Although he failed to win the "China Cup" championship.
But the Chinese team's performance in the game still won everyone's praise and recognition after the game.
This is definitely not the previous practice of "digging for gold" or "having a happy funeral".
But it is genuine and worthy of recognition.
Facing Croatia, which is ranked 16th in FIFA, the Chinese team insisted on its own style of play and was not restricted by the opponent to display its own style.
The Chinese team in the past was not like this at all.
If you are good at passing and controlling, you can still play well when facing a weak team. Once you encounter a strong team, or a team with similar strength to yourself, and are pressed and pressed by the opponent, you will immediately not know how to play.
Everything I learned during training was instantly forgotten.
Even his basic skills seem to have disappeared. He can stop the ball ten meters away, and he can pass the ball from close to the opponent's feet.
Don't dare to take the ball, don't dare to break through, and don't dare to shoot. If you pass more than three consecutive passes, you will lose it.
This is a sign of lack of confidence, lack of experience, and lack of ability.
now.
But now this Chinese team lacks neither confidence nor experience, and its capabilities have been greatly improved compared to before.
More importantly, their mental attributes have greatly improved compared to many years ago.
It’s not so easy to panic when something happens.
So even though Croatia was very strong, the Chinese team still dealt with them tenaciously.
After conceding two goals first, they fought hard until the 87th minute and finally got one back.
After Hulay attracted the attention of almost all the Croatian defensive players, he passed the football to Chen Xingyi, allowing Chen Xingyi to score a goal with almost no one marking him.
After getting back a goal, the Chinese team continued to attack fiercely, hoping to draw the opponent and drag the game into overtime.
But in the 94th minute, Croatia took advantage of a corner kick to kill the ball.
Although they lost, no one blamed the Chinese team, but instead praised them.
In the last twenty minutes of the game, the Chinese team was full of momentum and played beautifully. The Chinese fans in the stands cheered one after another, and the cheers were louder and louder.
After the game, some fans said this online:
"Just the performance in the last twenty minutes alone, even if they lose this game, I believe no one will be dissatisfied. Because they have tried their best! Croatia is ranked 16th
The team!”
This sentence has been praised by many people.
However, not everyone within the national team agrees with this view.
It's just that the first person to express his opinion was a bit unexpected.
"At least I'm not satisfied."
In the national team group, it was Luo Kai who said this.
"I don't agree with those who think that Croatia is ranked higher than us, so it doesn't matter if we lose. We can't win Croatia, which is ranked 16th, how can we beat Spain and Italy, which are ranked second? If we lose
It’s natural to give it to these two teams, and it’s natural that we can’t qualify in the group. But the problem is, I don’t want to go home after playing in the group stage.”
Luo Kai is a taciturn person in the team. He is very important on the court, but his presence is not high off the court.
He doesn't have many friends in the national team - compared with the "social butterfly" Hu Lai, he can be regarded as a "lonely person".
He won't express his opinion on many things.
So no one expected to be the first to stand up and make self-criticism this time
The person turned out to be him...
So after Luo Kai said it, no one in the group spoke for a while. Some people were shocked by Luo Kai's words. They didn't know how to answer him, or they didn't expect that these words came from Luo Kai's mouth.
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"***! What has Luo Kai been stimulated by?" Chen Xingyi complained in their small group.
"What they said is true. Are you satisfied with the result?"
What do you mean?" Zhang Qinghuan asked.
"I'm just kidding, I'm not satisfied either. But Luo Kai was not like this before. I thought I would hear what he said from Lao Wang's mouth.
What about the words."
Wang Guangwei: "I want to say it in our group, but I still have to save some face for everyone. But being so straightforward is indeed Luo Kai's style. He doesn't have to worry about other people's face, and he doesn't have to think about what he will do after saying this.
What do you think of him?"
Chen Xingyi: "Lao Wang, just tell Luo Kai that Luo Kai is not popular. There is no need to help Duoshui with so many words."
Zhang Qinghuan: "Fuck, little Xingxing, if you didn't say that, I wouldn't have even thought about it."
Xia Xiaoyu: "Hey, where is Brother Hu? Why is Brother Hu silent all this time?"
When he said this, everyone reacted. They had said so much here, but Hu Lai, who should have been the one to show off and act mean, remained silent.
"Yes, where is Hu Lai?"
"@***Stop diving, come out quickly!"
At this moment, someone from their national team finally broke the ice and helped Luo Kai to "save his respect".
"Luo Kai is right. Losing to Croatia has no meaning in comforting ourselves. If we lose, we lose. In the World Cup group stage, we lost to Spain and Italy. Judging from the ranking and strength comparison, it should be normal.
. As long as we perform well enough on the scene, even if we lose in the end, I think the domestic media and fans will still be the same as today. But a loss is a loss. If we lose two games, it will basically be difficult.
He was eliminated from the group. The person who made such a long speech was none other than... Hu Lai.
"***!"
Chen Xingyi did not post this sentence in the group, but he involuntarily made it while holding his cell phone.
Not only him, but at this moment, countless people holding their mobile phones made the same exclamation.
I was shocked and speechless.
What is directly reflected is that in the national team group, no one else answered or echoed.
It became the "duo" of Hu Lai and Luo Kai.
Luo Kai: "I feel that we only broke out in the last 20 minutes, which was a bit late. If we had been able to break out earlier, maybe the goal scored in the 87th minute would not have been the first goal, but the equalizing goal.
At that time, the situation will be reversed. Croatia will have no intention of counterattacking at that time. They will shrink into their own 30-meter area because they are afraid of being scored by us for the third goal. I don’t know if everyone is worried about physical problems.
So you took action later?"
Hu Lai: "Physical fitness is not a problem. It is a problem of mentality. It seems that I can't get nervous until the last moment. It is good to maintain the mentality, but I think there should still be a sense of urgency. Although before the game, the head coach said that we should let
We played the game as a real World Cup, but I think our mentality still did not meet the requirements of the head coach. Of course, the China Cup is indeed not a real World Cup. But in fact, you can think about it, if we scored two goals in the World Cup
What should I do if I fall behind?”
Luo Kai: "In fact, in the last 20 minutes against Croatia, we were able to get a goal back, which shows that we are capable of competing for victory with Croatia."
Hulay: "Absolutely. Our minimum goal this time is to qualify from the group. If we can't even win Croatia, how can we qualify from the group? We have been assigned to the group of death."
Luo Kai: "But it's not easy just to qualify for the group stage. How many World Cups have teams like Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Iran participated in? How many times have they been able to qualify for the group stage? You still have to try your best. Although you work hard
Even if you try your best, you may not succeed, but if you don't even try your best, why should you think about qualifying for the group?
Hu Lai: "In the last World Cup, we were able to see the next world.
This World Cup, it would be too boring to see the world. The minimum goal is to qualify for the group, and the maximum goal is not capped. You can go as far as you can. I think only in this way can it make sense to participate in the World Cup continuously. Of course.
, this is my personal goal. But I hope everyone can work with me to achieve this goal, so that participating in the World Cup will not be in vain. I also know that this matter is difficult, but if we succeed, we will
Make history. If you want to make history, how can it be possible if it’s not difficult?”
Luo Kai: "Yeah."
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"Let me go, Hu Lai was abducted by aliens, right? No... Luo Kai was also abducted by aliens, right?
"
Zhou Zijing held up his cell phone and exclaimed.
Morikawa Junpei asked: "What's wrong?"
Zhou Zijing naturally handed his cell phone to Morikawa Junpei: "You can see for yourself."
Junpei Morikawa also took the phone naturally and looked at the chat history of the Chinese national team’s WeChat group.
When he had finished reading, Zhou Zijing said:
"This is not like Hu Lai's speaking style at all. I even doubted whether he was behind this account. You can see that he didn't make any jokes or act mean during the whole process... To be honest, I first read what he said.
At that time, I had been waiting for him to make some kind of magical turn after saying so much... but it didn't happen until now. The same goes for Luo Kai. The relationship between the two of them is so bad, how can they behave like this in the group?
Did you come here as a like-minded person?"
"No, Zhou Sang." Morikawa Junpei shook his head and disagreed with his statement. "I don't understand Luo Kai, but this is the real Hu Laisang."
"What the hell?" Zhou Zijing didn't understand what Morikawa Junpei meant.
"The Hulesan you are familiar with is actually just a cover-up, a mask he puts on himself. Underneath this mask is the real him, as sincere and dedicated to football as a child."
Zhou Zijing frowned, feeling that this was a bit offensive: "No. Is it a bad thing to be sincere and dedicated to football? Why does he wear an unseemly mask to cover it up?"
"Because being too sincere will hurt others like sunshine."
Just as Zhou Zijing was about to refute, Morikawa Junpei continued:
"Have you forgotten that when Hulesan was interviewed, he said that his goal was to lead the Chinese team to win the World Cup? How the domestic media and fans scolded and ridiculed him at that time?"
Zhou Zijing's mouth that he just opened closed again.
He turned his attention to the screen of his mobile phone again.
Finally, a third person in the Chinese national team’s WeChat group came out to speak.
This is Wang Guangwei.
He said: "Luo Kai and Hu Lai are right. I think we still don't understand the difficulty of qualifying from the World Cup group deeply enough."
"I'm not saying that everyone is not working hard enough. I believe everyone is trying their best."
"But it was just like the last few minutes of the last World Cup game. We all thought we had tried our best and it would be great to draw with Brazil."
"In hindsight, if we had worked harder and restrained ourselves, maybe we could have defeated Brazil? The Brazilian team was obviously panicked at that time and each of us was in such good shape at that time."
"Really, it's completely possible. If we had defeated Brazil at that time, we would have definitely reached the top 16..."
"But unfortunately, I can only think about it now. And every time I think about it, I regret it. We have already created the history of Chinese football, but if we can work harder, we can create an even greater history."
"Four years ago, we didn't have that awareness. Now, since we all have this awareness, let's not regret it again."
A few years later, Japan's NHK TV station produced a special documentary about the golden generation of Chinese football.
In the film, they interviewed many current or retired Japanese players who have deep connections with Chinese football, and wanted to hear how they
A look at the golden generation of football from neighboring countries.
Among them, Morikawa Junpei said:
"Everyone thinks that the so-called golden generation is a group of players of similar age, high level, and outstanding talent that appeared in Chinese football at that time. But I don't think so.
"I think that the golden generation of Chinese football is not a group of high-level players who appeared at the same time, but a group of innocent people with a golden spirit. Their hearts have the quality of gold, so.