There is a belief called football

Chapter 287 Dream Time
In the dead of night, Stan sits in front of the computer and reads the materials and thinks about problems. Although it is the information age, Stan still habitually prepares a notebook at hand every time he reads the materials. Stan likes to copy down the names of the players, and then "talk about soldiers" on the paper. This is the habit that Stan has developed since he was young.

Watching the Ukrainian game video, Stan thinks this team is great. Eastern European football is like this. They cannot be superstars like Germany, Brazil, and Argentina every generation of players, but they will cultivate a golden generation every once in a while.

For example, Croatian football, since the retirement of "Suker" and "Boban", Croatian football has also been in a downturn for a while, but with the rise of players like "Rakitic", "Modric" and "Mandzukic", Croatian football has returned to the first-class level in Europe.

The same is true for Ukraine. After the golden metabolite of the 06 World Cup, Ukrainian football has also been in a downturn for a while, but now their young generation is rising rapidly. Among them, the most famous are the Ukrainian wings-"Konoplyanka", "Yarmolenko", of course the iron waist "Prahimi" and the forward "Korbin" are all excellent new stars cultivated by Ukraine itself.

While the younger generation is rising, the older generation is still shining. The Ukrainian team also brought the veteran "Tymoshchuk" to Brazil. During the qualifiers and the World Cup group stage, every time it comes to a critical moment, this veteran can play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army.

So Stan really has no good way to face this Ukrainian team that combines the "old golden generation" and the "new golden generation".

Stan repeatedly drew the offensive line map in his notebook, and then tore up the paper dissatisfied, crumpled it up and threw it into the wastebasket.

"The competition is tomorrow, and I don't know if Li Qiao can pass the final physical examination," Stein thought.

Qualifying from the group stage is considered a big prize for the Chinese team, but people are not popular enough, and people are greedy. No one wants to go on in the World Cup.

To be honest, Stan once fantasized about the "Hercules Cup" for a moment. I remember that "Keisuke Honda" of the Japanese team said before the expedition that "the goal of the Japanese team is to win the championship."

Closing his eyes, Stan imagined the moment when the Chinese team lifted the Gold Cup, "It's so beautiful, with Monte Cristo in the distance as the background, and under the night sky, the Chinese team lifted the Hercules Cup."

After thinking about it, Stan smiled and even blushed. When imagining a goal that seems out of reach, someone will always say you are "ah Q", "Whatever, don't think about it, let's talk about tomorrow's things tomorrow."

*****
The next day, race day.

The road to the stadium has been closed in advance. Two explosion-proof vehicles in front and two explosion-proof vehicles in the back escorted the Chinese team's bus to the stadium.

On the bus, the players listened to music with earphones. They were always nervous before going out to play. Professional players are used to listening to their favorite music as a way to relax.

In the last physical examination before the game, everyone got a good news, that is, Dong Zhou agreed that Li Qiao can enter the 18-man roster for this game, that is, he gave Stan a health certificate, which is very important for the team.

Everyone looked at the fans on the side of the road outside the car window, and waved to them from time to time. Stan looked at the fans outside the warning area 10 meters away, trotting and chasing the bus, and felt very proud in his heart. As a football coach, it is indeed the focus of attention. "Perhaps only football in the world can attract so much attention."

When we arrived at the stadium, when everyone got off the bus, according to what we discussed in advance, everyone needed to shout a slogan for this game. Stan started and asked: "What time is it now?" The players would answer in unison: "Dream time".

After shouting the slogan, everyone waved to the following cameras, and then walked into the stadium quickly.

*****
In the locker room, Stan announced the starting lineup to everyone. Surprisingly, it was exactly the same as the last game, and the formation was the same.For a long time, Stan's starting lineup has always been talked about as unpredictable, and some gaming companies even offered odds on how many players Stan would change in the starting lineup.

If someone made a bet for the Chinese team before this game, it is estimated that he has already lost a lot.

After announcing the most important starting lineup, Stan looked at everyone silently, and then suddenly bowed to the players.

"You have done well enough. No matter what the result of this game is, I am proud of you. Mourinho's eternal pride is that Porto team. The greatest success of Ferguson's life is his class of 92. And I, my pride is you. Because of you, I did not become a football coach in vain."

After Stan finished speaking, many players couldn't help crying.Two photos circulated on the Internet a few years ago. The previous one was taken by Manchester United's class of 92 in 1992. There were 7 people in the photo - Ferguson, Beckham, Scholes, Butt, Giggs and the Neville brothers.The second photo is also these 7 people, and even the order of arrangement on the photo is the same, but the shooting time is in 2011.

No matter how brilliant a person’s career is, there may be only one real pride. Just like Ferguson, in addition to Class 92, he also has Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ronaldo, Nani, Ferdinand and other players, but it is generally recognized that Ferguson’s greatest achievement is him and his Class of 92.

"I believe that 20 years later, 30 years later, when people mention me again, people will say that Stan is the first coach to lead the Chinese team to the top 16 of the World Cup. No, maybe this sentence will be on my epitaph."

"No, not just the top 16," Zhou Dun said.

"Stan, write on your epitaph the first coach who led the Chinese team to lift the Hercules Cup," Qi Bing said.

As soon as the words fell, the teammates applauded Qi Bing's words, "Stan, you are too petty, since we are all standing here, let's continue to dream", Li Weifeng said.

"Okay, let's dream together, and hope that our dream can go to "Rio" and reach the foot of Monte Cristo," Stein said.

*****
"Friends of the audience, the commentary for this game is brought to you by Duan Xuan at the "Pernambuco State Arena" in Recife, Brazil."

"I don't know if you have heard how enthusiastic the atmosphere is here from the sound of the live broadcast. I can see that the number of Chinese fans in this game is far more than that of Ukrainian fans. The number of Chinese fans is similar to that of the previous game. There are also about 1 people, but the Ukrainian fans wearing yellow jerseys probably have less than 1 people in the stands."

At this moment, there was a burst of noise at the scene, which was caused by everyone playing crowd.

"Now the fans are playing human waves under the leadership of the host. From my point of view, the red human wave formed by Chinese fans and the yellow human wave formed by Brazilian and Ukrainian fans complement each other. If I am not in the commentary booth, I really want to join them to play together."

"Let me introduce to you the starting lineup I just got. For the Chinese team, Stan did not give you any surprises in this game. It is exactly the same as the starting lineup for the game against England."

"But I'll give you a brief introduction,
Goalkeeper "Wang Dalei",
From left to right in the defense line, Qi Bing, Zhou Dun, Wei Xiao, Chen Fei,
The midfielders are Zhang Linpeng, Zheng Zhi, Hao Junmin,
Frontcourt, Li Qiao, Lin Zhijian, Ding Mu.

4231 formation".

"Among them, Li Qiao is the most special. Before this morning, everyone predicted that he would definitely not appear in the starting lineup for this game, but news came out during lunch that Li Qiao still passed the pre-match physical examination, so now we are not particularly surprised to see him appear in the starting lineup."

"Just a brief introduction to the starting list of the Chinese team is enough. I believe that after half a month, everyone is very familiar with the boys of the Chinese team. Many people probably know this list by heart."

"But our opponent, the Ukrainian team, is relatively unfamiliar to many Chinese fans. Although CCTV5 has been reporting on this team every day these days, because this is the second time for Ukraine to participate in the World Cup, from the outside world, this is also a mysterious team."

"Suffice it to say, the starting lineup of the Ukrainian team is,
Goalkeeper, Pyatov.

The back line is from right to left, Gusev, Zhizov, Berezov, Khacheridi.

The double midfielders are Brahimi and Rakitsky.

On the forward line are Konopriyanka, Seleznov and Yarmolenko.

Solo striker, Corbin.

It is also a 4231 formation, and the coach of Ukraine is "Marsh".

"The fans heard a burst of cheers just now. It was the Chinese players coming out to warm up. But I still want to introduce our opponents. Their strongest is the two wingers. Konoplyanka and Yarmolenko are wingers called monsters by many European experts. They are also very young. Later, it will depend on how the Chinese team will mark them. At least the three opponents in the Ukrainian group stage did not do this well."

"I think the audience friends are most concerned about the number 9 Li Qiao of the Chinese team. Now Li Qiao is warming up, but he is still running alone. This is not a good signal, because usually the Chinese team's forwards warm up. The main thing is to shoot. Of course, this may also be a strategy arranged by Stan to confuse the opponent and deliberately let Li Qiao do this."

"The current Chinese team is a solid whole. Even if Li Qiao really can't last the whole game, I think Zhang Xizhe, Park Sung and others can stand up."

"In 20 minutes, the much-anticipated quarter-finals of the World Cup will start. I am a little excited now. Let me calm down and bring you this game later."

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(End of this chapter)