Unlike previous national teams, domestic fans have high hopes for this national football team's trip to the World Cup.

Last summer, the national youth team won the World Youth Championship, winning a lot of applause, and also allowed many national youth players to study in the European League. After a year of training, everyone has improved their strength.

Chen Tao performed very well in Anderlecht and has already taken the lead in every game.

Feng Xiaoting also played as the main player in the Eredivisie Feyenoord in the second half, and his performance was remarkable.

Although Gao Lin is not the main player in Alkmaar, he is the target of the team's focus. Van Gaal also favors him, almost every game, and from time to time, especially in the penultimate round of the Eredivisie, he even scored goals when he came on as a substitute.

Zhou Haibin has shown certain competitiveness in Benfica and has a high hope of gaining a foothold in the new season. Hao Junmin, who plays for Hamburg, is an important substitute player for the team and also plays an important role.

In addition, Zheng Zhi, who is effective in Mainz, Zhao Junzhe and Du Wei, who are effective in the Soviet Super League.

The Chinese team's overseas army blossomed everywhere and showed a very good level.

But what is most exciting is that Yang Yang, who has been popular in the past two years and is known as the number one star in Europe and Asia, scored 44 goals in the Eredivisie last season and scored 12 goals in the Champions League, showing amazing scoring ability.

Everyone believes that as long as Alihan's national team uses Yang Yang well, the Chinese team will definitely be able to achieve a zero breakthrough in the World Cup.

As for the results, everyone did not have high expectations, after all, they lost too badly in the last World Cup.

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Not only are the domestic people who have high expectations for the World Cup in Germany, but Alihan and the national team are also looking forward to it.

As early as the end of April and early May, the national team used the league to organize a short-term flight training camp, with the purpose of examining the players' physical fitness and running in the team at the same time, but only recruited domestic players.

By mid-May, the national team officially announced the roster, and everyone realized that young players had begun to occupy half of the national team. Not only were a few young players studying abroad selected, but even Zhao Xuri and Cui Peng who stayed in China were selected for this national team.

When Sun Jihai, Li Tie and Shao Jiayi were also selected, but everyone was worried about Li Tie. He has not played a game for a year, so it is worrying about how he is in a relatively uneasy.

The metabolism was completed unknowingly, and the entire spiritual outlook of the national team was also completely renewed.

The young internationals who won the World Youth Championship are obviously more aggressive and confident.

The only flaw is that it is younger and takes time to grow and improve.

Domestic fans also strongly support this, after all, the World Cup is also a rare opportunity to exercise.

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Starting from Beijing on May 27, the team went directly to France and played a warm-up match with the French national team.

The two sides played three to two, France was slightly better, and the Chinese team scored a goal by Yang Yang and Zheng Zhi.

The score can only reflect part of it. In fact, the Chinese team played very embarrassedly throughout the game, mainly focusing on defense.

This is also the purpose of Alihan's arrangement of this warm-up match, which is to use France with strong attack power to temper the Chinese team's defense, find out loopholes and hidden dangers, and solve them before the World Cup.

Defensive counterattack, this is the World Cup tactics formulated by Alihan for the Chinese team.

Zidane lost a penalty in the game, but the young player Ribery, who came on the bench, performed very well. If it weren't for him, the Chinese team would have won two to one, but Ribery's outstanding performance was directed by two goals in just two minutes on the left, and his performance was very eye-catching.

When Yang Yang talked to Zidane and Henry after the game, he also met the French star. He had a vague feeling that Ribery would be one of the strongest players in the new generation of France.

This can be seen by his performance after he came on the bench.

This game exposed the Chinese team's defensive problems on the right. Whether it is Xu Yunlong or Wei Xin, there are obviously certain hidden dangers.

After this game, Alihan made the decision to activate Sun Jihai.

After the two had an open and honest conversation in the team, the two sides reached an agreement.

After arriving in Germany from France, the Chinese team played the second warm-up match.

This time the opponent is from Côte d'Ivoire on the west coast of Africa.

After a long time of separation, Sun Jihai finally returned to the right back position. He performed very well in the whole game and gave Yang Yang an assist, but the Chinese team eventually lost to Côte d'Ivoire one-to-two.

Yaya Toure and Drogba performed very well.

After two consecutive defeats, the news came back to China, and there was a terrible storm everywhere.

Many media have accused the national team of performance, believing that the national football players have obviously not shown their best form.

Alihan responded on behalf of the national team, saying that the players have tried their best, and the two consecutive losses in the warm-up match are not the end of the world. Exposing the problem early will be more conducive to the team solving the problem.

In an interview with authoritative domestic media, Yang Yang also said that the atmosphere inside the team is very good, and everyone is focused on adjustment and preparation, without any slackness.

"It's certainly a bit disappointing to lose two consecutive games in the warm-up game, but we have to look at our opponents. Needless to say, France is also good, and these two teams are not weak at all."

The Chinese team's third warm-up match in Europe was played in Germany, and its opponent was Costa Rica.

The two sides tied one-to-one. Yang Yang did not score in this game, but assisted Chen Tao to score a goal.

In the end, the Chinese team's warm-up match ended with three wins with one draw and two losses.

Although domestic media have questioned it one after another, the national team gave good comments on the team's performance when summarizing it.

The most important thing is not to expose the problem, but whether the problem has been solved.

Through three warm-up matches, the national team gradually developed its own lineup.

If there is no accident, Li Leilei will serve as the main goalkeeper, and he is the most stable goalkeeper in the Chinese Super League this season.

Due to Sun Xiang's injury on the left, Cao Yang, who performed well in the league, took over the substitute, Sun Jihai on the right, and Feng Xiaoting and Li Weifeng's partner, Zheng Zhi will be pushed to the midfield position.

After a season of polishing in the Eredivisie, especially in the second half, Feng Xiaoting showed quite good strength, and his ball-taking and dribbling were quite good, which also made Alihan entrusted him with important tasks.

After Zheng Zhi returns to the midfield, Zhao Junzhe and Zhou Haibin will play in the other two midfield positions.

After joining the Portuguese Super League for one season, Zhou Haibin has many opportunities to play. Although he is more of a substitute, he has shown certain strength and has also had impressive performances. He even made a substitute for Benfica in the Champions League.

It is not difficult to see from this that Benfica attaches great importance to this young Chinese player.

Zhou Haibin, who is both offensive and defensive, is regarded by Alihan as the core of Chinese football's midfield in the next ten years and has high hopes.

On the front line, Gao Lin replaced Han Peng, who was originally the most popular, and became Yang Yang's partner on the front line. The other is Chen Tao, who performed very vigorously in Anderlecht.

The trident of the national youth team will be reproduced in the national team, and they are all internationals who have been abroad. This is also the reason why the team can score goals in three warm-up matches. Alihan especially values ​​the tacit understanding between the three national youth players.

When commenting on his performance in the warm-up match, he even said that as long as the Chinese team can defend, Yang Yang will definitely be able to score a goal.

"I dare even say that as long as our defense doesn't go wrong, we have the opportunity to score goals, or even win a victory, achieving a zero breakthrough in the World Cup in Chinese football history."

"Because, we have Yang Yang!"

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It took nearly a month to return to Yang Yang to the national team to prepare for the World Cup.

During this period, the telephone gate incident quickly fermented and soon affected the Italian Football Association.

Football world is shocked by the scandal of Italian football. UEFA and FIFA also responded quickly, and many referees who originally planned to enforce the World Cup were also disqualified.

The Serie A brand was destroyed in an instant and suffered an extremely painful blow.

Four clubs including Juventus, Lazio, AC Milan, and Fiorentina have been seriously questioned, especially Juventus, whose stocks were suspended after plummeting 10%.

Almost all Serie A players have the idea of ​​escaping Italy, which also makes everyone feel that Italian football is likely to be in a slump or even collapse.

The presidential election of Real Madrid was also held at the same time as the Telephone Gate incident.

The two major campaign forces led by Martin and Calderon started a fierce competition. Both sides used Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo as campaign stars respectively, and Madrid's Real Madrid fans were quickly divided into two major camps.

What’s interesting is that the Chinese team’s opponent in the World Cup group stage is Portugal.

Both teams were divided into Group D, with the other two teams being Angola from Africa and Mexico from North America.

It is precisely because of this that the Chinese team's previous three warm-up matches were arranged by France, Côte d'Ivoire and Costa Rica.

As a result, many Spanish media have also paid attention to the D Group match, believing that this will be a showdown between Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronaldo.

But there are also many fans who are unfair about Yang Yang, because everyone knows that the overall strength of the Chinese team is far weaker than that of Portugal. Even if Yang Yang's personal strength is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, there is no way to change this fact.

But this still cannot stop the hype of major media around the world.

Yang Yang and Cristiano Ronal are of similar age and are both rookies that have emerged in European football in the past two years, so they are naturally easily compared.

"These people are so boring!"

"I just finished comparing Messi with you, and now I'm going to compare Cristiano Ronaldo. How tired are you fighting two at one time?"

Su Ye said with a deep heartache on the phone.

Yang Yang was a little eager to try.
Chapter completed!