World Cup of Great Powers

"I have always had my own standards for selecting personnel."

Before the Chinese youth team left, Zeng Zheng finally held a press conference that fans across the country loved to see.

"Which player is suitable and which player is not suitable."

"I look at his performance on the court, not his reputation in the media."

"I think you don't want me to bring a bunch of film and television stars to the Asian Youth Championship, right?"

The reporters burst into laughter after hearing this.

Although Zeng Zheng gave an explanation, it was not what they wanted to hear.

Why not bring Gaoming.

Where did that four-character brother come from?

Can it be explained by just one "on-court" performance?

But it’s true.

Play football!

What are you looking at if you don’t look at the performance on the field?

Depends on family background?

In short, Zeng Zheng only had these 20 people.

As for why we brought them, let the results speak for themselves.

On November 9, Yang Jun, Wang Ke, and Sun Xinbo were ultimately defeated due to overlapping positions.

Three coaches, Zeng Zheng, Tang Pengju and Chen Jingang, rushed to Yinlang and Tehran with 20 other middle and youth players.

In this Asian Youth Championship, the Chinese Youth Team is in the stronger Group B with South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Yinlak.

For the Chinese Youth Team, the most threatening opponent is the old enemy South Korea.

The first group match between the two teams has naturally become the most hotly discussed topic among fans since Jianglong won the FA Cup.

Whether "not winning against South Korea" can really be transformed into "not losing against South Korea", fans are looking forward to it.

...

"Latest news from xx agency: The Chinese youth football team competing in the Asian Youth Football Championship (U19) arrived safely in Tehran at 0:10 a.m. local time on November 10 and stayed at the Rahel Hotel designated by the organizing committee."

For these young team members, it is the first time for some of them to go abroad.

As soon as I got off the plane, my two wide-eyed eyes looked around.

"This is Tehran? It's not as good as my hometown county!"

"Nonsense, don't even look where this is! This is West Asia, not Europe."

"I heard that Yin Lang does not allow female fans to watch the game. Is it true?"

"If even a fly in the stands is a male, then what's the point?"

Along the way, the team members were chattering outside the window.

When we arrived at the Rahel Hotel, our face was filled with disappointment.

This is an old five-star hotel with not very good conditions.

Five teams including South Korea, Little Days, Yinlak, Thailand and China Youth Team all live here.

The Chinese Youth Team lives on the sixth floor.

Perhaps this is the first time this hotel has hosted such a team, and the organization was quite chaotic.

The team members have already carried their luggage and walked out of the elevator.

But because there were still some guests who had not checked out and left, they had to stand in the corridor and wait for the staff to knock on the door one by one.

In addition, the dining situation is also quite chaotic.

When all the members of the Chinese Youth Team arrived at the restaurant the next day, they sat there for half an hour with nothing to eat.

Because the conditions are quite difficult.

After resting for a few hours, the team members got up one after another and prepared to participate in training.

After sitting in the restaurant for half an hour and having a bite of something, the whole team got on an old and dilapidated bus and drove towards the training ground with a bang.

"Damn it, what kind of conditions are these? Did this car just finish pulling animals?"

The smell inside the car is strong, and the smell outside the car is not small either.

Open the car window and dust and sand will blow into the car from time to time.

In this case, it is better to close the window.

"Let me tell you, you are lucky enough."

Zeng Zheng was sitting in the middle of the bus, talking like an old gentleman.

"I think back when I was in Brazil, there weren't even buses, only passengers."

"When I go to training in the morning, I can only pull half of the people at a time. After I finish pulling, I have to drive back to the base to pull the remaining half."

"This time, the first batch to arrive can train for more than an hour."

"It's the same at night."

"The first group of people had already washed their underwear after they returned, but the second group of people were still scratching their baskets on the yellow sand and gravel!"

Since there were no women in the car, Zeng Zheng joked unscrupulously.

Listening to Zeng Zheng talking about these past events and dirty jokes, the team members gradually became cheerful.

It happened to rain in Tehran on the day the Chinese Youth Team arrived.

The weather is cold and windy.

The bus drove for more than half an hour and arrived at the outfield of Azadi Stadium, which was the training venue for the Chinese Youth Team on the first day.

But the organizing committee's arrangements for the training ground are obviously in chaos.

Take a shot and move to another place.

When they went to train the next day, the Chinese youth team was moved to a stadium called Homa.

Since the game time is at 1 p.m., the internal matches of the Chinese Youth Team are also held at 1 p.m.

After two days of simple adaptation training, Zeng Zheng was still very satisfied.

No injuries or acclimatization.

Although food and accommodation are a bit difficult, luckily we can overcome it.

On the evening of the 11th, as soon as the Chinese youth team returned to the hotel after training, they met staff sent by the AFC.

After Tang Pengju gestured with the other party in half-baked English for a long time, he finally arrived at Zeng Zheng.

As soon as Zeng Zheng took action, all problems were solved.

Seeing Zeng Zheng being able to converse with foreigners in fluent foreign languages, these young men in their 18s and 19s all had stars in their eyes.

Except for Yan Song and Qu Bo, few others in the team can speak English.

"Coach Zeng, what's going on?"

Seeing Zeng Zheng return, Tang Pengju immediately asked.

"Check your age."

Zeng Zheng replied casually, "Didn't it be found out that U16 had falsified their age a few days ago? This time the AFC held a special meeting and must investigate this matter strictly."

"How to check?"

"Check them one by one!"

In this way, the Chinese Youth Team first submitted the English information of all members.

Then the staff will call the team members into the room individually and conduct verification one by one.

This set of procedures is cumbersome, extremely time-consuming, and often leads to misunderstandings that cannot be explained clearly.

These staff members not only required the team members to report their date of birth, but also required them to report their school, graduation certificate, etc.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Soon, more than an hour passed.

When Chen Tao walked into the room, everyone's eyes were focused on his face.

"This kid is... 15 years old?"

"What's the matter, Commissioner Vardy? The AFC stipulates that overage cannot be exceeded. I should be fine at my young age, right?"

"Young age? This is too low!" Wadi muttered.

Even if the other teams are younger, they are at least sixteen or seventeen.

But Chen Tao directly lowered it to a lower level!

"What's wrong? He also participated in this year's U16 competition."

Zeng Zheng said casually, "At that time, I saw that he was much better than his peers, so I promoted him to U19."

After carefully proofreading twice more, the staff finally let Chen Tao leave.

After all the team members were compared, the staff slowly headed to the floor where the next team was located.

It is said that it was already midnight when the last team member was inspected.

For this reason, Yin Lak's players almost started fighting with this group of AFC staff.

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"Good morning, viewers. What we are broadcasting now is the first game of Group B of the 31st Asian Youth Championship."

"China versus South Korea, I am the host Liu Jianhong."

"We can see that athletes from both sides have lined up to enter the stadium."

"As early as April, the new Chinese youth team led by head coach Zeng Zheng overcame all obstacles in the qualifiers and qualified for the finals of the Asian Youth Championship as the first in the group."

"As the defending champion of the last Asian Youth Championship, what kind of answer will the Chinese Youth Team submit in this Asian Youth Championship?"

"let us wait and see!"

"South Korea was eliminated by the Olympic team led by coach Zeng in last year's Olympic qualifying competition."

"In the just-concluded Asian Cup, we suffered another disastrous defeat 0-8 in the group stage."

"Although they advanced to the semi-finals in the end, they were still slightly inferior to the Chinese team that won the Asian Cup."

"At the press conference before the game, Zeng Zheng, head coach of the Chinese Youth Team, directly stated that he was confident enough to defeat his opponent."

"And South Korea's coach Cho Yong-zhen is also worried about whether his record of "invincible" will continue in his hands."

As the referee blew the whistle, Li Tianxiu gently handed the ball to Cui Duixu beside him, and directly inserted into the formation of the Chinese Youth Team.

Qu Bo and Yan Song also took the lead, rushing into the local formation and pressing their opponents in the midfield.

Seeing the overall movements of the Chinese youth team members, Zhao Yongzhen's frown never relaxed.

Since South Korea lost so many goals to the Chinese team in the Asian Cup, South Korea has rotated a large number of players from top to bottom.

He came to Tehran with the "Tai Chi Little Tiger" this time, and he also had a mission.

Qualifying from the group and entering the World Youth Championship are secondary.

The most important thing is to defeat the China Youth Team and let the shadow of "Korean fear" hang over the heads of the Chinese national team players again.

So after the game started, the South Korean players fought hard and attacked fiercely.

But it rained in Tehran a few days ago, and the weather has been very cold these days.

After arriving in Tehran, many East Asian teams were either acclimatized or suffered from mild colds.

Even after pre-game warm-ups, the players' bodies were not completely warm at the moment.

Weather and disease are secondary.

The most important thing is that the Chinese Youth Team moves as a whole and always maintains a compact formation, which is what gives Zhao Yongzhen the most headache.

Needless to say, the formation is compact during defense, but the defenders can also keep up with them in time during offense to maintain the integrity of the formation.

Especially in the two stages of transitioning from offense to defense and from defense to offense, the midfielders will immediately turn back and run to keep up, connecting the whole team together.

The reason a team performs like this is not because of how clever the head coach's tactics and formation arrangements are.

The key is that the overall quality of this team has reached international standards.

So what Zhao Yongzhen is thinking about now is not the quality of these players and how Zeng Zheng trained them, but why the Chinese team was able to select so many high-quality players.

This is the biggest gap between China and South Korea at present!

At present, the characteristics of South Korea are still very obvious.

As an old rival, Zeng Zheng easily resolved his opponent's three aggressive attacks in the opening moments while talking and laughing.

Soon, the game entered a tug-of-war for the midfield.

Zeng Zheng likes to ask the team to control the midfield, which is something that coaches across Asia know.

But knowing is knowing.

How to crack it, every coach does it differently.

Like South Korea, which has never been afraid of the Chinese team.

The method Zhao Yongzhen adopted was to use the abundant physical fitness of the South Korean players to engage in repeated battles with the Chinese team for positions.

In the 13th minute, right back Park Ji-sung suddenly dribbled the ball faster.

After passing through two people, he inserted diagonally into the hinterland of the Chinese Youth Team from the side.

Sun Xiang and Dewey teamed up, one got stuck and forced a stop, the other stepped up to stretch his legs.

The two cooperated perfectly and intercepted the ball in just an instant.

After successfully stealing the ball, Dewey immediately pushed along the sideline and passed the ball straight to Xu Liang in front.

This anchor, who was later known as "Xu Keham", received the ball, took a big step, and dribbled the ball forward. His speed was no less than that of Park Ji-sung who had just made a breakthrough with the ball.

The Chinese Youth Team switched from defense to attack very quickly, cutting off South Korea's formation in an instant.

Fortunately, South Korean defender Quan Caiyun desperately chased back and kicked the ball out of the boundary with a tackle, defusing the Chinese Youth Team's quick counterattack.

After Xu Liang avoided the opponent's spikes and landed on the ground, she yelled at the referee to express her dissatisfaction.

This is already the third time since the opening.

According to Zeng Zheng's tactical guidance, both Xu Liang and Yu Tao took advantage of the gap created by the opponent's full-back and quickly hit the opponent's back to form a counterattack, attacking the opponent's two wings.

Judging from the current results, the results are good, and the South Korean central defender can be forced to make aggressive defense every time.

But the problem is that so far, the referee has not shown a yellow card to the South Korean players.

The referee's inaction also caused the South Korean players to move more and more widely.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing this, Tang Pengju behind Zeng Zheng was already angry.

"Fuck, I must collect information after the game and report it to South Korea!"

When screening overage players, the AFC staff played a clever one-on-one match with South Korea: the AFC greeted South Korea in advance in an inadvertent way, and South Korea also muddled through in a way.

Land safely.

Because of this, Park Ji-sung, who was originally born in 1980, directly became a teenager born in 1981 in this cup.

"it does not matter."

"Let's just give way to South Korea."

"Why, if Park Ji-sung is too much for us, we won't be able to win, right?"

Seeing Zeng Zheng's confident expression, the excited Chen Jinjiang and Tang Pengju gradually calmed down.

yes!

We have Coach Zeng here, so what are we afraid of?

Park Ji-sung’s abilities are beyond words.

Zeng Zheng's countermeasures against him were also very simple.

The first one is Xu Liang's attack just now.

If you dare to provide an assist, I will dare to hit you behind you during the counterattack, so that the next time you want to run forward, you must consider whether your teammates can fill your gap.

The second one was very rough.

You can pass one of us, or you can pass two of us, but don't ever dream of passing the third one of us!

So far, Park Ji-sung is still active on the court because he has not yet encountered the "third defender" who has shown his true strength!

Just like when Sun Xiang and Dewey successfully teamed up to defend, Park Ji-sung, who was in possession of the ball at that time, was already at the end of his strength.

Just adjust the position a little, then stretch out your foot and break the ball, and the ball will come down.

If he wanted to force a breakthrough just now, either Dewey or Sun Xiang would make him understand why the flowers are so red!

In the 18th minute, Dewey once again successfully intercepted the ball with the help of his teammates, and then sent a long pass to the accelerating Xu Liang.

Seeing Du Wei's precise long pass guidance, the three assistant coaches nodded in unison.

He is tall, has bounce, header, and good footwork.

The Chinese team hasn’t produced a central defender with such potential for a long time!

"It's just that I'm a little thinner." Tang Pengju curled his lips, looking a little picky.

"It's okay, it's okay. When I get back, I'll eat more beef and do more strength training. It'll be fine in a few years." Chen Jingang took a very open-minded view.

Ordinary families these days are not old enough to eat beef every meal!

This time, facing the fourth rapid counterattack of the China Youth Team, the South Korean offensive players who stayed in the frontcourt did not speed up the pursuit.

We successfully defended it the first three times, but this fourth time it was inevitable that we were a little slack.

At the same time, Xu Liang stepped on the line with both feet and kept moving forward to play the ball.

Jin Dongjin gritted his teeth and moved desperately toward Xu Liang along the inside of the field.

He is 183cm tall, but he can barely run at the same level as Xu Liang, who is dribbling the ball.

Seeing that the bottom line was right in front of him, Jin Dongjin began to consider whether to put Xu Liang down here directly.

Looking at the billboard that turned into a shadow beside Xu Liang in the camera, Liu Jianhong's calm voice sounded from the microphone again.

"Xu Liang dribbled the ball at high speed along the wing..."

"There is no team member beside him to respond to him..."

"Go to the bottom! We are about to reach the bottom line..."

Just when all the fans at the scene were speculating whether Xu Liang would make a fake dunk at the baseline, use emergency stops and changes of direction to control the ball, and buy time for his teammates who were interfering.

Zeng Zheng, who was on the sidelines, suddenly shouted: "Pass, pass the ball!"

pass?

Where to send it?

Everyone on the coaching bench craned their necks and looked at South Korea's empty penalty area.

No one is following?!

On the court, just when Jin Dongjin felt that Xu Liang was about to slow down, Xu Keham actually took a step forward again.

"What is he going to do?"

"Direct cross?"

"No more waiting for his teammates?"

Before Jin Dongjin could react, his body subconsciously stretched out his foot.

But it's still a step too late.

Xu Keham's left foot suddenly grabbed the underside of the ball, creating a beautiful arc and spinning the ball in the opposite direction of the goalkeeper.

Did he pass the ball?

All the South Korean players chasing after them stared at the ball flying in the air with their eyes wide open.

As the camera moves toward the goal.

At this moment, a white lightning shaped like a lake suddenly rushed into the lower right corner of the camera.

In the penalty area, Guo Taihui, who is 1.85 meters tall, just picked up his feet and prepared to head the ball to clear the ball.

The next second, the white lightning rushed in front of him and jumped up high. Using the inertia after the run-up, he directly knocked the ball into the net.

In front of the goal, Park Dongsu stood there stupidly, not reacting at all to the goal.

“The ball...went in!

"Liu Jianhong shouted lowly.

After seeing the scorer's number clearly, he raised his voice again.

“The goal was scored by young player Qu Bo!

"

Looking at Qu Bo, arms raised high, flying around the field.

Zeng Zheng snorted: "This brat is going to take off!"

"Oh, I finally arrived at your home court today!"

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