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Chapter 1 Bar

April 2009, there are one and two months left before the World Cup in South Africa next year.

Fans around the world are focusing on the World Cup qualifiers in major states, and Chinese fans are no exception.

Tonight is the last game of the top ten in Asia, with the Chinese team away against the Japanese team. It can be said that this is a game with considerable strength gap. Moreover, only if the Chinese team scores three points, they can snatch the ticket to South Africa from the Japanese team.

Even though the chance of winning is not great, hundreds of millions of Chinese fans still sit in front of the TV devoutly. They are praying, praying that the Chinese team will play a beautiful game, and praying that God can bless the Chinese team to defeat Japan. A small bar in H City is full of fans at this time.

"Erzi, come and have a bottle of beer! You want snowflakes, NND, snowflakes are good, two at a time! Today I will make him two balls!" A fat man shouted loudly at the bar.

Erzi is the owner of this bar, a very handsome young man, with his long flowing hair covering his face, making it difficult to see his appearance. What’s even more strange is that his left foot is a little limp and he limps when walking. He brought the wine to the fat man’s table. The fat man took the wine and took half a bottle without saying a word, and gave him a very loud wine.

"It's great! I'll wait to see how the little Japanese was knocked down tonight!"

"It's hard to say", he poured cold water on a glass next to him, "The Chinese team's strength is one level lower than that of Japan. They are playing at home, just keep the draw. It's difficult for the Chinese team to score three points from their doorstep, it's really difficult!"

"What do you mean?" The fat man glared at the sight and wanted to have an attack, "I said fucking little Japanese can't beat us. If you don't believe it, let's make a bet. If the Chinese team wins, you will settle the accounts of everyone in this bar today. If we lose, I'll ask!"

When everyone was happy, they cheered, and naturally there were many people who wanted to drink for nothing. The glasses shook their heads and smiled bitterly: "Brother, as long as the Chinese team wins, let alone invite everyone to drink, no matter how difficult it is, I am willing to do it! What I just said was the truth, which does not mean that we are not patriotic. So just say that, I am just waiting to invite everyone to have this meal!"

The fat man looked straight, and he was happy when he heard this. He patted his glasses on the shoulder and shouted, "Erzi, take two more bottles of wine, and you will have snowflakes! This guy and I have a good drink!" For a moment, the bar was filled with wine, and all of them wanted snowflakes. Erzi was very happy with his legs. Others were happy. It would be great if the Chinese team won, but even if they lost, it would be useless to drink. If they didn't drink, they would be useless.

At about 7 o'clock in Beijing time, the game began. The Chinese team fought back and arranged a 4-3-1-2 formation and started a massive attack. Just three minutes into the game, Dong Fangzhuo, who played for Manchester United club, flashed a strong shot by a defender on the edge of the penalty area, and was saved by a Japanese goalkeeper. The Chinese team won the first corner kick since the start of the game. The moment Dong Fangzhuo shot, the sound of cheering in the bar could lift the roof.

In recent years, many Chinese players have gone to Europe to play. They have trained themselves in the European arena and achieved certain results, but there are still no super star, and there are only a handful of players entering the giants. Dong Fangzhuo is the biggest brand, but he is only a substitute for the Red Devils and Manchester United, and can only last more than a dozen games per season.

The corner kick was taken, and the first point was pushed out by the Japanese defender. The Japanese team started a fast attack. Veteran Junichi Inamoto launched a fast attack. The Chinese team's players pressed too far, and the defense exposed a Siberian wasteland. Junichi Inamoto was very experienced. Xu Liang saw the opportunity to swipe over and block it. He teleported to the frontcourt with a long kick. The young player Ryuichi Yamaguchi flashed past the last defender of the Chinese team at speed to form a single sword. He pulled his feet and pushed the ball through the finger of the Chinese team goalkeeper Wang Jianye and gently rolled into the gate.

Chinese players are stupid, Chinese fans are stupid. Although they know that this battle is a good match, they are scored at the beginning of the game. I'm afraid few people can accept it?

Goalkeeper Wang Jianye fell to the ground, looking at the ball in the goal and the Japanese player cheering in pain, and punched the ground hard.

It seemed like he was dubbing Wang Jianye. At this moment, a loud noise of glass shattering sounded in the bar. Everyone looked towards the source of the sound. It turned out to be a fat man. His eyes were blood red and half of the broken wine bottle was left in his hand.

"How the hell did you play? You were scored so quickly! How to kick back!" The fat man yelled and was about to rush forward to the TV. The people around him quickly pulled him. It was estimated that the TV would not be able to be saved if it was slower by two seconds.

In any case, the game has to continue. After conceding the ball, the Chinese team seemed more impatient, and the passes and reception mistakes increased significantly. However, the Japanese team played without any haste and began to make a patient move in the middle and backcourt. The Chinese team members became more impatient as they could not grab the ball, but they were afraid that the Japanese team would not dare to make a big move, and they were timid in the fight. And two players were given yellow cards because they were too big when grabbing the ball.

As time passed by little by little, the Chinese team could not organize threatening attacks, but was almost counterattacked by the Japanese team and then exceeded the goal. Fortunately, the goalkeeper was brave and avoided the disaster. In this way, the first half ended and the Japanese team led 1:0.

During the intermission, the bar was in a mess, and everyone expressed their opinions, and it was a mess. The second son leaned against the bar alone and drank quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Suddenly someone sighed: "If Ling Feng, the national youth league, was not injured in the past, would have been missing a spiritual leader with comprehensive skills like him."

Everyone nodded one after another and suddenly the sound of the wine glass shattering. Everyone looked in the sound and saw Erzi silently looking at the broken wine glass on the ground. Everyone was very surprised that everyone who came here was regular customers, secretly calling Erzi a weirdo because he never talked much. He was not very close to anyone in a place like a mixed bar, including men and women. Of course, he had never seen him react so much. Even if the Chinese team was scored just now, Erzi's face was calm.

Erzi didn't say anything, but just silently swept the debris on the ground into the trash can. Everyone was used to him like this, and didn't care, and continued the topic just now.

"If Ling Feng still plays football, he will only be twenty-seven or eight years old this year. It's the peak period. Oh! What a pity, such a genius was actually destroyed by a car accident. On behalf of fans across the country, I curse the driver who gave birth to a son without an asshole!" The fat man shouted from the side.

"Not necessarily," every time the fat man poured cold water, he must be glasses. "When did the national youth team participate in the World Youth Championship, they didn't produce one or two players with potential? But later, as long as they entered the so-called Super League, they would definitely lose! The so-called country is not as good as the national Olympics, and the national Olympics is not as good as the national youth. Something happened not long after Ling Feng entered, so he left a good influence for everyone, otherwise even a genius like him would be ruined."

"What are you talking nonsense?" The fat man is familiar with glasses now, and he is not serious. "I haven't heard that Ling Feng has been attracted by Paris Saint-Germain? He passed the trial training there, but the club here will not let anyone go! Mom! For his own interests, he hid such a good player, but something happened. It's really TMD's damn it!'

Everyone continued to talk none of them, and no one noticed the tears on Erzi's face covered by her long hair.

The fifteen minutes of the half-time break passed quickly. At the beginning of the second half, the Chinese team seemed to realize that losing one goal was also a loss, and losing two goals was also a loss, and began a large counterattack.

Dong Fangzhuo has been honing in Europe for many years, and the pressure on the defense of the Japanese team has increased dramatically. The two midfielders Zhao Xuri and Shaojia, who also played in Europe, have also made the Japanese team's defender two big heads. With the awakening of several overseas players in the frontcourt, the Chinese team's offensive suddenly strengthened, and several threatening shots scared half of the Japanese goalkeeper's life.

But the Japanese team is not a rookie. They already have the strength of a second-rate European team, and they have more overseas players than China. In just a few minutes, the Japanese team adapted to China's attack, and the two sides were in a stalemate. What's not bad is that the Japanese team started the same delay tactic as the first half.

Time passed by minute by minute, and fifteen minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and the Chinese team's offense still did not improve. Chinese players began to become impetuous again. They were eager to score goals and acted too hard on defense. Veteran Dewey received another yellow card, which was the third yellow card for the Chinese team in this game.

There is a saying that football is round and everything can happen. The game changes occurred in the 17th minute. Shaojiayi was knocked down at the midfield arc and obtained an indirect free kick about 40 meters away from the goal. Generally speaking, such a ball is not threatening. The kick-off players often serve quickly and launch a fast attack when the opponent's player fails to react. However, the opponent's players are not fools. They will stand next to the ball before the free throw to block the opponent's serve quickly until the referee signales him to leave. The same is true for this free kick. Zhao Xuri wants to serve quickly, but was interfered by the experienced veteran Junichi Inamoto, and had to put the ball on the ground and wait for the referee's intervention.

The referee indeed signaled that Jun Inamoto will start at once. When Jun Inamoto saw that his players had returned to the defensive position, he knew that his goal had been achieved, so he slowly left. The Chinese team's chance of fast attack was destroyed, and Zhao Xuri also expected this result, so he passed the ball to the penalty area according to the usual drills, waiting for his teammates to grab the spot in the chaos.

However, the ball was passed a little too much and was directly sent to the near the small penalty area, which was the control range of the goalkeeper. The Chinese forward Xu Gang, who was 1.86 meters tall, subconsciously jumped and grabbed the spot, but he did not reach the ball. However, the Japanese defender Suzuki Gawa-Heng, also subconsciously jumped and grabbed the spot. A dramatic scene happened. Suzuki Gawa-Heng did not hit the ball, but the ball was missing and flew towards the Japanese goal. The Japanese goalkeeper was not in a position to defend, and watched the ball change direction and flew into his own goal.

Own! The Japanese team gave China a goal! The score became 1:1 tie!

The Japanese team was fainted! All the Chinese players were fainted for three seconds before they could react. They rushed towards Xu Gang together and pressed him under them. Although he didn't score the ball, if he hadn't jumped up and stimulated Suzuki Gawa-Heng, they would have given us a goal so "friendly".

The Chinese fans in the bar were also crazy! They jumped onto the table one by one, shouting and jumping around. Indeed, there was only one goal left, and the game was nearly half an hour, and the Chinese team still hoped again! Only the second son sighed softly. With his eyes, Dong Fangzhuo's camera flashed on the TV just now. Although it flashed by, he still found that Dong Fangzhuo was panting, and the Japanese veteran Nakada Hideho, who was standing next to him, had a flash of energy in his eyes.

The Chinese team's celebration ended soon because they knew that time is victory and they had to seize every remaining minute to score goals.

The Chinese team's offensive began to become fierce again, but the Japanese team still looked like they were desperate, slowly controlling the ball and slowly pounding their feet.

Dong Fangzhuo ran desperately in the frontcourt, hoping to break the ball from the Japanese defensive player, but how could the opponent be cut so easily? In the end, he still consumed his own physical strength.

The Chinese team's several attacks have failed, while the Japanese team is getting harder and harder, and even the goal is not big. Several players keep thrusting in the midfield. Every time the Chinese team fails to shoot, it takes about three minutes to wait until they hit the ball again.

More than 10,000 Chinese fans who attended the game began to boo, but that was the home court. The cheering and shouting of tens of thousands of Japanese fans at home completely overwhelmed the booing of Chinese fans. The Chinese team did not occupy the right time, place, and people.

The dull twenty minutes passed again, and less than ten minutes before the end of the game, the Chinese players began to pant, while the Japanese team was still passing the ball slowly. Suddenly, Shaojiayi grabbed the Japanese team's ball in the midfield and immediately passed it to Zhao Xuri. Zhao Xuri flashed over a defender who came up to press and then stuffed the ball to Dong Fangzhuo who was quickly forward. Within a few seconds, three overseas players completed a cooperation from defense to offense. Dong Fangzhuo quickly dribbled the ball, leaving only Jia Tengyuan, a defender in front of him, and all Chinese fans' hearts were in their throats. Dong Fangzhuo made a very wonderful fake move, and changed direction and broke through the defense in the moment when Jia Tengyuan hesitated, and Yu goalkeeper met alone!

The Japanese goalkeeper abandoned the goal and attacked, and the two sides were about to make a separate collision. Dong Fangzhuo had already brought the ball to the penalty area and was about to shoot, but as soon as he raised his foot, he suddenly felt a strong force hitting behind him and flew out involuntarily. In the air, Dong Fangzhuo turned around and saw only the proud smile of Japanese veteran Eisu Nakada.

The referee blew the whistle in his hand, and Nakata immediately ran to Dong Fangzhuo and pulled him up, and apologized "sincerely". When the referee saw that Nakata Hidesu's attitude was so good, he took out his hand that was about to take out the cards and only awarded a free kick in front of the penalty area to the Chinese team.

Dong Fangzhuo was pulled up by Nakata, but he knew that Nakata Hideho's actions just now were intentional, but there was no way. The referee's penalty could not be changed. He patted the grass clippings on his body and prepared to go to the penalty area to grab the spot.

He had just taken a step and suddenly felt extremely painful in his right leg muscles, "It was a cramp!' Dong Fangzhuo immediately realized that he had overdrawn. He didn't notice it while running quickly. Once he stopped and suffered such a impact, his body could no longer bear it.

Seeing Dong Fangzhuo lying on the ground in pain, the fans in the bar roared and scolded Nakada Hideho for doing it on purpose. After all, Dong Fangzhuo alone took over most of the Chinese team's attacks in the game. If he could not play, it would be fatal to the Chinese team's attack.

The referee suspended the game, and the nurses quickly came on the court to lift Dong Fangzhuo for simple treatment, hoping to play as soon as possible, but everyone knows that once the season is drawn, it is impossible to recover in a short period of time. In other words, even if Dong Fangzhuo returns to the court, he can only play half of his previous level at best. When the Chinese team must win, the coach is likely to replace a striker with a physical striker. There is still a certain gap between the Chinese team's substitute player and Dong Fangzhuo. According to this situation, the Chinese team's form is very unfavorable.

Sure enough, Chinese team coach Chen Fu replaced Dong Fangzhuo with young player Zhang Peng. Zhang Peng is a speed player, but he is a little less skilled in his feet, so Chen Fu's move was forced to do so.

The game continued, and the Chinese team sent a free kick, Shaojia shot directly, but was saved by the Japanese goalkeeper, Xu Gang made a follow-up shot, and the ball hit the Japanese team's defender and bounced out of the baseline. The Chinese team's corner kick.

Zhao Xuri transferred the ball to the penalty area with big feet. Jiatengyuan headed the ball at the front point, and Junichi Inamoto took the ball and passed it to Hidesu Nakada. Nakada bypassed the Chinese player who pressed it and squeezed it to Ryuichi Yamaguchi on the side. Fortunately, the Chinese team has been paying attention to the Japanese team's fast attack. Dewey rushed up and destroyed the ball out of the baseline, destroying the Japanese team's offense.
Chapter completed!
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