Chapter Seventy-Four: The National Football Coach Turmoil
Time flies, from coming to South America to playing seven games in the blink of an eye, and the time has also entered January. This year's Chinese football is still performing well overall, first the women's football team won the championship of this year's Atlanta Olympics in July, and then the Chinese youth team won the Asian Youth Championship in South Korea in October, and won the ticket to the 97 World Youth Championships; Then the two teams of Guangzhou Sun God and Shenzhen FIYTA came to South America, and Shenzhen FIYTA was 1 point short of advancing to the top 8 in the case of strong teams in the club cup, and Guangzhou Sun God has stepped into the top 4 with one foot.
At the same time, the just-concluded 1996 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, the first game of the Chinese men's football group stage defeated Uzbekistan 2:1, Zhang Enhua and Fan Zhiyi, two central defenders scored, the second game defeated Syria 5:0, Peng Weiguo scored two free kicks, A A golden boot Su Maozhen hat trick, the last game against the Japanese team, the two teams with 6 points did not have reservations for the subsequent knockout rounds, a wonderful offensive battle finally ended 2:2, Peng Weiguo scored a long shot, and assisted Gao Zhongxun to score a goal. Peng Weiguo's performance in the group stage was very dazzling, and he deserved to have been training in the upper reaches of Serie A for nearly half a year. In the group stage alone, there were 3 goals and 4 assists, and they were out of the limelight. Uzbekistan defeated Syria 2-0 in their last game to advance to the last eight with the second best place in the group. In the next 8-in-4 game, the Chinese team played against the host United Arab Emirates, easily won the opponent 3:1 and was the first to enter the semi-finals, scoring Wu Chengying, Su Maozhen and Gao Feng, Peng Weiguo sent two assists again. In the end, the top 4 teams East Asia and West Asia each have two seats, China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Iran. Japan scored two goals in the semi-finals, but was reversed by Iran with three goals in a row, and with the previous 6-2 victory over South Korea, the Iranian team has the momentum to snipe the top three in East Asia on its own. The Chinese men's football team also gave Iran a chance to try, and the other semi-final was played by Peng Weiguo and Said. Ovilan's personal show, one is to connect the whole team through his own skills, and the other is to disrupt China's defense by relying on his personal ability, but unfortunately Ovilan is only known as the Asian Maradona, in fact, the 94 World Cup his Maradona cosplay goal also has a lot of luck. The result was that when the Saudis thought that the game was going to enter a penalty shootout, the last 2 minutes of extra time replaced a central defender with a technical midfielder Tunayan in advance, at this time, Peng Weiguo took advantage of the opponent's lineup just adjusted the foothold of the unstable, and found the peak of the fast horse with a precise straight plug in the middle circle, the latter did not disappoint Peng Weiguo, and steadily pushed the far corner to score, and the Saudi team fell to its knees, but this game has been played so far, Qi Wusheng's coaching is too rigid, If he is still in charge of the World Cup qualifiers later this year, there is a high probability that he will repeat the situation of leading by 2 goals in the previous game and then being scored by Iran by 4 goals in a row.
This is not the case of the Asian Cup that has just ended, the Chinese team has the advantage in the midfield of the final, after Su Maozhen won the first place, 1:0 lead to only 13 minutes in the second half, Qi Wusheng planned to change to 5-3-2 in front of the next side, the whole team did not understand his choice, obviously Bagheri had already let Peng Weiguo break up, and he didn't hurry up to chase after the victory and score one or two goals to kill the game, and he was going to start defending like a nervous disorder. It may also be that he has been in contact with Li Boen for a long time, and under the influence of the other party, Peng Weiguo didn't know where he got the courage, ran to the sidelines to stop Liu Yue, who was about to replace Li Ming, and told Qi Wusheng in front of tens of thousands of fans and the whole Asian media to wait and wait, and now the substitution will fall short, and finally the stubborn Qi Wusheng saw that the camera was facing him, and his face was really dull, so he canceled the substitution. Peng Da also did not disappoint the whole team, in the 27th minute of the second half, Su Maozhen scrambled for a header outside the penalty area and the opponent's back waist both fell to the ground, Peng Weiguo took the ball and pretended to divide the side, in fact, a pull ball turned around and shook the opponent's central defender, and then a fake shot shook another central defender who came over, and rubbed it gently before the fullback and the goalkeeper, the ball crossed over the head of the goalkeeper who had fallen to the ground, and the score finally became 2:0. Qi Wusheng had to change Liu Yue to go up, but Wu Chengying didn't go down for 5 minutes, and Liu Yue's legs made people live a twist.
The Chinese team won the first Asian championship trophy as desired, Peng Weiguo, who scored 4 goals and 7 assists in 6 games, won the trophy of the best player, and Su Maozhen, a youth student of Manchester United, won the golden boot with 5 goals, and the whole country was jubilant for a while. As a result, at this time, several media began to hype up Peng Weiguo's public opposition to the head coach's decision-making in the final, and Peng Da, who had returned to Parma, had no choice but to call the teenager and kept complaining, feeling that it was unfair for the media to treat him like this. Li Boen's temper also came up, and the official media of Yang 5 didn't say much, including Zhang Lugui, who also publicly criticized Qi Wusheng's decision-making when he was commenting at that time. So the teenager asked the European branch of Rice in Belgium to send a staff member to the reporter who made a guest appearance in the "Stars" column to record a program on this topic.
"Hello Peng Weiguo. We are the "Stars" section of Rice Sports, and we are honored to have the opportunity to interview you."
"Thank you."
"What do you say about the contradiction between you and the head coach of the national team, Qi Wusheng, who is currently hyping in China? Some media broke the news that you have always been dissatisfied with Coach Qi, and you even used the topic to play in the finals."
"First of all I'm a professional footballer and it's my job to play well. Then when it comes to the national team, I think the national honor is above all else, whether it is the players or the staff of the team, they must be worthy of the national flag on their chests. Coach Qi is an old-timer of the national team, and I only have respect for him, and it is not like some media who understand it out of context, so it can be said that they are maliciously hyping up."
"So why did you step forward to stop Coach Qi when he arranged substitutions in the 13 minutes of the second half of the final? Is this disrespectful to the job of the manager?"
"Well, everyone can see the situation on the field at that time, our Chinese team has an absolute advantage, but we are only one goal ahead of the opponent, which is extremely dangerous. Fans know that the national football team that has hit the World Cup several times has fallen in the last key game. As professional players, we are the executors on the field, and no one knows the specific situation better than us. Just imagine, if we take the initiative to give up the advantage on the field when we are leading and have the advantage, and give up the control of the midfield to the opponent, the Iranian team is not a weak team, once they recover and find the rhythm of the game, conceding a goal is inevitable, replacing Li Ming after a 2:0 lead is the best proof, and the opponent will recover a goal in less than 10 minutes, I think everyone should not just hearsay, look at it yourself, think more, and be a person with brains."
Subsequently, Li Bourne also arranged for Shenzhen FIYTA players, even Gullit, Rijkaard, these people came out to support Peng Weiguo, Li Boen himself bluntly said that Qi Wusheng guidance is not suitable for the current national football team, the style of play is too conservative, do not know how to be flexible, Qi Gui is more suitable to bring some low-level teams, the next World Cup Asian qualifiers If the Chinese team wants to make a difference, then it has to change to a more reliable coach.
When the media asked the teenager who is the best head coach candidate for the national team at present, the teenager boldly gave his own answer: "Coach Xie Zhiguang, just look at the performance of the Suns in the second half of last season."
Hehe, obviously, if Coach Xie really takes over as the head coach of the national football team, it will be obvious who will command the skills and tactics of this team. O this cunning Lee Byrne!