The famous Jinzhou Massacre and the famous article "Jinzhou does not believe in tears" by netizen Lao Rong all originated from here.
That was the strongest national team in the history of the Chinese national team. It was also the World Cup qualifying match with the best chance in history.
Golden State is the home ground of Dalian Wanda, the A-level hegemon, where they have created the myth of being undefeated in 55 league games and 57 unbeaten at home. The Football Association also wanted to get good luck by choosing this place.
In the first game, the national football team faced Iran at home. In the first half of the game, the national football team performed well and gained a 2-goal lead. When everyone thought that the national football team would successfully defeat the opponent and get a good start, the situation took a turn for the worse and the opponent scored 4 goals in a row.
The national football team was defeated 2:4 at home. The subsequent impact of this game was extremely far-reaching, casting a thick shadow over the entire qualifying situation. The national football team was completely blindsided. During the away game against Iran, they almost lost the courage to resist.
Another disastrous defeat at 1:4. In the following 20 years, every time the national team faced Iran, it always gave people a feeling of guilty, thanks to this game.
Faced with two defeats by Iran, the national football team reached the edge of the cliff. If they wanted to take the initiative to qualify, they had to defeat Qatar at home. The national football team at that time was stronger than Qatar in terms of strength. In the first round of the game, the national football team tied with the away game.
Opponents, the vast majority of fans believe that the national football team can defeat their opponents at home.
However, the national football team once again dropped the ball in a key match and lost 2:3 to their opponents. After losing this game, the national football team completely lost the initiative to qualify.
Fan Lao Rong wrote down his experience of taking his son to watch football and posted it on Sitong Lifang's sports salon. This is the classic piece in the history of Chinese football "Dalian Golden State Doesn't Believe in Tears". This post is in that
In the era when the Internet was not yet popular, it caused a huge sensation. Countless netizens left messages saying: Lao Rong made them "cry in their eyes".
In that top ten game, the two most critical defeats occurred at the Golden State Stadium. They were both painful losses after leading and then overtaking. From then on, Golden State became a forbidden area for the national football team.
19 years have passed in a flash.
All members of the national football team that year have retired, and Li Gang, who was wildly called "Li Gang" by fans, has become an assistant coach of the national football team.
Twenty years have passed, and the National Football Team has now once again hosted its warm-up match and home game against Iran in Golden State, which shows that they can face their own nightmare with confidence.
When the national football team arrived at the Jinzhou High-speed Railway Station, the first thing that caught their eyes was the huge banner held up by the fans, which read: "Welcome the national football team! There will be no tears in Jinzhou tonight!"
Seeing the national football players coming out, the fans burst into applause and cheers like a storm.
The security guard prevented the fans from coming forward, and these fans kept taking pictures of the players with their mobile phones.
There were also ardent fans of Zhao Yang who secretly escaped the interception of the security guards and ran to hug Zhao Yang and send him flowers.
Arriving at the Golden State Hotel, head coach Peilan and Zhao Yang held a press conference.
At the press conference, Perrin answered reporters' questions about the reasons for setting the warm-up matches and home games here.
Perrin said that this was the intention of the Football Association, but it also sought his consent.
Because the Chinese national team's first game was in South Korea, in order to reduce the travel fatigue of the national football team, we found a nearby football stadium.
Of course, in addition to Jinzhou, the Chinese team also has Shenyang Wulihe Stadium to choose from.
However, Perrin said that Golden State is more meaningful as the home court against Iran. You can get up from where you fell. The psychological quality of the Chinese team has not been very good. Only by defeating the Iranian team here can the Chinese team get rid of Golden State. The shadow of the tragedy has turned into a truly strong Asian team.
As a player representative of China, the Golden State tragedy is almost unavoidable. Zhao Yang was also asked about this topic by reporters.
Zhao Yang faced this calmly.
"Golden State is our sad place! Our strongest national football team failed here! How big a shadow it has on us. There has not been an international A-level event here in 19 years, which is enough to illustrate the problem."
"But I think that escaping does not solve the problem. We avoided Golden State, but did we avoid failure? Except for the World Cup in 2002, which time did we win? I think the Football Association did the right thing this time. From where? Get up when you fall. If we want to overcome our inner demons, we must beat Iran in Golden State."
Regarding the opponent Kazakhstan team, head coach Perrin said: "They are a substitute for the national football team's opponent Uzbekistan in the top 12 group. The two teams have similar playing styles. I hope the national football team can find a way to deal with Uzbekistan from the game with Kazakhstan. ."
Zhao Yang had no impression of Kazakhstan and spoke very domineeringly. He said: "I don't know where Kazakhstan is, but no matter who he is or how powerful he is, I want to say that our goal is to defeat him. In Golden State, we can't afford to lose. Golden State fans can't afford to lose."
For Chinese fans, the Kazakhstan team is a relatively unfamiliar opponent.
In 1997, when Qi Wusheng led the national football team to compete in the top ten in Golden State, Kazakhstan was actually among the top ten in Asia, but they were assigned to another group. Four years later, Kazakhstan left Asia and joined the European Union. UEFA has since then drifted away from Asian teams.
However, geographically it is not too far from Uzbekistan and Iran, and the styles of these teams are somewhat similar. This is the main reason why the Chinese Football Association invited the Kazakhstan team to warm up with the national football team.
At present, the Kazakhstan team's FIFA ranking is still behind the Chinese team, but that is more because they have competed with European teams for a long time. In terms of strength, they are actually not weak.
In the European preliminaries, Kazakhstan played against Latvia, winning 1 and drawing 1. They also drew with Iceland, which entered the European Cup, and scored two goals against the Netherlands.
The Kazakhstan team fights fiercely and has strong defensive ability. Unless they all press out to play, it will be difficult for even the Turkish team to win two goals against them.
Kazakhstan is still a team that gets stronger when it encounters strong situations. In the European preliminaries against the Netherlands, they once formed a 433 formation to merge with their opponents, and scored one goal against the Netherlands in each of the two games.
Many people in the industry believe that, overall, the Kazakhstan team is only higher than Trinidad and Tobago.
The Kazakhstan team also attached great importance to this warm-up match. They brought a 43-person team and chartered a flight to Golden State, one day earlier than the national football team, and immediately conducted training at the sports center.
It will not be easy for the national football team to win six consecutive games against Kazakhstan.