In the final stage of the Asian qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the Chinese team was in Group A with Iran, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Syria. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Since the "Taiji Tigers" South Korean team participated in the World Cup for the first time in 1954 and the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, the South Korean team has begun to represent Asia on the stage of the World Cup finals consecutively, and has been there 9 times so far.

Their record of qualifying for the World Cup finals is unmatched in Asian football, and as one of the favourites to emerge in the final stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia Asian qualifiers, the Taiji Tigers have already set their sights on reaching the World Cup finals for the tenth and ninth consecutive time.

From the group stage of the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland to the 1998 World Cup in France, the South Korean team failed to enter the next round until the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup.

However, the whole world, including Asia, does not recognize the South Korean team's champion, because the referee's behavior not only discredits Asian football, but also seriously damages the image of the World Cup.

After that, the South Korean team was beaten back to its original shape in the next World Cup, and the group stage was out, in South Africa in 2010, the South Korean team broke into the round of 16 and achieved real "good results", three years ago, the South Korean team in the Brazil World Cup failed to break through the previous results, and the group stage went home.

Due to the heavy defeat at the World Cup in Brazil, the Korean Football Association chose new coach Uli Stillik of Germany to take over the "hot potato", the former Real Madrid player did a lot of work to rebuild the morale and confidence of the South Korean team, finishing runners-up at the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia, and then starting the World Cup journey.

In the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian round of 40, the South Korean team played a perfect result of 7 wins (because Kuwait in the same group was banned by FIFA, the South Korean team only played 7 games, plus the canceled match with Kuwait was judged by FIFA to win 3-0, so the South Korean team won all 8 games, scored 27 goals and did not concede 1 goal in the top 40 to win the group) to advance to the round of 12!

It is worth mentioning that South Korea is the only team in the top 40 that guarantees not to concede a goal on the premise of maintaining a full victory, and its comprehensive offensive and defensive balance is commendable.

South Korea's German coach Stillik has had a stellar career.

As a player, between 1975 and 1984, Stillik made 42 appearances for Germany, scoring three goals, including the 1982 World Cup final defeat to Italy.

In club competition, Stillik played 215 times for Real Madrid and was voted Real Madrid's best foreign player four times, as well as Borussia Mönchengladbach and Neuchâtel, winning eight league titles, two UEFA Cups (the predecessor of the Europa League) and one European Cup.

Since retiring as a player, Stillik has coached the Swiss and Ivory Coast national teams, as well as clubs in Switzerland, Qatar, Germany and Spain.

It is worth mentioning that Stillik was born in the Borussia Mönchen academy and was one of the representative players of the golden age of Mönchen in the seventies.

For more than ten years, the South Korean team has never fallen out of the top four in the Asian rankings, and such a stable performance is due to the output of the Overseas Army.

Take a look at the latest 24-man squad announced by the South Korean team, most of them are overseas players, among which the key players are named "South Korean Gerrard" just after their debut, and Ji Chengyong, the captain of the Taiji Tigers; The first Asian player to set a new record for the highest transfer fee of an Asian player with a transfer fee of 30 million euros, the number one star of the South Korean team and the number one killer of the national team, Son Heung-min.

Due to the accumulation of yellow cards, Son Xingmin could not play in the match against the Chinese team, which is a good thing for the Chinese team.

However, as long as Chinese know that the Chinese men's football team has many years of Koreanophobia, the first game of the group stage of the round of 12, 2-3 away from home, the opening black, since then, the national football team has been difficult to score, a win is difficult to find, and now with 2 draws and 3 losses and two points at the bottom of Group A.

Therefore, the match with the South Korean team at Changsha Helong Stadium three days later will be a battle of life and death for the Chinese men's football team.

"Got it." Zhang Zhetian said.

"Do you have the confidence to defeat them?" Marcelo Lippi smiled.

"......, it's hard to say." Zhang Zhetian didn't answer immediately, just groaned for a while, and then answered.

Lippi and Narciso Pezzotti looked at each other and saw in each other's eyes that "it was so".

For China to produce a talented young goalkeeper, maybe Chinese fans will be very excited, very proud, but for Lippi, it is not uncommon for football backward countries and regions to have talented players, he only cares, whether this genius can finally transform his potential into strength, smooth achievement of the coffee position, the genius who died in the middle of the world, he has seen too much.

The well-informed "Silver Fox" has seen many talented players, they became famous at a young age, and their unruly personality makes them rarely able to really know themselves in the process of growing up, and the ultimate achievement is best to mix in the second-class league, let alone more Zhongyong-style geniuses.

Mario Balotelli is a classic example of failure, and the reason why Zlatan Ibrahimovic is getting older and more demonic, claiming to be the third in the world under Melo, is that he has a strong heart, can face blows and setbacks positively, get out of the trough, and finally achieve the coffee of the top star.

But there are too few geniuses like Ibrahimovic to save themselves, and not every genius has Ibrahimovic's self-confidence and ambition.

Lippi's question just now is to prove his judgment on Zhang Zhetian: this is a genius who is extremely confident but not conceited.

Because a genius who can play football with his brain will not be empty-eyed, and will pretend to say: No...... Don't get me wrong, I'm not targeting you, I'm saying that everyone here is spicy chicken.

Although Li Tie, the former international player of the Chinese team, has coached and coached the team, no matter how much life experience and experience is far inferior to Lippi and other Italian coaches, Lippi and others have gotten the information they want from Zhang Zhetian's answer, but Li Tie said something that made them ashamed: "Xiaozhang, what's so bad to say?" Aren't you very confident? ”

Zhang Zhetian silently rolled his eyes at Li Tie in his heart, senior, I have confidence in myself, but don't you know that football is a sport of eleven people? The white-haired old man understands me, you are my compatriot, why don't you understand me? Do I have to say it to destroy unity?

Because of Li Tie's face, Zhang Zhetian had no choice but to say: "I came to the national team for the first time, I don't know the strength of my teammates, and I only have a few days to train with them. As for beating them, you have to score, and if you want to score, you can only rely on your teammates in the front court. ”

After speaking, Zhang Zhetian continued to complain in his heart: Lao Tzu's self-confidence is to ensure that he will not lose the ball, as for whether he can win the game, how can Lao Tzu guarantee a goalkeeper?

Seeing that Li Tie was about to ask again, Lippi said that it was very late, and asked Zhang Zhetian to go back to the house early to rest, and when Zhang Zhetian opened the door of the conference room, Li Tie finally said what he wanted to say: "Xiao Zhang, will you kick a free kick?" ”

Palm Zhetian's body was stunned, and after a moment, he threw out a sentence and left.

"No, it won't."

At the moment when the door was about to close, Zhang Zhe clearly heard Li Tie's muttering: "Xiao Zhang's long pass footwork is so good, why can't he kick a free kick?" ”

Free kicks?

Zhang Zhetian did not immediately go back to his room, but walked to a balcony and looked up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle.

I almost forgot about the free-kick technique that even I was afraid of.