established the rule that goalkeepers are not allowed to use their hands to receive the return pass kicked by their teammates.
This makes it much more difficult for the goalkeeper to deal with the defender's return pass.
Schmeichel is not Chilavert or Campos, he is a very traditional goalkeeper and his individual skills are not as good as some of the substitutes – in his own words: "Rather than practising possession and dribbling, which you don't need at all, you should use that energy on goalkeeping skills......
Maybe the reason is the neat noise of the Munich fans, maybe it is Schmeichel's own skills, maybe it is the reason for the relaxed mentality near the end of the game, anyway, the final result is - the Danish goalkeeper volleyed the ball in the air, but the ball was not kicked in the right place, and it grazed the outside instep, drawing a beautiful 360-degree arc.
That's right, it's 360 degrees, and the Danish goalkeeper's outside instep makes the ball spin at high speed, and after hitting the ground, it bounces off and flies towards his own goal......
Sauer, who had already rushed up to press, naturally did not waste this golden opportunity, he followed the ball and fired a push, as soon as Schmeichel came back to snatch it, but it was obviously too late at this time, and the ball rolled in front of his finger into the net.
1:2!
In the last minute before the end, Schmeichel's mistake gave Bayern a consolation goal!
Although the Champions League group stage is a home-and-away round-robin, it is not based on the principle of more away goals to rank the group, and the winner of each game can get three points, so Sauer's goal is at best just a face-saving goal for Bayern......
But Schmeichel, who made such a serious mistake, was unanimously condemned by the Manchester media after the game.
Schmeichel is 35 years old this year, and even the longest-lived goalkeeper on the football field, Schmeichel's age is a little old, so many reporters have nothing to do, saying that Schmeichel is no longer able to adapt to the fierce competition in the Premier League, and he is not long away from the day of "layoff......
Schmeichel is a stubborn guy, and even Eric Cantona and Ferguson are afraid of his three points, because if he starts a fire, it is not something that one or two people can stop.
At the post-match press conference, Ling Feng and Stam sandwiched Schmeichel left and right, for fear that the red-nosed Dane would not be able to stand the stimulation of the reporters and go crazy on the spot.
Surprisingly, however, Schmeichel was rather calm, showing no unusual emotions under the almost unreasonable accusations of reporters, and it seemed that he was still very angry about the mistake.
In the next period of training, Ling Feng and Xiao Beike were miserable.
In addition to the regular training set by the club, Schmeichel pulls the two of them to practice all day long, and Xiaobei is also depressed now, so it doesn't matter if he works hard, but it's hard for Ling Feng......
Finally, the training was over, and he was pulled to practice by those two perverts, one to practice how to defend free kicks, and the other to practice how to take free kicks - these two guys were a perfect match together, but Ling Feng was asked to give on-site guidance or something, which made Ling Feng very depressed......
On the first day, Ling Feng trained with them until seven o'clock in the evening, and after returning home, he fell directly into the living room;
The next day, Ling Feng used the excuse of going to the toilet, but he was followed closely by Schmeichel and did not let him pee;
On the third day, Ling Feng did not come to training under the pretext of illness, and was directly killed by Xiaobei and Schmeichel at home and arrested;
Day 4,......
Day 5,......
Ling Feng felt like he was about to collapse!
However, training in recent days has greatly improved Ling Feng's feeling in front of goal, and the immediate result is that he scored five goals in the next two games - one against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup and one against Tottenham Hotspur in the league......
In Ling Feng's words, now he was angry when he saw that guy in a goalkeeper's uniform......
Originally, Tottenham Hotspur was capable of fighting Manchester United, and they also drew with Ling Feng's Saint-Germain team that year, and they were at their home stadium, so the head coach Joel was very confident before the game.
But soon, Joel's confidence sublimated into determination, then into worry, then into trouble, then into sadness, and finally into discouragement......
Poor Tottenham suffered their biggest defeat of the season with a 4-0 defeat at home.
The days in the UK have not been shocking, Manchester United's strength has made the Premier League few opponents of Ling Feng, he and Cantona's combination is considered the most threatening forward partner in the Premier League, and for Ling Feng, one victory after another has not been able to make his heart highly excited, he is now in many aspects of the future development of Chinese football.
After three months of planning and design, the new Chinese national team jersey produced by Li Ning was finally released.
The home and away clothes are still white and red, but under the right shoulder of the jersey is another opposing color - this style is a reference to the new jersey of the Chinese team after the 06 World Cup, and the style is also better-looking, and another feature is that on the chest of the jersey, it is the style of a golden dragon with teeth and claws!
This is the most difficult logo to set for the Chinese team's jersey now.
At the beginning, the symbol of the solicitation was an entrenched Wolong, but this pattern was scolded by Ling Feng - Ling Feng didn't care about Li Ning's influence, and he didn't do a good job.
In Ling Feng's words, China must not use the coiled dragon as a representative pattern now, because to express it, it is necessary to show China's strength, which is a golden dragon flying in the sky, not a sleeping dragon still dozing in the nest!
Of course, the design of the jersey is not so complicated, because it is very inconvenient for the mass production of the jersey - you know, in addition to the use of the jersey for players to wear, there is also to sell to fans, if the dragon pattern on each piece of clothing is similar to the hand-embroidered dragon in the Manchu Dynasty, the cost of production will be greatly increased, which is not conducive to the profit of merchants.
And then there is a point that the design of the dragon in this way is easy to remind people of the long braids of the Manchu Dynasty, that sad era.
So in the design of the new jersey dragon, the dragon in the style of ink painting was finally adopted.
A few very simple strokes sketched a golden dragon with teeth and claws, so this jersey has just been launched, and it has been well received by most people - this is a team uniform with traditional Chinese characteristics, and the Chinese team will wear this jersey to the top of the world!
Of course, not 100% of the population is satisfied with the new jersey.
With Ling Feng making a big fuss about Chinese football, after the Chinese team achieved a good result in the fourth place in the World Cup, football has been completely integrated into the ordinary life of many Chinese as an element.
The temperature of football has cooled down with the end of the World Cup, but that doesn't mean the sport is getting less attention.
Many Chinese players play in top leagues abroad, and fans are not limited to Ling Feng alone.
Every weekend, a large number of fans sit in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast of the five major leagues, and the principle of the TV broadcast is to choose the team with Chinese players first.
Fans are no longer discussing topics such as "when did Chinese football rise", and the selection of favorite stars is not exactly the kind of foreign superstars that all said in the past, Ling Feng is certainly on the list, but some other players such as Hao Haidong and the two young players who shined in this year's World Cup have also become the words that fans talk about.
There is also the new Chinese League, the level of the league that ended last year is already quite good, as for some dark behaviors on the court - Khan, now Ling Feng is staring, who dares to commit crimes against the wind? Li Weifeng's fate was seen by everyone.
The level of the league has risen, and the enthusiasm of the fans has also risen, and this year, several foreign players who were poached by Ling Feng to China have performed at a world-class level, which makes the fans more supportive of the league.
Recoba, Riquelme, Emaar, Ljungberg, Gaskein!
These depressed players who had been in foreign leagues played their world-class level in the Chinese league, and it took Ling Feng a lot of effort to poach a few of them to China.
Money is a trivial matter, and the most important thing is that Ling Feng guarantees that they get the opportunity to exercise, and in the face of such a large market and rapid development as China, several people finally reluctantly agreed, and now there is no obstacle except that the overall level is still a little low.
But it doesn't matter, because soon, the overall level of China will be raised.
Compared to the football atmosphere that has been heating up before, the situation is now back to a normal level – it is no longer a Chinese player who scores a goal in a foreign league, or who makes the fans cheer and jump for a while.
Regarding this measure of the reform of the Chinese team's jerseys, some so-called experts and professors have come forward to express different views.
As a brick family and a beast, it is naturally different, and it is natural to say that his ideas are more advanced and more hierarchical.
So these hierarchical guys questioned that dragons are very, very unpopular creatures in the West, because they represent evil, an evil animal.
The Chinese team's use of such an animal as the most eye-catching symbol on the jersey is really easy to arouse the disgust of international friends and even affect China's reputation.
There is no need for Ling Feng to speak, when the party secretary of a certain school just said such a thing, he was scolded by many media and Chinese people.
There is no need to repeat the specific scolding, for such a garbage that even the book has forgotten, it is natural that you can't be soft-mouthed when scolding.
The next day, the brick family hurriedly issued a statement saying that he had not denied the dragon as a totem of China, and that he meant that the image of the dragon should be richer and more perfect.
Maybe we should explain to our foreign friends that we in China have to pronounce the tongue upward, not "dragon" - this is what a certain expert meant.
Yes, the Chinese dragon is not a dragon, but is it necessary to run specifically to explain this?
The whole world knows that the meaning of the Chinese dragon is different from that of the Western dragon, and our own totem should we go to the point of declaring: "Our dragon is different from yours, don't be mistaken!" ”
Is it necessary?
Is it necessary for us to change the totem of our nation for the sake of the eyes of foreigners?
Even if it's just a title.
The earth is still called the earth, although everyone knows that three-quarters of the planet is water, so why hasn't the United Nations issued an order that the earth should not be called the earth in the future, it should be called water ball, and the name of "earth" should be changed, such as "'", but I don't think I need to explain, foreign friends will still understand the Chinese dragon and your mythological stories. As for the vexatious behavior of some people, I just feel sorry for them, no country will modify its totem because of other people's opinions, and we are no exception. ”
When interviewed by reporters about this matter, Ling Feng said lightly: "I personally feel very embarrassed that this kind of thing happens, and this can even rise to the sadness of Chinese education, why do these so-called highly educated people, the authority in a certain field, say such things that a three-year-old child will not say?" Or maybe he just wanted to verify his English skills, thinking he could see the difference between a dragon and a 'dargon'? But he can't even reach the most basic language level, what kind of expert should he be! ”