The Ball at Your Feet

Entering the semi-finals, the Chinese team can be considered to have completed the tasks assigned by the Football Association. Only after this game is over, it also means that the Chinese team must have two more games to play. This also frustrated Zhao Yaning's idea of ​​going home early. Since the last game is over on the 13th, you must attend the closing ceremony on the 14th, and then you have to return to your country to attend a welcome ceremony for domestic preparations before you can return to France.

At the fastest, he can only catch up with the Monaco training on the 16th.

This made Zhao Yaning a little restless: there was something in his club, but he was playing this kind of uninteresting game here, which really made him feel a little uneasy.

What is the meaning of this kind of competition?

After winning, no one said hello: Although the game in Japan is already dangerous, no one in the domestic media thinks that the National Olympics reversal is worthy of praise. Instead, they think that Japan has not entered the semifinals in 32 years. , It is normal to not enter again. The Chinese team is obviously stronger, but it can't win early, which shows the Chinese team's slack and inability to do its best. And Zhao Yaning is one of the leaders: he clearly has the ability to rush, but he can't work hard in the first sixty minutes. He is the one with the most uncorrect attitude.

Hat-trick, taking the initiative to push penalty kicks, Zhao Yaning's work in this Asian Games earned him a lot of praise, but Zhao Yaning's attitude is still unable to refute.

Indeed, his attitude is not very good. But how come to the media, you have become a **** who can dribble the ball and treat the opponent as nothing? If it wasn't for 60 minutes of observation, but also because I paid attention to protecting my stamina, and there was no consumption at 60 minutes, how could it be possible to achieve continuous breakthroughs easily? How come these guys like nonsense.

Of course, Zhao Yaning does not know the tricks behind the matter: the Olympic team players have grown up, but many people have the basic salary given by the club. Now football is becoming more and more popular every day, and they are all holding high salaries, between the club and the players. The contradiction between China and China has long been no secret. The various speeches of the media are naturally based on this consideration. They are not for the achievements of the Olympic team, but for disputes over interests.

Zhao Yaning is not in the country now, and he is not very clear about these things. Regarding media comments, I can only get angry in private.

However, coach Gao of the Olympic team was very tolerant of him. He said nothing: At the beginning of December, the national team needs to go to Bahrain to play in the Invitational. The Chinese national team has yet to decide on a new coach, the Bahrain Invitational. Participants are said to be the National Olympic team plus a few international players. Coach Gao hopes that Zhao Yaning will come back for the competition. Therefore, Zhao Yaning should not be offended now.

Zhao Yaning is also happy to come back: He needs to accumulate some national team appearances, otherwise, it will be troublesome if he fails to apply for a labor license when he transfers in the future.

Only this time, he was not as easy to talk as before. Although he was willing in his heart, he still refused to agree. He always shied away from Monaco's winter physical reserve. Although he himself estimated that a hard-working person like Coach Gao could easily see that his mouth was wrong, but if Zhao Yaning didn't say such things, he couldn't say what Zhao Yaning was. For Zhao Yaning, this matter made Coach Gao beg himself, and he wouldn't make himself too uncomfortable during this period of time.

And Zhao Yaning estimated that he would not be too uncomfortable.

In the semi-finals, the opponent of the Chinese team is the Thai team. After they unexpectedly defeated the North Korean team, they got the chance to play against the Chinese team.

In another group of games, the South Korean team and the Iranian team, the two biggest sufferers of China in these years, met ahead of time.

If you meet South Korea or Iran, whether it is Coach Gao or Yaning Zhao, I am afraid that they would not dare to be so careless. But since the opponent is only the Thai team, then Coach Gao knows that Zhao Yaning can’t work hard when he plays, and that’s right. This opened one eye and closed another.

Although China's strength may not be strong, it is still certain to meet Thailand.

"As long as you don't have the dilemma against Japan, you don't have to play." Coach Gao made a promise.

If that happened...Zhao Yaning would naturally make him thrown up to sing to turn things around.

But Zhao Yaning is not very worried: the strength of the Chinese Olympic team can still be trusted. In this game against Japan, the Olympic team is absolutely dominant. The number of shots at 15 to 5 and the number of shots on target at 8 to 2 are absolute advantages. However, compared to the high efficiency of the Japanese who scored one shot on the right foot, the efficiency of the Olympic Games is a bit terrible.

But anyway, it is also the Japanese Olympic team. Although Zhao Yaning didn't like Japan very much, he admitted that Japanese football played well. After all, the Japanese are rich and willing to spend money. Their investment in football is much greater than in China. Moreover, the Japanese are all idol sports, and the commercialization is far stronger than China. In grassroots football, The Japanese also promote a nationwide system. If they are not strong, they will be unreasonable.

The Chinese National Olympics can play similarly to the Japanese National Olympics. If you meet the Thai team, you should not suffer too much, right?

With this kind of mood, Zhao Yaning was not in the mood to care about the game against Thailand. He stayed up again at night to watch the game between Monaco and Auxerre.

But the result still made him feel depressed.

"1:1, can't you win a game? Two consecutive draws, the top position is gone." After watching the game, Zhao Yaning did not forget to complain to the club's teammates after watching the game.

This also made him more and more interested in returning to France to participate in the league: this **** Asian Games is so boring.

The match against Thailand was decided after the fiftieth minute. The performance of the Chinese team in each half of the game sent the Chinese team to the final.

Qu Bo and Yu Tao each scored a goal. In this kind of game, China is still quite efficient.

On another battlefield, the Iranians also eliminated the South Korean team, the most feared opponent of the Chinese team, on a penalty kick, and reached the final.

The composition model of the Iranian team and the Chinese team is not the same. Because the Olympics are two years later, the current Chinese National Olympics and Japan National Olympics are all under 21 years old, and there are no players from the National Team to join in. The purpose is to train for the Olympics. But Iran is different. Although they are also a national Olympic team in name, their age is recruited according to the age of 23. Two years later, two international players will be overaged. In addition, they have used three overage players. Therefore, they are also regarded as a mixed team of the Olympic team and the national team.

But in fact, they did not use the strongest lineup. Iran’s big-name star Rezai is now playing for Italy’s Perugia team and is now in the game. The Iranian national team coach did not recall him to the team-in fact, this is also the idea of ​​most Asian national teams, try not to go Disturb players playing in Europe. And generally speaking, there are very few European teams releasing people. Zhao Yaning didn’t know that in the Doha Asian Games four years later, the Iranian Neconan was recalled, but the La Liga team he played for Osasuna directly refused. The requirements of the national team.

Their opponent South Korea could not afford to lose face because of this home game, so they also left as many as six World Cup internationals in the team, but even so, they lost to the Iranians in the semi-finals.

This is related to something that happened to the Iranians in the game: their main striker, the father of the overage player Dei, died suddenly at the end of the group stage, so he immediately returned to China and did not participate in the subsequent games. This kind of thing should have been a very sad thing, but the Iranians turned it into motivation very well, dragged the game against the South Korean team into a penalty kick, and then defeated South Korea.

In the final, China and Iran met.

The game is really tough.

If it is said that the group matches are just a group of native chickens, just kicking and kicking is over. When it came to Japan, I met a second-rate technical team with skills but no body, then when I met Iran, the Chinese team Finally met a real team. Although their skills are not necessarily better than the Japanese, but their physical fitness is better, and most importantly, their teamwork far exceeds any opponent the Chinese team has encountered in this Asian Games.

Even Zhao Yaning felt a little tricky.

Iran's defense line is very far behind, almost stacked outside the penalty area. Every time Zhao Yaning starts with the ball, he will face the siege of more than two players. Although he will not be cut off by the opponent with his current skills and abilities, Zhao Yaning's desperate way of playing by the opponent's players also allows Zhao Yaning to play. It's very hard.

He didn't want to suffer a serious injury because he had been in the Asian Games once. Even with systematic help, it wouldn't be a big problem, but after all, his feet are on his body, and being kicked makes him feel uncomfortable.

In the past, Jiuli could share a lot of pressure for himself. When he is by his side, he can pass the ball to him. His speed and breakthrough ability will attract the opposing defender and make it easier for Zhao Yaning to break through. But now, my teammates in the national team are really far behind. They are not bad when talking about the basic skills of fighting, passing and shooting, but the problem is that their awareness of running position, awareness of passing and receiving, and the habit of cooperating simply do not meet the requirements of Zhao Yaning. In previous games, Zhao Yaning They didn't need their cooperation. At this time, Zhao Yaning suddenly realized the biggest problem of the Chinese team.

Positioning awareness.

They don't have the awareness of moving at all. Many times they stand on the spot and ask for the ball. This kind of play is too problematic. Zhao Yaning couldn't find the connection point every time. When he needed cooperation, he had to run back. In this way, he couldn't push forward at all.

The only advantage is that when the Chinese team can't advance, the Iranian team can't advance much either.

The defensive ability of the Chinese Olympics is still okay. In fact, the Chinese team has always been okay on defense. Of course, because of physical problems, they often can't maintain the defense of the whole court and often turn into a colander at the end of the game. It's another matter.

However, the competition of the Olympic team is not very fierce, and the physical strength of the Chinese team will not become an absolute disadvantage. The Iranian team originally used the overage player Ali Day as a striker, but Ali Day’s father passed away and he returned to China. Although their other striker, Nick Bacht, was also a good striker, he did nothing. However, the internal medicine outside the restricted area repeatedly plugged in, causing a lot of trouble.

But these are not Zhao Yaning's troubles.

What he faced was the oppressive defense of Allawi, Zary, Badawi and Gore Mohamed after every time he took the ball. Although Zhao Yaning was able to pass one or two of them, facing the three lines of defense composed of four people, each line of defense with fierce steals and indomitable recovery positions, Zhao Yaning could only be helpless.

It would be great if someone could help. Zhao Yaning kept complaining in his heart. But whether it is Yu Tao, Xu Liang or Qu Bo, it is difficult to form a tacit understanding with Zhao Yaning. The first few games were too smooth, but this one finally went wrong.

Taking the ball, breaking through, being blocked, getting rid of, being smashed... In the first half, Zhao Yaning has done the same thing almost all the time. Zhao Yaning didn't know what went wrong with the Thai referee. On several occasions, he felt that the opponent's defensive action was definitely a foul, but the referee didn't seem to see it. As long as Zhao Yaning didn't fall to the ground, he would resolutely refrain from blowing his whistle. This criterion of punishment also gave Zhao Yaning the urge to scold his mother.

"If it goes on like this, it is likely to be a tie." During the intermission, Zhao Yaning analyzed the situation. "However, it is more likely that the Chinese team will collapse in the second half and then hand over the championship."

Zhao Yaning naturally knows the urine **** of the Chinese team. Sometimes he would ignore the Chinese team's usual actions because he was in the team, but now, because playing in the Olympic team is getting more and more boring, he is a little afraid of the habitual collapse of the Chinese team. .

After all, against the Iranian team, the Chinese team is still at a psychological disadvantage. While the Chinese team has not beaten South Korea for many years, they have always been at a disadvantage when they met the Iranian team. The long and protracted battle is definitely not good for the Chinese team.

If you want to win, you still have to find a way.

Although it doesn't matter if he wins or loses, he has already entered the finals and couldn't win the championship. It still made Zhao Yaning uncomfortable. Now that I can enter the finals, it is good to find a way to win.

But what can I do? This group of teammates is really untrustworthy.

"Is the game not over yet?" Taotao asked when she walked into the dormitory and saw that Beibei was still watching pizza.

"Well, the second half just started." Beibei continued, "It's still 0:0."

I don't care about the score. Taotao said in her heart, she looked at Beibei, and thought about something, "Babe, your boyfriend is out of town. After eleven, he didn't come to see you? You haven't been in harmony for the past two days. He called, what's wrong, quarrel?"

Beibei shook her head, "He is busy at work, so I can't contact him for these two days."

Taotao shrugged.

Beibei claims that her boyfriend works out of town-Taotao is very surprised by Beibei's statement. Beibei doesn't seem to be a bad boy. How can she find a boyfriend instead of a schoolboy, but a workman? She was puzzled by this.

But she doesn't doubt that Beibei has a boyfriend. The two people call for at least 20 minutes a day, and Taotao sometimes feels toothless.

"What does he do, there is no holiday on October?" Taotao asked casually.

"Coolies." Beibei said lightly, "the kind of work that I'm tired and sweaty all day long."

Taotao saw that Beibei didn't want to say it, so it's not easy to ask, but she remembered in her heart, and a little bit of temptation in the future is, "If the eleventh is not a holiday, will you pay a lot of overtime?"

"Looking at the performance, if the performance is good, there will be 20,000 yuan, if the performance is not good, then a penny will be gone." Beibei thought about Zhao Yaning's winning bonus for the Asian Games, and said casually.

"Twenty thousand? No wonder." Taotao nodded, "But I can't just leave it without spending the holidays with you. Ask him for something good and let him buy you some gifts to compensate."

"He has already bought it and sent it...Yes, that's the big bag. I haven't seen what's in it yet."

"Why don't you take a look?" Taotao was very surprised.

"There is no why." Beibei shook her head, refusing to say why.

In fact, she knew the reason very clearly in her heart: Zhao Yaning could not have bought these things. She was familiar with Zhao Yaning. The guy asked if it was hot or cold when he even called, but it was a joke that he would buy things for girls. The stuff in it was not fake, and it was indeed used by him to apologize: because he was short of time, he didn't have time to meet Beibei while passing by in Beijing, so he prepared it specially. But Beibei knew very well in her heart that these things were all arranged by Zhang Yuan, not by Zhao Yaning himself. If Ning Zi herself, no matter how busy she was, she would take a look at herself, and she wouldn't be able to buy a large package of things to compensate him once she didn't meet him.

What do you think of yourself? When I saw Ning Zi, he was not a famous star, nor did he go for his money or his name. Zhang Yuan's approach made Beibei feel insulted.

It is precisely because of this that she does not touch those things.

"What is it? Such a big package, what to eat?" Taotao looked at the package, a little uncontrollably curious, "It shouldn't be clothes, it's not like such a big package. Beibei, the food is always unopened. If it’s the bag, it’s broken."

"Then give it to you. Anyway, I don't want it." Beibei tilted her head.

Taotao smiled without arguing: she said there was no quarrel yet. Why is it okay like this?

But at this time, as a friend, you should think of ways to persuade you. If you open this package, take out the contents, and tease this greedy cat, maybe it will help her to resolve her grievances?

If it doesn't work... then it's cheaper.

"I can open it! Don't regret it!" Taotao said, took the knife and opened the package.

"Babe!" Taotao cried, "This is not for food!"

"I saw it, isn't it just a few pieces of clothes? It makes you excited."

"Look at the brands, they are all good clothes. And they are all new." Taotao looked at the clothes in the package, feeling dizzy, "I have seen this bag, a lot of money."

"Now you have it." Beibei shrugged.

"Don't be kidding, if it's a pack of peanuts and a piece of chocolate, it's all good clothes!" Taotao touched a few pieces of clothes, "Even if it is fake, it's a lot of money, and it doesn't look like a fake. ..."

"Take it back and enjoy it slowly. I want to watch the game." Beibei made a silent gesture.

"Babe, you made it clear to me." Taotao stood up with a serious expression, "What the **** does he do? You wouldn't be... destroying the harmony of other people's families, right?"

Beibei turned her head angrily this time, "Am I like that kind of person?"

"But your boyfriend looks like that kind of person! If it really adds up to tens of thousands, how can wage earners have so much money?" Taotao was also very confident, "I can't do this kind of thing, last time I also heard that someone was thrown with sulfuric acid."

"I haven't done anything like that!" Beibei thought for a while, but still found an excuse, "He has money in his family."

"That can't be such a trick." Taotao shook her head again and again, "This kid is also a dude, Beibei, this kind of person can't believe in rhetoric, he just has money, just such a lavish man, he will definitely be a prodigal in the future. of."

Beibei continued to roll her eyes.

"Put away these things, don't let people see them, or they must have been lent out to fish for triumphs." Taotao pushed the package over, but still reluctant to give up, "It's so generous."

"That's why I bother him." Beibei faced Taotao and began to complain, "I don't want these at all. Am I coveting these to get along with him? He was still a poor man at the time. Now it's okay. Give it. Even if you apologize for some money, you think it’s okay if you give some money. Do you think I’m the one who saw the money?”

What do you want? Taotao didn't know what to say.

"It's all his buddy, don't give him a good idea. He is full of money, who is it."

Miss, are you living in a vacuum? Taotao wanted to say something, but still held back.

"I always feel that we live in two worlds. I don't know what his world looks like, and he doesn't want to come to mine. It's a terrible feeling as we drift away."

At this moment, the sound from the computer disrupted the thinking of both people.

"This is a very inappropriate foul. Zhao Yaning fell very hard. It looks like the referee is about to draw a card..."

Beibei hurriedly turned her head back and just saw the slow motion replay on the screen: Zhao Yaning broke through with the ball and was intercepted. After shaking to the left, he bypassed the defending player from the right, and then immediately strode the ball. Trying to pass, but this action was seen through by the Iranian player and gave him a tackle from the side. He was kicked on his calf, and now he was sitting on the ground holding his calf, panting in pain.

"I won't break it..." Taotao whispered, and Beibei's glaring glared at the words.

"There shouldn't be any big problems. His expression doesn't seem to be heavy..." After all, Beibei knows Zhao Yaning far more than others. Although Zhao Yaning's expression is painful, there is no anxiety or anger. On the contrary, there are some tricky tricks that have succeeded, making Beibe a little suspicious. Isn't this guy a fake?

"The referee gave the yellow card, and Zhao Yaning stood up. It seems that his leg problem is not serious. The referee gave a free kick, which appeared to be taken by Xu Liang..."

"He definitely flopped." Beibei made a judgment with a sullen expression. Taotao glanced at Beibei inexplicably. The usual Beibei would never allow others to say bad things about Zhao Yaning. What happened today, did he talk about it? Is it really because of quarreling with boyfriend that the menopause is advanced by twenty years?

But Beibei didn't explain anything. She made this judgment not because she understood the foul and action, but simply because of the expression on Zhao Yaning's face-as his girlfriend, Beibei was too familiar with Zhao Yaning, and he deliberately pretended to be a lie. Beibei has seen a lot of indifference and restraint.

"There is something that is not a lie, as long as you win."

Taotao is very open, but Beibei's face is extremely ugly. She doesn't care about winning or losing, she only cares about one thing: with Zhao Yaning's temper, why did she flop in the game?

The penalty spot is about 25 meters away from the goal, and the location is also very good. This penalty point, no matter who is given the penalty, will pose a great threat to the Iranian team. At this time, both Beibei and Taotao consciously held their breath and looked at the screen, expecting something to happen.

"Zhao Yaning runs to cover... a free throw!"

Just now, Zhao Yaning, who was standing in front of the penalty spot, was only five or six steps away from the ball. Such a run-up distance makes people think that he will not take the penalty. He just covers Xu Liang behind him to complete the penalty~www.ltnovel.com~ but Zhao Yaning does it. After a few short run-ups, and then a violent kick, the calf was thrown out like a whip, and the ball was kicked.

The football flew over the man wall, with a deliberate shaking, and suddenly fell forward from a distance of less than one meter from the goalkeeper. The goalkeeper hurriedly made a save, but the ball still bounced to the ground in front of him, and then bounced over his head into the goal.

"The goal is scored! The Chinese team is leading 1:0. Now the Chinese team is less than 20 minutes away from the first gold medal in history. Zhao Yaning scored an incredible goal. He used a fallen leaf ball. Ushered in the dawn of victory for the Chinese team..."

The host was shouting hysterically, but at this time, few people listened to him. The replay of the goal was being played on the screen. After the football was kicked, it swayed strangely from side to side, and then suddenly fell and shook it strongly at an incredible angle and flew into the net.

"Too bad." This is Taotao's only feeling. Although she is not a football fan, she has seen some wonderful shots, and she who likes Beckham has seen many free kicks, but she has never seen such a weird free kick several times.

"What's wrong, that's technology." Beibei was full of sweetness, "Of course this is technology, it's practiced."

"It's as if you know what it's all about." Tao Tao gave her a white look.

"Of course I know, this is..." Bebeka stopped, and after half a day, he said, "This is the result of his hard training."

what is this? Beibei was also at a loss for a while. I don't know anything about football at all, I can't tell you at all. What angles, rotations, arcs, the fans know, she doesn't know all of them.

Do we really want to live in two worlds?