host must win

Chapter 529 Global Thirteen
Although "the first ticket to the World Cup in Germany" can only be regarded as a false name for the Chinese team, judging from the team's obvious advantages in the quarter-finals, the Chinese team not only once again won the title of representing Asian football The opportunity of the World Cup, and they also defended the status of the top team in Asia.

From the 2000 Lebanon Asian Cup, the "magic coach" Milu took over the Chinese team and won No.4. The Chinese team has grown into a first-class team in Asia, and broke into the World Cup finals in 2001.

The 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup was the first time that the Chinese team appeared on the stage of the World Cup finals. Although the Chinese team could not break through the group stage, the rise of the supernova Yin Jun opened a new chapter in Chinese football: Since After losing to Turkey in the World Cup group stage, the Chinese team remained unbeaten in the A-level competition!

In this round of undefeated 38 international A-level matches, the Chinese team won the first East Asian Cup and the local Asian Cup in 2004. At the same time, they also surpassed the Iranian, South Korean and Chinese teams consecutively. , reached the top of the Asian region in the FIFA standings and became the strongest team in Asia.

However, because the Chinese team has only entered the World Cup through the qualifiers once in the past.Compared with the South Korean team, which has never missed the World Cup since 1986, people always feel that the name of the "Asia's No. [-] team" is a bit watery. After all, for many Asian teams, the Asian Cup champion and the World Cup qualify Among the rights, the latter is more valued.

In the process of this Asian qualifier, the Chinese team first won all 6 games in the preliminaries, scoring 24 goals but only conceding 1 goal.

Then in the quarter-final stage, although the Chinese team entered the death group with Japan and Iran in the draw, the Chinese team performed very well, with 5 wins and 3 draws in the first 2 rounds of the group stage, allowing the team With unprecedented ease, they passed the World Cup qualifiers one round ahead of schedule.

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Combined with the comprehensive performance of a series of events such as the Asian Cup and the World Cup qualifiers, it can be said that the Chinese team is worthy of being the strongest team in Asia after entering the 21st century.

Moreover, in the FIFA national team standings, the Chinese team is currently ranked 13th, which is also the highest-ranked Asian team.

This is also the highest ranking achieved by an Asian team since FIFA introduced the points system in 1992. They have even surpassed the European Cup champion Greece and Korea-Japan World Cup third-place Turkey.

The Chinese team can have the current performance, but there is only one name: Yin Jun!

The youngest player in the history of the world and the double winner of the European Ballon d'Or, plays a savior-like role in this Chinese team.

During winning the local Asian Cup last year, Yin Jun made 26 of the Chinese team's 17 goals: scoring 8 goals and assisting 9 times!
During the group stage of the World Cup qualifiers, Yin Jun scored 10 goals, and this was when he only played 5 games.

What really reflects the value of Yin Jun is the quarter-finals. The Chinese team scored 5 goals in 8 games, but all 8 goals were scored by Yin Jun!

It can be said that Yin Jun brought the Chinese team into the World Cup entirely on his own!

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Because of this, whether it is the Japanese team, the Iranian team, or even the five-game losing streak of the North Korean team, they are all disapproving of the Chinese team's results.They believe that the Chinese team is completely Yin Jun's team, and once Yin Jun is injured, the Chinese team will definitely reveal its true colors.

For such an argument, Yin Jun fought back.He said that the Chinese team is a united and enterprising team. It is definitely not his own team. Everyone has made great contributions, and he alone cannot bring the Chinese team into the World Cup.

While the fans were worried in their hearts, they ridiculed these opponents on the Internet for chasing lemons, which was extremely sour.We have a superstar like Yin Jun, so naturally we want to maximize his role. Shouldn't we just leave him aside like masochistic?

In any case, this Chinese team is not as invincible as they have been in the past two or three years, and there are indeed serious problems.

For example, in the absence of Yin Jun, they lost to Barcelona twice, the first time the score was 0:2, and the second time it was a 0:6 defeat.

They even lost to the New York Stars with a score of 1:2!

That is to say, these games are not FIFA A-level events, otherwise their unbeaten record would have been terminated long ago.

What's more, this team relies heavily on overseas players, and even in some insignificant warm-up matches, overseas players will be recruited to return to China to participate.

In this regard, compared with the neighbors Japan and South Korea, the Chinese still have a big gap.

In terms of the use of overseas players, the Japanese team is the most worthy of reference for the Chinese.Although the Japanese team coached by Zico is currently only ranked third in Group B. If they want to enter the World Cup in Germany, they have to fight against their rival Iran in the next round, but their system is obviously more robust.

The team coached by Zico did not send his best team to the field in many cases. He often dared to keep famous players such as Hidetoshi Nakata and Shunsuke Nakamura in Europe. On the other hand, it also shows that Japanese football firmly implements the policy of "please come in and go out".

Especially considering that the Chinese team often uses some tasteless matches to affect the future of players in Europe, people can feel the foresight of Japanese football in this regard.

It can be said that it is precisely because they do not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place that Japanese players can obtain a broad space for development in higher-level European football, and at the same time provide opportunities for those young players to stand out.

Regardless of the fact that the Chinese team is currently shining brightly in Asia, what is more worthy of attention is the Japanese team, especially their great success in the football system. Fundamentally avoid the speculative mentality of "drawing into the World Cup".

In fact, Alihan is also working hard to learn from Zico, trying to persuade the Football Association not to recruit overseas players such as Yin Jun in some less important games.

For example, in the last round of the World Cup group stage, the Chinese team did not recruit Yin Jun and other overseas players when they advanced one round ahead of schedule. Instead, they played with the "All China Class" and won a 7:0 victory.

This situation will happen more in the future. For example, in the last round of the quarter-finals, when the Chinese team played against the North Korean team at home, Ali Han would not call Yin Jun and others to participate in the competition with a high probability.

(End of this chapter)