I took my son to a parent-child activity held by Longteng Football School and played happily for a long time. On the way back, I looked in the rearview mirror and sat in the back seat of the car, wearing a seat belt and holding the afternoon activities tightly in my arms.
The prizes he won - a very cheap and sexy dragon player doll, and his son sleeping on his wife's body, Zhang Sheng's whole body was filled with a sense of happiness.
In Jiangcheng in June, the afternoon sun was quite bright. My son’s little face was red from the sun. Although he had fallen asleep, he was still mumbling something at this time. Maybe it was during some of his activities in the afternoon.
My shot didn't go in and I'm complaining.
Seeing Zhang Sheng's gaze drifting over, Ye Ting gently moved her son's head to make him lean more comfortably, and then gave her husband a sweet smile.
With time, football, life is so simple and so beautiful.
Back home, even on vacation, Zhang Sheng did not forget to pay attention to football. Tonight, there is a match between the Chinese National Youth Team and the Venezuelan National Youth Team. This game is also the quarter-finals of the World Youth Championship.
After eliminating the U.S. National Youth Team, this Chinese National Youth Team has surpassed the previous one. If it can pass this level, it can catch up with the 2013 Turkey World Youth Championship, Li Yun, Qin Minghao, Xu Mingyu
That batch reached the semi-finals.
The domestic media are still immersed in defeating the United States again on the Korean Peninsula and completing the second "Resist U.S. Aid Korea" victory. They do not pay attention to the Venezuelan National Youth Team, and even think that this opponent is just a push away.
, but Zhang Sheng frowned, knowing that things were not that simple.
In fact, as long as you are interested, you will know the process of qualifying for the Venezuelan National Youth Team. Extending to their start from the South American Youth Championship, this team is amazing.
In the first group stage of the Southern Youth Championship, Venezuela drew all five games, surpassing last year's European Cup draw master Portugal and becoming the king of the Balance Sect.
This team, which was based on the 2013 World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates, has not changed its overall framework for many years. In order to advance to the World Youth Championship, they have played more than 30 warm-up matches in the past year and a half, and their preparations are very important.
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It is precisely because of the solid and united team spirit that this team defeated the popular team 3:0 in the second stage of the Southern Youth Championship. The subsequent Southern Youth Championship champion Uruguay advanced to the third place.
Korea World Youth Championship.
And in the group stage of the World Youth Championship, they were even more shocking.
As a third-tier team, they are divided into a group of the German National Youth Team, the Mexican National Youth Team, and the Vanuatu National Youth Team. Most of the media announced in their pre-match predictions that Venezuela would get the best result in the group.
It's very popular when you get three out of the line.
What's the result?
For the first time in the group stage, Venezuela shut out the German tank 2:0. In the second game, they defeated Vanuatu 7:0. In the third game, they faced Mexico, a top team in the youth group all year round. They did not give any chance, and there was no surprise at 1:0.
Take it dangerously.
With 9 points won in 3 games, 10 goals scored and 0 goals conceded, Venezuela easily entered the top 16. Their performance in the group stage was amazing.
In the quarter-finals, Venezuela met the Japanese national youth team. This team had talents like Takehide Kubo, known as the "Japanese Messi", who entered Barcelona early, and later even made Real Madrid and Barcelona compete for it.
In the end, Venezuela drew with the Japanese National Youth Team in the 90-minute match, and relied on a goal in overtime to eliminate this Asian powerhouse with one goal.
When the domestic media introduced this team, they did not explore the foundation of the Venezuelan team at all. They directly judged this to be a mediocre team based on their past impressions of this country.
Indeed, Venezuela is currently in turmoil in the country, with its economy paralyzed and even facing the threat of war; their national team has long been known as the bastard of South America; this time, after the youth team’s brilliant performance in the group stage, they faced Japan in the knockout round.
The youth team seemed to be on fire, almost solidifying the character of a dark polo team with good luck.
However, as long as you have watched the previous World Youth Championships and casually studied the data, you can see that the number of goals in the past few games has been high and low.
In fact, this is also a characteristic of the World Youth Championship. Due to their young age, the players' status is unstable and their performance fluctuates greatly. In the group stage, the players' mentality is relaxed and the strength gap is obvious. It is easy to score a disparity or score high goals. Venezuela has been together for a long time.
Teams that play football, rely on defense, and rely on teamwork are becoming more and more prominent.
In the knockout stage, the strength is gradually getting closer, especially the honor of "World Champion" is getting closer and closer. The psychological pressure of young players is getting bigger and bigger, and it becomes more and more difficult to score goals. After the 1/8 knockout round, low scores
will gradually become mainstream.
However, in any international championship football competition, a team-based team with stability and good defense will always be able to achieve good results, and Venezuela is just such a team.
Fortunately, the domestic media were so confident that the opponent was a dark horse and was beaten back to its original shape. Maddaloni was experienced and insisted on a 3-5-2 defensive counterattack style.
When two teams that play defensive counterattack come together, you can imagine how boring the game is.
Venezuela's head coach Rafael Dudamel was the goalkeeper with the second most playing time in the history of the national team as a player. What he is best at is building a defensive system.
The most famous player of this team is striker Peñaranda. As a famous South American monster, he was recruited by Udinese, a black shop in the Apennine Peninsula, very early. In the 2015-2106 season, he was loaned to La Liga.
Granada--this is a team controlled by Chinese capital (later Chongqing Lifan's owner Jiang Jingyan).
In this season, his performance was extremely bright. In 2015, he broke Messi's record as the youngest foreign player to score twice in La Liga. The media once linked him with the young Messi and Ronaldo.
But in the eyes of head coach Rafael Dudamel, the core of his team is Victor Farinez, who won the best goalkeeper of the Southern Youth Championship.
In addition, the strong defensive midfielder Jangel Herrera is the hub of the team's offensive and defensive transitions. This youth training player from Manchester City was unable to gain a foothold in the Premier League and has been on loan outside. Later, he went to La Liga Wes
After being carded, he also played against Wu Lei in Espanyol. He is the guarantee for the strength of the Venezuelan national youth team.
With two teams that attach so much importance to defense, no one is willing to press hard easily.
Throughout the first half, the two teams scored only a handful of times within 30 meters of each other. Of course, Venezuela has a B2B midfielder like Jangel Herrera who is like a dog-skin plaster. The Chinese National Youth Team
Jiang Shenglong and Wu Wei are not given for free. Their purpose on the court is to defend Zeng Wengfeng.
In the past, the two teams focused on the offensive method. The fast players in the frontcourt used the opponent's pressure to make a fuss in the space behind them. Now, more attention should be paid to the players' ability to hold the ball, control the ball, and advance the position.
With this unfamiliar style of play, both sides made a lot of mistakes. On the opponent's 30-meter zone line, it became a common scene for five or six players to pass the ball back and forth for a long time, and then try their luck with a long shot.
After the second half, the situation remained the same, and set kicks became an extremely important offensive method for both sides.
The most dangerous situation occurred in the 25th minute of the second half. This time, Jangel Herrera grabbed the ball from the Chinese National Youth Team in the frontcourt. Zeng Prosperity slightly stuck to the ball, and the ball was intercepted.
For this reason, Jiang Shenglong, who came to fill in the position, had to use his body to overwhelm the opponent and gave Venezuela a free kick in the frontcourt.
This free kick was more than 35 meters away from the goal. The Chinese National Youth Team set up a set-piece defensive formation to prevent passes. As a result, Venezuela's left midfielder Ronaldo Lucena almost made the Chinese team suffer.
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Ronaldo Lucena is only 1.67 meters tall, but the hardness of his feet far exceeds the imagination of the Chinese National Youth Team. I thought he would pass the ball, but he shot directly, and the kick was super long-distance
The shot directly hit the goal post of the National Youth Team.
Goalkeeper Guo Quanbo didn't make any preparation at all. It wasn't until the ball hit the goal post that he moved over in a panic.
It can be said that the National Youth Team did not concede a goal this time, which was entirely due to good luck.
Next, the Venezuelan National Youth Team still showed a slightly higher level of hard power than the Chinese National Youth Team. Their left back Yefelson Soteldo used his skills and speed to eat up the midfielder Wu whose physical fitness was declining.
Wei, and then his cross from the bottom found Peñalanda who entered the penalty area at high speed. The latter's header hit the goal hard. Guo Quanbo made a contribution at this time. He lifted the ball over the crossbar with one fist.
Madaloni also reacted quickly. Wu Wei was replaced by Micro Motion to play as a central defender. Zhu Chenjie was pushed to the midfielder position. After seeing that Jiang Shenglong also had physical problems, he replaced him with Wei Zhen and continued to maintain
Sweeping power in the midfield.
When the game dragged into stoppage time, Madaloni's first goal had been achieved. Seeing that Venezuela replaced the forward with a midfielder and switched to a lone forward, he quickly played Yan Dinghao, removed Huang Zhengyu, and added Zhong.
Number of players on the field, reduce defenders.
In overtime, the Chinese National Youth Team began to exert its strength.
In the last round of the knockout round, the Venezuelan National Youth Team had a fierce battle with the Japanese National Youth Team for more than 120 minutes. The physical exertion was far greater than that of the Chinese National Youth Team, which fought defensively after scoring a goal.
And South Korea is so close to China. Regardless of the climate, environment, time difference, etc., the Chinese National Youth Team, especially the Longteng players who come to South Korea to play games every year, cannot adapt to it.
In terms of fans, not to mention the official Dragons fan team of the Football Association, there are countless Chinese studying and working in South Korea. In terms of economic conditions, China’s domestic economy can also support a large number of Chinese fans to come to South Korea to watch the game. Some travel agencies even
Use the National Youth Team's game as a publicity stunt.
As for Venezuelan fans, there were not even a few in the entire stadium.
The Jeonju World Cup Stadium has more than 40,000 seats, and the occupancy rate has even reached almost a quarter. The stands are full of red.
When it came to overtime, a stage that was all about physical fitness and willpower, the fans' assists became the last straw that weighed the balance of the game.
According to the new rules promulgated by FIFA last year, when the game enters overtime, the team can have one substitution place, and the number of substitutions can reach four. This rule was used in this World Youth Championship.
In the second half of overtime, Madaloni made his last move. Huang Zichang, who had not had a chance to play in the previous games, replaced Zhang Yuning, who could not run.
In the 116th minute of overtime, Huang Zichang suddenly broke through from the left.
Huang Zichang's playing characteristics are unique among the Chinese Super League or Chinese players. He is not tall, 1.73 meters tall, and looks like a traditional Chinese player who relies on speed on the wing. However, he
His playing style is extremely flexible, with a lot of tricks at his feet, and he rarely integrates into the confrontation of the game. On the field, he always chooses to seize the fleeting opportunity when attacking.
Instead of doing operations like postback.
According to Uruguay U20 head coach Coito: "Huang Zichang is like the No. 10 player in South America."
This praise is not low.
And Venezuela suffered a loss from him.
Jose Hernandez, who was responsible for defending the left wing, did not expect Huang Zichang to make a standard South American player's move - fried meatballs. In a daze, he was passed.
Huang Zichang, who entered the penalty area, played more deftly. He made a very imaginative emergency stop, half-turned, and knocked the ball with the back of his foot. The left center back Williams-Velasquez, who has always been very stable, obviously followed suit.
Not being able to follow the rhythm of small steps unique to a short South American player like Huang Zichang, Huang Zichang was knocked down with a sweeping kick.
The referee decisively rushed over and pointed at the penalty spot. The Chinese National Youth Team got a penalty kick when the overtime was about to end.
"Oh, oh." Su Dong, who was in charge of commentating the game, was also frightened by Huang Zichang's actions. "Xiao Huang's kick was so imaginative. There is no doubt that it is a penalty kick."
Meng Hongtao, who plays with Su Dong, also said excitedly: "If this penalty kick is scored, then it will basically be a sure-win."
"Who will take the penalty for this ball, oh, Lin Liangming." Su Dong looked at the field nervously, "Run-up, shoot. The ball went in, and the Chinese National Youth Team led 1:0. There are still four minutes left in the game, including the stoppage.
It won't last more than eight minutes at most. As long as we hold on, we can reach the semifinals again."
"After Lin Liangming scored this goal, his number of goals in the World Youth Championship has also reached two goals." Meng Hongtao quickly reported the data, "The number of goals scored by the Chinese National Youth Team has also reached four. It can be
There are more flowers blooming.”
On the court at this time, Huang Zichang once again took the ball. Now three Venezuelans surrounded him and pushed Huang Zichang to the wing. Huang Zichang's good skills with his feet were immediately revealed. His pair of balls were comparable to Hulk's.
His big thick legs keep his body standing firmly.
In the end, he kicked the ball into the opponent's legs and got the throw-in.
"If you can grind for one more minute, grind for one more minute." Su Dong also didn't care about the entertainment value of any game. Anyway, this game really didn't have much entertainment value.
Under the various tricks of the National Youth Team players to waste time, when the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the Chinese National Youth Team relied on defense and once again reached the semi-finals of the World Youth Championship.
