"You are electricity, you are light, you are the only myth. I only love you, YOU ARE MY SUPERSTAR!"
Ma Fanshu hummed a song and walked home with his schoolbag on his back.
In the streets and alleys, she could hear people talking about the national team's promotion yesterday.
"Hey, have you heard? Our football team won again, I remember it was 5 to 1, but I didn't expect it to be a big victory!"
"I heard! My eldest son didn't sleep much last night. He woke up early this morning and had another hard time. He is probably dozing off at work now!"
"You said what's so good about football is that there are so many people fighting for one ball to kick. If it were me, I would just give one to each person and let them all have the ball to kick!"
"Come on, haven't you read what the experts have said? Football is a team sport, and goals are hard-won, so everyone will cherish them!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I don't understand this. I know that Wang Xiaodong's young man who has returned from overseas is good. He is handsome and energetic, and he is also a good athlete. It would be great if my granddaughter could marry him. And I heard that he lives abroad all year round. , if you give birth to a child, you won’t be able to speak English from an early age?”
"You're on to the point! My eldest daughter's daughter is so obsessed that her room is covered with portraits of Wang Xiaodong. Tell me about a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl whose boudoir is covered with portraits of a young man. What does a photo mean? Is it a joke or not? But you know what people say? She said: 'I am happy to post it, and I hate him! He is my future husband!' Tsk, tsk, you said that kid Wang Xiaodong must be blind. What should I look like to fall in love with her?"
Hearing the two vegetable sellers chewing their tongues while selling vegetables, Ma Fanshu covered his mouth and snickered, and walked over quickly.
Football has always been a topic and activity among men, but this time the national football team has created too much momentum, and almost all media, large and small, are following and reporting on the Asian Cup.
Ma Fanshu asked his father when he went to school in the morning, and the answer he got was that he was building momentum for next year's Olympics.
This is the Olympics being held on our doorstep, and football is the biggest sport. How can we combine the two and not achieve some results?
So it's no surprise to hear the vegetable seller discussing football.
Last night, when self-study was over, the game just ended.
5 to 1. Although Zhu Guanghu slowed down his offense and focused on defense in the second half, he thoroughly learned the lessons from the previous game and did not replace Wang Xiaodong.
It was precisely because of this that Uzbekistan not only failed to score a goal in the second half, but Han Peng, who was replaced by Wang Xiaodong, scored a goal, locking the score at 5-1.
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the entire eighth class and seventh class were in a state of excitement.
As the school bell rang, many students from other classes came over to ask about the battle situation.
During the recess, the students from other classes were holding open the doors and windows one by one, secretly peeking inside, feeling extremely envious.
Ma Fanshu suddenly felt that football was not so far away from him.
Football can make the relationship between teachers and students more harmonious, make boys more sunny, give students a greater sense of collective honor, and give girls a more positive and active star-chasing target.
Passing by the intersection, Ma Fanshu saw a huge poster posted on the floor-to-ceiling window of Qianda Supermarket across the road. Wang Xiaodong's photo was magnified countless times, giving a thumbs up to passers-by.
Looking at his idol, Ma Fanshu clenched his fists and secretly made up his mind: "The high school entrance examination will be next year, so I have to work hard during the holidays!"
"But... let's watch the remaining Asian Cup games first, hehe!"
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After the group stage, it was not too surprising for fans that the Chinese team and Iran in Group C both qualified. After all, the other two teams are very different in strength.
The next opponent of the Chinese team is the Japanese team, its old neighbor.
As soon as the news came out, all the fans were excited. Everyone is clamoring for anti-R and anti-R, and they must give this old enemy a good look.
It's not surprising when you think about it. The opponent's football development in recent years can indeed be described as rapid.
From the cartoons of young football players in the 1980s, to studying in South America in the 1990s, and then to the national football at the beginning of the century, their football has developed and accumulated from generation to generation, and even won the World Youth Championship. runner up.
Speaking of grievances in recent years, the most heartbreaking one was the last Asian Cup.
Before the game started, Zhu Guanghu took the lead and sat in the screening room to watch the 2004 Asian Cup final with the team.
Although they already knew the result, the players kept gritting their teeth while watching the game.
Especially the veteran players who had experienced that game wanted to stand up and punch the screen to pieces.
However, in an interview with reporters, captain Zheng Zhi said: "The team will not think too much about 'revenge'. This is a pathological mentality."
"The media like to use these two words, but we will not think too much about this factor. We just need to learn from that defeat. The team has carefully watched the video of that game to avoid making the same mistake."
"We need to carefully summarize the last defeat. Not only do they have very dangerous players, but they also have very smooth overall coordination. We must use our own advantages to defeat them. This is the only way to win. For now, in Physically and physically, we are no worse than our opponents, and we even managed to dominate them."
"I believe that through our unity and hard work, there will be no problem in defeating our opponent!"
On the other side, Japanese team captain Nakamura Shunsuke also said frankly in an interview: "I think the Chinese team deserves to be a favorite to win the championship. If you look at their roster, you will find that they have better players than us. .”
"Fortunately, our local players who play in the J-League are in the middle of the season and are therefore in top condition, but in fact, the same is true for the Chinese team."
"This is destined to be a difficult game. The Chinese team showed its strength in the group stage. And we must abandon the honors we have won in the past and some unrealistic subjective ideas. This Chinese team has the same characteristics as the previous Chinese teams. There is an obvious difference, and there is no previous experience that can be used as a reference."
"And what we need to pay attention to is that DONG in the opponent's lineup is a nuclear bomb-level athlete."
"Through three group matches, we have concluded that he is not on the same level as all the other players participating in this Asian Cup. Of course, this includes me."
When Shunsuke Nakamura said this, the hands of the reporter interviewing him suddenly trembled, obviously disagreeing with his words.
"This is true. Just look at DONG's results and honors in the past season. At least I haven't won these." Shunsuke Nakamura said very pragmatically.
"But I will try my best to limit his performance, and my teammates are also ready for this." Shunsuke Nakamura changed the subject and wanted to give the people some confidence, "We will rely on overall cooperation to defeat our opponents. , now, I’m already looking forward to the next game!”
On the evening of July 21, amid the debate between "revenge" and "conquest", the starting players of China and Japan walked into the stadium side by side.
This key battle attracted a total of more than 50,000 fans to the scene to watch the game, and the scene was full of Chinese red.
Even some overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia came to the scene to watch the game.
As the national football team entered the quarterfinals, fans became more and more fanatical.
Especially when the national anthem sounded before the game, more than 30,000 Chinese fans, staff and players sang the national anthem loudly.
The high-pitched national anthem is loud and powerful. Whether it is at the scene or in front of the TV, the moment the national anthem is played, one cannot help but feel excited and excited.
The camera flashed across, and Wang Xiaodong stood third in the team, with his hands behind his back and chest raised, singing loudly along with his teammates.
"Daughter, did you know? Among the three hundred and sixty lines, only sports competitions can sing the national anthem before the game!"
"Yeah, yeah, I know, I know!" Ma Fanshu, who was sitting aside, kept nodding her head as she listened to her father's teachings. This was one of the reasons why she admired Wang Xiaodong so much.
"Daughter, do you think we can beat little RB today?"
"With Wang Xiaodong here, of course we can win!" Ma Fanshu blurted out.
"Okay! I can win, maybe I can win!" Dad Ma stood up excitedly and paced back and forth in the living room.
After a while, Father Ma seemed to have made up his mind, and slapped his palms on the table: "Oh no, if the Chinese team can really reach the Asian Cup finals, I will take the whole family to the scene to cheer you on!"
