World Cup of Great Powers

What is history?

This is called history!

When Zeng Zheng and General Fan walked into the post-match press conference, the media's guns and cannons were immediately aimed at the two.

"Kacha!"

"Kacha!"

"Kacha!"

“Kacha!

"

The flashing lights almost blinded the two of them.

Zeng Zheng pulled up his chair at the competition ground and sat down, as if he were a winner.

Of course, he is indeed the winner.

After the game is over, people will only remember the score, no one will remember what the game was like.

As the loser, Tardelli grabbed the microphone first.

He didn't want to see China's victorious face anymore. He just wanted to fulfill his obligations and leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.

"Our players played very well today and worked hard."

"They even fought hard to the last second, and I'm very satisfied with that."

"But I have to mention that the Chinese team performed extremely ugly in today's game."

"This ugliness is not only reflected in the game, but also in their character!"

"We will directly complain to the Olympic Committee about the humiliating behavior of the Chinese team in the game today."

"It was an ugly game and the opponent got a dirty victory!"

"We Italians will never give up if we don't get a satisfactory answer!"

After speaking, Tardelli threw the microphone on the table and left angrily.

The reporters' flashlights followed Tardelli's leaving figure and stayed at the door of the press conference.

The moment the figure of the Italian head coach disappeared, it suddenly turned to Zeng Zheng.

"You must have many questions about today's game."

"I happen to be in a good mood today."

"If you have anything to ask, just ask."

Hurey!

There was a burst of cheers from the audience.

The losing coach left angrily, while the winning coach talked eloquently.

Just like giving a pillow when you feel sleepy and giving a pillowcase when you go to bed.

What could be more satisfying than a press conference like this?

Reporter: "Coach Zeng, have you thought about using such tactics to deal with your opponents today? Uh...I mean, use Italian methods to defeat Italy?"

"In China, this saying is called 'treat him in return'." Zeng Zheng said with a smile, "According to the rules of the competition, all teams will know their top eight opponents after qualifying from the group. We at the National Olympics do this.

It’s normal to prepare in advance to face Italy.”

Reporter: "Coach Zeng, today the Chinese team obviously had many opportunities to end the game in regular games. Why did you have to drag the game to a penalty shootout?"

Zeng Zheng: "Sorry, in these 120 minutes, I didn't find any chance to kill Italy with one blow. If you find it, you can apply for the position of head coach of the Olympic team."

Reporter: “But more than 60 minutes into the second half, an Italian player had already been sent off with a red card!”

Zeng Zheng: "So what? Who says 11 people will definitely beat 10 people?"

Reporter: "Then I can understand that this is your lack of confidence in yourself and your team members?"

Zeng Zheng: "If I were not confident in the players, then we would not have won the final victory. The current result is that we won, and the victory was achieved when the players perfectly executed my tactics. How can we call it

Not confident?"

Reporter: "So the insulting gestures made by the Chinese Olympic players to the Italian players during the game were also part of your tactical plan?"

Zeng Zheng: "What kind of insulting gesture? Why didn't I see it?"

reporter:"..."

Seeing Zeng Zheng pretending to be dumbfounded, the reporters gritted their teeth.

Didn’t we say that we should know everything we know and say everything we know?

Why are you so confused when you get to a crucial place?

I've already pulled out my gun, and I'm about to put the pillowcase on.

When I opened the package, I saw that you actually gave me a pack of water balloons???

During the entire press conference, apart from praising the victory in the National Olympics and advancing to the semi-finals, Zeng Zheng did not mention a word about the defensive tactics of the National Olympics or Italy's red card.

I told you from the beginning, okay?

This is called using the other person's way to repay the other person's body!

Whatever the Italian team does on the field, we just learn to do it.

So after the game, in addition to some Italian reporters who were filled with indignation, European reporters from Spain, Portugal, England, France, and Germany all looked gloating.

You hunt geese all the year round, and sometimes you are blinded by geese pecks!

...

The news that the National Olympics eliminated Italy and advanced to the semi-finals of the Olympic Games spread all over the world like a spring breeze.

No matter how the game goes, whether Italy plays one less player, whether the two sides play overtime, or whether the winner is decided through a penalty shootout.

Just hearing the words "Italy was eliminated by China", public opinion is basically one-sided.

Italy was eliminated in a head-to-head match by an Asian team?

Could it be that the referee was collecting dirty money?

Or are the Italians fixing the match?

Anyway, the fans' immediate reaction was disbelief.

After the verification, the second reaction was to spit out: You are stupid and stupid, you can't even play the Chinese team!

Although in the previous group stage, the National Olympics also eliminated Matador Spain.

But the problem is that Spain's current strength in Europe is simply not comparable to that of Italy, a team that has won three World Cup titles.

Fans recognize that Spanish football is indeed growing and developing, but it is still at the youth team stage.

It is normal for the youth team not to be able to beat the Chinese team.

After all, I was the World Youth Championship champion last year, and you were just the runner-up.

So this time Spain and the Olympic Games played a 2-2 tie in the group stage, and the fans felt that Spain had made progress!

But what the hell are you Italy?

The Samsung team, which is famous for its 1-0 pragmatism, finally lost to an Asian team in a penalty shootout?

Thanks to you, Serie A is still known as the Little World Cup.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Are you kidding me?!

Under the heavy pressure of public opinion, "Gazzetta dello Sport" urgently published a report titled "Despicable Eastern Team".

The report described in detail the various inert defenses used by the National Olympic Games in the game, as well as the ugly kicking clearance tactics.

It even emphatically described Shao Jiayi's "intentional foul" and "insulting gesture", believing that the Olympic team members were deliberately engaging in an Italian mentality.

In such a competition environment, the Italians, who played less than one player, still maintained a high-spirited attitude and attacked the Olympic defense over and over again with a fighting Olympic spirit, even if they exhausted their physical strength.

In the end, it was precisely because he had very little energy left that he fell in the penalty shootout.

This report directly described the Italian players as the British and French allied forces who fought bravely on the battlefield of World War II and suffered repeated defeats. However, European fans who knew the character of Italians did not buy it at all.

What is "Knowing that you are outmatched and attacking with all your might"?

What does "move forward bravely and die before you die"?

It’s all made up!

Throughout the whole game, especially after Gattuso's red card, you Italian players have been playing in the midfield and back, okay?

Spain's "Marca" even described this game as "the most boring and least motivated game in Olympic history."

The Chinese team is weak, so it is reasonable to want to play a penalty shootout with you;

Isn't it embarrassing for you, a Samsung Italian, to have the same idea later on?

In short, not only did the Italians say something, but they were indeed nailed to the pillar of shame for this Olympic defeat!

The counterpart to "Italy deserves to be eliminated" is "It was lucky to advance to the Chinese team".

Among the Olympic team, only Li Jinyu plays in Turin.

After a series of relegation battles last season, Li Jinyu has become an indispensable player in Turin.

After eliminating Italy from the Olympics this time, he once again entered the sights of the top three in the northern Serie A.

The Milan duo still have a bit to do, after all, they have bought countless young attacking midfielders in the past two years.

But Juventus is different.

Now that Li Jinyu has become a well-known star of the Turin team, the old woman naturally becomes interested in the young East Asian player under her nose.

You know, when a giant like Juventus purchases foreign players, in addition to examining the player's ability and team fitness, they will also consider the commercial status behind them.

As for East Asia, which has never been developed, almost all European giants have great interest.

Just like Hidetoshi Nakata who moved to Perugia in the summer of 1998, after helping Perugia avoid relegation, Nakata moved to Roma in January this year.

Now, the "Asian Derby" between Li Jinyu and Hidetoshi Nakata has become the most talked about topic among fans in China and Japan.

Which of the two is stronger or weaker has also become a focus of debate between Chinese and Japanese fans.

With the successful experience of Li Jinyu and Hidetoshi Nakata, more Serie A teams began to pay attention to the Olympic players on Team Zeng Zheng!

Even "Torinospor" published an article about this.

The editor of the article said: "If the Chinese team wins the Olympic championship like Nigeria did in 1996, then I will not be surprised if all the Chinese team members come to play in Serie A!"

For a time, many European teams were gearing up to get a piece of the Olympic team after the Olympics.

...

Ability belongs to ability, honor belongs to honor, and contempt belongs to contempt.

After the National Olympics advanced to the semi-finals, fans around the world were not optimistic that the National Olympics would go further.

There is a reason for this.

First of all, after these few games in the Olympic Games, the overall strength, technical and tactical levels of the National Olympic Games have been seen over and over by the world.

In the end, Zeng Zheng still adopted a defensive approach in the 11-on-10 situation, and was lucky enough to defeat his opponent in a penalty shootout.

Next is the semi-final opponent.

It is the African Lion Cameroon!

After Nigeria was eliminated, Cameroon became the favorite to win the Olympic Games.

When Italy was also eliminated, Cameroon's odds of winning plummeted by almost half.

Except for domestic fans, almost no one thinks that the Olympic Games can take another step forward and cross the mountain of Cameroon.

What's more, the situation of the National Olympic Games itself is not very good.

After the Italian Bamboo Shoes protested and reported, Shao Jiayi, Li Yan and Li Yi's "umbrella" action did not escape the punishment of the Olympic Committee in the end.

The day after advancing to the semi-finals of the National Olympics, Zeng Zheng's coaching staff received a fine from the Olympic Committee.

"Xiao Zeng, is it written above?"

After seeing the penalty letter from the Olympic Committee, Wang Junsheng and Li Xiaoguang were also anxious.

"...The team was fined 100,000 yuan, and each of the three players was fined 30,000 yuan and suspended for two games."

"And the penalty takes effect immediately and no appeal is allowed."

After Zeng Zheng gave a brief introduction, he spread his hands.

"I didn't expect that Italians are quite agile and decisive in this regard. I thought they were just talking."

Wang Junsheng rolled his eyes at Zeng Zheng. He had already roughly understood Zeng Zheng's tactical arrangements.

"If you mess with other team members' mentality like this, how can they not report you?"

"Bamboo mat, I am doing this all so that we can win and advance!" Zeng Zheng raised his hands above his head, "I am loyal to the organization!"

"Okay, okay, I know you are doing it for the good of the team." Wang Junsheng rolled his eyes at Zeng Zheng's exaggerated behavior.

This time the men's football team can advance to the semi-finals, which is a super, super, super overfulfillment task!

You must know that before this, fans just wanted to see the National Olympics score a goal and win a game.

"The penalty is the penalty. What do you mean by no appeal?" Li Xiaoguang on the side was also a little dissatisfied.

"It means that they don't allow us to take advantage of the loopholes in the rules, and they just let these three people bid farewell to this Olympics."

Although his feelings for Li Xiaoguang were not very good, Zeng Zheng still patiently explained.

"According to the rules of international competitions, after a player is suspended, the team will file an appeal as soon as possible."

"During this appeal period, the penalty will not take effect, so the players can still participate in the game."

"Most of the results are that this competition is over, and the players' penalties are still implemented, but they have been carried over to the next competition."

"So this time the Olympic Committee just doesn't want us to take advantage of this loophole, and just let Xiao Shao and the other three bid farewell to the Olympics early."

When everyone heard this, they were suddenly enlightened.

Wang Junsheng nodded, then frowned and said, "Then do we still have enough people for the next game?"

"Of course 11 people are enough." Zeng Zheng shrugged, "But there are basically no substitutes."

So far in this Olympics, the National Olympics has been full of injuries and judgments.

After Zhang Yuheng completed the operation, he was already wrapped in plaster and returned to the team on a stretcher;

Zhao Junzhi's knee injury was also wrapped in a bandage and was protected by Zeng Zheng.

Sun Jihai, Li Weifeng, Zhang Xiaorui and General Fan all have some minor injuries. Although they can play with injuries, Zeng Zheng must always monitor them carefully for fear of something unexpected happening to them on the field.

Coupled with the suspension of Shao Jiayi, Li Yi and Li Yan, the next semi-final will be against a strong team like Cameroon. It will be surprising if the National Olympics can win!

"It doesn't matter, we have advanced to the semi-finals anyway! No matter what, we are all heroes in this Olympics!"

Wang Junsheng took a deep breath and made a conclusion for the men's football team competing in Sydney this time. "After returning home this time, everyone will be rewarded, big rewards!"

When everyone present heard this, they all showed smiles of satisfaction.

Only Zeng Zheng curled his lips.

Ever since he dated Miss Qian, he always felt that these people were spending his family's money.

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