Chapter 426: The Beginning of a Career
In the Asian qualifiers for the Olympic Games on the second day, the Chinese Olympic team faced the challenge of the Qatar Olympic team at home. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Four of the five dragons all started the game.
At their home stadium, the four tigers played well and led the Chinese Olympic team to defeat the Qatar Olympic team 1:0.
After winning two games in a row, the Chinese Olympic team is second with six points, just one point behind South Korea, who have seven points, and the South Korean Olympic team drew 1-1 away to Qatar in the previous matchday.
In this way, the gap between the two teams is not so obvious.
The rules of the Olympic qualifiers are that the top team of the three groups qualify for the Olympics directly, while the team with the best result wins the last place.
If the Chinese team wants to qualify for the Olympic finals, they must at least finish second in their group.
However, in the minds of the four little dragons, second place in the group is not a goal. For the four of them, it would be a delay if they had to play against the runners-up of the other two groups in the end.
They themselves can't have the time and energy to fly back to Asia from Europe to compete so often.
So in fact, there is only one choice, and that is to win the group and go straight to London. As for the Korean team?
Let them compete for the last spot with the second place in the other two groups.
On February 22 next year, the Chinese Olympic team will welcome the South Korean Olympic team at home, and this game will determine who is the boss in this group.
As long as the Chinese team can beat the South Korean team, it can complete the overtake.
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After the competition of the national Olympic team, the four dragons returned to their respective clubs from China to prepare for their league.
On the other hand, Zhou Yi's Borussia Dortmund also rose to first place in the league after winning the Ruhr derby.
Because in the same round of the league, Bayern Munich lost 2:3 away to Mainz.
Now the two teams are three points apart.
In fact, from another point of view, it can be seen that Schalke 04 sent their sworn enemy to the top of the league.
Schalke 04 manager Stevens has a newspaper on his desk, which is the local media "Gelsenkirchen", which prominently publishes the content of the just-concluded Ruhr derby.
The picture shows the Schalke 04 players looking frustrated after conceding the goal, while the background is the scene of the Dortmund players celebrating happily.
The title is a little scary: "Defeated!"
The subheadline reads: "Our midfield is completely suppressed and there is no way to fight back!"
Stevens crossed his chin as his eyes fell on another small photo in the newspaper.
The small photo is next to the text, which is a close-up photo of Zhou Yi.
The article next to the photo reads: "...... As the heart of Dortmund's midfield, Zhou Yi did not encounter much trouble in the game, and our midfielder simply could not contain him. I think that's the key reason for the loss...... Jones worked hard in the game, but he seemed to have nothing but hard work, and a yellow card in the first half ruined his second half, he was too reckless...... Of course, Zhou Yi is a very good player, but is he invincible? I don't believe that's the case, it's just that we haven't found a suitable way to deal with him......"
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After Yang Muge returned to Schalke, the first thing he did was to call Zhou Yi: "Zhou Yi, I think maybe it would be better for me to leave Schalke 04." ”
Zhou Yi was not surprised, but said half-jokingly: "That's a pity, we can't have a Chinese derby in the Ruhr area." Then he said, "But I don't really recommend that you leave now." “
"Huh?" Yang Muge was surprised to hear Zhou Yi say this on the phone. Because Zhou Yike had always advised him to go out on loan and look for opportunities to play steadily, but he didn't make up his mind at that time.
Now he finally made up his mind, but he didn't expect Zhou Yi to not suggest him go.
"Why?" he asked.
Zhou Yi patiently explained to Yang Muge on the phone. "If it weren't for this Ruhr derby, I'd really recommend you go out on loan during the winter break. But after a Ruhr derby, a lot changed. Schalke 04's midfield weaknesses have been exposed, do you know what they are, Lao Yang?"
"Defense?" Yang Muge guessed.
"Bingo. Why did Schalke 04 lose to Dortmund, isn't it because he didn't guard me in the midfield?" Zhou Yi said this is really unashamed, but Yang Muge did not tease Zhou Yi, because this is the truth. "This is actually your chance, Old Yang. Everybody recognises that you have a problem defending in midfield and you are defending in midfield. I think as long as your head coach Stevens is in his head, he's going to go to you, and you don't have to go to him at all. ”
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Yang Muge was still a little skeptical about Zhou Yi's firm judgment, he always felt that things would not be so simple - the Ruhr derby, Schalke 04 lost, and he could get a chance?
Isn't that what Zhou Yi said before, he should still hope that Schalke 04 loses?
But the next day, when he returned to the team for training, he was called into the office alone by head coach Stevens!
When he heard that the head coach was looking for him, Yang Muge was stunned.
I never thought that Zhou Yi would be so godly, it was completely like a god......
But does the head coach have to look for himself for the game? Yang Muge is not very sure.
He knocked on Stevens' door with all sorts of speculation.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw the head coach sitting behind the table and motioned to him: "Sit down, lad." ”
Yang Muge sat on the chair and looked at the head coach.
"How's it going? Tired? I know that China is very far away. ”
Seeing the head coach talking to himself with a pleasant face, Yang Muge was thinking about what Zhou Yi said to him yesterday.
This kind of care is ...... Seriously, right?
"After yesterday's rest, I'm not tired, sir. Yang Muge replied politely.
"I heard that you have won both games, what position do you play in the national Olympic team?"
"It's also the back of the back. ”
"Defense?"
"While defending, you also have to take care of some tasks to organize the offense......
Stevens seemed to be very interested in Yang Muge's playing style in the National Olympic team, and asked in detail, and Yang Muge also knew everything and answered all the questions of the head coach in detail.
After asking the question, the two of them said a few more casual words, and Stevens let Yang Muge leave.
From beginning to end, Schalke 04 was not mentioned, nor did he make any first-team promises to Yang Muge.
It seems that he was just curious.
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But in the fifteenth round of the league, before Schalke 04's home game against Augsburg, Yang Muge learned that he was put in the starting list for this game......
He called Zhou Yi with surprise and joy: "Zhou Yi!
"Isn't that good, old Yang. Seize this opportunity!" Zhou Yi laughed on the phone.
Hearing Zhou Yi say this, Yang Muge thought of Hao Junmin's advice.
"If an opportunity arises, take it. ”
"Yes, Zhou Yi, I will definitely catch it!" Yang Muge said.
That night, the group also knew about Yang Muge's debut, and everyone congratulated Yang Muge.
However, Yang Muge did not respond to them, and he was not online at all.
"It is estimated that Lao Yang was nervous and went to bed early, so he was not online......" Guo Nu guessed.
", if you're really nervous, you shouldn't be able to sleep!" Sun Pan refuted Guo Nu's speculation.
"If he can't sleep, why doesn't he go to the group?"
"The Devil Knows ......"
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In fact, Yang Muge was indeed a little nervous, so he didn't fall asleep, but he didn't have the heart to chat and fart with everyone on the Internet.
He tossed and turned in bed and fell asleep for a long time.
When he woke up the next day, Raul, who was in the same room with him, smiled at him: "Boy, didn't you sleep well at night?"
"Uh......"
"The movement of turning over is a bit big. ”
Yang Muge hurriedly apologized to Raul: "I'm sorry, Raul, I bothered you......"
"Nervous?" Raul asked, smiling and shaking his head.
Yang Muge scratched his head.
"In my first professional game, it's normal to be nervous. Raul waved his hand and said to Yang Muge with a smile: "I was also nervous before my first professional game. ”
Yang Muge looked at Raul in surprise, he was familiar with Raul's story, he was selected in the starting line-up for the game against Zaragoza, which was his first appearance for Real Madrid's first team.
And before the game, when he knew from Baldano that he was going to start this game, he was still very confident and calm.
But it was all information he had seen in other ways, he was not Baldano or Raul Gonzalez, he didn't know every detail of what had happened.
Maybe that information was made up by someone else?
Yang Muge himself didn't know.
"Yes, I was quite calm, but I tossed and turned the night before the game just like you, thank you for reminiscing me about my youth, haha!" Raul laughed.
Yang Muge also laughed, he didn't know if Raul was really as nervous as himself and couldn't sleep, but he was very grateful to Raul now, because his words made him not so nervous.
"Thank you, Raul. I feel much better. ”
"You're welcome, young man. Today's race is the start of your career, and I wish you all the best for the future. ”