On September 1st, the Chinese men's football team ended its five-month training camp. Of course, it was only four months for Wu Jie.

A month ago, Su Yongshun announced the squad for the Asian Cup.

Wu Jie's name is clearly on the list. Although he is placed last among the forwards, players who have participated in the training camp know who is the person with the strongest scoring ability in the team. Wu Jie has set a record of 20 consecutive team training games.

A record of all goals scored in the game.

Those undrafted players returned to their respective teams to play in the league a month ago. Everyone knows that if nothing unexpected happens, this roster will also be the roster for the World Cup preliminaries in December, unless a player is injured or

Poor performance in the Asian Cup.

Wu Jie is not worried that his performance will not be good at all. He bluntly said that in his eyes, all Asian teams are too weak, including his teammates.

Now I am afraid that my teammates will not give their best. As a forward, he can guarantee to score goals in every game.

But if the defense is leaking everywhere and the midfield has no control and cannot deliver enough shells, he will have to fight alone.

So there is still some pressure in this task. If he really misses the championship, he will not even be qualified to play with eggs for four consecutive years.

There are 18 teams participating in this year's Asian Cup. The competition format is extremely backward "preliminaries", "group stage" and "knockout"!

The sports competition systems of this era are all very unscientific in design, even the World Cup matches are no exception, and the Asian Fishpond is even more of a mess.

This format allows the host Kuwait and the previous champion Iran to enter the group stage directly without playing in the preliminaries.

In the preliminaries, 16 teams are divided into four groups to compete, and the top two in each group advance to the group stage, which is the main draw.

The preliminaries groupings of the Chinese team were released last month. Their opponents in the same group are the Philippines, Macau, and South Korea.

"New news!"

"Get side mission: Prevent Koreanophobia!"

"Task requirement: Please help the Chinese men's football team face South Korea/South Korea with a better winning rate!"

"Mission status: Chinese team 0:2 South Korean team."

"Task reward: The winning rate of the Chinese men's football team is better than that of the South Korean/South Korean men's football team, and 100 Olympic points will be added every day!"

"Mission punishment: The winning rate of the Chinese men's football team is lower than that of the South Korean/South Korean men's football team, and 100 Olympic points will be reduced every day!"

When Wu Jie saw this mission, not only did he not have any resistance in his heart, he was even very happy to receive such a mission.

At this time, South Korean football had not yet taken off, and it was only half as good as China.

Especially during the period from 1980 to 1985, the two teams were at the top level in Asia, and there was not much difference in strength between them.

After that, the strength of South Korea and Japan steadily increased, while China's strength began to decline year by year.

But the real gap has gradually widened since 1995. It’s not too much to say that League A will die first, right?

Now this grouping can just allow him to give South Korea a beating. If it can make South Korea suffer from "Sinophobia" or something like that, that would be the best thing.

But when he saw the mission status, Wu Jie couldn't calm down. Why did he fall behind 0:2 as soon as he started?

After a last check on offline Baidu, I found out that the two teams met for the first time in 1978 after the founding of New China.

At the Asian Games in Bangkok, South Korea defeated China 1:0. In the same year, a dozen days later, in the Asian Cup preliminaries in Manila, South Korea defeated China again 1:0.

This is the current record of all the matches between the two teams. Any further away is from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, so the mission progress of 0:2 is shown.

But this is too deceptive. Shouldn't it be reasonable to start from his first game against South Korea?

Who can bear to fall behind 0:2 at this point!

However, the system will only answer some questions and will not respond to his protest.

So he can only start from the cheating 0:2, and starting from today, he will have to deduct 100 Olympic coins every day!

On September 10, Wu Jie, who was impatient to defeat South Korea, took a flight from Hong Kong to Kuwait with the Chinese team.

There were also players from the Hong Kong team on this plane, and they were assigned to a group with Japan.

The Hong Kong team is quite confident that it will appear in the group. Before the 1980s, they were Asia's top strength for most of the time. In the early and mid-1970s, they also had back-and-forth against teams such as Japan and South Korea.

However, with the rise of Hong Kong's entertainment industry, Hong Kong's football market began to turn from prosperity to decline in the 1970s, and Hong Kong football also began to decline. In the past year or two, it has gradually fallen to the second-tier ranking, while mainland China has quickly risen to the top.

The Guangdong team has been actively communicating with the Hong Kong team since the 1970s. Most of the players on both sides know each other, and it is very convenient for both sides to communicate in Cantonese.

Of course, the northern players couldn't understand Cantonese, they were not familiar with the Hong Kong players, and they even didn't have a good relationship with the Guangdong players. At this time, they were all sitting in their seats with their eyes closed and concentrating.

Wu Jie didn't care about the conflict between northern players and southern players. He already knew that the two groups of players disliked each other, because most of the Guangdong players in Su Yongshun's roster were reused, while most of the northern players had to be substitutes.

FIFA in this era requires that each team can register a maximum of 22 players, of which 4 are substitutes, 18 are in the squad, and 11 are in the roster.

Su Yongshun has established an 18-man roster, but the lineup makes the northern players very dissatisfied because 5 of the 11 players are from Guangdong, especially the midfielders and frontcourt players account for more than half of the players from the Guangdong team.

Zuo Shusheng is the most dissatisfied. He believes that his ability is obviously superior to Chen Xirong's and he should have a position in the midfield.

Xu Yonglai and Chen Jingang also had opinions. They both believed that Zhao Dayu's ability was not as good as theirs.

These northern players have been teaming up with Shen Xiangfu, Chi Shangbin and others, and now they are wooing Wu Jie. The reason is of course that he has people behind him and his strength is very outstanding.

If he can be lured to the Northern Gang, he will have a chance to squeeze out his position on the Guangdong team, and even force Su Yongshun to dismiss get out of class.

Wu Jie has always hated this kind of factionalism, especially those who insist on creating factions and cliques in the north and south.

Once this kind of thing breaks out, a team with excellent fighting ability can definitely fall apart in an instant.

But there is nothing he can do at the moment, because the players of the Guangdong team are also grouping together to exclude the northern faction.

Let's put it this way, most of these players now have the bad habit of forming cliques, regardless of whether they are from the north or the south, and make their positions more stable by ostracizing and suppressing their teammates.

Not only football, but all sports have the same ethics. From coaches and athletes to sports officials, most of them are engaged in various small circles and large circles.

There has always been no shortage of intrigues, mutual exclusion, and even secret frame-ups here.

If it is a confrontational sport, in order to gain opportunities and eliminate competitors, some people will resort to all possible means, and it is not uncommon to use dirty tricks and evil feet.

Wu Jie had already experienced these dark sides in his previous life, and he did not want to add to this disgusting experience in this life. He was not in the mood to slowly deal with interpersonal relationships with his team members.

The best thing is to prevent these people from provoking you or taking the initiative to curry favor with you.

As for the matter of creating factions, he doesn't care at all, because in his eyes, there is no difference in the abilities of these people. There is only a difference of two or three points at most. They are basically players of the same level.

The only people on this team who are really capable of being his helpers at this stage are Gu Guangming, Shen Xiangfu, Zhao Dayu, and veterans Rong Zhixing, Chi Shangbin, and Li Fusheng, who are also at a pretty good level.

But what he values ​​most is Gu Guangming, because his ultimate potential value has reached 84 points, and in terms of talent, he is slightly better than Cha Bumgen.

Zhao Dayu's ultimate potential value has also reached 82, Shen Xiangfu's ultimate potential value is 80, and Jia Xiuquan's ultimate potential value on the defense line has reached 83.

Rong Zhixing's ultimate potential value has also reached 84, but he is 33 years old this year, and it is rare to still be able to maintain a good competitive state.

Except for these few people, in Wu Jie's eyes, the rest are basically mediocre people who cannot be used in a big way. At most, they can only make do in Asian fish ponds.

After the Chinese team arrived in Kuwait City, the capital of Kuwait, they checked into a local luxury hotel. The group of people did not look like ignorant bumpkins. After all, many of them were old people who had been joining the national team for several years. will be too low.

Of course, Chinese players all like to go abroad to compete. The reason is of course that they can eat well and live well!

For matches hosted by the AFC, each team will bear part of the food, accommodation and travel expenses, and the event organizer will bear another part.

But this time, Kuwait is one of the richest people in West Asia. The royal family directly reduced the costs borne by the AFC to a small part. The accommodation, board and lodging, and travel expenses for all participating teams were much more generous than those in Iran in the previous tournament. .

The Chinese team arrived in Kuwait on the 11th. When they learned that the Kuwaiti royal family would reimburse all room and board expenses for teams arriving after the 1st, many people felt that they arrived too late.

This is an international practice. Teams arrive early to adapt to the local environment. They are responsible for their own expenses during this period. Generally, reimbursement starts three days before the start of the game.

So usually the Chinese team arrives at the competition venue just before the start of the game. Who knew that the Kuwaiti people were so heroic and started reimbursing half a month in advance? As a result, they missed an opportunity to eat from a big player!

The Chinese team's preliminaries are scheduled to be held in the capital, Kuwait City, a metropolis in West Asia. Many Chinese players believe that this city is more advanced than Hong Kong.

But Wu Jie had no interest in the West Asian metropolises of the 1980s. He was only interested in defeating these opponents, especially in beating South Korea violently.

The first opponent of the Chinese team is the Philippines. This country has few outstanding examples in various sports, and football is no exception.

Wu Jie has been holding back in intra-team competitions before, but this time in the Asian Cup he doesn't plan to suppress himself anymore.

Such a stage is neither big nor small.
Chapter completed!