World Cup of Great Powers

During the days of preparing for the Olympics, Zeng Zheng was extremely busy.

He led the team to play 4 friendly matches in succession, and although they all won, the fans still felt uneasy.

First, because these four opponents are all Asian teams, there is nothing to be proud of if they win.

The second reason is that until after the 6-0 victory in Vietnam in the last game, the 22 players for the National Olympics had not yet been decided.

This is very urgent.

At the end of August, during the National Olympic training session, Zeng Zheng officially appointed Li Weifeng as the National Olympic team captain.

Fans still don't buy the news released by the National Olympics.

Is there any use just knowing who the captain is?

I need to know who these 22 team members are!

The most important thing is whether your Olympic team should bring overage players;

If so, how many will you bring?

Which ones will you bring?

After repeated calls, Zeng Zheng finally announced the 22-person roster for the competition in early September.

Goalkeepers: Liu Yunfei, Li Leilei, Ou Chuliang

Defenders: Li Weifeng, Wu Chengying, Xu Yunlong, Yang Pu, Shu Chang, General Fan, Sun Jihai;

Midfielder: Li Tie, Zhang Xiaorui, Li Jinyu, Zhao Junzhe, Zhang Ran, Zheng Zhi, Shen Si, Li Yan;

Forwards: Li Yi, Zhang Yuheng, Shao Jiayi, Qu Bo.

Seeing the four over-age players including Ou Chuliang, General Fan, Wu Chengying and Shen Si, the noisy fans calmed down.

"Phew! I thought Coach Zeng really planned not to bring any overage players!"

"Yeah, if I don't bring one, I feel it's a bit too much."

"It seems that Coach Zeng is sensible!"

...

Zeng Zheng also had "difficulties" in choosing which overage players to choose.

According to the latest regulations of the Olympic Organizing Committee, each team can bring five overage players.

On this matter, no matter what Zeng Zheng said, Zhu Xie and others headed by King Xu would not agree to his life and death without taking any of them.

Coupled with the experience of the last Asian Games, even if Zeng Zheng agreed to bring Ou Chuliang, Xu and Wang shook their heads in denial.

In desperation, Zeng Zheng made careful selections and added Wu Chengying and Shen Si.

At this moment, General Fan's phone call came directly to Zeng Zheng.

As a veteran of the national football team, when General Fan opened his mouth, Zeng Zheng really had no good reason to refuse.

After all, this is the Olympics!

What athlete doesn't want to become an Olympic athlete just to earn a medal?

Unable to resist General Fan's insistence, Zeng Zheng had no choice but to make room for him.

At this point, Zeng Zheng refused to take on another overage team member no matter what.

Seeing that many of these Olympic players were already national players, Xu and Wang finally agreed to Zeng Zheng’s selection requirements.

This is one of the reasons why the list has not been made public until now.

...

As the main game approached, the National Olympic Games finally played an extremely realistic friendly match with the South African team.

Sadly, the final game scene was lackluster.

After four consecutive wins in the warm-up match, the National Olympics could only end in a boring draw.

The days are passing quickly, and the Sydney Olympic Games of the new millennium are coming.

The Olympic Games opens on September 15th, but events like football games have already started on September 13th.

In this Olympic Games, the Chinese team is divided into Group B together with Spain, Chile and Morocco.

According to the analysis of "experts" before the game, the Olympic team members must win at least one game in order to qualify from the group.

Who will win this battle has become the focus of debate among everyone.

Spain?

Matador performed well in this year's European Cup. After falling behind 2-3 in the group stage, they actually scored two more goals to defeat Yugoslavia 4-3.

Although they failed in the quarterfinals, they also lost to the champion French team due to penalty kicks.

As the seeded team in Group B, it will be difficult for the National Olympics to win against the Matadors.

Then these 3 points must be obtained from Chile and Morocco.

At the beginning of the year, the friendly match between Morocco and South Korea ended in a 1-1 draw.

From this point of view, there is no problem in defeating Morocco in the National Olympics, which can beat South Korea. It is the safest to get 3 points from this small African country.

Although Chile is a strong team in South America, as the National Olympics are familiar with South American style, there should be no problem in a draw with Chile.

In this way, the National Olympic Games can definitely advance to the quarterfinals with a record of one win, one draw and one loss.

As long as we advance to the quarterfinals, this Olympics will have accomplished its mission.

As for medals?

Fans who know our football heritage really don’t have much hope.

On September 15th, the National Olympic Games will face the first opponent of this Olympic Games-Chile!

There are huge crowds of fans at the Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney.

Both the International Olympic Committee and FIFA have gradually figured out the situation through organizing competitions in the past two years.

Whenever there is a match played by the Chinese team, the venue will definitely be packed with people.

In response to this phenomenon, in addition to raising the ticket prices for the Chinese team's participation, the organizers will also sell some small items outside the stadium in the official name that can be brought into the stadium.

This National Olympics can be said to shoulder the great expectations of the Chinese people!

You know, before this, the Chinese men's football team had only participated in the Olympic Games once (1988), leaving an embarrassing record of no goals and no wins.

The group stage and schedule of this National Olympics group stage are all understood to be "favorable".

Just look at the little days next door and you will know.

They were once again placed in a group with Brazil.

In contrast, Group B is gentler.

In this game, the National Olympics are led by two over-age players, General Fan and Wu Chengying, with Jianlibao as the team and all the young players who have studied abroad.

Since General Fan was in the battle, even though Li Weifeng was the "official captain", the captain's armband was still tied to General Fan's shoulders.

In the warm atmosphere created by the fans at the scene, the National Olympic Games started an offensive stance at the beginning and continuously attacked the opponent's left wing in a short period of time.

In the 3rd minute, Zhang Xiaorui was violated in front of the top corner of the penalty area, and the National Olympics got a free kick on the right.

Shao Jiayi's pass was very accurate. Zhang Yuheng, who was ambushing in the middle, jumped up high and headed the ball towards the goal. The ball hit the crossbar and bounced out!

Seeing Zhang Yuheng's outstanding performance after the start, Li Huajun on the sidelines also breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that he has moved on from the shadow of the car accident."

Zeng Zheng shook his head and said nothing.

He didn't know whether Zhang Yuheng was as reported by the media, and he didn't bother to get to the bottom of it.

As long as the player is of appropriate age, healthy and mentally, he doesn't mind using it.

As for character issues...

Zhang Yuheng was young and frivolous, Zeng Zhengxin.

But Zeng Zheng didn’t believe that Zhang Yuheng himself was in that car in order to harm his teammates!

No matter how good your driving skills are, there is no guarantee that in the event of a car accident, the co-pilot will be severely injured and disabled, but you will be fine.

So "intentionally harming others" doesn't make sense at all!

The Chilean team is considered the biggest opponent to qualify for the Olympic group.

Although the "experts" proposal is to tie.

But if we can win, the fans are still looking forward to it.

What's more, when Zeng Zheng led the team to South America for training, they defeated so many South American teams.

Facing Chile, which also belongs to South America, no matter how bad the Olympics are, we should have the confidence to win.

Sure enough, after defusing a pass from the opponent's right, Guoao once again launched an attack on the opponent.

Sun Jihai from the right came forward, looked for the opportunity, and tipped the ball into the right wing of the penalty area.

Zhang Xiaorui, who stepped in diagonally, caught up with the ball, twisted his body, and forced a small angle attack.

The Chilean goalkeeper guarding the near post stretched out his hand to block the ball and pushed the ball out of the baseline.

Subsequently, the National Olympic Games quickly took a tactical corner kick.

Zheng Zhi, who partnered with Li Tie as a defensive midfielder, broke into the penalty area on the right side of the center, moved forward desperately, and finally made a cross in front of the baseline.

It was Zhang Yuheng who rushed to the spot where the ball landed immediately and shot sideways. The ball was blocked by the Chilean goalkeeper again.

Then Li Jinyu took a follow-up shot and the ball shot straight into the sky.

In the opening stage, the National Olympics attacked extremely fiercely, whether due to orders from Zeng Zheng or from a new type of attack.

After that, Chile could only rely on corner kicks and set-pieces in the frontcourt to get the ball into the Olympic penalty area, but it was never able to score.

Under the strict control of the Olympic midfielder, Chile basically attacked less and defended more.

In the 15th minute, Sun Jihai made a pass from the right wing, and Zhang Yuheng once again headed the ball wide.

This time, even Zeng Zheng sighed, secretly saying that he was not lucky.

A few minutes later, the Chilean team's defense gradually shifted to its own left.

Seeing this, Zeng Zheng reminded the players on the field to attack from the other side.

In the 20th minute, Li Jinyu retreated to take the ball and was violated, winning a well-positioned free kick on the left for the National Olympics.

Seeing this free kick, Shao Jiayi, Li Jinyu and Zhang Xiaorui all stood in front of the ball and seemed to want to take the penalty.

On the bench, Shen Si also stood up and watched nervously.

Zeng Zheng could see clearly.

In the set-piece data column, Li Jinyu is 89, Shao Jiayi is 88, Zhang Xiaorui is 85, and Shen Si is 91. They are all leaders in set-pieces.

But free kicks need to be matched with left and right feet, shooting, passing, strength and other attributes.

The numerical value is just a reference. When it comes to the field, the players have to decide who will take the penalty.

After the referee's whistle blew, Zhang Xiaorui was the first to start and also hoisted the ball directly into the penalty area.

Even though there were three people standing in front of the ball, he still chose to pass the ball!

In the penalty area, Zhang Yuhuang, who is 1.87 meters tall, jumped up high with two defenders on his back and headed the ball.

The ball missed the crossbar high.

For such a result, Zhang Yuheng had done his best to be able to withstand it.

But looking at the expressions of Shao Jiayi and Li Jinyu, they felt a little unconvinced.

"Oh, you can just kick the ball!" Shen Si sighed.

If he were to kick the ball, he would have to try it no matter what.

But there is no way.

Shao Jiayi is the "little brother" in front of Li Jinyu and Zhang Xiaorui.

Even if Zhang Xiaorui doesn't kick the ball, Li Jinyu will probably get it.

In the 25th minute, Chile launched a simple direct attack from the left. Wu Chengying fouled in defense and knocked down her opponent near the penalty area line, receiving a yellow card.

Fortunately, General Fan's air defense was solid and he resolved the opponent's free kick with a header.

In the 29th minute, Chile got a taste of the sweetness on the left, once again taking advantage of a left-wing throw-in to penetrate into the Olympic penalty area, and formed a small angle attack during the melee.

Facing the opponent's first attack, Liu Yunfei turned around and blocked the ball.

Seeing Liu Yunfei rolling around on the ground and then getting up again, many domestic fans in the stands were in a daze.

"Hey! What a guy!"

"If I didn't know who it was, I would have thought it was Ou Chuliang on the court!"

At this moment, Ou Chuliang on the sidelines also nodded repeatedly.

Although he did not play, he was very pleased to see his "proud disciple" perform so brilliantly.

In the 32nd minute, Guoao once again made an impact through continuous passes on the right.

Before Sun Jihai passed the ball, the Chilean defender desperately brought him down and received the first yellow card in this Olympic Games.

Seeing this yellow card, Zeng Zheng nodded secretly.

The opponent's left wing can hardly hold on.

Since the National Olympics no longer only attacks from the right, once Sun Jihai explodes again, Chile's left back will be overwhelmed.

Although his left back also received a yellow card, Zeng Zheng felt that Wu Chengying's foul was not really necessary.

"Alas, there is still a shortage of people at the left back position!"

In the 37th minute, after the National Olympics defense line fell back continuously, Zheng Zhi passed forward to the right and assisted Zhang Xiaorui to make a forward pass.

Unlike Sun Jihai's explosive play on the wing, Zhang Xiaorui's map is full of flowers.

After several consecutive bicycle kicks into the penalty area, the Chilean defender did not dare to take a step at all.

As a Chilean player who plays friendly matches with Argentina and Brazil all year round, he knows very well that if he kicks rashly at this moment, even if he does not kick the opponent, the opponent's foot will deliberately hit his own.

If Zhang Xiaorui falls to the ground at that time, whose fault is it?

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaorui did not continue to move forward. After looking at the situation, he picked up the ball and passed the ball.

The ball went over Zhang Yuheng's head and flew to the back point, but was resolved by the goalkeeper before Li Jinyu headed the ball towards the goal.

Just looking at these 40 minutes or so of the game, the Chilean goalkeeper deserves to be the MVP on the field!

One minute later, Sun Jihai was brought down by his opponent again in front of the penalty area.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Guoao received a free kick from a good position on the right.

This time, Shao Jiayi took the initiative to find Li Jinyu and Zhang Xiaorui.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Li, my left foot, my left foot!"

The two looked at each other, and Li Jinyu nodded, turned around and ran towards the penalty area to participate in the challenge.

"I'll give you cover."

After Zhang Xiaorui finished speaking, he also stood in front of the ball.

"Beep!!"

The whistle sounded.

Zhang Xiaorui started to run.

Before he could reach the ball, Zhang Xiaorui's eyes lit up and he suddenly discovered that Li Weifeng had escaped from the defense without anyone noticing and rushed towards the penalty area.

Zhang Xiaorui made a quick decision and kicked the ball towards Li Weifeng's head with his right foot.

Li Datou leaped high and headed the ball hard.

Unfortunately, the force was too strong and the ball went over the crossbar.

Shao Jiayi, who was about to run in front of the ball, was about to burst into tears and looked at Zhang Xiaorui helplessly.

Although he didn't say anything, his aggrieved little eyes said everything.

"Haha, next time, I'll give it to you next time!" Zhang Xiaorui also knew that he was at a loss, so he laughed and continued to participate in the game.

In the 43rd minute, the Chilean team also got a free kick opportunity in front of the penalty area, and forward No. 9's curved kick went slightly wide.

In the 45th minute, Shao Jiayi made a pass from the left. Li Jinyu stopped the ball in the penalty area and responded. General Fan followed up and volleyed with his legs. The ball was blocked by the last Chilean defender and went out of the baseline.

In the second half, the team changed sides and fought again.

The simple Olympic team members appeared on the stage, and there were cheers from the stands.

It has been 12 years since 1988.

Fans can't wait!

Score a goal quickly!

After changing sides, Guoao continued to maintain the offensive idea of ​​controlling the midfield and rushing forward from the wing. They made multiple passes near the opponent's penalty area several times in a short period of time, but they did not have a good chance to form an attack.

After rest and tactical analysis, the Chilean team also found a breakthrough for the National Olympics, which was to play behind the wings of the National Olympics.

Whether it is Sun Jihai or Wu Chengying, both of them are very forward when assisting.

After the two assists, it is inevitable that there will be a huge gap behind.

The Chileans used high-altitude long passes and began to frequently counterattack against this point of the Olympic Games.

In the 50th minute, Chile made a diagonal pass from the backcourt to the right. The Olympic defense made an offside error and the opponent's winger advanced alone.

Fortunately, Li Tie, who could not run to death, was still brave. He rushed from the front of the opponent's penalty area to the top of his own penalty area, knocked the opponent's winger aside with just one body collision, and regained the ball.

But less than 2 minutes later, the Olympic defense's forward-pressing strategy once again suffered a fatal blow - the opponent's concise pick pass once again passed through the entire Olympic defense. This time, Zheng Zhi immediately recovered and made up for it.

Sun Jihai's vacancy.

But compared with Li Tie, Zheng Zhi, who has not yet fully grown up, is obviously slightly inferior physically.

Even after pulling and pulling, the opponent was still allowed to break into the penalty area.

As soon as he caught up with the ball after entering the penalty area, the Chilean striker decisively took a cold shot.

Faced with the sudden shot, Liu Yunfei stretched his body with all his strength and used his fingertips to flick the ball that was rushing towards him in the air.

Boom!

The clear sound of the goalpost sounded.

Liu Yunfei, who fell to the ground, quickly got up and hugged the ball that bounced back into the field.

Seeing the ball being controlled by Liu Yunfei, all the Chinese people at the scene let out a sigh of relief.

"Hey! Well done Xiaofei!"

Ou Chuliang put a glove to his mouth and shouted on the court.

"Brother Ou, can you save this ball?"

In order to lighten the atmosphere, Zeng Zheng said half-jokingly.

"Xiao Fei's reaction is too fast, better than mine!" Ou Chuliang gave Liu Yunfei a thumbs up first, "But if I choose the position well, I can catch the ball."

"but..."

Ou Chuliang paused, "But I may not be able to get up so quickly."

"Xiao Fei's two saves were much better than mine."

Speaking of this, Ou Chuliang let out a sigh of relief.

The eyes that looked at Liu Yunfei were full of his 20-year-old self.

After this dangerous situation, Zeng Zheng made substitution adjustments and replaced Zheng Zhi with Zhang Ran.

As soon as the average Zhang Ran came on the court, he immediately made up for the carelessness and emptiness of the Olympic defense.

In the 60th minute, the National Olympic midfielder stole the ball and immediately pushed forward.

Zhang Ran distributed the ball to the right, and Zhang Xiaorui made a pass to win the corner kick.

Sun Jihai took a corner kick, and Li Jinyu tapped his chest to stop the ball and dunked it with his feet.

He wanted to dodge his opponent and shoot, but the alert Chilean defender noticed the dunk and destroyed the ball.

For a period of time since then, the National Olympics' offense still failed to bear fruit, and the situation remained stalemate.

Until the 78th minute, substitute Zhao Junzhe won a left-wing corner kick through a pass.

After the corner kick failed to create a point, Shao Jiayi from the outside of the penalty area followed up with a long shot. The ball hit the right post and bounced out of the baseline.

Seeing this, another sigh came from the stands.

"Oh my God, is this the first goalpost?"

"Why are we so unlucky?"

"Young Olympic players, can you see accurately? Don't keep staring at the post!"

"Cum into the door! Shoot into the door!!!"

Seeing Shao Jiayi hit the post, everyone on the coaching bench also had a look of regret.

Zhang Xiaorui even shook his head and said bluntly: "It would be great if we could add an extra free kick."

In the 81st minute, Zeng Zheng played the last substitution card and replaced Zhang Yuheng with Li Yi, who could no longer run.

Zhang Yuheng was almost limping when he came off the field.

It was not until mid-June that Zhang Yuheng, who had barely escaped from the lawsuit, was called up by Zeng Zheng for the first time.

Coupled with the injuries sustained in the car accident, Zhang Yuheng's physical condition has been at the bottom of the team since then.

Now I have lasted for 80 minutes in the main game, which can be regarded as persevering to the end.

Li Yi came on stage with Zeng Zheng's tactical mission.

When Zhang Yuheng is on the court, most of the attacks on the two wings are aerial strikes;

Now that Zhang Yuheng has been replaced by Li Yi, who is more delicate with his feet, the final pass must be passed to his feet.

In the 82nd minute, Shao Jiayi made a low pass from the middle. Zhao Jun broke into the penalty area and pushed his foot again.

Although Li Yi was able to outflank Li Yi, he was still destroyed by the opponent's defender.

Even so, this attack by the National Olympics also scared the opponent into a cold sweat.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Two minutes later, the Olympic Games will make a comeback.

This time, Shao Jiayi made a pass from the left wing. The ball bounced off the outside of the Chilean player's foot and then redirected into the penalty area. Zhang Ran, who followed, swung the ball forward.

When others thought he was going to pass the ball, he suddenly moved forward and decisively took a shot.

The Chilean goalkeeper, who played brilliantly in this game, saw the situation and dived forward, once again blocking the National Olympics' shot from the bottom line.

"Oh my god~~~This goalkeeper is really...sigh today!"

"Is this Chilean goalkeeper on drugs? Is he so brave?"

"Oh, no wonder Coach Zeng hates being in a position of power but not scoring. It's really painful to watch!"

"We have been attacking for so long, but we haven't scored a goal."

"Even Zhang Ran shot. I'm going to be very anxious later. Maybe the iron rod will kick off as well."

Just as the fans were complaining, Sun Jihai, who had been running for more than 80 minutes, also appeared to have deformed feet.

After the corner kick was taken, it flew directly to the top of the arc in the penalty area. It seemed that there was no chance of a header.

Just when the fans thought that the offense was about to be reorganized, there was a sudden explosion at the top of the penalty area.

Facing the ball flying in the air, Li Tie rushed forward without any hesitation and directly raised his right leg.

Seeing this situation, even Shao Jiayi on the side opened his mouth wide and shouted "No"!!!

But the atmosphere has been heightened to this point, the posture has been set up to this point, and the evil fire that I have been holding back has been vented to this point.

Is there any reason to hold back?

Facing the incoming ball, Baicai, who was wearing No. 6, had his hair flying as if he was electrocuted.

"boom!!!"

Li Tie raised his right instep and hit Sun Jihai's corner kick hard.

Uh-huh!!!

In the air, the ball disappeared in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, even Shao Jiayi, who was very close at hand, failed to capture the trajectory of the ball.

The black and white ball seemed to have been kicked into a wormhole and disappeared into the world.

The next second, the Chilean goalkeeper jumped high and stretched out his right hand helplessly.

But he didn't touch anything, and he fell from the air to the ground.

Behind him, a huge white wave was set off from Chile's net at some point.

People took a closer look.

The ball that was blasted away by Li Tie had already entered the Chilean team's goal at some point.

Uh...the ball went in???

At this moment, even a few people on the sidelines of the National Olympic Games couldn't believe it.

"The ball went in!!!"

Huang Jianxiang, who was the on-site commentator, reacted immediately.

He picked up the microphone, stretched his throat, and roared loudly.

"Ho ho ho ho ho ho!!!"

A shout suddenly erupted above the Sydney Stadium.

After scoring the goal, Li Tie put his arm behind his back, grabbed his neck, pulled it upward, tore off his jersey, and ran to the sidelines shirtless.

"Boss Zeng, I scored a goal, I scored a goal!!!"

On the sidelines of the court, Zeng Zheng opened his mouth in surprise as he watched Li Tie's shooting ability value only reach 29 points.

"Damn it, this is okay???"