Chinese fans are not surprised by the declaration of winning the Asian Cup, in their impression, Ailo is the kind of top player who is full of motivation for the championship of any event, and what is even more commendable is to do what he says, plus the configuration of this Chinese team is quite luxurious, winning the Asian Cup is not a problem at all!

More than half of the 23 players recruited this time are players from Europe, including Ailuo, Wang Xiaolei, Wu Xi, Hao Junmin, Gao Lin, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng are playing in the five major European leagues, and they are all main players, such as Zhao Xuri, Jiang Zhipeng, Yang Xu, Yu Hanchao, Yang Xu, Wu Lei, Zhang Xizhe, Tang Miao, Ji Xiang These players are also in other European leagues through their own efforts, can ensure a main or main substitute position.

Therefore, the lineup is much more luxurious than that of other Asian teams, and the Chinese team also has a world-class superstar like Irohro, which is unique in Asia.

If it weren't for the Asian Footballer of the Year regulations, it can only be selected within the scope of Asian professional football, otherwise since Iroh was born, Iroh can win every year of Asian Footballer, and there is no hope for players from other countries at all, so on the day of Iroh's return, the official website of the AFC was updated: I hope that the Chinese team, the favorite to win the championship, can win the first Asian Cup championship in history.

In fact, these do not need to be said by the AFC, the current Chinese team knows how to do it, and the previous captain of the Chinese team, Ailuo, has expressed his desire to win the championship in an interview with reporters.

Because Chinese fans have been waiting for this championship for too long, since 1976, when they first participated in the Asian Cup in Iran and won the third place, the Chinese team has repeatedly failed in the knockout rounds of the Asian Cup.

Among them, the best results are the 1984 Singapore Asian Cup and the 2004 local Asian Cup, both of which entered the final finals, but they all missed the championship, especially the Asian Cup final in Beijing Workers Stadium in 2004, the score was still 1:1 66 minutes ago, but then there was a very controversial scene, Nakamura Shunsuke drove a corner kick on the right side, and Koji Nakata, who was ambushed in front of the goal, blocked the ball into the goal with his hand, and many slow-motion replays can clearly see that it is a handball, But the referee on duty turned a blind eye and finally had to accept a 1:3 defeat to Japan at home and was the runner-up......

Everyone knows that the Chinese team is the strongest team in Asia, but not all national teams think that the Chinese team will win the final championship, the new head coach of the Japanese team, Italian Zaccheroni, said in an interview with reporters during the preparation for the Asian Cup group stage in Singapore: "The Chinese team is indeed very strong, but this is the top Asian Cup in Asia, coupled with the characteristics of the football game, the strong team may not be able to win the final championship, I think the Japanese team has a high championship temperament, in the past 1992, Both 2000 and 2004 were champions, as is the Asian Cup in Qatar next January......"

In addition, Australian head coach Holger Osik and South Korea head coach Cho Guanglai both believe that they will not win the championship by just talking about it, and they will only be revealed after the specific match, and they also believe that their national team can go to the end and lift the Asian Cup trophy.

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On the second day after Gao Hongbo and Wang Xiaolei returned to the team, the Chinese team conducted a week-long closed training at the Kunming training base, and the content of the training was mainly based on passing and cutting with attack.

Of course, the tactics still revolve around the strongest scoring ability in the team, and a player with super scoring ability like him will not be ignored by any coach, but will focus on exploiting it, because as each team attaches importance to results, defense becomes more and more important, and breaking dense defense has become a problem that strong teams need to solve.

Now this Chinese team is at the top in Asia, so even if Gao Hongbo thinks about the problem with his toes, he knows that the three opponents in the group stage will definitely use dense defense to deal with the Chinese team, so before the start of the group stage of the Asian Cup, it is necessary to strictly formulate and master a set of tactics with Ailo as the core to break the dense defense.

Before going to Doha, the Chinese XX Football Association found a warm-up opponent for the Chinese team, the opponent was the old Asian powerhouse Saudi Arabia, and the match venue was Hofuf, a Saudi Arabian city close to Qatar.

The warm-up match was very targeted, and that was to acclimatise to the Qatari weather in Saudi Arabia before the start of the Asian Cup.

Because the players of the Chinese team are either playing for European clubs, or playing in the Chinese Super League, K League, and J League, this time is in a cold stage, and Qatar is a tropical desert climate, with hot and humid summers, strong light, and temperatures up to 50 degrees Celsius, only in winter from November to March of the following year are cooler, suitable for games.

In order to allow the teams participating in the Asian Cup in Qatar to be held in a suitable temperature for the competition, the Asian Cup held in the summer was deliberately moved to January.

But many players have adapted to the cold weather, and it always takes a process to adapt to the cool weather again, so the Chinese XX Football Association contacted the Saudi Arabian family in order for the Chinese team to be in the best condition in Qatar, hoping to play a warm-up match before the start of the Asian Cup.

The Chinese team's first Asian Cup group game against Kuwait was played on the 8th, so it flew to Saudi Arabia on New Year's Day.

In order to be able to achieve good results in this year's Asian Cup, all the players of the Chinese team had to become trapeze artists on the first day of 2011.

And Iroh also used his free time to express his congratulations to fans across the country on Twitter and Weibo on Happy New Year's Day, and expressed his belief in winning the championship.

Ailuo didn't expect that in just a few minutes, it would be forwarded hundreds of thousands of times on Weibo in China, and I have to say...... With the development of smartphones, the number of people who use mobile phones to access the Internet directly is increasing.

Therefore, Iroh is more and more confident in WeChat, which is developed by its Internet mobile phone software company in cooperation with Penguin.

To get back to the point, the Chinese team played a warm-up match against Saudi Arabia on the third.

After 90 minutes of fierce battle, the Chinese team, which played with all the main forces, defeated Saudi Arabia 4:1, so the Chinese fans who watched the live TV broadcast were also more confident in the Chinese team's Asian Cup winning journey!

And those who pay attention to the Chinese team's preparation for the other Asian giants have been surprised, this Chinese team is really more difficult to deal with than they imagined, Saudi Arabia, which played with the main force, used dense defense to play a 4:1 in the case of occupying the right time and place, that ...... What about matches that are also played on neutral pitches?

It shuddeers just thinking about it.

The official website of the AFC was updated simultaneously, praising the Chinese team as a well-deserved favorite to win the championship.

Far away in the Iberian Peninsula, meanwhile, Valencia have been without Elo and have played awkwardly against mid-table Spaniards who have played awkwardly, and would have drawn their first league game since the winter break had it not been for David Villa's late free-kick.

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The Chinese team flew to Doha on the afternoon of the second day after the warm-up match with Saudi Arabia, which was half a day later than the Saudi Arabian national team that flew to Doha in the morning, which means that the confident Chinese team is the last national team to arrive in Doha in the round of 16 of the Asian Cup.

In this regard, Gao Hongbo shrugged his shoulders in the face of an interview with the official reporter of the AFC and said: "Although we are the last to arrive in Doha, we are definitely the last team. ”

The implication is that the Chinese team is the latest to win the final Asian Cup championship!

But when these words reached the ears of Zaccheroni, Holger Osick, and Zhao Guanglai, they were aggressive, and they didn't take the national team they led in their eyes at all.

The Chinese team in Doha did not conduct closed training like other teams, but a generous open training, but the premise was that the normal training of the Chinese team could not be affected.

Being able to train in the eyes of the public is naturally not a secret tactic, it is the most ordinary practice of crossing and outflanking.

The night before the game, on the evening of the 7th, Tang Shun, the president of the Football Association, who came to Doha to supervise the game, accompanied by head coach Gao Hongbo, held a small meeting with all the players and coaches in the hotel conference room.

Sitting in the middle of the conference room is the chairman of the Football Association Tang Shun did not put pressure on the team, but to make a long story short: "As the old saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, we will have the first group stage of the 2011 Chinese team Asian Cup journey tomorrow afternoon, we are fortunate to become the biggest favorite to win the Asian Cup, but I hope everyone must face themselves, attach importance to the game, must take every game seriously, do not relax, don't forget...... There are hundreds of millions of Chinese fans waiting for us to triumph in China...... So we can't let them down! ”

Tang Shun's impassioned enthusiasm made many members of the Chinese team full of energy, and even longed for the Asian Cup game soon.

However, the Chinese team's first Asian Cup group game will be played at 45 pm tomorrow, that is, at 9:15 pm Beijing time, so they can only compress this game mood and save it for tomorrow's game.

On the evening of the Chinese team's meeting, Valencia and Villarreal played the second leg of the Copa del Rey 1/8 finals, and won 4:0 in the first leg

As you know, this is the aftermath of adapting to Iroh and suddenly not having Iro......

Watching the live broadcast of the game, Iroh shook his head again and again, as if the team would not be able to function without himself.