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But because of this, the two did not fully recover before the last group game between the national football team and the Hong Kong team on November 17, and lost the opportunity to start, but Gao Jun, who came on as a substitute in the second half, still easily scored two goals alone, so that Hao Dacang, who has been declining in form for the past two or three months, can withdraw from the national team with peace of mind, and the veteran Li Ming, who is also very old, withdrew from the national team with him

Since the Eastern team had a bye in the penultimate round of the Central League (in 2004, the teams in the Central League were odd-numbered, so one team had a bye in each round. Gao Jun was named the best young player in Asia in 2004 by the AFC, and when he returned to the team after participating in the award ceremony, the last round of the Chinese League had already started, so Gao Jun did not play this game, but fortunately, the Eastern team finally won the championship of the year with a one-point advantage, so as not to leave any regrets.

Although Gao Jun missed nearly half of the games, he still scored 34 goals in the Chinese League this year, with an average of more than 2 goals per game, which is not only unprecedented, but also can be said to be unprecedented, after all, under normal circumstances, it is difficult to have the main level shooters of the middle and lower reaches of the five major leagues, and it is also a pure scorer who relies on goals to eat mixed in the Chinese League, and has been ignored for a period of time

In addition to his incredible 34 goals, Gao Jun also completed nine direct assists and had more dangerous passes, and if there is also a Ballon d'Or in the Chinese League, he is also well-deserved. Of course, if the honor of the Chinese League is too insignificant compared to the honor at the Asian level, especially Gao Jun won the award of Asia's best newcomer at the age of 16, setting a new record for the young age of the winner of this award, which is really amazing.

In fact, even with such an honor, there are still many Chinese fans who are unhappy with Gao Jun, who generally believes that Gao Jun's god-level performance in the Asian Cup is obviously more qualified than Iran's Karimi to be the Asian Footballer of the Year in 2004. However, the AFC believes that Gao Jun is too young and too early to receive too high honors is not conducive to future development, and in addition, he has not been able to win enough honors in club competitions, so they still decided to award him only the award of Best Newcomer, anyway, Gao Jun is still very young, and there is still a chance to win the honor of Asian Footballer in the future

In order to appease the Chinese Football Association, the AFC awarded the best national team award in 2004 to the Chinese national team, but the best coach was awarded to Adnan, who led the Iraqi national Olympic team to win the Olympic bronze medal, and the national football coach Alihan regretfully passed by it. However, Chinese football remained the biggest winner at the AFC awards ceremony, winning the award for Best Women's Team (Chinese Women's U19 Youth Team) in addition to Best Newcomer and Best National Team. In addition, it is worth mentioning that China's "Golden Whistle" Lu Jun also won an award, but shortly before the award ceremony, he "happened in the East Window Incident" in the anti-gambling and anti-crime operation, which made the Chinese Football Association very embarrassed.

In fact, although the championship of the Chinese League is not a weighty club honor, but the FA Cup champion, which has almost become the bag of the Eastern team, can still be taken out, although the weight is not as good as the AFC Champions League, or even just the champion of the Chinese Super League, but on the basis of Gao Jun's gorgeous national team table, adding such an honor is enough to push Gao Jun to the throne of Asian footballer, but the final of the FA Cup will only start after the AFC award ceremony. So Gao Jun can only wait another year

In addition to the awarding of these awards, there is also a major event at this AFC Congress, that is, the group draw ceremony of the Asian quarterfinals of the 2005 World Cup Qualifiers, because it has been determined in advance that the draw for the top 8 matches will be based on the results of the last World Cup, so the South Korean team and the Japanese team are listed as the first pot teams, while the Chinese team that did not go out early as in history is classified as the second pot team along with the Saudi team, and Iran can only be aggrieved as the third pot team and Uzbekistan team, In the fourth pot are Bahrain and North Korea.

In this way, the Iranian team has become the biggest spoiler, which group it is divided into, which group will become the group of death, and the Chinese Football Association officials, who know that the national football team is afraid of Iran's chronic disease, are even more drumming in their hearts, thinking that they must not be separated from the Iranian team, but they are afraid of something, and the Chinese team was divided into Group B, together with Japan, Iran and North Korea

According to the rules of the quarter-finals, the top two teams in the group qualify directly, while the third place finishers will have to play the third place in the other group to qualify for a play-off and then play the fourth place in the CONCACAF region to qualify for the World Cup finals.

With the strength of the Chinese team, if it is the third place to play the play-offs, the possibility of passing two levels in a row is very small, and if you want to fight for the top two to qualify directly, you need to squeeze out Japan or Iran, which is also extremely difficult, after all, there will be no home advantage and referee care in the quarterfinals, and even the key games are likely to be hacked, and there are too many similar dark memories in the history of Chinese football.

This is also something that can't be helped, since Xu Fang's death, the influence of Chinese football in the AFC has been much less than before, and the poor performance of the national football team has made Chinese football lack of status in Asian football, and it is inevitable to be hacked, after all, even in the World Cup finals, the referee will still be somewhat biased towards the strong team.

After a brief period of disappointment, Yan Shiduo, executive vice president of the Chinese Football Association (Note 1), became more relaxed because he suddenly realized that the group of death also had the benefits of the group of death. Since it is called the Group of Death, with the strength of the Chinese team, it is normal that he cannot get out of the line, so even if the World Cup journey fails again, he does not have to bear too much responsibility.

At the same time, since there is little hope for the quarterfinals, then he can focus on the Olympic Games that senior leaders value more, because there is a group of media such as Gao Jun's "diamond generation", the Beijing Olympics is a home game, the possibility of results should still be not small, at least it is easier than the national football quarterfinals to qualify, right?

Note 1: He is also the director and party secretary of the Football Management Center in charge of Chinese football, and the chairman of the Football Association at this time, Yuan Weimin, is basically just a name, so although Yan Shiduo is not the chairman of the Football Association at this time, he has much more power than the chairman of the Chinese Football Association after 2010.