"...Don't underestimate the Philippine team. Through large-scale planning of European players, they have now become a force that cannot be ignored in Southeast Asian football. Therefore, the last group match of the national football team is definitely not like some
As easy as people think..."
When Hu Lixin heard the voice coming from the speakerphone of his wife's cell phone, he couldn't help complaining: "Are you still paying attention to the Philippines?"
"Isn't it going to be a life-and-death battle with them soon?"
"A battle of life and death?" Hu Lixin was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "It really feels like that."
"What does it smell like?" Xie Lan turned around and asked curiously.
"I used to watch the national football team and I was scared."
Xie Lan shook his head: "That's still different. Now the life-and-death battle is because of the last round of the group. In the past, every game of the national football team was a life-and-death battle."
Hu Lixin was speechless for his wife's serious and serious answer. He felt that what the other party said made sense.
But he thought for a while and then said: "But originally this game should not be a life and death battle."
"Then there is no way, who made us stretch our hips in the first round of the group stage? I heard on the Internet that if we fail to qualify for the Asian Cup group stage this time, Dong Jianhai will be fired. Alas..." Xie Lan sighed at this point
Take a breath.
"Why are you sighing?"
"It's a contradiction. I don't know whether I should hope that their team can qualify or not..."
"..."
Xie Lan continued: "Nowadays, people on the Internet are scolding Dong Jianhai, saying that he beat a good king to a pulp. They also said, 'For such an important game as the Asian Cup, the Football Association should send a tiger to lead the team. Shouldn't it be sent?
The tiger general should also find a dog, but they sent a pig... I feel that if he continues to coach, we might not be able to qualify for the next World Cup... Some people have launched a petition online, thinking
We need to let Shi Wuyin come out and take over..."
"What are you thinking? It's impossible for Shi Wuyin to come out again, otherwise he wouldn't have retreated in the first place." Hu Lixin shook his head.
Xie Lan was looking forward to it: "Why not? He can't bear to watch the team he led fall to this point?"
"Because even if he returns to coach the national team, he may not be able to do better."
"You know what?" Xie Lan retorted.
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"Yeah, the online petition asking you to go back to coaching has more than 200,000 signatures..."
The wife showed Shi Wuyuan her cell phone.
Shi Wuyuan only glanced at it and then lowered his head to read his book.
"You really don't think about going back? In fact, I don't care..." the wife said again. "You have been at home with me long enough in the past six months..."
Shi Wuyuan closed the book and looked at his wife: "I plan to go to Europe after the Spring Festival."
"Why are you going to Europe?" My wife was a little surprised.
"Go to Europe and visit their clubs to learn and recharge your batteries."
"Then come back and coach the national team again?"
"Then I'll come back and find a club to coach. I can't always stay at home and not go out to work, can I? I'll sit back and eat in vain..."
His wife interrupted him and asked: "Club? Are you really not going back?"
"Well, I won't go back." Shi Wuyin spoke softly, but in a firm tone. "This team needs to have higher pursuits and goals, and I can't bring them to them."
"But aren't you going to Europe to study?"
Shi Wuyin smiled: "The little I learned is not enough. Besides...what do you think of my performance in the World Cup?"
"Awesome." The wife gave her husband a thumbs up.
"But I have been regretting it for the past six months."
"Regret? You led the team to remain undefeated... Lao Shi, you are so funny. If you say this out loud, people will think you are deliberately making fun of you!" My wife laughed, as if she had heard something funny.
joke.
"Two things make me regret." Shi Wuyuan sat upright and looked at his wife with a serious expression. "The first thing is that when we tied with Russia at 1:1, I replaced Hu Lai with Zhou Zijing. I
It shouldn’t be done.”
The wife's smile gradually dissipated, and doubt appeared on her face: "Why not? The replacement of Zhou Zijing is to help defense, and at the same time, he can hold the ball in the midfield and delay time..."
"That's the problem, my wife...all I thought at that time was 'we must keep this score and keep the tie'."
"Isn't it right?" asked the wife.
"That's not right." Shi Wuyin shook his head, "It was right at the time. But now that I think about it, I think it's wrong. I was too timid..."
"This..." When the wife saw that her husband would say this, she didn't know what to say for a moment.
"If I'm not thinking about defense, but about offense, and rush out to attack desperately... we may lose this game and cannot guarantee an undefeated result. But we may also gain a victory." Shi
Wuyuan didn't care about his wife's reaction and continued, "This is the first thing I regret. The second thing was the last game against Brazil. When I was 2:3 behind, I replaced Zhou Zijing and Jiang Wanqing at the same time, making a desperate move.
attack……"
"Isn't this right? Because of your substitution, we finally equalized the score." The wife couldn't understand and couldn't wait to interrupt, as if she wanted to defend her husband.
"Listen to me, wife..." Shi Wuyin was a little helpless, "Yes, that's right, we equalized the score. But after that, I didn't let the players continue to attack, but was satisfied with 3:3
The score... No, I even wished that the game would end like this immediately so that we could remain undefeated in the World Cup. At that time, our momentum had completely picked up. If we risked our lives and fought against the Brazilian team... maybe we could really beat Brazil.
, what about reaching the top 16?"
The wife remained silent because she could not refute.
"But all I thought about... was that we couldn't lose. Subconsciously, I took 'remaining undefeated' very seriously. In fact, what if we lost? If we lost, we wouldn't be able to qualify from the group, but we didn't have it in the first place.
There is a way to qualify. On the other hand, if the bet wins, we will really make history. As a result... because of my cowardice, our first World Cup left us with huge regrets..."
The wife comforted her repeatedly: "It's not your fault, Lao Shi. You have done your best, and no one can do it better than you. And after returning to China, you see, everyone also affirms your leadership in the World Cup."
No one was dissatisfied with the results..."
Shi Wuyin shook his head and disagreed with his wife's statement: "Others look up to me because they want to give me face. They don't have the heart to criticize me because I led the team to the World Cup. But I have to be clear... I can actually do it."
Those who can do better are at least likely to do better. I didn’t do it, on the one hand, because of my lack of ability, and on the other hand, it was also a problem of my character. To put it bluntly, I didn’t do it when I needed to take risks.
I dare to take this risk because I want stability in my heart. People like me may have done pretty well when I led the team to the World Cup for the first time. But if Chinese football wants to continue to progress, it is obviously not possible to rely on me. So.
I will not coach the national team again...at least not within the next few years."
After hearing her husband's monologue, the wife was a little shocked: "You have never told me before..."
"Because I have only figured this out recently. Look at this Asian Cup, did the Chinese team perform poorly? Not good. Everyone on the Internet is scolding Dong Jianhai, saying that he is like Mr. Nan Guo, and he is in vain. Those marketing
Almost all the accounts described Dong Jianhai as a despicable villain, as unbearable as possible. They also attributed all the responsibility for the Chinese team's previous World Cup to Dong Jianhai... Is it Dong Jianhai's problem that Chinese football cannot qualify?
?The only problem with Dong Jianhai is that his tactical thinking and team leadership concepts are no longer suitable for current football and Chinese football..."
Shi Wuyin shook his head: "Don't look at the fact that there are now more than 200,000 people petitioning for me to return to the national team to coach, and they dare to say all kinds of sensational things. If I really go back, once the results of leading the team are not satisfactory, I will be the same as now.
Just like Dong Jianhai. I am not the savior of Chinese football. I can’t be it and I don’t want to be. Chinese football doesn’t need a savior. It just needs to follow the scientific concept of development and go one step at a time. Don’t doubt that it’s gone just because of the ups and downs of results in one competition.
This is the way to go...that's enough."
The wife lowered her head and looked at the joint petition on her phone. In just ten minutes, the number of participants had exceeded 300,000.
There are also all kinds of tearful messages in the comment area of the voting.
Something like:
"I will never give guidance in this life!"
"Shi Guidance YYDS!"
"Only Shi's guidance can save the national football team!"
"Without guidance, the national team will be like a long night!"
…
She looked at these passionate words, thought about her husband's confession just now, and sighed.
I wonder how these people would feel if they knew that the national football hero in their hearts claimed to be a coward...