Chapter 64: Winter Training Warm-up Match
Jassim bin Hamad Stadium.
This is the home of Al Sadd, a team that is not only the hegemon of the Qatari league, but also has a certain competitiveness in the AFC Champions League.
Qatar's style of football is similar to that of Saudi Arabia, both of which are technical, and their clubs generally bring in Brazilian players.
After the start of the game, Cologne had an absolute advantage, and many people's impression of German football was that they beat Saudi Arabia 8-0 in the World Cup four years ago, and it was that game that showed the huge gap between Asian football and German football.
Al Sadd is still a little worried about Cologne, especially in the midfield confrontation, and the Qataris are not at the same level as the five big and three thick Germans.
Stevens stood on the sidelines to supervise the game, and he was most concerned about the state of the team, and the league was about to start when he returned.
Five minutes into the game, Podolski had a good shot in the box, Lucas pushed the far corner, the ball slid past the goal, and there was no goal.
There was a bang on the scene.
'The Germans are too strong in midfield.
"Is this still a Bundesliga team, if Bayern comes, I don't know what the situation will be?"
After half a season of tempering, Tang Zhenglong, who returned to the Asian arena, seemed very relaxed, and the confrontation was no longer a shortcoming, but his advantage.
Tang Zhenglong leaned on the opponent's defender, passed the ball to the full-back, and then ran to the middle by himself.
The fullback crossed, Tang Zhenglong and Podolski were already in place, but the opponent's defender returned quickly and pushed the ball out of the bottom line.
Podolsky patted Tang Zhenglong, "You are doing well." ”
"Asian adversary."
The implication is that it's an Asian opponent, and it's normal for me to behave well.
Podolsky knew that Tang Zhenglong was about to start bragging again, so he simply didn't listen.
Soon, Cologne's attack made a comeback, this time it was Tang Zhenglong who broke through with the ball in the middle, and the speed of 65 was enough in Asia, Tang Zhenglong passed one person and then distributed the ball to Schultz in time, who in turn pushed it to Streit.
In normal times, Streiter would have looked up to Podolski, but this game was different, he broke through on his own, and after passing a man, Streiter got up and hit the far corner of the goal.
The ball went in!!
Stryter was excited, it was his first goal in the past year and he should be excited.
His teammates came up and hugged him.
"Well done."
"The opponent's defense is too scummy."
"Haha, can you give some encouragement, don't complain so much."
"Haha."
Tang Zhenglong wants to score a goal because his brand celebration is only 30 (30/100), only scoring a goal can do a celebration, and only a celebration can win brand recognition, which is a very simple reason.
Tang Zhenglong didn't wait too long, the opponent's defense was really vegetable, and he was rushed by several strong players in Cologne, and immediately exposed a huge loophole, and the midfielder gave the ball to Tang Zhenglong, and he hit the empty goal after passing the goalkeeper.
2 to 0!
Tang Zhenglong rushed to the sidelines and did the action of scrubbing the bath.
"Hahaha."
"Look, what kind of action is that."
"It's ugly."
"It's like a bath."
The audience laughed, and Tang Zhenglong was also happy, because the brand degree in the system rose by 5 points to 35.
In the first half, Cologne abused the opponent 4-0.
In this kind of warm-up game, there is no limit to the number of substitutions, so Stevens replaced all the main players in the second half, and Tang Zhenglong and Podolski both got the opportunity to rest.
What Tang Zhenglong didn't expect was that in this warm-up match, there was a Chinese reporter on the sidelines, and he was Yang Zhiyong from "Football Weekly".
"Football Weekly" is not coming to Qatar specifically for Cologne, but to do a football program called Asian Trace, to pave the way for next year's Asian Cup, and to report on some of the teams participating in the Asian Cup, and Qatar is a stop.
However, Yang Zhiyong got the news yesterday that Cologne will have a warm-up match in Doha, and there is Tang Zhenglong in the Cologne team who Chinese fans are very concerned about.
After the game, Cologne defeated the opponent 5-0, and Yang Zhiyong immediately came up to ask for an interview with Tang Zhenglong.
"Tang Zhenglong, I'm a reporter from Football Weekly, can I interview you?"
Tang Zhenglong looked at the Chinese face, and felt quite kind, and nodded, "Yes, but don't ask gossip." ”
"Don't worry, it's definitely related to football."
"Would you like to be selected for the national football team?"
"This ...... It's up to the coach. ”
"It's the Asian Cup next year, what do you think?"
Tang Zhenglong nodded, "Give us back the Asian Cup, it was a clear handball, and the Japanese stole the Asian Cup from us." ”
……
Sweat.
Yang Zhiyong heard that Tang Zhenglong had a big mouth and fierce firepower, but he didn't expect it to be true.
"Write, what are you doing in a daze?"
"That's what you wrote, the AFC is a bastard, and the referee of the final is a bastard."
Yang Zhiyong stammered: "Tang, that's all in the past, I'm talking about next year's Asian Cup." ”
"Passed? Is it okay if we suffer a loss at home? ”
“……”
"And what do you want?" Yang Zhiyong thought to himself.
Yang Zhiyong could only change the topic, "Tang, let's talk about your life in Germany, there was a lot of uproar about your transfer some time ago." ”
"What does the country say?"
"There are many arguments, one is that you don't have the strength to play in the Bundesliga, it's pure hype, and in the end there is no way to renew the contract with Cologne."
Tang Zhenglong was angry.
"Well, I can tell you, it's dog S, I'm fully capable of playing in the Bundesliga, Cologne will definitely be promoted at the end of the season."
"I just like this city, and please tell the domestic media, if anyone hacks me again, I know it, I will block him in the future and never accept his interview."
……
Yang Zhiyong wanted to cry, so he finally interviewed Tang Zhenglong once, but all he got was content that couldn't be reported, which was a cheat.
"Don, tell us about your plans for the future, right? Whether there is a goal or not, far and near, you can say. ”
"Help Cologne get more honors, and the farther one is, of course, to go to the giants and make more money."
"Are there any idols? Learning stars. ”
"Beckham, we're almost handsome, I think Beckham's today is my tomorrow."
Yang Zhiyong couldn't listen anymore.
"Don, if I really follow what you say, you'll be sprayed to death."
Tang Zhenglong shrugged, "In the football circle, only snakes will not be sprayed, if you want to become a star, then you will be sprayed, this is normal, you can just look at the Sun newspaper's report on Xiaobei." ”
Yang Zhiyong nodded, he didn't expect Tang Zhenglong to think so clearly in this regard.
"Tang, I hope you can represent the height of Chinese players like Sun Jihai."