Hong Kong, China, defeated Vietnam to reach the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, and Hong Kong fans cheered, and at the same time, many mainland fans who did not care about Hong Kong, China also paid attention to the game in Hong Kong, China.

For domestic fans, this Asian Cup is unfortunate and lucky.

Unfortunately, the Chinese team, which represented China in the Asian Cup, was eliminated in the group stage, creating the worst result of Chinese football in the Asian Cup in 27 years, but there was luck in the misfortune, because they found that the Asian Cup is still interesting, that is, Hong Kong, China led by Wan Sheng.

The Chinese team was eliminated, but Hong Kong, China made it to the semi-finals.

Many mainland fans do not recognize Hong Kong, China, they think that Hong Kong, China is not a Chinese team, but some fans believe that Hong Kong is a part of China, and Hong Kong, China is also a part of the Chinese team.

The two views are completely different, in fact, the Chinese team and the Hong Kong team are like the British team and the Scottish team.

There is no British team in football, and only the Olympics will have a British team.

The English believe that the only team to represent them is England and do not recognise Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The situation in China is different.

Historically, there is no contradiction and hatred between China and Hong Kong, the reason why there is a Hong Kong, China team, is only because Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, and it has only been ten years now, in addition, the 'one country-two-system' policy has also made Hong Kong, China a special place, they are like a country, they can have their own team, that is to say, the emergence of the Hong Kong, China team, is more of a historical and institutional issue, China and Hong Kong, and England and Scotland are completely different. In contrast, it's more like the UK and Scotland.

In short, from the perspective of system and history, Hong Kong, China can also be regarded as a part of the Chinese team, so mainland fans have a certain degree of recognition of Hong Kong, China.

Before, Chinese fans didn't care about Hong Kong, China, because their results were much worse than China's, but now it's different, China is out of the Asian Cup, Hong Kong is in the semi-finals, plus Hong Kong is coached by Wan Sheng. It's like Hong Kong, China has become the representative of Chinese football.

That's what many domestic fans see, and the media's approach speaks even more.

After the Chinese team was 'out', almost all the media who followed the Chinese team to cover the Asian Cup 'switched' to Hong Kong, China, to cover the game in Hong Kong, China.

Even China Central TV has decided to take prime time to broadcast the game in Hong Kong, China, so that Hong Kong, China has almost become the 'representative team of China'.

At the same time, Chinese fans are also very emotional when talking about the topic of "how far can Hong Kong, China go", and their hearts are very complicated.

Chinese fans sighed first. It's Wansheng's coaching ability, which is what they are proud of.

Hong Kong, China can be recognized by many mainland fans, and the more reason is that Wan Sheng is a pure Chinese coach, and he leads the team to coach. Hong Kong, China will be recognized.

Previously, many domestic fans thought that Wansheng's ability was very strong, but there was still no future for leading the team to Hong Kong, China, after all, Hong Kong, China was the last in Asia, and its strength was at the bottom of Asia. Even if Wansheng has a strong ability to lead the team, it is difficult to play well.

But now that Hong Kong, China has entered the top four, many people are dumbfounded.

The media and fans are simply too convinced of Wansheng's coaching ability. Hong Kong, China's ability to achieve the semi-finals can definitely be described as a miracle.

As reported by "Sohu Sports", "Wan Sheng is a real international coach, and Hong Kong, China led by him is still undefeated in the Asian Cup!" ”

"Hong Kong, China entered the Asian Cup finals with a 'lucky place' before, no one expected them to achieve good results, the Hong Kong Football Association took the most correct step, they invited Wan Sheng to become the coach of Hong Kong, and now they have achieved success in the Asian Cup!"

"What is certain is that after the end of this Asian Cup, Hong Kong football will usher in great development!"

When it comes to these issues, Chinese fans think of Zhu Guanghu's Chinese team, the Chinese team is more than a step stronger than Hong Kong, China, so what will happen if Wan Sheng coaches the Chinese team?

On various sports forums, almost all of them have related questions and various speculations, and most of them are, "If Wansheng coaches the Chinese team, the Asian Cup will definitely be able to enter the finals, and leading the team to the World Cup can also play a good result!" ”

So Chinese fans lamented, "Why is Wansheng not bringing Hong Kong, China!" ”

Under this argument, the Chinese Football Association was brought out.

When the Chinese team was eliminated from the group, the pressure of the Chinese Football Association came, and those officials and the like did not dare to stand in front of the fans and the media, they could only let the head coach Zhu Guanghu be the scapegoat, but it was difficult to calm the anger of the fans.

On the Internet and in the media, many people are discussing the topic of May, "Why did the Chinese Football Association at that time have to say something 'Before the Asian Cup, stability is the most important, and Zhu Jiajun can also play well'", and now the Chinese team has been eliminated from the group.

The group is eliminated!

The group is eliminated!!

Disgrace!

The Chinese Football Association was scolded as a mess, and you can imagine how difficult it was for them.

At this time, Xie Yalong and other officials of the Chinese Football Association gritted their teeth with hatred for Wan Sheng, for them, Wan Sheng led the team to Hong Kong, China to achieve good results, which was completely equivalent to slapping their mouths on the cheeks, one after another, the better the results of Hong Kong, China, the more difficult their situation became.

When he heard that Hong Kong, China defeated Vietnam to reach the semifinals, Xie Yalong directly slammed the cup on the ground in front of many people, which shows how he feels.

It's a pity that no matter what the mood of the Chinese Football Association officials is, it can't affect the performance of Hong Kong, China, because no matter how much they have the right to play, they can't control the head of the Hong Kong Football Association, let alone the Hong Kong, China team.

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After the match against Vietnam, Hong Kong did not celebrate, but returned to the stadium to gather their things as they were on their way to Malaysia the next morning to prepare for the semi-finals.

It is worth mentioning that the other match of the quarterfinals was the match between Japan and Iraq at the My Yen National Stadium in Vietnam. Japan relied on penalty shootouts to defeat Iraq 5-4 to advance to the quarterfinals.

Iraq was eliminated.

This result surprised Wansheng, and at the same time, it also felt taken for granted.

In my impression, this Asian Cup belongs to Iraq, but when the domestic war was in turmoil, Iraq created a miracle in the Asian Cup, defeated one opponent after another, and finally won the Asian Cup championship.

But with the participation of Hong Kong, China, it is different, and Australia has suffered elimination. Iraq did not finish first in the group, they met Japan in the quarter-finals, and the quality of the Japanese team must be recognized, and Iraq did not perform badly, but in the end they could not beat Japan.

This is the history that the arrival of Wansheng has changed.

History and memory are different, naturally, the next semi-finals and finals are unpredictable, and the championship will definitely not belong to Iraq, when I hear the news. Wan Sheng's desire to win the championship is even hotter, he doesn't want his arrival to squeeze out the Iraqi champion, but cheapens South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia and other teams.

Work hard like that for half a day. Not all of them are busy for others, especially no one will appreciate it, because no one will know that Iraq should have won the championship.

Wansheng has found another reason to win the championship!

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The next day at noon. Hong Kong, China arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, and after checking into the hotel, Wan Sheng gathered all the players. Head to the Bukit Jalil Stadium to watch the quarter-finals between Iran and South Korea take place there.

The winner of this match will be Hong Kong's opponent in the semi-finals.

South Korea made it out of the group stage in a dangerous way, but they showed great resilience against Iran.

This match is also the highlight of the 1/4 finals of the Asian Cup.

The Iranian team is dominated by the three major stars Karimi, Madavecchia and Hashmian, while the South Korean team hides Choi Sung-kook and discharges the combination of Lee Cheon-so and Lee Dong-kook in the front line.

Iran changed the slow heat characteristic of the group stage start, and immediately launched a fast-paced attack after the opening.

After withstanding an onslaught from Iran in the early stages of the season, South Korea began to put pressure on Iran's midfield with close ferocious pressing and running at all costs.

The game was deadlocked.

In the first half, both teams could not break the deadlock on the field, after the rematch, the Iranian team significantly accelerated the pace of the attack and occupied the initiative on the field, the attack on the two wings was very active, and the South Korean team only had the power to parry for a while.

However, Iran attacked well but did not pose much of a real threat to South Korea's goal, and until the end of the 90th minute, neither side scored, and the game went into extra time.

In overtime, the physical fitness of the players on both sides decreased significantly, and neither team dared to attack rashly, but after 30 minutes of overtime, the score was still 0:0.

The two sides could only play a brutal penalty shootout.

In the penalty shootout, Iran's captain Madavecchia and Khatibi's shots were saved by South Korea's captain Lee Yun-jae.

In the end, South Korea defeated Iran 4-2 to advance to the semi-finals, and they became Hong Kong's opponent in the semi-finals.

After the game, Wan Sheng also led the team back to the hotel, and after a night's rest, the next day, Hong Kong, China conducted normal preparation training.

Training is still about recovery, and keeping the players in shape is the most important thing.

At the same time, according to the characteristics of the South Korean team, the team also carried out some targeted training, such as defensive training with double cooperation, and rapid retreat to deal with sudden steals.

These drills will allow the team to perform better defensively against South Korea.

The two-day preparation period is not long, but it is enough for Hong Kong, China to recover and do some targeted training.

Soon as the clock passed, it was the night before the game.

That evening, Hong Kong, China and South Korea will hold a press conference and submit their respective names to the AFC for the semi-finals.

Due to the tight training time for the preparation and training, Wan Shenglai was a few minutes late, and when he walked in front of the venue, he saw South Korea coach Verbeek talking about the semi-finals.

Wan Sheng knows a thing or two about the Dutch manager.

Verbeek took over the South Korean team at the end of last year's World Cup, and he is an assistant to former South Korean coach Advocaat and is only 43 years old this year.

In fact, in the 2002 World Cup, Verbeek also served as an assistant to the then South Korean coach Hiddink, two World Cups, two assistants, this qualification gave Verbeek the opportunity to correct, his advantage is quite familiar with Korean football and Asian football.

At the time of signing the contract, it was clear that Verbeek might just be a transitional figure in the South Korean coach's position, because his contract was only two years, and the bottom line given by the Korean Football Association was that Verbeek's contract would not be based on the results of the South Korean team in the Asian Cup, that is, the results of the Asian Cup football matches would not be used as a criterion for assessing Verbeek's ability to work, and Verbeek might just ensure that the South Korean team has a more stable state before the World Cup qualifiers in South Africa.

Verbeck's results were clearly beyond the expectations of the Korean Football Association, and he led this 'South Korean second team' to the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.

In fact, Verbeek is also very satisfied with his team's results, because he knows that leading a 'South Korean second team' to the semi-finals of the Asian Cup is enough to ensure that his contract can be extended until the end of next year's World Cup, and as long as he performs well in the World Cup, then he is likely to get a high-salary long-term contract from the Korean Football Association.

He's only 43 years old, and it's quite remarkable that he's been able to do this.

Verbeek himself thinks so, so when he thinks of South Korea's opponent in the semi-finals, the young coach of Hong Kong, China, the mood becomes very bad, his results in coaching are already very good, but compared to the 30-year-old Chinese, this achievement is really nothing.

Although he didn't know Wansheng, his peers were enemies, and Verbeck was very jealous of Wansheng's achievements, and he didn't think that his ability was inferior to the other party.

Now that he was about to run into Hong Kong, Verbeck vowed to defeat Hong Kong, and most importantly, the young Chinese.

At the press conference, Verbeek said, "Compared to us and Hong Kong, we played extra time, and we had one less day of rest than our opponents, so we were at a physical disadvantage. ”

"But I think in terms of strength, the Korean team is much stronger than Hong Kong, China, so we will have a much better chance of winning."

"Plus, we have a mental advantage."

Verbeek is well aware of his team's strengths, and he talks about the 'all-time record of meetings between China and South Korea', "Hong Kong, China, is also a Chinese team, and the Chinese team has never beaten us since 1978. ”

"That's our strength."

"A lot of Chinese media say that the Chinese team has 'Koreanophobia', sorry, I don't know Chinese, the pronunciation is not accurate, but I know that the Chinese media means that the Chinese team has a tradition of being afraid of the Korean team."

"Their teams are afraid of us, their players are afraid of our players, and maybe their coaches are afraid of me......"

Maybe the last two sentences are the humor of the Dutch, but the scene is the Asian Cup, so they can't understand this kind of humor at all, and they can't accept Verbeek's humor, they will only interpret it as "Verbeek is laughing at Chinese football".

It was very important that when Verbeck was saying this, he didn't notice that Wan Sheng was sitting a few meters away, looking at him with a sneer.

That look was really not friendly.

Verbeek continued to immerse himself in the topic just now, and when he saw the expressions of the reporters in the audience, he thought that what he said was not very interesting, so he continued, "That's right, their coach must be afraid of me, otherwise why don't you come now......

When they heard this, many media reporters immediately looked at Wansheng.

Just when a reporter was about to remind Verbeke, he saw Wansheng standing up suddenly, looking at Verbeek with a hideous face, and holding an unopened mineral water bottle in his hand.

Wan Sheng looked at Verbeck, his hand squeezed hard, only to hear a loud 'bang', the mineral water bottle exploded directly, the bottle cap hit Verbek's head, and the water in the bottle flew a few meters and sprayed onto Verbek's body.

The scene was a mess.

Verbeek sat on the ground in embarrassment.

Under the stunned eyes of a group of media reporters, Wan Sheng pointed at Verbeck on the ground and said vigorously, "Will Lao Tzu be afraid of you?" If you don't accept you, you see if Lao Tzu is afraid! ”

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