In both time and space, there is a word called "Koreanphobia".
This word has the same meaning in both time and space. It refers to the fact that after returning from the national football team to the AFC and joining the FIFA family, when encountering the Korean team in official games, they have been unable to win against South Korea.
It's just that the specific times of the two time-spaces are somewhat different.
In the time and space that Hu Lai is familiar with, Koreanophobia started in the 1978 Bangkok Asian Games qualifiers and ended in the 2010 East Asian Cup when the Chinese team led by Gao Hongbo defeated the Chinese team 3:0.
The Korean team with the strongest lineup.
Although they still lost more than they won against the South Korean team in official matches, at least they did not have the embarrassing record of not winning a game for thirty-two years - in the top 12 of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers,
When the relationship between China and South Korea was at its most tense, the Chinese team still defeated the South Korean team 1:0 at home. This time it did not embarrass the country and did not let down the chain at the critical moment.
But in the time and space where Hu Lai is now, it is very embarrassing.
From the first loss to the South Korean team in the semi-finals of the Asian Games in 1982 until 2023, for forty-one years, the Chinese team has never defeated the South Korean team in an official international A-level competition.
It's so tragic.
However, strictly speaking, "Korean phobia" only refers to the men's football team. There is no "Korean phobia" in the women's football team. Therefore, we cannot actually say that Chinese football has "Korean phobia". We can only say that the Chinese men's football team has "Korean phobia".
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Switching to the women's team, in a normal confrontation, both sides will win or lose. A statistical analysis of historical data will reveal that, let alone 41 years without defeating South Korea, the Chinese women's football team has not even lost five consecutive times against the South Korean team - they have lost against the South Korean team.
His winning streak is only four games.
On the contrary, the Korean women's football team has a record of twelve consecutive games without victory against the Chinese women's football team.
If there is a disease, I am afraid that the Korean women's football team once suffered from "Chinese Fear Syndrome".
The opening game of the current East Asian Cup can well illustrate that among women's football girls, they don't know what "Korean fear" is.
After Li Qingqing opened the scoring for the Chinese team in the 28th minute of the game, the morale of the Chinese team soared. They scored another goal in the second half and took a 2:0 lead.
Then Yan Encai began to make substitutions and adjustments to train the team.
Li Qingqing was also replaced in the 78th minute.
When she came off the court, the players of the Olympic team stood up and applauded her.
This time Hu Lai also stood up from his seat, finally not letting his father in front of the TV find another reason.
After Li Qingqing came off the field, the TV broadcast even gave her a close-up shot. In the shot, she took the towel handed by the assistant coach and wiped the sweat on her face. Her face was so red that her heroic lines became...
It's softer and more charming.
"In a previous interview, Li Qingqing said that she hopes to one day win the World Cup on behalf of the Chinese team, and her performance today is the best footnote for her words - a goal, an assist, such a performance is fully worthy of
Achieve that great goal!"
The commentator of CCTV Sports Channel praised Li Qingqing's performance.
This made Xie Lan very happy in front of the TV.
When Hu Lixin saw her like that, he said: "Don't be too happy too early. If you are not happy by then, you will be very disappointed!"
"No, it's her!" Xie Lan said firmly.
Hu Lixin was really speechless: "Even if she is the coach woman, she is still her daughter. What does it have to do with you? Do you think that Hu Lai and her have an unusual relationship?"
“Of course it’s not ordinary!”
"Why?"
"intuition!"
Hu Lixin rolled his eyes and stopped talking. He couldn't make sense with this woman.
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After Li Qingqing came off the field, the Chinese team's midfield control dropped significantly and was suppressed by the South Korean team.
In the end, we lost a goal.
But we still got a good start with a score of 2:1.
In this East Asian Cup women's football match, apart from the Chinese team, the only ones strong enough are South Korea and Japan. Now the Chinese team has won the first match and defeated the South Korean team. The only opponent blocking their way forward is the Japanese women's football team. This is also
The most powerful opponent of the Chinese team.
If the Chinese team can defeat the Japanese team, they will definitely win the championship - because they cannot lose to Chinese Taipei.
But it is not easy to defeat the Japanese team. The Japanese team is the defending champion of the last East Asian Cup women's football team. Two years ago, they also set a record: they won all available championships in two years, including the Women's Asian Cup.
, Women's Asian Games, U19 Women's Asian Cup, U16 Women's Asian Cup.
In addition, the Japanese women's football team won the World Cup eight years ago.
It can be said that although Japan launched women's football later than China, their progress has been astonishing, which is also due to their "Century Plan" that initially sounded like a joke.
Now at the level of women's football, Japan has surpassed China and become the dominant player in Asia.
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Although the Chinese women's football team won a good start, their level of attention is far less than that of the men's football team.
Even though everyone usually criticizes the men's football team, once there is a men's football game, it still attracts more attention.
Especially this game is between the Chinese team and the Korean team.
With just one day left before the game, a hot topic appeared on the Chinese Internet.
The incident involving the Korean team in the Kirin Cup has also been retold, and coupled with the interview Park Kyuhyun gave before this East Asian Cup, the taste is very sour.
Those who lament the misfortune of the national football team will naturally criticize the Korean team for being despicable and unsportsmanlike.
Those who are angry at the national football team for not competing say, "Look, if we lose, the enemy will point at our corpses and say we are slaves."
What makes Chinese fans even more sad or angry is that even if our opponents humiliate us like this, we may still not be able to take revenge.
After all, this time, Shi Wuyin didn't even bring Guan Xinyan.
If you don’t bring the team’s top scorer, do you still want to win?
What are you daydreaming about?!
At the same time, a theory began to circulate on the Internet: The reason why Shi Wuyin did not take Guan Xinyan with him was because of Hu Lai.
This player who scored 11 goals in the Chinese League One last season was the top scorer of the Flash Stars last season. Shi Wuyin was very optimistic about Hu Lai's future and even hid Guan Xinyan in order to give him a chance to train.
If this were the case, it would be considered normal, just ordinary conspiracy theories. There are not even 1,000 but 500 such rumors on the Internet every day. Besides, Hu Lai's performance in the Chinese League last season was real, with eleven goals.
It's not blown out.
But it just so happens that this "Hu Lai" is the guy who used to talk wildly, sensationalize, and even find the media to write soft articles to troll the fans!
The nature is different...
"I wonder why this kid is so crazy...it turns out he has the support of his godfather!"
"Huh, I don't know how much money I paid to the leaders of the Pig Association in order to join the training team..."
"Chinese football is really screwed up. They have found such a clown to represent the country... ugh!"
Of course, there are also people who try to explain to angry netizens that Hu Lai is not a vain person and that he has real skills. However, in such extreme emotions, the voices of one or two people have no effect at all, or they will be called Hu Lai.
Lai's navy was either directly covered by firepower and drowned in saliva.
In this way, it was just speculation at first, but later it became a reality that Hu Lai joined the U22 national team through money and connections.
evidence?
There is no evidence, but everyone is saying it anyway, so it must be true!
Besides, how can this kind of insider trading be easily traced? Neither party is stupid. So regardless of whether we want evidence or not, everyone has sharp eyes! If such a person can enter U22, that’s not true.
What is the reason for insider trading?
Some logic wizards said that although there is no definite evidence that there was a private exchange of interests, there is also no definite evidence to prove that this did not happen!
Rumors are rampant... Even Guan Xinyan is a little suspicious that Director Shi has not told the truth to him. On the surface, he said that he would stay in the club and play in the Chinese Super League and accumulate experience. In fact, it was really to make way for this guy named Hu Lai...
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Of course, Guan Xinyan is just a little suspicious. Without real evidence, he will naturally not go to question Shi Wuyin or team leader Ran Jiachang. But from now on, he will definitely care about the person who "replaced" him and will keep an eye on him.
, look at how much this person weighs.
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As soon as Xie Lan arrived at the office, she found that the atmosphere in the office was different today. She always felt that there were eyes staring at her, but when she looked over, the eyes staring at her disappeared.
This feeling made her very uncomfortable, as if everyone in the office knew some of her secrets, looked at her curiously in private, and even talked about her, but she was the only one who didn't know why.
She walked to her desk, put down her bag, and looked around.
Then it was confirmed that everyone was indeed looking at her, but they did not dare to look at her, and would look away if she caught their eye.
Moved it very deliberately.
At the end, Xie Lan saw Sister Wang in the office. When she saw her looking over, she did not avert her gaze, but said with a smile: "Xiao Xie, what did I feel sorry for in the past? You sir have a lot of regrets."
Forgive me..."
This is wrong. The smell of a gun and a stick is too strong.
Xie Lan is also a veteran in the sex industry. How could he not feel the thorn in Sister Wang's words?
She and Sister Wang had never dealt with each other. They had quarreled several times in the office in front of everyone. They didn't like each other. When Sister Wang said such things to her, it was just out of spite.
"Sister Wang, look what you said...if you have anything to say, just say it directly, why do you have to be so roundabout?" Xie Lan replied with a smile on her face.
"Then I'll just say it... Actually, it's okay. I just see that you guys seem to have a good relationship with the Chinese Football Association. You can even put your own son in there. I just want to ask if you can put my son in there too."
Just go in..."
The smile on Xie Lan's face froze: "What has a good relationship with the Chinese Football Association?"
"Oh, Xiao Xie. This is what's wrong with you. Your son has already joined the national team through connections. Do you still want to pretend to be stupid? My son also likes football..."
Your son likes crazy football, I have never mentioned it to you...
Who said my son got into the national team because of his connections?"
Because of the broadcast of the People's Chronicle program, basically everyone in the office knew that Xie Lan had a son who was a professional player, and they were also more concerned about Hu Lai's daily news.
Sister Wang handed her mobile phone to Xie Lan: "Hey, look, isn't it clearly stated in this article?"
Xie Lan took it and took a look. It was a public account article with a shocking title: "Shocking! The youngest Olympic player was selected because..."
The main text says that there is something fishy behind Hu Lai's ability to become the youngest player in this Olympic training team.
However, the author of this public account did not say what the specific trick is. Anyway, there is a trick. Otherwise, why would this 19-year-old player be selected for the U22 national team? Logically speaking, even if he performs well in the league, he should be selected.
He went to the U19 national team, which is the National Youth Team, so why did he come to the U22 Olympic team?
The author also explained to readers in the article how special it is to skip a grade and be selected into the team, in order to prove that Hu Lai was selected for the Olympics.
Xie Lan read the article twice and saw no evidence that Hu Lai had a close relationship with the leaders of the Football Association, so he returned the phone to Sister Wang and said with a smile: "Just saying
It's just unbelievable. I haven't seen any evidence. Sister Wang, you are making too much fuss. If you think my family has something to do with the Football Association because of this, you should watch more football and improve your football knowledge. You
I didn’t know much about football before, but now that my son has been playing every match, I can see at a glance that this article is nonsense.”
Sister Wang's expression was not very good: "Where is the nonsense?"
"Of course it's nonsense. Is it incredible to be selected for the National Olympics at the age of nineteen? That Zhang Qinghuan, my son's teammate in Flash Stars, was selected for the national team at the age of eighteen! Is he also related to the Football Association?"
"Zhang... Qinghuan?" Sister Wang's expression was obviously confused.
Seeing this, Xie Lan chuckled: "Look, Sister Wang, you don't even know who Zhang Qinghuan is, so let's not discuss football..."
After saying that, she waved her hand as if to signal Sister Wang to step back. She stopped talking to him, took out the thermos cup from her bag, and turned around to get boiled water from the water dispenser in the corridor outside.
Just after walking out of the office, her face instantly turned gloomy.
She noticed that the number of posts on the public account seemed to have increased to 100,000, which showed that the article had spread very widely.
I might be able to explain to people in the office that their family has no trust in sending their son to the Olympic team, but what about people elsewhere?
With so many people across the country, can I explain it one by one?
Just looking at these numbers, you know that there must be many people who have the same idea as Sister Wang.
She knew that her son had been scolded a lot online during this period because of his declaration of winning the World Cup, but now this conspiracy theory is different from a simple personal attack.
Xie Lan, a veteran in the sex industry, even wondered if his son had offended someone, so he was fucked.
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In the restaurant of the hotel where the Chinese Olympic team stayed, Xiao Xiao brought a plate of food to the table. As soon as he sat down, he turned his head, then lowered his voice and said to everyone in a mysterious tone: "Hey, listen.
Did you say it? The Internet said Hu Lai..."
Before he finished speaking, Guo Junfu interrupted him: "You also believe those nonsense on the Internet, Xiao Xiao?"
Xiao Xiao looked at the serious-looking captain and realized that if he didn't answer this question well, he might offend someone.
So he quickly shook his head: "No, no, only idiots believe that kind of rumor! I thought you didn't know, and I wanted to tell you, but I didn't expect you all knew... Ha!"
Seeing what he said, Guo Junfu's expression softened a little and warned: "Be careful with your words. Don't say some words casually. If the media takes them out of context, it will cause trouble for Hu Lai and our team."
"Yes, yes, Captain Guo, I promise not to talk nonsense and keep my mouth shut!" Xiao Xiao promised, slapping his chest, and then he changed his tone, "But again, in private, Captain Guo. Of course I don't believe it.
How did Hu Lai get into the team? But in the final analysis, wasn't this bullshit thing something he just pretended to be in the first place? If he hadn't talked nonsense about winning the World Cup and given people an excuse, how could he be where he is now?
Those rumors?"
Guo Junfu frowned when he heard this and sighed: "Just think of it as the price of growth..."
"The price of his growth must be borne by our entire team. Tonight is the game against the South Korean team, but what happened to him..."
"Okay." Guo Junfu became serious again, "Stop talking, the more times like this, the more united our team must be."
When Xiao Xiao saw that the captain was on Hu Lai's side, he didn't say anything. He lowered his head to eat, but he was thinking in his mind: Well, if the team's performance is not good this time, the blame will be taken... That's okay.
We should get scolded less.
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Ran Jiachang, the leader of the Olympic team, shook his head and sighed: "This kid Hu Lai is really annoying..."
Now he is in the room of the team's head coach Shi Wuyin, discussing with him how to deal with the public opinion that started to ferment last night that Hu Lai was admitted to the Olympic team because of his connections.
"You can't blame Hu Lai for this." Shi Wuyin defended his players. "A rumor can become the so-called truth if it is forwarded by a few big Vs on Weibo. I can only say that there are too many idiots on the Internet."
"Of course we know this is a rumor, but many people on the Internet don't know. I think we should issue a statement..." Ran Jiachang suggested.
But Shi Wuyin rejected it: "I won't send it now. We will wait until after the game against the Korean team."
Ran Jiachang understood immediately: "Draft a statement based on the results of the game?"
Shi Wuyin nodded: "You definitely can't use the same wording for losing and winning. If you lose, your attitude should be a little lower and as brief as possible. If you win..."
Ran Jiachang laughed: "This is the home court of the Korean team. If we can draw, I will consider it a win!"
The Chinese team has not been able to defeat South Korea in international A-level events for 41 years. Can they win tonight? What's going on?
After team leader Ran Jiachang shook his head and left Shi Wuyuan's room, assistant coach Li Zhifei, who had been sitting silently in the corner, stared at Shi Wuyin and said, "Are you thinking again that this is a good test for Hu Lai?"
Shi Wuyin shook his head: "This is not the test I wanted. It is beyond the scope of what he can handle. But there is nothing we can do about it. We can only hope that he can survive it on his own."
"You can take him out of the starting lineup." Li Zhifei said. "That way even if we lose, it won't have much to do with him."
"No... I want those who doubt him to see his ability. If I don't let him play, then he won't even have a chance to prove himself in the face of overwhelming doubts."
"But if he performs poorly, those rumors may be confirmed...The Football Association's statement may then be meaningless."
Hearing what his assistant said, Shi Wuyuan fell into silence for a while.
After a while, he said: "Call him here, I'll talk to him, let's hear what he has to say first."
