204. The tail of August
In August 2004, there is no doubt that Athens, Greece, far away on the Aegean Sea, is the focus of the world's attention, even Jiang Qi, who led the team to participate in the Los Angeles Invitational Tournament, is no exception, but he pays more attention to the two Chinese teams, the men's basketball team and the women's volleyball team.
After Wang Zhizhi's return, from the perspective of Lao Jiang, a rookie director of the Hawks, Dazhi's flexible footsteps under the basket and the range as far as the three-point line will make Da Yao's pressure on the interior plummet, but the first game is still shown in front of Jiang Qi along the inertia of history. Facing the Spanish team that has not yet been crowned king, the Chinese team's outside line is fully dumb, Yao Ming is caught on the inside, and Wang Zhizhi is also effectively limited by the Spanish players who are also flexible, and the final 18-point gap casts a shadow on the Olympic journey that everyone is looking forward to.
Against New Zealand, the Chinese team, which gathered Yao Ming, Dazhi, ** and Yi Jianlian, finally showed the advantage that everyone expected, although the outside line still couldn't open the situation, especially when comparing New Zealand's outside pitchers to 10 three-pointers, but the players were obviously much more mature than the first game, and the outside players would choose to send the ball into the inside line when they didn't feel good, 77:62 - The Chinese team got the first win of the trip to Athens.
The next game was like a strange circle, and the outcome was completely consistent with the trajectory in Jiang Qi's memory, except that the score had changed slightly-
Against the Pampas Eagles Argentina, the Chinese team lost by 16 points.
Against the Italian team from the Apennine Peninsula, this game should have lost by a large score and almost caused the Chinese team to slide into the abyss, and the final result was a three-point defeat.
In the final game of the group stage, it was also 3 points, but the winner became the Chinese team, and they stepped from hell to heaven in one step.
The outcome of these three games has not been out of the trajectory, but the process is more ups and downs, followed by eight into four games after all, there is no miracle, in the face of the traditional European team Lithuania, the Chinese team can not grasp the initiative throughout the game, and the failure is naturally reasonable.
But just when Jiang Qi felt that the Athens Olympics was also just a trip to knock on the door of the world, the historical trajectory finally deviated from the original traces, in the competition for seventh place, facing the Spanish team again, the Chinese team's outside pitchers suddenly broke out, and shot 11 three-pointers in the whole game, which made Spain's interior unable to arbitrarily wrap Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi wandered between the high and low positions, and the old coach Harris controlled Yao Ming's physical fitness and the bench depth of the Chinese team's interior line. In the end, the Chinese team once again performed a narrow victory with a 3-point advantage.
Seventh place, the best result of the Olympic men's basketball team, and the Spanish team is an opponent enough to make the fans of the Chinese team excited.
The reason for paying attention to the women's volleyball team is much simpler, Turandot has introduced several Italian attackers who are willing to experience a new environment as a bridge, although this is not very consistent with the style of a group of tall girls in Russia, the last big boss of Athens, but they brought something that European volleyball is not well known to Chinese people, and Jiang Qi wants to see the effect of this exchange.
"Well, the effect is very good, at least there will be no more defeats in the finals of the Sino-Russian war, and the women's volleyball girls regret winning silver and other oolong ......titles", the score of 3:1 made Jiang Qi feel the power of communication.
From seventh place to 3:1, although it seems to be only a small step, in Jiang Qi's heart, this kind of influence that he has saved may make the road of these projects wider in the future.
However, just as the Olympics were coming to an end, the new season of European football also began to prelude, and Jiang Qi, who still has the identity of a rookie coach, also began to get busy.
The first appearance on August 22 is the Italian Super Cup, AC Milan's opponent is last season's Italian Cup winner Roma team, Capello's departure has deprived the Roma team of the pillar that can compete for the championship, not to mention that Capello also took away the midfielder Emerson and Zebina who can be used as a patch in the backline, the Red Wolves even almost fell into a Serie A supermarket, for a while, whether it is Zivo, De Rossi rookies, or Totti such as the logo leader, have attracted a large number of club offers on Sensi's desk, Let the president of Rome almost go berserk.
However, the unfavorable situation of the past year is far from over, and he was originally invited by the club to be very good at adjusting. Prandelli, who coached the team at a young age, announced his resignation before his wife's condition deteriorated, and in a hurry, the management of the Roma team found the German legend Worrall to take the helm.
A series of changes in the position of coach almost ruined the preparation period of the Roma team throughout the summer, and the players did not even have a complete reserve of fitness, which made the Italian Super Cup completely lose the suspense, 3:0, AC Milan won a complete victory, Monster Drogba shined in this game, his strong body made the veteran Panucci and the new star Zivo depressed, in addition to Moutinho, who replaced Pirlo in his first official appearance, and the new partner of the Warcraft classmate Villa, The other goal went to Robin van Persie, who replaced Kaka in the midfield position.
The more direct impact of this game is that the odds of Roma winning the new season have dropped again and again, originally ranked third behind Juventus, but then slipped all the way behind Inter Milan and Parma.
At the end of August, in Serie A, except for the two giants of Roma, all teams are making the final supplements......
Capello's poaching of Cannavaro was unsuccessful, which should be the factor that has the biggest impact on his plans for the new season, and there are almost very few good central defenders in the whole of European football, and no one will easily enter the transfer market, Moggi finally brought Capello to Capello is Ajax's Dutch defensive star Heitinga, this player has a fierce style, can play in the middle and right, but in terms of personality...... However, the Italian, who is good at upgrading defenders, said it was not a big deal.
So far, Juventus's squad completion project is preliminarily completed, the arrival of Heitinga and Zebina has greatly alleviated the problem of aging at the back of the old woman, both of whom are versatile and can play multiple positions, and the veteran Thuram has also announced a new life with a solid state after transplanting from the right to the middle, plus Montero, Pesoto, Billindeli, Ferrara and others on the bench who have been outstanding in experience and ability, the rotation problem has been solved.
In midfield, the arrival of Emerson finally filled the hole in Davies' departure, and a tough "waist" role in the Juventus style is extremely important, which is why Vieira will be passionately chased by the old woman after leaving the Gunners, and the French and Brazilian meat grinder in the middle has since proved to be one of the most effective combinations in Serie A.
On the forward line, Ibramovic came out of nowhere, and this strange student with long legs and short legs will connect Juventus' midfield, so that Juventus's midfield will undergo a wonderful chemical change, so as to get rid of the energy decay of the Trezeguet and Piero pair.
At this point, Jiang Qi's most formidable opponent in the Apennines has been assembled and waiting for a new round of competition, and on August 26, another battlefield will also be sounded, and Jiang will be on the scene for the first time to watch the legendary Champions League group stage draw ceremony.
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