World Cup of Great Powers

At the press conference after the game, Zeng Zheng once again became the focus of the audience.

Not only did the Thai head coach congratulate him, but Veerappan, who was at the scene to watch the game, went to the conference room to shake hands with Zeng Zheng.

Zeng Zheng, who got off to a good start, was in a great mood and praised all the players who played.

Every time he answered a reporter's question, there would be countless applause from the audience.

Even in the end, the fans were reluctant to let Zeng Zheng leave the field.

The several contributors to the goal were also surrounded by a group of reporters.

As soon as he broke through the encirclement, he was grabbed by another group of reporters.

During the interview, the players all smiled.

It can be seen that not only are everyone in a good mood, but their self-confidence is also high.

"It's done, it's really done now!"

"Coach Zeng is amazing, he can beat his opponents with 433!"

"Yes, changing formations before a game is a taboo for military strategists. But if coach Zeng uses it, it is Zhuge Liang's clever plan. If you don't accept it, you won't be able to accept it!"

"If we keep playing like this, we will definitely have a seat at next year's World Cup!"

...

"Shengjing Evening News": "The red flag rolled across the Wuli River, and the long tassel tied the blue dragon in the hand - the Chinese team beat Thailand 5-0."

"Southern Evening News": "Perfect start, Chinese team surprisingly won"

"Sichuan Youth Daily": "Wulihe shows its home field advantage"

"New Express": "The Chinese team's temporary change of formation surprised the audience - the charm of change and change"

"Xinmin Evening News": "The amazing coach is not a wasted reputation!"

"Jiulang.com - Thank God, Thank You Zeng Shuai": "Happiness comes too suddenly!"

"Football Weekly": "The national football team won a good start, and Wang Junsheng looked relaxed and smiling."

Firecrackers, red flags, drag racing, blaring horns...

After the 5-0 victory over the Thai team last night, the people of Shencheng took to the streets in unison and released the expectations they had suppressed for too long in various ways.

The results and process of the first game of the last Top Ten Tournament are still vivid in my mind.

Even if the team leads 5-0.

Many fans finally relieved themselves of the burden at the moment the whistle blew.

Won, really won!

Still a great victory without any doubt!

That night, the celebrating fans seemed to have become a family in an instant after leaving Wulihe Stadium.

At various intersections of Youth Street, fans coming out of their homes and fans coming out of the stadium gathered together to celebrate the Chinese team's first victory.

They applauded, cheered, and even embraced without emotion. At this moment, there was no longer any distinction between men and women, young and old, or social status. As long as they were fans, football and victory were their common language.

It is late at night, but joyful songs can be heard everywhere in Shenyang.

A fan from Fujian said that he originally thought the Chinese team would win, but thought the result would be 1-0, 2-1 or 3-1. No matter how bad the Thai team was, they should have scored a goal, right? But the national team won

That's great, Coach Zeng's team is invincible!

More than 200 fans from Hubei said that if the national team continues to play at this momentum, they will definitely go to Japan and South Korea to watch the Chinese team play next year.

The fans were happy, and the Shencheng officials were grinning from ear to ear.

According to the organizing committee of the top ten competitions, this competition has brought at least more than 100,000 foreign tourists to Shencheng.

After four games, Shen Cheng made a profit of at least 1 billion just from selling tickets, advertising, and doing tourism!

After the game, some reporters dialed the home phones of three overseas players and asked them to share their thoughts on the national team's first game.

Xie Ruoshui (Xie Hui's father): "My son said that his biggest regret is not being able to score a hat trick."

Fan Jiuling (General Fan’s father): “I think my son’s performance can score at least 8 points!”

Yang Zhongtai (Yang Chen’s dad): “It was quite easy to win the first game. I think Yang Chen’s performance was not as good as in the previous games. He still needs to get used to it.”

The day after the game, at the official invitation of Jiulang, Zeng Zheng, Chi Shangbin, Yang Chen, and General Fan participated in an official interview.

After asking several questions that fans wanted to know, the host asked the coaches and players to evaluate Zeng Zheng.

Looking at the young man in front of him who was about the same size as a player, Jin Zhiyang sighed: "Coach Zeng is like Copperfield on the football field. I am convinced, really convinced!"

It was only here that Jin and Chi revealed their differences with Zeng Zheng before the game.

The fans also realized that the temporary change of formation was simply Zeng Zheng’s plan.

"It's okay if you don't admire me. Xiao Zeng thinks higher and sees much further than we do!"

"So Coach Zeng, what do you think of the next game?"

Facing the host's question, Zeng Zheng thought for a moment and said:

"Judging from the lottery numbers in this top ten competition, we do not have an advantage."

"But judging from the ability level of the opponents in the group stage, the Iranian team is our final opponent."

"The current tactics of the coaching staff are also very clear."

"That is to win all the games at home and draw at least two games away from home."

"Referring to the points from the last World Cup, 14 points can at least guarantee that the Chinese team will be ranked top two in the group."

"Of course, judging from the strength and performance of the Thai team, it is not ruled out that the Iranian team also has the ability to suppress other teams."

"So, with four home wins guaranteed and two away draws, we will still pursue at least one away win."

"It would be better if this away win is against Iran. If not, it would be better not to conflict with the other two away draws."

Zeng Zheng said a lot, and the host's mind was spinning very fast.

After hearing the end, the host was the first to react.

"That is to say, in the away game against Iran, Coach Zeng has no requirements for the result, right?"

After hearing this, Zeng Zheng smiled and said, "You can't say that. It would be bad if you lose too ugly."

Seeing this, the host couldn't help but ask: "Coach Zeng, then you have never thought about defeating the Iranian team in an away game and then once and for all?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zeng Zheng shook his head.

"This is irrational."

"As the head coach, what I consider is how the team can use the optimal method to maximize the possibility of qualifying."

"Instead of taking it one step at a time, nor blindly asking the team members to work hard to fight a tough battle with the most powerful enemy."

"This is also unscientific!"

"The goal of the top ten is to reach the World Cup."

"On this basis, we should also take into account the actual situation of the players and the team."

"As the host just said, if the team is required to win in the away game against Iran, what is the difference between asking the players to win in all the top ten games?"

"If you really do this, then the extra points will become useless points."

"And I dare to guarantee it."

"At least half of the national players numbered 40 or 50 will not be able to participate in the World Cup next year."

Injuries are always the biggest enemy of football players.

So far, Gao Jianbin, Qu Shengqing, and Li Ming are the most typical examples.

Not only that, people like Yang Chen, Xie Hui, Sun Jihai, and Zhang Xiaorui also had some minor injuries.

These injuries are accumulated during daily training.

It may be cured today, but it may be twisted or pulled tomorrow, and there is no way to cure it.

Based on this current situation, it is obviously not a rational behavior to ask the team to fight the strongest opponent in the group.

After the interview was broadcast, Zeng Zheng's explanation received strong support from fans across the country.

Compared with the previous World Cup preliminaries, which had no brains at all and kept rushing forward, Zeng Zheng's analysis was well-founded and relaxed.

In the words of host Liu Jianhong, this is a good coach who is responsible for the team!

After a great victory in the first game, Zeng Zheng simply changed the roster and returned several players to the club.

The national team recruits 23 players each time, but in fact, only 18 are reported to the organizing committee for each game.

Under this circumstance, Zeng Zheng did not want to "waste resources" and delay the players' personal time.

That's right.

But Zhu Xie went beyond Zeng Zheng and personally called every team member.

Tell them that they have to decide on this matter themselves!

Zeng Zheng had no good solution for this phenomenon.

We can only continue to train players as much as possible so that the Chinese team can truly be full of talents.

...

After the first round of Group A of the top ten tournament, the Chinese team beat Thailand 5-0 at home, while Qatar drew with Bahrain 1-1.

In the second round, the Chinese team’s group opponent was the Bahrain team.

On August 21, Zhu Heyuan, director of the National Administration Department, rushed to the Dabao Hotel to visit the national football players who were about to go on a campaign.

"I hope you all will play well in this first away top ten game and show our good fighting style. On the court, we must wholeheartedly implement the tactics assigned by Coach Zeng. Here, I wish you all good results in advance

!”

Just after 6 o'clock in the morning the next day, Shen Xiangfu, Li Huajun, Han Tao and others knocked on the door one by one to wake up the team members and told them to go downstairs to have dinner immediately and prepare to set off.

At 7 o'clock sharp, the bus carrying the national football players drove towards the Capital Airport in the morning light.

Fortunately for the soldiers of the national football team, although there were bursts of fog rising in the capital yesterday morning, it was indeed much better than the previous two days.

At 1pm, the plane arrived at HG on time.

Since they had to wait three and a half hours to transfer here, the international players started to stroll around the airport after getting off the plane and eating their packed lunches.

The duty-free shop at the airport has directly become their first choice.

Although they were all rough guys in their twenties and thirties, the cosmetics counter of the duty-free shop was crowded with people.

"This is good. My mother will definitely have fewer wrinkles after using it!"

"I saw this on TV, and my girlfriend kept arguing with me about wanting it!"

"Hey, look, after I applied this, did it become a lot whiter?"

Looking at Zhang Yuheng looking pretty in the mirror, most of the players stayed away.

Only Zhang Xiaorui, Zhang Huahua and Wu Chengying came together to discuss the wonderful uses of this cosmetic with Zhang Yuheng.

"Boss Zeng, don't you buy some for Mistress Wife?"

Seeing Zeng Zheng strolling by, the players who were up to something good shouted out.

Zeng Zheng looked at the store sign, smiled and shook his head.

After Zeng Zheng left, the others complained:

"Are you stupid?"

"What level is this lady's wife? Can she use these duty-free products like you?"

“When people want to buy cosmetics, they order them directly from the manufacturer!”

"Maybe those cosmetics factories also have shares in my wife's family!"

In addition to cosmetics, Ou Chuliang, Li Jinyu and others are also picking and choosing in the computer software area.

In the end, everyone bought a stack of CDs and game software and stuffed them into their backpacks.

In other places, such as in front of the perfume display window, in front of the leather goods counter, and even in front of the snack counter, there are also figures of international players wandering back and forth.

At 4:30, the international players boarded the flight to Bahrain on time.

After about 9 hours of flight, the international players arrived safely in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, at about 2 a.m. the next day.

After arriving in Manama, the players discovered that they had been fooled.

After arriving, Zeng Zheng did not ask the team members to participate in the training camp immediately. Instead, he directly gave everyone a half-day vacation and led the team to visit Manama.

Bahrain is the cargo distribution center in the Gulf region, and the market in the capital, Manama, has a wide variety of goods.

Along the way, Zeng Zheng, who had traveled to Manama before, bought a lot of local souvenirs and local perfumes, and even a pearl bracelet from Caizi Bay.

Especially after seeing the big pearls Zeng Zheng specially bought, the team members' eyes widened.

Many people shed tears of regret when looking at the HG duty-free products in their backpacks and their empty wallets.

When he returned to the hotel and faced reporters, Zeng Zheng proudly took out his "trophies" to show off.

At 17:00 that afternoon, Zeng Zhengchai led the team for the first training session.

"Cheer up for me."

"If anyone is still thinking nonsense, I will prevent you from playing!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Don't you want big pearls?"

"How about this."

"After the game, I will rate all of you who played."

"Whoever scores the highest score will take home the big pearl."

"If you want to give it to your parents, give it to your parents. If you want to give it to your girlfriend, give it to your girlfriend. If you want to give it to your lover, give it to your lover."

"What do you think?"

"Oh ho!!!"

On the court, the players' cheers rang out.

...

"Since German coach Wolfgang took over the Bahrain team in October last year, the Bahrain team has undergone radical changes."

"The most surprising thing is that the Bahrain team lost the individual performance component that is common among West Asian teams and began to rely on overall cooperation and advancement to compete."

At the coaching staff meeting, Zeng Zheng introduced the situation of the Bahrain team to everyone.

Everyone thinks that Han Tao is responsible for collecting information before the game.

But since becoming Zeng Zheng's "secretary", Han Tao has never done this job.

Even he didn't know where Zeng Zheng found out these miscellaneous news information.

Everyone has a laptop, and they use it to browse foreign websites.

The only current difference between Zeng Zheng and Zeng Zheng is that Zeng Zheng is proficient in multiple languages ​​and can browse websites from any country without any hindrance.

This is one of the reasons why Zeng Zheng is more successful than other coaches.

"At present, the main lineup of the Bahrain team is basically the team from the last Olympic Games."

"You know the National Olympics, it's the same team we played two years ago."

"Who still remembers what the score was?"

Whoosh!

As the youngest, Han Tao stood up under the gaze of everyone and said loudly: "5-1 at home, 2-0 away, we won both games, with a goal difference of 6!"

Hearing Han Tao's answer, Zeng Zheng nodded with satisfaction and motioned for him to sit down first.

After some ideological struggle, Han Tao finally chose the latter due to the dilemma of supporting the construction of his hometown team and increasing his World Cup qualifying and World Cup resume.

In Zeng Zheng's words, going to the World Cup is to better build the hometown team.

"What about our past history with the Bahrain team?"

Han Tao stood up again and answered loudly:

"In the 1986 Asian Games group stage, we won 5-1 Bahrain; in the 1988 Asian Cup group stage, we won 1-0 Bahrain; in the 1992 Olympic qualifiers, we won 3-0 Bahrain; in the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games group stage, we won 3-2 Bahrain.

"

Speaking of this, Han Tao also took the initiative to ask: "Boss Zeng, does the youth team game count?"

Zeng Zheng shook his head, "You don't need it for the youth team."

"Oh, that's it."

Seeing Coach Zeng shaking his head, several old men present who participated in the U16 in 1996 breathed a sigh of relief.

At that time, in the U16 Asian Championship, they lost to their opponents 0-6.

In the room, the coaches carefully studied the historical battle data listed by Han Tao.

Since we have always won, and we won on the road in the last game, the possibility of winning this time is not small.

The only thing to pay attention to seems to be the new German coach Zeng Zheng mentioned.

"In terms of formation, the Bahrain team is mainly defensive and plays 541."

"This is also the biggest guarantee that they can draw 1-1 with Qatar in their first away game."

"We don't rule out that the Bahrain team wants to use this top ten game to train and then become a troublemaker."

"If they use this formation in every game and aim for a draw, it will be a headache for every other team."

"Coupled with the 'tacit understanding' among the countries in West Asia, we do not rule out the possibility that the Bahrain team will try its best to play against us, or deliberately let loose when playing against the Iranian team."

"So, we are trying to win this game with a draw."

"And as for the team members, I will try my best to choose those from the original Olympic Games."

"Okay, do you all have anything to add?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Chi Shangbin, who had made rare preparations before the game, raised his hands and said:

"Coach Zeng, I have a question."

"Coach Chi, please speak." Zeng Zheng said smoothly like a teacher teaching a student.

Chi Shangbin adjusted his glasses and looked down at the report in his hand.

Then he read word for word: "Saadi, the forward of the Bahrain team and the team's top star, once scored 5 goals in the first round of the group stage and is the top scorer of the Bahrain team."

"Should we take the initiative to defend this player?"

After saying that, Chi Shangbin put down the materials in his hands and looked at Zeng Zheng seriously, waiting for the "teacher"'s reply.

Hearing Chi Shangbin ask such a question, Zeng Zheng smiled slightly.

"Coach Chi, this is a good question."

"The star player of each team may be the core of his team's tactics."

"Especially an offensive player like Sadie, who has strong scoring ability."

"When facing this kind of player, it is really necessary to set up special defense."

"But."

Zeng Zheng changed the subject.

"Considering that the opponent is the Bahrain team, this player is a local star in Bahrain."

"Then my conclusion is to treat him as Chitisa Sanaman."

"Oh, yes, that's right."

"That's the captain of the Thai team."

"We will treat this Sadie the same way we treat him."