Golden Greenery

Zhuo Yang turned around and looked at his team. Now he was about to lead them to the World Cup that he dreamed of. At this time, Li Jinyu, who was standing at the end of the team, was also looking towards him. The two of them smiled and gave a thumbs up at the same time.

Zhuo Yang was quite emotional. He had no way of knowing how many geniuses like Li Jinyu had been buried in the dust of Chinese football.

Before Jieshuai recruited him again, Li Jinyu had actually seriously considered retiring. Due to age and injuries, his physical fitness and condition have declined drastically, and he also feels stagnant in his technical movements.

But Jieshuai's call reminded Li Jinyu of his unfulfilled ambitions and his youthful dreams. I think of the hard work full of hope and the pride of the high-spirited moments. So, at that moment, he had no hesitation.

After returning, due to the compatibility of tactics and Li Jinyu's high morale, he performed very well in a series of games. But after all, he is older, and his physical fitness and body reactions are not as good as when he was in his prime more than ten years ago. Moreover, counter-attacking on the forward line has always been Li Jinyu's weakness. Therefore, although they met late, he played in Rijkaard. It is quite difficult in the tactical system.

Li Jinyu said to Zhuoyang: "Why didn't you show up earlier, and why did you meet Jieshuai now. Otherwise, I..."

Zhuo Yang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Old Li, it's not too late."

In the national team, Zhuo Yang and Li Jinyu talked a lot. From his words, Zhuo Yang learned a lot about the unknown sufferings of the Jianlibao Youth Team back then.

During the years when Li Jinyu and the others studied in Brazil, they were not rich in funds, but very poor. The conditions of the Jianlibao Youth Team were very difficult. The team's dormitory is purely a wooden house. In the hot Brazilian summer, sleeping on the canopy bed in the house is like being in a steamer.

The team has no money to hire chefs at all, so all coaches and even players take turns cooking on their own. There are often snakes and lizards in the grass not far from the dormitory door. When you go to take out the garbage or hang clothes to dry, you need a person to drive them away with a stick.

"Zhuoyang, do you know? Those of us back then, our family conditions were good even if they were not rich. Before going abroad, we didn't have much hardship except playing football training. But when we were in Brazil, the whole team was divided into 20 and 30 people. Eat a watermelon and we will be as happy as the Chinese New Year."

According to Li Jinyu, there were indeed a lot of games played at that time, but there were not many serious opponents. They were basically local grass-roots wild teams, and there were all kinds of people among the opponents. The value of such a game is outrageously low.

The team does not attract the attention of the Brazilian football community as reported by domestic media.

In fact, he has not integrated into the Brazilian football circle at all. The Jianlibao Youth Team is essentially equivalent to finding an extremely difficult place and training in isolation for several years.

In addition to the tough conditions that tempered the will of the teenager, the Jianlibao youth team gained little from football during their time in Brazil. To be honest, that group of people were not studying abroad, but were delayed.

Why can it still perform amazingly? Because these people are the geniuses among the geniuses selected through the domestic screening, and they are the best young people of that age group.

Just because they were delayed for several years, they fell very quickly after that. Think about Sun Hai, he was known as China's most successful overseas player before Zhuo Yang, and he was once eliminated in the domestic selection of Jianlibao Youth Team.

But it is precisely because Sun Hai received systematic football training in China during those years and had ample opportunities for regular competitions that his final achievements surpassed those of the front-runners before him.

Theoretically speaking, the talent and potential of the Jianlibao teenagers in the past were all higher than Sun Hai, but today, more than ten years later, don’t be surprised that Li Jinyu is considering retiring at the age of 33, because that group of former geniuses who are the same age as him have 2/3 have said goodbye to the football field, and some even retired early at the golden age of 24 or 5 years old.

Fake study abroad and low-value closed training, as well as the assimilation of the domestic football environment after the disintegration, the reasons for the failure of Jianlibao Youth Team are complicated and not caused by a single reason, but Chinese football has lost a generation, and it is the most valuable generation.

The majestic "March of the Volunteers" was played at the Royal Banfoken Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa, and Zhuo Yang, standing at the front of the row, sang the national anthem loudly along with the music. There were more than 35,000 Chinese team supporters in the stands that could accommodate 42,000 fans. They made the national anthem the only sound in the world at this time.

Zhuo Yang knew that he sang the national anthem slightly out of tune because he worked too hard, but he didn't care. He just wanted to sing the national anthem loudly and sing every word loudly.

The lively singing was transmitted to every corner of China through live television footage. Many people sang along with Zhuo Yang. The singing in the evening resounded through universities, factories, mines, family buildings and communities.

At the standard time of 46 seconds, Zhuo Yang was still unfinished at the end of the song. He jumped up as hard as he could, and after landing, he clenched his fists and yelled: Ho! !

‘Beep’ Mexican referee Ben Arjundia blew his long whistle, and the Chinese team restarted the World Cup after eight years.

Paraguay got the first kick-off right. After Barrios passed the ball to Nelson Valdez, he ran straight towards the hinterland of the Chinese team. Nelson Valdez knocked back to Riveros, and Zhuoyang, who was pressing forward, pushed towards him.

Riveros passed the ball back to center back Paulo Da Silva. Li Jinyu didn't show any politeness. He twisted around and pressed forward while running. Paulo da Silva didn't know the depth of the comer, so to be on the safe side, he pushed the football back again and gave it to the captain and veteran goalkeeper Bilal.

The 33-year-old Justo Bilal is Paraguay's best goalkeeper after the legendary goalkeeper Chilavert. He also has very good footwork like Chilavert.

Bilal stopped the ball steadily with his right foot. Taking advantage of the time gap before the slow Li Jinyu ran forward, he raised his head and looked at the situation in front of him, and then swung his legs and big feet straight to the right side of the front court.

Nelson Valdez gave the point to Enrique Vela, who was rushing down the wing in the battle with Li, but Shao Jiayi, who quickly recovered, did not give Bella the space to rush up. The ground pass was intercepted by Sun Hai before Barrios.

Zhuoyang returned to the midfield and turned around to ask for the ball. Sun Hai followed the command by pushing the arch of his foot. Zhuo Yang caught the ball with his back outside the arc in the center circle and then took a feint shot to the left side, dodging Caceres who was coming from behind.

Zhuoyang turned from the right side and stood firm, raised his eyelids and swept across the front line. Then he took a step out with his right foot and passed a fast low ball, with the goal reaching the corner of Paraguay's penalty area.

Li Jinyu, who was running back in front of Paraguay's defense, suddenly accelerated and crossed, spreading his wings like a proud swan and flying towards the landing point of the football. Still three meters away from the landing point, he took the lead in gliding off Alcaraz.

The goal was behind Li Jinyu, and he followed the direction of Zhuo Yang's incoming ball and shot it straight into the air. Under his acceleration, the ball went straight to the back corner of the goal in a weird arc, with a sharp kick. wind.