The first warm-up match of the Chinese team was against Iran, and the venue was Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Henan fans gave great enthusiastic support to the Chinese national team.

This is not only because of Zhou Yi in the Chinese team, but also because of the achievements that Gao Hongbo has led the team since he took office.

Especially the most recent tournament, the East Asian Semifinals, also known as the East Asian Cup.

The Chinese team performed very well in the East Asian Cup at the beginning of this year, and because Zhou Yi was not recruited, few people had confidence in them.

However, when the game began, the Chinese team surprised everyone by their performance - they drew with hosts Japan in the first game, and then beat South Korea 3-0 at Ajinomoto Stadium, ending the Chinese team's 32-year Koreanophobia.

Especially in this second game, the Chinese team played vigorously, and Deng Zhuoxiang's goal was even more exciting.

This is the best game played by the Chinese national team since Gao Hongbo took office.

In the end, the Chinese team defeated Hong Kong, China and won the East Asian Cup. This is the second time since 2006 that the Chinese team won the championship of this event.

Next, in the warm-up match before the World Cup in South Africa, Deng Zhuoxiang took a beautiful elevator free kick to let the Chinese team defeat the world champion France 1:0.

These games have brought great satisfaction to Chinese fans.

Therefore, Gao Hongbo has a high reputation among Chinese fans, and this national team is also highly praised.

In the previous national team games, there were no people in the stands, there were few spectators, and the ball market was bleak.

And now, the national team matches are also able to fill the stands.

Chinese fans have gone through the darkest moments, but now it's easy to get content – as long as the players work hard in the game, even if they don't win, they are happy and play good football.

Even if it's a friendly match, if they can win, they're happy.

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Zhou Yi did not participate in the warm-up games before the World Cup, because he had to train and did not have the time and energy to fly around to participate in the competition.

For this reason, Zhou Yi also communicated with the team's head coach Gao Hongbo, and received Gao Hongbo's understanding and support.

Externally, Gao Hongbo said that Zhou Yi played a successful season, but he was physically tired and needed to rest, so he was not recruited in these warm-up games.

Of course, his decision also aroused questions from the domestic media and fans, but Gao Hongbo still withstood the pressure. And the Chinese team without Zhou Yi performed well in the warm-up game, which also made the doubts disappear.

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In the first warm-up game against Iran, Zhou Yi only played half of the game, started the game, and was replaced at halftime. The whole team of the Chinese team seems to be out of shape, and it is useless for Zhou Yi to be powerful alone.

In the end, the Chinese team lost 1:3 to the Asian powerhouse Iran.

In the second warm-up game against Paraguay, Zhou Yi did not enter the starting list, and only came off the bench in the second half.

The Chinese team, both mentally and individually, was better than the previous game, and in the end they drew 1:1 with Paraguay, the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

Zhou Yi launched an attack in the game, he passed the football to Feng Renliang, Feng Renliang stepped forward to receive the ball and then crossed, and Gao Lin, who followed up in the middle, hit the goal with a header, and the ball went in.

This goal played the kind of pass-and-control football that Gao Hongbo has always emphasized.

It also ignited the atmosphere of the scene.

Commentator Liu Hong was very excited: "This is the Chinese team we want to see! This is the football we want to see!"

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After playing two warm-up matches, Zhou Yi left China by plane that night and returned to Germany.

There's a league game next up and then there's the Champions League.

Because there is a Champions League game next, plus he has just participated in the national team's game, Zhou Yi was not scheduled to start in this game.

And not only Zhou Yi, but also many players were put on the bench by Klopp, or did not enter the squad at all.

It can be seen that at this time, Dortmund's focus has shifted to the Champions League.

After seven seasons, Dortmund will return to the Champions League, of course, with more attention.

Dortmund, who abandoned the league, ended up losing 0-2 at home to Wolfsburg in the third round of the league, as a matter of course.

Zhou Yi worked on the bench for seventy-five minutes, and only played in the last fifteen minutes, and he was powerless. Dortmund were already two goals behind by that time.

The media were not too harsh on the defeat, and everyone knew that Dortmund's mind was not on the league at all, and their heart had flown to the Champions League in midweek.

In fact, not only the team, but also the media and fans have also run to the Champions League. It doesn't matter if you win or lose a league game, the league is nothing compared to the Champions League.

Everyone is looking forward to Dortmund's debut in the Champions League for the first time in seven years.

Especially...... Chinese media and Chinese fans.

They seemed more excited than the German media and the fans.

After all, this is Zhou Yi's first appearance in the Champions League, and it is also the first Chinese player to appear in the Champions League since Sun Xiang.

The Champions League, as the highest level stage in European football and even world football, has always been unattainable for Chinese players.

Before Zhou Yi, there had been two Chinese players who had made their appearances in the Champions League. The first was Sun Xiang, who was playing for PSV Eindhoven at the time, and he was also the pinnacle of Chinese performances in the Champions League - playing a total of four Champions League games, playing 168 minutes, and starting the whole game for the team...... These are the records of Chinese players in the Champions League.

His pinnacle came on 7 March 2007, when PSV Eindho started the 1-1 draw with Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium and played the full game. In the 82nd minute, there was no free-kick in front of the goal, and PSV Eindhoven equalised from that free-kick.

In addition to Sun Xiang, there is another Chinese player, Dong Fangzhuo. On December 12, 2007, he came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute of Manchester United's Champions League game away to Roma, making him the first Chinese player to represent a giant club like Manchester United in the Champions League.

Next, no Chinese player will be able to make an appearance in the Champions League.

In this regard, there is a huge gap between Chinese players and Japanese players.

But now Zhou Yi has changed the embarrassing side of Chinese football.

If nothing else, he will start Borussia Dortmund's trip to Valencia, and he will be the second Chinese player to start in the Champions League after Sun Xiang.

And he will be more worthy of everyone's expectations than Sun Xiang, because he will not just create a free kick for the team to excite the media and fans, Zhou Yi will be disappointed if he only performs like that.

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The entire Dortmund squad left Borussia Dortmund two days early and flew to Valencia.

When he was at the airport, Zhou Yi, as a core player of Dortmund, was taken care of by Spanish reporters, and they threw their problems to Zhou Yi.

In the face of the reporters who poured up like a tide, Zhou Yi dealt with it very calmly and calmly, with the demeanor of a general, and had no stage fright.

Faced with a flurry of tongue snaps, he calmly repeated in English: "Sorry, i_don\'t_understand (sorry, I don't understand). ”

And when the Spanish reporters found out that Zhou Yi would respond to them in English, the dispute changed to English, but still with a thick Spanish accent.

In this regard, Zhou Yi responded to all changes with no change, and said with Chinese: "I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're talking about......"

Spanish journalists were completely dumbfounded.

Taking advantage of the dumbfounded reporters, Zhou Yi calmly walked through them.

It is often said that there is an advantage to learning more than one language. However, for Zhou Yi at this moment, knowing one less language is less troublesome.

And Zhou Yi really doesn't know Spanish......

He didn't play in Spain, and naturally he didn't have a Spanish need, so how could he learn it?

What did the Spanish media say about Zhou Yi's performance that night: "Zhou Yi was very cautious in the face of reporters' questions, obviously participating in the Champions League again after seven years, and Dortmund didn't know the bottom of his heart." Moreover, we must also note that as the core of Dortmund, Zhou Yi is playing in the Champions League for the first time in his life......"

The comments of the Spanish media are naturally in Spanish, and Zhou Yi will not turn on the TV to watch Spanish programs in a hotel in Spain, so it stands to reason that he should not know what the Spanish media say about him.

But he still knew......

Because, he has a group called "Squeezing out Lao Guo"!

In the hotel room at night, Zhou Yi turned on the computer, logged in to QQ, and showed off his Champions League journey in the group.

After all, he was the first person in the group to play in the Champions League at the senior level.

Zhou Yi: "He Ying He Ying, the day after tomorrow I will play in Valencia, don't you come to cheer up?"

He Ying: "I'm sorry, I'm in Barcelona. ”

Zhou Yi: "Isn't that all in Spain!"

He Ying: "Then you and Lao Yang are both in the Ruhr area, and I didn't see you go to cheer him on?"

Zhou Yi: "What shadow do I rely on, are you stupid? Dortmund and Schalke 04 are mortal enemies! How can I go to support Lao Yang? You won't go to support Real Madrid, right? Valencia and Barcelona are not mortal enemies after all, right? Come on, come and see my heroics with your own eyes!"

In the face of Zhou Yi's "arrogant" arrogance, He Ying shot back without humility or arrogance: "Zhou Yi, the Spanish media can say that you are a coward, and you don't even dare to answer their questions at the airport, which is obviously a sign of weakness." Are you really empty-hearted?"

Zhou Yi's "arrogance" has aroused the public anger of other people in the group, this time even Sun Pan is on He Ying's side, everyone laughed at Zhou Yilai, Sun Pan looked extremely happy and exaggerated.

"Damn, who said that, I don't understand Spanish!" Zhou Yi retorted amid a burst of laughter.

"Oh, yes, but the Spanish media said they switched to English, and you didn't answer. Don't you understand English?" He Ying didn't let go of Zhou Yi, he had been chatting with them in this group for a long time, and his image on the Internet was much more lively than offline......

"Aha!" everyone laughed happily again.

In this regard, Zhou Yimian said without changing his face: "Of course I can understand English, but I really can't understand English like a Spanish tongue." ”

For Zhou Yi's strong words, everyone can only report "hehe".

And Zhou Yi naturally thinks that they are all "envious, jealous and hateful".