A total of 58 players from the Toulon Cup, the World Youth Championships and the World Cup were at the national football training base in Qinhuangdao at the same time, which was a grand scene rarely seen in the next 10 years. Even the coach will divide the 58 people into 4 teams to simulate the actual battle, and the players are really playing on the field! Thanks to the physiotherapy equipment provided by Rice Sports, the main thing is not a major injury such as a fracture, a sprain and a contusion, and the players are alive and well in one day. In other words, it also means that the Chinese team's training is better than that of any other country's team. The competition within the team is also extremely fierce, not only for the national team, but also for the two youth teams, and there are even players who participate in the Toulon Cup who want to get the opportunity to be promoted to the senior national football team through their performances. After all, after Wei Daxia and Xu Hong left the team, the oldest in the national football team is goalkeeper Ou Chuliang, born in 68, and now he is not yet 30 years old, followed by Lao Fan and Brother Shan, two 69, and the others are post-70s players, such a national team, the average age is just 22 years old, which player does not want to fight? Among them, especially the field of the national youth, Zheng Zhi and Yang Chen of the Toulon Cup team performed the best, and even some coaches of the adult national team privately proposed to replace Li Bing with Tian Ye or Yang Chen, and Zheng Zhi to replace Peng Weijun. Of course, the first to propose is naturally Coach Jin Zhiyang, although there is a certain reason why two of the three of them are from Guoan, but Tian Ye's ability to do the ball and Yang Chen's speed are indeed what the current national football team does not have. In the end, this proposal was shelved, the opponents in the qualifiers were too weak, and it was better to let them play in the World Youth Championship and the Toulon Cup, and the future young talents of each country were the best whetstones.

On May 2, the national team took a flight to Ashgabat, the capital of the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan only joined FIFA in '94 and can be said to be a mysterious team for the Chinese men's football team. The capital of the country, which is about the level of the county seat in China, has a population of 670,000, which is not as large as the population of a district in Beijing, so it is also nicknamed by the players - the small capital. However, as a permanent neutral country approved by the United Nations, Turkey, which has received a lot of assistance from China, still has a very high standard of hospitality for the national football team, and has also given the players better rest conditions to a certain extent. The men's football players joked that it was enough to kick a 3:0 start during the game, and they had to save face for the owner's family.

Soon, on May 4th, the Chinese men's football team in the World Preliminary Tournament Asian Qualifiers 8th Group Match officially started, another game in the same group by Vietnam at home against Tajikistan, the home team of Vietnam opened the game with their own players' small fast spirit to catch the opponent off guard, 10 minutes to take a 1:0 lead. The home fans were probably a little too excited, and someone actually rushed into the stadium to chase the away team's players, and the Tajikistan national football team was very angry, and the consequences were a little serious. The Central Asian Iron Cavalry not only deliberately increased the intensity of the game, but also took out the most feared big killer weapon of Southeast Asian teams in this era - high school forwards, and in less than 20 minutes of the opening game, after trying several ground attacks to no avail, the head coach of the tower team replaced two high school strikers above 1.85 meters at the same time. Chinese fans who watched the broadcast of this game jokingly called these two high school strikers "Tajikistan-made Type 97 imitation German air-to-ground missile", although the imitation does not have a precision guidance function, but it can't withstand Vietnam's lack of air defense weapons! In the second and second halves, the two brothers, who usually don't have many opportunities to play, played happily, one completed a hat trick, and the other also came out of the limelight, carrying two defenders to jump and score a goal, this shot was also captured by the photographer on the scene, and it is said that this player cherished it for a lifetime. In the end, the Vietnamese team lost 1:4 at home and finished at the bottom of the group.

The result of the match between the Chinese team and Turkmenistan, under the guidance of the "Star" column of Rice Sports, has become an opportunity for domestic fans to learn to play 20 years in advance, the reason is that the national football team only scored 3 before the game and transmitted it back to China, but what about it, these cattle! 7 people entered!

The pace of the first 10 minutes of the game was very slow, the opponent's rush intensity was not large, and the national football midfielder led by Peng Weiguo made the opponent lose the idea of grabbing the ball with a few simple passes. As a result, in the 12th minute, the Chinese team's front court suddenly accelerated an attack, Wu Chengying on the side cut horizontally, and Yu Genwei was given a direct pass diagonally in the middle, and the technical master on the national football front line scored easily in the far corner. Immediately after 6 minutes, after Peng Weiguo and Qi Hong in the middle of a 2-over-1, they took advantage of Su Maozhen's forward running position to attract the attention of the opponent's central defender. The third goal is not slow, in the 28th minute of the first half, the Chinese team on the right side of the front field 3 to 2, Sun Jihai broke through the defense after the ball 45 degrees angle direct cross, the ball flew over the head of everyone in the middle, in the far end of the big penalty area two steps inward position Wu Chengying did not wait for the ball to land on the volley, the ball was nailed straight to the inside of the far corner of the goalpost, the Chinese team led 3:0. In the next 10 minutes or so, the Chinese team slowed down their offensive as if they were planning to fulfill their promise of three goals before the game. In the 42nd minute, Turkmenistan counterattacked to no avail, the Chinese team counterattacked, Qi Hong shook the two in the middle and then divided to the feet of Shen Si on the left side, Shen Si took a few steps to the middle and found that Su Maozhen and Yu Genwei's position was parallel to himself, so Shen Si slowed down in the face of the opponent's back, turned around and distributed the ball to Wu Chengying who was plugged in on the left side. I know that Wu Chengying is a stuffy gourd, and he always has an extremely serious attitude towards work, but no one expected that after receiving the ball, a feint to break through to the bottom line shook down the opponent's fullback, and then broke through to the middle, and saw that the Turkmenistan goalkeeper stood slightly forward, Wu Chengying suddenly cast a cold arrow 10 meters outside the penalty area, this time it was a dead corner in the near corner.4:0, this is good, after this game, Wu Chengying in addition to his original desperate San Lang's nickname, was jokingly nicknamed "no martial arts" by fans, A few years later, the reporter interviewed Wu Chengying, who had retired, and talked about this stalk, Mr. Wu Wude of Chinese football said with a smile: "I don't want to attack when I pass to the front, I can't kick out of the sideline directly!" I can only blame Turkmenistan for my bad luck, I was just blindfolded." I don't know if you believe it or not, but I believe it anyway.

After the halftime break, the national football team replaced the Wude player who scored two goals and one assist in the first half and Su Maozhen in the front court, and replaced Zheng Dongqi and Wang Peng. Good guys, the coaching staff isn't a good thing! Wu Chengying's family has a serious work attitude, this old seven is a wild donkey, as long as it is released, it must be the focus on the court. Coupled with Wang Peng, the top scorer of the Asian Youth Championships, when it comes to the senior national team, people must not try to prove themselves? As a result, in the 15th minute of the second half, when Peng Er replaced his brother Peng Weiguo on the field, no one could stop this thing, anyway, these people turned the Turkmenistan backfield upside down, Peng Er first gave Wang Peng two assists, and when there were 8 minutes left in the game, Peng Weijun moved laterally to the left after receiving the ball in front of the field, and after making eye contact with Wang Peng in front of the penalty area, Peng Erban turned around and sent a diagonal pass over the top, and Wang Peng also turned around the opponent's central defender at the same time. Seeing that there was about to be a double hat trick of scoring and assists in this game, the opponent's central defender couldn't bear it anymore and pushed down Wang Peng!

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Broken dreams!

However, Lao Fan still takes good care of the young players, and Wang Peng finally reaped his hat trick happily, leaving Peng Er to cry without tears on the land of Central Asia.