Chapter 52: The Golden Diamond Generation

"The Chinese national youth team has played a smooth cooperation! This is a world-class, textbook example of tearing apart the opponent's defence through a series of quick and small short passes in front of the penalty area! Even the most technically good Brazilian football is not always easy to play! Shao Jia faced the empty door! Header on goal! Yes~~~!!!!! This ball is actually high!"

Yes, the most pleasing cooperation that Chinese football has played so far, in the face of the empty goal, Shao Jiayi, who is only 16 and a half years old, kicked the most unbelievable result.

After many years, Shao Jiayi, who has just represented the national football team in the 2006 World Cup and is about to be 27 years old, has gained a firm foothold in Ajax and helped the team reach the top 8 of the Champions League for two consecutive years, recalling this game when he was young, and said with an indifferent smile that he felt that his career was over the moment he didn't score. For so many years, he has been silently thanking a friend and teammate of his own, who helped him overcome his demons after the game.

"What? You lose confidence in yourself without entering an empty door? If that's the reason for you, then I'll have to give you the word coward. Jiayi, you ask yourself if you can't technically forgive yourself, or are you afraid that the media and fans will drown you after the game? It's not that you don't know, the fans are the same faces, you see that Wang Peng played very well in this game, and the domestic media has blown him to the sky, what is the savior of Chinese football in the future, and a strong contender for the best striker in the history of Chinese football. Hehe, you go and ask Wang Peng if he believes these words? A person can't be overconfident, that's called arrogance, and he can't be a little frustrated and slump, that's called cowardice. What are you, this ball didn't affect the final result, think about the World Cup final in the United States 2 years ago, Baggio is not the same now, how to play, you have to learn to look forward. I brought you from Guoan to Rice Sports, I am optimistic about your future, not that I curse you, we are now sixteen or seventeen years old, and in the next fifteen or even twenty years of career, you still have to have an empty door, what's the matter? Dead or alive every time? Then if you think clearly for yourself and feel that you can't bear it, I will take you out of this list of people going to Europe, where should you go back. Think about it!"

As a result, Shao Jiayi naturally survived and learned how to deal with the media and fans. Playing in Europe can even become the most popular player in the team. Of course, that's all for later, so let's get back to the game.

In the surprised eyes of his teammates and opponents, Shao Jiayi ran to his half court in silence. Wang Peng, Zheng Zhi and Zheng Dongqi all ran over to comfort the former, "It's okay, come again!"

The Japanese team kicked the goal, and the goalkeeper sent the ball to the feet of Masashi Motoyama on the right side with a diagonal pass, who just stopped the ball, and Shao Jia destroyed the ball out of the sideline with a sliding tackle. After that, the Japanese team quickly threw a throw-in from the wing, and after the ball was made by several players on the right side with four or five short passes, Masashi Motoyama transferred a long pass, and the ball went to the feet of Shinji Ono on the left side. The Chinese team's defensive center of gravity also quickly moved to the left. When Shinji Ono had not yet assisted in the defense, he broke through from the side diagonally in front of the Chinese team's penalty area, and Wu Jun made a sideways slip tackle to destroy the ball at Shinji Kono's feet. The ball rolled to the feet of Nakata Hideosu in the middle, Nakata with his back to the goal turned around with a pull ball on the spot, and quickly adjusted to face the goal and Jia Wenpeng's defense, and then Nakata Hidetoshi's left shoulder sank slightly, and his left foot drew a circle on the ball, and then dialed the ball to the right side of the body from behind, and the outside of the right foot was flicked with the instep, which directly opened most of Jia Wenpeng's position, which is very simple and practical. Nakata, who opened the gap, swung his leg and shot with a kick, and the rhythm of the ball from passing to adjusting was surprisingly good, and the shot was a threat. Then there was a "bang" and the shot was blocked by Lee Byrne with his thigh. The ball popped up and fell to Zheng Zhi's feet, after the national football team No. 10 received the ball, a ball was left behind Shunsuke Nakamura, and then under the pressure of Junichi Inamoto, Zheng Zhi could only protect the ball from the middle to the right diagonally, it seems that the defense of Junichi Inamoto successfully delayed the speed of the Chinese team's counterattack, at this time Zheng Zhi made a half-high diagonal pass with his right foot, flying from between the two central defenders of the Japanese team to the left side. The inserted left back Xin Feng received the ball and made a gesture to pass the ball to Shao Jiayi, Ogasa Chengnan stretched out his feet to steal, but he didn't expect Xin Feng to also play a technical job, the outside of his left foot was flicked, and then an acceleration threw Ogasa Yuan away, in the corner of the big penalty area Xin Feng crossed with his feet, the field in front of the point did not touch the ball, although Wang Peng in the middle jumped very high, but the ball was still pushed out of the penalty area by Yuji Nakazawa, Shao Jiayi and Inamoto Junichi jumped up to compete for the header, but Inamoto, who was at a height disadvantage, grabbed the ball, And Shao Jiayi was also pushed to the ground. This ball Junichi Inamoto must have made a little move, but there was no way, Shao Jiayi was such a big man who blocked the referee's sight tightly, so the referee naturally didn't blow the foul, and Shao Jia, who fell to the ground, stretched out his foot and tripped Junichi Inamoto, who was about to counterattack. As a result, the opponent's counterattack did not start, but if it wasn't for his teammates to explain to the referee, he almost got a red card, but fortunately the ball Junichi Inamoto didn't roll on the ground, and finally the referee gave a yellow card.

But it can be seen that because the empty goal did not score, Shao Jiayi is somewhat unbalanced. The coaching staff hurriedly replaced Shao Jiayi and replaced him with Wen Guanghe, who was also from Yanbian. In this way, Wen Guanghe and Jia Wenpeng partnered in the back, and Zheng Dongqi and Zheng Zhi took a step forward.

In the absence of a high-altitude advantage in the frontcourt, the Japanese team's long-distance free kicks are basically looking for people nearby. Zheng Dongqi, who has just been liberated from the midfield position, is excited at this time, playing so many games, this is the first time he has been used as a pure offensive player in an official game. Seeing the Japanese team Ogasa Mado, Masashi Motoyama and Junichi Inamoto are circling around themselves, Zheng Dongqi doesn't care that he is being walked by a monkey at this time, anyway, you guys have been passing it here, you just see if I can rob you. When the Japanese team was passing around Lao Qi for almost two rounds, Zheng Dongqi sold a flaw and wanted to move to the left, but the center of gravity turned back halfway through, and it was just when Inamoto passed the ball to the right to Madoka Ogasa. But let Zheng Dongqi catch it right! Ogasa Madoka and Inamoto looked at each other, and they were stunned for a moment, Zheng Dongqi's speed had already risen. There was no choice but to pull the central defender on the right side to the side to make up for the defense. Zheng Dongqi took a look, let's look small, your fullbacks can't catch up with me, a stupid big man comes to fight with me for speed! Without thinking about it, another acceleration exploded the entire right side of the Japanese team with great ease. The field at the front point was guarded by Yuji Nakazawa, so the field was also very smart and directly pulled Nakazawa to the penalty spot, and the position of the front point was vacated. It's similar to Shao Jiayi's empty goal before, but this time it was changed to the other side of the penalty area. At the far point, Wang Peng was stared at by Yamaguchi Zhi, and Zheng Zhi in the middle had also reached the position of the penalty area line. Do you want to pass the ball yourself?

After only hesitating for less than half a second, Zheng Dongqi thought in his heart and shouted out in his mouth: "Ah, pass you mei!" At an angle of about 60 degrees from the bottom line, Lao Qi shot angrily, and the ball hit the inside of the far post and bounced into the goal. The audience was boiling!

3:2!In the 31st minute of the second half, the Chinese team once again led the Japanese team. At this time, the classic line came out again in the TV commentary: "There is not much time left for the Japanese team!" It is rare to start from the black three minutes in 89, and this line is finally used on the opponents of the Chinese men's football team.

In the next 15 minutes, the Japanese team pressed hard, the Chinese team focused on defense while not forgetting to put pressure on the opponent through counterattacks, Wang Peng simply withdrew to the position of the central midfield, leaving a big center in front of the field to compete for the first point, and then Zheng Dongqi got the ball like a wild donkey is to use the speed of various breakthroughs, if there is no chance, I will run to the bottom line, protect the ball and grind time with you. The Japanese team kicked the Japanese team to death, and the result could not solve this problem, but also thanks to the high-intensity training arranged by Li Boen every day during the training camp, the game was played in less than 10 minutes to the end, the Japanese team's Nakamura Shunsuke and Inamoto Junichi both had cramps, but the Chinese players still looked at ease, especially the Zheng Dongqi in front, who was really a crazy donkey, and sometimes Tian Ye wanted to follow up and respond, but he couldn't keep up with his speed.

Finally, when the referee's final whistle blew, Shunsuke Nakamura of the Japanese team unwillingly kicked a long-range shot in the middle circle to vent. China's U19 national youth won the championship of the Asian Youth Championship as desired, Wang Peng won the Golden Boot with 11 goals, and Zheng Dongqi, who ran an average distance of 12,000 kilometers per game, not only had 4 assists, but also 2 goals, and one of them was the championship decisive goal.

A perfect cup, although in the following Asian Youth Championships, there are also latecomers who won the championship again, but in terms of gold content, they are not as good as this 96 national youth. Therefore, this national youth led by Wang Peng and Zheng Dongqi is loved by fans as the Golden Diamond Generation. It is said that the beer of one company was named Golden Diamond, and it became the first choice of Chinese fans at every tournament, even though their owners don't watch football at all.