Chapter 222 Losing the First Game (Asking for Recommendation Votes, Asking for Collections)
Seoul is about the same dimension as Yantai and Weihai, and the development of the economy is still good, as long as you don't look at the slums like urban villages, there are still a lot of high-rise buildings in the prosperous area. It's good to buy some electronic products and cosmetics, but Ren Jing bought a lot of cosmetics for Chen Mingming, but I don't know if Chen Mingliang still has room to save it.
The food here is a little expensive, there is a quota for food imports, don't come here if you want to eat delicious food, you should be able to see beautiful women.
Korean fruits are outrageously expensive.
When I was in Seoul, I hired a tour guide, and I was a girl from an international student in Yancheng. When it comes to eating fruit, she said that when she was in college, a classmate once brought a small plate of fruit and cut it into small cubes, but she didn't see what it was. They say that this fruit is precious, and you China can't eat it.
The girl took a toothpick and took a bite, which is clearly a grapefruit!
The girl said that in the country, one person guards one and eats casually, but no one believes it, saying that we don't laugh at you if you haven't eaten, and there are not many times when we can eat.
They buy just one apple and cut it into slices to share with the whole family.
The result of their trip to Seoul was to buy a lot of cosmetics, so much that they couldn't bring them with them, and then paid the customs duties and mailed them back to China in advance.
I took the car to Gwangju and walked around Wubei Mountain for a while, and the game of the Chinese team came.
June 4, 2002, the day of the Chinese team's match.
Because I went to Wuzhi Mountain yesterday and had a normal warm-up exercise in the evening, it was really hard.
It was 11 o'clock when I got up, and after lunch at the hotel, a group of people left for the stadium.
Hotels in South Korea are different from those in China, they are not divided into stars, they are represented by flowers, four flowers, five flowers.
When I arrived near the stadium, I didn't need to speak English at all, because the surrounding area was full of Chinese, and there were not many Koreans who really entered the stadium to watch the game, mainly Chinese, only a small number of Costa Ricans, it can be said that this is the home of the Chinese team.
For this game, there is no clear understanding of the strength of the Chinese team in China, whether it is the head coach or the players, everyone believes that China can defeat Costa Rica.
Costa Rica is a small country with a population of only a few million, and is a Latin American country. Because there is no diplomatic relationship with the Chinese team so far, everyone doesn't know much about them, and they don't think they should be strong.
Before the game, the goal of the Chinese team is to score one goal, draw one game, and win one game! It's such a strong ideal, Brazil is first-class, we can't do it, then Turkey is second-rate, we can fight it, and then add Costa Rica's 3 points, the round of 16 qualifys, Meizizi.
Friends, including Chen Mingming, are optimistic.
Chen Mingliang and the others walked into the VIP passage smoothly, without queuing at all, and then easily entered the private room they had booked.
As a sports celebrity, I still see a lot of domestic celebrities, including football bigwigs who will be imprisoned in the future.
Chen Mingliang took Ren Jing to visit some bigwigs in the literary and art circles, and most of the bigwigs who came to watch the game were HK bigwigs, but not Taiwan.
There are also some domestic ones, who don't know each other, and they are familiar.
They only bypassed these football-related people, mainly because Chen Mingliang didn't want to be involved with them too much, for fear of contaminating himself. also declined the invitation to watch the game with them and walked into his box.
Seeing his friends confidently discussing how many goals the Chinese team can win to ensure a draw with Turkey, Chen Mingliang really didn't want to hit them.
When Yin Chao asked how to buy the ball, Chen Mingliang suggested that he only buy the group stage, and buy Japan and South Korea, and it is impossible for the host not to qualify!
Chen Mingliang bought the Chinese team's loss, and only Ren Jing knew.
Happy friends drank beer and ate fried chicken, and the scene was full of cheering voices shouted by Chinese.
Ren Jing secretly asked Chen Mingliang in private:
"Do you really think the Chinese team will lose?"
"Has the Chinese team ever won?" Chen Mingliang couldn't help but be a little angry.
"Didn't you say that Costa Rica is weak?"
"Who did you listen to say, a Latin American country can enter the World Cup, can we also underestimate it?"
"I heard that Brother Chao and they all bought the Chinese team to win." Ren Jing obviously saw them buy balls.
"I bought it too." Chen Mingliang did not show weakness
"But you bought it for 1 dollar!."
"Whoever made the minimum bet was 1 dollar, I think they were worth it." Also, the amount of money is a lot.
"Did you really buy 1 yuan for the Chinese team to win?" Ren Jing's last words were heard by them.
"This, a small bet, I'm talking about US dollars, which is converted into almost 7 yuan." Chen Mingliang is naturally not to be outdone.
"You're really cheap!"
It's game on!
In the first half, the Chinese team's performance was okay, and the watershed began when Sun Jihai was injured in the 26th minute.
At first, the audience was still fascinated, and even Ren Jing began to doubt Chen Mingliang's judgment, it seems that the strength of the Chinese team is stronger than Costa Rica.
Then I was a little nervous and felt that the Chinese team's goal was unstable.
And then it's 0:2.
The reality is that the Chinese team can play 60 minutes of good football.
Later, the physical strength really can't keep up, all kinds of dishes, and waves, Costa Rica's technology is really better than China's, and it can often pass two.
There is plenty of beer and fried chicken in the private room, and Koreans love this.
At first, they toasted each other with great interest, but after that, no one wanted to drink.
Although I already knew the result in advance, I was still very depressed to see the Chinese team lose again.
Walking out of the competition venue, there were Chinese people with depressed faces everywhere, the red flag on their faces had not been wiped off, but their expressions had become dazed. It was as if he had fed the dog with his enthusiasm, and like an ignorant young man, he confessed to the girl he liked, and then the other party didn't even issue a good person card, and said directly, get out!
Soon after the game, it was dinner time, and a group of people had no appetite at all and went back to the hotel sullenly. Then he tried to convince himself that he could draw against Brazil in the next game and then win against Turkey.
Sadness is only temporary, and when you wake up hungry in the middle of the night, you know that sadness cannot be eaten.
However, Chen Mingliang is still going to return to China, he has to participate in the Benxi Asian Games Trials, and he can't watch the Chinese team's game against Brazil, to be honest, this is the best performance of the Chinese team in these three games.
It is said that how can such a national treasure-level athlete still participate in the Asian Games trials, isn't it a joke?
Chen Mingliang has indeed not participated in the competition for a long time, and he is not as popular in the track and field team as he imagined, and many people are willing to see him deflated.
This situation is a bit like Liu Feiren in later generations, in addition to his coaching staff and his teachers, Liu Feiren is a person with such a high emotional intelligence, and his interpersonal relationships in the sports circle are not good.
There are so many people with red eyes!
As long as you're doing better than me, I can't stand it.
A lot of people have this mentality.