"Aha! It's finally my turn to play! If I don't play again, I will catch a cold, throw it away!"

Lin Zhiyuan stood at the gate of the Hongfengling training base and shouted excitedly.

The South China Tigers teammates who came with him are far away from him...

As the main goalkeeper of the South China Tigers, Lin Zhiyuan came to the Olympic team for training nearly two months in advance, which will inevitably affect his status in the club.

But Lin Zhiyuan doesn't think about those at all now.

He's preoccupied with getting to Europe through his Olympic performance.

If the main position of the domestic club is gone, it will be gone.

In fact, at Lin Zhiyuan's age, he is a player of the right age for the Olympic team. If he hadn't participated in the Olympic Games once, he would not need to occupy the quota of overage players now.

And he was able to participate in the Olympics as the main goalkeeper of the Olympic team when he was only eighteen years old, which really shows his strength.

It's just that because of the particularity of the goalkeeper's position, he has been unable to go abroad for a long time, and can only watch Hu Lai, Zhou Zijing, Xia Xiaoyu and the others have their own splendor abroad.

But this time before he left for the Olympic team, his agent, Uncle Qiu, told him that he had made key progress in communication with Westin Athletic—Westin Athletic had seriously considered the possibility of introducing himself. All he has to do is be convincing enough in the Olympics to secure himself a better commitment at Westin Athletic. At the very least, he must have a chance to compete fairly with Westin Athletic's current first-team main goalkeeper Pierre Groche.

Just as Lin Zhiyuan was standing at the gate of the Hongfengling training base, looking forward to the bright future in the future, he heard a disturbing voice:

"Fuck, Lin Zhiyuan, why did you come here?"

Lin Zhiyuan turned around and saw Hu Lai's annoying face. He gritted his teeth and said, "I lost! Why can't I be here? I'm one of the overage players just like you!"

Hu Lai showed a surprised expression.

Lin Zhiyuan pointed at him: "What expression do you have!"

Hu Lai suddenly realized again: "Oh, I remembered, you seem to be an overage player... Oh, Xiao Linzi, you haven't played for too long, I almost forgot, I'm sorry!"

Facing Hu Lai's yin and yang aura, Lin Zhiyuan chuckled without smiling.

And Ou Yangjin, who followed Hu Lai and Xia Xiaoyu to report to Hongfengling, saw Hu Lai and the national team's main goalkeeper passionately facing each other, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay:

Is this also the "pure" that Brother Xiaoyu said?

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When the players of the Chinese Olympic team flew to the capital to prepare for the game, the second "China Cup" had also ended all the games.

The Chinese national team without Hu Lai, Zhang Qinghuan, Lin Zhiyuan, Xia Xiaoyu and Zhou Zijing lost to the Croatian national team 1:2 in the semi-finals of the first round.

Defending failed.

But fortunately, they defeated the Senegalese national team 1:0 in the third and fourth finals, and finally they did not rank at the bottom of their home court.

The champion of this "China Cup" belongs to the Croatian national team. They defeated the Costa Rica national team 3:0 in the final. It can be regarded as a kind of consolation and compensation for their failure to participate in the European Cup.

The attendance rate of the "China Cup" is actually quite good. The two games with the Chinese team were basically full.

In the game without the Chinese team, the Chinese fans also fully demonstrated their high-quality host side, enthusiastically cheering for both teams and making them feel at home.

The "China Cup" kicked off the Chinese fans' football journey this summer:

Immediately after the "China Cup" to make up the schedule is the European Cup.

In fact, before the "China Cup" is over, the European Cup has already started.

It's in full swing right now.

This is a feast for countless Chinese fans.

But to say that what Chinese fans are most concerned about is probably not the European Cup this summer, but the Olympic Games that will start in early August.

It stands to reason that in the football world, the influence and gold content of the Olympic football program can never be compared with the European Cup.

Only the World Cup can overwhelm the European Cup.

Chinese fans in the past also viewed the Olympic Games in the same way—if the Olympic Games and the European Cup time conflict, they would definitely choose the European Cup without hesitation.

Although the European Cup is a football event that takes place in far away Europe, there are countless Chinese fans who voluntarily become fans of those European national teams, and their moods fluctuate with their wins and losses.

Things have changed now.

Although the European Cup is also very exciting, it is the Olympic Games that can really stir the hearts of Chinese fans.

Because the Chinese Olympic team participated.

And not just there.

This year's Chinese Olympic team also has several super overage players.

This is the second consecutive Olympic Games for the Olympic team, which is different from the one four years ago. Naturally, everyone will place more hopes on them.

Four years ago, the Chinese Olympic team was placed in the death group. In addition, it was the first time in 2012 to participate in the Olympic Games after 12 years as the host, so everyone actually dare not hold on to the team's results There is nothing much to expect.

For many fans, it is already a great victory for the Chinese Olympic team to appear in the Olympic Games.

What bike do you want?

But this time, the Olympic team once again entered the Olympic Games, which shows that their team itself is capable, otherwise they might not even have tickets to the Olympics.

On this basis, there are three more powerful overage players, so how can Chinese fans have no expectations for this team's Olympic journey?

You must know that in the last Olympic Games, the Olympic team did not bring a single overage player.

Although the current Chinese Olympic team lacks Chen Xingyi, Luo Kai, and Wang Guangwei compared to the one four years ago, it also has more Xia Xiaoyu and Zhou Zijing. These two Olympic-age players actually have the strength of the national team up. And both of them have already experienced in Europe.

In the Olympic team four years ago, there was not a single overseas player.

Some people once said that the Olympic team four years ago was the golden generation of Chinese football. In fact, the strength of the Olympic team four years later is not bad.

In addition to Xia Xiaoyu and Zhou Zijing, the addition of three overage players, Hu Lai, Zhang Qinghuan and Lin Zhiyuan, greatly increased the strength and experience of the team.

The rest of the players also stepped onto the stage after the reform of Chinese football, and their growth environment is better than that of the group four years ago.

Since there are so many favorable conditions, it is logical and reasonable for Chinese fans to place high hopes on them.

As for whether this high expectation will bring them huge psychological pressure, become a burden, and affect their performance...

As Chinese professional players, if they can't handle such psychological pressure well, then they might as well give up their status as professional players.

"... You have to understand that being a professional player in this country requires constant pressure."

At the training ground of the Olympic team, the head coach Mai Zhaocheng is holding a meeting with all the players of the Olympic team.

On the first day of the team's assembly, the training has not yet started. The first thing to do is to hold a meeting to unify the thinking.

It is necessary to unify their thinking first, so that the players can know why they are fighting in the next training and preparations, and only in this way can they generate subjective initiative.

Mai Zhaocheng believes that subjective initiative is very important, and the ideological construction of the team is very important, so he discussed with the team leader Ran Jiachang. What.

After the goal is established, everyone will focus on this goal to prepare for the battle.

Unlike ordinary coaches who try their best to decompress the players, Mai Zhaocheng did not take the usual path. He told everyone straight to the point that their Olympic team will be under tremendous pressure.

Because everyone has high hopes for them.

"...As a Chinese player, we naturally bear the attention of tens of millions of Chinese fans and hundreds of millions of Chinese people. Because we all know that football has an extraordinary status in Chinese society. If we do not perform well, there will be Countless people scold us, even if those people don’t watch football at all...We have to accept this reality. So don’t think about the pressure. It’s not easy to represent a country with a population of 1.4 billion matter."

"After fully understanding this point, let's talk about this Olympic Games and what the team's goal is. I don't think anyone thinks that we will win as long as we can participate in the Olympic Games this time?"

After Mai Zhaocheng finished speaking, he looked around at the team members in the conference room.

Then he found that no one showed any surprise at his statement.

That's fine.

It seems that after participating in the Olympic Games and the World Cup ~lightnovelpub.net~ and a large number of overseas players have begun to emerge, Chinese players are generally much more motivated than before, and they don’t really feel content to participate in the Olympic Games.

"Let me tell you frankly that we set a minimum goal and a maximum goal for this Olympic Games. Then all our training plans are formulated according to the highest goal. In this way, even if we fail to achieve the highest goal, we should Better than the minimum goal. Our minimum goal is to get out of the group."

Speaking of this minimum goal, the players still didn't respond.

It shows that no one in the team thinks that their group can't get out of the line-with La Liga Golden Boot, Champions League Golden Boot Hu Lai, and strong teammates at the national team level such as Zhang Qinghuan, Lin Zhiyuan, Xia Xiaoyu, and Zhou Zijing, the result of this grouping is also better than that of the team. Four years ago was much better, so qualifying from the group really shouldn't be a goal to discuss.

Mai Zhaocheng was still calm when he saw everyone, and finally made his ambition public:

"The highest goal is to win medals."

The meeting room was quiet for a second or two. Maybe everyone finally realized what the head coach said just now, and they all became commotions!