Chapter Eighty-Eight: Rushing to South America

The next day, media outlets across Asia were covering the match between Izumi City and Gamba Osaka.

"Shame! Another shame after the Japanese youth team lost to the Chinese youth team! The Japanese media made such headlines. After the last small home win over Izumi City, the Japanese media only criticized Gamba Osaka, but this time it was different, Gamba Osaka not only lost the game, but also lost the qualification to continue to participate in the AFC Champions League!

"Is it too arrogant? Gamba Osaka, the champions of Japan's J-League last year, was unable to qualify for the group stage of the AFC Champions League, and their performance in the AFC Champions League disappointed all Japanese fans. Is that the level of our Japanese championship team? Could it be that the development of Japanese football is not as good as that of Chinese football? "The Japanese media have raised three questions in a row, and the situation of Gamba Osaka's failure to qualify from the group is something they would never have thought of before the start of the AFC Champions League.

Even though Gamba Osaka are drawn to Group E of the absolute Group of Death, they are still the strongest team in this group and the most likely team to qualify from the group.

However, the two places in Group E were occupied by Buriram United and Izumi City, and Gamba Osaka not only failed to win the group, but also lost the qualification for the group.

This is unacceptable to Japanese fans, who can't admit that Japanese football is inferior to Chinese football and Thai football. You must know that in the national team competition, the Japanese national team has never taken the Chinese national team and the Thai national team into account.

So why did Gamba Osaka, as a Japanese team, lose to Thailand's Buriram United and China's Izumi City in the group stage one after another?

Is it the strength that doesn't work? Of course not!

Gamba Osaka's strength is definitely among the best in the entire AFC Champions League, and the reason why they can't get out of the group. The reason can only be found in oneself, or from the head coach.

After the game, the head coach became the scapegoat for Gamba Osaka's elimination from the group. He resigned and was given a lifetime ban from coaching in Japan's top leagues by the Japanese Football Association!

Japan, like the sticks, is a very radical nation. They have attached great importance to the development of football in recent years, so they don't mind sentencing him to death with thunder for a black sheep like the head coach of Gamba Osaka!

This is the current situation of the development of Japanese football, and their methods are much more intense than that of Chinese football. It's not for nothing that Japan, a small island country with big fingernails, has been able to develop football to the extent it is now.

The country of the stick is that the fans are more radical, and the people are more aggressive. Japan, on the other hand, is a more radical policymaker. For the head coach of Gamba Osaka, such a trial has a bit of an authoritarian flavor. There is no respect for human rights at all.

The Osaka Gamba team was eliminated, and it has a woolen relationship with your Japanese Football Association, at most there is no bonus.

This is the philosophy of other countries to develop football, not Japan. The Japanese have more honor than life. Honor above all else. Since you are also a member of the Japan Football Association, you deserve to be punished for making mistakes!

The head coach of Gamba Osaka had to go abroad to survive because of this defeat to Izumi, and it is impossible for a manager like him to return to Japan's lower leagues to coach.

A big manager. Just because of a failure, it is enough to see how bloody and cruel the development of Japanese football is.

Of course, for such a small island country, this is the only way to make Japanese football a first-line place in the world!

The Japanese media wailed, while the Chinese media rejoiced. Strictly speaking, they were actually slapped in the face by the Quancheng team, because no media was optimistic about the Quancheng team before the game, and they even once asked the Quancheng team to give up the game, so that Lin Qi and the three of them could go to the Huaxia Youth Team to report as soon as possible.

However, the Quancheng team not only did not give up, but also won the game with the outstanding performance of Lin Qi, Luo Ming, and Xu Zhen, and successfully advanced to the top 16 of the AFC Champions League!

The score of 4:3 made the media's faces crackle, but even if they were slapped in the face, they still felt very happy. Yes, they were indeed not optimistic about the Quancheng team before the game, but deep down in their hearts, as long as they are still Chinese, of course, they eagerly hope that the Quancheng team can defeat Gamba Osaka!

They were extremely satisfied with the result of the game, and the performance of the Springs team throughout the game made their blood boil. This is the real Quancheng team, this is one of the strongest teams in our China.

Because of this game, the Quancheng team was named "one of the strongest teams". There is another way to say this name: the wealthy!

It is the first time that the Quancheng team has been called a "giant" by the media, but the word "giant" is still a bit unworthy of the name when used on the Quancheng team, because the Quancheng team is indeed comparable to the giants in terms of strength, but their heritage is far from the giants.

Judging from their lineup, the Quancheng team is still just a sling team, and their biggest star is Lin Qi, the talented core of the Chinese youth team. Lin Qi's worth obviously cannot be compared with those players who have been famous for a long time, let alone with Chinese football legends like An Run.

However, none of this has affected the media's praise for the Spring City team.

The media bluntly said that if the Spring City team can continue the performance of this game, they will also have a competitive power for the AFC Champions League championship! Gamba Osaka is the top four teams in the AFC Champions League last year, and if they can beat the top four of the AFC Champions League, there are only two teams participating in the finals, both of which have the strength to participate in the finals, and of course they can compete for the championship of the AFC Champions League!

No media dares to say that the Quancheng team is arrogant, and no media dares to point the finger at Lin Qi and Wang Yi. Facts have proved that Wang Yi's decision not to exchange Lin Qi with An Run is correct!

It is precisely because of his decision that there are two teams in the Chinese team that have the strength to compete for the championship - Quancheng team and Qilu team!

And if Wang Yi had agreed to the swap, perhaps the Quancheng team would have been eliminated in the AFC Champions League by now. Fans like Anrun and believe that Anrun is stronger than Lin Qi, but they also feel that Anrun cannot be as good as Lin Qi, and it is impossible for Anrun to lead the entire Quancheng team forward, let alone send the Quancheng team to the top 16 of the AFC Champions League!

The biggest contributor to the group qualification of the Quancheng team is none other than Lin Qi. In the three games won by the Quancheng team, Lin Qi played quite well, and in the three games, he scored a total of eight goals, which helped the Quancheng team stand out from Group E of the Group of Death!

With the efforts of Lin Qi and the efforts of all the players of the Quancheng team, the Quancheng team has once again created a miracle, and the media have reason to believe that the Quancheng team will definitely be able to create another miracle in the next AFC Champions League knockout round!

The media praised Lin Qi very much, but Lin Qi didn't have time to enjoy this praise, so he and Luo Ming Xu Zhen stepped on the plane to South America, they were going to meet with the Chinese youth team, and prepare for the World Youth Championships to be held in Chile in a month! (To be continued......)