South African President Zuma, FIFA President Blatter, Chinese Ambassador Zhong Jianhua, and Chinese Football Association Chairman Yan Shiduo sat at the VIP table together. Zuma was in the middle, accompanied by Blatter and Zhong Jianhua, and Yan Shiduo sat in Blatter's seat
around.
The CCTV reporter accompanying the Chinese team on the trip was given a 5-minute exclusive interview time before the game. The interviewees were national team assistant coach Fan Zhiyi and player Zhao Xuri. Lao Gao and Wang Ai did not appear on the scene this time. Lao Gao had difficulty speaking, so Lao Gao was asked to speak.
Come on, Wang Ai wants Zhao Xuri to exercise.
Fans all over the country always look at him, and he is afraid that everyone will get tired of watching him. Besides, he no longer needs to appear in front of the audience all the time to increase his popularity. The Chinese market has already tapped out all the people in his category, and no matter how high his reputation is, he will not gain much.
More, but his brothers need to show their faces more.
Wang Ai didn’t care what was discussed. In the locker room after the pre-match preparations, he was even reminded by Old Goer: “South Africa is the host country and is still strong. It may not follow the rules. You have to be careful not to get injured. This is different from Asia.”
And your European professional league situation is different."
Wang Ai nodded seriously. The host country has always been braver and can get a certain tolerance from the referee. African teams are not very disciplined, so they have to be careful.
The South African team's uniform today is yellow, while the Chinese team chose red. The style of the jersey has improved a lot compared to before. It no longer looks like the baggy school uniform. Although it is not even close to the best, it is still an improvement.
few.
Under the guidance of the staff, everyone walked out of the locker room and lined up separately. There was a whistle in front, and everyone was "welcomed" by tens of thousands of singing and dancing South African fans. They also heard several Chinese shouts. It turned out that there were about two thousand people.
Many Chinese people also came to the scene, most of them were organized by Chinese-funded enterprises in South Africa, and only a few came from China.
Travel expenses are too high, and Chinese people in this era are not used to traveling across oceans in large numbers to cheer for the national team.
The two sides lined up and played the national anthems of the two countries respectively. Then the Chinese team in red jerseys walked past the South African team in yellow jerseys and shook hands. Then the captains of both sides guessed. Wang Ai won without making any mistakes and asked for the right to serve.
The hands on the spectators' watches slowly moved to 16:00 in the afternoon. The referee in black gave a whistle, Wang Ai pushed his foot, and the silver and black football rolled to Bai Guanghai's feet.
The sound of "Wow, wow, Uralala" rose in the stadium.
The one-and-a-half-foot-long vuvuzela first appeared in the South African stadium! It was only from this Confederations Cup that South African fans noticed this amazing loudspeaker, and it will be carried forward in next year's World Cup: Noisy
The national teams of all walks of life cannot hear the instructions and cannot sleep!
The high quality and low price of Chinese products coupled with the lung capacity of South Africans will force future fans to prepare headphones when watching games.
Fortunately, at this time, only about one percent of the fans in the stands had prepared for this, and most of them still swayed and sang together, showing the happy nature of black people to the fullest.
After the opening, no matter how excited the fans of Taishan were, the players of both sides behaved more cautiously. Most of the players stayed in their own half and retreated quickly once the opponent launched an attack. Through tactical battles again and again, the players of both sides and
Coaches are also adapting to opposing players and coaches.
In the first five minutes, neither side formed a threatening offensive, and repeated organization and destruction in the midfield constituted the mainstream.
Gradually, both sides gained an intuitive understanding of their opponents.
From the perspective of the South African team players, the Chinese team is physically strong, has accurate passing, and has good coordination, but does not have much fighting spirit; from the perspective of the Chinese team players, the situation of the South African team is generally the same as what was observed before the game, with good individual skills and rough coordination.
, runs fast and recovers quickly, but his physical confrontation ability is surprisingly average. The South African team suffered a loss in the few rare collisions, not even against strong men like Wang Ai and Zhao Xuri.
Lao Gao watched for a few minutes on the sidelines and turned around to sit on a chair. Li Bing whispered: "How do you feel?"
Lao Gao didn't turn his head and replied in a low voice: "That's it."
High in the stands, South African President Zuma was speaking, accompanied by the Chinese ambassador. Blatter, who was tired of watching football, looked relaxed and chatted with the smiling Yan Shiduo through the translator Kang Si.
How the Chinese team performs in this year's Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup will directly affect the bid for hosting rights in 2018 or 2022.
The game went on for a few more minutes. Yuan Weiwei was tripped by the opponent while defending and was in some pain. The team doctor rushed to the scene. His teammates came over and exchanged opinions urgently while the team doctor was treating him.
"How come these people are like antelopes, they are light and can jump." Zheng Zhi complained.
"Hmm." Wang Ai put his hands on his hips: "Brother Zhi, do you think we should pass more passes to mobilize them so that they tire out early, or should we engage in positional warfare?"
Chen Tao and the others also looked over. In their minds, the boss was certainly a well-deserved captain, but he was more of a spiritual leader and a pioneer who destroyed cities and villages than a commander.
Zheng Zhi frowned: "Combine the two, let's try to mobilize them with more passes in the midfield, and you have to seize the opportunity in front. What do you think, Brother Bai?"
Although Lao Bai was ridiculously bald, he became serious at this time and thought for a while: "I'm standing still, little Wang, please run more."
By this time, Yuan Weiwei had already stood up, and everyone knew what was going on and dispersed.
When the ball kicked off again, the Chinese team's playing style changed quietly. If the Chinese team was testing the game in the first few minutes, then it became more targeted based on understanding the situation.
Chen Tao's position retracted appropriately, Zhao Xuri and Zhou Haibin moved closer, Zheng Zhi advanced appropriately, the distance between the four midfielders became closer, and the two full-backs Zhang Yonghai and Guo Liang also moved closer one after another. In addition, Wang Ai's position also changed from
Retreat appropriately from the top of the penalty area.
The football began to be passed intensively at the feet of the Chinese team. Although there were many mistakes, such as being destroyed by the sudden interception of the nimble South African players, the overall style of play became clear.
On the contrary, the South African team did not make any obvious changes. It still played with the same individual agility and collective stupidity. Even if the steal was successful, it was quickly counterattacked by the Chinese team. Brazilian coach Santana even sat firmly on the coaching bench.
No commands were issued.
Yan Shiduo's smile at the top of the stands grew stronger, and his conversation with Blatter became more confident.
At this moment, at ten o'clock in the evening in Beijing, the big leader who was "advised" by Wang Ai not to stay up late all the time and to take care of his health was also holding a tea cup with a smile and "stubbornly" watching TV and live broadcast with a group of people.
Ten o'clock is not the middle of the night, so it doesn't count as staying up late.
This chapter has been completed!