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If it was the previous Chinese national team, then there would be no suspense about the victory of the Japanese team in this game, and the Japanese media could even say that they could get the Chinese team by only sending a third-tier team. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But now it's different, and before the game, the Japanese media was full of Chu Zhongtian's name. The biggest star of the Chinese national team and one of the most famous players in Asia has long been regarded by the Japanese as their most threatening foe.

In the East Asian semifinals at the beginning of last year, the reason why the Japanese media dared to ridicule the Chinese team was because Chu Zhongtian did not participate.

Now the Japanese media have almost thoroughly dissected Chu Zhongtian. From his debut experience, he talked about his technical characteristics and his recent form.

Judging by the reports of the Japanese media, it seems that they know Chu Zhongtian as well as the Chinese media.

Japan has the habit of advocating the strong, so Chu Zhongtian also has a lot of fans in Japan, and the same is true in the media. Several Japanese media praised Chu Zhongtian as "the pride of Asian football" before the game.

These Chu Zhongtian don't read the Japanese media, and they can't read Japanese, so they don't know.

However, judging from the daily interviews, the Japanese media are most concerned about him, and he is always surrounded by reporters, both Chinese and Japanese.

Chu Zhongtian doesn't care about the national hatred in history, football is football, and if there are too many things attached to football, it will only make them bear too much psychological pressure when they play, which is a very dangerous thing for the Chinese team whose psychological quality is not sound.

But Chu Zhongtian really wants revenge. What he wants is revenge on the football field, the revenge of the 2004 Asian Cup final. If it weren't for Koji Nakata's handball in that game, it's hard to say what the final result of the game would have been. Although the strength is like the Japanese team, the Chinese team occupied the advantage of the home stadium that time, and in the cheers of tens of thousands of Chinese fans in the Gongti, it was not impossible to beat Japan.

Chu Zhongtian watched the game in front of the TV, and was extremely angry when he saw Nakata Hao scoring a second-hand goal, but the Kuwaiti referee ruled that the penalty was valid. Just as he doesn't like to fake injuries on the field, he doesn't like the unsportsmanlike practice of scoring goals with his hands.

In addition, this handball also deprived the Chinese team of the dream of winning the Asian Cup, which made him even more unhappy with Japan.

However, at the time he was just a nobody who had just joined Metz on loan and had not played a single professional league. The Chinese national team is particularly far away for him. He didn't expect that six years later, he would have the opportunity to wear the jersey of the Chinese national team to take revenge on Japan.

Japanese football has always been known for producing a lot of midfielders, and it has not achieved much in terms of forwards. In the past, for a short period of time, they have always been very envious of the excellent forwards of Chinese football - Gao Feng, Gao Hongbo, Li Bing, Su Maozhen, Fan Zhiyi, Yang Chen, Hao Haidong, Li Jinyu...... However, Japanese football also has good scorers, and they have proven themselves in the Europa League. For example, Shinji Kagawa, who plays for Borussia Dortmund and is a striker, has scored eight goals this season.

This game was a great test for the Chinese team's backline, but Gao Hongbo did not intend to defend strictly, he decided to give full play to Chu Zhongtian's characteristics and use offense to contain Japan. To put it bluntly, it is to attack Japan.

Japan's attacking prowess is recognised in Asia, and their attacking style is different from that of the equally strong South Korea, where the attack is straightforward, while the Japanese attack is well-planned and organised, with the midfield having to play a big role in the attack.

Gao Hongbo intends to compete with Japan in the midfield and contain Japan's midfield in the midfield. Japan's midfield has a number of outstanding players, including Makoto Hasebe with Wolfsburg, Keisuke Honda with CSKA Moscow, Yunatomo with Cesena, Shinji Kagawa with Borussia Dortmund this season, and Shunsuke Nakamura, a leading figure in Japanese football. And who can Gao Hongbo rely on? In addition to Deng Zhuoxiang, who won the best newcomer in the Chinese Super League, it is Chu Zhongtian.

In terms of individual quality, Chu Zhongtian is higher than Japan's midfielders, but Japan has many high-level players and has an advantage in quantity, so it is difficult to say who has the upper hand in this game.

At that time, Chu Zhongtian will definitely be closely guarded by the other party, or even fouled. Japanese football can do anything to win on the field, as can be seen from the 2004 Asian Cup. In the penalty shootout before advancing to the final, after they missed two penalties in a row on one side of the goal, they actually asked the referee to change the goal of the penalty kick, which has no precedent in international competitions at all, and the rules do not support it, but under the pressure of the Japanese team, the referee actually agreed to this request, and the Jordan team was greatly affected, and the next penalty shootout played a big loss, and was finally eliminated.

In the final, the situation was deadlocked, the score was always 1:1, Koji Nakata stepped forward, reached out and smashed the football into the door of the Chinese team, and finally achieved the Asian Cup championship.

Gao Hongbo has no doubt that the Japanese team will make any off-the-market moves when the game is unfavorable. To this end, he has strengthened his confrontation training in training, that is, to be wary of the small movements of the Japanese team at that time, and he requires his players to still be able to control the ball in the face of these physical disturbances.

This is a bit difficult for the Chinese team, after all, the individual skills of the Chinese team players are not as good as those of the Japanese players, and the level of cooperation is not high. So most of the football was actually handed over to Chu Zhongtian, and his ball control level is the best in the Chinese team, thanks to his basic training over the years, especially in Ligue 1. In the high-level UEFA Champions League, he can control the ball under the sandwich of two or three people, so Chu Zhongtian should have no problem facing Japanese players.

All in all, Chu Zhongtian is the key to the Chinese team's game, the top priority.

※※※The match against the Japanese team kicked off on time on the evening of January 21.

China and Japan met in the second quarter-final match of the Asian Cup, a match that attracted the most attention in China. The game between China and Japan can always attract attention, after all, the two countries have a historical feud, so every time they fight Japan, the Chinese are looking forward to being able to export evil anger. But most of the time, after watching it, I was more aggrieved and unhappy.

This time is different, with Chu Zhongtian, the confidence of the Chinese people in the Chinese team is stronger. In addition, no matter how you usually scold, at this critical time, everyone is always a little lucky, hoping to see a miracle, hoping that the Chinese team can have an exciting performance in the game and finally win Japan.

Just like the Asian Games, the match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team still attracted a lot of attention, and the scene was almost full. It can be seen that no matter how bad the national football team is, when it comes to the key games, there are still many people who support and pay attention to them. Chinese fans are really good, so Chu Zhongcai will have such an idea, to let the Chinese fans who have been waiting for decades taste real happiness in this Asian Cup.

What brings happiness?

Wins, victories and championships.

"Remember what I said before the Asian Cup, brothers?" In the locker room, Chu Zhongtian said to everyone. Gao Hongbo has ended his advice, and this time belongs to the players. Since the first game, this tradition has been formed within the Chinese team, and after the head coach has finished speaking before each game, he will set aside time for Chu Zhongtian to say something, boost morale, or reassure. Anyway, it's a fixed program. In the previous national team, there had never been such an arrangement, which Chu Zhongtian brought back from Europe. In Europe, many teams will self-mobilize before the start of the game, not necessarily the captain, but also non-captains who are popular and prestigious in the team.

Overseas players have brought back some positive things to Chinese football. This sentence has been shouted by the Chinese media for many years, but everyone has never seen it, and all they see is the incompatibility between foreign players and local players, or they are simply dyed back by the dye vat of Chinese football. The positive effect has never been played, oh no, in the 2001 World Cup top 10, it was played somewhat, but it was limited.

Now Chu Zhongcai has brought back some excellent things in European football for the first time, and has influenced the Chinese national team by relying on his personal super influence and status.

In the past, some people felt that what the captain said before the game was very pretentious and contrived, and they were not very acceptable. Now this feeling is gone, everyone is happy to listen to Chu Zhongtian say something before the game, he has such an infectious power, and everyone can shout and do it with him.

"I said to make our fans really happy, it's to pay off the debt we owe. Getting out of the group is really nothing because that's the minimum goal we have to do. Now the opportunity has come, the first opportunity to make the fans happy, if we can beat Japan, can you imagine what the domestic reaction will be at that time? When you defeated South Korea 3-0 in the East Asian semi-finals, did any of you watch the domestic reaction online? How does it feel? Happy? ”

After that game, some players of the national team did watch the domestic reaction on the Internet, and the feeling is really difficult to describe in words - they have been negative examples for a long time, they were scolded and vented by the Chinese people like rats crossing the street, and suddenly became heroes, and the contrast is very strong. Even the Spring Festival Gala that used to always scold them, ridicule them, and ridicule them praised them for the first time that year. When Feng Gong said, "The national football team has won South Korea!" 3:0！ When the audience applauded, although I knew that there was a trust, it was still very cool.

"What are we playing for, brothers? To make money? I believe that people who can be selected for the national team have made a lot of money from football. When it comes to this, what else is there to pursue? Don't you want to be crowned? Don't you envy those players in Europe, everywhere you go, there are fans cheering, the fans are not scolding, but praising and praising us, cheering for us during the game, instead of shouting 'so-and-so, stupid'......"

When he said this, some of the players from the north couldn't help but laugh.

This sentence is often heard in the arena in Beijing, and "Beijing scolding" is also a scene on the field, but it is not a beautiful scenery. Many of the players who visited Beijing have been treated like this.

"I think, brothers, that money earned to a certain level is just a number, and it doesn't mean much. No amount of money you can spend, just to make money you can't make enough for the rest of your life. But we should be a little bit of something else. We can't just play for money, and I'm sure when you first started playing football, you didn't think I could become a millionaire with this, right? We win and the fans are happy, and they support us and cheer for us, what a win-win thing. Why not do it? ”

"I won't talk about gambling. I'm sure no one on our team would joke about the best chance of their career to reach the top, right? Chu Zhongtian looked around the audience.

His bold words made many people feel a lot of pressure, they didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to say this in public. In the past, there were many rumors about players gambling on football, and everyone talked about it in private, but no one would say it publicly in front of the whole team.

Chu Zhongtian said so.

"To be honest, I also gamble, but in Europe it's called gambling, it's legal and public. And if I want to buy, I only buy my own team to win - in order to win, I always work extra the field, ha! Chu Zhongtian laughed. But no one cooperated with him, and everyone hadn't reacted from this rather explosive topic.

"I first started playing professional football and the money factor was a big part of it, but at the same time, I also thought about the enjoyment of winning. I don't play to lose, I play to win. Even if our opponents force us to be a hundred times stronger, I think so. At Wimbledon, we were an amateur team and we were against a strong Chelsea, so what happened? We knocked them out. I'm so happy to be on the pitch and it's hard to describe how I feel when people call you by your name. I think that's how you want to play. ”

Chu Zhongtian pointed outside: "There will be a lot of Chinese fans who will come to cheer us on the spot, I read the newspaper, many of them are because we flew from China to Qatar after we qualified from the group, obviously they have restored their confidence in us, they want to see a game they want to see." How would you feel if you heard the overwhelming 'Chinese team cheering' on the playing field for a while? Are you numb to listening? I didn't have it anyway. Chu Zhongtian patted the five-star red flag on his chest.

"In the past, on the chest of our national team, here is the Football Association logo, now it is the five-star red flag. That's pretty telling. We don't represent the Football Association, we represent a country, brothers. It's a country, no matter how the Football Association is, no matter who the leaders who go in, we don't play for them, we don't play on their behalf, we are for China, for our own motherland! ”

Chu Zhongtian's words made Gao Hongbo start to sweat again. That's a ...... He had to be glad again that the Football Association didn't send anyone to squat in the dressing room, otherwise they would have heard a lot of things they didn't like to hear. Although Chu Zhongtian is not wrong, the truth is often difficult to accept.

"There are so many grievances between Barcelona and Real Madrid at club level, and everyone has seen how fierce the national derby between the two sides is. But in the national team, they can temporarily put aside the grievances of the club and work together to win the World Cup and the European Cup. Because they understand that they represent Spain. So do we, brothers. ”

"Against Japan, I hope we can win. The media in both countries also followed the match, but everyone was talking about me before the game, as if I could decide the game by myself, and I didn't see it that way. We are a group, brothers. We're twenty-three, and no matter how good I am, I can't do all of you at the same time. If it weren't for Yang Zhi and Zeng Cheng to guard the goal for us, we wouldn't even be able to win the first game. If there is no Dewey, Feng Xiaoting, Zhang Linpeng...... The defenders' defense, I didn't dare to press up and attack. If it weren't for my partner Yang Hao who kept running to fill in for me, I would have been just a sapper at best. If it weren't for Deng Zhuoxiang and Gao Lin to pick me up and score goals, we wouldn't have won a single game. If I were alone, I would be watched to death. But because of you, we have hope of winning, brothers. I'm telling the truth, we have to fight Japan as a team, not against Japan alone, I'm not Superman, I don't have teammates, I'm nothing, whether it's in the national team or in the club team. ”

Chu Zhongtian reported the names of all his teammates one by one.

"The Japanese media once said that if it weren't for me, they would have been able to defeat us by sending a second-tier team, do you agree with that? I don't agree, I think we have to show them how good we are! Let them see if they can beat us even if they send out the best team! ”

Then he beckoned everyone to stand up, with him as the center, in a circle, this is the last part before the end of the speech, he wants to boost everyone's morale, the enemy is at the moment, a high morale is really important.

"Win! Brothers! Win! Win by any means! Be a winner, not a lost dog! ”

※※※ The players of the Japanese team can feel that the opponent in front of them is a little different from before. In the past, when the Chinese team played against them, it seemed that they were full of fighting spirit, even overdone. But in fact, it is just a disguise, because they are actually very weak, so they have to try to pretend that they are very strong and confident. Once they have a setback in a game, they will become headless flies and will do nothing but scare away and kick around.

Today's Chinese team is different, and of course they are very confident. But they didn't get too excited, and there was a calm performance underneath the confident exterior.

They are not sure whether this is a disguise from the Chinese team, because they played well in the group stage and Chu Zhongtian performed well, which may make the players of the Chinese team mistakenly think that they are very strong.

Then this game is going to knock them back to square one!

Let them know that the gap between Chinese and Japanese football is far more than 20 or 30 years, but a hundred years!

(To be continued)