Chapter 70: The Asian Youth Championship begins
The news of the 5-0 victory of the Chinese youth team came back to China, and the media in China hyped up the game. Under the guidance of positive public opinion, domestic fans are full of confidence in this Chinese youth team, and they are eager to see the performance of the Chinese youth team in this Asian Youth Championship.
The doubts about Lin Qi and Liu Bo in the past began to disappear at this time, and even "Football News" chose to tout the Chinese youth team. Because the Asian Youth Championship is about to start, although the Asian Youth Championship is not a major competition, it is a matter of national honor, and all the Chinese media should unite at this time to be the strongest backing for the Chinese Youth Team.
Moreover, it has become a fact that Lin Qi wore the No. 9 jersey of the Chinese youth team to the Asian Youth Championships, and no matter how dissatisfied the media and fans are, it is impossible to change Liu Bo's decision.
In that case, then support it.
After all, any Chinese person hopes that the Chinese youth team can achieve good results, and "Football News" is no exception.
But the absence of doubts does not mean that this matter is over. If Lin Qi's performance in this Asian Youth Championship is not satisfactory, and the Chinese youth team fails to achieve the desired results, then Lin Qi and Liu Bo will be greeted by a more violent storm.
Of course, if Lin Qi can really come up with a performance worthy of the No. 9 jersey, the media in China will definitely not be stingy with their praise words.
The Asian Youth Championship is about to begin, and the fans of Huaxia are united in their support for the Huaxia Youth Team. And the Chinese youth team is also doing the final training.
Liu Bo's devil training has ended after two weeks. During the entire Devil's training process, a total of three players in the Huaxia Youth Team were injured due to training. In two weeks, three people were injured, which is enough to see how terrifying Liu Bo's devil training is.
Fortunately, most of the players persevered, and the next training was relatively easy, and the most important thing for them was to keep themselves in the best shape for the Asian Youth Championship.
Before the start of the Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese youth team held another press conference. Since the training camp of the Chinese youth team, Liu Boke has refused all media interviews, and now he needs to give an explanation to the domestic fans.
The scene of this press conference seemed a little undisturbed, and the whole press conference was basically Zhu Xuzhou speaking, Liu Bo knew that he was not good at dealing with the media, so he seemed relatively silent.
The media in China did not find fault at this press conference, and they expressed their support for the Chinese youth team in good faith.
Everything seems to be ready, and the time will soon be on October 3rd, and the Asian Youth Championship will officially begin!
A total of 16 teams participated in this Asian Youth Championship, divided into four groups, of which the Chinese youth team was divided into Group B, with Syria, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan.
Syria and Saudi Arabia are strong teams at the Asian Youth Championships, having both won the Asian Youth Championships in the past. The previous best result of the Chinese youth team was the third place in the Asian Youth Championships in '94.
In that year's Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese youth team lost to South Korea in the semi-finals and missed the final, and finally had to accept the result of third place.
Uzbekistan are the weakest in Group B, rarely making it out of the group and are basically point-giving opponents. The biggest pressure on the Chinese youth team came from Syria and Saudi Arabia.
The three teams have the strength to qualify, and whether they can qualify depends on what kind of performance the Chinese youth team can show.
After a short opening ceremony, the opening match of the Asian Youth Championship officially began, with hosts Thailand beating Iran 1-0 to claim their first win at the Asian Youth Championship.
At the same time, the first round of Group B was also played between Syria and Uzbekistan, which ended up winning 3-0. Uzbekistan failed to pose any threat to Syria, who comfortably took all three points and topped the group.
After that, the second match of Group B, the Chinese youth team played against the strongest team in this group, Saudi Arabia!
Saudi Arabia's form has been sluggish in recent Asian Youth Championships, but they are one of the favourites to win the tournament.
The Saudi Arabian youth team has the strongest defensive line in this tournament, and their four defenders are all regular players who have played in Saudi Arabia's top league clubs.
Such a defensive combination can be called luxurious in the Asian Youth Championships.
The age limit for players to participate in the Asian Youth Championship is 19 years old. It is perhaps more common for a 19-year-old to play as a regular striker or midfielder in the top flight. But defenders, in general, are weaker at the age of 19, because defenders need the most experience in the game.
Only those defenders who are experienced in the game can develop into a good defender, a defender who is good enough to start.
However, Saudi Arabia has produced four consecutive defenders under the age of 19 who have become the main players of the top league teams, if it is not for the fact that Saudi Arabia is really lacking defenders, it can only show that these four defenders are quite talented.
Moreover, the most terrifying thing is their figures, all of them are above 1.9 meters. When the four of them stood on the football field, it was like a wall, especially in the face of relatively weak Asians, it was simply an insurmountable mountain.
These four defenders are the biggest reason for Saudi Arabia to become the favorites to win the championship, and such defenders can make the opponent's attacking players do nothing just by their momentum.
The first game of the Asian Youth Championship against the Chinese youth team is such a team. Before the game, the entire Chinese youth team felt great pressure.
The favorite to win the championship is a bit scary.
Lin Qi was also a little nervous before the game, not because he was afraid of the defenders of the Saudi Arabian team, but because this was Lin Qi's first appearance on the world stage!
"The Asian Youth Championship can barely be regarded as a world arena, but I don't know if there will be scouts from European giants in this arena?"
"I'm already well-known in the Chinese league, I don't know if I can make a name for myself here."
"There are only six games at most, so how far can we go?"
Lin Qi had been hovering around such a question in his mind, he was very confident in his strength, but he was still inevitably nervous.
It's no wonder that Lin Qi is no wonder, because Lin Qi in his previous life has never had the opportunity to stand on this kind of world stage.
He has been longing for the world stage for too long, and in his previous life, he has imagined countless times whether he will have a chance to stand on the world stage if he is not injured.
Now, he finally has the opportunity to stand on this arena, but Lin Qi is a little timid.
However, Lin Qi's performance was quite good, he was just a little nervous. The rest of the Chinese youth team players were very nervous.
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