Midfielder Ruler

"Defeating Cote d'Ivoire in the first round of the World Cup is certainly worthy of excitement and excitement, but I don't want brothers to keep this emotion for too long. There will be second, third, and even knockout rounds in the future, so we should go Get used to winning and make winning a daily practice.”

At the end of Tang Zheng's words, his words suddenly changed: "Everyone in our industry knows that we are fed by youth. The main elites of each club have very impressive annual salaries. The World Cup held every four years is a rare opportunity. If you perform well, There will be higher annual salaries and better advertising contracts waiting for you. We are all people with dreams. Take a long-term view. If you can perform well on the World Cup stage, I just have the resources and platform in my hands. I can help you.”

As we all know, Tang Zheng and his agent Fabino Rodrigo cooperated to open an international football agency, which specializes in sending outstanding Chinese players to higher-level leagues abroad for training.

The most successful ones are Lu Liang, Yan Junling, Zhang Linpeng and Wu Sanshi, and Tang Zheng used his influence in Dortmund to arrange many domestic talented young players to the Dortmund club to receive high-level training.

Now many players in the national team have changed agents, and the agents they replaced are professional agents from Tang Zheng's agency.

Even if some players are not members of the national team or have been selected for the national team, they will give priority to Tang Zheng's agency.

After all, the facts are there and cannot be questioned.

Some are players signed by Tang Zheng's agency, some are considering it, and some are not, but Tang Zheng's words are correct, especially the saying that professional football is about youth.

Very realistic!

Now, except for captain Zheng Zhi and Liu Jian, who are older, the other players in the national team are all in their prime.

Ren Hang, Li Xuepeng, Jiang Zhipeng, Zheng Zheng, Wu Xi, Cai Huikang, and Cao Yunding were all in the same year as Tang Zheng and were about to enter the peak of their careers.

Zhang Xizhe and Liao Lisheng are both born in the 1990s and are younger.

Although playing in the Chinese Super League cannot be said to be like a duck in water, it can be said that he can perform freely. Therefore, his career has reached a bottleneck period and he needs a broader stage to stimulate personal growth.

People all have dreams.

A long time ago, due to the cruelty of reality and the pressure of survival, they had to give up their so-called ideals, but now that they have the opportunity to fulfill their youthful dreams, people with a little ambition will choose to pursue their dreams again.

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They are often very ambitious.

Besides, there is a classic saying that has been circulating in China: Water flows to lower places, and people go to higher places.

There are better platforms waiting, why not?

Everyone knew that Tang Zheng kept his word, so there was no way that Tang Zheng would deceive them.

If it weren't for the captain Zheng Zhi who had studied abroad and was now at the end of his career, he would have been ready to go out and try his luck.

The World Cup is a top personal promotion platform. If an individual performs well, even if he is unable to study abroad, his status in the club and annual salary will be qualitatively improved.

No matter what, no one has any objection to things that are conducive to personal development prospects and interests.

About half an hour had passed, and it was past twelve o'clock in the evening local time in Brazil. Lippi, the head coach of the Chinese team, and his coaching team had been waiting at the door of the conference room for a long time. When they saw that the mental outlook of the players had greatly improved, No longer as excited and excited as before.

Head coach Lippi has a sharp eye and is very accurate in reading people. He also noticed that the players' mentality has changed a lot. Whether they are starting players or substitute players, there is something new in their eyes.

That’s right, having more is confidence!

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The next day, Lippi's assistants Madaloni and Li Tie took the Chinese team on a Brazilian domestic flight from Recife to Natal at noon, while head coach Lippi took intelligence coach Pezzotti there in the morning. Belo Horizonte, watching the second group match of the same group.

Not long after the Chinese team arrived in Natal, the second game of the first round of Group C against the Greek team kicked off at the Mineiro Arena in Colombia.

After ninety minutes of fierce fighting, Colombia finally defeated the Greek team 3:0.

Tang Zheng watched the news briefings of the game through the 4G network as soon as he got off the plane. When he saw Colombia beating the Greek team with three goals, he felt inexplicably relaxed.

Even though Falcao missed the World Cup finals due to injury, Colombia was able to beat Greece with three goals in the qualifiers, which had a very strong defensive ability. In addition to showing the strength of Colombia's offensive end, it also showed that the Greek team's offensive and defensive capabilities Duan is not as powerful as imagined.

Since there are shortcomings on both ends of the offense and defense, Tang Zheng believes that the head coach Lippi who is present at the scene will definitely see it and will definitely make targeted arrangements by then.

Of course, one cannot take it lightly.

There is no underdog in Europe, this saying is true.

While taking the long-awaited bus from the airport to the hotel, Tang Zheng watched the game video on his mobile phone. He found that the Greek team had a lot of defensive problems exposed, and its defense was crumbling under the constant pressure from Colombia's offense.

The most critical thing is that the Greek team's defensive players are prone to lack of concentration in the game. The first goal conceded occurred in the fifth minute, and the third goal conceded occurred in the 93rd minute.

In this regard, the confrontation between the two teams can be exploited.

After arriving at the hotel, the Chinese men's football team had a nutritious lunch together, then rested for about two hours, and then took the bus provided by the hotel to the auxiliary venue near the Sand Dunes Stadium for recovery training.

The amount of training was not large, but the Chinese players showed a very good spirit and full of enthusiasm.

The Chinese media who followed the Chinese team's victory in the first World Cup group match are very satisfied. Not to mention the next game against the Greek team that lost in the first round is immeasurable. Just the spirit shown by the Chinese men's football team now is... This makes the visiting reporters feel more at ease.

Greece, which lost in the first round, is in urgent need of a victory, but the Chinese team won a good start with great momentum, and their current mental outlook is amazing. Can they still beat Alexander's Greece?

The Chinese media are satisfied with the mental outlook shown by the Chinese players, while the Greek media are worried.

First of all, the Chinese team's 3:2 reversal of Côte d'Ivoire in the first round must have greatly boosted overall morale, and the Greek team that lost in the first round will definitely be under huge pressure in the second round, and it is difficult to predict its performance then.

Among the entire Chinese team, the player who gets the most attention is undoubtedly No. 10 Tang Zheng, who currently plays for Real Madrid. His performance is even more astonishing.

Although the whole team is currently undergoing simple recovery training, Tang Zheng has no physical problems at all, so he conducts ball training alone after a simple warm-up.

Tang Zheng, the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or winner, played as a defensive midfielder for a long time when the Chinese team faced Ivory Coast in the first round. However, the role of superstars cannot be ignored in many cases. The Chinese team's first goal in the World Cup was scored by superstar Tang Zheng. , and then assisted Lu Liang to equalize the score.

Tang Zheng also played most of the role in the final go-ahead goal.

The offensive end was perfect, the defensive end was outstanding, and he was well deserved to be the best player in the game.

In addition, the Chinese team's offensive strength in the first round surprised the entire Europe.

Hao Junmin, Lu Liang, Zhang Xizhe, Wu Sanshi, and Gao Lin all showed excellent personal abilities, so it was a bit difficult for Greece, which was in urgent need of three points in the second round, to win.

The Greek team, which lost a net of three goals in the first round, had a lot of problems on the defensive end. The offensive tactics were old-fashioned and had no bright spots at all.

"Why……"

The Greek media reporters present shook their heads.

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The first round of the 2014 Brazil World Cup group stage is in full swing, and the most watched game of the night is undoubtedly the direct clash between Italy and England in the Group D death group.

The match time was at 8pm local time in Brazil, and Tang Zheng was watching the live broadcast in the hotel room where the Chinese team was staying.

The two teams learned from many games that conceded goals too early in the first round of the group stage, so they focused on the defensive end until the 35th minute of the game, when the Italian team made an imaginative pass. Marchisio broke the deadlock with a corner kick.

However, only two minutes had passed in the game. England's rising star Sterling sent an exquisite through ball through the middle. Captain Rooney got the ball and crossed from the left. Liverpool's demon forward Sturridge followed up in the middle and pushed the ball in front of the goal to break Buffon's goal. equalize the score.

The two sides then exchanged offense and defense, but neither of them broke the opponent's goal until the end of the first half.

In the second half, England changed sides and fought again. England paid a heavy price for their lack of concentration in the game. Candreva obtained passing space on the right through his outstanding personal foot skills, but there was an obvious leakage in the England penalty area!

Balotelli jumped high without being marked and headed the ball into Joe Hart's goalkeeper, and Italy went over the score again.

As an England fan, Tang Zheng shook his head helplessly. Apart from having nothing to do about conceding the first goal, the second conceding was avoidable.

Balotelli is Italy's leading striker. Logically, Jagielka or Cahill should be responsible for marking him, but at the critical moment, no one was marking him. When approaching the penalty area, Balotelli got an easy header. Ball opportunity.

Although the England team launched a wave of offensives next, the Italian defense, which had shrunk its defense, was impregnable, and the score did not change until the referee blew the end of the game.

In the end, Italy defeated England 2:1 and got a good start in Group D of the Death Group.

With the group matches between Italy and England over, there is only one group match that Tang Zheng really pays attention to, and that is the strong dialogue between the German team and the Portuguese team.

Whether it is the German team or the Portuguese team, Tang Zheng has many good friends.

The German team started with former teammate Hummels and Gotze's current teammate Khedira, while Portugal started with teammates Cristiano Ronaldo, Pepe and Coentrao.

Only in the tenth minute of the game, Gotze used a breakthrough to win a penalty kick for the German team, and Thomas Muller broke the ice and scored.

Cristiano Ronaldo played very hard, but he was helpless that his teammates were far apart in strength and awareness. Therefore, Tang Zheng, who was sitting in front of the TV watching the game, could often see his teammate Cristiano Ronaldo using his super personal abilities. Create opportunities.

But I have to say that the overall strength of the German team is too strong. The offensive end can create threats, and the defensive end can resolve the offense created by Portugal's frontcourt through tacit cooperation with each other.

In the 32nd minute, Cross took a corner kick from the right. Hummels, who had a good choice of position in the middle, jumped high and headed the ball into the goal to expand the score.

Five minutes later, Pepe and Thomas Muller had an argument, and then Pepe's head made a forceful movement from top to bottom, uh, so that this movement happened to be seen by the referee on duty.

Perhaps the referee on duty determined that Pepe's action was a malicious provocation that went beyond the scope of sports, so he directly gave a red card.

The Portuguese team fell behind by two goals, and defense backbone Pepe was sent off again. Tang Zheng, who was watching the live broadcast of the game, shook his head.

He knew that the overall situation of the game was decided!

Sure enough, in the end, the German team defeated Portugal, which had one less player, 4:0, and got off to a good start.

After the two key battles, Tang Zheng no longer wanted to focus on the World Cup group matches, so he focused exclusively on training and stepped up his time to prepare for the second group match of Group C at the Sand Dunes Stadium two days later.

In the two days of preparation for the Greek team, Lippi's coaching team conducted in-depth analysis based on what Lippi observed in the first round, and then developed targeted tactics.

Defeating Cote d'Ivoire in the first round of the group gave the Chinese team a lot of room to qualify. However, thinking about the seeded team Colombia they faced in the third round and the relatively weak Greek team in the second round, winning would mean advancing to the top ten. A great opportunity for the top six.

The last two games of Group H have ended one after another, and the second round of the group stage has begun. The host Brazil and Mexico are the most promising teams to qualify early, but they must determine the winner in the second round of direct battles. Under the premise of negative.

Unfortunately, after 90 minutes of fighting, the score was 0:0.

Therefore, the first team to advance to the top 16 hopes to appear in Group B.

The Netherlands and Chile, who both won in the first round, faced Australia and Spain respectively. The Netherlands, which kicked off first, defeated Australia 3:2 and became the first team to advance to the top 16.

Because the Netherlands qualified early, there was only one qualifying spot left in Group B. Spain, which lost in the first round, could not afford to lose. However, the Spanish team, which was under huge pressure, failed to withstand the pressure. They lost 0:2 and missed the top ten one round in advance. Top six.

Spain was eliminated one round early, which was disappointing.

The Spanish team with Barcelona players as its main framework has become less controlling in the midfield as Xavi and Xavi Alonso age. The three forwards of Diego Costa, Torres and David Villa are in full condition. none.

It shows that they only scored one goal using penalty kicks in the two games.

However, this has nothing to do with the Chinese team, but head coach Lippi reasonably used Spain's elimination as a spur point to warn Chinese players not to underestimate the qualifications of their opponents.

In the blink of an eye, the second round of Group C between the Chinese team and the Greek team at the Sand Dunes Stadium came, attracting the attention of the whole country.