[227] Return: The country is too big, we are too small
The Japanese team is here, and they have come to Liaoyang!
The top 10 match of the South African World Cup qualifiers between the Chinese men's football team and the Japanese team will be played here, and the Japanese team came to Liaoyang, China three days early.
After coming to Liaoyang, the Japanese men's football team lived in a simple place, except for the training ground is the hotel, two points and one line.
It is said that the head coach of the Japanese team, Zaccheroni, has banned the Japanese players, and no one can leave the hotel without permission.
This time Japan came to China not to play any friendly match or anything, this game is very important, and the players of the Japanese team seem to have entered the World Cup in advance.
Now the form is very grim for the Japanese team, originally they thought that the top 10 matches in the Asian region could be easily handled, but now the Chinese men's football team has sprung up, which broke their expectations and made their World Cup qualifiers extremely difficult.
Now the competition of the Japanese team is no longer the emerging Chinese team, but the Australian team.
The Chinese team is very strong now, they only need one more win to get the right to qualify from the group, and there are still a few rounds to go, and the Chinese men's football team has almost one foot in the World Cup finals.
The Chinese men's football team may be strong, but the Japanese team must fight China and win so that they can have an advantage in the competition with the Australian national team.
The players of the Japanese team came to Liaoyang, China with confidence.
There are very few Japanese fans who go to China, and Chinese fans have no good feelings about the Japanese team and the country of Japan, so they naturally will not go to watch the training of the Japanese team.
Therefore, the training ground of the Japanese team is very deserted, except for some reporters, only a few Japanese fans can be seen sporadically.
However, even so, Zaccheroni's requirements for the Japanese team are very strict. Japanese players are not allowed to act on their own, let alone be interviewed by media reporters and interact with fans.
It can be seen that the Japanese team attaches great importance to this game.
And now Liaoyang, China, has been almost overwhelmed by the huge flow of people, every street is full of happy pedestrians, every street in Liaoyang is full of small national flags, and the doors of shops on the street are full of small national flags.
There are even some stores that directly put up banners such as "Congratulations to Chinese football on breaking out of Asia", "World Cup, our Chinese team is coming", "World Cup, please wait for me in Brazil" and so on.
The whole of Liaoyang is already in the midst of a blood-red red wave!
Countless media reporters, whether sports media or entertainment media, they all came and flocked to Liaoyang, China, as if at this moment, media workers from all over the country gathered in Liaoyang to witness this prosperous era.
A few days before the start of the game, the streets of Liaoyang were full of Chinese fans wearing the red jerseys of the Chinese men's football team, and fans from all provinces and cities in China flocked here to witness this historic moment.
According to the media reporters' visits and investigations, all the hotels and guesthouses within a radius of dozens of miles radiating out of Liaoyang Olympic Neutrality are full, and even hotels and inns in farther places are full of people.
Chinese fans from all over the country are really enthusiastic, although many people do not have tickets and cannot enter the Liaoyang Olympic Sports Center to watch this game, but they still resolutely came to Liaoyang, to the closest place to Chinese football out of Asia to the world.
In addition to Liaoyang, the Yingbin Avenue in major cities in China is full of small national flags, and the shops on the streets of major cities are full of red flags.
Rushing out of Asia and going to the world is not only a dream in the hearts of Chinese football people, this belongs to the people of Chinese, this is the great Chinese dream!
The whole Chinese people are in a state of extreme excitement, they are full of anticipation, many people have already prepared the flowers or something, they are ready to make the whole Chinese sky be dyed a brilliant red at the moment when the Chinese team qualifys.
These days, the Chinese men's football players are feeling a lot of pressure!
Yes, the pressure on the players of the Chinese men's football team does not come from their opponent Japan, but from hundreds of millions of Chinese people!
Now the Chinese men's football players are not only carrying their own responsibilities on their shoulders, but also the expectations of the whole Chinese people and the dreams of the whole Chinese people on their shoulders!
This is as heavy as Mount Tai, and few people can carry it!
Even people like Dongfang Chen, who are used to seeing big scenes, feel huge pressure, in training, Dongfang Chen's expression is very serious, he has a straight face all day long, and he can't see a smile at all.
Dongfang Chen is like this, let alone other players of the Chinese men's football team.
On the training ground, the training atmosphere of the Chinese men's football team is very depressing and wrong.
Gao Hongbo, the head coach of the Chinese men's football team, is naturally looking at it, not to mention these players, in fact, the pressure on Gao Hongbo's shoulders is also huge!
He often sits up to study the tactics of the Chinese team and the situation and tactics of the opponent until late at night to the early hours of the morning, almost always when it is almost dawn, and Gao Hongbo falls asleep.
These days, Gao Hongbo slept late, but got up early, he himself was about to be crushed, and he couldn't sleep!
Because of the lack of sleep for a long time, Gao Hongbo felt that he had a nervous breakdown!
However, Gao Hongbo has been holding back, he has carried all the pressure by himself, and has not shown any slightest bit of the players in the Chinese men's football team, and even Gao Hongbo has taken the pressure on the Chinese men's football players to his own body to reduce the burden on the players of the Chinese men's football team.
During the training, Gao Hongbo said to the players of the Chinese men's football team: "Don't think about the rest, and you don't need to think about it at all, because you can't carry this." You are not giants, let alone saviors, don't fantasize about being heroes! Don't care about what the fans say, because you can't afford it! ”
The players of the Chinese men's football team looked at Gao Hongbo in amazement, and they were shocked, are you here to cheer us up, or are you here to break my tears?
Dongfang Chen is thoughtful, and he often hears such words in foreign teams.
Gao Hongbo continued: "Don't think of yourselves as supermen, you are just ordinary people!" The only thing you can do now is to be yourself and play this game well, this is an ordinary game, which has nothing to do with the 'Chinese dream' and the 'World Cup qualification'! This is an ordinary game, all those miscellaneous things, play this game well, we want to win, these three points! ”
Hearing this, the players of the Chinese men's football team realized that Gao Hongbo was relieving pressure on them, but this method was indeed heard of for the first time.
This method is very different from traditional Chinese education, so they think it is a bit surprising.
However, Dongfang Chen, Zhang Ningpeng and others feel familiar, foreigners actually often think so, the country is too big, you can't manage anything, the only thing you can manage well is yourself. As long as you take care of yourself, it will be the greatest credit to the country.
In fact, it is the same on the pitch, the meaning at the national level is not that the players have to think about things, the players have to think about playing every game well and using their best form to win every game.
Gao Hongbo continued: "I hope that each and every one of you will do your part and face this game in the best condition. Again, the country is too big for you to bear. The only thing you can do well is yourself! ”
After finishing speaking, Gao Hongbo directly announced his disbandment.
The situation of the Chinese men's football team and the Japanese men's football team is actually the same, and the Chinese men's football team has also banned the players of the Chinese men's football team, and they are absolutely not allowed to act privately.
And in the hotel, the players of the Chinese men's football team are absolutely not allowed to use mobile phones and computers and other things, at this time, these things are forbidden.
From here, how much pressure does Gao Hongbo have?
The players of the Chinese men's football team were not allowed to attend the press conference, let alone be interviewed by media reporters.
Wouldn't it push these players to the crater for interviews at this time?
Now the Chinese media people are very excited and excited, and they ask you at every turn, do you have the confidence to impact the World Cup? Do you have the confidence to win this game? The people of the whole country are waiting for your good news, can you not afford to lose?
These problems will instantly increase the psychological pressure of the Chinese men's football players, and often the psychology of the Chinese men's football team in the competition is a big problem, many people say that the Chinese men's football team has a glass heart, always drop the chain on the competition.
Although Gao Hongbo disagrees with this statement, he still has to protect his players in case of everything.
Gao Hongbo himself stood up and accepted an interview with media reporters, at this time, it is necessary for him to carry all the pressure on himself and make the players of the Chinese men's football team easier.
When Gao Hongbo was interviewed by media reporters, he said: "Now that our Chinese team is on the right path, it is basically not a problem for us to qualify, and the only problem now is the time to qualify?" We don't guarantee that we will win this game and get a chance to qualify, but we will give it our all and try to win this game. ”
Gao Hongbo also said: "Our opponent Japan is a very strong team, and when facing such a team, no one can guarantee a 100% victory, and this is especially true for our Chinese men's football team." We can't make any promises, we can only promise to be ourselves, and we will do our best. ”
Gao Hongbo's words naturally made the media reporters and fans a little dissatisfied, you seem to be making excuses for failure, this game has not been played yet, you yourself have retreated, can this game still be played?
However, Gao Hongbo continued: "But since the Asian Cup, we have played against the Japanese team many times, but we have not lost a single game, we have won every game, for the Japanese team, we are still very confident now, this game, we will go all out, I think the Japanese team will also encounter very big difficulties." ”
Hearing this, the Chinese media reporters will smile, this is right, our Chinese team is to have this kind of domineering, we are the Asian champion!