After the Spring Festival, the coaching staff of the national team began to get busy again, because since June 2011, Asian football has officially entered the World Cup in Brazil, which means that the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian zone have begun. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Asian qualifiers are a total of five rounds, with 43 teams under the AFC competing for four semi-final places.

The first round of matches was played on 29 June and 3 July 2011, with the 16 teams with the worst qualifying results in South Africa 2010 playing home and away knockout rounds, with the eight winners advancing to the next round.

Although there is nothing to do with the Chinese team in this round, he means that the World Cup qualifiers have officially begun, so it is also very meaningful.

The second round of matches was played on July 13 and 28, 2011, and the remaining 22 teams played home and away legs against the eight teams who won the first stage, excluding the five teams with the highest ranking in the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa, and the winning 15 teams advanced to the next round.

There was nothing to do with the Chinese team in this round.

The third round of matches was played between 2 September 2011 and 29 February 2012, with 20 teams from China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran and the 15 winning teams from the second tier divided into five groups of four teams playing a home-and-away double round-robin match. The top two teams in the group advance to the next round.

It is also commonly known as the top 20 competition.

Next is the famous top 10 match, which is also the stage to determine the direct promotion team.

The final round is the so-called play-offs, which take place on 6 and 13 September 2013, with the winners of the round of 10 playing home and away against the third-placed teams from the two groups, with the winner competing for a place in the finals against the fifth-placed South American team.

Because there are many teams in the Asian region, the qualifier cycle is also very long, in fact, it basically runs through the entire 4-year World Cup cycle.

Therefore, the time for the Chinese team to play will be in the top 20 stage, which is actually very fast, which means that the Chinese team will start preparing now.

At the same time, Li Guo in the base had happy troubles.

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"What, Leverkusen asked us not to recruit Zhou Dun in the top 20 of the qualifiers?" Li Guo asked angrily.

Chen An nodded.

"Not only the Leverkusen family, but other clubs such as Yin Di, Fang Suo, and Mu Fei don't want us to recruit players to participate in the qualifiers."

Li Guo knows that the national team and the club are naturally hostile sides, but there are still very few such blatant ones.

I remember that when Cahill was still in Everton, the Australian Football Association asked him to go back to play, and Everton said that Cahill was injured and could not go back, Australia of course did not believe it, and sent the team doctor directly to Everton, so that Everton would release him.

But Li Guo is different from other head coaches, he used to be the head coach of the club, and he knows the dangers of the FIFA virus.

What's more, these clubs also know that the level of qualifiers in the top 20 stage is indeed not high, and there is no need for these big names to come back, such as Japan, South Korea, and will not recruit overseas internationals in the top 20 stage.

Chen An continued: "Actually, we are also from the club, and I think the club's request is still reasonable. ”

Li Guo nodded.

"And what do you think?"

"It depends on the situation, I can't promise them now, I know these guys, if you readily agree, then they won't let them go in the top 10 stage."

Chen An nodded, "It's still your foresight." ”

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"The defending champions lose their old glory"

In a friendly match of the National Olympic Games, the Chinese Olympic team lost 0-1 to the Colombian Olympic team, and the media scrambled to use such a headline to report the game of the National Olympic team.

What is more ugly than the result is the process of the game, the tactics are dull, and the fighting spirit of the players is not high, so the media pointed all the fingers at the current head coach - Fu Bo.

Taking over the Chinese Olympic team after Li Guo is like taking over Manchester United after Alex Ferguson, a stressful and almost impossible task.

Because as long as there is even the slightest problem, the media will compare you with your predecessor, and this time it is the same, after the loss, everyone is saying, how good Li Guo is, how stupid the current head coach is.

A week later, in another warm-up game, after the National Olympic Games drew 0-0 with Uzbekistan, public opinion was in an uproar for a while, and they asked Li Guo to come back immediately.

"Damn, at this level, it will definitely be blown up in London next year."

"London? You think too much, I bet that the National Olympics won't be able to go to London next year. ”

"It's miserable!"

These are the comments of netizens, anyway, there is everything to say, the scale relationship, and the crude ones will not be quoted.

It doesn't matter what public opinion scolds, you just don't look at it, but soon the Football Association also found Li Guo, and Li Guo can't pretend to be deaf and dumb this time.

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"Why don't you take another session?" Cai Hua asked tentatively.

"Then what do you think of this salary?"

Cai Hua chuckled, "The huge China, you can still lose your salary, as long as you want, the salary is as you like." ”

But Li Guo knew that this was a road of no return, and no matter how miserable Manchester United was, it was impossible for the old man to go back, because there was no hope for a one-man team, and it still had to rely on a steady stream of latecomers.

At that time, German football did not use newcomers, and in the 1996 European Cup and the 1998 World Cup, a group of veterans were used to hold on for two sessions, but in the 2000 European Cup, in the end, it was really unable to hold on, and the group stage was eliminated early.

"Chairman, there's no way I'm going back!"

"Why?"

Li Guo gave the example of the German team, and Cai Hua was silent after hearing it, "It's different, it's different, we were the defending champions last time, and we can't be too ugly in London next year." ”

Li Guo said: "Germany was still the champion of the 1996 European Championship, and it was not abused in 2000. ”

Everyone understands the truth, but when it's their turn, people can't turn around, human nature, so Cai Hua began to play scoundrel, "I don't care, I went to the National Olympics yesterday to see it, people's hearts are sluggish, there is no fighting spirit, you must stand up now." ”

Li Guo was also in a bull's temper, stood up and slapped the table, "Cai Hua, I have long wanted to talk about you, don't do it every time, football must be done according to science." ”

Cai Hua also stood up, "Damn, Li Guo, you kid is very good now, believe it or not, I'll beat you." ”

"Beat me? Come on,"

"Come on, come on."

The two of them were really scuffling in the office, crackling, and the things on the table fell to the ground.

In the end, Li Guo twisted the other party's legs, and the other party also twisted Li Guo's legs, and at this time, the door suddenly opened, and the aunt who came in to do hygiene. (To be continued.) )