When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half after two minutes of injury time, many Qatari fans in the stands let out a sigh of relief...
They even felt that the referee should not even give two minutes of injury time, and it would be better to blow the half-time whistle in the 45th minute.
Because they were really worried about the Chinese team taking a three-goal lead in the first half.
After Hulei scored twice, the morale of the Chinese team became even higher. In stark contrast, the players of the Qatar national team seemed to not know how to play football.
This Qatar national team has many foreign players who were naturalized from Qatar at a high cost.
The personal strength of these foreign players is better than that of the original Qatari players. With them as a team, the Qatar national team participated in the 2022 World Cup held in the country.
Although as the host nation, they were eliminated after the group stage. However, many Qatari fans and media still have high hopes for their future.
It is the mission of this team to participate in the World Cup finals for two consecutive years.
But now, they are two goals behind the Chinese team in the most critical game...
The on-field performance of these naturalized players greatly disappointed Qatari fans.
Although the use of naturalized athletes in various sports has become a "traditional performance" in Qatar's sports world, for example, in track and field, Qatar started naturalizing it very early. The first Asian 100-meter athlete to run under ten seconds
He is also a naturalized athlete from Qatar. However, although this person represented Qatar in the Asian Games, ran under ten seconds and won the 100-meter gold medal in the Asian Games, he himself is an out-and-out African, and
Qatar has nothing to do with it and has nothing to do with Asians.
So when many media talk about this achievement, they will add the qualifier "non-Asian native athletes". Everyone knows what this means.
In events like track and field, where individual abilities are heavily weighted, Qatar’s naturalization route is feasible, but collective events like football are still different from individual events in track and field.
Football matches require some coordination and team awareness.
Now these naturalized players are performing in a mess on the court, and their biggest problem has been exposed to the eyes of the majority of Qatari fans.
That is that most of these foreign mercenaries lack a real sense of belonging to this country. They fight for money, not for national honor, let alone for the people of this country.
This causes them to fall apart easily when encountering difficulties.
Without cohesion, no one can bring them together so that they are willing to sacrifice for each other and become teammates.
Forwards only think about scoring goals, because there will be high goal prizes for scoring goals.
The defenders complained that the forwards stayed in front and did not defend when the Chinese team was attacking crazily.
At the end of the first half, when the players walked off the field, the TV broadcast clearly captured footage of two Qatari players blaming each other while walking off the field.
Watching this scene, He Feng and Yan Kang in the studio behind were extremely sad.
In fact, when Chinese football was unable to survive without reform ten years ago, there was a debate in the country about how to carry out the reform. At that time, there were many voices and different opinions, but they all seemed to make sense.
Some people have proposed that completely opening up naturalized players would only allow those overseas Chinese players with Chinese ancestry to become Chinese players. Complete opening up refers to the global selection of players who have outstanding abilities but cannot be selected for the national team in their respective countries.
Foreign players sign up for the Chinese Super League, and then become naturalized Chinese players step by step. Finally, they are allowed to represent the Chinese team in competitions and compete in the World Cup.
This opinion is still taken seriously and has been discussed many times.
The reason why everyone is so confused is that this opinion is not some crooked idea that can be seen as nonsense at a glance, but has real practical significance.
At that time, Chinese football had reached rock bottom. Youth training talents were in short supply. League attendance continued to decline. Club investors had withdrawn one after another. Clubs in various places were disbanded and bankrupt. It was almost impossible to achieve results by relying on existing talents.
.And it takes time to re-cultivate outstanding talents. During this time, what will happen to the results of the national team? We cannot give up treatment completely, right? By then, the results of the national team will become worse and worse, and it may also affect the youth training plan.
So by naturalizing some foreign players, it can help the Chinese team temporarily improve its performance, and maybe it can also feed back reforms.
It must be said that this suggestion is reliable and feasible. The rapid rise of Japanese football back then was also related to the excellent naturalized players.
But in the end, the higher-ups still did not choose to completely liberalize the naturalization policy. The fundamental reason is actually the saying, "People who are not from our race will have different hearts." They believe that these naturalized players may not really work hard for the country at the critical moment.
In the end, the Football Association chose to carry out youth training in a down-to-earth manner and develop a campus football plan to connect campus football from junior high schools to high schools and then to universities, so that players can have a clear and visible upgrade path in school. This will allow more
Parents are willing to send their children to play football, which will fundamentally expand the size of our country’s football population.
From 2015 to 2025, now ten years have passed, although the Chinese team still has not won the right to participate in the World Cup, but judging from the first half of this game alone, there is no need to debate whether the youth training route or the planning route is better.
The verdict has been made.
A group of players trained by our own campus football have become leading figures in their respective clubs, and we have also cultivated "hope of the whole village" like Hu Lai who can win glory for the country in the Premier League.
When these men came together, they knew exactly what they were fighting for.
Not for the promise of high bonuses, but for one’s own motherland, and even more for one’s original dream. Every football teenager must have longed for the day when he would stand on the World Cup stage wearing the national team’s jersey.
They are fighting for their dreams, how could they not try their best?
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In the Chinese team's locker room, Shi Wuyin looked around at his players.
Young, old, familiar faces, new faces, they are all his players.
In order to hit the World Cup goal, they persisted until the end.
He said: "The game is not over yet. Although we are two goals ahead, it does not mean that we will definitely be able to win the final victory... I believe everyone here knows this better than me. A journey of 100 miles and half 90
.In the remaining 45 minutes, everyone should leave! Forget about the score, just pretend that we are still 0:0 with them! Fight them ball by ball!"
Captain Yao Huasheng stood up and yelled: "This is the closest we are to the World Cup. No one can stop me! If anyone messes up during the game, don't blame me for being rude!"
The captain of the national team actually rarely talks like this in the team.
But now he has shown his domineering side.
Facing the attraction of the World Cup, Yao Huasheng no longer cares about other people's feelings. He only considers that if he can participate in the World Cup, it will be a great honor for his career...
So anyone who dares to harm him is his enemy. He will never show mercy to him.
Of course, when the other teammates heard the captain say this, no one would feel unhappy or offended.
In fact, they and Team Yao have the same idea now: if anyone dares to delay me from playing in the World Cup, I will kill him!
As soon as everyone thinks about the hope of participating in the World Cup, their hearts are burning, and the air in the locker room is heated up.
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Fifteen minutes after the halftime break, the players from both sides changed sides and played again.
It can be seen that the Qatar players must have been inspired or stimulated during the halftime break.
So after the start of the second half, their performance improved compared to the last period of the first half.
With the cheers of the Qatari fans, they continued to attack the Chinese team’s goal.
Facing Qatar's attack, Shi Wuyin made adjustments during the halftime break. He expected that Qatar would definitely strengthen its attack after the start of the second half. This was actually easy to guess, because in addition to doing this, Qatar also
There is no other way. There is no way they can still play in the backcourt when they are two goals behind and play steadily, right?
Since Qatar is going to counterattack with all its strength, it means that there will definitely be a gap behind them.
The Chinese team only needs to defend well and then wait for opportunities to counterattack and use the speed of the two wings to create threats.
It doesn’t matter whether they score or not, the main thing is to make Qatar realize that if they continue to attack like this, the defense is very dangerous, so they can take the initiative to retreat and reduce the pressure on the Chinese team’s defense.
The Chinese team, which has a two-goal lead, is still in a very stable situation as long as they don’t make mistakes.
Unless there is a sudden explosion in Qatar and several world waves come in succession...then there is really no way.
As for the refereeing issue, after the first half of the game, Shi Wuyin felt confident.
Ever since the Chinese Football Association made a big fuss in the AFC in the U23 Asian Cup, Qatar should not dare to commit crimes against the trend and repeat its old tricks.
This fully illustrates that you can’t be too honest as a person, and you will make trouble when you need to, and the same is true for organizations.
At the same time, it is also because the performance of Chinese football is indeed better than before. For example, the amazing performance of the National Olympic team in the Olympics has brought glory to Asian football. Sometimes the AFC has to take these factors into consideration.
In short, this game can basically eliminate the interference of off-field factors and let football return to football.
As for just comparing football, Shi Wuyin is not bragging. He really has this confidence now. The Chinese team should still have the upper hand when playing Qatar.
He had just finished thinking this in his mind when he saw the Chinese team make a quick counterattack.
Hulai quickly moved forward in the middle and took away Qatar's defender, leaving Chen Xingyi behind.
Chen Xingyi, who ran into the space, used his chest to remove Zhang Qinghuan's pass, and then volleyed with his feet!
The football flew into the lower corner of the goal!
"3:0!!! Beautiful, Chen Xingyi also scored! In the 51st minute of the game, Chen Xingyi extended the lead for the Chinese team to three goals!! This score is almost..." He Feng
There was a pause here. He was still a bit conservative, fearing that he would set a flag.
But Yan Kang next to him was so excited that he didn't think much at all, and directly answered his words: "...almost killed the game! We no longer have to worry about how the game between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates turned out!
The Chinese team still has a chance to compete for the last ticket to the World Cup... Now I don't know if we can succeed, but from being almost sentenced to death to now we can still stay on the stage, I think this is the Chinese team's greatest success
Victory!"
Hearing what Yan Kang said, He Feng also put down his psychological burden and nodded: "I think this World Cup qualifier, no matter what the final result is, for Chinese football that has been reforming for ten years, I am afraid it will be like a...
'Coming of Age Ceremony'. Through this World Cup qualifier, the results of reform have been tested. Hu Lai, Luo Kai, Chen Xingyi, Wang Guangwei... These are all outstanding young talents who have emerged during the ten-year reform period, and they have lived up to expectations and made great achievements.
We proved how correct the path we chose was..."
Chen Xingyi ran wildly to celebrate after scoring the goal, while countless Qatari fans in the stands were silent.
The boiling pot seems to be gradually cooling down.
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PS, due to the recent events of BCI (if you don’t know, you can search BCI and Nike for details, I won’t pollute the page here). In short, due to the Western fool’s saucy operations, the original design of Hu Lai’s contract with Nike cannot be continued.
.So I have modified some chapters of the previous contract and the part where Nike's name was mentioned.
In this parallel world, there are no Nike, Adidas or other sports brands that we are familiar with.
Instead, I made up my own imagination.
In fact, at first I thought about making up these brands as well, but then I got lazy and didn’t want to waste my time coming up with names... I didn’t expect that it would cause trouble, but I really didn’t expect to have them in China.
With such a huge market, Nike, which contributes more than half of their company's total profit from the Chinese market, would actually do this kind of stupid operation...
In short, there are no real-world sports brand elements in this book. Hu Lai and Li Qingqing are no longer related to Nike, and are replaced by the fictional brand "Flying Falcon".
