World Cup of Great Powers

"The Chinese team is a magical and tenacious team."

"We underestimated the Chinese team."

"They definitely qualify for the World Cup finals!"

At the post-match press conference, Qatar's head coach was not stingy at all.

In the game that just ended, his team did have a chance to score a point on the road, and even had a chance to deny the home team a point.

But all this eventually came to nothing under the waves of Qu Bo's world.

Since the "sniper" effect has not been achieved, it is better to let go, say some nice things, and build a good relationship with the Chinese team.

Zeng Zheng, who won the victory, once again confirmed the title of "Magical Coach" in front of the home fans.

Unfortunately, the news came the next day that the Iranian team also won.

As a result, even if the Chinese team has 19 points with 6 wins and 1 draw in 7 games, it cannot guarantee early payment.

The fans who were stranded in Shencheng also left sadly after learning the news.

It's always a pity not to be able to celebrate qualifying at home.

Even so, fans still have great confidence in Zeng Zhenghe's team.

Because no matter what, second place in the group has been firmly determined.

Even if you don't finish first in the group, you still qualify for the play-offs.

Therefore, fans of this World Cup are more tolerant than previous World Cups.

"Hey, how many points do we have? We have to wait until the last session and qualify early, okay?!"

"Yeah, we haven't lost a single game in 7 games, and as a result, we still haven't secured qualification. We are too unlucky, aren't we?"

"What happened to those three teams? Why didn't they even win a single victory?"

"It seems like it's not that the Iranian team is too strong, but that the other three teams are too weak!"

"I guess we played too hard and kicked the three of them out early, which is why these three teams were not in the mood to play."

"Hey, no matter what, we can beat Iran at home and away from home!"

"Yes, we must believe in Coach Zeng and these national players!"

This year is really outrageous.

The three teams of Thailand, Qatar and Bahrain did not pose any threat to the Chinese team or the Iranian team.

Currently, the Iranian team has one game less, with a record of 5 wins, 1 loss and 15 points.

As long as they defeat the Chinese team at home in the next game, they have every chance of ranking first in the group and directly qualifying for the Japan-Korea World Cup.

From this point of view, the Chinese team's schedule is too disadvantageous.

And this last top ten game has also become the focus of the battle that determines the life or death of the Chinese team.

Fortunately, the initiative is still firmly in the hands of the Chinese team.

"As long as the next game is a draw, the Chinese team will be 100% guaranteed to advance!"

On the day Zeng Zheng boarded the plane with his team members, the "Beijing Daily" ran such a headline.

If it's a tie, you'll qualify!

What a beautiful vision!

But the question is, is this draw really easy to win?

"There's nothing to say. My teammates and I have been preparing for this 'final' for a long time."

"In the last game left, I promise to give full play to the team's maximum strength."

"Win the Iranian team in one fell swoop and qualify for next year's World Cup as the first in the group!"

"Here, I would like to thank fans and media friends across the country for their support."

"Just wait for the good news of our return victorious!"

"I have only one goal, and that is to reach next year's World Cup!"

"Kill~~~~!!!"

Zeng Zheng's roar at the screen also demonstrated his determination to fans across the country.

Since Zeng Zheng became the head coach, he has led the team to win so many championships.

This time, the fans still chose to believe!

After the plane left, Zeng Zheng's departure speech was also published by the media in their own newspapers.

Seeing Zeng Zheng's heroic momentum, the fans' confidence has also increased a lot.

Since Zeng Zheng came to power, domestic football has developed and grown at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Whether it is the youth training, the league, or the players studying abroad in Europe, or now the development of the Northwest.

Zeng Zheng, the club and Bamboo Shoes took the lead in achieving the goal of revitalizing Chinese football in an all-round way.

Nowadays, if we can enter the World Cup with an undefeated record in the top ten groups, doesn't this mean that Chinese football has made long-term progress?

To this end, "Football Night" also specially produced a program on Zeng Zheng's album.

It started when Zeng Zheng was appointed in critical situation and miraculously led the team to enter the World Cup in France.

Asian Games, Asian Youth Championship, World Youth Championship, Olympic Games, Asian Cup, Confederations Cup...

Along the way, the Chinese team with Zeng Zheng was reluctant to win awards.

Ou Chuliang, General Fan, Zhang Minghua, Li Weifeng, Li Tie, Li Jinyu, Zhang Xiaorui, Zhang Ran, Yang Chen, Xie Hui, Zhang Yuheng, Zheng Zhi, Qu Bo, Su Maozhen, Xiao Wangtao, Shao Jiayi, Zhao

Junzhe, Du Wei, Xu Liang...

From old to new, the national team has reached a new level while completing the upgrading.

From defeating the fear of South Korea, destroying the fear of South Korea, to infecting Japan and South Korea with fear of China, then kicking Saudi Arabia, punching Iran, taking revenge on Qatar, and then fighting against other powerful countries on the continent such as Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil, and France.

Zeng Zheng not only led his team to dominate East Asia and conquer Asia, he also had the qualifications to challenge the world.

After watching the two-hour documentary, many netizens expressed their opinions online.

"Along the way, under the leadership of Coach Zeng, I never expected that the Chinese team has undergone such a big qualitative change!"

"The Chinese team, which couldn't even win the Asian Games championship before, has now won the Confederations Cup. It's really unbelievable!"

"From the youth team to the adult team, it has been a hard work for Coach Zeng!"

"Not only the national team, but also with the addition of the Jianglong team, I feel that Class A is also a lot more exciting."

"That's right! A and B are still a little bit behind. But now looking at A, I feel that it already has a lot of European football flavor!"

"It's not like European football, but there are really many European stars coming to play in our league!"

"Now that the domestic football population is increasing, I heard that the Chinese Super League will be established after the World Cup? If this can be as successful as the Premier League, then I won't have to stay up late to watch European games in the future!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "After watching the Chinese team's game, my children also clamored to play football and win glory for the country!"

"Since the next Asian Cup will be held in our country, after hosting the Asian Cup, can we also host the World Cup?"

"Our football is really strong!"

"All of this was brought about by Coach Zeng..."

If the last World Cup was a coincidence, this World Cup is the most powerful one in history!

The right time, right place, and right people.

The Chinese team won all three!

Looking at the plane disappearing into the horizon, countless fans sent them off waving their arms.

There are thousands of words that cannot be expressed, but in the end they are combined into a blessing: "Thank you, Coach Zeng!"

...

Tehran is the capital of Iran, but it has never been a happy place for the Chinese team.

However, since Zeng Zheng took charge, the Iranian team has never defeated the Chinese team at home.

This is also where the confidence of domestic fans lies.

But for Iranian fans, they don't care too much about past results.

Because those are irrelevant or youth team games.

In the eyes of Iranian fans, the scores in the World Cup preliminaries are more worthy of reference.

In the last two World Cup preliminaries, the Chinese team's results were unsatisfactory.

So when the Chinese team arrived in Tehran, in order not to be disturbed by local fans, the embassy sent someone to pick them up and then led the team to settle in an independent hotel.

The Chinese people here also know it.

It's time for the Chinese team to fight to the death.

Therefore, a special hotel was specially arranged for the Chinese players for this game.

"Is this the hotel dedicated to the Chinese team?"

Looking at the dilapidated building in front of him, Zeng Zheng almost swallowed the reception official alive.

Not only Zeng Zheng, but also Jin Chi showed dissatisfaction.

"Li Ding, you must give me a reasonable explanation!"

Facing Ma Kesi's questioning, the reception official also looked helpless.

"Captain Ma, there is nothing I can do!"

"There are indeed hotels with better conditions in Tehran, but didn't we ask that we rent one..."

"It's right to contract it! But just to contract it? It's not like we won't pay him!"

Li Ding said helplessly, "Money is not an issue. There are a lot of sponsorships from Bamboo Shoes. But the problem is that the local residents in Tehran still support their team at this point..."

Li Cheng didn't finish his words, but everyone knew what the other party meant.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, Zeng Zheng also spread his hands, "In other words, the money we gave is not enough!"

Before the expressions of the people in front of him changed, Zeng Zheng continued, "In that case, let's just score more penalty kicks and that's it!"

"Aren't these Persians hospitable?"

"Then don't blame us for turning our backs on guests!"

Hearing Zeng Zheng's "wild words", Ma Ke had a sneer on his face.

"Li Ding, don't worry, Coach Zeng has such a temper."

"Hey?! Where is that! I just like Coach Zeng's character, or I won't become his fan!"

Compared with the accommodation conditions in the first three away games, Tehran's hotel facilities are too old and the food situation is also worrying.

Just looking at the food served on the table, few in the team could eat it.

Fortunately, the team randomly brought a lot of instant noodles, pickled mustard, canned food and condiments, and the food the team members ate was not completely nutritious.

“It’s so hot, there’s no air conditioning!”

"Did you see the mark on the wall? They must have temporarily removed the air conditioner. They are deliberately making us sick!"

"If it's hot, just say less, no one will treat you as a mute."

Hearing the complaints from his roommates, Li Jinyu turned over helplessly.

"This is pretty good! If I had come a month ago, how hot would it be? Just think about Doha!"

indeed.

As we enter October, the weather in Tehran has become a lot cooler.

But with such accommodation conditions, coupled with the high temperature every now and then, everyone prayed that it would be cooler on the day of the game.

On October 13, the bus was surrounded by Iranian fans before it even saw the stadium.

Although I couldn't understand the other person's bird language, judging from his expression, it was obviously some kind of angry curse.

"We don't look welcome!" Yang Chen secretly looked out through the gap in the curtains.

"It's just a courtesy!" General Fan laughed, "Our fans in Shenyang didn't bypass them!"

"Damn it, they're pretending!" Zhang Xiaorui suddenly shouted.

Everyone looked out through the opened curtains and saw a group of Iranian fans pointing four fingers at the Chinese players.

4?

what does this mean?

"Are these B's members of some kind of cult whose teaching is to cut off the thumb?"

"Fart! What they mean is that every man here can marry four wives! Fuck, four wives, can you handle it?!"

After hearing Li Jinyu and Zhang Xiaorui's idiotic remarks, everyone immediately hid aside.

Obviously, these Iranians did not join some kind of cult and had their thumbs cut off, nor did they mean that men here can marry four women.

But they are saying that they want to score four goals for the Chinese team!

“It’s the same old Iranian routine!”

Zeng Zheng sat in the front row, sipping tea leisurely.

"Every time I come, they always show me these four fingers."

"No innovation at all."

"When we get off the bus, let's hold out four fingers and see what their reaction is."

Everyone laughed.

Just at the beginning of the year, Zeng Zheng defeated his opponent 4-0 here.

As the bus moved slowly, the outline of Azadi Stadium gradually appeared in front of everyone.

The original name of Azhar Stadium is Al Yamehr Stadium, which translates as Light of the Aryans. This is also the title of the last king of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

It sounds quite high-end, but when translated into Mandarin, it means that there is a place called "Puyi Football Stadium" outside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing.

Very rustic!

As the driver slowly stepped on the accelerator, the bus began to climb up the hill.

As the stadium gate gets closer and closer, there are more and more fans, and the speed of the cars becomes slower and slower.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If Yazhu Lian hadn't been watching from the side, these fans would have just surrounded the bus to prevent the Chinese team from entering.

So far, the Chinese team has not lost in the World Cup preliminaries.

They also defeated Iran at home.

As a result, if the Iranian team wants to make a comeback, it must win the Chinese team at home.

So this game is not only a life and death battle for the Chinese team, but also a life and death battle for the Iranians!

Fans in Tehran began to cause trouble for the Chinese team from the first day they arrived.

From accommodation to training, from eating to traveling, I have been harassed by local residents of Tehran.

The local government won't care about this kind of thing at all.

In their words, this was a spontaneous act by the people, and at most they would send a few ineffective police officers to evict them.

But in the end, even these police officers joined in the harassment, making the Chinese team grit their teeth with anger.

But so what?

In other people's territory, you'd better keep your head down and behave like a human being!

The appearance of Azadi Stadium is like an inverted bowl, built on an artificial hillside.

This earth slope is like the shell of a stadium, and the slope is also decorated with patterns with Iranian characteristics.

Go up the hillside to reach the upper stands of the stadium.

The tunnel under the ramp is the entrance to the lower stand.

From here on, there are levels.

As the bus slowly moved up, most of the fans were stopped here.

But there were still some "high-end" fans gathered around the bus and continued to disgust the Chinese players.

"No need to peek outside!"

Zeng Zheng complained, "You guys are real too!"

"Knowing that there is a pile of cow dung outside, you still keep peeking."

“I really don’t know where I learned this habit from!”

That being said, what the Iranian fans did is really disgusting.

Just when everyone took a deep breath and wanted to completely put the interference of the opponent's fans out of their minds, a familiar singing voice suddenly came from the window.

"How many years have we been together, enduring wind and rain!"

"Flowers fall, flowers bloom, there will be a time. Keep your head up!"

"How many years, pain and injuries turn into vicissitudes of life in the blink of an eye!"

"The ebb and flow, the sadness and the ups and downs are all because of the splendor!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaorui hurriedly opened the curtains.

As far as the eye can see, a blaze of red comes into view.

"What the hell?! They're our fans!"

"Look, everyone, they are our fans!"

The fans outside the window saw the curtains being opened one by one, and sang even more enthusiastically.

"We wait for that day!"

"The day of victory!"

"We wait for that day!"

"The day of victory!"

"We wait for that day!"

"The day of victory!!!"

This is a rock song specially arranged by Zang Tianshuo for this national team before the top ten games, called "That Glorious Day".

Before almost every game, all major TV stations will broadcast it.

After a few months, not only the players are familiar with it, but the fans are also familiar with it.

In the crowd, the team members saw many familiar faces.

Traveling all the way across mountains and rivers, wherever the Chinese team goes, these lovely fans will follow them!

After seeing the players waving, Rossi took off his iconic cowboy hat and waved to the players as well.

This group of lovely Chinese fans formed a protective shield on the outside, surrounding the bus and isolating it from those hateful Iranian fans.

At the same time, Zeng Zheng also stretched his neck out of the car window and shouted: "China team, come on!"

"China team, come on!" the team members shouted in unison.

"Team China, come on!!!" the fans echoed loudly after singing.

"The Chinese team must win!"

"The Chinese team must win!!"

"The Chinese team must win!!!"

The Chinese team members, who had looked gloomy just now, were swept away by the bursts of slogans, and their fighting spirit was high.

Zhiqa~~~

Bang!!!

The person on the bus swayed, and the moving car suddenly stopped.

"What the hell, Master, what's going on?"

As a coach and translator, Zeng Zheng asked immediately.

"Sorry, there is a small problem with the car." The driver with a big belly turned around and looked at Zeng Zheng with disdain.

"The car stalled."

"Everyone, please get out of the car."

"You can walk the rest of the way by yourself!"

Looking at the VIP entrance not far away, and looking at the mustached driver with snickering eyes, Zeng Zheng understood everything at once.

At this moment, he wanted to pick up the laptop in his hand and slap him hard in the face.

"Fuck you!"

"You are cruel!"

"OK!"

"Let's go!"

Zeng Zheng extended a civilized finger at the other party, and then took the lead to get off the bus.

With the help of security and fans, the players lined up in a row and walked for about ten minutes before arriving at the VIP gate.

When the last team member entered the passage, the misfired bus suddenly made a series of engine sounds.

Amid the cheers of local fans, he gracefully turned around and drove in the direction he came from.