God of Green

After all the matches of Alkmaar were over, Jiang Xiaolin began to sign contracts with various brands and shoot commercials with the help of Baker.

The great success of last season made Jiang Xiaolin gain great popularity and status all over the world.

With the huge Chinese market, although Jiang Xiaolin does not have the Champions League, the Golden Ball, or the World Cup, and cannot be called a world-class superstar, he is already a first-line superstar.

Such fame and status are naturally worthy of being sought after by major brands.

In the gap between constantly running around to sign contracts, shoot commercials, and accept media interviews, on May 25, Jiang Xiaolin spent his 18th birthday in Song Zhicheng's restaurant in Amsterdam Chinatown.

Jiang Xiaolin's mother Jiang Liantao and cousin Jiang Xueling and several other relatives were also brought in to witness Jiang Xiaolin's coming-of-age ceremony together.

The reason for choosing to celebrate his birthday here is naturally because of the friendship between Jiang Xiaolin and Song Zhicheng.

When Jiang Xiaolin was deceived by a swindler to the Netherlands and became a homeless man, Song Zhicheng gave him a chance to be reborn.

Therefore, when he was busy signing endorsement contracts and unable to return home, Jiang Xiaolin chose to spend his birthday in Song Zhicheng's restaurant to attract business for Song Zhicheng, which was also Jiang Xiaolin's way of thanking Song Zhicheng.

After completing the endorsement contract in Europe, Jiang Xiaolin and his mother and others returned to China, and with the assistance of domestic assistant agent Fan Hongyu, he signed several domestic big brand endorsement contracts, filmed commercials, and was interviewed by the national TV sports channel.

Then, it was not until June 2 that Jiang Xiaolin rushed to the national team to report for the top ten match with Australia.

There are still three rounds of the top ten matches in the Asian zone of the World Cup qualifiers, all held in June.

After the top ten matches, the four direct qualifying places in Asia will be settled.

As for the Chinese team, after having played two games in the second half, there are still two games in the next three rounds, and the last round will be a bye.

In other words, whether the Chinese team can directly qualify from the top ten matches with the top two in the group depends on the performance in the next two games.

At 19:00 on the evening of June 6, 2009, with the referee's whistle, the 8th round of the 2010 South Africa World Cup Asian Zone Top Ten Group A match between China and Australia officially started in Kunming.

Before the game, the Australian players boasted that even if Jiang Xiaolin played for China, they could beat China away and continue to lead the standings.

Because they had won 4-0 at home against China, and that game gave them great confidence.

But they didn't consider that Jiang Xiaolin was injured in that game and didn't play at all. They didn't consider that Jiang Xiaolin is now two different people from when he played in the League Cup.

Because after the League Cup, Jiang Xiaolin not only added the shooting skill of "volley", but even more terrifyingly, after completing the task of the small triple crown, he obtained the special skill of "reverse foot" and added it to the perfect level.

Jiang Xiaolin now is not the Jiang Xiaolin who could only pass, break through and shoot with his right foot before the League Cup.

His left and right feet are exactly the same and very balanced.

After having the skill of "reverse foot", Australia is still the first opponent. They are still completely unaware of Jiang Xiaolin's new skills.

Even relying on their strength as the best in Asia, they launched a fierce attack on the Chinese team away from home.

And the Chinese team, as always, played defensive counterattacks.

As a result, Australia was a tragedy.

Jiang Xiaolin's physique, speed, ability to grab points, passing and receiving the ball, breakthrough, and left and right foot balance made the Australians simply undefendable.

In the 6th minute, his teammates intercepted the ball from Australia and passed it to Jiang Xiaolin. Jiang Xiaolin started to dribble the ball from the center circle, using his left and right foot balance to catch the opponent's defensive players off guard, and used full value bicycle kicks, crotch passes, etc. to pass three people in a row to form a single knife meeting, and easily scored.

China leads Australia 1-0.

After Jiang Xiaolin scored, even the commentator exclaimed in surprise:

"The ball is in!"

"Jiang Xiaolin opened the scoring and scored the first goal for China!"

"China leads Australia 1-0!"

"But what Jiang Xiaolin showed in the process of scoring is really surprising!"

"We all know that Jiang Xiaolin is a right-footed player and has basically no ability to handle the ball with his left foot."

"But today, we saw that Jiang Xiaolin's left foot strength in the previous pass and this goal was exactly the same as his right foot. Whether it was doing actions or passing, there was no difference with his right foot."

"Could it be that in such a short time after the League Cup final, Jiang Xiaolin has already...Mastered the left foot kicking technique and raised it to the same level as the right foot? "

"In that case, Jiang Xiaolin's progress is really amazing!"

Many professional guests and reporters were also surprised and shocked by Jiang Xiaolin's latest left-foot balance.

This is really too abrupt.

However, thinking of Jiang Xiaolin's progress in various new skills before, and the club's 108 goals last season, which also attracted the official certificate of the Guinness World Record, it can be understood a little.

No matter what the people in the stands think, the Australian players on the court are a little confused.

Such a Jiang Xiaolin really makes them not know how to defend!

But the game still has to continue.

Moreover, they have to continue to attack after falling behind in the score.

However, this gives Jiang Xiaolin a chance to counterattack.

The next game is quite simple.

Jiang Xiaolin Lin easily scored four goals in the whole game, and in the process of pulling the side, he took away three Australian defensive players, leaving the opponent's central defense empty, and the attacking midfielder Huang Bowen dribbled into the penalty area and scored.

The Chinese team scored a full 5 goals in the whole game.

But Australia did not score a single goal.

The Chinese team retaliated against the opponent with a score of 5-0, not only offsetting the opponent's 4-0 score in the first round, but also collecting the opponent's interest.

This made the Chinese fans at the scene and in front of the TV very excited, and they applauded Jiang Xiaolin and the Chinese team.

After this game, the Chinese team ranked first in the group with 16 points, Australia ranked second in the group with 13 points, Japan ranked third in the group with 11 points, Bahrain ranked fourth in the group with 4 points, and Uzbekistan ranked last in the group with 1 point.

In fact, Bahrain and Uzbekistan have completely lost the chance to qualify from the group, even in theory.

China, Australia and Japan will have to compete for the direct qualification of the top two teams in the group.

Because no one wants to play in the play-offs.

Even if they win the play-offs against the third team in Group B, they still have to face the play-off opponents in America, which means they will lose more than they win, wasting time and energy, but will not qualify.

Therefore, in the last two rounds of games, all three teams must go all out.

However, relatively speaking, China occupies a more advantageous position.

Because China currently ranks first with 16 points.

On June 10, 2009, China will play against Japan away, Australia will play against Bahrain at home, and Uzbekistan will have a bye.

In this match, both teams were determined to win.

However, the Chinese team, with 16 points, was clearly in a more advantageous position.

The Japanese team had to attack with all their strength to win in order to have a chance to qualify.

Therefore, the situation of the match was that the Japanese team had to attack vigorously, while the Chinese team played a defensive counterattack at ease.

Although the Japanese team still paid great attention to the protection of the back defense when attacking, and paid attention to preventing Jiang Xiaolin's counterattack.

But Jiang Xiaolin's current strength is really not something that Asian teams can defend if they want to.

Moreover, Japan's attack was also limited to shooting, and it was slow to score.

Instead, in the 15th minute, the Chinese team scored first.

However, the goal was not scored by Jiang Xiaolin, but it was directly related to Jiang Xiaolin.

It was Jiang Xiaolin who used his extremely powerful attraction to attract the attention of the Japanese team's defense, allowing the Chinese team's winger Shao Jiayi to get an unguarded opportunity to insert, and then received Jiang Xiaolin's wonderful pass, broke into the penalty area and scored, opening the record for the Chinese team.

Jiang Xiaolin assisted Shao Jiayi to help the Chinese team take a 1-0 lead.

After taking the lead, the Chinese team played more smoothly, while the Japanese team was in a more difficult situation.

They had to press forward and adopt a more aggressive offensive strategy.

But their crazy attack always failed to score, and they never got what they wanted.

Instead, they lost the ball in the 35th minute.

This time it was Jiang Xiaolin's sharp long-distance attack. After passing two people, he was finally pulled down by the third defender and won a free kick.

Then, Jiang Xiaolin used a beautiful arc free kick to send the ball into the goal of the Japanese team.

The Chinese team led Japan 2-0.

Next, neither team scored again in the first half.

After a 15-minute halftime break, the two sides changed sides and continued to fight.

At the beginning of the second half, the Japanese team continued to attack, anxiously trying to score a goal to equalize or even reverse the score.

Finally, in the 58th minute, the Japanese team's continuous attack paid off and they finally scored their first goal, tying the score to 1-2. The fans in the stands were immediately shocked.There was a warm cheer.

However, the score was still behind.

Therefore, after the game resumed, the morale-boosted Japanese team continued to press forward and attack, hoping to score again.

However, the defense of the Chinese team, which mainly played defensive counterattacks, was not so easy to break.

Moreover, the shooting skills of the Japanese players themselves could not reach the level of Jiang Xiaolin's shooting. Sometimes, even if they got a chance to shoot, it was difficult to hit the goal frame.

Even if they hit the goal frame, it was difficult to shoot in the dead corner, and it was easy to be saved by goalkeeper Song Zhenyu or directly confiscated.

Therefore, when the aggressive attack failed to score, it was the Chinese team that scored the third goal of the game in the 69th minute.

And the goal was scored by Jiang Xiaolin, who everyone had high hopes for.

Jiang Xiaolin used his strong breakthrough ability to pass two people in a counterattack to form a single knife, and finally faced the attacking goalkeeper and shot the empty goal with his left foot.

Jiang Xiaolin scored twice, giving the Chinese team a 3-1 lead.

When Jiang Xiaolin scored, it was already the 69th minute, with only more than 20 minutes left before the end of the game.

Such a score and game time were simply despairing for the Japanese team.

Therefore, the coach of the Japanese team made a desperate move and chose to replace a full-back with a forward to launch a crazy attack.

However, such a crazy attack did not work.

In the last minute of the game, the Chinese team almost played a bus defense, leaving only Jiang Xiaolin in the frontcourt.

But Jiang Xiaolin alone was enough, he could kill the game alone.

In the 76th minute, a Japanese team's frontcourt pass was intercepted by Zheng Zhi's sudden rush.

Then, at the moment when Zheng Zhi intercepted the ball, Jiang Xiaolin immediately turned and rushed to the Japanese team's half.

Because of the score behind and the need to attack, the Japanese team's defenders pressed very far forward.

Then, facing Jiang Xiaolin's rapid forward run, the Japanese defenders could not catch up with him, Jiang Xiaolin's speed was too fast.

As a result, at the moment when Jiang Xiaolin was about to counter-offside, Zheng Zhi kicked the ball to the front court with a big foot. Jiang Xiaolin was not offside, but successfully counter-offside.

Moreover, Zheng Zhi's big foot and Jiang Xiaolin's running position and direction were perfectly matched.

Jiang Xiaolin did not stop to wait for the ball while running, but unloaded the ball while running forward quickly, and rushed to the penalty area of ​​the Japanese team with the ball.

Several defenders of the Japanese team were unable to catch up with Jiang Xiaolin when running without the ball.

Jiang Xiaolin had a good opportunity to go to the meeting alone, and the Chinese fans and local Chinese in the stands stood up excitedly.

The panicked Japanese fans kept booing, hoping to interfere with Jiang Xiaolin's shot.

However, such a scene was really no interference to Jiang Xiaolin.

When approaching the penalty area, facing the attacking goalkeeper, Jiang Xiaolin easily lobbed the ball over the goalkeeper and into the empty goal behind him.

In the 76th minute, Jiang Xiaolin performed a hat trick, helping the Chinese team to lead the Japanese team 4-1 away by three goals.

This goal completely killed the game.

It was impossible for the Japanese team to score three goals in less than 20 minutes.

Whether it was the fans at the scene or in front of the TV, they had already started celebrating.

After 2002, the Chinese team was finally going to enter the World Cup stage again.

After the game resumed, the Japanese team launched a crazy attack, wanting to make a last-ditch effort.

But fate did not give them any chance.

Jiang Xiaolin also returned to his own half to participate in the defense, using his full-value positioning skills to constantly disrupt the Japanese team's passing and attack.

The Japanese team's shooting skills were not good either. In the last ten minutes or so, they had two or three chances to shoot, but none of them scored.

After 4 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game. The Chinese team defeated Japan 4-1 away in the 9th round of the 2010 South Africa World Cup Qualifiers Asian Top Ten Group A, winning all three points and reaching 19 points, widening the gap between the two sides to 8 points.

Although the Chinese team had a bye in the last round, the Japanese team still had a game.

But in any case, the third-placed Japan could not catch up with the Chinese team.

The Chinese team advanced to the 2010 South Africa World Cup qualifiers one round ahead of schedule, becoming the first team in the world to advance to the World Cup except the host South Africa.

When the game was over, the words "We have qualified" were displayed on the sports channel of the Chinese National Television Station, and the whole country of China became a sea of ​​celebration..

After 2002, the Chinese men's national football team finally qualified for the World Cup finals for the second time.

And this time, with Jiang Xiaolin, the Chinese national football team will surely not go home empty-handed in the group stage again!