The semi-finals of the Asian Cup are out.

China, Iraq, Japan, South Korea. There are three seats in East Asia, and only one Iraq is left in West Asia. This means that at least one East Asian team can reach the finals. If the Chinese team is more successful, then the Asian Cup will become the East Asian Cup...

After 5:1, the Chinese team's call for winning the championship became even higher. This made Spinach Company look down on the Chinese team in the next match between China and Iraq, and directly showed the Chinese team the handicap of two and a half goals.

No matter how delicious Iraq is, it shouldn’t be allowed so much by the Chinese team, right? But reality is so cruel.

All the West Asian media are wailing.

After Iran lost to South Korea, the Tehran Daily angrily criticized its own team - shame! No matter what Iran does, it should not lose to South Korea. In Asia, Iran can only lose to China. Other teams are simply unable to defeat Iran's Iran team, which has as many as ten players playing football in Europe, and actually lost to Iran? We even have reason to suspect that this is a scam.

Iranian media have always believed that the Chinese team is the number one in Asia and Iran is the second in Asia. They do not accept it, but only the Chinese team, but now they have fallen into the South Korean team and can't even enter the semi-finals of the Asian Cup. How can this be a blow?

Saudi Arabia is dying well. After all, they tied Japan 0:0 in the regular time of 90 minutes, but they lost to the Japanese team in the final penalty shootout. They died standing. However, the Saudi media still feels pessimistic - now, only Iraq is still alive, and they are going to face the siege of three East Asian teams alone. Saudi Arabia had the opportunity to reach the semi-finals, but the Japanese were more lucky. Judging from the current performance of the Chinese team, Iraq is almost certain to stop at the semi-finals of the Asian Cup.

Qatar's "News" - This is the biggest tragedy in the history of Qatar's football. These people deserve to be beheaded!

Only the Iraqi people are still cheering.

The semi-finals are already the best results in Iraq in fourteen years. In the first fourteen years, their football has never achieved any good results on the field.

Iraq has always been a mysterious teacher, and most people don’t know this team, even professional footballers.

The Chinese team's understanding of Iraq is almost limited to these four Asian Cup games.

The Chinese players do not think Iraq is catching a cold.

"This team has average strength, there is nothing special about it, and there are no stars." Li Weifeng expressed his insights.

"But it's really surprising that they can beat Kuwait."

"What an unexpected thing is to fight harder than Kuwait. In fact, there is no technical content." Li Ming shook his head, "We can kill them with headers, and we can kill them if we are tall."

"If I can't beat them, I'll cut off my head." Yang Chen was also full of confidence. "I will definitely be able to break through their goal."

Yang Chen is now leading the Asian Cup scorer list, and has scored 6 goals. Behind him are South Korea's 5 goals, Naotaki Kakahara, and Akiho Nishizawa. He definitely wants to win the best scorer of this tournament.

The competition is quite large, but Yang Chen has a strong midfielder behind him, which is also the most promising one.

Zheng Zhi smiled, no one knew Iraq better than he did.

This Iraq is actually very dangerous, and you can't use ordinary thinking to guess them...

"You don't understand," Zheng Zhi finally spoke.

"The first match between the Chinese team and Iraq was in 1979, in the Tehran Asian Football Championship, when Iraq defeated the Chinese team 1-0. The goalkeeper who helped Iraq protect the city was called Abdulahman. Abdulahman was arrogant at that time. He loved football extremely, and a new era seemed to be coming quietly."

"but……"

Zheng Zhi is about to make the story again! When everyone heard Zheng Zhi say this, they quickly closed their mouths and looked at Zheng Zhi in unison, wanting to know what he would say next.

"In the hearts of countless Iraqi people, the bad start happened in 1979, when China and Iraq first fought each other - that year, SDM officially took over the power of life and death from his cousin Becker. Hundreds of political enemies were greatly eliminated by SDM. The way SDM declared sovereignty laid the groundwork for the turmoil in Iraq in the following decades. The sound of alarms, explosions, and crying for help overshadowed the sound of reading in this country year after year."

"Every road on the streets of Baghdad can lead to hell at any time. Even so, there are still many young people taking advantage of the quiet to play street football. The turmoil of the times has killed countless people, but it has not killed the Iraqi people's love for football."

"In 1980, the fierce and protracted Iraq War broke out. Groups of young Iraqi people were sent to the front line and carried down horizontally. In order to boost the spirit and national sentiment of the entire country, SDM turned its attention to sports and football. Sports and football in modern times are almost an embodiment of national honor. Who is responsible for this work? Naturally, Uday, the eldest son who was widely regarded as successor at that time."

Zhao Junzhe began to murmur in his heart, wondering, he and Zheng Zhi were studying in the same compound, why did Zheng Zhi know so much, but he had never heard of such a story? Where did he hear it? Touching his head, he suddenly felt that he was really a failure.

"By 1986, the 22-year-old Uday had already served as the chairman of the Iraq Olympic Committee and the chairman of the Football Association. At the same time, he had almost mastered the major propaganda agencies in Iraq. He led the Iraqi Journalists Association, the Youth and Student Federation, and was in charge of seven news weekly magazines and Iraqi state television stations. He almost controlled all the public opinion tools in Iraq."

"The Iraqi people love football, and football is also the world's number one sport. So, football is naturally a key project to rectify after Uday took office. What about Uday? Like his father, he was a killer who never blinked. His favorite toy in his childhood was a failed grenade. At the age of 10, he followed his father to go out torture rooms. According to legend, in high school, he boasted in front of his girlfriend how he killed his disrespectful teacher."

"In the mouthpiece media he has mastered, Uday described himself as the "godfather" of Iraqi football. What is the idea of ​​this "godfather" to rectify football? "Why don't you choose a group of death row prisoners to represent the national football team?" - The connotation of Uday's football thought is almost a replica of this sentence. He did not turn the death row prisoners into national football teams, but turned the national football team into death row prisoners."

""Every time you finish a game, you will get a whip if you make a mistake, and then it will turn into two whips." This is the original words of most former Iraqi internationals. When Uday is in a bad mood, the whole team will be tied up and whipped. Some players lost the game due to mistakes. Uday directly pulled out his knife and cut his hair in front of everyone."

Hiss ~

It's so scary!

When everyone heard this, they took a breath.

It turns out that Iraq's football is so terrible! I have learned it! I haven't stopped listening to it before...

"Even the tyranny of Uday's youth team in his teenagers did not escape. Last year, Abbas, who was still underage, went to Jakarta to participate in the Four Nations Invitational Tournament on behalf of the Iraqi Student Club. At that time, they might have won the championship, but were upset by the Indonesian team in the last round. As soon as they returned home, Uday arrested Abbas and his teammates and were tortured and questioned. They did not leave any scars in the prison, and they basically didn't have to fantasize about leaving."

"National teams of different ages later recalled this: the most nervous thing in their career was not playing in front of tens of thousands of fans, but the sudden call from Uday during the break. Through the hoarse voice of the phone, Uday's anger penetrated into every corner of the locker room. Such a call was like a call from hell - Uday even let go, and he couldn't get back in the second half, so he wanted to cut off the players' lower limbs."

"This is the Iraqi football I know."

After a few seconds of quiet, the scene finally exploded.

Even Fan Zhiyi couldn't help but speak, "I'm a sage,"

"Zheng Zhi, where did you hear this? It's just like the truth."

"Yes, we have never heard of it before. You made it up, are you so familiar with SDM and Uday?" Li Weifeng also didn't believe it. He thought Zheng Zhi was just making up stories.

Zheng Zhi shrugged and spread his hands, "Believe it or not, I read it from a football article in Germany. As for whether it is true or not, we cannot obtain evidence, but it is still somewhat authentic. From my personal point of view, this is possible, otherwise why is Iraq so powerful?"

"Luckily North Korea did not come, otherwise you will find that North Korea is even more exaggerated."

"What's the North Korean way?"

Everyone was attracted by Zheng Zhi’s new topic again.

"Can they also have terrible means?" Li Weifeng was very active and was the first to ask a question.

"Once they win international honors, they will get the titles of "Heroes of Labor", "Jin Yuecheng Youth Honor Award", "People's Sports Worker" and "Meritorious Sports Worker". They can even get cars, a watch with the leader's name printed on it. More importantly, the government can also solve the household registration."

"But once you lose, you may be caught and dig coal."

Zheng Zhi said seriously, and the others were stunned.

"Damn it, the benefits are good. It's just that if you dig coal, it's too much. If you go to a coal mine factory, can you still come back alive?" Li Yin looked down at his arms, feeling that he had become a coal miner.

"The reward is real, I don't know the punishment."

"In my opinion, North Korean players value honors more than interests, and that kind of emotion cannot be exchanged for money. All North Korean athletes have this sense of mission. In their daily training, they play good football for the leaders and the country, want to join the national team, play the World Cup and the Olympics on behalf of the country."

"There are many North Korean players who have played in China: Lin Hu and Li Guangzhe, who joined Aodong in Jilin in 1994, were China's earliest North Korean foreign aid. The Chenyang Sea Lions relied on the introduction of the "Three North Korean Horses" Zhao Renzhe, Li Changhe and Zhuo Yongbin entered the A-League in 1997. In 1997, many big guys were over one million years old. Do you know how much their income is? 800 yuan. At that time, the club wanted to give them a raise, but people said that they should not be corrupted by money..."

"Damn, Zheng Zhi, how did you know about the Haishi? Why haven't we heard of it?" Fan Zhiyi wondered. As a tycoon of the national football team, he should know these things, but he really doesn't know...

"Ahem," Zheng Zhi coughed twice, "I heard from the two old seniors Gao Fengwen and Xu Genbao, why, captain, hasn't Coach Xu told you?"

Fan Zhiyi: "No, they rarely talk about these things with us."

Zhu Guanghu, the leader of the Chinese coaching team who had been standing at the door and eavesdropping, also looked a little strange. He thought to himself, I had never heard of it, it was too shameless, and he knew much less than Zheng Zhi...

Then Zhu Guanghu knocked on the door panel.

"alright,"

"It's time to rest, we will rest in our own rooms!"

"Iraq and North Korean players have a rest at nine o'clock. Even they can do it. Can't you do it?"

Zhu Guanghu sent everyone away, but he stayed with Zheng Zhi.

"What you just said is true?"

"Haha, it's all written in newspapers, and I don't know whether it's true or not. The information in this era is too closed. When the Internet develops to a certain level, there may not be more truth." Zheng Zhi didn't dare to fool Zhu Guanghu.

Zhu Guanghu nodded, and then talked about another thing, "Qu Bo is in a bad state. It seems that he was affected by the death of his former teammate. Otherwise, if you have time, you should have more guidance and enlighten him. You shouldn't have started today. There is no state at all. You are all young people, so it's easier to communicate. The national team is better, after all, we have enough staff, but if he returns to the Netherlands in this state, it will be troublesome. I'll give you a special day holiday, and you will be with him tomorrow."

"Oh," Zheng Zhi agreed very quickly, "Can you go out?"

"No, I can only move freely in this hotel."

Zheng Zhi: “…”

I thought I could take Qu Bo out to relax, but I didn't expect that I could only move in the hotel. Of course, the situation here was so dangerous, and he didn't dare to take it too risky.

"Oh, by the way, there's something else." Zhu Guanghu glanced at Zheng Zhi meaningfully, "Inter Milan lost again."

“Ah~”

"This ~ Lose to Galatasaray at home?" Zheng Zhi widened his eyes and couldn't believe it at all. He was chatting with everyone just now, and completely forgot to watch the Champions League live broadcast of Inter Milan.

“Yes, I lost 1:2,”

"I was killed in the last moment..."

It was midnight, why did you tell me this news? Is it still sleeping? Zheng Zhi rolled his eyes in his heart and sighed...
Chapter completed!