Football Manager: Use The Second Division Team To Beat The National Football Team At The Beginning

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Qi Dong and Fan Yi led the team into Liangang Jinzhou Stadium for venue adaptability training.

Fan Yi walked into this stadium again. This stadium was both familiar and unfamiliar to Fan Yi, and he still had endless regrets.

Golden State doesn’t believe in tears.

Qi Dong saw that Fan Yi's emotions were a little complicated and asked casually:

"Coach Fan won't think of that match in 1997 again, right? You were the one who witnessed it."

Fan Yi took a long sigh, smiled sadly, and asked Qi Dong: "You know this, you were just born in 1997, right?"

Qi Dong burst into laughter: "My dad is also a football fan. I was born on October 31st. My mom said I was angry with you.

Fan Yi completely recalled the past:

"At that time, the national football team's lineup could be said to be the strongest in the past thirty years. After football began to become professional in 1994, the league reached its climax and the competitive level of the national football team reached its peak.

At that time, we were really close to the World Cup and had many opportunities, but we squandered them all.

Sometimes I think, if we were like Linjiang Sanhe, regardless of the strength of the opponent, we would just score goals, and we wouldn't have reached the Century Cup in 2002.

Sometimes 10 I think that we have lost to inferiority, arrogance and lack of confidence.

The players are not confident, the coaches are not confident, the media is not confident, and even the fans are not confident either.

Many people say that old man Milu is not good. In fact, that old man has some advantages. It can make people calm and confident.

Fan Yi put away his emotions and looked around the stadium carefully, with mixed emotions.

Qi Dong deeply believed in Fan Yi's words and did not feel that Fan Yi's words were bragging at all.

The national football lineup and the competitive level of the players that year even surpassed the one that participated in the World Cup in 2002, and indeed represented the highest level of the national football team in the past 30 years.

Fan Yi was also named Yazhou Footballer that year.

But in the end, I left too many regrets in this stadium.

The size of Jinzhou Stadium is actually slightly smaller than Sanhe Stadium, with a capacity of approximately 37,000 people.

It is now the home ground of the Chinese Super League team Lien Hong Kong and the second-division team Zhixing Tianxia.

However, the history of this stadium is much longer than that of Sanhe Stadium, dating back to 1955.

The most important event hosted by Jinzhou Stadium was the 1998 World Cup Qualifiers Asian Top Ten Tournament, the home court of the Chinese team.

On September 13, 1997, the Chinese men’s football team faced its first opponent, the Iranian team, in the world preliminaries.

At the end of the first half, Fan Yi scored with a penalty kick. In the 55th minute of the second half, Li Ming scored again with a long shot, leading the Iranian team 2:0.

At this time, the national football team had good control on the field, and the Iranian team basically had no chance, especially Li Ming's score in the world wave, which was both exciting and inspiring. All fans believed that winning was no problem.

But in the following time, the Iranian team's trident, Bagheri, Aziz, and Alidai began to show their power and control the situation on the court. The right back Madavechia showed his magic and emerged from the sky, scoring two goals, and finally ended with 4:2 reversal and victory.

After losing in the first round, the Huaxia team achieved a record of 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the next 4 games.

In this way, as long as they defeat Qatar in the sixth game, they still have a chance to get a ticket to the World Cup.

Qatar was also recognized as a weak team at the time.

On October 31, 1997, the Chinese team faced the Qatar team at the Golden State Stadium.

This game is also the focus of the top 10 matches.

As long as they win this game, the national football team will have a great chance to directly get tickets to the World Cup.

At that time, in terms of paper performance and recent status, the national football team was better.

The Chinese team led by Qi Wusheng is a bit complacent. There is no reason to lose this game, and even a draw will be considered a failure.

But it is a pity that tragedy really happened. The national football team finally lost to Qatar 2 to 3 and missed the World Cup finals by only 1 point!

Soon after the first half started, the national football team took the lead through Fan Yi's assist and Gao Feng's header!

However, as the team's defensive midfielder, Li Gang made several low-level mistakes when defending, allowing his opponents to repeatedly threaten the national team's goal!

As a result, the fans watching the game shouted "Replace Li Gang" loudly, one after another!

Head coach Qi Wusheng failed to withstand the pressure and replaced Li Gang in the 30th minute of the first half.

With the end of Li Gang, the "perpetual motion machine" on the court, the national football team's defensive midfielder was insufficient. At the end of the first half, Qatar seized on the national football team's defense mistakes and scored a goal.

In the 55-60 minutes of the second half, 2 goals were scored in a row.

At that time, Li Gang was 21 years old.

When the game entered the last 10 minutes, Fan Yi's volley in the penalty area helped the national football team regain a goal.

But until the end of the game, the national football team was unable to equalize the score, and eventually lost to Qatar 2-3.

Fans, many media and even the coaching staff believe that the Chinese team has been reversed again in this stadium and has completely shattered their dream of the World Cup in France.

In fact, even at this time, the fans are extremely angry towards the national football team, but the national football team actually still has hope of qualifying!

As long as they defeat Saudi Arabia in the penultimate round, Iran lose again, and defeat Kuwait in the final round, the national football team will be able to advance.

However, the coaching staff, including the media, never expected that Iran would lose. Therefore, the national football team faced Saudi Arabia and played haphazardly.

After the national football team tied with Saudi Arabia 1:1, Iran lost incredibly 0:2. The Chinese team's original opportunity was once again squandered by themselves.

At that time, among the spectators watching the game, there was a spectator who came all the way from Fuzhou and whose online name was Lao Rong. He came with his son on a "pilgrimage" and witnessed the "tragedy".

After returning home, he published an article titled "Lian Hong Kong, 397 states don't believe in tears", which moved thousands of fans to tears and has been circulated to this day!

Lao Rong described the scene at that time:

Starting from one to two, the fans were actually very calm, so calm!

At this time, night fell and the temperature was very low. Everyone felt even colder and had no choice but to calm down.

Come on, all the Chinese team in the audience! Qi Wusheng turned into a neat and thunderous team. After class two

At this time, everyone in the audience, including the semi-official fans next door, were cheering for every attack of Qatar and calming down for the Chinese team's messy attack!

Only my poor son still doesn’t understand why so many people suddenly called someone out of class instead of saying “come on,” and continued to wave the national flag in his hand and hoarsely yelled, “China team, come on.”

The final whistle sounded. Maybe there was something wrong with my feelings at this time, and I felt peaceful for a while. For a moment, the stadium erupted into thunderous and tragic applause and cheers. Only my son finally sat down feebly after standing in the cold wind for two hours.

The Qatari team happily danced in a circle on the court, and the semi-official cheerleading team next door and the entire audience were in jubilation.

Qi Dong and Fan Yi told the same story. Jinzhou didn't believe in tears.

(Dear readers, thank you for your support. Starting from today, I will resume updating. In fact, I could write more in the last two chapters. The content involved was afraid of being banned, so I ended it hastily. Please forgive me).