World Cup of Great Powers

Chapter 83
The third round of the World Cup has not yet started, and the news of South Korea's coaching change continues to ferment.

After Cha Bum-geun got out of class, Jin Ping-seok, who had only coached the women's football team before and was an assistant to Cha Bum-geun in this World Cup, and participated in the 1986 World Cup as a player, was ordered in danger. The South Korean coach competing for the vice squad leader of this World Cup
After the two rounds of the group stage, Brazil, Nigeria, Romania, and Argentina have already qualified ahead of schedule; the United States, Tunisia, Jamaica and Little Days have already been eliminated early.

Therefore, although the Chinese team also lost two games in a row, judging from the current group situation, the deputy squad leader is really out of touch with the Chinese team.

Faced with the situation that has already been eliminated, "Asahi Shimbun" recently reported that Xiaodai's star Hidetoshi Nakata said that in the last match against Jamaica for honor, he must score a goal to prevent this World Cup from going empty-handed. return.

Seeing Hidetoshi Nakata's remarks, domestic fans nodded.

Yoo Sang-chul also said in the "Seoul Daily", "Although South Korea is out, it also plays an important role in Group E."

"Because of the last game, South Korea will dominate the fate of Belgium's qualifying."

"If Belgium wants to qualify, it depends on their faces."

"So in the last game, they will definitely fight for the South Korean fans and impress their opponents in the World Cup."

Domestic fans still agreed after hearing the words.

The Japanese and South Korean players all expressed their views, and the South Korean bamboo shoes took the lead in setting an example.

Our players or bamboo shoes, you should stand up and say something!

However, in addition to the daily public training, from the inside to the outside, not everyone in the Chinese team said anything to the camera.

Although everyone can see the players and coaches, whether it is the international football team or the staff, it seems that they have closed themselves off and completely cut off contact with the outside world.

On June 6rd, at 23:19 Beijing time, three hours before the start of the third round of the World Cup, Zhuxie finally dropped the big bomb that had been held back for a long time.

Horton, like Cha Bum-geun, has been suspended pending investigation.

It is the assistant coach Zeng Zheng who temporarily replaced Horton and led the team to play the third World Cup match!
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar.

Those fans who are waiting to watch the World Cup are okay, they just bought two more bottles of beer and ordered two more plates of appetizers.

And those editor-in-chiefs of the media started to call the workers again, and worked overtime to print, trying to seize the market as soon as possible.

Good guy!
You only released the news one day before the last match of the World Cup, Zhu Xie, you are really calm!
I made up my mind not to give the fans time to react.

However, this result is acceptable to everyone.

Who is Zeng Zheng?

Maybe after the top ten games, there are still some people who don't know Zeng Zheng very well;

But after the Toulon Cup, there is no one in the football world who does not know Zeng Zheng's name.

This young marshal, who is only 28 years old this year, has gradually grown in the hearts of fans with a Toulon Cup championship.

Seeing Zeng Zheng once again stand up to take over the national football team this time, the opposition is much less than last time.

There is only one reason.

That is, Zeng Zheng "broke" into this World Cup;

Even if it is "wasting" all the games, only Zeng Zheng is qualified to do so.

Now Horton has lost two games in a row, and he is in deep trouble.

Zeng Zheng took over the national team to play this crucial third game, and the fans are still very willing.

In the words of former Liaozu coach Wang Hongli, "Zeng Zheng leads this third game, even if we lose, we admit it!"

Various media outlets worked overtime, and in just one hour, they produced a special tabloid that only sold for [-] cents.

This tabloid, which is more like a brochure, introduces Zeng Zheng's life in detail, and also introduces the relationship between him and Jianlibao, as well as Zeng Zheng's achievements.

Most importantly, a color photo of Zeng Zheng was printed in the center of the tabloid.

Even the "Beijing Evening News" kindly gave him a nickname: Fire Fighting Xiao Zeng!
In any case, seeing that the head coach of the national team has been appointed, the fans are finally relieved.

At 10:[-] p.m. Beijing time, the last two games of Group B will be played first.

Italy 2-1 Austria, Chile 1-1 Cameroon.

As a result, Italy won 2 wins and 1 tie to qualify for the top spot in the group; Chile evened three games and failed to win one game, and even miraculously qualified from the group.

Then came the last two games of Group A, Morocco beat Scotland 3-0, but Brazil lost 1-2 to Norway.

In this way, although Morocco won the last game, they had no choice but to accept the result of packing and going home.

After the last match of Group A, it was already 11 pm on the French side.

"Beep."

Zeng Zheng pressed the switch on the remote control and turned off the TV.

Chi Shangbin couldn't bear it any longer, and asked tentatively, "Xiao Zeng, we've finished watching the match, so you don't want to express your opinion?"

In the past two days when Zeng Zheng took over, he not only played "empty city tricks" externally, but also "Xu Shu entered Cao Ying" internally, without saying a word.

At the beginning, both the coach and the international team felt that Zeng Zheng had to be given a period of time to adapt and adjust.

But seeing that the third game is about to start.

Not only did Zeng Zheng not arrange any tactics, he didn't even reveal anything about the starting players.

Even in the past two days, apart from the daily schedule, what I did most was to sit on a stool in a daze, and sometimes I even got stuck when I was eating.

No one knew what Zeng Zheng was thinking.

But it can be seen from his increasingly haggard face that Zeng Zheng is under tremendous pressure in his heart at this time.

"What's your opinion?"

Zeng Zheng poured himself a glass of boiling water, "Didn't you see how Norway qualified?"

"What do you mean?" Jin Zhiyang asked quickly.

"It means you don't think too much, I'm not the Jade Emperor!"

Zeng Zheng took a sip of water weakly, "If the French team wants to preserve their strength like Brazil in the last game, it's useless if we play tricks!"

indeed.

The Chinese team is different from Xiaotian and South Korea.

Little days and Jamaica are all fighting for honor, and South Korea's opponent Belgium still has a chance.

The Chinese team and South Africa have their own opportunities, but unlike the Danes, the opportunities are in their own hands.

"Two coaches, I'll give you an account today."

"In the last game, I can only guarantee not to collapse."

"As for the result, whether it's a loss or something, I can't make any guarantees!"

Seeing Zeng Zheng's haggard appearance, Jin Chi and Jin Chi looked at each other and both sighed.

"Xiao Zeng, you don't have to put so much pressure on yourself."

"Yes, yes, we are prepared for any result."

Zeng Zheng rolled his eyes.

You are all prepared, so why don't you two get along?

Is it useful to say sarcastic remarks right now?
"Xiao Zeng, don't worry, domestic fans probably won't know that you lead the team until now."

"You can just play normally."

"Of course, if you can score a goal, that would be great!"

In the end, the "little tail" of Jin Chi and his wife was still exposed.

Zeng Zheng didn't bother to argue with the two of them at the moment.

He stood up and sent the two of them out of the house.

Then sit on the bed.Continue to "daze" again.

Ever since he nodded to take over the national team, Zeng Zheng has been simulating the results against the South African team in his mind.

A game lasts 90 minutes, including sleep time, Zeng Zheng simulates at least 10 games a day.

So far in two and a half days, Zeng Zheng has simulated a total of 30 games.

Under the current lineup of the national team, there is only one-fifth of the winning rate.

No matter how Zeng Zheng adjusted his formation, changed his style of play, or changed players, the game always showed a one-sided situation.

In the few games we won, we either relied on counterattacks to score goals, or relied on penalties and own goals, and the point difference was only 1.

Although this kind of simulated battle does not represent the real result, nor can it completely simulate the actual field situation. After all, human psychological activities are the most difficult to figure out.

Even so, it can still reflect the shortcomings of your own team from the side,

Using this function, the only thing Zeng Zheng can do is to improve the bottom line of the national team as much as possible, so as not to easily cause the phenomenon of comprehensive collapse caused by mistakes in employing and replacing players.

After simulating another game, the result was a 2-2 tie.

Being able to score two goals in South Africa is already the result of Zeng Zheng's exhaustive simulation.

After counting the time, Zeng Zheng lay down on the bed and fell asleep directly.

Looking at the exchange points he had accumulated in the training ground in his dream, Zeng Zheng gritted his teeth, took out 2200 points, and named the names of 11 starting players.

"He NN, if anyone is still awake, I will never force you to play tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)