Chapter 1702 Come and go

"Wow! The Chinese team is leading! The goal is... Luo! Without Hu, the Chinese team scored first!"

The yelling of the Spanish commentator came from the TV.

Hu Lai couldn't complain anymore, so he could only roll his eyes and express his dissatisfaction with the commentator's "arrogance and prejudice".

Li Qingqing comforted him with a smile: "It is true that there are very few opportunities for Chinese football to appear in front of Europe as a collective image. It will be fine in the future. Won't the World Cup next year be held in Spain and Portugal? By then, they will know the Chinese football team." What is it like?"

Hu Lai nodded and said nothing more.

He knew his girlfriend was right.

For a long time, Chinese football has been regarded as low-level and low-level for Europeans, and it is not worthy of attention. Now it is only because of him, Hu Lai, that they are going to learn more about it, but their understanding is only superficial, not in-depth.

For Chinese football, just like for China, it is full of all kinds of weird stereotypes.

If you want to change this situation, you really can only rely on the actual performance of Chinese players.

Japanese football has gone through exactly the same process.

At the beginning, because Japanese products were sold all over the world, Europeans thought that Japanese players were "product spokespersons" paid by Japanese companies to open up the European market. They came to Europe to sell products, not to play football.

This situation did not change until more and more Japanese players appeared in the European arena and performed well.

Chinese football also needs to go through such a process. The only difference is that Chinese companies will not spend money to send Chinese players to study abroad, because they are afraid of being scolded by the public opinion in their own country. Based on the image of Chinese football at that time, it is not a good thing to be linked to Chinese football. Japanese companies may also play a role in promoting their own brands by helping Japanese players. If it is replaced by Chinese companies, it is estimated that there will only be "long-lasting stigma"...

Now although Hu Lai's personal performance is very outstanding, he even won the European Golden Globe Award. But there are still many Europeans who think that the overall strength of Chinese football is very poor. Except for Hu Lai, everyone else in the Chinese team is not worth mentioning. Without him, the Chinese team is simply a soft persimmon that can be pinched casually...

Let alone Europeans, don't the Japanese media think so?

Even our Chinese fans themselves hold this view.

I can't blame them for not being confident. After all, football still depends on actual performance.

Before you have actual results, don't blame others for not believing anything you say.

Fortunately, next year's World Cup will be held in Europe, and the performance of the Chinese team can be seen throughout Europe.

As long as the Chinese team can show enough strength, maybe the Europeans' view of Chinese football will have a big change in the future.

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The game has restarted, and the Chinese team, after taking the lead, tried to cheer up and score another goal.

They did create a good chance, but a shot by Zhou Zijing in the penalty area was saved by Japanese goalkeeper Nobuo Nishiguchi.

"oops!"

Seeing that Zhou Zijing missed the opportunity, Hu Lai put his head in his hands and yelled in regret.

Seeing him like this, Li Qingqing said, "Fortunately, you are watching the game in your own living room. If you were watching the game on the bench, if you were allowed to take a picture of this scene, maybe after the game, someone will pass you on to Zhou Zi." Very dissatisfied…”

Hu Lai shook his head: "No. I won't. Before the game was over, someone spread that I was dissatisfied with Zhou Zijing."

Zhou Zijing himself was also very annoyed. He put his head in his hands when he missed the opportunity, and shouted to the sky.

The Spanish commentator on TV introduced: "Zhou is currently playing for the Premier League team Leeds City, and scored ten goals in all competitions last season. And so far this season has not scored..."

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After resisting the Chinese team's three tricks after taking the lead, the Japanese team began to plan a counterattack.

Now that the score is behind, it is tantamount to driving them to a dead end.

The only good thing is that at least the Chinese team took the lead at the beginning of the game, leaving them with more time.

If the Chinese team takes the lead at the last moment, then the Japanese team will be in danger... I am afraid that they will be unable to recover.

It has to be said that the overall strength of the Japanese team is still very strong. Almost all of their starting players have playing experience in Europe, which made them not fall into panic after facing a sudden loss of the ball.

Instead, he quickly adjusted from the blow of losing the ball.

Then they were not in a hurry, and directly launched the attack through the long pass from the backcourt. Instead, they maintained the previous tactical play, took advantage of their technical advantages in the midfield, played steadily and gradually advanced.

They were not in a hurry to pass the football directly into the 30-meter area of ​​the Chinese team to form a shot, but first back and forth in the midfield, looking for opportunities to paralyze the Chinese team's defense.

Luo Kai and Chen Xingyi, who were wingers in front, also had to retreat to the third defensive zone to defend, which also suppressed the Chinese team's offense.

Tatsuya Sugiyama used his skills and awareness to move continuously throughout the midfield area to assist his teammates in sorting out the midfield.

"Tatsuya Sugiyama is indeed better than before... After going to Weisedov to play in the Champions League, he has been greatly improved." Hu Lai, who watched the game from the perspective of God, said to Li Qingqing. "If he could go to a team that can make him the main force earlier, maybe the improvement will be more obvious, but he went to Blue and White Munich..."

After Tatsuya Sugiyama played in the 2024 Madrid Olympics, he was spotted by Blue and White Munich, and then transferred to the Bundesliga giants in a very high-profile manner. This was quite sensational news at the time.

At that time, even the Chinese media were envious and jealous, thinking that Tatsuya Sugiyama's ability to join the Blue-White Munich was another ironclad proof that the level of Japanese football was ahead of Chinese football.

So much so that after Hu Lai and the King of Madrid were rumored to have a scandal, Hu Lai did not go. Many media and fans felt uncomfortable, thinking that Chinese football had lost the best chance to overwhelm Japanese football. In their opinion, The King of Madrid must be of a higher standard than the Blue and White Munich. If Hu Lai can go to the King of Madrid, the limelight can completely overwhelm the Blue and White Munich's Tatsuya Sugiyama and become the "Nan Bowan" among young Asian players.

Of course, the development trajectories of the two people were very different later. Tatsuya Sugiyama, who was once in the limelight, wasted time and time again in Blue and White Munich, wasting a lot of time on continuous loan.

It wasn't until I went to Weissedov that I found a suitable environment and started to accelerate. But he is also twenty-seven years old, no longer young, and there is no room for trial and error. For him, going to Weissedov to play football is more like a stud game, success or failure.

However, Hu Lai started from Leeds City, a newly promoted Premier League horse, and made steady progress step by step. Now he has become one of the top players in the world.

I have to say that personal struggle is very important to the destiny of a person, but so is the right choice.

If Hou Lai was influenced by vanity and chose to go to the King of Madrid, then he may not even know what achievements he will have now.

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The Japanese team advanced the attack, but when they entered the penalty area of ​​the Chinese team, they were headed out by Wang Guangwei.

After receiving the ball, Zhang Qinghuan, who retreated, turned around and wanted to take it forward.

Then he turned around and saw Junpei Morikawa lying in front of him.

His left shoulder sank, as if he was going to dribble the ball to the left, but the instep of his right foot slammed the football to the middle, trying to shake Junpei Morikawa away.

Junpei Morikawa was not deceived by him at all. He strode forward and stabbed the football on the outside of his right foot with his foot, stabbing the ball behind Zhang Qinghuan.

Zhang Qinghuan staggered slightly and lost his position.

When he turned around to chase, Morikawa Junping had already caught up with the football and headed towards the Chinese team's penalty area.

Fortunately, Gao Ruimin was still standing in his place. Just as Morikawa Junping took a step, he met Gao Ruimin who was waiting in full force.

He had to slow down.

At this time Zhang Qinghuan also chased back, Morikawa Junpei protected the football again, dodged Zhang Qinghuan's charge, and then dribbled the ball laterally.

Zhang Qinghuan didn't have time to turn around, so she ran straight to the space behind Gao Ruimin ~lightnovelpub.net~ to defend him. And Gao Ruimin followed Morikawa Junping to move laterally to defend, trying to continue to get stuck in front of Morikawa Junping.

After Morikawa Junpei opened the angle horizontally, he tried to pass the football straight forward and pass it to Nuo Ito, who was running diagonally behind the Chinese team's back line.

Wang Guangwei happened to be stuck on the route of his pass, stretched his foot to make a tackle, and blocked the football.

But the football blocked by Wang Guangwei fell at the feet of Tatsuya Sugiyama at the top of the free throw arc!

He stopped the ball hastily, the football smashed **** the inside of his foot, then bounced high and flew into the penalty area!

Tatsuya Sugiyama quickly adjusted his pace to catch up, and then volleyed with one and a half feet before Liu Yan and Mao Junzheng closed the door!

After the football was shot, it touched Liu Yan's outstretched calf, changed slightly, and went straight to the lower left corner of the goal!

Although Lin Zhiyuan made a saving action, he was still a little too far away from the shot that went straight to the dead corner...

He threw himself to the ground, and could only watch the football fly past his fingertips, then rubbed against the inside of the goal post and rushed into the net!

In the 31st minute of the first half, the Japanese team equalized the score!

(end of this chapter)