Chapter 483: Top Ten Rising Stars
Zhou Yi is not unwilling to reveal his next family in advance, but he really doesn't have time to think about this matter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he has already told his agent Schulze that before the end of the game of the national Olympic team, don't bother him with any transfers. In other words, even if there is transfer information, it will all be pushed until after the end of the national Olympic team's game.
His goal is to lead the team to the Olympic title, which is a difficult task to accomplish and requires all his strength and full focus, so how can he be distracted from thinking about a transfer?
At half past nine o'clock in the evening of July 26, Beijing time, the first men's football match of the Chinese Olympic team in the London Olympics against Mexico kicked off.
Before the start of the match between China and Mexico, countless fans and viewers in China watched the live broadcast of the game in front of the television. People's expectations for this national Olympic team are far greater than what they expected from that national Olympic team in the last Olympic Games.
Before the game, Chinese media and fans also analyzed the prospects of the Chinese Olympic team in the Olympics in great detail.
Naturally, the title was not mentioned, it was Zhou Yi's "exclusive goal". To be more realistic, everyone thinks that the Chinese team can qualify from the group stage is a victory, and if it can still reach the top four, it will be an overfulfilled task.
China's opponent in this match, the Mexican Olympic team, is one of the four seeded teams in this Olympic Games.
Although Mexico is not the best team in the world of senior football, it is definitely one of the top-ranked teams in the world when it comes to youth football. In the 2012 London Olympic qualifiers, they won all five matches in the North American region, and in the 2012 Toulon Cup, Mexico's U23 age team, also known as the national Olympic team, won the championship. In the 2011 Under-17 World Cup, they won the title on their home turf with a perfect performance, and then finished third at the Under-20 World Cup.
With such outstanding and dazzling results, it fully speaks to the strength of Mexico's youth training.
With Mexico's record in youth football, it is normal to be seeded.
According to Chinese media analysis, if the national Olympic team wants to qualify from the group, it will have to beat Mexico if it wants to surpass Mexico to become the first in the group, but it is very difficult. But if they lose to Mexico, they will have trouble qualifying from the group.
In addition to Mexico, Gabon and Switzerland were placed in a group with China.
Analyze it sensibly, if the Chinese team wants to ensure that they qualify from the group, it is not a good choice to fight with Mexico, they can completely retreat to the second, and maintain a draw in the clash with Mexico is the most likely and most favorable result, and then the remaining two opponents, as long as they can win and draw. Five points should basically guarantee the second place in the group in this group.
If they lose to Mexico, the Chinese team will have to try to win the next two games, so that it is the safest.
Therefore, the strategy and tactics of the first game against Mexico determined the result, and the result determined the tactics to be adopted by the Chinese team in the next two group games.
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Against Mexico, Blazevic's chosen tactic was a defensive counter-attack.
In fact, not only against Mexico, this national Olympic team under the leadership of Blazevic mainly played defensive counterattacks.
Because this national Olympic team has two fast forwards - He Ying and Wu Lei.
He Ying and Wu Lei's personal abilities are also very good, with strong individual combat ability, especially He Ying, in addition to being fast, he is also very comprehensive, with good passing and scoring ability.
The national Olympic team was able to get Olympic tickets from Asia, which is inseparable from He Ying's outstanding performance.
With two fast forwards, a goalkeeper who is often like a god, a defensive core with extremely perverted physical fitness, plus a back midfielder who is as difficult as kraft candy, and a midfield core that accurately points where to hit the ball and controls the rhythm comparable to that of a top DJ...... Isn't it a waste of staffing to keep defending and counterattacking with such a lineup?
So since Zhou Yi joined the team, Blazevic has only done one thing during this 20-day training camp, and that is to train the team's defensive counterattack frantically.
He doesn't need the team to play well, he needs the result.
And this is exactly in line with the Chinese's expectations of this team - in an occasion like the Olympics, it doesn't matter how the scene is, winning is the last word.
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Before the start of the Games, the British media made a list of the "10 most anticipated rising stars of this Games".
One of them is Mexico's winger Javier Aquino, who currently plays as a winger and has excellent skills at the country's giants Club Blue Cross. He is one of many unknown young players at the Olympics who have a lot of potential.
However, the Chinese team is the biggest winner on this list, and they have as many as three people on the list - He Ying, Yang Muge and Guo Nu.
He Ying, who spent last season on loan at Valladolid, was the Silver Boot goalscorer in La Liga last season. He is also highly regarded by the British media, who is seventh in the list of eight, and the British media believe that Barcelona may have to think about He Ying's future this summer.
Guo Nu performed well in Siena last season, and is already the core of Siena's defense, although he is not tall, it is his excellent defensive awareness and super confrontation ability and bounce that make up for his lack of height.
Yang Muge began to get the opportunity to play in Schalke 04 when the season was interrupted, and then he was out of control, and at the end of the season, he was already an iron gate in the Schalke 04 midfield.
But there is no Zhou Yi on this list of ten people, and it stands to reason that everyone will definitely feel that Zhou Yi is definitely ranked first when they see this list.
But alas, at the top of the list is the Brazilian genius Neymar...... And not Zhou Yi.
What about Zhou Yi?
How did the British media that selected this list explain why Zhou Yi was not selected: "In the eyes of our reporters, Zhou Yi has broken away from the concept of 'new star'. Yes, he's not a 'new star'. As a core player of Borussia Dortmund, leading the team to two league titles, reaching the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Champions League, his potential and ability are clearly visible to everyone, so there is no need to put it in this list to grab the headlines, right?"
Another person who did not enter the list is Sun Pan, the reasons given by the media are similar, they don't think that Sun Pan should be regarded as a "new star", he has won the Europa League at Atletico Madrid!
So in this way, Zhou Yi and Sun Pan are destined to become men with the title of "the top ten most anticipated new stars of the Olympic Games......
But then again, if Zhou Yi and Sun Pan are also selected for the list, won't the Chinese team dominate the list?
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In the dressing room of the stadium before the match between China and Mexico, Blazevic was making the final mobilization of his players.
"Kids, in ten minutes, it's going to be your first game at the Olympics, are you ready?"
"I think you should all know that I'm a very demanding manager. Thank you so much for sticking through my training in the first place. Now is the time for you to taste the fruit. ”
"When we were still in China, Zhou Yi openly stated that his goal was to win the gold medal, and I thought that it was not just his goal, but the goal of all of us. So you've put in an extraordinary effort in training. All efforts will gradually show their value from this moment on. I hope that each and every one of you will not have the slightest regret or unwillingness to recall your experience of participating in the Olympic Games in the future, and I hope that this Olympic Games can leave you with a wonderful memory. ”
"Mexico is our first opponent and the seeded team in this group. The media rated them as the favourites to win gold at the Games. I'm sorry, we're not one of them, even though we have a lot of good players, maybe Chinese football has left them with a bad stereotype in the past and made them ignore us. But it doesn't matter, because we can prove to them through this Olympics that you have nothing to do with the past of Chinese football, you are a team full of vitality and unlimited future. Each and every one of you can write a different future for Chinese football. ”
"And this future, starting from this game, beating Mexico, not only for the three points of qualifying, but also to strengthen your dreams!"
Blazevic didn't aim for any 'draw' in this match, he just wanted a win.
No one was surprised by this, because that was also their goal.
Why else would they have to train so hard? Blazevic is a very demanding head coach in training.
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When the game started, Mexico took advantage of the opportunity to kick off and launched a fierce offensive against the Chinese team's goal.
And in the face of their onslaught, the Chinese team shrank on the defensive. The two forwards, He Ying and Wu Lei, both retreated to the center circle.
Judging from the scene, it is indeed very ugly, and the Chinese team was completely pressed and beaten by the other party.
When Mexico bombarded the Chinese team's goal, the Chinese fans in front of the TV were a little nervous, they were afraid that this young team would not have gone through the baptism of the World Series, and the first game would be nervous and abnormal - isn't this a normal performance for Chinese football?
If Mexico had scored, the team would have collapsed.
Mexico's attacking momentum looks huge, but if there is any threat to the goal guarded by Sun Pan......
In the tenth minute of the game, Sun Pan yawned.
"Damn!" After yawning, Sun Pan pointed at Guo Nu and shouted, "Old Guo, can you put some water?"
He doesn't think this Olympic competition is as exciting as La Liga......
Chinese commentator He Ping saw the picture of Sun Pan pointing at the defender and shouting: "Sun Pan is directing the back line to defend ......"
Guo Nu heard Sun Pan's roar, but he ignored Sun Pan, because he knew that Sun Pan was just messing around at all - whether the opponent's shot hit the door frame or not, this was not something he could control.
The opponent's Aquino took the ball to kill again, this time Guo Nu did not stay in his position and let the fullback teammates deal with him, but directly made a ferocious sliding tackle, shoveling Aquino's ball out of the sideline, frightening Aquino to jump on the spot, which was able to avoid Guo Nu's tackle.
After landing on the ground, he stretched out his hand to the referee to protest, signaling that Guo Nu's action was a foul.
But the referee ignored him - how could such a clean tackle be a foul?
After tackling the ball, Guo Nu got up and ran back, and at the same time turned his head to look at Aquino, who was complaining to the referee.
This is the guy who is on the same list as himself, compared to the opponents he has faced in Serie A...... It's just weak!