Volume 1 Chapter 210 World Cup Qualifiers
When Chen Yu returned from Parma, the team took a vacation to let the international players return to China to prepare for the World Cup qualifiers.
Although Fiorentina is not a giant team like Juventus and AC Milan, most of its first-team players are members of the national team, even if they are not the main players, they are also substitutes.
As the next captain and core of Fiorentina, Chen Yu's inability to be selected for the Chinese team has always been something that surprised and annoyed Fiorentina fans.
Players like Micoli, Rigano, and Di Natale, they were unfortunately born in a football power like Italy, facing the competition of geniuses like Vieri, Piero, Inzaghi, and Gilardino, and it is helpless not to be selected, but the country where Chen Yu was born is the Chinese team, a weak football country ranked about 90th in the world, and Chen Yu's inability to enter the coach's eyes is really inexplicable.
Florence's local media "La Italia" commented before the national team break: "Fiorentina ace scored 71 goals in five Serie A games and U goals in five Italian Cup games, which is completely the data of the world's top strikers, with his current state, even if he was born in Italy, he can compete with Vieri, Piero, Inzaghi for playing time, but when China is facing a life-and-death battle with Kuwait, he is not called, which is really incomprehensible." ”
Italy's "All Sports" also expressed surprise at Chen Yu's defeat, "Mikoli scored two goals, but lost to Gilardino who did not score a goal, I don't know what Lippi thinks, of course, compared with Mikoli, Chen Yu is more wronged, the Chinese team in the next two rounds will challenge Kuwait and Hong Kong, China in the next two rounds, but the head coach refused to recruit Chen Yu into the national team, I don't know if he is too confident in his players, or has a conflict with Chen Yu." ”
Foreign media, reporters and fans do not know the particularity of China's national conditions, they think that Chen Yu's failure to be selected may be because of the head coach, but Chinese reporters are clear that Chen Yu was forgotten by the national team, not because Alihan alone, this is a complicated result.
The Chinese team is a big sauce jar and a river and lake, where there are intricate competitions for personnel, money and power, and it is not the head coach Alihan who has the final say, of course, Alihan, who was praised as a "cake talent" by Sun Jihai's father, is also one of the factors.
Alihan won the runner-up in the Asian Cup, defeated Iran, gave him a certain authority and status in the team, and also gained some henchmen, no longer like the original, talking is not even a fart.
However, Alihan is not interested in Chen Yu, he thinks that Chen Yu is too arrogant, and has never expressed the intention of playing for the country, and the victory of the Asian Cup also makes Alihan full of confidence in his players, he thinks that his team is now the second in Asia, and it is not easy to play Kuwait, there is no need to invite Chen Yu back, so in the case of the opposition of the Football Association and the obstruction of the players, Alihan did not summon Chen Yu before this life-and-death battle with Kuwait.
Before the game, Jia Ya, a reporter in Europe, published a comment in the "Football Newspaper", calling out for Chen Yu, "...... October 13th and Kuwait this game is the most important game for the Chinese team, this game lost, we lost the initiative, peace and friendship stadium for us will never be peace and friendship, at this time, all members of the Chinese team should give up prejudices and grievances, work together for the honor of the motherland, Chen Yu as the best state in China now, the most famous, the most talented striker, he should not be excluded from this battle of life and death, In particular, he should not be excluded from the national team squad because of some off-field factors, Chinese football needs him, and Chinese fans also need him. ”
Liu Ming, another journalist in Europe, also said in the "Sports Weekly", "...... Chen Yu can't be selected is a joke, China has not put such a striker idle capital, yes, Jacques gave up Cantona to get the world championship, but not every team is as star-studded as the French team, we don't have Zidane, no Henry, no Thuram, Chen Yu can be the captain of Fiorentina, and he is by no means a black sheep, and now in Italy, there are many people clamoring for Chen Yu to naturalize Chen Yu, so that Chen Yu can add a touch of fresh blood to the aging Italian football. We must not let go of this once-in-a-century genius......"
Since the rise of Chen Yu, whenever the team encounters a strong opponent, Chinese fans begin to call Chen Yu, it turns out that in reality, holding up banners, dozens of people and hundreds of people gathered together, putting pressure on the Football Association and coaches, asking to recruit Chen Yu, now not only in reality, many people have also begun to shout for Chen Yu on the Internet, forums, QQ, there are many supporters of Chen Yu.
As a party, Chen Yu's heart is also uncomfortable, as a player, the club is a place to make a living, a job, and the national team is honor, responsibility and belonging, just like no player does not want to lift the Big Ear Cup, and no player does not want to lift the Hercules Cup.
However, Chen Yu will not be too active, last time he was expelled from the country, in just a day or two, Chen Yu has a lot of understanding of the situation of the national team, he offended the officials of the Football Association and the team boss, and the head coach Alihan did not treat him very well, let alone him, even Sun Hai, who has worked hard in the Premier League, has not been reused now, and has been sitting on the bench, Chen Yu feels that he is afraid that he will take the initiative to join the Chinese team.
Chen Yu's agent Zhang Shubin was still actively mediating, hoping that Chen Yu could enter the national team, but after Chen Yu was expelled. He was also discouraged, the national team wanted to recruit, and if he didn't recruit, he would rest at home, during this time, Chen Yu also accumulated some advertising endorsement contracts that were not filmed, and some invitations from the fashion industry, football circles and business circles were also repeatedly postponed, and now it is time to take care of it.
This time, not only did Chen Yu not return to China to participate in the World Cup Qualifiers, but his teammate Nakata Hidetoshi did not participate either, unlike Chen Yu, Nakata Hidetoshi was purely because the opponent was too weak, and going back was tantamount to wasting time.
On October 13th, Group D of the World Cup Qualifiers, the Chinese team challenged the Kuwait team away, the two sides played 00 in the first half of the second half only l minutes into the game, Sun Xiang's midfield pass on the left side was broken, Kuwait quickly hit Sun Xiang behind him to launch a counterattack, Bashar fell to the ground near the small penalty area line and knocked back the header, and Juma scored the only goal of the game.
After this battle, the two teams of China and Kuwait also won 5 games and 4 losses, but the Kuwait team surpassed the Chinese team by virtue of two more goal difference and jumped to the first place in the group. According to the FIFA UU World Cup Qualifiers, if the two teams have the same number of points and the same win-loss relationship, whoever has the most goal difference will eventually qualify.
Kuwait's last round opponent is the Malaysian team that has lost all five games in the group stage so far, even according to the strength, it is normal for the Kuwait team to play the Malaysian team 4 goals at home, while the Chinese team did not win the strength of the Hong Kong team of China by more than three goals, think about the 85 years of drawing can qualify, but lost to Hong Kong's 19 cups, the Chinese team wants to beat the Hong Kong team may not be easy. For the Chinese team, they are once again standing on the edge of the cliff.