Chapter Forty-Seven: The Chinese Team (Reform)
The next day, Zhang Desheng told Zhao Yuting about his plans.
Zhao Yuting naturally expressed his support, and then backhanded him three tickets for the group stage of the Chinese team that had been prepared for a long time, as well as a direct flight ticket to South Korea, and even booked a hotel room for him in advance.
Obviously, even if Zhang Desheng doesn't speak, Zhao Yuting will let him take advantage of the offseason to go back to watch the World Cup with his family in two days.
It has to be said that it is too well thought out.
Zhang Desheng only thought about buying a ticket at this time, it was impossible to buy it at all, and it was estimated that even the ticket had already been snatched up.
This made him appreciate it very much, but he was still very embarrassed, he only needed to help Porto win the Champions League once, and it was time for him to leave.
He can't stay in Porto forever, and it doesn't make a difference if Mourinho, including Deco, can only blame the Portuguese Super League stage for being a little too small for them.
After Zhang Desheng arranged his itinerary, he still stayed at the training base in Porto for a week, and he still trained in the base during this period.
He wanted to see if the contract could be finalized before leaving, but Mendes still couldn't negotiate his new contract until he flew back to Macau on the 25th.
Zhao Yuting is definitely willing to give him a big contract, but this kind of thing will not be intervened too early as a boss, otherwise is there still a need for the uniform group formed with a high salary?
Porto's management naturally knew that Zhang Desheng had to open a new contract, but this damn Mendes opened his mouth as soon as he came up, not only asking too high for salary, but even wanting to get back all of Zhang Desheng's portrait rights, and the most outrageous thing is that the liquidated damages are not willing to rise to 50 million euros.
This face made Porto's management very unhappy, and it was clear that the two sides wanted to negotiate a deal that would take many rounds and would never be something that could be done in a week.
Before Zhang Desheng flew back to Macau, he naturally said goodbye to the small group temporarily.
The big guy was envious and jealous of this, because Zhao Yuting didn't buy tickets for the World Cup for them and their families.
Not only that, but they have to stay at the base to train in the summer, otherwise what will they do to compete for a place in the first team next season?
As for Zhang Desheng's right to take a vacation, it was won by people with their performance on the court, and anyone as good as him can enjoy the same preferential treatment.
Zhang Desheng didn't want to go to the scene to watch the Chinese team's game!
What's so good about that kind of broken game?
But his parents would love to go to the World Cup with him, after all, since he started practicing six years ago, he has not had much time to see and spend with his parents in this plane.
Zhang Desheng's parents in this plane, to be honest, have limited affiliation in family affection, after all, this pair of parents is not the source of his soul.
But he wouldn't be indifferent in his attitude, after all, this body still came from this, and he had to take care of the original hapless host for all reason.
So whenever he meets with his parents on this plane, he will try his best to behave like his own children.
During this half-month vacation, he will completely bring himself into the role.
During this period, what a filial child should do, in the face of the attitude that parents should have, he will show the actor-level performance, and invest in real feelings.
That's the limit of what he can do, and so far he has a clear conscience.
Zhang Desheng returned to Macau for two days, and after easily reversing the jet lag, he and his parents flew to South Korea.
He has little interest in sightseeing in the land of the sticks, and in the days before the race, he basically accompanies his parents to go shopping, and occasionally translates the words on the local sticks at some places of interest.
The history of the stick is changing all the time, and there are even exclusive new discoveries all the time.
But what worries him most is whether the history of the Chinese team will change.
In the past few years, those things that have been far away from him, although most of them have not been affected, such as the result and process of the Champions League final, are almost the same as the original plane.
But he knows that as his distractions deepen, many things will slowly change, especially the history of football will definitely show more and more new changes.
However, he has not yet completed those tasks, which will make him not want any changes in the World Cup journey of the national football team.
Once there is an accident in the Chinese team in this world, he will not say that he will increase the consumption of luck again, and the current expenses will have to be halved, halved and halved, because the punishment of 20,000 points will make him return to the pre-liberation period overnight.
"Son, why do you wear a mask and sunglasses every day when you arrive in South Korea, don't you hold back?"
"This kid is worried about being recognized!"
In the first game against Costa Rica, Zhang Desheng still put on his outfit before setting off from the hotel.
At the moment, a mask, sunglasses, and a large sun hat are what he wears when he goes out in South Korea, so that he doesn't have to worry about being recognized.
"I'm really worried about being recognized, there will be many people in China who will call me a traitor, and after a while, our ticket position will definitely be a grandstand for Chinese fans to gather, surrounded by fanatical national football fans, if the Chinese team can win, it's okay, once the kick is lost, if I am found out by them, maybe I will be angry with me as a traitor."
Zhang Desheng is indeed cautious enough, mainly because he doesn't want to be recognized and cause some unnecessary trouble!
After all, after winning the Portuguese Cup, his domestic fame has skyrocketed.
Although there is powder and black here, and there is a lot more black than powder, he is indeed no longer a nobody.
And later, the fifth son Dengke, who he didn't even expect himself, not only made him famous again in European football, but also when the news and game videos were transmitted back to China, he was really popular in China!
Therefore, if he appears in front of Chinese fans now, he will definitely be recognized by everyone at a glance.
But then there will be a good thing or a bad thing, and he doesn't dare to take risks, because he is with his parents.
China's first match was in Gwangju, and the opponent was still Costa Rica, the weakest team in the group.
This is not what he said, but the evaluation of the domestic media.
Even after he arrived at the game, even the Chinese fans around him were saying so.
"Aren't we the weakest in this group?"
Zhang Desheng complained fiercely in his heart, of course he didn't dare to say this kind of thing, otherwise he would have to be beaten by the surrounding Chinese fans.
"Son, aren't the tickets for our seats cheap?"
Zhang Desheng's parents naturally don't understand anything after so many years because of their son's relationship.
So when you look at the unobstructed view of the stadium and even the players' tunnel next to their seats, you immediately know that the ticket price for this position will definitely not be low.
"The price of the ticket given by Chairman Zhao will naturally not be low, but your son and I can earn him a thousand times back!"
After Zhang Desheng sat down, he conservatively estimated that this position would cost less than 1,000 US dollars to buy, and it would have to be a little related to get it.
But this is indeed the best viewing position except for the box, the whole height is in the middle of the lower position, this distance will not affect the field of view because it is too close to the court, but it will not be too far away to see the details.
Zhang Desheng focused on the live game at this time, he naturally knew the result of today's game, but he was not sure if his appearance would cause some butterfly effect?
It's about whether his luck will always be thriving!?
To be honest, in the first game against Costa Rica, the Chinese team really did not have no chance of winning.
But it doesn't have much to do with Sun Jihai's injury, because the biggest problem of the Chinese team is on the front line, even if it can't be prevented, it can't win the game at most, but as long as the front line scores a goal, it's not too much of a request.
It is indeed too much for the Chinese media to look down on Costa Rica, but it is true that this opponent is not that strong, at least not an invincible one.
If they can really score a goal first, then the morale of the whole team will be up, and if they are lucky, there is no possibility of a draw.
Originally, there were many analyses and interpretations of where the Chinese team lost this time.
But Zhang Desheng has always felt that the biggest reason for the loss is the unfavorable selection of personnel, especially the lack of active players with strong combat power on the front line.
He admits that there are a lot of internationals in this squad who are famous, but the problem is that too many of them have passed their prime.
The so-called balloon star is not as good as a dog, this is by no means a joke.
There is no respect for the old in football, you can play when you are young, no matter how much credit you have made, once you are old, you will either be old and strong, or you will retire bravely, and at most you will take a back seat to be the spiritual leader of the locker room.
But if anyone who relies on his seniority to occupy a position and not, even if his young people don't stab you chrysanthemum, the opponent will make you lose your reputation for a lifetime!
The midfield and back line of this Chinese team are honestly not bad, and it can even be said that from goalkeepers to defenses, to several distinctive midfielders and wings, most of these people have played at a good level, and many of them have some outstanding performances.
But the biggest problem is in the front line, and it's very serious!
Among the strikers of this Chinese team who can have a chance to play, except for Hao Jianguo, who can not even give a profile picture to P, and Yang Chen, who is also in declining form, the rest are veterans whose fame has long been far greater than their strength.
Many of them are either seriously degraded in athleticism or have injuries on their bodies, but they still occupy a starting position, which is called occupying the pit and not!
The Chinese media has been exaggerating the pathos afterwards, but the problem is that one yard is one yard, no matter how brilliant you were before, but now you have a bunch of injuries on your body, you can't run anymore, you have no ability to play in the World Cup at all, and you still occupy a valuable front-court position with your qualifications, isn't that just to realize your dream?
Now your dream has come true, and the dream of Chinese football is gone before you fall asleep.
After Zhang Desheng watched the first half, he even felt that Yang Chen's state was also not in his peak this year.
Among the four strikers, the No. 10 striker was the most invisible, and was forced to slip to the side to play a position that he was not good at, and still played in a decent state, including Yang Chen's pass at the middle post.
All in all, a bunch of old guys have forcibly occupied a valuable position by virtue of their seniority, but most people's performance is just two words: pull the crotch!
The athleticism they showed at the World Cup looked like they were even semi-retired over 35.
If combined with the tradition of the national football team of falsely reporting age, the devil knows how old are these players who are in their thirties even with a "fake age"?
So the Chinese team has no chance to score?
Zhang Desheng feels that there are not only them, but there are many of them.
But these opportunities can't be grasped at all at the level of this set of strikers, because the opponent will not pay attention to respecting the old and loving the young, will not be ruthless when you are old, will not give you the opportunity to break through and shoot slowly, and will not give you the time to adjust and deal with the ball again.
So he kept nodding his head when he watched this game, because he also found another key problem - greed!
In the game against Costa Rica alone, he saw several times when his teammates didn't pass it when they had a better chance, and then forced a shot on goal.
It's clear that there are too many people on this team who want to go down in history!
He can understand the mentality of these people, if anyone scores the first goal of Chinese football in the history of the World Cup, not only can it be recorded in history, but also immediately become a national hero.
But the problem is that this Chinese team does not have anyone who can score goals with individual ability.
The middle pillar in this kind of brute force situation is not bad luck at all, but good luck.
So in the first game against Costa Rica, the performance of the Chinese team was very competitive in Zhang Desheng's eyes, especially the personal ability of the striker players can be described as extremely poor, not to mention the ability to break through the defense alone, and even the ability to break forward with the ball is minimal, and the stiff ability to break through with the ball is simply a stain on the World Cup!
If you add the precious opportunities that are always wasted because of greed at critical moments, the whole game is really not a little nervous, and Zhang Desheng can't feel it, and the final score is still 0-2 to lose to Costa Rica, which is really weak.
"It's a pity! This set of side roads, and even the midfield's performance is good, but I just met these strikers who occupy the pit and don't! ”
Zhang Desheng retracted Yang Chen's evaluation of playing well after the game, and after watching the whole game from the scene this time, he found that Yang Chen's degradation was also very powerful, especially the ability to break through with the ball was at least one grade worse than his previous two Bundesliga seasons.
In the last four strikers, only the No. 10 striker is barely qualified, but unfortunately he is not playing in the position he is good at, otherwise it is really not that he has no chance to score a goal!
But fortunately, he didn't score, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to P in the future!