Fox in the Penalty Area

"...Don't underestimate the Philippine team. Through large-scale planning of European players, they have become a force that cannot be ignored in Southeast Asian football. Therefore, the last group match of the national football team is definitely not like some people As easy as I thought..."

When Hu Lixin heard the voice coming from his wife's mobile phone, he couldn't help complaining: "Are you still paying attention to the Philippines?"

"Isn't this going to be a life-and-death battle with them?"

"A battle of life and death?" Hu Lixin was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "It really smells like that."

"What's the smell?" Xie Lan turned his head and asked curiously.

"I used to watch the taste of the national football team, and I was frightened."

Xie Lan shook his head: "That's still different. Now the life-and-death battle is because of the last round of the group. In the past, every game in the national football team was a life-and-death battle."

In response to his wife's serious and serious answer, Hu Lixin was speechless, feeling that what the other party said made sense.

But he thought about it, and said, "But this match shouldn't be a battle of life and death."

"That can't be helped. Who made us stretch our hips in the first round of the group stage? I heard from the Internet that if we fail to qualify for the Asian Cup group stage this time, Dong Jianhai will be dismissed. Sigh..." Xie Lan sighed at this point Take a breath.

"Why are you sighing?"

"Contradictory, I don't know whether to hope that their team can qualify or not..."

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Xie Lan continued: "Now the Internet is full of scolding Dong Jianhai, saying that he has beaten a good pair of Wang Bo. They also said that 'the Asian Cup is such an important game, the Football Association should send a member of the Football Association to lead the team. They should also find a dog for the tiger general, but they sent a pig... I feel that if he continues to coach, maybe we will not be able to qualify for the next World Cup... Some people have launched a petition on the Internet, wanting to Let Shi Wuyin come out and take over..."

"What are you thinking? It is impossible for Shi Wuyin to come out of the mountain again, otherwise he would not have retreated in the first place." Hu Lixin shook his head.

Xie Lan looked forward to it: "Why not? He just had the heart to watch the team he brought down to such a state?"

"Because even if he returns to the national team to coach, he may not be able to do better."

"You know?" Xie Lan retorted.

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"Ah, the online petition asking you to return to coaching has more than 200,000 signatures..."

His wife showed Shi Wuyin the phone.

Shi Wuyin just glanced at it and then looked down at his book.

"You really don't think about going back? Actually, I don't care..." the wife said again. "In the past six months, you have been with me at home for long enough..."

Shi Wuyin closed the book and looked at his wife: "I plan to go to Europe after the Spring Festival."

"What are you going to do in Europe?" The wife was a little surprised.

"Go around Europe, visit and learn from their clubs, and recharge yourself."

"And come back and coach the national team again?"

"Then come back and find a club to coach. I can't always stay at home and not go out to work, can I? Just sit and eat..."

His wife interrupted him and asked: "The club? Are you really not going back?"

"Well, I won't go back." Shi Wuyin spoke softly, but his tone was firm. "This team needs to have higher pursuits and goals, and I can't bring them."

"But aren't you going to study in Europe?"

Shi Wuyin smiled: "The little I have learned is not enough. Besides... what do you think of my performance in the World Cup?"

"Great." The wife gave her husband a thumbs up.

"But I've been regretting it for half a year."

"Regret? You led the team to remain undefeated...Lao Shi, you are so funny. If you say this, people will think that you are doing it on purpose!" The wife laughed, as if she had heard something very funny. joke.

"I regret two things." Shi Wuyin sat upright and looked at his wife with a serious expression. "First thing, when we drew 1-1 with Russia, I replaced Hu Lai with Zhou Zijing. I shouldn't have done that."

The wife's smile gradually dissipated, and doubts appeared on her face: "Why not? Zhou Zijing was replaced to help the defense. At the same time, he can hold the ball in the midfield and delay the time..."

"That's where the problem lies, my wife... All I thought in my mind at the time was 'we must keep this score and keep the tie'."

"Isn't it?" asked the wife.

"No." Shi Wuzhen shook his head, "It was right at the time. But now I think it's wrong. I'm too timid..."

"This..." Seeing her husband say that, the wife didn't know what to say for a while.

"If I think about offense instead of defense, I rush out to attack desperately... We may lose this game, and we cannot guarantee an undefeated result. But we may also gain a victory." Shi Indifference didn't care about his wife's reaction, and continued, "This is the first thing I regret. The second thing is the last game against Brazil. When I fell behind 2:3, I replaced Zhou Zijing and Jiang Wanqing at the same time. I put all my eggs in one basket. attack……"

"Isn't that right? Just because of your substitution, we finally tied the score." The wife couldn't understand, and she couldn't wait to interject, as if she wanted to defend her husband.

"Listen to me, my wife..." Shi Wuqian felt a little helpless, "Yes, we evened the score. But after that, I didn't let the players continue to attack, but was satisfied with 3:3 The score... No, I even hope that the game will end immediately, so that we can remain unbeaten in the World Cup. At that time, our momentum has been completely up. If we go all out and fight the Brazilian team... Maybe we can really beat Brazil , How about reaching the top sixteen?"

The wife was silent because she could not refute.

"But I just thought...not to lose. I subconsciously attached great importance to 'remaining undefeated'. In fact, what if we lost? We couldn't make it out of the group stage if we lost, but we didn't have any chance." On the other hand, if we win the bet, we will really make history. As a result... because of my cowardice, our first World Cup left a huge regret..."

His wife repeatedly comforted: "It's not your fault, Lao Shi. You have done your best, and no one can do better than you. And after returning to China, you can see that everyone affirmed that you led the team in the World Cup The results, no one said dissatisfaction..."

Shi Wuyin shook his head and disagreed with his wife's statement: "Others think highly of me, it's to give me face, I can't bear to criticize me for the face of leading the team to the World Cup. But I have to be clear... I can actually To do better, at least it is possible to do better. I did not do it, on the one hand, my lack of ability, on the other hand, it is also my character problem. To put it bluntly, when I need to take risks If you dare to take this risk, you want stability in your heart. Someone like me may have done well when he led the team to the World Cup for the first time. But if Chinese football wants to continue to improve, it is obviously impossible for me to rely on me. So I won't be coaching the national team again... at least not for a few years."

After hearing the husband's monologue, the wife was a little shocked: "You never told me before..."

"Because I only figured it out recently. Look at this Asian Cup, did the Chinese team perform well? Not good. People are scolding Dong Jianhai on the Internet, saying that he seems to be a Mr. Nan Guo, with a false name. Those marketing The number almost all described Dong Jianhai as a despicable villain, as unbearable as possible. They also attributed the responsibility of the Chinese team's impact on the World Cup to Dong Jianhai alone... Is it Dong Jianhai's problem that Chinese football can't get out of line? The only problem with Dong Jianhai is that his tactical thinking and team leadership philosophy are no longer suitable for the current football and Chinese football..."

Shi Wuyin shook his head: "Don't look at the fact that more than 200,000 people on the Internet are petitioning me to return to the national team to coach. They dare to say all kinds of sensational things. If I really go back, if the results of leading the team are not satisfactory, I will be as good as I am now. I’m not the savior of Chinese football. I can’t do it, and I don’t want to. Chinese football doesn’t need a savior. It should follow the scientific concept of development and take it step by step. Don’t doubt that it’s gone just because of the ups and downs of a competition. The way we passed...that's all right."

The wife looked down at the joint petition on her mobile phone. In just ten minutes, the number of participants had exceeded 300,000.

There are also various tearful messages in the comment area of ​​the voting.

such as:

"This life will not give black guidance!"

"Shi Guidance YYDS!"

"Only Shi Guidance can save the national football team!"

"If there is no guidance, the national football team will be like a long night!"

...

She looked at these passionate words, and then thought about her husband's confession just now, and sighed.

I don't know how these people would feel if they knew their national football heroes but called themselves cowards...