The warm-up match against Macedonia will be played in Guangzhou on December 23, the last match of the Chinese national team in 2010, after which the Chinese team will announce the final 23-man squad for the Asian Cup in Qatar. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

If nothing else, Zhou Yijiang will definitely be in the squad, unless he suffered a serious injury in the warm-up match against Macedonia......

The probability of this happening is too low to be worth mentioning.

And most of the national team lists are not in suspense, and the players who are often selected for Gao Jiajun and perform well should be in the squad.

There are only a few marginal internationals, hoping to use this last warm-up game to seize the time to show themselves, hoping to impress Gao Hongbo and catch the last train of the national team.

As an opponent in the warm-up match, the star of the Macedonian side is naturally Inter Milan striker Pandev.

He and Zhou Yi have just played each other in the Champions League group stage, and Zhou Yi is probably the only Chinese international who can be named by Pan Defu.

At the pre-match press conference, Pan Defu said that Zhou Yi left a very deep impression on him: "Although it is a warm-up game, we will still go all out, after all, the Chinese team has Zhou Yi." ”

This was a real point of indifference among Chinese journalists and fans – to be able to get such an evaluation as a treble-winning striker, everyone thought that Zhou Yi was already a first-class player in Europe.

In this game, Macedonia did not perform like a perfunctory thing, and people such as Ma De, a famous national team reporter of "Sports Weekly", would always question the low gold content of Gao Hongbo's team performance, because most of the games he led the team played were warm-up matches.

Not to mention the uneven level of opponents in the warm-up game, they didn't work hard.

But in today's warm-up game, Macedonia worked very hard.

Therefore, although the Chinese team is fighting at home, it has been unable to open up the situation for a long time.

In a FIFA ranking in July this year, the Macedonian national team ranked 61st, which is actually not high, but it is also a strong opponent for the Chinese team.

It wasn't until the 81st minute that Zhou Yi was tripped by a Macedonian player in the penalty area and won a penalty for the Chinese team, and the game took a turnaround.

Deng Zhuoxiang scored a penalty, which was a quasi-stunner for Macedonia.

Although the process was a little more difficult, the Chinese team ended their entire 2010 tournament with a victory. Their results this year can be refreshed - 11 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats for the whole year, which is very good.

Of course, everyone knows that the Asian Cup in half a month is the most important. If the Asian Cup is not played well, then all the highlights of this year will be quickly forgotten, the world ranking of 75 will be worthless, and the joy of those victories will not offset the anger and disappointment of the fans at the defeat of the Asian Cup.

No matter how many times you say "sportsmanship", "the emphasis is on participation", "the hero is not judged by success or failure", and "the process is more important than the result", these high-sounding words cannot change the fact that football is a utilitarian sport that only looks at the results.

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The day after the match, the Chinese team announced their 23-man roster and submitted it to the AFC for registration.

Not surprisingly, Zhou Yi was impressively listed.

Hao Junmin, as the second returnee, although he basically didn't play much in Schalke 04, he was still selected for the national team list. He can't play in Schalke 04, but for the Chinese team, he is still a very strong player.

There are basically no surprises in the rest of the candidates. Players who performed well in the previous year's competition and have been in good form recently have all been selected.

After the final 23-man roster was announced, the players who did not make the selection left the training camp and they could start the rest period after the league ended.

The remaining 23 will continue to train in Guangzhou for a period of time until December 30, when they leave for Qatar.

This is the youngest national team in the history of Chinese football to participate in a world-class competition.

Judging from this point alone, we can know that Gao Hongbo's Asian Cup training is really not a joke......

The Chinese Football Association also expressed its support for Gao Hongbo when it was in an uproar, saying that the Football Association did not arrange any specific tasks and objectives for Gao Hongbo and the Chinese team in the Asian Cup, as long as they played with style, the main thing is to learn and train the team to prepare for the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup in May.

In this way, the youngest national team in history left China and flew to Qatar with expectations and controversy.

What impact this team can bring to Chinese football, whether it is positive or negative, it is really difficult to say now.

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After the whole team arrived in Qatar, they played two warm-up games to further hone the team's lineup.

Although Zhou Yi played in Dortmund as a midfielder, in the national team, Gao Hongbo still put him in the forward position.

Because Zhou Yi still has to be closer to the goal to be more threatening. And in Dortmund, Zhou Yi plays in the back, and Shinji Kagawa has in the front, which can fully guarantee the offensive firepower. The Chinese team does not have such a good staffing in this regard.

Pushing Zhou Yi into the forward midfield position, he created more shooting opportunities while also having the opportunity to shoot himself and threaten the opponent's goal personally.

This is Gao Hongbo's plan.

And Zhou Yi himself has no opinion on playing as a forward midfielder in the national team, anyway, he is not a fixed position of midfielder in Dortmund, he often runs forward and participates in the attack, which is no different from a forward midfielder at this time.

In fact, it is not uncommon for a player to not be able to play a position in club and national team.

For example, Park Ji-sung plays on the wing of the midfield at Manchester United, a role player, but in the South Korean national team, he sits in the middle and is a core.

The two warm-up matches were not broadcast live on TV, so domestic fans who wanted to know about these two warm-up games could only report them through text reports in the domestic media.

In fact, the domestic media mainly focused on other players of the national team, rather than Zhou Yi.

Because there is nothing to say about Zhou Yi's performance, it can be summed up in one sentence - "Zhou Yi plays a stable role in the front waist position." ”

Of course, Zhou Yi's level is fine, but can the other internationals work well with him?

That's what everyone is concerned about.

Judging from these two warm-up games, the players of the national team actually performed quite well. After all, it has been a year since Zhou Yi was selected for the national team, although he has not participated in the national team's training camp much, but he is no stranger to this team, and from the first day he came to this team, he has shown his special ability.

Although the Chinese team did not rely on a penalty kick to win the game against Macedonia until the last minute, the performance was not too satisfying. However, the two warm-up matches after coming to Qatar have restored some confidence to the Chinese reporters who watched the game - if they play like this, there should be a drama to qualify from the group.

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In some anticipation and uneasiness, the Asian Cup kicked off.

At 0:15 a.m. Beijing time on January 8, the host Qatar took the lead in appearance, which was the opening match of this Asian Cup.

However, the hosts' first time was not a good match - they lost 2-0 at home to Uzbekistan, the second side of the group.

This is not good news for the Chinese team, as it means that Qatar, as the hosts, must beat China in their second game if they want to qualify from the group.

And this is on their home turf, and the West Asians are particularly good at playing off-board moves, which can't help but make people think about it......

In this regard, Gao Hongbo said at the pre-match press conference the next day that he didn't care about the opponent, and what the Chinese team should do now is not to habitualize others, but to play their own games.

Because there is still an hour to go, the Chinese team will make their debut in this Asian Cup, and their opponent is Kuwait, the weakest team in this group.

Kuwait is not a very strong team, and with Zhou Yi, the strength of the Chinese team has also improved, and when the two teams meet, China quickly has the upper hand.

Under Zhou Yi's dispatching and command, the Chinese team firmly controlled the situation on the court.

The narrator mentioned Zhou Yi again and again and praised Zhou Yi's performance.

Zhou Jianliang in front of the TV shook his head when he heard it, and Li Cuiyun asked after seeing it: "Very proud, right?"

Zhou Jianliang coughed, and said with a straight face: "Isn't this the normal performance he should have?"

In the first half, they were in control, but there was no goal.

China's first goal came in the 50th minute, and the scorer was full-back Zhang Linpeng, and the goal was passed on by Zhou Yichuan.

At that time, Zhou Yi took the ball on the left side of the middle, and the Chinese team continued to launch offensives on the left side, looking for opportunities, so Kuwait's defensive center of gravity was also adjusted to this side to prevent the Chinese team's attack. Zhou Yi was also looking to the left, as if he was really going to pass the football over.

However, after drawing the attention of Kuwait's defence to the left, he suddenly kicked the ball to the right.

After receiving the ball, Zhang Linpeng, who cut in at high speed from the right fullback, shot directly on the line of the big penalty area, and the football drew an arc, bypassing the Kuwaiti goalkeeper and flying into the goal!

"1:0!!Zhang Linpeng!Beautiful long-range shot!This is the first goal of the Chinese team in this Asian Cup!Assist from Zhou Yi!"

After the goal, Zhang Linpeng ran to Zhou Yi, who assisted him, and directly hugged Zhou Yi, and other teammates flocked to celebrate the goal together.

As everyone will mention in an interview before the game, that is, the internal atmosphere of this national team is really first-class, and there is no mountainism and factional disputes that have been criticized before, regardless of seniority, old and old, everyone is the same. This is also a point that Gao Hongbo has been pursuing.

In China's society of rivers and lakes, the national team is also a small river and lake, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are troubles that cannot be explained.

And these troubles are not conducive to the team's pursuit of good results. Therefore, not long after Gao Hongbo took office, he resolutely excluded such meritorious veterans as Zheng Zhi and Li Weifeng.

This naturally caused a lot of dissatisfaction. But Mr. Gao insisted on doing so.

If he leads the team well, there will be fewer and fewer opponents. On the contrary, if the team has poor grades, then everything he does is the reason for him to leave class.

Gao Hongbo is actually under great pressure.