Golden Greenery

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Being in Al Ain, the lush greenery makes it hard to believe that this is a city located in the heart of the desert.

Away from the ocean and close to the border with the United Arab Emirates and Oman, Al Ain is the second largest oasis in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Although it is not as prosperous as Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the greenery is much better. Inadvertently, Al Ain, which is densely covered with date palms and palm trees, will even give you the feeling of a tropical rainforest city.

After two consecutive victories, the Chinese team moved to Al Ain, where they played against Kyrgyzstan.

The Al Ain club, which played against Manchester City in the Club World Cup final half a month ago, is in Al Ain, but the Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium where China and Kyrgyzstan fought is not Al Ain’s home ground. That one is called Hashaza. Yede Stadium is a professional football stadium and is also the venue for this year's Asian Cup.

The entire oasis has a population of only 700,000, and there is only one football team in Al Ain, but Al Ain likes to build two stadiums. The happiness of rich people is so simple and willful.

The UAE is about the same area as Chongqing, has one-tenth of the world's oil reserves, and has less than one-third of Chongqing's population. If you walk on the streets of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Al Ain, you will find that they are equally lively and there is no shortage of people at all. In fact, there is no need to be surprised. Most of the people you see are foreigners like you, and there are almost no locals.

If you are reincarnated in this country, let alone become a noble, even commoners will be so wealthy that it is difficult to understand why there are so many quarrels in other parts of the world.

Needless to say, education and medical care will definitely be free for life. It only talks about getting married and having children. In the United Arab Emirates, as long as you get a marriage certificate, the country will provide you with a villa and give you about 500,000 yuan in wedding expenses.

One child will be given an apartment of 100+ square meters, and there is no upper limit on how many apartments will be given to the child. The state pays alimony to each child from the time he is born, every month, until the child grows up, gets married and gets a villa, and the cycle starts over and over again.

The United Arab Emirates is a 'backward' feudal aristocratic chief republic, and Somalia completely copies the various systems of the beautiful country, you see. From a certain perspective, whether you are happy or not really has nothing to do with the state of the country. It only depends on whether the country is rich or not.

In sharp contrast to the UAE is Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan is close to China, and its entire territory was the main territory of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. Kyrgyzstan is the birthplace of Li Bai, the three immortals of the ‘Poetry, Sword and Wine’. It is also the place where Yang Yi and Wu Huiqing lived in seclusion for sixteen years.

Kyrgyzstan is two and a half times the size of the United Arab Emirates, about the same size as Guangdong, but apart from the Kumtor gold mine, there is nothing else in the country. The gold mine contributes more than half of the fiscal revenue. GDP per capita ranks 157th in the world.

The grain output is impressive, and we rely on imported wheat from Kazakhstan for food; the national income is impressive, and foreign exchange depends on laborers going to work in Russia; the industrial capabilities are extremely impressive, and infrastructure construction relies on China. Even the A4 paper we commonly use, Kyrgyz’s light industry cannot produce it.

Kyrgyzstan is known as the Switzerland of Asia because of its mountainous interior. When it first came out of the former Soviet Union, the whole country thought so. So, everyone was happy and killed more than half of the sheep and ate it.

In the large Soviet family, Kyrgyzstan was responsible for raising sheep, which at that time could provide meat for the entire Soviet people. But after such a boom, the number of sheep has not been restored to that time until now.

It is said that when the former Soviet Union separated and each lived independently, Tajikistan was the strongest in football among the five Central Asian countries of the former Soviet Union, followed by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan could compete for third place, and Kazakhstan was the worst.

Times have changed, and now Uzbekistan is the leader of the five Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan has gone to follow UEFA, and Kyrgyzstan is like their sheep, never able to recover.

The main ethnic group of Kyrgyzstan is the Kyrgyz, accounting for 70% of the population. However, due to historical reasons, it is difficult to clarify the national origins of most people, which makes it easier for Kyrgyz football to naturalize.

However, because the country's presence is too weak and there is no way to spend money, it is naturally impossible to recruit too strong manpower. There are currently seven naturalized players in the team, four of whom are from Russia, two of whom are of German descent, and one is of Ghanaian descent.

The top star of the Gu country is the German forward Vitali Lux, who was born in Kyrgyzstan and now plays for Ulm in the German Bundesliga. Core midfielder Edgar Bernhard is also of German origin and currently plays for the Polish League One.

Most of the Kyrgyz national football players this time come from Bishkek Dodoy Club, the top team in the Kyrgyz domestic league, but there are still 8 overseas players. However, one of them stayed abroad, and the other stayed abroad. Eight of them were in the Russian Premier League, the Uzbekistan Premier League, and one was in the Indian Premier League.

Generally speaking, Kyrgyzstan is not strong, but it is not weak either. In the first group stage of the World Cup preliminaries, Kyrgyzstan also forced Australia into a panic.

The last time the Chinese team played against Kyrgyzstan was at the end of 2014. In order to prepare for the last Asian Cup, Jieshuai's national football team and Jilin football team warmed up twice and won 4:0 and 2:0 respectively.

Zhuo Yang did not participate in those two games. He had not had any accidents at that time, but he was upset because of his marriage to Kou Kou, so he did not go.

Obviously, Kyrgyzstan is definitely stronger than four years ago. Four years ago, Russian coach Kristinin just took office, and the two games against the Chinese team were his first games.

Alexander Kristinen, who is just 40 years old this year, was a mediocre defender when he played football. He basically played in the Russian low-level league during his career.

2 Stinen retired and then came to the Kyrgyz League to coach Kochkol Atta Petroleum. Now he has served as the coach of the Kyrgyz national football team for four years, and also serves as the coach of the domestic giant Dodoy.

Four years ago, Kyrgyzstan was ranked 170th in the FIFA rankings, and now it is ranked 170th. Playing more games and being less cute is the secret to Kyrgyzstan's progress.

In the Asian Cup qualifiers, Kyrgyzstan was in the same group as India, Myanmar, and Macau, and Kyrgyzstan qualified first. Young coach Kristinen said that this time in the Asian Cup, the goal is the quarterfinals.

As for the 0:4 defeat to Saudi Arabia in the first game, it was an inaccurate encounter.

After Kristinin took office, he led the Kyrgyz national team to follow the path of the former Soviet Union. The selection of players focused on strength, and the tactical style was mainly tough, fast and concise.

Saudi Arabia is Spain in Asia. Players are generally well-behaved and look easy to bully. As a result, Kyrgyzstan couldn't help but want to take advantage of his body. As a result, the whole audience was beaten by the Saudis.

The 3:1 victory over the Philippines in the second round showed the true strength of Kyrgyzstan. The team displayed the characteristics of resolute defense and fierce counterattack. Although the method is old, if the old prescription can cure a disease, it is a good medicine.

To be honest, Zhuoyang and Sforza have no doubts about the youth army's victory over Kyrgyzstan, but they are not sure whether they can play their own style from beginning to end in front of the veteran team.

Kristinen said: We respect the Chinese team, they are a world powerhouse and third place in the World Cup, but Kyrgyzstan’s goal of the quarterfinals will not change.

Zhuo Yang said: We will have no objection to whoever enters the quarterfinals, because the Chinese team’s goal is to win the championship.

In fact, this was a game that left Lebanon scolded.

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