PS: I moved forward the date of the first East Asian Cup a few months earlier.

When Momo returned to China to prepare for the first East Asian Cup after the revision, he got such news.

The number of entries for the East Asian Cup team will be expanded from 20 to 30. Although this is a temporary change to recruit overseas players, XXX, director of the State Management Department of the Chinese Football Association, said that Sun Jihai and Li Tie, two international players who are competing in the Premier League, will not return to China to participate in this competition.

And because there are only eight teams participating, the most direct is the semi-finals.

In fact, Sun Jihai and Li Tie are willing to win glory for the country, but it is a pity that the East Asian Cup is not an international A-level event, and they also have arrangements in terms of clubs. It will also create unnecessary contradictions between the Chinese Football Association and the two clubs.

In the end, the confirmation of the Chinese international player to Japan is still under consideration, and various clubs in China also hope that the national team can not or as little as possible to draw their own domestic international players.

Ali Khan attaches great importance to this East Asian Cup, because it is the most important game since he coached the Chinese team, and it is also the time to confirm the confidence of the fans.

You must know that although the previous friendly matches were played well, and even drew 0:0 with Brazil, which made the fans praise it for a while, but after all, it was only a friendly match, and it was not very convincing and the gold content was not large, so this time Ali Khan wanted to get a good ranking very much.

Since Ali Khan took office, although he has achieved good results in a series of invitational tournaments (friendly matches), his employment has been questioned by many people, especially in this year's trip to the United States, the results of the national football team not only dissatisfied the majority of fans, but also criticized by some leaders of the Football Association.

After watching the Olympic qualifiers of the national Olympic team, Ali Han is rumored to have become interested in some members of the national Olympic team, and in view of the shortcomings of the national football team in some aspects, four or five members of the national Olympic team have entered Ali Kahn's field of vision, including An Qi, Zhang Yaokun, Yan Song of Dalian Shide and Dewey of Shanghai Shenhua.

After Sun Jihai and Li Tie have confirmed that they will not be able to go to Japan to participate in the East Asian Cup, Momo can be said to have given Ali Han a reassurance, and Momo also brought Zhang Meng, who lost Mourinho's Chelsea for half a season, which greatly increased the strength of the national football team

This time, because the training camp is short, Ali Han will only recruit players he is very familiar with to go to Japan, and the goalkeepers were originally only Liu Yunfei and Li Jian, but because Li Jian was punished, Ali Han had to choose between Yu Weiliang and Li Leilei, of which Yu Weiliang was more likely to be selected.

This time, the Chinese Football Association also attaches great importance to the East Asian Cup, so as long as the tactics allow, Ali Han can recruit the players he wants to go to Japan, because the concentration time of the National Olympic Games is a week after the end of the East Asian Cup, and the two will not affect each other. But because Ali Han has led the team to play 6 games this year, if too many national Olympic players are recruited for this event, it will inevitably cause a crash in next year's World Cup qualifiers, because the national team and the national Olympic team obviously can't take care of the game, and there will be a player vacuum, so Ali Han, who knows this, is likely to be reluctant to transfer more national Olympic players to participate.

In fact, when faced with these news, Momo's heart was uncomfortable, a big country, can't draw 30 players to participate in the East Asian Cup?

On the Japanese and South Korean side, they have not received much attention to their recruitment, with Nikkan Sports reporting that PSV Eindhoven rejected them in their answer to the Korean Football Association.

The reason is that it is disrespectful to the club to call Korean players back to their home countries in such a regional competition.

Xue Qixuan is still recovering from an injury, and his club Anderlecht rejected the Korean Football Association's request on the grounds that he needs to rest.

In addition, Li Tianxiu of Real Sociedad in Spain and Che Do-li of Frankfurt also had to stay at the club for the same reason. In this regard, Nikkan Sports believes that it will be difficult for the Korean Football Association to mobilize these players back, and Coelho, who is well aware of the rules of European clubs, is not good at forcing these clubs to make people, because that would obviously be detrimental to his preparations for next year's World Cup. Therefore, the South Korean team is likely to recruit more Olympic players to participate in the national team for training.

However, Ahn Jung-hwan, Yoo Sang-teol, Kim Eun-jung, and Choi Yong-so will be able to return. Although the return of the four of them is good for South Korea to enhance its offensive ability, the lack of Park Ji-sung and Lee Tian-so's South Korean midfielders, especially the two wings, has been greatly affected.

On the Japanese side, many European stars also said that they would not return to their home countries to participate, on the one hand, because the club did not allow it, and on the other hand, because most of the Korean overseas players did not return to China.

As for China? All right!

No matter how Japan and South Korea try to hide it, in fact, what they mean is that the players of our Olympic team can compete for the championship if they go, and other countries are just running along! At the beginning of February 2004, China will have their first World Cup qualifiers, and in this case, it is a pity that they will not be able to play against the Europeans of Japan and South Korea.

But Momo is going for the championship this time, regardless of how much gold the trophy has, even the East Asian Cup can't win the championship, and he can't dominate in East Asia, let alone dominate the whole world.

Even South Korea and Japan, which are missing the main force, can't win it, so how can they achieve better results in the World Cup?

What the? You said the World Cup qualifiers haven't been played yet? Hehe! Is this a problem?

Since you all despise this East Asian Cup so much, then you just wait and see!

In all my playing careers, whether it's the East Asian Cup or the Asian Cup, Japan and South Korea, I don't want to win another championship.

Even if I retire in the future, the Chinese players I promoted in my career will take over the banner of my predecessors and continue to suppress you.

It's like Mo Mo took over the broken banner of Hao Haidong and others.

Slowly walking towards the training base, this time no one came to pick up Momo, and even said that Ali Khan didn't have much expectation of recruiting Momo at all.

After all, Momo is now in the best league in the world, Serie A (a Champions League final four three Serie A teams, just like the Champions League semi-finals in later generations are basically La Liga, Serie A at that time was the top league in the world. ）

But Momo is here, because from now on, from the East Asian Cup, he will carry the national football team, so that the national football team is no longer the national football team, scolding when he sees the national football team, and abandoning the national football team when he sees the national football team. (To be continued.) )